The Unicorn

*The Unicorn* is the title of the eleventh episode of the first season of Blood in the North and the eleventh session of the entire game.

This session was played on March 15th, 2020

## The Unicorn

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Anthony Hotchkiss, Richie Maynard, Corey Sexton, Antoine SinClaire

## Plot

Rebecca survived on her own for this long, where is she now?

## Synopsis

*“Mommy, is that you?”. Rebecca tosses her walkie to the ground but quickly picks it back up to check if it’s broken. She puts it into her backpack and continues on her walk.*

Rachel is frantically trying to respond but getting nothing but feedback. Scarab asks Roger if he knows the average range of a radio from here and if a little girl would be anywhere nearby. He suggests the shopping mall about a mile and a half north. August, Scarab, Rachel, and Roger will head out immediately to check it out.

*Rebecca once again tries her walkie and a voice responds. It is not a familiar person. The voice asks how she got on his frequency and she fires back that it’s not very secure. She arrives at the Mall and sneaks in. The voice is able to see her from… somewhere and warns her she doesn’t want to be here. She of course, doesn’t listen and enters. The Voice attempts to appease the girl and introduces themselves as “Lily” even though it’s clearly an older gentleman. Lily also has an adorable Unicorn pop up on all the nearby screens to better be involved. Rebecca is not impressed and enters the food court where she is almost immediately attacked by a zed. She is not able to kill it and is almost grabs her, ripping her shirt but she manages to lead it into the freezer and lock it in, narrowly escaping.*

 The Search party arrives at the Mall and are much more prepared for danger once they get inside. They spot the issue at hand, hundreds of Zeds on the bottom floor.

*Rebecca leaves the sports store with a makeshift helmet and armor, eating fortune cookies. Lily once again tells her to be more careful and she shrugs them off. They decide to give her a task. If she can get into the electronics store and boot up something special for them, they’ll tell her where their secret stash of supplies is. She agrees since she’s running out of stuff. She trips an alarm but Lily is able to hack it and shut it down before it disrupts the horde below. Now that she knows Lily has remote access to most of the mall, she asks if they can set off an alarm on the other side of the mall to distract the infected while she works. Lily does but it is short lived as someone cuts the wire to the alarm, silencing it. Lily begins to survey the Mall to find whoever did this while Becki obtains the item, a drone. Lily attempts to explain to the girl how to connect the Walkie to the drone so they can take control of it and it is a task. She finally gets it and the drone begins to come alive. A deal is a deal so Lily informs her that the stash is in a women’s clothing store on the first floor. Rebecca is not that dumb so instead she looks for the security office to hopefully find this mystery person.*

 August and Rachel enter the food court while Scarab and Roger wrap to the other side of the mall to enter the theater.

August and Rachel begin searching everything and they get to the shop that Rebecca locked the Zed in.

*Lily lets Rebecca into the security office and she doesn’t find anyone inside. Instead, she asks to have the cameras turned on so she can map out a path to the stash. While it is being hacked, A young boy secretly warns Rebecca about The Unicorn and tells her about a small group of them hiding on the bottom floor. She decides to follow him to the other group.*

 August and Rachel take out the Zed and Rachel finds a piece of cloth that she immediately recognizes as the shirt Rebecca was in when she vanished. They’re close. Scarab and Roger arrive at the theater and Scarab gets mouthy with August again. They clearly need to talk this out. In the meantime, Lily reveals themselves to August and Rachel, Still in Unicorn view. They ask the voice if they know of a little girl nearby. Lily tells them there is a group of children that she might be with.

At the theater, Scarab and Roger do not find any new information. They leave, defeated but then Scarab spots a blacked-out van pulling away quickly so They immediately begin to pursue it. Lily leads the others to the Security room to show them the tape of the Jewelry store the children are staying in. Rachel spots Rebecca among the group and demands to know how to get there. It’s then that August notices the timestamp on the recording is from a few days prior. He is furious and Rachel breaks down again. Lily informs them that he knew they’d be compromised here so he had Rebecca lead them to a nearby plaza for safety. They awaken the drone again and tell Lily to lead them there. Lily asks for them to grab their stash from downstairs first but Rachel is not having it so she lights a Molotov and tosses it over the railing, lighting the entire horde and building on fire. They arrive at the plaza and enter the building to find Rebecca sitting alone. Rachel attempts to approach her and the girl begins to giggle, followed by an echo of other voices. Augusts spots the scratches on her shoulder and pulls Rachel back as the girl turns around and lets out a wail. Rebecca has turned.

## Cast

### Main

* August Fallon-Nox
* Sabra "Scarab" Nazari
* Rachel Bailey
* Rebecca Bailey
* Ellie Eastwood
* Roger
* Lily

### Supporting

* Robin Santos
* Tyson Greenwell

## Trivia

* Players this session: Anthony Hotchkiss (Roger), Richie Maynard (Rebecca), Corey Sexton (Lily), & Antoine SinClaire (August)
* Richie Maynard returns to the series as Rebecca this session.
* Corey Sexton joins the cast this session.
* Though the series is primarily played in person, the character Lily is a unique situation in which player Corey Sexton plays exclusively over the phone. This is due to him living two entire time zones behind the rest of the cast.
* Matt Christie did not attend this session.
* Second session to be set mostly in a Flashback. In this case following Rebecca.
* Title is a reference to Lily's Avatar, a Chibi Unicorn.