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You give out a heavy swing into the undead in front of you, hitting the first priest with a *CRACK*, breaking his spine in two as you send him spinning to the floor. You buckle as you hit him, but his dry bones are somewhat light, allowing your hammer to continue its journey toward the second priest further back. The hammer hits two ribs, smashing them and sending the skeleton to the floor, like a pullet who has had its strings cut off. Behind you, two undead have begun a second assault, coming at you, almost floating. You can't see their feet under their robes, as they quickly rush you. You attempt the same trick again, but only hitting one, crushing his skull as he goes limp. The second manages to grab your hand, unhurriedly as always, while you were still following the impact with your hammer swinging. It is colder then the last hand, as if it was ripping the strength from your body. You almost drop your hammer, but it is something deeper now. You feel like you want to run and hide, curl up in a corner and cover your face. You start to tremble as you manage to break the undead's grip, sending your hammer into him twice, once overhand once to the side.

You look around the room with your flashlight, seeing many bones on the floor. Helena was refilling the clips in her guns, quickly taking a single bullet and pushing it in, making small sound effects to herself as she does so. She reloads both her guns this way and cocks them, making another sound effect. "Ready for the boss stage?" She asked, moving her pistols around. She then walks over to the chandelier and stomps on a its skull, smashing it as if her foot was your hammer. The bones scatter, as you and her continue to walk into the next room.

It was a lot larger, but that isn't the first thing you had noticed. The first thing was the wall of body parts, a hideous and disgusting sight. Some candles had provided limited light, serving more to make the wall more menacing then to provide comfort. The top of the wall was made of human skulls, many aged with cobwebs over them, yellow from age, with different bones making up the another section, then another section of skulls, with even more bones under that. Two columns of bones rise out in the center, rising to the roof, made much like the walls. To both your left and right, a wall of skulls rose to the roof, many old and dusted, missing teeth. All the skulls in the room seemed to stair at the two of you, a faint blue light coming from their eyes. In the center, between the two columns, was the borrow wraith.

Above him, on a chain of human bones, was a wooden sign "Arręte! C'est ici l'empire de la Mort", illuminated by an eerie light from two skulls at its side, with candles in its mouth, swaying slightly. He was in front of a large bible, a cross behind him, wearing priests robes like those of the other undead. But he was different, he didn't seem to belong here, not in these catacombs. Not on this planet. Unlike the bones of those around him, his skin was like beef jerky, a disgusting color, kind of orange. His flesh, if you could call it that, was dried and holding to him like a glove, allowing you to see his bones on his exposed body parts. His eyes had appeared to be gouged out, with circles of flesh still surrounding them like a warped pair of glasses. In these empty sockets was a blue glow, the only thing stopping you from seeing the brain inside his head. Around him, a blue mist had risen like he was a smoke machine, creeping along the ground and engulfing the whole room. His disgusting hands were risen as if he really was a priest, as he looks at you with the evil blue eyes.

Even just looking at him had filled you with dread, a cold filling your whole body with the same intensity of the undead who had touched your leg on landing. The borrow wright looked toward you easily, slowly putting his hands down, as if he had finished a prayer. The entire wall trembled, the skulls began looking toward you definitely now. Silently, each wall began to move just as swiftly as if it was a single undead, as the borrow wright walked in front of the podium, acting more like a human then the others had, with obvious and deliberate steps. He looks at you from in front of the podium, as the cold feeling grows.

What do you do now?

Helena nods while putting her finger to her mouth in the "shhh" sign, gun still in her hand, as she prepared to go further in. You ready your hammer as you both enter the next room, going through a small brick hallway. The room widens up, opening into another catacomb room. There were several skeletons, maybe a dozen, all standing around in several poses, wearing clergy robes, some pointing, some holding a bible, though none seemed to be moving. Are these the mooks she talked about? You attempt to be sneaky while moving, each step the cold getting slightly worse, none of the skeletons seemed to move. Maybe they where stuck? After all, they look like they have been there a while, some kind of strange tourist attraction? Helena moved ahead of you, on her tip toes, guns ready to fire, still looking left and right. You are about to go through the doorway, when you see a candle-holding chandelier made out of human bones. Suddenly, the chandelier falls, blocking the door like a gate, as the priests corpses suddenly strike into movement.

In no hurry, the priests moved into motion, assaulting you and Helena soundlessly. Helena quickly crouches, aiming her guns at he left of her room as she runs, firing both guns at the priests, smiling a toothy smile. On your side, you are practically surrounded, with four priests coming at you, two in front of you and two behind you. What do you do?

...Your own pets? This would probably cause a loyalty cascade and end your fort. You want to inform us why you want to do this?

It would depend on your situation what you would need to do. My first thoughts are making them go berserk, but then you would have to attack them first...

