Dropbox

[decaymod]

DROPBOX AVE

This is the mod dropbox. You can leave any questions you have about the game here, including:

• Administrative concerns like errors on the cast list, a request to change your face claim, dropping a character, etc.
• General questions about worldbuilding and game mechanics.
• Broad suggestions for plots, memes, and anything else you'd like to see in the game.
• Pitches for character-specific plots (which I love to hear!). This can be anything from "I'd really like to explore this concept with my character more" to "My character is going into the Marshall Exclusion Zone, what happens?".
• Requests for interaction with NPCs and NPC factions. If it's specific to a leader NPC, you can ask in their dropbox: Mara (Whitney Field Depot), Dutch (The Container Fort), Jem (Prescott Fire Station), Roswell (Lundegaard Lumber).
• Anything requiring mod feedback!

Comments are screened, but may be unscreened if they contain information pertinent to other players.

Comments

[decaymod]

Getting the power grid back online to support either the four current communities or a potential supercommunity is definitely something I’d love to explore as a game-wide plot, so if you have thoughts about cool or dramatic situations we can set up in that vein I’d love to hear them! This might require some slight handwaving of real-world accuracy, but I’m mostly just operating on rule of cool here.

As to specifics about what happened: While the military was still at Prescott/in the area, they were maintaining the power grid. In March and April 2012, the power grid was operational, but power to residential neighborhoods was already unreliable. By the time the the military pulled out of the area in late April 2012, the majority of Quad residents would have already been without power from the grid.

After the military pulled out, the remaining responders at Prescott and the Network worked together to shut off the grid because nobody in the area had the manpower or resources to safely maintain it. They did this on the assumption that the power systems would eventually fail catastrophically if they did not, and with the knowledge that local communities were not benefiting from the grid being on.

[fixedup]

A contingent from the Container Fort wants to win Mara's rat bounty (maybe on the 15th, to not conflict with lasso classo?). Their strategy is to bring some of their best tracker dogs to sniff out the rat's nest, so Whitney knows the best place for traps. They'll also offer the clean out the area more quickly if Mara allows them to bring guns into the depot, since they could all use the target practice. (Carter says they're willing to do only pellet or BB guns, if that would help.)

[decaymod]

Mara OKs the dogs without trouble. After some moderate hemming and hawing, she also concedes to allowing them to bring a single pellet gun into the Depot under the condition that they be supervised by Barrett for the duration of their visit.

[trustmeimadoctor]

Howdy JJ! Per this conversation, would it be feasible for Prescott to offer basic health check-ups to all of the different communities in the Quad?

[decaymod]

Yes, definitely! They can take one of the ambulances around as a sort of mobile clinic and get this done. The Container Fort could be checked out in a day, whereas Whitney and Lundegaard would be multi-day projects due to their large NPC populations.

[decaymod]

Just some random thoughts, but let me know if you have any other specific questions!

🦌 You can set the scene wherever in the Quad area you like (feel free to use either points of interest from the maps or make up your own location/setting).

🦌 Deer ferals have a shrill and distinctive call, so despite not sighting it directly, they could say with certainty that this is what they were hearing.

🦌 While deer ferals are among the least dangerous feral zombies, this is a bad time to have one in the Quad area, as they attract stragglers and hordes every time they scream.

🦌 John and Nat will hear this deer feral scream only once initially. Because the sound carries a long way, they will only be able to discern a general direction and not a distance. If they stick around long enough, they can hear it scream again a few hours later, sounding more distant.

[decaymod]

🚒 Congratulations, this band of delinquents are now the proud owners of either a ladder truck or a fire engine (your choice).

🚒 It is not difficult to get into the fire station, although it does look like it was reinforced against zombies at some point before it was abandoned. While a lot of locations around Danforth were left in various states of disarray by their previous residents, the fire station is tidy and organized, and the group is even able to find the keys to their selected vehicle.

🚒 There are very few straggler zeds lurking around the fire station, but the group will net a small horde of a couple dozen zombies in their wake whilst returning to the Container Fort.

🚒 Also do keep in mind that these things get like 3-5 miles per gallon of gasoline.

[decaymod]

Yes, they can go out hunting for the feral deer! Because it screams semi-regularly it's not too difficult to get a beat on it. The ideal strategy here would be to have a bunch of people essentially "stake the area out", wait for the deer to scream, and then have everyone move in on it until the group located it. One shot to the head with a rifle, hunting bow, or crossbow will take the deer out easily. It will have a moderately sized horde of a couple dozen regular zombies with it which will eventually disperse after the deer is killed, although the group is also welcome to work together to kill the horde if they'd prefer.

The deer screams every two hours or so, and ultimately this process will take the group about 8 hours. Anyone who would like to participate in this hunt can roll a d100 in the Discord channel, and whoever gets the high roll gets the kill shot. I'm going to start a thread in the rolls channel for this purpose in just a second.