Quest #2: Establishing a Personal Base: Description: Malls are big, and there's more than enough room for every Mall Rat to make their home there, and your home can always use improvements! Collect some supplies, find a safe space to sleep through the night, and, well. Make yourself at home away from home.
Goals:
Step 1: MAKE IT HABITABLE.
You as a survivor need to find something that will work as a bed, something to store your personal items in, and a way to get some privacy for changing. (No washrooms, because no store in the mall has enough space to dedicate an employee-only bathroom). That and people keep taking your furniture to help reinforce the barricades... Looks like it's time to replace everything again.
Roll 1d10. If even, you succeed. If odd, don't worry! Just roll again till you get even. If you have to roll more than 3 times, consider it done, and you can move on!
Step 2: MAKE IT DEFENSIBLE.
Use any loose items you can find to protect the front of the store you've set up in. While most of the mall is safe, there are some shops that aren't, and you've got to prepare for the worst.
Roll 2d4 until they match. If you have to roll more than 3 times, consider it done, and you can move on!
Step 3: MAKE IT DEFENDABLE.
With another survivor-- played by a player or one you NPC-- check the strength of your defenses.
Both roll 1d10. The higher roll determines the outcome. If you are NPCing, the first roll is yours, the second roll is the NPC's. If the barricades stay up, you get 1 bonus Arcade Token for completing the quest.
Otherwise move on to step 4!
Step 4: MAKE IT LIVABLE.
There is an IKEA in the mall, and that means you get to raid it for furniture! ...Easier said than done, though.
Find the kind of furniture you want! Feel free to just RP it out and pick what you want! Escape the labyrinth: Roll 2d6 till they match. Find the boxed version you need to put together: Roll 1d20 till you get an even number. Put the furniture together: Roll 1d20 till a 15 or higher.
If you have to roll more than 5 times, consider it done! Congratulations!
First time doing this quest? Please write a minimum of 100 words for 1 Arcade Token.
Repeating? Minimum word count jumps up to 300 in order to claim your 1 Arcade Token.
Feeling wordy? Go above and beyond the bare minimum for additional tokens! These token bonuses do not stack, so you can't write 100 words to claim 1 token, then add 300 words to claim 2 more tokens.
500 words = 2 Arcade Tokens. 600 words = 3 Arcade Tokens. 700 words = 4 Arcade Tokens. 800 words = 5 Arcade Tokens.
Whistle While You Work: You can absolutely work on living quarters with someone else, even if you don't intend to stay with them. You will have to both roll for your own successes, but it does mean you get good company!
Well...Leiah seemed to take the task of setting up their personal base in her own hands, so Drew went off to be useful to others who weren't as able-bodied as he. Such as the elderly. Or really anyone else who just too lazy to set up their own place. He found an empty storefront and started work clearing it out, to make it an acceptable semi-private space for some future Mall Rat who decided that they wanted to take up residence there.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
itspao_ rolled 1 10-sided dice:
1Total: 1 (1-10)
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:35 pm
The place was a mess. Empty boxes everywhere, trash, all manner of grime on basically everything, never mind the blood on some of the walls closer to the door. And there was a smell, something fierce and in your face. For the first hour or so Drew had to work with his nose scrunched up into a relatively unpleasant expression. It was bad enough that he actually had to leave for a while, so he could breathe without gagging. Just for an hour, maybe...and besides, he was manning the new "home" from just nearby. So no one would come in and steal it and stuff, of course.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
Dead rats had a way of stinking up places, obviously. After another hour of waiting (and getting his lungs semi-clear of that noxious smell) Drew dove right back into the work, eventually coming across the source of the horrendous odor--and he seriously thought the undying couldn't get any worse--and tossing it in a garbage bin on the other side of the hall. He made quick work of the rest of the cleaning, sweeping up debris and putting boxes and such away in a semi-neat manner. When he was finally done the place looked completely devoid of life, but it was habitable now, which was awesome.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
itspao_ rolled 2 4-sided dice:
1, 1Total: 2 (2-8)
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:37 pm
The store's front windows were floor-to-ceiling glass, which wasn't great as far as making sure it was relatively secure. But it did look amazing from where he sat, at the far back wall (nowhere near where the smell had originated, so it wasn't that bad), so he sat and pondered first how to make it a little more secure. It wasn't like the infected or the undying knew how to climb on top of each other and make towers, like in that one zombie movie. At best they would try and crash through the front windows at a massive 7'2" or something equally as large, height-wise. So that was about how high he needed to make the barricades for this new place.
