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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Oct 14, 2012 19:20:04 GMT -8
Marie- "Okay, I believe that's all of the votes. Well.. wait, Hector, are you going to vote?"
Hector- "No... I don't know if I feel comfortable staying here so why bother..."
Marie- "Well, alright. Now just to ensure complete transparancy, we will write on the board every vote, and you can confirm that you are all marked down correctly."
Susie- "What! Our names are going up there?"
Marie- "Yes, no recriminations now... this is just to make sure no one complains later about fraud."
PROP 1 - Military style commander Susie Lashonda Lilla Abdul-Rahman 4 VOTESPROP 2 - Line in the sand Volya Derek 2 VOTESPROP 3 - Rescue & Recovery - help others Sonya Sarah Anna Jackson Basil Davin Thierry Chantelle Kerry Bryce Seth Stevie Peg Jonah Alex Nat 16 VOTESPROP 4 - Synergy 0 VOTESPROP 5 - Zombies on treadmills Ione Tyrone Kaito Floretta Marie 5 VOTESPROP 6 - Get out of Dodge Ben Daniel Patti 3 VOTESPROP 7 - Dual leaders Dr. Victor Micah Kenny Sandy 4 VOTESPROP 8 - Death has a hard-on Luke Columbo 2 VOTES Marie- "This is all correct? If so, it seems that Prop 3 is the winner."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Oct 14, 2012 19:33:08 GMT -8
Jackson- "Uh, Luke... Were you aware of what you were voting for? The 'Death has a hard-on' thing...?"
Luke- "What? It made sense. I mean, if Death has got a hard-on, I don't know, I don't think we should show him-"
Anna- "That's great Luke! I'm sorry you didn't win, but I'm sure everyone will take that advice to heart."
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Post by DKender on Oct 14, 2012 19:46:29 GMT -8
Before he could ask Micah what the heck was wrong with board games, Marie announced the vote results. Oh, sweet! His guy won! "Beati pacifi!" Alex exclaimed. "Well, who wrote the winner?" Chantelle- "Think I have a notion, haha..."
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Oct 14, 2012 20:00:26 GMT -8
Patti simply stood up slowly and walked into the kitchen. As far as she could tell, the single worst option won, and by a landslide. Was she the only person here who learned the real lesson from Saving Private Ryan? Twenty people shouldn't die to save one. Fuck! Mass fucking suicide. If that's what these people wanted, that's what they were going to get. Patti wanted to scream or destroy something. Instead she just crumpled to the floor against the cold steel refrigerator and sobbed. Her fists clenched so tight that she couldn't feel her fingers. She tried to rub the tears away, but her hands wouldn't open and she just roughed herself up. She realized she was holding her breath and gasped once, letting out a vocalization that was louder than she had hoped. Before anyone could find her in there, in this condition, she jumped to her feet and jogged to the stairwell and down towards the parking garage. She didn't belong here, but she wouldn't last five minutes alone. Where could she go? What could she do? Fuck!
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Post by Suyoi on Oct 14, 2012 20:09:52 GMT -8
The doctor slowly hung his head. Defeated because of a zombie on a treadmill. Patti brushed passed him, still smelling of saline perspiration and heat. Her increased body temperature sent a shockwave through him. He gave a sharp look to Micah and hollered loudly down the stairwell. "Patti! Wait! Don't steal a perfectly good opportunity for an outburst of rage from me! Seth? A little assistance if you please?" Dr . Victor plodded after the fleeing woman. Maybe she wouldn't have been th best choice for the female leader. I wasn't planning on sweating too much today. Tyrone- "Oh Patti, damn!" Tyrone joined Doc Vic in chasing down Patti.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Oct 14, 2012 20:14:47 GMT -8
Abdul- "Dreadful. I mean this is foolishness. When our perimeters are breached and people are dying from a lack of decisive action, know I'll be available to set things right."
Thierry- "If you're such a tactical genius, I hope that you will help us now. If you're not going to discuss your ideas with us because you don't feel comfortable without absolute control, I don't think it was a mistake to vote yours down. And yes, I think it's obvious which one that was."
Abdul- "Of course I'll discuss plans with people. I'm not immoral. But the very notion of wasting time with discussion when orders would be more expedient illustrates the advantage of executive leadership."
