Questions/Requests/OOC Go here.

[Smoke]

I'm putting this thread up so that OOC: notes and some GM: notes can be placed here, along with any major questions, rants, or requests.

Just to keep the main chapter thread clear.

[Beerdude26]

I demand Sloth insersh me right now D:

[Smoke]

You can insert yourself with ease, if you like. Just go easy on the huge backstory and making up facts this time. :P

[Ennui]

Keep the spam out of this thread. This is just to de-clutter the main thread, and I will delete any posts that still don't need to be here.

[Smoke]

It's pretty important that you know what gun Ennui picked up, and how many rounds it has in the clip, because that's the only firearm in the hotel that you know of.

So, here are the facts. The one's the average gamer will be able to figure out, anyway.

http://world.guns.ru/handguns/sw-mp-auto.jpg

Type: Double Action Only semiautomatic

Weight unloaded: 700 g (24.25 oz) empty

Magazine capacity: 17 (9mm)

[Beerdude26]

You can insert yourself with ease, if you like. Just go easy on the huge backstory and making up facts this time. :PBut Sloth always gives prospects of interestingness but then he always disappears D:

BTW how the hell am I going to get in? I'm on a roof (not the top one), I'm x stories high and I've got an iron cast bar. I could smash the window, but that seems so bland compared to what Sloth probably had in mind :p

[The Monkey]

How does the PA system work when the power's out?

[Smoke]

Small seperate generator.

[Jintor]

How does the PA system work when the power's out?

JINTOR POWER.

Srsly though, small seperate generator.

[Krynn72]

Is it ok to ask for descriptions of things in the post where we would be actually seeing it (IE, like my last post) or should that kind of OOC stuff still go in here?

Also, I thought Mikael was just now coming to you Jintor, not just now leaving.


EDIT: Oh, never mind, I missed one of his posts.

[Jintor]

I think I'd prefer it here, but so long as it isn't a seperate post, you're fine to leave it in your main post.

[The Monkey]

So did we discover this "Room 201" recently?

It seems like it appeared from nowhere and now everybody is talking about it.

[Jintor]

I made it up. I'm holed up there right now with a radio comlink and a view out a window.

[The Monkey]

Ah, so that was you?

Sorry, I should read more closely in the future.

[Sloth]

But Sloth always gives prospects of interestingness but then he always disappears D:

BTW how the hell am I going to get in? I'm on a roof (not the top one), I'm x stories high and I've got an iron cast bar. I could smash the window, but that seems so bland compared to what Sloth probably had in mind :p

Sorry mate, written it - just need to go over it with the other GMs...

[Smoke]

Sorry mate, written it - just need to go over it with the other GMs...

Pm me and Jinny (also darkside, I don't know?) and we can get on it.

[Jintor]

Annoucement: I will not be GMing for a couple of days because of exams. Smoke/Darkseid/Sloth are authorised to use Room 201 and my character Jintor while I'm off.

[The Monkey]

So is it just one zombie in the hotel?

'Coz it's unreasonable that just one would cause so much panic.

[riomhaire]

Are you serious? One zombie in the hotel would cause alot more panic than a thousand outside.

[Darkside55]

Don't worry--there won't be "just one" for long.

[The Monkey]

Are you serious? One zombie in the hotel would cause alot more panic than a thousand outside.
Yeah, but I mean, just kill it...
Don't worry--there won't be "just one" for long.
:O

[Krynn72]

Yeah, but I mean, just kill it...

:O

It got the jump on people though. Plus, have you ever seen 28 weeks later? Remember that scene where the father zombie attacked the huge crowd that was locked downstairs? Remember how that turned out?

[The Monkey]

It got the jump on people though. Plus, have you ever seen 28 weeks later? Remember that scene where the father zombie attacked the huge crowd that was locked downstairs? Remember how that turned out?
I haven't seen that movie, sorry.

I've seen parts of its prequel, though.

[Krynn72]

Ahh, well basically, hundreds of people are locked up in a huge basement room, and one zombie gets in. He attacks someone, and that person gets zombified. By the time anyone realizes whats happening, there like 10 zombies attacking people, and more and more zombies keep getting exponentially added to the mix.

[Acepilotf14]

Oh, shit, exponents~~!

[Krynn72]

Theres a lot of algebra involved in zombie apocalypses.

[Smoke]

Don't worry--there won't be "just one" for long.

This is a fact. There's at least two now.

[The Monkey]

Wait, are you people saying that none of the people have gotten any further than the top of the stairs? They've been running for many minutes now, you'd think they were spread all over the hotel, with some people having reached the roof.

