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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 26, 2012 23:38:26 GMT -8
Young Lady- "Oh god, thank you. You're ... beautif..." She couldn't continue and sobbed a moment while weakly accepting the food.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 26, 2012 23:43:48 GMT -8
Peg- Peg wiped a tear from the corner of her eye at the sight. "Hey, Seth, do you think there's any chance of just running for it, torches first, or should we come up with a plan to fight all those things?"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 26, 2012 23:50:18 GMT -8
Then there was the sound of feet slapping on tile, and they beheld a vision of wild-eyed young people looking at them with emotional expressions of relief and excitement.
Tattooed boy- "Nora! Oh God I thought... *choke*"
Skinny girl- "Y-you're the motorcycle people! We saw you! We thought--ohh *sob*"
Dreadlocks guy- "How did you get through them? Maybe.. do they let you up here but not down? No one ever comes back..."
Two girls watched in the back, silent but with big eyes.
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Post by DKender on Nov 26, 2012 23:57:29 GMT -8
Alex gingerly put a hand on the crying woman's shoulder. Poor thing. She probably lost many friends that week ... her Emilianos and Micahs. But at least there were other survivors! Five others, by the looks of it. "We should ... make a lot of fire," he suggested. "Really. A lot of fire. Does paint burn like a candle? I mean. Um. Hm." Where was he going with this?
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 27, 2012 0:07:16 GMT -8
Seth- "We should go somewhere comfortable for a minute, and we can talk. We have a little water and food."
Tattooed boy- "R-really?! Are the monsters still down there? That's why you're talking about fire, huh... Wait. What would you do with fire?"
Skinny girl- "Burn the building down? I don't think there's any way we could jump!"
Young lady- "They say that you can burn the... ghosts I guess."
Anna- "Yeah, like I said, let's find a comfortable place. Is the upstairs good? What do you know about it?"
Curly haired girl- "I don't think there's anything upstairs. Yeah, there's chairs and stuff."
Anna- "Yeah, let's go up where those fancy rich bitches hang out for their meetings. C'mon baby."
She helped Alex get the young lady to her feet.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 27, 2012 0:29:04 GMT -8
The kids weakly walked up the stairs at the end of the hall, passing by a bunch of white plaster sculptures of grasping hands that were attached to the white walls rather eerily. They moved in an uncanny way, that the 403 crew had not seen before. Malnourished, scared out of their minds, they wavered and trembled and looked like human ghosts.
The stairs here were plushly carpeted, and there was a large skylight above, casting the floor in the gray light from above. They stepped out on to smoothly polished wooden floors, several different open areas on each side which seemed to be corporate meeting spaces. There were plush leather lounge chairs, and well framed art that did not seem to be student work. There was even an honest to goodness grand piano sitting in the middle of the floor. Dreadlocks guy- (to Anna) "Wait, you--You're in sculpture, right?"
Anna- "Yeah, and video. I mean, I was. God..."
Tattooed boy- "I don't wanna even talk about it. My show was next month. Next month. It's still over there, all my work. Just waiting..." His eyes lined with tears and he shook his head. Everyone came to rest in a darkened room that was surrounded by windows with the sheer cloth shades drawn, only vague filtered light coming in from behind them. They sat in squishy leather chairs. Seth pulled out three water bottles and handed them to the kids, and the rest of the bag of mini-wheats. Skinny girl- "We were drinking out of the toilets..! I mean, at least we had that or we would be dead..."
Seth- "You can come with us, we have a nice place you can stay. Lots of food, your own rooms..."
Asian girl- "They won't let us go! We'll never get out."
Peg- "No! We know how to destroy them. They're afraid of the fire, we can get through."
Seth- "It's true, I've killed more than one ghost with just a lighter."
Anna- "See? Really. Just calm down. That's why we're up here, right?" The kids sipped on the water, and looked around at each other and the strange new friends.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 27, 2012 0:46:25 GMT -8
Dreadlocks guy- "You were the motorcycle people, wh-who was on that? Who saw us?"
Peg- "It was me and the president."
Seth- "Yeah, I'm Seth and that was Peg on the back. We're from a building a few blocks from here, there's lots of people there." (Everyone took a moment to introduce themselves.) Ibi- "Oh... okay. Well, you can understand we're kind of scared, doubtful that we'll be able to make it out. What... what's the idea then?"
Seth- "We just go straight down the stairs, we didn't see anything there. The ghosts stay away from the flares." He gestured at the pile of burning pink they'd left scorching a dark spot onto the fancy wood floors."We get outside, we'll help you get to our building."
Ibi- "What do you know about the monsters? You found out that they catch fire... Are all of the monsters like that?"
Anna- "No, I mean there's zombies.. ghosts.. there's uh, this sort of possessed people that crawl around on the roof and stuff. Fire really was only for the ghosts as far as well know."
Seth- "You can keep them out though, our building has been pretty safe."
Nora- "Possessed people? Oh my god... What a nightmare. Is that what HE is?" The 403 group looked around, confused. Briar- "Nora, are you sure that that was real? Maybe it was a just a zombie."
Nora- "He talked to me! He told me to go back upstairs or something bad would happen."
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on Nov 27, 2012 3:07:50 GMT -8
Micah looked at the group silently for a bit, listening to the talk. A bunch of scared artsy kids, he'd been lucky to have the group he had somehow ended up with in the apocalypse. These guys were fucking useless on their own. He would have been useless and dead on his own. "I am Micah and this is Alex. Umm why warn you? If he or whatever it is; is some evil fuck, why give you a jump start? Mary, who was our possessed, fucking messed with our heads too. She only killed one kid, what the fuck is the game plan here or anywhere? All we know is fire kills ghosts, a shot to the head for zombies and the possessed. I say try what we know, a quick death is better than starvation..."
