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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 16, 2013 7:28:42 GMT -8
Ashley explains his perspective on each, which we already know, and then says a little more. "They're all half-wits, thugs and cowards, why they are cooperating this far, I can't be sure, maybe there's something in it for them that makes it all worth it, or maybe they just have enough power now to make them feel like kings. I can't be sure, but we should be careful anyways. As far as I know, they aren't running the show, the boss of the enclave is."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 16, 2013 12:55:00 GMT -8
Davin- "Then I wanna make sure I'm talking to that Edgar Pan, or at least a lieutenant other than those cops. Hm."
Thierry- "OK, you three get ready, wait until... 9:35, and then set out. OK?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 16, 2013 12:58:22 GMT -8
I'll start Patti's job in SEATTLE - THE STREETS - SOUTH LAKE UNION, and I'll start this one in SEATTLE - PAN-PAC HOTEL.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Mar 17, 2013 22:54:36 GMT -8
Marie, Chantelle, Zoe & Frank are all asleep.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 19, 2013 17:11:11 GMT -8
Marie, now awake, helped refugees sort themselves out as they entered the room. By now, the following people were present:
The following people were in the hall near the doorway:
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 19, 2013 18:16:31 GMT -8
Davin- "We gotta get those people from 5 up here too!"
Sandy- "I'll do it!"
Davin- "Be safe." They had a light quick kiss and Sandy ran down the hall, down the stairs, to the 5th floor. She was so fast she didn't notice the sound of rising zombies over the noise of her footfalls.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 19, 2013 20:24:04 GMT -8
People heard the gun shots and began to bug. Davin retreated partway in the door, and Chantelle came up to him. Chantelle- "We gotta do something!"
Davin- "We are doing something. Some hellspawn could pop in through that window at any moment. We're trying to keep as many people as possible as safe as possible."
Chantelle- "God I wish we had cell phones. What the hell does it look like downstairs?" Luke had himself a seat. This was a dance with no music - pointless. He felt something in his back pocket and pulled it out. It was his book. Luke- "Grmbl gmbl... What's this? Huh..."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 20, 2013 19:34:12 GMT -8
Davin turned his attention back into the room. Davin- "To whatever extent we can barricade these windows, we oughtta! We got possessed and I don't know how many, but they got one right outside tha room here!" A shiver went through the crowd. Davin- "I sent Sandy to the 5th to get people and she ain't back, so I'm going. You guys watch this door. Be ready to kill or help anything that comes through this door, or just kill anything that comes close to a window!"
Marie- "Del, Eli, Esi, get your weapons ready. Zoe, stay close to me. Chantelle and Emmett, get fire ready in case of ghosts. Luke..."
Luke- "Don't innerupt my readin'. It's rude."
Marie- "OK." Chantelle made a motion to join him, but turned back and went to start the fires. Del took the position at the door.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 21, 2013 23:56:51 GMT -8
Luke worked his fingers through the book, his eyes widening and narrowing and moving quickly over the secret symbols. A life's work was hidden within them, and he couldn't remember writing the half of it, but he could understand the words, here and now.
It wasn't easy making the impossible happen, and the experience of it tried to slip away from you like a greasy piglet, if you let it. He made sure in these pages he'd always know what he'd done, and how he'd done it.
He'd always wished he could have done more, seen more. His glimpse over the horizon of mundane reality had been quite paltry, compared to the workings of the greats. But it was more than most people ever see, and he took a quiet pride in that, here, at the end of his life. Del- "We can't go out there! No way we can. We're stuck! I can't believe it! All we've been through comes to this."
Emmett- "Del, come on, that isn't helping anyone."
Marie- "The guys that set this enclave up in the first place - they've been known to do the impossible. I'm still expecting they'll have us out of here by sometime tomorrow, if we can keep our heads on until then."
Chantelle- "Hm... Yeah, maybe it'll be safer in the daylight. We should try to sleep in shifts."
Esi- "Who the hell's sleepin' now, Goldilocks?"
Eli- "Oh Judy... Oh Cathleen...*sniffle*"
Luke- "..." Luke worked his fingers through the book. He had an old friend's number in here. Someone bigger than this whole stupid place.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 25, 2013 23:03:43 GMT -8
The following people were in Marie's room...
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 26, 2013 3:22:27 GMT -8
Luke had turned a coffee table over in the corner of the room and knelt in front of it. No one but Eli could see what he was doing. Marie turned Zoe away from it. Weird old guy going nuts. Who knew what he'd do? They had worse things to worry about. Eli- "Huh. That's interesting. If that, like, protection magic? Cathleen showed me a book of that one time when-"
Luke- "Pipe down nimrod. When the juju starts to smell like rubber cement, that's when one misstep will bring the blood blisters. Lessee..." Marie, Chantelle, and Zoe talked quietly. Zoe- "I don' know, I thought we were safe't in here from the monsters. Were you guys wrong?"
Chantelle- "No, no. We were safe. I guess something changed, but we're gonna do our best to change it back again."
Marie- "It's totally under control kiddo."
Zoe- "You're tryin' to snow me, Marie."
Marie- "Who told you how to talk like that?"