He dragged the old shelves and cases and such and did his best to board up the windows to about a foot taller than he was. It wasn't easy, but he seemed to manage all on his own, which was great. The barricade didn't take too much away from the look of the place, either, so that was a big plus. It kind of had the feel of a tiny, crammed studio apartment. Like the one had in college, only smaller. He didn't think it was possible at the time, but apparently he was wrong.
He also didn't think zombie apocalypse situations were possible, but he was wrong about that, too. So.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
"Test it?" he asked while following Drew to the new place.
"Yeah, man," he said, smiling. "Looks pretty solid to me, but if you could help me out to really see what it's made of that'd be great."
Luke gave the boarded-up shopfront a quick look-over before starting his "assault." Naturally people couldn't do much as far as the glass was concerned, so after a few false starts from the actual front of the store, Drew took him inside to try and take it down from the inside. He even offered to help knock it around some, but after several kicks and shoves and other such attempts it stood firm. A proud grin spread on Drew's face as he led Luke out of the shop and gave him a pat on the shoulder. "Thanks," he said. "Lemme get you a drink next time we're at Winchester's. I appreciate the help."
"I'm gonna take you up on that offer," the blonde said before walking off to do whatever it was he intended to do before Drew interrupted him.
He was pretty satisfied with the space now, though, and all that was lacking was the actual furniture that would make it...home.
Oh, and a resident. Maybe he could start advertising, too.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:07 pm
IKEA was his next stop after he made sure that no one else would threaten to take his new space (by asking Luke to guard it for him). The place had been ransacked for nearly everything, but there were still things to be found. It didn't take all that long to find a suitable bed, a small cabinet and a dresser for clothes and costume storage, and he even managed to find a small set of matching tables and chairs for a little dining area in the corner of the space. Now all he had to do was get out of the showroom so he could grab the pieces he wanted...
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
Thank goodness for maps. He managed to stumble upon the rare treasure while he was meandering through the children's furniture portion of the showroom, and he managed to navigate the labyrinth without too much trouble. He hit a snag around the chairs though, and took one too many breaks because they were a lot more comfortable than wooden benches, but once he was out he hurried to find the pieces he needed for make the new space more like...home.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
Even the giant warehouse of boxes was easy to get lost in, even easier to find the pieces he wanted to find. He circled maybe one or twice before finally taking a break, heaving a sigh as he looked on at the seemingly endless supply of furniture. The only reason it was probably even still there was because you actually had to put it together...
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
itspao_ rolled 1 20-sided dice:
4Total: 4 (1-20)
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:13 pm
A third round proved more productive for him, though. He went a little slower and looked more carefully at all the names of the pieces, so it took a whole lot longer than he intended, but he finally finished! It was still pretty tough finding everything, but he managed and started carting away his prizes with a smug look of satisfaction on his face the whole way out of the store and back to the new space.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
He forgot how much of a luxury power tools. Also, English.
"Seriously, I know they're a European company but come on!" he muttered, dropping the instructions that were clearly in some European language he obviously didn't know. His eyes fell on the numerous boxes of furniture pieces he's carted all the way over to put together, almost at a loss for what to do.
So he dropped it, at least for now, and instead went off to gather linens and things to decorate the space with once he figured out a go-around with the language problems and the fact that he had to put all this furniture together with teensy little hand tools. His temper would see to none of the furniture being intact when he was done with his rampage, so it was just...better...all around, that he leave and cool off.
Also, his experience as far as decor was concerned has always been severely lacking. Unfortunately for the space's future inhabitant, Drew would only stash it with the bare necessities. Bed sheets, some cushions for the chairs, and maybe, maybe a table cover. Maybe.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
The furniture proved to be quite the challenge, but the pictures were easy enough to follow when he kept his cool so he muddled through it for several hours. Piece by piece the small space came together, and finally after it was all set up and decorated Drew stood back and looked on at his work. It was raw and haphazard, almost like a dorm room of shabby quality (with a not-phenomenal-but-not-an-eyesore-either motif of grays and greens), but it would be a Mall Rat's new home if they were so inclined.
And he was damned proud of himself for spending the better portion of his night on this little project, too. So they better appreciate it.
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Character's name: Andrew "Drew" Hale Character's faction: Mall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER Medium build, 6'1" and a lean 159lbs. He sports light skin (that's more prone to tanning but he can still get sunburns if he's not careful), chestnut brown hair that he keeps short and only haphazardly styled, and light, hazel-brown eyes.
