Dead Island Riptide: Under the Dome

[Part of the Dead Island Diary]

Before going to Dr. Kessler's research lab we make a small detour to Marcus Villa's home where we find the pyromaniac waiting with a machete, a lighter and a crazed look in his eyes. Since he made it clear that he was a "misunderstood" threat we sorted him out by murdering him and splaying his blood and skin all over his house. No reanimation for you asshole.

Once that loose end was tied up we went on our way to Dr. Kessler's dome. Of course he wasn't going to help us without giving us a small task first. Apparently he was the last non zombie of the staff there, with the rest of his research assistants in the bio-lab having turned into "grenadier" zombies. Yes, these strange undead guys throw balls of poisonous pus pulled directly from their crotches (I assume). Some of them also were carrying research data that the good doctor wanted retrieved so guess who got to play dodge the bodily fluids?

Once that was done the Doc told us about the tunnels we wanted to know about. Apparently a whole bunch of aussie soldiers went in there to contain some chemical spill but since an "infection" broke out down there the authorities decided it would be easier to just seal them in there for indefinite quarantine. Good stuff. Anyhow, the entrance to it was supposedly located at a not so nearby ruined church so that was our next stop.

Dead Island Riptide: All Kinds of Crazy

[Part of the Dead Island Diary]

Finally we reach Marcus Villa's house, only it is inhabited by some locals who deny our entry until we provide them with some medicinal bark. Geesh, we just can't catch a break! Once they are appeased we come in and trash the joint, finding the strange maps we needed. At that point we are called by Paradise camp to return post haste as Marcus Villa is there and acting weird. We get to see how weird when we arrive, with him stating that the immune should be eaten by the others to save mankind. I guess he's a cannibal then?

Since everyone refused the genius sets the entire place on fire, summoning another massive zombie attack which sees specials like floaters, thugs and butchers also participating. Fortunately Harlow arrives via boat after a few waves and everyone (at least I think everyone) escapes and relocates to the nearby fishing village base. At least this place has walls. Annoyingly though as Jim points out, there are no guns... still!

It's ok, maybe they have a battalion of zombie eating plants here.

On planning what to do next Harlow suggests we talk to a Dr. Kessler as he would know about the alternate path to Henderson as well. Why are you only telling us about him now? And where the heck did all these other boats come from? These mysteries and more shall hopefully be revealed in the next session!

Dead Island Riptide: That was a Dead End

[Part of the Dead Island Diary]

Once we had our hard earned boat we managed to get to the nearby bridge leading to Henderson, except it was broken! Dismayed that we had absolutely no way to cross the lagoon which blocked our path, we had to get our boat (which couldn't possibly cross a lagoon) and make our way back to the fishing village to ask for a different way around. They said this religious leader named Marcus Villa would be able to help, but he was currently missing. It was easy enough to actually find him but those people really didn't want to leave their compound.

After saving Marcus he told us of some maps that could help us cross the lagoon at his house, and as a bonus the fishing village actually let us into their safe zone which was great. We met more people who needed more things done, medicine (and some shrooms) related mostly, so we went and did those first. One of them was pretty bad in that the infected runners would not stop spawning in a particular area. Fortunately we managed to push through and collect whatever it was we were after (drugs I think) and that made them stop falling out of the sky.

Swinging by "Paradise" to drop off more gear and build more weaponry (most of which is ludicrous) we noticed that boats have begun popping up everywhere, including right beside the first base camp. We kinda want to kill Harlow now for sending us all the way across the damned island to build one. >:(

I guess we'll let it slide since she did pull us from the beach.