Rata Mall - Zombie Chat

[RubberDuck]

Or not?? Is this a clever bluff on your part?

[Primate]

Nah he's dead. I'm not going to accuse you I don't think. There were definitely people co-ordinating to turn the lights off, and hopefully this just put a big bit of mistrust in that group. I think you'll be a suspect, but I want to know who makes the accusation.

Also I think if *I* accuse you now, it may look like I'm actually the one that killed him and I'm just trying to get a second kill out of it.

[RubberDuck]

I'm attempting to stash my syringe in my shoe, if I get incinerated, you need to be able to recover it, there are 2 doses left.

Groza has the counter role to mine and is likely immune, jia and ariel are probably immune also being top candidates for conversion, you're best chance of a convert is Cindy, but i do not know for sure.

Try to find a 2nd weapon. That will put you up to 1d2 +2 and hopefully give you a chance if you get jumped.

[RubberDuck]

If I get attacked I will fight alone. I have sent this to Ambic.

If I am killed in combat, make an action of putting all Lacey's items out in the open. At the same time PM ambic to pickpocket the syringe from my corpse. Then immediately ask where the syringe is. Everyone will assume Yvonne stole it off me.

[RubberDuck]

[quote="Zag]I find RubberDuck's story to be BS. "I was able to cure Terry (Battlemage) of his addiction to drugs/alcohol in the Cafe. He volunteered and then the moron jumped into the freezer insisting it lead to a brewery. In the Barbers I was able to treat Harry of his greed for money."

So you're saying his (now cured, supposedly) addiction led him to make a foolish choice to try to find a brewery and he accidentally died. Sounds like he refused the "treatment" so you killed him.

My goal is to find and kill the mad scientist who botched the job of making me. Sounds like you're it.[/quote]

He was very clearly referring to me. If anyone decides to call you on it, they might ask why you are trying to draw attention onto Yvonne.

[Primate]

I don't understand that comment sorry.

[RubberDuck]

You quoted zag and said talitha? I was confused, because zag was talking to me?

[Primate]

Tali said she *suspected* Zag was the clone. I was saying based on that quote I think he's definitely the clone.

[RubberDuck]

yeah, I'm just stupid. I clarified in the thread.

[RubberDuck]

I'm seriously amazed I'm not dead, given how arrogantly reckless I've been. Anyways.

So the young man is John the mixologer. Apparently he had some sort of connection to this place before he came back. He is one of the dead people in the carpark.

The old man in the photo that looks vaguely crazed and untrustworthy is who I believe is the scientist.

The other elderly man is my grandfather who was a good guy.

Based on when my grandpa was alive and how the photo appears, it was taken in between 2019 and late 2021. Before things got messed up.

My pocket watch:

It's engraved with the name Dr Ben Nerrow.

You open it it up, and see that there is a photo of an old man. He's the one who invented the Zombie Virus. He's dead now, you think he might have once owned a store in this mall. The thought comes back to you - that's right - he was a little bit pyschopathic. He was going to be arrested, so he changed his identity and bought a store here in the mall. But the apocalypse took him to the grave.

A shame, because two of you with this virus would have been so much more powerful

Xavier looks old when viewed from a mirror, we know he also owns the Cafe secret door and had the backstory to find the door in the first phase. He used the lab room in the first to contact Johannes. I need to have a look at him in a mirror, but I'm definitely leaning towards the fact he is the mad scientist who killed Zag, and possibly even Dr Ben Nerrow.

[Primate]

Don't take it for granted, the suspicion will land at some point, the distractions have made it complicated.

Do you know that about xavier looking old in a mirror for sure or is that tali shit stirring?

Also I think Ben Nerrow is probably the mad scientist people are talking about? That's the most obvious reading. You could pm ambic and ask if it's the same guy, now you've seen the photo.

[RubberDuck]

Do you know that about xavier looking old in a mirror for sure or is that tali shit stirring?

Sir Leo told everyone, Yvonne fact checked it and confirmed it. Xavier was also reasonably concise about picking up mirror pieces too.

Also I think Ben Nerrow is probably the mad scientist people are talking about? That's the most obvious reading. You could pm ambic and ask if it's the same guy, now you've seen the photo.

Tried that - I compared both photos, mine and Carla's privately to Ambic -

"They look nothing alike."

This is not surprising given Dr Nerrow had successfully changed his appearance to buy a store in the Mall. So the photo I have is outdate.
My backstory indicates the apocalypse took him to the grave. However, what's to have stopped him faking his death and changing himself a second time to look younger?
I have no confirmation that he actually died.
The only way we could know for sure is having Xavier confirm it, and he'd think we were trying to pin him with being the mad scientist and deny it.

[Primate]

I just noticed Zag was 1d8+2 , oof.
Captmeme was 1d7 btw

[RubberDuck]

Jia is 1d4 base + 1 pitchfork, +1 Johannes support & + 1 battle briefcase.

Effectively 1D4+3

[Primate]

I wonder the briefcase has uranium in it btw, would explain why it's so incredibly heavy and durable (radiation shielding).

[ambic]

<The 3 day break includes this thread thanks>

[ambic]

<Open again>

[RubberDuck]

I'm alone in the phone store, looks like its already been searched and cleaned out. The walkie talkies that Casey (Pooky) was using were here, and I know he was in the carpark in ph 2 and then cafe in ph 3 - so it looks like this room was done & dusted back in the first phase.

Groza is in the cinema looking for the hidden way into the brewery, check seat k9. That's the way in afaik - Terry didn't tell me if there was a trick to opening it or not.

[RubberDuck]

Groza is already aware of the method to get into the brewery, so don't try to hide it from him if you decide to try something sneaky.

[ambic]

Mod note: i am currently experiencing a power cut, so i cant process choices at present time

[RubberDuck]

VLADABOOOOOOOOOOM

The almighty sound of an explosion fills the room! Most phones on the shelves fall off. You are flung to the ground and end up with a bloody lip. The sound leaves your ears ringing. Whatever happened happened somewhere else in the mall.

What the hell was that!? Are you ok?

[Primate]

It's me, Jia, and Groza btw, and the explosion wasn't us, we haven't even heard it.

[ambic]

(You have now, its taken a while to update all the threads)

[Primate]

Groza went into the lab secretly, I've joined him and left the cinema. I also told Jia about the entrance.

[RubberDuck]

Ok,

I found a walkie talkie and can talk to Ariel in the bathroom, but there is nothing interesting there. I think she was trying to stop the water leak, but has indicated there seems to be nothing she can do about it.

There was a control panel inside a panel light in the phone store, which was a puzzle picture. When solved there was a grinding noise behind the wall, but otherwise nothing happened. There's no secret doors or compartments in here (That I can find so far) and no other items.

Whatever the explosion was has caused grease to start leaking through cracks in the wall.