Looks for any indication of land and swims towards it.
You get bored of blowing ninja bubbles and try to spy out land. Being a couple dozen meters from land, this is not too difficult. You begin swimming through the chest high water towards the shore.
1-1, crit 6-1You splash around a bunch and get a mouthful of disgusting water. After your ineffectual dog paddling gets you nowhere you very slowly wade your way to the land, picking flecks of shit out of your teeth as you go. You make it to the beach, and see to your left a standoff between a hobo and a small, boring-looking man. To your right you see a man with a very purposeful-looking cross scarred across his face
I get up and ready my wrench
You scrabble around for your wrench, regain your bearings, and get to your feet. You brandish the wrench menacingly as a small, plain looking man snickers and snarkily apologises.
Name- Tablerace
skills
Perception +2
Charisma - 1
Intelligence - 1
Perks
Spatial awareness acute - good balance.
Item, balanced by perk
Strong motorcycle helmet, no eye hole.
Staff made of lead piping
Rags
Appearance.
Tall and lean. Pale.
Condition.
Blinded
You see nothing. You cannot breathe. But you feel your way upwards to the air. As you break the surface you struggle to fill your lungs through the dripping trappings of your helmet. You see nothing. You feel grime, an oily layer of waste stuck to your skin. You feel heavy air against your limbs as you cast about. You feel ripples in the water and you hear, in the near distance, the sounds of violence.
There are more ripples coming from the direction of the noise than any other. And you think you can hear a voice.
Upon seeing it is a human, apologise profusely
3-1You stammer out something that sounds like it what a naughty child would say upon being found scribbling on a wall. It doesn't sound very sincerely apologetic. The person you bowled over gets up and menacingly brandishes a very large piece of metal with a nasty spike on it. He looks almost feral, like a cross between a mangy dog and an unkempt hedge.
Name: Slime
Skills:
Willpower +1
Charisma -1
Perks:
+1 dodge
Appearance:
Short. Large beard. Permanent scowl. Hard eyes that have seen the depths of hell and despair.
Condition:
Normal
Inventory:
Rags, Wooden serrated dagger
You break the surface of the water and, after seeing land, begin heading towards it. You effortlessly step around all the nasty floating things you come across and deftly jump away from the jaws of a small snapping fish as you alight upon the shore. You find what appears to be a wooden dagger shoved into your loincloth. It's finely serrated, and the tips of the serrations are well-tapered and look fire-hardened. Unfortunately being soaked has reduced its hardness somewhat but hopefully when dry it should make a passable, if not terribly durable, weapon. To your left you see a man standing and staring. At you. On his greyish face is a cross. You and he are both distracted by a very bulky man noisily and violently splashing his way to land further along the shore, and you notice a standoff between a man with a big weapon and a smaller man without any weapon further along.
Get a move on, try and search for any light source, or manmade structure. Best chance of finding the Mayor.
Gazing intently inland you see a few increasingly faint light sources, distinctly similar to the light given off by the mushroom you're standing under. In addition there is a very distant glow, past all the others, that looks very different to that of the mushroom. To your right you see... somebody watching you. Maybe 30 meters away. He is short and scowling, with a large beard and a murderer's eyes. Your gaze is torn away to your left by the sound of violent splashing and a very large man wading to shore nearby. He's missing an eye, and looks like he stomps on small fluffy animals for fun. Brown teeth. Past him, you distinctly manage to make out two bodies. They look distracted by each other, and the one is wielding what looks like a large, nasty-looking pick.
((OOC: not sure which direction you would begin moving here, there's stuff to look at in all directions. You rolled very very high for perception so you basically got a full picture of everything. Lemme know your preferred course and I'll write it into this update so as to account for your "get a move on action." Hope you slept well by the way!))
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