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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Right Transept/Munitions

[cityship]

The battle rages on, and the ammo slowly but surely begins to dwindle.

Hopefully it will last them long enough to survive.

Re: Right Transept/Munitions

[venominsilicon]

Gauron is definitely noticing their supply of ammunition shrinking; they can hold out for a while yet, but he's seriously considering whether the time to suggest relocating to a more defensible area might not be coming soon, while there are still comparatively few wounded and the ammo supply will last more than long enough to get them there. It'll probably mean abandoning a lot of the food supplies if they do, and there's bound to be complaining about that - and about destroying anything they can't take with them that any of the zombies, or whatever might be coming behind them, would probably be able to utilize - but in a situation like this, the priority is holding onto as much of their water and munitions as possible.

Re: Right Transept/Munitions

[redheadcarrier]

Asuka hates this. She really hate this. She feels horrendously useless, sitting here, surrounded by stacks of supplies with a pistol in her lap. She shouldn't be here. She should be in her Eva or doing something that doesn't require her to sit and wait while others so all the fighting. She's also afraid, but she certainly doesn't want to admit that to anyone. She glances over at Guaron, then back at the floor, making a soft "harumph" noise, "...this is stupid."

Re: Right Transept/Munitions

[not_prncss_tldr]

Having finished the latest round of food delivery, Lafiel rounds the corner into the other transept. Selecting from among the stacks of clips, she slaps one into her klanyu and assesses them with a glance (and incidentally the pissed off looking redhead in the corner).

"It's not going to last." Not a worried statement but a factual one.

[redheadcarrier]

That statement hits Asuka like a thunderbolt. She looks up at Lafiel, tying to keep the worry out of her expression and her voice. She manages to do so pretty well, actually, coming off as contemptuous rather then scared out of her mind. Hey, that's an improvement, right?

"So, we're all going to die here? That can't happen! I'm not going to die!"

[dreamstolights]

"We're still fighting too much to die yet," Selene said, panting as she leaned on the doorway. "But the roof people need ammo. They're running low and the zombies are starting to climb. Gotta go find commanding officer. Buy," she said, and with a wave, she was off running again.

[not_prncss_tldr]

"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]

"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]

"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]

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."