Stevie- "Jesus christ, It's hard not to start rippin' you a new one, but yeah. We want everyone helping, so I'll stuff it."
Marie- "Can we get the writer of the proposition in here? I'm guessing it was Seth. Does anyone...?"
Anna- "On the balcony."
Sarah went out and called him in, coming back in herself afterward.
Marie- "You wrote Proposition Three, Seth?"
Seth- "Oh, uh, yeah I did." He smiled, looking just slightly overwhelmed.
Marie- "I know you could use some time to compose yourself, but a few people are fairly upset and could use reassurance. Is extemporaneous speaking one of your talents, or do you need a few minutes to prepare something...?"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Oct 14, 2012 20:50:47 GMT -8
Seth had been out on the patio crunching on a bag of Bugles nervously, he still held it in his hand as he came out into the community center. He had won...? Well, he should be glad, but it sure felt strange. He didn't want to be in this position, why couldn't everything just work out naturally? The room seemed to be in a fit of chaos, and it was his job to straighten it out now. Ugh. Get it together, it's just like being team captain but the team is... really... really big.. and full of strangers...
He shook himself a bit and answered Marie.Seth- "No, I can talk now." He cleared his throat, and sat down the chips, moving in front of the whiteboard to look at the results for the first time. Wow! Really, that many people? A lot of people voted for other people too though, if he thought of it that way."Hi everyone," he glanced around the room, looking for friendly eyes to look into, to calm himself."I didn't really feel that a vote like this is necessary, but thank you for voting for me anyway. I know a lot of people voted for other options, and I want you to know that I really thought there was something good about... um, a lot of things that were said. I take everyone's opinion seriously. We did so much yesterday, we kept this building safe, and we killed a terrifying and powerful creature. We learn more all the time, and I want to let you know that I truly believe we can overcome this terrible situation. Thierry mentioned that he found it strange that I didn't talk directly about the mummies, and said 'fix' the problem instead of defeating an enemy. I said that because while I want to defeat anyone who wants to hurt us, I don't know if that will be the way to put the world right again. The dead get up and attack, if we kill the mummies, will that fix that problem too? Will ghosts stop being born? I don't know. We will find out, and I know we can do it together! We're going to figure out how to make this building safe, healthy and comfortable for everyone. We found a doctor this morning, and we're going to set up a clinic. We're going to work to find different power sources, and ways of getting food and water. We have enough food in this building to last us at least a week, and we have every tub and sink full of clean water, as well as water collection on the roof. Today you will get a room to share with whoever you choose, so I hope things can begin to feel as close to comfortable as is possible all things considered. We have a lot of work today, and I think we should get to it. We can talk more about plans for the future, but we should work while it's still light outside. I'll ask some of you to form a council with me, and we'll have another meeting tonight. I can answer some questions, but let's not spend too long right now, please."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Oct 14, 2012 21:38:32 GMT -8
Marie gestured for Seth to help her up, which he did, and she assumed the floor. Marie- "The first order of business is to get our people back in the bottom of the north stair so they can answer the door for survivors. Who is up?"
Kenny- "Me and ... Bryce? How about it, sleeping beauty?"
Bryce- "Haha. Why me?"
Kenny- "I wanna find out what you were on last night, haha."
Bryce- "Hell, why not?"
Marie nodded and they took one of the radios, heading downstairs. A "lowbatt" tone sounded from it. Marie- "Next the roof top guy, and if someone can figure out a way to charge these radios, or a low-tech way to communicate from the roof to the bottom of the north stair, we're going to need it quick."
Sonya- "I can do! Show me the charger, please."
Stevie- "That's great, baby! They're over here..." (He showed her to an area near the whiteboard that was piled with boxes and miscellaneous items, and they took the charger stands aside to examine.) Marie was reading from her planner, getting volunteers for a great number of tasks to help with survival and setting the place up for zompocalypse-styled living. Eventually she came to an item of personal interest to Davin and Ben. Marie- "The people who live in these apartments, let us know which apartments are yours, so we don't pillage them without your permission. We need to gather any supplies we can from apartments, like we already did by filling your tubs with water and raiding your kitchens, and we don't want to violate your privacy any worse than we already have. By the way, sorry about that."
Davin- "I didn't even notice the tub. But yeah, I feel a little weird about my place being raided."
