decay_ooc | November Plot Calendar, Part 1

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November Plot Calendar, Part 1

PLOT CALENDAR

For the first 24 hours, each player can take one slot. Once that time has elapsed, you may select an additional volunteer slot. If a slot is still unclaimed on the day of the event, any player can take it.

🎂 BIRTHDAY

🧟 MOD EVENT

📸 FLASH EVENT

🌟 PLAYER EVENT

WHITNEY FIELD

CONTAINER FORT

PRESCOTT

LUNDEGAARD

November 2013, Pt 1

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FRIDAY

More Red Talon convoys are seen heading in the direction of Seattle along Route 406. A group of five Red Talon operators stop in at Whitney Field Depot's bar, where one of the group gets into a drunken altercation with Arlo Rattray. Before the fight can progress too far, Red Talon Commander Thumper Neeley arrives to break the pair up and take his operators on their way.

SATURDAY

While working a skill exchange shift with the Prescott radio operators, John Hwang overhears Red Talon communications suggesting they are having their entire Danforth force fall back to Seattle to deal with a threat which they only call by its codename: "Grandmother".

SUNDAY

Mara Kaufman enlists the help of Edgar de Leon and Blythe Ferry to put up some tastefully winter holiday themed signage for the Depot up on their billboards. At the 50 mile marker, just outside of Danforth, they spot a disconcerting sight: an itinerant horde of zombies which Mara estimates to be 10,000 strong, en route to the Quad area in pursuit of Red Talon's noisy convoys and helicopters.

MONDAY

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TUESDAY

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WEDNESDAY

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THURSDAY

Regardless of what the characters decide to do, the mod-posted event for the action of this event will go up today.

FRIDAY

If not intercepted or redirected, the itinerant horde will hit the south end of the Quad area mid-morning today.

SATURDAY

🎂 Dutch

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SUNDAY

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MONDAY

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TUESDAY

If not intercepted or redirected, the itinerant horde will clear the north end of the Quad area by late evening today.

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can arlo be in the nov 1 bar fight please :)))

Added!

May I have the 11/2 vslot for John?

Added!

edgar for one of the volunteers on the 3rd please... time to prove he can haul a lot of stuff in a backpack

blythe for the other volunteer on the 3rd pls 🥺 he can make them look so pretty

edgar and blythe singing showtunes in the car while mara is like 😐

who needs a radio when they have the entire score of annie get your gun locked in their heads

or worse... christmas carols

can blythe interest you in his rendition of deck the halls, rewritten so the lyrics are about whitney field???

blythe submitted the lyrics and edgar immediately memorized it for the express purpose of annoying mara

Once zombie hordes get moving like this, they don’t tend to stop – like an avalanche or landslide, they just follow the zombies in front of them. Nobody in the Quad area will have ever seen an itinerant horde of this size before, but best knowledge would suggest that it will clear the Quad area if it is able to pass through without encountering anything that is louder than it is (very loud). Destroying the entire horde at once is not feasible for the Quad communities.

This leaves them with a few options:

Allow the horde to pass through the area.
🧟‍♀️ Zombies are not smart, but hordes do tend to take the path of least resistance - in this case the freeway they’re already on. There is good precedent to believe the horde will simply continue on its way out of the area if left alone.
🧟‍♀️ With some preparation and coordination, the Quad communities could set up noise-making distractions to keep the horde on track and relocate the majority of their populations away from Route 406.
🧟‍♀️ While not without risk, this is the “safest” option, and many survivors in the Quad area would have experience doing similar with smaller hordes.
🧟‍♀️ Mara believes this horde to comprise nearly every zombie remaining in Danforth, meaning that the city is currently free of zombies and would be much safer to loot and explore.
🧟‍♀️ The horde would continue en route to Seattle.
🧟‍♀️ Mara and Jem are both in favor of weathering the horde.

