Because this quest is meant for Freshman, the parameters of this one are clear: Stay in the lit areas only. Do not wander into the dark. Do not wander into unexplored territory.
RP Notes for this Quest Make sure the following are mentioned in your RP: - Your Character being given a large reusable plastic bag (bearing the Emerston bookstore's name), and a flashlight. - Once you are finished the quest, please mention them returning the bag and flashlight!
To Complete this quest: - You must scavenge in TWO different areas, and fill in each post with RP to consider the quest completed. - Roll a 1d6 to start - This will determine where you are scavenging. Then, follow the information in that area's SPOILER TAG for further information. - This quest must be done in separate posts - there should be at least 4 posts total (1 to choose location, 1 to scavenge, 1 to choose second location, 1 to scavenge second location). - Scavenging rolls may be done in one post or three (1 post of 3d6, or 3 posts of 1d6). - Please note that any items found are considered IC gains only and will not count towards your mini site totals. Any food or water is automatically given to the University storage for later IC rationing!
1: A First Floor Lecture Hall
- You have decided to scavenge in a first floor lecture hall. Any one of them. They are mostly barren, save for dust and abandoned backpacks. - Please roll a 3d6 and match your results to the rolls below to determine what you find.
1: You flip through someone's notes, and find a recipe for a no-cook meal. Interesting. 2: You trip over something. The Projector in the room screeches to sudden life, sputtering and flashing for a moment before all does still. You find nothing, but you lose a couple of nerves in the process. 3: You find a backpack. You dig through it, and manage to find a half-full (or half empty?) bottle of water. 4: You find a couple sweaters. You may either keep them (IC find only), or bring them back to base to share. 5: Something shiny catches your eye - it looks like someone dropped a toonie. Score? 6: You rifle through an abandoned purse, and discover a few cereal bars. They haven't expired yet! (+1 credit)
2: Emerston University Bookstore
- You have decided to scavenge in the Emerston University Bookstore. It's mostly been picked clean, at least the shelves have, but the floor is littered with debris. There might still be something useful here, right? - Please roll a 3d6 and match your results to the rolls below to determine what you find.
1: You find a backpack. It's big, and fairly intact. Cool. 2: Markers and Paper bound. There should be enough plain paper to start a (very ashy) fire, at least. 3: You find a couple of batteries on the floor. Double-A ones too. You perform the Bounce Test, and there's a chance that they'll work! (+1 credit) 4: You dig under a stack of fallen english textbooks, and find a small pack of candy that survived. 5: Somehow, you manage to find an MP3 player on the ground? I wonder if you could find a charging station for it... 6: You dig, and dig, and dig, and end up with nothing but paper cuts.
3: Gym Locker room
- You have decided to scavenge in the Gym locker rooms. While the lights in this area are dimmer than elsewhere, they still work. Luckily for you this Schools lockers did not automatically come with locks, as a student you had to provide your own. As such, they are mostly all openable. - Please roll a 3d6 and match your results to the rolls below to determine what you find.
1:On the floor you find a few notebooks and pens, partially used. 2: This row of lockers seem to be jammed, you find nothing. 3: Opening a locker you find some (really smelly) old socks and shorts. Do you keep them? (IC only) or you can bring them back to the group. 4: Checking the washroom to the side of the locker room you find a closet filled with new, unused, toilet paper rolls. Something that would be great for the group! (+1 credit) 5: You find a large stack of paperwork in the corner, perhaps good for making fires? 6: Searching a locker you find a pretty nice jacket actually! You can choose to keep it (IC only) or bring it back to base.
4: Guidance Counselor Office
- You have decided to scavenge in the Guidance Counselor office. This would have been one of the first places you saw upon entering the University. Once neat and organized it is now a ghostland of paperwork and chairs everywhere. - Please roll a 3d6 and match your results to the rolls below to determine what you find.
1: Rummaging around you find some high quality pens, some even look unused! 2: Just a bunch of paperwork everywhere, darn! 3: You find a calculator that runs off solar energy! Neat! 4: Rummaging around in an old file cabinet you notice something sparkling at the bottom, and turn up a small hidden stash of unopened gummy bear packets. (+1 credit) 5: You find a bunch of stuffed animals themed after the Universities Mascot in different costumes. You can keep a few (ICly) or leave them there. 6: You find something smelly, only to discover it is a rotten sandwich left behind, ew!
5: Chemistry Lab
- You have decided to scavenge in a Chem Lab. - Please roll a 3d6 and match your results to the rolls below to determine what you find.