Marie- "Again, sorry, and from here on if anyone wants to keep their room to their self, I understand. But you will need a roommate, in case of emergencies. Again, we can't force you, but consider it before we go to sleep tonight.
Now who lives here?" Davin, Susie, Thierry, Derek, Daniel, and little Zoe came forward. Stevie waved a hand to indicate he was in, but kept working with Sonya on the chargers.
And on things went...
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Oct 14, 2012 21:53:19 GMT -8
Seth- "Strong guys and gals! Over here!"
Seth waved over any burly or semi-burly sorts.
Seth- "We gotta get the alley and the back entrance more safe. It's a skinny little thing, and the zombies mostly don't notice it, but when they do, it ain't great. There's a big dumpster out there, we push it as far as we can one way. If we gotta retreat inside a bit until it cools off, we do, and then we block the other side. There's some cars out there, if we can bust the windows, put 'em in neutral and push, we got road blocks for the other side. People can Dukes of Hazard over the top of them, or open the door and climb through, but zombies aren't agile or smart enough to do it quick. This'll all just be temporary, just until we can put up a fence or something else more civilized...." So it went, and he gathered volunteers to go downstairs.PLAYERS! This is the labor part of the day, what sort of task would your character do? You could help Seth with the road blocks, start going through apartments looking for supplies with Peg, working with the food with Chantelle... Or fuck off with Bryce and who knows who else! What do you do? Don't forget trying to find your roommates or comfort people who are flipping out...
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on Oct 14, 2012 22:34:48 GMT -8
Micah turned back to the hipster chef after the proclamation of the winner. "Anyway, Sorry for offending thine fucking ears. I guess I can help with the food. I'm a Sous-chef, what about you?" ( He answered her question in the previous post ) "Oh I'm an apprentice chef at Cuocco. It was really hard to get into, and then I discover it's soo tiny! Too much work. Ugh.. well, now it's starting to look a lot nicer.
Yeah there's lots of work for us! We need to run around and see if we can find anything salvageable in the fridges, and toss out the rest. Remember your food safety lessons? Well... relax the rules a bit, but remember what the worst is, haha. I already stuffed the freezers, that'll keep for another day or so, then we'll start cooking meat and..."
Micah, prepare yourself for fridge cleaning duty! Feel free to eat your fill of anything spoil-imminent though! Yummy.
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Post by Suyoi on Oct 14, 2012 23:12:54 GMT -8
Dr. Victor moved back from the stairwell into the main room, only to find it seemingly drawn and quartered by teams of people. A blustering grunt preceded the good doctor's approach. He spied Marie and shook his head at her. "You know, you're a very smart woman; however, you should always heed a doctor's advice. Speaking of advice, since we have only a few more moments to spare, I have some questions I would like no one other than yourself to answer for me. What do you have planned for today? I was thinking about clearing and cleaning out the restaurant somewhere on the ground floor. Is that a suitable task? "Who wrote prop 3 anyways? I think I knew who wrote most of the others just by simple deduction. "What do you think of the woman named Iona? "Who are you rooming with? Marie- "Haha, well, thank you. I'll get back to these folks in a minute. Well, as you can see in my planner, last night we worked out a million things to do that will make this place more safe and healthy to live in, and now that we're done with the big vote, we're taking volunteers." She talked to a few more people about tasks before getting back to the doctor. Marie- "Hm. The restaurant definitely needs attention. The most important thing, as Abdul will tell you, is coming up with sturdier fortification at the street entrances. The papering, locking the door, & piling the outdoor furniture has been 100% dissuasive to zombies so far, but we're not sure what's going to happen down the line.
So we'll get some people to help you with that, plus any preparation you need to make it a clinic.
Wow, sorry to keep you waiting about Prop 3. You got out of here fast, didn't you? It was Seth's! So President Snake made a little speech and took off to do some labor I guess right before you got back.
Ione? She got here last night, when the guys were piling furniture outside. Derek was very brave keeping zombies out of the way for that project. Anyway, she's a very energetic, fit, resilient person. She worked through the night with us. I couldn't work, of course, but stayed up in solidarity, eating caffeine pills and doing math.
