You are downtown amidst tall corporate towers, condominiums, banks, and expensive hotels. You stand at an intersection, complete with downed traffic lights and the bloodtrails of a recent kill. Abandoned vehicles have been shoved aside, probably from a large truck or bus.
Somebody has spraypainted arson north? stay away and tunnel flooded after heavy rainfall - morliere station passable onto the street.
- You search the area. You pick up a few spent shell casing, discarding them in turn. A carton you pick up holds gasoline; having no use for it, you discard it as well. A few pamphlets are strewn about. Scanning each of them, most are vague. One of the more "advanced" pamphlets, perhaps sent out during the outbreak, describes the "Symptoms of Exposure". It reads: Both physical and behavioural alterations are indicators of exposure and should be treated equally important. Exposed persons often hide evidence of harm or underplay contact with the infected. Since transmission can also occur through the mouth, eyes, ears, and nose, a lack of bites and scratches does not assure a lack of exposure. For example, blood splatter contacting the mouth or saliva exchange through kissing can transmit infection; individuals exposed in this way display involuntary stereotypy such as lip chewing and excessive swallowing, sucking, or puckering. Exposure by transmission through the ear often...
You toss the pamphlet away, thinking of paranoia.
Possible actions:
- Examine the bloodtrail
Inventory:
- You carry only a smashed radio. It has been a long ride. Your blue jeans are shredded; the T-shirt, stretched 2 sizes larger, is more red than white, and your shoes are unaccounted for. You wear a crumpled paper party hat.
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