1: You find some sturdy rubber gloves. Good for touching gross stuff or for taking off to slap people that offend you. 2: You find a pair of goggles. Eye protection is important, even during the apocalypse! Maybe especially during the apocalypse. 3: Something crinkles under your feet. It is a very helpful poster. Good to know. 4: While checking in the cabinets, you find some unmarked chemicals. Someone wasn't following proper lab procedure! 5: You happen across what looks like a stash of sturdy laboratory glassware, all intact. Finders keepers! (+1 Credit) 6: You find a box marked 'HIGHLY FLAMMABLE'. It might be best to take this one back without opening it.
6: Dining Hall
- You have decided to scavenge in the Dining Hall. - Please roll a 3d6 and match your results to the rolls below to determine what you find.
1: You find some packages of vacuum sealed meats! Pre-marinated, too! (+1 Credit) 2: The cabinet you opened has something in it, but it smells awful. You might not want this. 3: Someone has already ransacked the fridge, leaving nothing. Might be for the best - it would probably be spoiled by now. 4: You find a full bag of sugary cereal! Sweet! 5: You discover a stack of dinner trays that look like they were freshly cleaned before this all started. Might be a cool shield or sled. Or you could always eat off of it... 6: One of the students working kitchen staff left their bag. A change of clothes is still inside.
If you wish to complete this in a group: - You will still need to scavenge in two different locations, but each player must roll a 1d6 in that area. - Example: Corey and Charlie wish to scavenge together. Corey (by OOC rolling) chooses the lecture hall. Both Corey and Charlie's players need to roll 3d6 in the lecture hall to scavenge. They finish that area. Charlie (by OOC rolling) chooses the bookstore. Both Corey and Charley's players roll a 3d6 in the bookstore to scavenge. - All posts must be filled in with RP before it is considered complete for either player. ALL POSTS. Meaning, if Charlie's posts are filled in but Corey's aren't, neither Corey nor Charlie can mark that quest as complete.
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:05 pm
Given the events of this morning it would have been nice to have a little time to just unwind. Given the state of the world, that simply wasn't a possibility. Liam understood this, really he did, but that wouldn't keep him him from yawning tiredly while he waited for his partner for afternoon.
Supposedly Corey, former student body president, and current leader of their motley band of survivors. At least that's what he'd been told. He found it a little hard to believe that she'd pick him, when there were other's around that were probably more capable, and that she knew better.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:47 pm
"Hey, Morning!" Corey called in greeting, waving her hand above her head. She looked the same as ever, only freshly showered, wearing her 00 jersey, and this time she was carrying a couple things strapped over her shoulder. The thick, reusable plastic bags, given out for any scavenging quest.
"Ready to go?" She asked, tossing him one of the two flashlights, and passing along one of the empty gathering bags. "I'll let you choose the first spot, how's that? In thanks for getting up so early."
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:28 pm
Well damn, apparently it was Corey herself. Liam pushed off the wlal he'd been leaning on to stand a little straighter, hand lifting to return the wave, though a touch less energetic. How she managed to be so damn peppy all the time he'd never figure out. "Morning Corey, yeah I'm ready."
Good reflexes let him catch the flashlight and bag without any problem, and he slung the latter over his shoulder as he fell into stop beside her. "We could check out some of the offices?" Had those been picked clean yet? Liam didn't know, but it was a place to start, at least!
"Nice catch." She smiled, trying her best to not look as tired as she felt, though she was sure the bags under her eyes told another story. "Offices work. Maybe we'll still find something?" She headed to the offices after him, keeping an eye out for anything suspicious.
"So. How're you? Under the circumstances." An awful question, but one that was mostly unavoidable. She followed her nose to a desk, opening the drawer to find - charming, a rotten sandwich. With a gagging noise, she picked it up with a piece of paper, and chucked it out the window. Better out there than in here.
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Scavenged Items 4: Rummaging around in an old file cabinet you notice something sparkling at the bottom, and turn up a small hidden stash of unopened gummy bear packets. (+1 credit) 5: You find a bunch of stuffed animals themed after the Universities Mascot in different costumes. You can keep a few (ICly) or leave them there. 6: You find something smelly, only to discover it is a rotten sandwich left behind, ew!
"Ah, thanks." He was better with his feet, but he refrained from declaring that. This wasn't high school anymore, and even if the s**t hadn't hi the fan on what appeared to be a global scale people probably still didn't care that he used to be some hot shot soccer star for some private catholic school. Instead he kept quiet as he lead the way to the office, pausing for only a very brief recoil just inside the door. "What's that smell?"
Corey found the source, a disgusting sandwich rotting in one of the desk drawers, and Liam hurried over to open the closest window so she could chuck it outside. "That's nasty." Even having dealt with what they had been dealing with, that was still nasty.
