Ellie is the first to get to her feet, bow in hand as the smell of standing water, dust and rotting things reaches her lungs. She drags in a slow, loud breath as the street resolves around them.
She holds it. Nothing happens. No glow.
Of course.
"... stay right on my ass. Stick to cover. Whatever you do, do not let anything-"
Footsteps. Running. A loud, piercing shriek that's somewhere between human and animal. Ellie whips around, bow immediately up as something rounds the brick corner of a store and comes barreling toward them. It looks like a person, blood-smeared, discolored, wounded and rotting. It moves like it's forgotten it's wearing human skin, like it knows it has feet at the end of its legs.
Ellie's arrow catches it in the neck, and the thing drops, screaming, sobbing, drowning on its own blood before it finally goes limp and still.
"... bite you."
There is a horrible pause before another scream sounds, just around a corner.
[Feel free to have your character arrive elsewhere in the city and assume they meet up later. No tag order for this starter, only chaos.]
ARRIVALS
Ellie is the first to get to her feet, bow in hand as the smell of standing water, dust and rotting things reaches her lungs. She drags in a slow, loud breath as the street resolves around them.
She holds it. Nothing happens. No glow.
Of course.
"... stay right on my ass. Stick to cover. Whatever you do, do not let anything-"
Footsteps. Running. A loud, piercing shriek that's somewhere between human and animal. Ellie whips around, bow immediately up as something rounds the brick corner of a store and comes barreling toward them. It looks like a person, blood-smeared, discolored, wounded and rotting. It moves like it's forgotten it's wearing human skin, like it knows it has feet at the end of its legs.
Ellie's arrow catches it in the neck, and the thing drops, screaming, sobbing, drowning on its own blood before it finally goes limp and still.
"... bite you."
There is a horrible pause before another scream sounds, just around a corner.
[Feel free to have your character arrive elsewhere in the city and assume they meet up later. No tag order for this starter, only chaos.]