The Supply Run

- or -   "How ATZ:FFO writes its own script!"

Anyone who's been following the exploits of Brad and his group through the zombie apocalypse might remember that they'd set up camp around a fairly secluded gas station / diner.

It was at this point that I started tracking time and events using the ATZ:FFO campaign rules, and these include a check for "Involuntary Encounters", the result of which was that the camp had been burgled during the night in week two and the thieves had made off with a load of rations!
The burglary unsettled Brad - someone had found their location, and the open nature of the camp (and proximity of the woods) made it difficult to defend, so he persuaded the rest of the group that they needed to move (AGAIN!)
A higher priority though, was that the stolen rations also needed to be replaced.
The Kirkman family who'd just joined the group know the area, and suggested driving up to Lorenzo and trying their luck at the "FOOD-O-RAMA" store there. The vehicles were loaded up, and the convoy headed north.

Pulling into a parking lot at the edge of town, Brad instructed Travis, Nate, Amy and Christine to stay with the transport and keep watch - if zeds turned up in any numbers, they were to lead them away with the convoy before doubling back to the parking lot.
Brad, Hannah, Zac, Dave and Hillary went into town on foot and arrived in sight of the store without encountering any problems.
(Downtown Lanzio - set up using my old PDF boards and buildings cos the mdf "make over" is still just a work in progress)

The group approaches the front of the store - the only visible PEF (directly to their front in the middle of the road) resolved as "Something's Out There", raising the encounter rating from 5 to 6 - which means the two remaining PEF's (both out of sight IN THE STORE!!) will definitely resolve as "contacts"!

The only visible zombies are just beyond the corner of the store -

- since the group's approach route is to the left of the board, the initial zombie placement rules (using a clock face, any zombies that would be "off table" move around the face clockwise until they reach a table edge, so all results between 7 and 10 appear at 11) resulted in quite a horde forming.
The horde started shambling into view just as the group reached the front entrance to the store.
Zac peered through the broken doors, only to spot a couple of survivors holding off a good handful (7) of zeds.

With yet more of the walking dead approaching from down the road,

and a lone straggler directly opposite the store. Things are not as quiet in Lorenzo as Brad had hoped!
He swung his machete and split the head of the leading zombie as he shouted a warning to the folks in the store to get the hell out while they can!

Zac and Dave stopped the three walkers by the pick up truck blocking their escape - Dave dispatched his opponent, while Zac only managed to fend off the two he was facing

before breaking off and joining everyone else setting off down the road and out pacing the following undead.

So, a failed supply run, and unfortunately no one in the group noticed the couple they'd just rescued from the store slipping off down a side alley as they made their way back towards the parking lot -

To be continued.................