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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 27, 2013 22:11:38 GMT -8
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After a little while, they were nearing familiar territory. They passed the Columbia Tower and were able to see ahead the stretch where tall buildings subsided and urban sprawl began. Ben, Ashley, and Patti were at least familiar enough with the Puget Sound area to know this sight meant they were heading south out of Seattle for sure, though for several more miles it would still be considered Seattle. The first city they'd encounter after that: Tukwila...
Now the only hawks they could see were circling very high above. Pigeons, crows, house sparrows, and seagulls scavenged the cars, competing with rats and raccoons from below. The rats were sometimes uncomfortably close, but the raccoons stayed well back from the fighters.
They found the blood trail, old footprints from the blood guy's pursuers smeared into it irregularly.
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Post by Dr. Jar on Jun 27, 2013 22:41:40 GMT -8
Ashley- "What was that thing, after all?" He asked, looking at the bloody tracks. It was convincingly concerning that it was able to move so far with so much blood. They had several liters, but it was still impressive. He leaned close to examine the tracks, and then continued onwards to avoid being left behind. He was mostly quiet and alert now, though he had never been much of a conversationalist. He stuck nearest to Patti and Seth whenever possible.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 27, 2013 23:01:20 GMT -8
Joe- "Just some kinda kooky blood guy, I guess. One in the dome seemed to work. Still don't get what the blood was about. It must've had an unlimited supply to spray everywhere, but why would it need that, aside from just being disgusting?" The stuff didn't smell like much, and did look like blood, so it was hard to say anything about it with a passing examination.
((PS- Massive Duh. Beau should be on this job too. I have edited him into it earlier. Carry on.))
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Post by Gillsing on Jun 27, 2013 23:26:39 GMT -8
During this brief pause, Ben finally got to ask the question that had been gnawing at his brains ever since he'd heard about the blood guy getting shot: Ben- "So what was in the backpack?" "What's in the box? What's in the box?!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 28, 2013 11:30:50 GMT -8
Beau- "I do not want to think about this..."
Joe- "Dead things. Nothing significant, man."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Jun 28, 2013 16:54:20 GMT -8
Ashley was pretty confounded by that statement, and spent some time trying to ponder this information. He sighs, and continues onwards, after deciding the blood was nothing of note. Maybe it used the blood in them to make blood tracks. Who knows.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 28, 2013 19:16:31 GMT -8
They kept on, and when they were past downtown altogether, Joe started talking loudly enough for everyone to hear.
Joe- "OK, listen up guys. It's about time I explained a few things about what's going on and what happened. Can y'all hear me?"
Becky- "A-hyup, cowpoke."
Joe- "Yeah, anyhow... We went to Columbia Tower the other day and there were these creepy things made out of arms. Those couldn't have happened accidentally, like a zombie or ghost. Someone stuck those arms together, and it was probably a mummy."
"On the way out, Beau and I ended up pursuing a strange undead guy with an unlimited supply of blood, ignoring us and walking like a sprinkler down the highway here. A few things suggest it was some kind of messenger for the mummies. One, it ignored us and marched tirelessly after an unseen goal. Two, it had a symbol on its head, painted in blood. Looked like an Egyptian thing, so probably our Gutless Boy."
Kyle- "That I didn't know about. What did the symbol look like?"
Joe- "Sorry, didn't hear you?" Kyle was pretty quiet. He tried to speak up. Kyle- "What did the symbol look like?"
Joe- "Kind of a dog head."
Kyle- "Anubis, a god of mummification and shit."
Joe- "OK. Anyhow, we got a little ways into Tukwila and some well-meaning jerks shot the messenger. We examined the body and found out it was made from a security guard at Southcenter Mall. The thing was headed in that direction, which means it's possible there's a mummy there. Right now."
"The men who killed the blood guy told us we have something bad to worry about down here aside from mummies. Vampires have recently come to Tukwila from down south. They couldn't tell us much about them, except that where they go, it turns into all out war - Humans hunt vampires in the day, and are hunted by vampires at night.
