/zhq/ - Zombie Hunter Quest: Chapter 2

>>346359
A slight draft pulls the stench of one very heavy and very dead zombie into your nose as you pull the apartment door toward you. Jane steps gingerly over the gelatinous pile of flesh and checks both ends of the hallway clear with her rifle before motioning the two of you to follow. You shut the door behind you as quietly as you can, and the three of you creep into the stairwell opposite the one you secured earlier with Alice.

It's quiet in here, save for the echoes and creaks of metal expanding and contracting as human architecture breathes its dying gasps. Flashlights click on in the darkness of the windowless stairwell, and you can see painted in fading red letters a large "2B." You don't know where Hendricks, Erin or Luis are.

Try to remember everything you've heard recently. Then decide how to proceed.
>Head up to 3rd floor
>Head up to penthouse floor
>Head up to roof
>Head down to main floor
>Head down to basement level
>Talking is a free action
>Write-in option

>>346719
>So do we really need all this, pardon the pun, dead weight right now?

>>346778
what do you mean by dead weight? I'm not sure what you're referring to in context

>>346787
For some reason I thought we were carrying a body, nvm.
>Head up to the 3rd floor

>>346830
sorry, got caught up
Jane turns to you and points up, and you nod back, understanding. You round the stairs up to the third floor, finding the door to the hallway hanging slightly open. It looks as though this door was chained shut as well, but someone's shattered the lock. Alice finds a bent and now-useless rebar spear discarded on the landing.

"The stairwell door on the other side was chained shut as well," you dare to breathe.

"I'm pretty sure this is clear of them," says Jane, shaking her head. "I think Grayson and Luis ran up here when the shit hit the fan, and whatever didn't come after them came down after me." The hallway checks out, and the three of you creep through it, hugging the walls and checking the doors shut and latched. Her instincts are pretty sharp, and it seems she's right - all clear on this floor. But as you turn back toward the open stairwell, you hear glass shatter faintly on the floor above you.

"The penthouse!" Jane exclaims suddenly, and a little too loudly. You hear a single set of footsteps dashing back and forth urgently above you.

How do you proceed?
>Head up there now and confront Hendricks
>Stay quiet, set an ambush (where?)
>Talking is a free action
>Write-in option

>>346989
>Stay quiet, set an ambush (where?)

Wait for them to come the door.

Glad you came back for thread 2

>>347100
What door do you mean? welcome back! Seems thursday's a slow night but I'll be checking in and writing for 3 or so hours

>>347118
The one outside the penthouse

>>347173
"Come on!" Jane hisses as the three of you dash through the third floor hallway. You all pause to listen through the stairwell door before you throw it open and head upstairs, back into the penthouse hallway. Only one door in this hallway, at least as far as you can see...

"Behind me, come on!" Jane has her rifle shouldered and ready, and your palms sweat from how tightly you're gripping the pistol. You hug the wall as you approach the door, Alice hanging back just a little further than you and keeping low.

You round the corner of the little alcove the penthouse door is built into, and are met with a large and heavy looking wooden door, with bloody prints and deep gouges scratched out of it. Bullet holes have riddled the door around the locks, and the damage looks fresh enough. You're pretty sure Hendricks is in there, but you can't hear anything from within. Jane takes a breath, then dashes across the alcove to the opposite corner, taking position.

Moments pass... and turn into a minute, then two minutes. Nothing. Jane wipes the sweat off her brow, and her rifle dips for a second before she snaps it back in line, wincing at the sudden shoulder movement.

What's the plan?
>Wait a while longer.
>Charge in, try to surprise him.
>Call out to him, see if we can talk. (Who speaks? What do you say?)
>Let's go, this isn't worth a siege.
>Whispering is a free action.
>Write-in option.

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>>347229

Have Jane pound on the door with the butt of her rifle while we shout to let us in.

DO NOT stand in front of the door, though. I expect him to shoot through it. Be ready to shoot back

>>347424
>>347424
Jane raises an eyebrow at your plan, but shrugs and mouths back, "you cover me."

She creeps in low and slow, half ready at any step to hit the dirt. At the edge of the door, she knocks with her rifle while you call out, "Corporal Hendricks, can we come in?"

A moment passes, and Jane looks ready to do something rash when a nervous voice calls out from within, "Which one are you? Who's we?"

What do you say?
>Write in whatever you want to say