Harrowed Halls

GM: Mike Byrd

The airport was deserted. At least that’s how it seemed. After our initial fight with a group of zombies, any others seemed to just disappear. The problem was…it was too quite. Heading to the back of the terminal–to the tarmac where our ride to Hawaii (hopefully) waited—we discovered why the terminal was deserted. A group of brave souls had barricaded themselves on the tarmac and were currently holding off hordes of undead. More importantly, with them was a plane.

We discovered that the plane needed fuel and the fuel was in a truck not too far from their position. The only problem was the horde of zombies in between them and the truck. Fortunately we were in apposition to help both them and ourselves.

Channel 4 uncharacteristically volunteered to get the zombie horde’s attention while the rest of us went for the fuel truck. (Honestly, I think the rest of us took one step back.) Channel 4 also kept the non-combatants travelling with us. Personally I didn’t think we’d ever see Channel 4 again.

The trip to the fuel truck was short and sweet. We had information that the truck keys were in the pockets of one of the dead lying around the truck—past attempts to retrieve the fuel I guess. In the meantime, things got bad for Channel 4. Out of the undead mob came a massive zombie bear (Thanks Ben for playing that Adventure Card.)  Channel 4 and the rest decided this was a good time to follow us to the truck–quickly. The zombie bear lumbered after them. Once again Channel 4 showed his mettle and stood his ground against the bear while the others escaped. I think he thought it might count for more than one zombie if he killed it. We’re all keeping track of our zombie kills now. As for me, I took a couple shots at the bear, but the darn thing was too tough. O’Malley helped out Channel 4 with the zombies, who now noticed us. It was Channel 4 though who took down the huge zombie bear with an amazing 40 points of damage to its head. Vlad found the truck keys and we all piled on. It was going to be a rough ride through the zombie horde. We made it to the plane squashing a few zombies on the way. We fueled it up and boarded with the others. Thankfully they had a pilot amongst them.

Cruising at 30,000 feet is not the time to fine out there are infected people on board. And as luck would have it, they were in the cockpit (and the bathroom.). The fight for the cockpit was both bloody and difficult. Never mind that the plane was plunging to the ground the whole time. We killed the zombies and took back control of the plane. We got the plane flying level again but had a new problem. There we no pilots among us and we needed to land somewhere in San Diego.

Mike our GM used the new Savage Worlds Dramatic Task rules for us to successfully land the plane. We failed miserably even using two Adventure Cards. A third adventure card got us safely on the ground.

I’m not sure what San Diego will hold, but we need to find a way to Hawaii!

Harry Babcock