[Acepilotf14]

Zombie #: 1+1^2+1^2+1^2~

[Jintor]

Zombie# = T(n) = 1r^n-1

[Smoke]

Wait, are you people saying that none of the people have gotten any further than the top of the stairs? They've been running for many minutes now, you'd think they were spread all over the hotel, with some people having reached the roof.

Don't forget the power is out and the only light is from candles. A panic stricken mob throwing itself at some stairs is hardly an effective means of transport.

[Ennui]

are the shotguns Mikael just found GM-approved?

[Beerdude26]

Yup, Sloth-approved. Check bottom of that post

[Sloth]

At the moment we're running with applying for things out of normality - no real need to have person to person replies.

[Krynn72]

Wow, activity sure did take a nose dive.

[Druckles]

I know. I'd post another, but I'd basically just be answering myself. And I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say!

[Ennui]

I just came reading Darkside's last post. Can't wait till I have time to respond tomorrow.

[Beerdude26]

Still need someone to respond to my latest shens

[The Monkey]

I've been thinking... Why hasn't the crowd discovered the escalators yet and tried to get it up that way? It's not like it's hidden or anything...

[Krynn72]

Its the hl2.net convention. The crowd is made up of hl2.net members.

[Darkside55]

Indeed. :)

The real answer though is that the escalators only go up to the second floor, so nobody bothered to use them; they headed straight for the stairs. Now that the crowd is turning, however, they'll notice the escalators.

[Ennui]

Who is with us right now?

My count:

Darkside
Azner
Willie
Monkey
Ennui
Riomhaire
Krynn
Mike
Bob

[Darkside55]

Which leaves:

Sloth
Smoke
Koola
Insano
Piggy
Zephos
Sinkoman
Joule
Ktimekiller
Danimal
Numbers
Deathmaster
Seagull
Rapstah
Dekstar
Ravioli
Qonfused
Antipop
Druckles
Acepilot
Evo
Pitz
xlucidx
and Rimmer

A lot of people haven't posted in awhile; they're probably dead now. Those of you who are still among the living, you had best escape before you are consumed--by either flames or zombies.

I omitted Beerdude from the list because he is not in the hotel.

[Sloth]

I'll contact those that havn't been posting in a while, but the GMs will still live - all the guys have a chance of still surviving, so don't write that they are dead.

Just asking, are you guys happy with just forwarding it between yourselves? My time here is limited these days, but at the moment it seems to be going smoothly.

In regard to my lack of posting, Darkside is upgraded to full time GM.5 - ie a playing GM.

[Darkside55]

I shall remain mum on the subject of who lives and who dies unless explicit actions would cause someone's demise. But for the people who are not posting, we shall assume (in the context of the game world) that they are dead, but I will say nothing definite on the matter, just in case someone comes back and wants to resume writing. I can think of some clever ways a person could survive a flaming hotel overrun with zombies.

[Krynn72]

Wouldnt there also be some npc survivors, from when we let a couple escape from the stairwell?

[The Monkey]

Wouldnt there also be some npc survivors, from when we let a couple escape from the stairwell?
I would guess that they're on the roof by now.

[Darkside55]

There will certainly be a few survivors who managed to run away from the stairwell chaos. What happens to them during/after the fire is left to be seen.

As Monkey said, there would be some people on the roof.

You also have to imagine some people might be in their rooms, or other areas of the hotel. And a hotel doesn't burn so fast; it might not even burn completely. The NPC Clemens set an apartment building on fire with a lot of careful planning and time; I, on the other hand, threw a torch into a pile of wood and lit a carpet on fire. Who's to say what might happen? ;)

[Krynn72]

I meant those couple of people that escaped when we opened the stairwell door for a few seconds. I would think they would try and stick around with people who knew what they were doing rather than go off on their own again.

[Darkside55]

Well, there weren't any tailing behind us. If any went down the escalator, we didn't notice them. So presumably they were either still on the second floor when I left, or they somehow got higher, or they ran down to the lobby whilst you, myself, Ennui and Riomhaire were talking and we didn't see them.

Then again, if they somehow managed to get past the zombies on the second floor, they could easily leap over the pithy little carpet fire I set. The zombies were like, right there though.

Maybe they got out ahead of us...

[Ennui]

We need to know information about our surroundings outside ASAP, we can't really do anything until we know where we are.

[Krynn72]

Also, what time is it now?

[The Monkey]

I meant those couple of people that escaped when we opened the stairwell door for a few seconds. I would think they would try and stick around with people who knew what they were doing rather than go off on their own again.
As I said, they are probably on the roof. All those people were originally going after the helicopter, and we have no reason to assume they changed their plans.

