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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 10, 2013 20:25:01 GMT -8
goo.gl/maps/cvS8IFoster High School!
All the action on this block tends to be on south side. From west to east (left to right), it features Foster High School, a parking lot, the Tukwila Public Swimming Pool, Foster High's football field, and the Tukwila School District offices.
There are a few hundred zombies sparsely populating the streets around here. Several within sight at any given moment are missing their arms.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 10, 2013 21:13:13 GMT -8
How to reach the school's administrative offices would be fairly obvious - somewhere near the front - so they didn't need Becky guidance at the school. Beau put Chou in his backpack again and Seth's team set to zombie walking. The school's main entrance was just across the street, in a courtyard framed by overgrown grass and small unruly trees. Beau- "..."
Seth- "..."
Stevie- "..."
Kyle- "..." ... and Ben!
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 11, 2013 0:04:37 GMT -8
Ben stumbled along. Oh, look at the ground. How boring it is. No cause for alarm, or concern. The bokken was stuck securely in his belt, the crossguard preventing it from sliding. But the 'blade' was sticking out a bit to the left, forcing Ben to pay attention so that he didn't let it bump into too many zombies. Oops. Sorry. My fault.
Nope. No apologies for the undead. Ben- "..."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 14:10:54 GMT -8
The street was more sparsely populated by zombies than the mall parking lot, which was nice. Very few close calls were even necessary. The presence of armless zombies was a bit unnerving, but not the concentration seen at the mall. It seemed like the mummy did something here, but nothing as grandiose as the beast at the mall - at least, not made from quite as many arms.
They went across the street, through the grass and small courtyard. There were two school buildings, connected by a walkway about ten feet off the ground, and a passage to further into the campus. The right building was the easiest to get into without drawing a zombie crowd and they did so, walking through a door that seemed like it had previously been forced open.
The inside of this part of the school was all lined with tall windows, making them more visible than they were comfortable with, and there were more zombies inside as well. They zombie walked into the first office they came to ("Vice Principal McKeown") and Stevie lit a flare right away. From across the desk, two zombies looked at them in agitation and surprise - a man in a suit and a young lady, both ripped up and terrible to behold. Kyle stayed on the far side of the desk from them and used his axe quickly.
At last, they could stop shambling around and make a plan. Kyle- "Damn, this place is creepy. Expect dark ghosts?"
Stevie- "Most definitely. Well, it's been a long-ass time since I was in school. Where do we start?"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jul 11, 2013 21:50:52 GMT -8
Seth- "Well maybe the office first? I wonder if they put 'wants to exterminate the whole human race' on your permanent record..."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 22:04:33 GMT -8
Stevie- "Oh yeah, 'permanent record' ... That was a thing they always used in threats for naughty kids. Is that rea-- Hey, kid. What's on your mind?"
Kyle- "Oh, uh... Just, Vice Principals are usually awful pervs, right? Feel like I ended a sad story here."
Seth- "Oh gawd! It was after hours too... maybe we should just light this whole thing ablaze and strut."
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 11, 2013 22:05:36 GMT -8
Were they done zombie-walking now, or would they have to drop their flares while travelling through the building? Ben decided to let his flares be for the moment. Ben- "Year books, maybe? Wouldn't that be where they'd have photos of all the students? They ought to have some kind of student office for that kind of thing, I think. Probably not on any map, since they wouldn't really need to direct outside people there." Ben looked around in the office they were currently in. Were there any paperwork there that looked promising? Any written permissions to film a mummy-movie in the pool area?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 22:08:39 GMT -8
Stevie- "Good idea, like a computer lab or some place they'd have a yearbook staff meet. Hm. Guess we'll start lookin'."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 22:15:32 GMT -8
No one torched the room.
Looking around the papers and such, Ben found a class schedule - with room numbers. No yearbook staff as a class, but journalism and visual communications both seemed like they might have equipment the staff would use after hours. Journalism was on this floor of the building they were in, but further in. Vis Comm was in the other building. Probably best to cross the courtyard to get to it, so they didn't have to deal with upper floor unknowns at all.
They didn't bother zombie walking now - just efficiently putting down trouble as they walked through the hall. This hall had a lot of large windows facing the courtyard and they could see the zombies out there were generally not paying attention to their passage - distracted by something at the east end of the other wing. Whatever.
