Shinsato sees Abang signalling for assistance.  He moves over to the man and holds his efforts until he gets to the three count he'd indicated.  On the doctor's command of "three" he will pot everything he has toward getting the door opened.

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OOC:


18:08, Yesterday: Shinsato Hirotsugu rolled 10 using 3d6 (2 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {2}, 4, 4.  Strength check (+0).

I will use 8 12 FP to increase the drama die to a 6; 6 + 4 + 4 = TN 14 (6 stunt points)

Not sure what, if any, stunts would apply to opening a door?

Dr. Abang Kaos:

12 Fortune to turn that Drama die into a 6 (hits TN 10) if that gets a success...or 6 to bump a 2 to a 6 (hits TN 12)

wouldn't that only cost 4 (1 for 1); (2 for 1 for increases to the drama die)

drama die 4 increased to a 6 = 4 + (2) = 6; (2) x 2 = 4
regular die 2 increased to a 6 = 2 + (4) = 6; (4) x 1 = 4

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Abang with assistance from Sato put their shoulders into the door, and begin to put a lot of effort in pushing whatever was blocking the door. The gap slowly widens…

Meanwhile, as the two men try to push the door open, Katalin, and Asha, watch as the three sick people get closer...

[Private to Asha Blackburn: You see the butt of Sato’s pistol sticking out of the outer coat pocket of his jacket...you also have your utility knife that can be thrown...]

Kaeya, and Ms. Hirotsugu also see the sick people approaching. Ms. Hirotsugu begins to panic and tries to run away, but Kaeya keeps the old woman from doing so.

OOC: Since the sick people will practically be on top of the group by the end of the turn, I want to give Asha and Katalin time to try and do something about the three sick people WHILE Abang and Sato are (for dramatic purposes) completely focused on getting the door open. (i.e. can’t help the girls).

So, I just need posts from Katalin and Asha.

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: You spend 6 fortune to hit a TN of 12.]

[Private to Shinsato Hirotsugu: You spend 12 fortune to hit a TN of 14.]
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Asha speaks in desperation, "They're on us! Either we go through the door right now or we run!" Continuing in desperation she grabs Sato's pistol from where it is exposed and aims it at the sick people. "Back off or I'll shoot!"

Kattalin seems almost as surprised when Asha grabs someone else's gun as when she tries to talk to the zombies.  ”If you aren't going to use that, or have another one, I will.”

The three sick people continue to advance towards the group. Abang and Sato still haven’t gotten the door open enough for anyone to squeeze through yet…

"Right coat pocket, loaded pepper sleep alternating, trigger safety!" Dr Kaos grunts out as he tries to get his feet more firmly under himself to force the door.

In reply to Kattalin Zubiri (msg # 99):

Hope hands the gun to Kattalin right away. She doesn't really know anything about guns anyway except how to fix them.

Kattalin accepts the pistol and immediately fires it at the nearest of the shambling targets, shooting the thing in the face with whatever round was at the ready.  Clearly in a bit of a rush to finish matters she is already swinging the gun around to the second target before the effects of the first hit are entirely clear.  ”This won't hold them for long alone.”
[Private to GM:
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 14 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 3, 1.  Pistol attack
Spend 3 fortune to adjust the 1 to a 3 and activate 6 stunt points.
4 Stunt points: Called shot (head) attack becomes penetrating
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 8 using 2d6+4 with rolls of 3,1.  Pistol Damage
2 Stunt points: Adrenaline Rush, Regain 2 Fortune]

Kattalin shoots the middle of the three shambling sick people in the left eye. The sound of the gunshot and the combination of pink and blue glowing mist exiting out the back of the sick persons head is simultaneous. The brainless body drops to the ground as if someone had cut the strings from a puppet.

Despite killing one of the three approaching people the other two continue forward without a care in the world…

Meanwhile, Dr. Kaos and Sato manage to push whatever was blocking the door to create a gap about half a meter wide. While it’ll be a tight fit, it is enough of a gap for people to squeeze through one at a time.

OOC: You guys have one more turn before the sick people are within melee distance of the group. During that time only one person (Abang or Sato) will be able to squeeze through.

Please make one and only one past as you are in an action/combat sequence.

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A small drone flies in front of one of the two sick people, distracting that person as she flairs her hands in the air in a vain attempt to swat down the drone.

The drone moves up and down and side to side, keeping that sick person occupied....