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Post by DKender on Nov 27, 2012 13:40:21 GMT -8
"The demons enjoy fear and pain," Alex added. "I think. They also KNOW stuff. Secret things about people. But, uh, Seth, what's that trick you used? Possessed guys can't answer personal questions so well? If you ever feel paranoid, that helps."
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 27, 2012 20:33:09 GMT -8
Seth- "Yeah we just ask them some personal questions, or like, weird stuff that only a human would know. Like.. "Favorite ice cream topping?" I'm not sure if it works, but we haven't let one get past us that way. We just tied up the last one... Uh, anyway, Nora, what did you see?"
Nora- "Just... this weird guy downstairs. I think I seen him before but I don't remember. He said it's not safe down there, we should stay up here, blah blah. He creeped me out so I just ran back upstairs."
Casey- "Estephany said she saw some guy before she left. I hope... *sigh*"
Peg- "Aww. Well, we're gonna do it right this time. We know more than anybody that you've known yet. We're prepared. We're all gonna get out of this alive, no question."
Mega- *whimper*
Anna- "Creepy guy, kinda acting inappropriate for the situation, seems to be hanging out in monster town without getting attacked... sounds like the possessed people before they start getting extra gross anyway."
Seth- "Yeah, we know what to do with those..."
He nodded toward his bag sitting on a table, which had the barrel of a shotgun sticking out of it conspicuously.
Anna- (whispers to Seth) "Soo how religious are you?"
Seth- "Sheesh."
Peg- "So I brought this up downstairs, should we make an effort to kill a lot of ghosts first? Go down there with fire, move slow, and come back? Or should we just charge through torches out, hope it works out?"
Seth- "I say we just go. We got up here, we can get down."
Peg nodded, and noticed a worried look on Mega's face. She looked at her kindly.
Peg- "So we'll go through fast, but if something does happen, we'll be ready for it. Don't worry about that. Like I said, we've destroyed ghosts, and worse things than that."
Anna- "So we gotta make like muskoxen on the nature shows, keep all the sick kids in the middle when we're on the stairs. When we get out in the open to the car maze, maybe we should just have a buddy. One kid to watch after.. or whatever the math is. Maybe Seth can get two since he's the original badass."
Seth- "Aw that's sweet."
The kids took the group down to the painting studio, so they could gather their belongings. They saw the reverse side of the butcher paper hanging from the windows. It was a huge room, the center filled with racks of paintings. A few of the students stopped to gaze at a piece of art for a moment before returning to packing. There were a few scattered wrappers and some empty bottles on the tables, including a large empty jar marked "BREAST MILK-- DO NOT DRINK". Casey- "We just slept on our coats on this floor, we didn't wanna leave these windows." He gestured at the paint splattered hard cement."I'll be really glad to have an actual bed. I don't care if I have to share it with ten people."
Chelsea- "Aw that would be kind of sweet, like husky dogs!"
Seth- "Heh, um, we have a lot of beds, but feel free to make your own arrangements." They met out in the hall, the students had their bags, and stood nervously. Peg- "So maybe we just buddy up with whoever you feel comfortable with?" She looked at Mega."So when we get outside, you can stay with me and I can keep you safe until we get home."
Mega- "Okay..."
Briar- "Anna, I wanna go with you!"
Anna- "I've got no problem with that."
Ibi- "I'm a big guy, I don't think anyone here could carry me if I needed it, heh. I'll just tag along with Seth."
Casey- "I'll go with um, Seth too? If it's okay?"
Seth- "Of course." (Micah and Alex, who picks who?) Nora?
or Chelsea?
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on Nov 27, 2012 21:04:18 GMT -8
Micah looked at the two left, that leather jacket Nora wore was pretty awesome. The birthmark was kind of interesting, at least he hoped that was what it was. He didn't want to offend her and ask if a monster gave it to her though. He gave her a encouraging grin. "Ah do you mind going with me? You can go with Alex here if you'd prefer though. I have a knife if you want it, for protection against monsters?"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 27, 2012 22:43:51 GMT -8
Nora- "I think I'd go wif' the bogeyman by this point. No offense, I'm sure you're a delight. Foreign exchange too? If we live, let's chat."
Chelsea- (to Alex) "If I faint, don't hold it against me later huh?"
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Post by DKender on Nov 27, 2012 23:09:56 GMT -8
"It's okay. Fainting's not embarrassing, especially considering how tough it's been lately. Once, I even, uh ... " He trailed off and offered Chelsea his arm for support. "Just lean on me. If you feel sick, say something." Alex smiled suddenly. "Whoa! Bet I could carry you, if it comes to that! Yeah, we'll be fine! Yeeeah!"
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on Nov 28, 2012 0:18:35 GMT -8
( To Nora)"Not quite but let's just make though today yeah?" He took out the sashimi knife from his back-pocket and offered to the pom. She didn't look much better for the protein bar, they really brought a new meaning to the term 'starving artists'. He didn't want to get too close though, hadn't they mentioned drinking toilet water... He turned to Alex and his buddy. "You can use her to whack the shit out of zombies, I hope her skull is thick." He joked uneasily. "Let's bail the fuck out of this hell hole!"
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Post by DKender on Nov 28, 2012 0:45:02 GMT -8
In quite the scandalized tone, Alex barked, "MICAH!" He scowled. "Please be more considerate." Sometimes, Alex suspected that Micah never knew a decent fatherly role model. The poor guy obviously had a lot of gentleman potential - he was good at heart! Maybe, with time, Alex could teach him how to say "darn" instead of "fuck" and avoid jokes that involved swinging a traumatized woman like a baseball bat.
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