From Dusk Till Dawn...

[cityship]

...Okay, so maybe that movie was about vampires and not zombies.

But as the battle in the Vatican dragged on, it might feel like it had been going just that long.

And it showed no signs of letting up just yet.

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[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

"Possible, but unlikely. We still have the option of falling back to a more secure position and waiting. The teams dispatched to the central hub include some of our most individually powerful members. Failing that, we can always dispatch runners to buy us time to resecure this position. Our enemies go after organic life wherever they can sense it and seem incapable of making the distinction between a high priority target and a decoy." She tucked another clip into her belt. "With careful rationing, we will have three days before the food runs out."

[venominsilicon.livejournal.com]

"I don't plan on dying here - what you want to do is your own business," Gauron shoots back at Asuka. "You want to live, though, you load clips."

As for the situation on the roof... well, that's not good news, but he's got it covered - he moves one of the people he's got loading magazines back into his rotation of runners; he's managed to maintain enough of a reserve of full magazines that he can afford it.

When Lafiel mentions moving to a more secure area, he adds, "Speaking of which, I think the time to fall back is coming pretty soon. We're spread too thin here, trying to cover too many entry points - and at this rate, it's sounding like we're going to run out of ammo before we run out of zombies, or before any survivors from GTFO get back, even if we make every round count. By the way, how are our water supplies doing?"

[not-prncss-tldr.livejournal.com]

"Four days. Longer if we can impose water recycling." Yes guys, Lafiel will make you drink your own pee if she has to. "We will have to cut off nonessential personell at the three day mark. Regardless..." She looks up. Her instinct as an Abh says that if she must be groundbound, to seek higher ground. "I suggest we retreat to the roofs and take out the stairs behind us. Most of our enemies can't climb, and the leapers that are giving you trouble will be much easier to deal with with our outside personell brought upstairs. Shall we inform the command staff of our situation?"

[venominsilicon.livejournal.com]

Gauron will drink his own pee if he has to. "I've been on the roof, and the situation there isn't good. Even with the defenses tightened, I don't think it's really going to be safe for our noncombatants. A better plan might be to move to the second floor and block off or destroy all the stairways, if our way out is completely gone." Even now, the chance of them being able to clear the path back out from the Sacristy is... slim at best. "It'll give us a lot less perimeter to defend than being up on the roof, and more room to fall back if we need to, and it'll be a little bit less cramped."