Kaeya, holds Ms. Hirotsugu tight to her chest, trying to cover up both ears of the elderly woman and holding a piece of rebar in her hand in case one of the sick people gets close to them.

Dr Kaos pulls his pistol out and moves to go through the door, first his pistol arm and head, then if there is no one waiting to brain him, he squeezes through the rest of the way.

Hope stays out of Kattalin'ss way. Clearly this woman knows what she's doing with a gun, and Hope would only cause problems right now. She also tries to avoid being touched by any of these things, whatever the people have become.

Shinsato had to trust that Ash and Kat could handle the sickly bunch that had approached as he had to make sure Abang wasn't alone in investigating what lay beyond the door.  He would assist the man as best he could.

While the drone distracts one of the two remaining nearby infected Kattalin lines up a shot on the other and once again shoots it in the head, quick, efficient, and not broke yet so why fix it.
[Private to GM:
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 15 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 4, 1.  Pistol attack
Spend 1 fortune to adjust the 4 to a 1 and activate 6 stunt points.
4 Stunt points: Called shot (head) attack becomes penetrating
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 15 using 2d6+4 with rolls of 6,5.  Pistol Damage
2 Stunt points: Adrenaline Rush, Regain 2 Fortune]

Abang squeezes through the opening sideways (it’s a tight fit for him) and dragging his bag through behind him. Shinsato quickly follows behind the doctor.Beyond the door is small room with a metal grate floor and a set of metal stairs the leads into a sublevel of the Casino level that is a massive server farm that supports all (or nearly all) of the computerized gambling devices located on the Casino level. The object that was blocking the door is a rather large and heavy server cabinet.

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Outside, Kattalin fires into the head of a second sick person hitting them in the right side of their forehead and blowing a chunk of their head away. This person falls forward and anyone who takes the time to look at the ghastly head wound (Asha, or Kaeya) can see that intermixed with the blood and brain matter seeping out of the man’s cranium is some sort of blue glowing stuff.

The third and last close sick person is still distracted by whomever is operating the drone…but four more sick people begin to approach coming from/out of the maze of casino tables. This second group is spread out and all roughly 13-18 meters away. The sick people don’t seem to be moving very fast.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: You keeping track of your fortune on in the equipment thread?]

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos; Shinsato Hirotsugu:
No strength test needed to move/drag the cabinet in order to get the door open wider.]

Kaeya pushes Ms. Hirotsugu towards and through the partially opened door. "Sato! Your momma's coming through!"

Abang hands his pistol over to Shinsato, nods towards the stairs, and starts shoving the server rack away from the door.

Hope tries to keep an eye out and give Kattalin targets.

Placing the pistol into the holster where his pistol had previously been, before Kattalin had taken lend of it.  He then, as room provides, assists Abang in moving the cabinet.  He will also aid his mother and her care worker through the entry and once they are in will call out to the others.

"Asha! Kat! retreat through the doorway as quickly but as safely as possible.  We will need to rebarricade the door once you two are through."

In reply to Darkside Trooper (msg # 111):

The drone, a commercial type adapted for space work, looked like it was trying to distract the infected. It soon left, however, buzzing off the way it came.

Even as she is backing up to the doorway, hopefully now open far enough for everyone else to get through in a timely manner, Kattalin puts a third round right between the eyes of the third infected of the closest pack of three, anyone counting the odds should start to think she is cheating at this point, particularly with an unfamiliar weapon.
”I will be through just as soon as you clear the last of the unarmed people, be ready to put that barricade back in place and see about making it a little harder to dislodge.”
[Private to GM:
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 18 using 3d6+4 (4 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 5, 5.  Pistol attack 3.
4 Stunt points: Called shot (head) attack becomes penetrating
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 7 using 2d6+4 with rolls of 1,2.  Pistol Damage.]

Hope has been waiting for her turn. Once the others ahead of her slip through, she wastes no time slipping through herself. Sometimes it's really handy being a skinny belter.

As Asha and Kat make their way to the doorwY, Shinsato draws Abang's pistol from his holster and provides them cover...though only firing if he feels either is approached by one of the seemingly ill/infected.

Once they are in, and provided there is no immediate threat in close proximity to the doorway, Sato will reholster the weapon and make efforts to brace the door from possible re-entry.

"Shouldn't we let other people try to escape, too? We need to make sure those... zombies... don't get to us, but that doesn't mean others should be trapped with them."