>>6093479You choose to cross the bayou to the west of the freeway. You are heading north from the southern embankment.
You and the Slav exit the lighting store and the side parkinglot and move down the embankment towards the water. You don't hear too many noises of small animals, an odd facet of a July evening, but hunt around for them anyway. The bullfrogs, which would ordinarily be holding their evening debates, are keeping mum, and you realize why, as you come across the carcass of a female alligator half exploded with bullet holes. The lower end of a human torso, with a leg missing, lays near the reptile's jaws.
Some searching for animals nets you her nest where you find bits of cracked egg shells, a decaying chewed up human hand. You also find a small hatchling, too small to tear off your arm, but just the right size to be carried around(3).
In the grass and weeds, you can see several spent shell casings and shotgun hulls, recently expended, enough to have avoided corrusion in the humidity and wet grass. You also find a mud covered left boot (4) with a leg sticking out of it. Returning to the lower torso you retrieve the other boot to the set. You further roll out the pockets of the torso, finding a car key, and some (7) bullets before attracting attention.
You attract the upper half of the corpse, which crawls towards you from the opposite bank. Stumbling and tumbling down the vank, and through the water eight more ghouls are drawn in, a total of (9).
>You can fight through the marshOR
>retreat back up the south embankment[Due to your position, in the base of the bayou, even if you retreat, the ghouls will actively follow you. However, they are fighting through mud, and will be delayed 2 turns in reaching the active playfield. If you make 2 consecutive evade rolls without drawing new ghouls, those in pursuit will be lost.]
You have 3 actions.
You can focus, move towards destination, talk with the slav, distract ghouls, fight ghouls.
[4th, 3rd and 2nd digit determine success] 1-7p, 8-0f
[1st digit avoids trouble] 1-7p, 8-0f