"They weren't even consistent about telling us whether wooden stakes or head shots were any good, but they were pretty sure the things can pass for human at a glance, fly, and have heightened strength. They recommended staying extremely well-hidden at night. So that's what we'll have to do after we take care of our business with the mummy."
Stevie- "Hot damn! Hey, back this up a minute. Kyle, you said something about Anubis. We know a German mummy goes by Osiris. Ya think Gutless Boy maybe goes by the name Anubis?"
Kyle- "Shit, maybe. We don't know yet, but if yeah, maybe it says something about the numbers of the mummies. I don't think there's much more than a few dozen Egyptian gods."
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Post by Gillsing on Jun 28, 2013 19:25:49 GMT -8
((Since I was ninja'd, you'd better move this into the post where Beau and Joe mentioned the contents of the backpack.)) ((I can't because too much of what follows here is based on this having been said when it was... Ugh, limits of the medium. Nonetheless, feel free to add more commentary below relevant to Joe's more recent revelations.))Ben thought for a moment about what he'd just been told. Ben- "Body parts then? Why would the mummy need someone to deliver body parts to anywhere? You'd think they'd have plenty wherever they are." Because of killing the locals, not because of deliveries. Perhaps the body parts had just been the blood guy's personal belongings, and not something he'd been sent to get? Or had there been something special about those body parts, connected to the Columbia Tower and/or the mummy? Ben decided to keep it in mind for the future, but it didn't seem likely that he'd ever find the answer.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 28, 2013 19:31:17 GMT -8
Kyle- "Probably something special about them, like they were prepared with magic, or belonged to someone rare... Or maybe they have some use for bodies we'd rather not think about, and it's like... vintage or something, and you gotta be a nasty body part connoisseur to tell the good stuff."
Becky- "Waiter, I'll have the severed things nast-ay, vintage three weeks ago."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Jun 28, 2013 19:34:08 GMT -8
Ashley vaguely remembered the names of Egyptian Gods, but little else. He didn't know much about them, but didn't both have to do with Death? Weren't there Sun Gods and other things those people believed in? He wondered if it was reality or if they had somehow made it so for their benefit. There couldn't be real Egyptian Gods hanging around somewhere were they?
Ashley kept his thoughts to himself for the time being, he didn't remember enough about his Egyptian lore, or the situation to contribute much. He didn't know what anyone would contribute by making a sprinklerpath of blood and carrying body parts, unless they were someone special in there. It didn't seem to be so. Ashley "Someone for a special spell maybe, if that's what they do." He offers grimly.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 28, 2013 19:36:49 GMT -8
Joe- "I hope they don't have anything else special in mind, spell- wise, because they've kicked our asses enough already."
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Post by Gillsing on Jun 28, 2013 19:51:55 GMT -8
Ben- "Well, since we're apparently heading into vampire territory to stay the night, I can only assume that we'll also be just in time to stop the mummy's magic."
Stevie- "Hell yeah. Like a bad-ass movie." Ben wasn't particularly pleased about the sudden news of vampires. Why had that been kept a secret? Had it been to prevent Marie from making even more of a fuss about President Seth? Or had Joe just figured that since they had to go anyway, it wouldn't have done any good to warn anyone ahead of time? And Ben guessed that it really wouldn't have done any good, because they didn't know squat about fighting vampires, so they wouldn't have known how to prepare anyway.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jun 28, 2013 19:53:32 GMT -8
Seth- "Back up, I can hardly follow this all... Vampires? Really? That might have been good to know 'cause we could've brought some garlic bread or something."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 28, 2013 19:59:44 GMT -8
Joe- "I'm sorry. We knew we were going, so it didn't feel necessary to explain everything until we were on the way and had time to kill anyhow... And those guys weren't very fucking informative."
Seth- "Well shit, what kills vampires? Silver bullets? Guess we should've been melting down all those candlesticks."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Jun 28, 2013 20:01:23 GMT -8
Ashley- "I brought guns but limited ammunition, and we all have something sharp. Besides that, I am not sure how they will be killed. I assume it will not be as easy as stakes, though pinning them might slow them down for a time." He offers with a sigh.
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