With a cringe he turned his attention to the room, wondering where to start. "I'm, you know, as well as can be expected." Given the circumstances. "How about you?" He headed towards a filing cabinet, stepping voter a box of stuffed mascots on the way, and started rummaging through it. In the bottom he found a bag of gummie bears. "Oh, sweet!" These were flashed at Corey with a wide grin. One that slipped when he remembered he didn't get to keep them. Reluctantly he added them to the sack.
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2: Just a bunch of paperwork everywhere, darn! 4: Rummaging around in an old file cabinet you notice something sparkling at the bottom, and turn up a small hidden stash of unopened gummy bear packets. (+1 credit) 5: You find a bunch of stuffed animals themed after the Universities Mascot in different costumes. You can keep a few (ICly) or leave them there.
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 1:53 pm
Between the pair of them, they got the awful sandwich out of the window. Once it was out of her hands, Corey didn't even wait to see where it fell. In fact, she was already wiping her hands off on one of the black-and-blue mascot plushes, not wanting to risk having the smell linger on her clothing.
"The Guidance Counsellor was pretty hardcore into school spirit, eh?" She mused, finally noting just how many mascot plushes were littering the - well, everywhere. "Plus, also running a hardcore candy shop." She added, after finding a stash of gummy bears herself. Interesting sweet tooth for a counsellor, she mused.
"Nice. We'll have to enjoy these later." As much as she wanted to tear into a pack and keep it their little secret, well, she couldn't bring herself to do it. Food was already scarce, and she had already eaten once this morning. Even if it was only a few bites of a something, it counted. "Shall we move on?" She invited, after they found nothing new, and headed towards the door anyway, without waiting. Apparently, she was heading towards the Chemlab.
"I've been trying to think of what silly thing we could all do tonight. You know, to cool our heads. Any ideas?"
"Yeah," Liam agreed reluctantly. "Spirit." That was what was going on here. Not anything weirdly creepy. Nope. This was all normal! Clearing his throat, the soccer player tucked a few of the plushes into the sack with the gummies, then followed Corey out of the office and down the hall towards the science department. "I'm sure everyone will appreciate the candy, at least."
Her question was met with a thoughtful silence and he considered what few options they really had left to them. They had power, but not enough for anything like a movie probably. Maybe music, but on it's own that wasn't all that entertaining, and not everyone had the same taste in music. He didn't have a clue if they had any alcohol, and even if they did...
His mind jumped to Austin, and he shook his head.
"What about a game? Has anyone found anything like cards?" Though maybe not, there was about forty of them here. "That might only be an option for smaller groups, maybe." There was a note of apology in his voice as his freehand came up to rub at the back of his neck.
In the chemlab Liam went for the desk to root through the draws. He didn't find much; a couple of pairs of gloves(probably handy), and a few bottoms of something that was definitely not water, but was otherwise not labeled. "I dunno what this is, but maybe we can use it?"
"I think we have a deck of cards already. Maybe one of the dorms has some cards against humanity or something…we weren't looking for games when we did the first sweeps, so it's likely." She mused, considering his suggestion. "It's a pretty group oriented game, maybe, but you're right…maybe breaking up into smaller groups for game night might be good." At this point, she was more or less talking to herself out loud. "Good suggestion though. Anything else?" She prompted, pressing for more from this clearly hesitant man.
Her own search came up mostly fruitless; she found two boxes of highly flammable content and chose to leave them where they were, but she did come across a poster. The poster had been read, laughed at briefly, and rolled up to be tucked away for later. It would end up as a gift to someone, certainly. Then, she turned to look at the bottles Liam was holding, and frowned a bit.
"I'm not sure we should take those back with us…could you find a marker or something, and write 'UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE' on them? Just in case?" She didn't want anyone to get something wrong when trying to make something later.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 12:39 pm
"That would be fun, if we could find them." He'd only played the game once, at a party during his senior year in high school, but it'd been awful fun. They would definitely need smaller groups though, and they couldn't all play at once. Hell, he wasn't sure everyone would even want to, given the nature of the game. There were some, like Mr Hubertson, that probably wouldn't appreciate the humor much.
He looked up at the sound of rustling paper, but down again when she mentioned labeling the bottles. "Oh, uh...maybe. If I can find a marker." So he began looking through drawers, pulling them out and rattling through them until he found an old sharpee. It barely worked, but there was enough ink left to write 'unknown' on the sides of them before he set them back where he'd found them. "There we go." Since the marker was next to dead, he didn't bother keeping it.