Attempt to turn the horde back to Danforth.
🧟‍♀️ While it would be difficult to sneak around the horde unnoticed, if a team of survivors could get to the tail end of the horde quickly enough, it might be possible to turn the entire thing around and reroute back towards Danforth. Because of the size of the horde, nobody is sure if this would be guaranteed to work.
🧟‍♀️ It is unknown if the horde would come to rest in Danforth or continue out of the city. The area to the east and south is largely unpopulated.
🧟‍♀️ This option would involve greater personal risk to the team of survivors, but may decrease the risk for the general population of the Quad area.
🧟‍♀️ Roswell is in favor of turning the horde back to Danforth.

Attempt to split the horde.
🧟‍♀️ By a similar token, the horde is large enough that creating multiple distractions in multiple directions may cause it to break into smaller sub-hordes which would be easier to eventually eradicate over a prolonged period of time.
🧟‍♀️ This method is also unproven, and would involve much greater personal risk to anyone sent on these missions, but would decrease the risk to both survivors in the Quad area as well as those beyond it.
🧟‍♀️ While this would result in large swathes of zombies staying in the area, the weather is expected to turn cold soon, which survivors know from experience will cause zombies to become semi-dormant and easier to destroy.
🧟‍♀️ Dutch is in favor of splitting and destroying the horde.

still thinking about how my characters are going to react to the Horde™ but i can definitely say that Beau would be against sending the horde to Seattle (where the rest of her family still is). she is utterly unafraid of danger so long as she's behind the wheel, and would gladly take on a mission to distract zombies and run away 🚨

They are Twinbrained on this. Carter's greater guilt would lie with them sending the horde to other people in either Seattle or Danforth, and if they could neutralize the threat for everyone, why wouldn't they? She would insist on being with Beau for this mission but would also go on it immediately.

Niko will back up Jem on the "let the zombies go to Seattle" plan because a) it involves the least risk to Quad civilians and b) he would sooner let Seattle burn to the ground (again) than risk Zelda's safety in any way.

guys. there was a walmart in danforth. there's so much looting potential. let the horde chase red talon, maybe they'll destroy each other while they're at it.

(idk how blythe feels yet but reggie has immediate strong feelings)

So much casual clothing for the taking!

finally the kostopouloses can get clothes that are not from their road trip luggage

HECK YEAH (although then they can be disappointed by the quality of fast fashion)

SOMEONE GET THIS MAN SOME RUNNING SHORTS

SHORT SHORTS FOR THE DOC

billie definitely just fully backs mara no question and i think ophelia would lean toward mara and jem's plan as well because she prioritizes the safety of those in the quad

I think Emmett will side with Ophelia on this because of the kids at Lundegaard.

John’s first priority is the children of Lundegaard, who cannot defend themselves or run very fast or long if it came down to it (☹️), so he leans towards sending the horde on or splitting it. Sending the horde back to Danforth is a non-option for him, particularly due to the looting opportunities in Danforth and the possibility they may just be putting off the problem of the horde for another day. He leans towards sending the horde on westward but could be convinced to support splitting the horde.

(Also as far as John knows, Seattle is his family’s ashen graveyard…)

Edited 2024-10-27 20:26 (UTC)

This may change in play, but my instinct is that Maggie would be in favor of sending the horde toward less populated areas (east and south) and would want to ride out ahead of the horde to warn any smaller communities of survivors. (Does this mean she might get trapped ahead of the horde with no way to get back around?? Who could say...)

Edited 2024-10-27 20:33 (UTC)

And while I hate to give both my characters the same opinion rn I am leaning Ares in camp "divide the horde yeehaw" simply BECAUSE of its danger; could be convinced otherwise if the risk to others is great enough

"looting danforth is a great idea" makes arlo feel some big feelings because that's looting the shell of his former life but at least he can acknowledge it as a Him Problem.

he wants to be pro splitting the horde with explosions but also knows that danforth will have some valuable shit, especially for the winter, so he's torn between splitting (ultimately safer for everyone else out there and what his heart wants to do) and allowing it to pass through (ultimately safer for everyone here and what his brain wants to do)

tl;dr tbd because he'll be influenced by how people discuss it ic.

eta 11/3: i can see arlo wanting to hunker down & calliope wanting to split it up but still tbd! mostly leaving this here for my own refq

Edited 2024-11-03 17:47 (UTC)

I gotta think about this a little more for Beck, but I think Crystal will lean toward "hunker down and let them pass." :|a

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