[Druckles]

I'm still here. Haven't been here the past couple of days. Been on a bloody course. I'll post something here tonight/tomorrow, but then I'm on holiday for a couple of weeks.

Don't intend to die just yet :P

[Smoke]

I would post, but I'm treating the fire situation as Darkside's territory for now, and I much prefer to let players try rather than herd them round like mindless sheep.

I'll give clemens an update with beerdude soon, assuming I'm not drunk, mkay.

[Krynn72]

As I said, they are probably on the roof. All those people were originally going after the helicopter, and we have no reason to assume they changed their plans.

Well, I figured the panic and terror occuring in the stairwell would be enough to deter them from continuing upwards... but even if it didnt, how would they continue up? The elevators dont work, the escalators only connect the first and second floor, and they just barely made it out of the stairwell alive, so why would they go back in there?

Doesnt matter now anyways, we're too far along for it to change now. I only brought it up because I thought it might be a good idea to have some NPC cannon fodder with us :)

[Jintor]

I've got to stop avoiding this forum for brief amounts of time. The amount of work required just builds up too quickly.

/EDIT On a side note, writing quality has improved dramatically for most players. Good job.

[Smoke]

You've got to stop avoiding this forum and make some sort of map.

[Beerdude26]

I'll give clemens an update with beerdude soon, assuming I'm not drunk, mkay.Well you seemed drunk when you updated him because he didn't answer to a single question I asked, and my search also turned up shit :p

[Smoke]

Well you seemed drunk when you updated him because he didn't answer to a single question I asked, and my search also turned up shit :p

You may ort may not be correct.

I' shall get back to you.


Edit: I have no idea what happened, I'll fix it now.

[Krynn72]

What kind of residences are to the west? Houses or apartment buildings? And how many stories tall are they?

[Darkside55]

Varying. There are some rows of low houses on certain streets, followed by taller, metropolitan apartments. A few storeys tall. Those are mostly adjacent to or parallel to larger, commercial buildings. Just think an amalgamation of business and residential.

[Ennui]

Are you a GM, Darkside?

[Darkside55]

Gee emm point five.

Which is, "I'm a GM, but I play." I'm scaling myself back and letting you guys make most of the choices here. I'm also going to be dictating encounters and external situations, and things you find, etc.

So I'll move along with you guys, and give you backup in the sense that I'm there with you, helping out, but I'm also doing GM things, and my role is less proactive, more reactive.

[Jintor]

I seem to be almost totally reactive at the moment. We need more GM meetings.

[The Monkey]

How big is this city?

[Smoke]

I seem to be almost totally reactive at the moment. We need more GM meetings.

IMO we need a thread or a tiny section that only we can see.

[riomhaire]

You could create a tiny forum on one of those free forum hosts.

[Sloth]

Question: Should we re-introduce those that have not posted for a while, give them a chance to be inshened back into the story line?

[Smoke]

You could create a tiny forum on one of those free forum hosts.

The problem is that with a tiny crappy host we'll likley forget about it or just ignore it. If it's here, or in this section, we don't really have a choice.

[Druckles]

I'm back.

Can I request permission to write myself back in? Some brief explanation of how I got out of the building alive? Was thinking out a window, basically.

Glad to know you've not all died :p

[Sloth]

I'm going to get together all the people - via PM etc - that havn't posted for awhile, get them back into the story - one group with me and one group with Jintor or Smoke...

[TheAntipop]

I can't remember why I stopped posting, but I know I got pretty bored of - no offence guys - some peoples really short, often one line answers to the situation at hand.

[Druckles]

I'm going to get together all the people - via PM etc - that havn't posted for awhile, get them back into the story - one group with me and one group with Jintor or Smoke...

I went on holiday. I did say :p

So you don't assume I disappeared for no reason.

[V-Man339]

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd16/v-man339/Wtfisthiscrap.jpg

[KineticAesthetic]

You're obnoxious and also possibly a troll.

[V-Man339]

I just felt like asking the obvius very bluntly, please excuse me if I was at all offensive or seemed like a troll.

[Smoke]

Well, you can ask questions with words.

[riomhaire]

And politely.

[Sloth]

Then you might get a response... Otherwise, read the ZombieCon you might get ideas from that.

[V-Man339]

Then you might get a response... Otherwise, read the ZombieCon you might get ideas from that.

Ty for the suggestion.

*notices the avatars of the 2 posts before this one and lols*

[Smoke]

So Sloth, when are you getting that next section up? Might as well ask here since timezones are a **** with msn conversations.

[Sloth]

Trying to get it together, but nothing's happening - the fingers won't type what I want... Check your emails... Things to be said away from Player's eyes.