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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1844373" data-attributes="member: 118">Harrington Street Subway Station, Coast CityApril 1800:27Fate floats through to the next car down the line.  Again, the lights are flickering, but it is bright enough to see that there are half a dozen people in this car.  At the front end, two men are struggling to keep the door closed off from the fungal zombies...succeeding for the moment.  At the other end of the car, two women are fussing over an elderly man who appears to have taken a nasty cut to the head.  Another woman is frantically clawing at one of the side doors in a vain effort to open it.  She is the one Fate heard screaming.This car has clearly suffered some structural damage, enough to prevent the doors from opening normally.  It also appears that the car behind it has crushed into this one, sealing off yet another potential exit.*****Jorgi sinks down just a little bit, in hopes that one of the zombies will be foolish enough to try to grab his eletrified legs.  He flings another bolt of lightning at one of the zombies as it tries to circle behind Granite.  The bolt hits the zombie square in the chest, but amazingly it seems to just shrug off the attack.  (Attack roll 16+10=26, hit; dmg save vs DC17, nat 20, success...back to back nat 20's...lucky zombie, eh?)Granite lands a roundhouse punch into and through the jaw of the closest zombie, sending it flying back into the tunnel.  His punch continues through and just glances off the next zombie in line.  (Attack roll 19+7=26, hit; dmg save vs DC27, miss by 10+, out.  Take-down attack roll 6+7=13, miss)Three zombies swarm Granite, landing a number of weak blows that fail to penetrate his stony skin.  One punch, however, hits Granite in a weak spot on the throat, actually injuring him slightly.  (Attack rolls, 1 miss, 1 negligible hit, 1 critical hit; Dmg DC17 after Protection, save roll 8+7=15, 1 stun hit)The zombie that Jorgi blasted breaks off from Granite and tries to grab Jorgi by the legs.  Its fingertips just graze Jorgi's shoes, but the eletric field crackles and zaps the creature for its effort.  The zombie snaps back, more as a reflex action than in pain.  It seems to be dully considering how to get Jorgi next.  (Attack roll 9, miss; Electric Field DC17, save roll 17, no damage)*****  Lawrence moves a bit closer to the fungus.  Unlike most of the other fungus he's come across so far, this mass does not appear to be moving or growing - not at any discernable speed, anyway.  He can make out a couple of the bulbous spore pods, both of which appear to be intact.  The rest of the mass is just comprised of thick tendrils of the same grayish green color as the rest fo the fungi seen this evening.This mass is growing into the subway tunnel through a grating (which has been pushed aside).  The grate is about 3'x3' and leads into the side of the tunnel.</blockquote>

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