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Yes...these "dudes" are serious... What was that plane trying to do anyway...idiotic.

Before I move on to the medical line I am going to make sure my kids don't have any gore splattered on them. ("Good, open your mouth...did anything get in you eyes?")

I want to ask the pharmacist if the soldiers were just trying to contain the outbreak when they shot that man or if the infection makes people dangerous.

The when Greg gets up to the clerk for medication he gives him his order. He also asks his question.

The Pharmistis looks just as bewildered as Greg "I don't man." He continues to work on the order. "I just hand out the drugs. They came in my store all of the sudden handing me a warrant saying I had to co-operate. Talk about civil rights. Something is going down though. That is the second jet I have seen shot down. The air ports are all closed up so it must be from a private air port something." He looks up and freezes.

As Greg turns around he can see a large fire from down town. Then a large explosion. The ground rattles under them, like an earth quake. Some man hole covers are blown off and slam down. No one is hurt near Greg or Trent.

The Mariens all take off in the direction of the explosion. The Army and tanks stay put. A Comanche Helicopter flies over. Over the radio:

"Foxtrot 3 to ground command, come in ground command."

"This is ground command, report foxtrot 3."

"We have containment breech. Mass movement to the north in down town. They seem to have caused a gas station to explode. They are moving towards the Walmart. Advise movment of of civilian presence."

"Roger that, All ground forces begin evacuation of civilians."

The Soldiers begin to move the civilians away from the walmart.

Then screams are heard from the grocery store. A Marine is telling a woman to get down and back off. She is not listening. She charges the marine. The bullets fly but he misses the head. The woman tackles him and begins to eat him.

Panic ensues and people take off running in all directions. People run by Greg and Trent like a bomb has gone off. For a second Greg looses grip on his son.

(You have not lost your son, but you have lost grip on him. you need a PER roll and or a search roll to locate him. you are -1 for the roll because of the chaos. This is grab him again, remember you have not lost him yet.)

Seeing the comotion and chaos Trent says,"This is f'd up! I'm outta here." He says,"move a-&%$#" when someone gets in his way and he starts to push past everyone else toward his SUV.

"Victor!"

Roll vs 11 (Per-1) (3d6=14)

"VICTOR!"

I start looking for him. I'm also going to grab Alice by the bicep if I can.

BTW is my car parked in the direction of the "mass movement"? Also, relative to that which way is Trent running and do I see the hole in the crowed he is presumably making?

Greg gets his daughter with out any trouble. Greg could not find his son, but his son found him.

"Dad I am right here here!" his son said. His son was behind him holding on to his father's shirt. Greg did not notice it being pulled tight. Greg notices a rather large young man plowing his way to his SUV. There is a bit of a gap between the crowd and this man.

As luck would have it, Greg's car is parked next to this young man's SUV.

I grab Victor.

"We need to get out of here!"

I want to try to take advantage of the gap in the crowd and make a dash to our car.

I will be paying attention to how Alice is handling the situation (ie if I need to hold on to her or if she would be better off running on her own).

Greg and Trent both get to their Cars.

Both are able to get in and get started with no problems.

Off in the direction of the explosion. Both Trent and Greg observe Tanks and soldiers firing on civilians. At least they look like civilians. Upon closer look they are ragged and grey. They have no expression or emotion in their face. They just Shuffle on even though they are being shot at. A tank shell goes off and blows the legs off one man. His upper body just keeps going.

I start driving away from the chaos.

Diseased killers, overzealous marines, tight quarantine, traffic, starvation...

I need to get us away from other people to someplace with food, water, and shelter.

A ski resort? ... Hum...

"You guys still have your green cards?"

((Is it September in game?))

Trent speeds off. Seeing the other car leave (I assume the cars are near each other) He follows driving over curbs and side walks if need be...he lays on the horn for all the a-holes running around to get out of his way.

Both are able to leave with no real opposition. The Army and Marines seem to have more pressing matters.

As your driving you several F-22s and a few F-35s fly by. In your rear view mirror you see one of the F-35s drop a large payload. You both just see a very large explosion.

You can draw two conclions from this...

1. Both of you would have just be killed.

2. Something serious is going down for the American Government to allow live fire on civilian areas.

As your driving you see those new digital billboards. They have been turned from their normal display to a warning. It reads "Warning: Mass Viral Infection. Take precautions. Do not go near Sick people. 100% Mortality Rate." The Free ways seem to be open.

@ Greg, Ski resorts are just now opening. Steven's pass has had fresh snowfall but the roads are not icy as of yet. You should not have much trouble getting up there. You do recall that weather on Steven's pass can be erratic. Snow storms can come and go quickly. It is safe to assume that because of all this, the plows are not going up and down the pass. If you go up, You will have a small window to safely make a trip back down and return up. Once this window closes, you will not be able to safely come down till spring.