Chantelle- "Is that gangsta slang, Zoe?"
Marie- "Oh, honey, watch out for that fire. Stop fidgeting..." In the corner, Eli- "Is the juju, uh, safe yet? I'd like to know about-"
Luke- "Stick a pipe in it and ya might get ta see something real cool, weirdo."
Eli- "..."
Luke- "Whoa!" Eli dropped his own corpse at Luke's feet and stared in sorrow and shock.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Mar 26, 2013 12:24:36 GMT -8
A dark figure stood behind the place Eli's apparition, and quickly stirring corpse beneath.
"...ssssss...."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 26, 2013 13:32:47 GMT -8
The thump on the ground behind the crowd alerted people to the danger. A dark ghost had infiltrated the room and someone was already dead. The smell finally reached their noses as the creature lazily drifted in a circle to look at them. Mute ghost Eli listed on the ground like a partially deflated balloon weighed down by its string. Luke- "Damn, that's no way to go. Hey, ghosty pants. Stick around and watch me finish? I invoke Thee, the Terrible, Invisible, Almighty God of Gods, Who dwellest in the Void Place of the Spirit, Maker of Destruction, Maker of Desolation, O Thou who..." He went back to work. People began to scatter, but Marie tried to keep control. Marie- "STILL! There could be more in the shadows!" The ghost caught Zoe in its eyes. Marie grabbed the child and pulled her away, both falling to the floor and rolling aside. Chantelle crumpled her face in emotion and raised a torch.It burst into flames and Eli's body began to stir from the floor."...Hear Me, and make all Spirits subject unto Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under..."
Del- "Damn, this is all my fault! I forgot to make those people do the demon test... Fuck!"
Esi- "What the ffff... Del, are you fucking kidding?"
Emmett- "Guys, calm down, it's-"
Esi- "Shut up, Emmett. Is this real, Del? Is that what all this is about?"
Del- "I don't know, I - maybe ..."
Marie- "ALL OF YOU QUIET! Get your torches ready!"
Esi- "..."
Zombie Eli- "Nnnnhuurr..."
Marie- "You got this, Chan?"
Chantelle- "Um... Yeah..." Chantelle shook off her despair, and used a little jump for extra force, shoving Eli's body back onto a couch, then reversed with the bat and shoved it into his face hard. Nasty noises were at least partly muffled by the furor in the room and the sound of a shotgun from across the building."...O, thou Spirit BUNE, that thou dost forthwith appear unto me, by this ineffable name, TETRAGRAMMATON IEHOVAH, do I command Thee, APPEAR!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 26, 2013 14:47:13 GMT -8
INSIDE LUKE'S BRAIN The Juju worked. Righteous.
Bune stood before him in all of its glory, really bringing back memories, really making him feel his age. Here he was mortal, in the face of something unchanged in the intervening thirty-five years, and probably the 3500 before that.
This demon appeared to Luke as an alabaster sculpture in the likeness of a duke with three heads - left a dog, right a man, and centrally a gryphon. When it spoke, he'd see a phantom image of one of the heads as a living creature, hovering over the statue like a halo, fading in and out of visibility with the rise and fall of its voice.
It spoke with the voice of Rita Hayworth. Bune- "I'm here, loverboy."
Luke- "Don't sass me, demon. I'da called Paimon but ya seemed more right fer the job. Don't prove me wrong."
Bune- "Luke... Your boldness with a Duke of Hell is laughable. You know that every two bit magus for the last millenia has used that ploy. It's embarrassing."
Luke- "Ya know the part in Revelation where the Beast comes with wrath 'cuz his time is short? That's me, motherfucker."
Bune- "I don't normally demand tribute, but in your case, I'll make an exception. What does your heart desire, O Beast?"
Luke- "Clean up the joint. It's crawlin' with zombies and ghosts."
Bune- "Why didn't you call Paimon, little Beast?"
Luke- "*grmblgrmbl* Because Duke Bune changeth the Place of the Dead and causeth the Spirits which be under him to gather upon our Sepulchres."
Bune- "I can change the place of the dead for thee, but it shall cost ye."
Luke- "My soul? Wasn't usin' it anyway. Let 'er rip, Poncho."
Bune- "Nay. At this time, a tribute of flesh will please me best..."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 27, 2013 14:53:45 GMT -8
Back in the real world... Mute ghost Eli bobbled listed, and twirled, coming into eye contact with Zoe. The little girl wrinkled her nose. Zoe- "Mister ghost, you'le stinky."
Eli- "..."
Marie- "Zoe, don't look at that thing! Chan, can you?"
Chantelle- "I just don't think... I can't. What if...?"
Marie- "No! That's absurd. It's a crappy copy at best. It's a polaroid of a bad feeling, printed on gasoline jelly. Just do it."
Eli- "..."
Zoe- "You'le confusing me. Mister..."
Marie- "It isn't a real mister, Zoe." Almost as if in response to Marie's statement, mute ghost eli suddenly deflated, collapsing to the floor, losing all form, and assuming an appearance like a pile of black jell-O. Behind him, Luke could be seen still hunched over that table, back turned, shaking a little. Marie- "What. They've never done that before. Luke...?"
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