Rain taps the cabin roof as the radio on the table snaps from static into a clear loop. A military voice fills the room, flat and practiced.
Radio Voice
Old Orleans is lost. Final evacuation will be staged in twenty four hours. Rally point, north access road. Mountain stronghold is secure.
The message repeats. Jenny stops moving by the door. Louis turns from the window. Elias looks up from the table, pale under the firelight.
Louis
A real way out... if it is real.
Jenny
If we go, we go light. No extra weight, no mistakes.
Benjamin stands over the radio, the cabin suddenly feeling smaller, every supply pile and packed bag part of the decision. Stay and keep building, or gamble everything on one military corridor out of the city.
Elias
If that window closes, we are done for in Old Orleans.
✓ Quest Accepted
Leave Old Orleans
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach the military evacuation point
“Can we reach the north access road before the twenty-four hour window closes?”
EXCEPTIONAL NO (Likely, rolled 100)
Benjamin traces the route on the map, his finger stopping at the bridge crossing. The ink is blurred, but the reality is clear. The main artery is already choked with abandoned vehicles and a massive, shifting tide of the undead.
Benjamin
The road is a graveyard. We would never make it in time.
The radio signal loops again, a mocking promise of safety that is already out of reach.
“Is there another way to the evacuation site?”
YES (Unlikely, rolled 8)
Benjamin
The bridge is a death trap, but the old rail line... it cuts through the industrial district, bypassing the main road entirely.
Elias
Look here, Benjamin. The tracks are elevated, and they lead straight to the perimeter of the extraction zone.
“Pack lightly and immediately get moving”
SUCCESS (Legendary Agility, rolled -1)