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Post by Gillsing on Nov 17, 2012 14:59:16 GMT -8
tab Ben finally arrived, after having answered a call of nature. Maybe it was jitters before the big meeting? But despite the unplanned delay it seemed as if he wasn't the last one. Phew! tab "Hello, people!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 17, 2012 22:03:54 GMT -8
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 17, 2012 22:45:43 GMT -8
Seth- "Wow, thanks for meeting with me today everyone. I'm hoping we can do this pretty often. I promise these won't run horribly long. I know we all have important things to do. To start, do any of you have any questions or concerns about the meetings themselves, or the cabinet?"
Thierry- "Well, these appointments were made without process, and so may attract some displeasure with the populace. Secondly, that the meeting is being conducted in relative secrecy may play on the minds of the, shall we say, excessively vigilant members of our collective."
Seth- "Good concerns. Well, I figured the cabinet wasn't even necessarily a formal body, more like just the people I trust and admire the intelligence of. There are others too, but I trust you all to give me precise and pertinent advice the most. Yes, the privacy might strike some as being shady, but I figure the more public something like this is, the longer it's going to drag on, and nothing that happens here is going to be landmark decisions, I'm sure."
Stevie- "Sounds good to me, champ."
Marie- "Likewise. The purpose, as I envision it, is merely to make some decisions about the execution of goals we had already agreed to in a more open environment... Like when we agreed to try to divide labor fairly in public, then in privacy I was just writing the rotation chart. Not a big deal."
Thierry- "Fine. Proceed."
Seth- "Okay great, so for our first meeting, maybe we should start out by just making a big list of every potential goal we have for the building and our members. No matter how crazy! We can lay them all out by category, feasibility, and urgency. Obviously urgent things go first, and back burner stuff is there to inspire us. Marie, would you like to transcribe?" Everyone raised any concerns that they remembered from the previous meetings and conversations with people. These were reduced to a list as described.
During the conversation, Ben mentioned these points, in brief:Subject: Ghostwatch "I've been thinking about ghosts, and how we're watching for them at night. Now, I don't believe that we're in a lot of danger of ghosts coming back to the 403 building, but if they do, and we've only got a single person awake in each room, and that person happens to look into the ghost's eyes, then that would basically turn the entire room into zombies. From what I've heard of the ghosts we've had, they might seek something that puts them at ease, and then some part of them is released, leaving them aggressive and dangerous. So perhaps the only apartments that run even a slight risk of being haunted are the ones where the people have died somewhere and might want to return for their pets or loved ones. I don't know if the risk is worth worrying about, but I wanted to bring it up in case it is." Subject: Printing pamphlets "I went to the offices on 2nd floor and checked how much power a desktop copier required, and it was something like 600W. If we wanted to run one of those we'd have to connect it to four bicycle generators. I guess that could be done, but it might be too much trouble compared to just writing the pamphlets by hand. If each person wrote one pamphlet per day, we'd soon end up with more pamphlets than we could spread to our neighbors. And then they could keep the process going." Subject: Long distance communications "It would be nice if we could establish communications with other cities. I don't know if we could get a satellite modem working, or if those satellites need a connection to some central facility which is now without power and therefore silent. There's also radio, if someone has managed to maintain something like that." Subject: Portable power generators "I guess a radio transmitter might require a lot of power, but survivalists love their portable power generators, don't they? Perhaps we could get hold of a generator somewhere, and get gas from all the crashed cars in the streets?" Subject: Construction vehicles "And speaking of those blocked streets, perhaps we should try to get hold of some large construction vehicles so we could clear the streets for easy travel? And also roll right over any zombies that are out there. We might not even have to do this ourselves if we can locate someone who used to work with machines like that, and someone who knows where some machines are parked right now." Subject: Playing with zombies "Right here we could start experimenting with ropes from the roof, and dangle various objects and see how zombies react. I was thinking we could try to use a bag of empty cans to lure them away from our entrance when we're about to leave. And if we want to get fancy, we could drop down heavy objects attached to ropes, and then pull them back up again for another attack. That seems like a safe way to kill zombies, even though it might be much harder work than just hitting them. But eventually we should be able to clear our own section of the streets." Seth- "So first things we want to do seem like...