You quickly grab a lighter as you go out to the jet copter jetcopter with the others, quickly starting your journey. A few hours later, the plane shudders as it slows down. Looking out, it looks the you are going to an average house on a ranch. It was pretty big and wooden, but other then that it was pretty unassuming. "We don't know much of what lies ahead." Goldman says, a little more awake. Charlie had driven the jetcopter here allowing Goldman to sleep the ride, somehow he managed to do so even at those speeds. "We will go in together, search the place, and destroy everyone for good this time. Land the jetcopter there." He continues, as the copter goes to the landing. Everyone grabs their weapons and files out, heading to the door in the awkward combat position. By the time you get to the door, you are pretty much a line, and enter as such with the twins in first. You all file in and look around.

The house is empty, but not particularly eerily so, it was as if someone moved away and the house had been left alone. There were many rooms, all empty, but the light bulbs were left in and you could see just fine. Cobwebs, some really large, had taken root in the corners of one room. Maybe it had been a false lead? You continue down a hallway, when suddenly you hear a noise.

The two walls, in front of you and on your left, had creaked a little bit, something that happens a lot in an old house, but it sounded as if a hinge had been lose. Everyone else is in another room, searching for themselves. It is probably nothing, and might waste your time searching, but do you want to search the walls?

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Otonashi nods, putting his hat over his face and pulling up in a little salute as the helicopter shudders a little, a door opening and a large turret gun sliding into place, like a puzzle. Tommy got up and put on his green eyepiece, pushing a button as he takes the gun and begins firing. Down below, you can now see the undead more clearly.

They where a horrible sight, it was an old grave, meaning that many had rotten away almost completely, leaving browned bones walking. Some were more fresh, newly rotting, with the smell of death reaching all the way up to the helicopter as you continue to look below. Tommy's gun spat bullets, crashing below and tearing apart undead as if he had run your sledge hammer into the wall, sending rotten body parts flying to the ground, and making a small path of destroyed earth and corpses. The copter quickly turns around 360 degrees as you, David, and Helena quickly get up, holding hands in a circle with Helena wearing the backpack, jump out of the jetcopter. You scarcly hear the "gogogo!" From Tommy as he adjusts his aim. You fall, in a star shape with the other two squadmates holding you in a death grip, for seconds before the pack on Helena's back opens with a *twink WOOSH*, causing a drastic loss of speed and Helena holding both of you up, as several parachutes launched from her back. You saw a circle one, one shaped like a wing, and a larger square one above her, and below her launched a thick sort of bouncy-house like material. You think you saw something like it on a picture of the new mars rover. You take a second to notice how strong Helena is, holding the two of you easily and you quickly descend. The landing is still hard, as you quickly hit the pillow like landing gear, an arm, bone more like it, had grabbed between the seems, feeling around and grabbing your leg. Even through the bullet-resistant uniform, you felt its chill, as David quickly shot it. It hung on your leg a second before falling, as you and the rest of the squad get up.

"Veresk don't fail me now!" Helena says happily, as she pulls out two pistol-like guns from holsters on her hip, smiling toothily. One of Tommy's comments during your training comes to mind, when he half-jokingly told you that you would need super strength to wield even two pistols accurately, but insisted that you could wield two machine guns. Helena fired the guns in bursts, apparently easily controlling them as she shot some undead that had been ganging up on your landing zone. The group quickly gets up and starts running on the path Tommy had cleared, crunching the bones of corpses as they run, you on the side. The smell gets worse every step you get, undead being only a few feet away being driven off by your two squad mates as you run. Once, you saw David stand on a legless corpse that grabbed him with both hands, making him stumble temporarily before he shot it in the head, breaking off his arms as he ran. As the whole army of undead seemed to get closer and closer, you finally make it to the small stone gate of the catacombs. It had been built into the hill, a thick stone entrance into a stone hole in the ground. As you enter, Tommy begins opening fire, now that you are out of the way he can shoot again. The same reason why you had avoided firing, you were told that the ones on the side are the ones you have to watch and the faster people would hit them better, the ones behind would just be a waste of ammo. The guns mow down the disgusting corpses like grass, as you notice more bones with dots of flesh rising out of rectangular holes in the ground.

While you enter the catacombs, your demolitionist training kicks in, and you notice a structural weak point in the gate. You may be able to take it down in just a few minutes with your sledge hammer. This could break down the gate over the entrance, keeping some undead out, and helping David with his task. Of course this will make it harder for you and your squad to get out, which could cost you your life if you are in a hurry. Besides that, you are not sure it would work, and could just waste time that could be used to hunt the Barrow Write.

What do you do now?