The zombies in the hall with them moved with a purpose that probably had escaped them for months now, but which their shambolic bodies were ill equipped to pursue. Stevie particularly was on point eliminating them.
Beau walked near the back and spoke with Seth quietly. Beau- "Perhap I should have brought a gun as well."
Seth- "Do you think we're actually gonna run into something here?"
Beau- "As I say, it happened once before. Is your gun ready?"
Seth- "It will be. Aw man I wish this was a difference circumstance where I could turn that into a dirty joke..."
Beau- "Fire away, ami."
Seth- "Okay okay, back up, I'll be you..."
Seth- "Ees your gahn read-ee?"
Seth- "It's always ready for you, babe. Bahaha!"
Seth- "Okay that wasn't that funny, but it made me feel better."
Beau- "Sorry. I did not understand, but I like the look of your face when you say it."
Seth- "See the gun is a metaphor, symbolizing... eh, yeah. Maybe after all this you can teach me French so I can tell dirtier jokes. Your jokes are dirtier, aren't they?"
Beau- "..."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 22:41:12 GMT -8
They found a dim hall at the end and went into it. There were smaller windows here, the bottom of which were covered by tall grass, and the tops of which looked out onto the parking lot, backs of stadium seats in the distance, etc. The went into the darker central hall and waved torches in case of ghost attack. Zombies staggered toward them. Stevie gestured for the others to go ahead into the journalism room while he dispatched their new friends. Kyle- "Here we are, man. If yearbook staff meets in here... Aw, shit, y' suppose most of the pics would be digital at this point?"
Seth- "Aw dammit, I didn't even think of that. Well, maybe since it's late in the school year they would've had some print outs already."
Kyle- "Yeah, I guess..." They immediately began to page through anything that looked like files, all the while glancing around for dark ghosts.
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 11, 2013 22:41:15 GMT -8
Ben had drawn his bokken to help out with the occasional zombie. Ben- "Maybe. But I was hoping for some actual year books or something.
Were those zombies outside going for our other group?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 22:43:33 GMT -8
Stevie- "No way. Those guys were all the way past the stadium, to hear Becky say it."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 22:47:36 GMT -8
Stevie finished off the close zombies in the hall and followed the guys into the Journalism room. Kyle chatted with Seth as they looked through binders and piles of paper. The room smelled like dusty rat shit, but less deathy than the hall had. Kyle- "I feel kinda stupid out here. Magic expert. I don't know anything I can use on the fly, y' know?"
Seth- "Well you're also our... uh, teenager expert. 'The Kids These Days' and whatnot. Any ideas?"
Kyle- "Nothing better than this. Well, there are a lot of photos in here. It's, like, car washes and sports shit, but maybe we see him in the background flashing gang signs?"
Seth- "Man I wonder what a kid that would do this would be like. Would he even have a picture in here? Or maybe I should say 'kids''... I find it hard to believe there's only one around here. One kid rolling around Seattle sending waves of monsters, then down here making giant Human Centipedes? It's hard to imagine..."
Kyle- "If they thought they were gods, maybe they managed to get cultists to serve them... In which case, what happened to those guys? Mummies as well, or did they turn them into something else? Or are some humans secretly agents of the mummies?"
Seth- "Oh man that'd be awful! Why would anyone want to do that? Hm, maybe it's like the zombie ho's in that German video... but I think they were already dead... Eugh."
Beau- "This is disgusting. Maybe leave out the implication of sex."
Seth- "Yes, let's forget it forever."
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 11, 2013 23:12:30 GMT -8
Ben removed his helmet so he could get a better look at the available photos. He also started looking through drawers, hoping to find those elusive year books or whatever else they might have that showed students with names. Ben- "At least if we found some big collections of pictures we could just grab it and go. Have a look at it later. Unless we know right now what we'd do with the mummy boy's name if we had it?"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jul 11, 2013 23:20:44 GMT -8
Seth- "Hmm that's true, not like we can look him up on Facebook and send him a nasty message or something. It'd be good to know in the future for our research, who he is, why he might've done something like this, how to find other mummies... But our priority now should be finding the arm-jacker. Good thinking, Ben."
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