Three weeks of hard hours have turned Benjamin's House into a real fortress. Now, at dawn, the survivors step out into the street with packs cinched tight and weapons ready.
The morning is pale and humid over Old Orleans, the neighborhood quiet enough to hear distant gulls and a far-off crack of gunfire from the city center.
Benjamin leads them past stripped hedges and parked cars, away from the last safe porch lights. The cleared block ends here, at the edge of the next unknown street.
Jenny
Feels wrong, walking out without the walls.
Louis
Yeah, but we can't live off canned beans forever.
Mara Miller
If there are stores left, we take what we can carry and come back.
Dane
We map it first. No hero runs.
Elias
The pharmacy on the next avenue might still have bandages, antibiotics, maybe batteries.
At the corner, Benjamin stops beside a fallen street sign. Beyond it, Old Orleans rises in broken color and leaning roofs, beautiful and exhausted.
✓ Quest Accepted
Find bandages and antibiotics
✓ Quest Accepted
Map the surrounding streets
“Does the pharmacy look like it has been picked over already?”
EXCEPTIONAL YES (Likely, rolled 8)
Benjamin steps closer to the pharmacy entrance, his boots crunching on a thick carpet of shattered glass and discarded, empty blister packs that litter the sidewalk.
Elias
Look at the shelves through the window. They did not just take the medicine, they tore the fixtures right out of the walls.
Benjamin
The place is completely gutted, not a single box left behind.
Beyond the broken glass, the interior is a hollow shell, stripped bare long before the group arrived.
“I check the pharmacy back room”
SUCCESS (Great Perception, rolled +0)
Benjamin slips around the pharmacy counter and finds a back door half hidden behind a toppled display rack.
The latch gives under his hand. The storeroom beyond is dark, stale, and untouched by the smash-and-grab outside.
He sweeps the shelves fast, bat steady, eyes catching on a red case pushed under a folding table.
Benjamin pulls it free. Bandages, antiseptic, and two sealed bottles of antibiotics rattle inside.
Elias
That is better than empty. Keep looking, there could be more tucked away.
Behind the case, Benjamin spots a folded neighborhood map with handwritten marks on the streets around the pharmacy.
Elias
You found the back room and the route notes. Which way do you want to move first?
Quest Complete
Find bandages and antibiotics
+ New Item Acquired
Red supply case