Name: Patricia Garfien
Age: 37
Equipment: Backpack :Surgical bag, hatchet, (Speed loader) ,whiskey flask (3), rosary, glasses, Glock(15),  Glock magazine (3), double barreled shotgun, HELLFIRE shells (5), shotgun shells (30), contacts,  Glasses case
HP: 11
Stats:
Int: 9
Str: 11
Agi: 10
Skills: General Medic(3), Small Arms (3), Shotgun (2), Sub-machine gun (2)
Advantages: She has steady hands, and is very calm in high stress situations. This can be a lifesaver in the field.
Disadvantages: Territorial about her work, needs glasses/contacts(farsighted), and a functional alcoholic.
Perks: Excellent bedside manner.
Quirks: Racist. Yep. Against EVERYONE. Not to the point where she dislikes them, just the point where she believes just about every stereotype there is. Curiously enough, not religious, or homophobic, or sexist. I can change this if it might cause problems.
Bio: Patricia grew up in southern Texaz, raised by two rich white parents who fit every stereotype of rich white people there was, or almost. They did love their daughter, but they were also assholes to most people below their station. When she became a surgeon in college, they were delighted to see their little girl take up such a proud profession. When the chupacabras started striking, she managed to save her brother's life, barely, but had to run, and he was left behind. She rode a horse for hours, eventually letting the poor thing rest, where she was taken in by some kind colored people. Long story short, she ended up joining the Archangel foundation, to help keep the fighting men alive. That said, being a Texan, she's not bad with a pistol either...

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You wash your meal down with what you can find, either water, whiskey, or milk. You then return to your room and sleep, easily falling asleep in your bed. You wake up a few hours later to the sounds of alarms, as you scramble to find out what is going on. Scout is heading out of the hallway and you ask him. "Cultists. The same ones from before, if I am correct." Scout says, as he walks. "Oh. And...thanks" he continues, stopping in the middle of the hallway to look back at you before continuing. You quickly gather ammunition, as you go out to the main hallway. "The cultists are back." Goldman said, tiredly. He apparently, still has not gotten any sleep.

Is there anything you want to fight the cultists with?

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Huh. Well we will have to see who does it better now, won't we?

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The troops search around for extra equipment. Helena comes out with what looks like a backpack, though that is all you notice in the rush to make sure you have all your own equipment. The troops then file into the helicopter and lift off, the same procedure as last time. You were careful to make sure your salve in your pocket was not crushed by the tight seat belts, as the plane shuddered to high speeds.

Several hours later, the helicopter shudders, slowing down once again, allowing you to move a bit. You look around. It must be mid day, but it is dark  out, with a light rain dusting the small, hilled town you are flying over. You look down even more, noticing a makeshift barricade, military sandbags and barbed wire in a tall wall a long way away from the graveyard. The actual graveyard itself was a horrible sight, at this distance all you could see is what looks to be a large crowd of people, like what you would see at a concert. Otonashi, while driving the helicopter, begins to go over the the plan.

"We can not stop." He began, "If we were to land, our jetcopter would be over run. Instead, we will do a flyover with Tommy on the gun. That will make a large enough opening for you to enter the catacombs. Helena, David, and Alec, we need you to jump, using the low-altitude deployment pack Helena has brought. You will have to do a little fighting to get in, even if we gun them all down more will appear from the graves. Once you enter the catacombs, David will have to watch the opening. Helena and Alec will continue into the opening, Alec providing fire support when needed, and if necessary block the entrance as well. We will continue to fly over in an attempt to limit the amount getting in, though you can not rely on it entirely. Once you defeat the Barrow Wright, the rest of the undead should fall, in the case there is more then one the undead it controls will fall. Any questions?"

Any questions?

On top of trying DF hack things, I have come up with some more ideas that will probably not get done for a while, but here they are.

-New secret: Zombies. Based on the modern idea of zombies, basically it makes the reader an "Infector" creature comes, releasing gas that turns anything nearby into a zombie, making non-dwarfs berserk and transforming dwarfs into a "Zombie" that can transform other beings into zombies if they bite them.

-New plants
  -Cigarets, coffee, and other plants that can give off a positive syndrome when processed.

-New vehicle
   -UVA, which is basically a beneficial undead. This will be to give the "interrogate" reaction a reason to exist.

This will probably take a while, I have not been coding lately. As always, I am taking suggestions!

"Boats are the enemy of tiles. And tiles are the enemy of boats"

But...You could kind of do it with transformations, physically turning into a boat.

You take a muffin, it is blueberry. It is good and moist, though the top had dried a little bit, and it was pretty cold. "We are discussing what is causing Colt to, well, be alive. We simple do not have enough information to properly deduce the answer..." Goldman says, tiredly. "Scout has returned early this morning, when the medical ship went for him. He is currently in the medical ward, he will be in shape to be able to scout or next mission by the time our cool down is over. Thanks to you, of course." Goldman continues.

Anything you want to do during cool down?