Alone Amongst the Ruins By Azukail Games
Instruments: 1d6, Card Deck
Game Description
You have awoken to a desolate city. Explore it to survive and perhaps you may findout what has happened.
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Word Count: 1,498 Played: Nov 29, 2024
Roll: 5
Roll: 1, Find it while searching
Clubs: Supplies
5: Gutted Skyscraper
I still haven't found any information about what has happened here. All the roads are abandoned. All the people are gone. There's just nothing…. I explored an abandoned skyscraper today. I'm guessing it was an office building because of all the reception desks on the first floor. I don't really trust the elevators or stairs, so I just stuck to the first floor.
I was able to find a first-aid kit which had some bandages and stuff. I'll keep It with me for now.
Roll: 2, Found it while searching
Clubs: Supplies
J: Parking Garage
I found the entrance to the parking garage under the office buildings. All the cars are there, but all of them are locked. I don't want to break into them just yet, especially since I don't know how to turn off an alarm.
I'm worried about water most of all. How am I going to shower? What am I going to drink?
I found a watercooler in the security office which still seems potable, but I don't want to lug it around with me. The idea of having to come back here each day for water seems very bad as well. I'll have to figure something else out.
Roll: 1, Searching
Clubs: Supplies
9: Eating Establishment
There's a freezer full of meat in the deli! It's still cold too! I was able to defrost some hamburgers and cook them on a grill with some buns from the grocer next door. It was really nice! Maybe I can set up in some restaurant or something. I mean… I guess I need to find people, but there's just nothing.
Why was I the only one left? There had to be more sick people in the hospital…. Maybe I should go and check sometime.
Roll: 5, a glimpse while resting
Clubs: Supplies
2: Within an overgrown park
The park is completely overgrown. I must have been in the hospital much longer than I thought. I… I guess I don't remember much about my stay there. They had me on some pretty strong painkillers. Everything seems to be healing well though, so I don't think I have to worry much about it.
But I found an old shed while I was resting. Inside was a box of tools. I guess I could have found those anywhere in one of the shops, but these are here now and… I took them back to the place I was staying.
This sounds a little silly, but I had to look around for an apartment that was 1) on the ground floor and 2) was unlocked and 3) Still has a lock. … But now that I have some tools I can look into getting into another apartment and maybe fixing up the locks that are broken or something.
Roll: 6, Glimpse while resting
Clubs: Supplies
6: In a public square
I found a whole mess of flashlights today! They were out under a concert stage in the park where I was resting again.
It was in a little storage booth underneath it and inside were a whole bunch. I moved them back to my apartment, which… I believe that the electricity is going to go out soon. I need to find a library or something on how to make clean water, or catch rainwater or grow vegetables. I need more canned vegetables. I… Indeed to make a list of what I need to do.
Roll: 4
Roll: 2, searching
Diamonds: Clues
9: Eating Establishment
I decided to explore a little further today since I found an abandoned bicycle. I wandered into an old fast-food joint and… Fuck it was like something out of a bad horror movie. There was graffiti all over the walls and candles everywhere and weird symbols.
I think someone was doing a prank or something since this is way too absurd to be real. I mean… maybe people were doing something desperate whenever It happened. I don't know if this was before or after. Though I'm going to guess after since someone would have stopped them if it was before.
Roll: 6, Found while resting
Hearts: Remains of a vanished population
8: Debris strewn Street
I was taking a breather outside in the fresh air outside that restaurant, and I noticed that there is just so much crap in the streets. Like shoes, purses and watches. Some of it's been all ruined because of the rain. I guess I might need to clean up the parts where I live. It can get kinda nasty if I don't. But I don't know where to put it either. I guess I need to make a trash pile, but it needs to be far away from where I live. But not too far that I can't throw it out in a timely manner.
I wonder if people just ran away or something else happened to them. I'm really glad that I haven't found any bodies yet though. I really hope I never will.
Roll: 4, while walking around
Spade: Nature Taking Over
8: Debris-strewn street
I … I really have been in the hospital for a long time. The pavement is starting to crack and grass is poking through. I wasn't soiled or anything in my sheets and … I just don't know. How could I have survived so long without anyone taking care of me?
I think maybe two days would be the most but… everything seems so old. I.. maybe this part of town is just poorly maintained. Maybe that's it.
Roll: 3 Walking around
Spade: Nature
King: Place of worship
I found myself outside an old synagog. I've never been in one before and given the entrance to this one was collapsed I won't be going in it either. Outside the grass was all overgrown and thick ivy was creeping up the sides. It makes me really sad.
Roll: 2
Roll: 5, While Resting
Hearts: Remnants of Population
9: Eating Establishment
There was money strewn around the inside of a fancy restaurant. I had gone inside to see if there was anything in the kitchen. There was so much mold and everything was rotten that I gagged when I stepped inside.
For a brief moment I considered taking all the cash as kindling or something. I don't know. I do kinda want to burn it. I think it would make me feel better. Perhaps another time though. For now, it's just going to stay on the floor.
Roll: 6 While resting
Hearts: Remains of People
6: In a public square
I saw a bunch of posters today. I took a long walk around the park in this district and I miss people. I mean I hated them. But I miss them.
I tried to imagine the kind of music each poster would have played, how long the show would have been. What kind of food there would have been.
I couldn't do much more today so I just went back home and went to bed.
Roll: 3
Roll: 5, Resting
Diamonds: Clues
5: Within a skyscraper
I found a flier today warning about the "others." It looks like some sort of government propaganda and at first I thought it was some sort of anti-immigration nonsense but it looks like some full-blown conspiracy bs.
It talked about those who "look like us, but are not us" and other vagaries. Why can't any of this be straightforward?
Anway, I was taking a break inside one of the larger skyscrapers when I found this. It's nice in here. Well would have been nice. There's a fountain with stagnant water which is a bit gross. I tried not to get too close to it.
Roll: 6, Resting
Diamonds: Clues
Jack: A parking garage
There are a ton of government vehicles in this area. Police cars, those black FBI cars, everything and anything. Looks like something really happened here, but I can't figure out what.
None of them are locked but none of them have the keys in them either. Maybe I should learn how to hot-wire a car. But then I also need gas and new tires and… I just hope whatever happened is not still out there and won't get me.
Roll: 5, Resting
Diamonds: Clues
Queen: Government Building
I took a long walk today and stopped outside of the city hall. There's some lights in there. I thought I heard something but I can't be certain. I wonder if its people. I wonder if it's those "others?" I guess I don't really know or have a way of knowing.
I'm going to go in to see them.