Tentatively, I was thinking of taking the large empty apartment at the northwest corner of this floor, with Chantelle and Zoe, and using the living room as an office. At some point this evening, we need to have a meeting and discuss sleeping arrangements. I took some notes on these ghosts your people encountered, and I wonder that we might want to only sleep in shifts for a while, to keep an eye out for them. It's a terrible prospect and we need to work this all out, but right now we have bigger fish, as they say."
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Post by Gillsing on Oct 15, 2012 1:18:29 GMT -8
When he heard that they were storing water in tubs and sinks, Ben got worried. So when he pointed out which apartment was his, he decided to voice those concerns. "Doesn't water spoil if you just leave it in an open container? Doesn't it get filled with bacteria and crap? I've heard that the grog that sailors drank back in the day was actually watered down beer, because the alcohol would prevent bacteria from growing. So if we're going to drink that water, or use it for cleaning wounds, we should probably use all the alcohol we can get to keep the water from going bad." "Or did you use plastic wrap to cover the sinks and tubs? That would also prevent the water from slowly evaporating." As for helping out, Ben figured he should first get a look at his apartment, remove his armour and store his stuff in there. He thought he might regret that later, but figured that if zombies struck, he'd still have time to go back there and prepare before they reached him. Once he was ready to go to work, he joined the people going through apartments looking for supplies. Marie- "We've considered the spoiling & obviously boiling the water or using a small amount of chlorine in it can help with that, but I don't think we'd thought about evaporation. Thanks for your input, again. I'll make a note of it here and see if we can come up with something." He found his apartment as advertised - his refrigerator emptied into his freezer or elsewhere, the sinks and bathtub full. Nothing else seemed especially amiss, but there were tiny traces of blood and dirt on the carpet and tile from someone's shoes.
Afterward, it was easy to find others working on rooms for supplies. Peg was organizing it. Peg- "We only have one master key for this project, so to open or lock a place, find me and ask for it. Personal effects can stay put, but everything useful has to come out - hygiene, health products, bedding, clothing... We'll sort them into relevant piles in the hall and then move them upstairs to store for disbursement to those in need. Thanks a lot!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Oct 15, 2012 1:30:12 GMT -8
Eddy Buck, Sharma Bari, Jaclyn Stephenson, and Quentin Pozzi came out of an empty apartment near the Comm Center. They approached Marie and the remaining people. Eddy- "Marie. Who won?"
Marie- "Seth... Snake. Anyway, he's already doing some work. You'll probably see him on the way out."
Eddy- "Just like that, huh?"
Marie- "Of course not. Just let any of us know if you need something. I bet most people will help you automatically, but if someone gives you grief, just remind them that you're taking a big risk and they should respect that."
Sharma- "Dank you Marrey. I horp to shee you agarn."
Marie- "That's sweet. I really hope it's easier out there than it looks."
Jaclyn- "Just worry about yourselves, in the heart of Zombietown."
Marie- "Believe me, I am. Oh, I need to let you know everything we've been able to find out about the enemy, in case you run into something like a ghost..." Marie transcribed her notes onto a paper for them, explaining things verbally as well before seeing them off. Marie- "Good luck, again."
Eddy- "Same for you, like Jackie said."
Quentin- "Anything I leave in my apartment you guys can keep. My old life seems a bit shallow now."
Marie- "Your name is Quentin, right? I want to make sure I remember you guys well. Even if things go well for all concerned, we're not likely to see each other again."
Quentin- "It's been real."
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Post by Suyoi on Oct 15, 2012 3:07:20 GMT -8
Dr. Victor glanced around the room, nodding quickly at Marie. "Right. I suppose I can snatch up anyone who'd be willing to help a doctor clean up a space? What about you, sir? Did you mention something about strategy? I think I'd need your expertise, considering we'd be on the ground floor... and the restaurant isn't going to exactly be an easy area to make sure it's well protected." "And let me not forget about you, Mr. Page. You assistance would be greatly appreciated." The doctor gave one last nod to Marie from over his shoulder. A high five style wave followed him out into the stairwell. He tried to block out the image of the four lone wolves, but knew his memory would never allow him to forget their faces. A shame they go into the waiting jaws of death so optimistic. Hope, you have killed more than I could ever care to realize. Abdul- "We should have more people on this task, but we will make it work. Good to see everyone is fit. The first order of business is surely to reinforce the barricades."
Tyrone- "If you say so. I have been up an' down too damn many stair today. Maybe I'll sleep down therra t'night."
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