Ghost watch - Is there a better way? Secure/explore our neighboring buildings Clear streets - secure neighborhood. Construction vehicles? Get more people Go to hotel where people were spotted, say hello? Alliance? Printing how-to pamphlets? How? Also, missing people flyers Finding missing family for Jonah/Peg & others -- or help them to leave? Power generation - get gas-powered generators. Gas - collect as much as possible - siphon on streets? Find more food! -- Make trips to likely locations Long distance communications - radio, etc. (Ben had mentioned an idea to curb zombie population, or at least distract the things, near the building. Seth said he'd address that soon but didn't write it down on this list.)
That's a good start. We'll discuss these individually, but I have a few pressing concerns I'd like to get into first..."
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 17, 2012 23:46:34 GMT -8
Seth turned around wrote two phrases on the whiteboard, adding to the list at the very top."Find the mummies and kill them"
"Kill as many zombies as possible, as fast as possible" He turned around. Stevie whistled. Marie crumpled. Thierry chuckled. Seth- "We all saw that video right? I don't know if killing the mummies will stop this all, but we have to find them and figure out what's going on. Any thoughts?"
Stevie- "Badass."
Thierry- "That does speak to the concern around the campfire, that the mummies may cause further damage as long as they're out there. Proactive leadership, thumbs up."
Marie- "..."
Chantelle- "That sounds like a bit of a tall order. You think we could do that?"
Seth- "Not in a day of course, probably not even in a week. I have a feeling they're not just going to let things lay as they are so we need to know what we're going to do about that. It might seem impossible, but we need to figure out the root behind the problem if we hope to ever stop this."
Chantelle- "Again, you think we can stop this? I mean, even if we knew how this started, it's just... this huge thing, so big! It's like, creepy magic or something. Are we creepy wizards?"
Seth- "Not yet... but that kid in the video, what was he... 13? If he can learn magic, I don't know why we couldn't."
Ben- "Magic? Well, I don't know where to find out about that. In the movies our library or museum might have had ancient tomes of dark secrets, but I'm pretty sure they don't actually have stuff like that."
Chantelle- "Yeah, I know some people who tried to do magic... I won't say it's all fake, because it's mostly the same as religions like Catholicism, where you put your intentions into a ritual, try to do something spiritually meaningful. But it does seem like, if the magic books you can find in the library could do this, it would've happened sooner."
Ben- "And since we don't know where those mummies are, I'd say the best we can do at this point is to share information with others and see if anyone else has seen one. Though, there was some initial explosion or something at some building, wasn't there? Maybe that'd be a place to go look?"
Stevie- "The explosion! We heard a little about that but I didn't have the whole news coverage on my recording and no one else in the building was able to tell us much about that. Some kinda black gas coming out of the Columbia Tower. You saw the news that night, right? What do you remember about that stuff, Ben?"
Thierry- "Nonono, I do not think we should go to the Columbia Tower. It's in the heart of the disaster, so would be very dangerous. I'm willing to undertake a risky venture, but need a better motivation than 'slim possibility of useful information' to get me there.
I think there may be a better way. Does anyone suppose that children's records at the Department of Education include photographs? Perhaps we can find an archive, power it up long enough to look through the images for this child. What do you think?"
Marie- "Now that is a compelling idea. Hm... I half recall hearing that there are 50 million children in schools in the US, which is, what, a sixth of the population? Sounds right-ish. We can eliminate about half based on gender, and assuming we're medium populous for a state, how long would it take to skim through a half million pictures?"
Thierry- "Depends on the interface. Proprietary software is unlikely to have easy browsing ability. If you have to open every file individually and scroll to some midpoint on the page, easily five times as long as if you could just look at a bunch of pictures on one screen. Assuming, generously, we could get five people looking at once, mmm, maybe a week to a month of labor. This sounds less promising now..."
Seth- "Well, also, you think you'd recognize that kid if you saw him? Probably a lot of kids look like that, when they're not covered in blood and digital artifacting. And if we did know who he was, would that even help? It's not like we can look him up on Facebook or something."
Thierry- "Presumably his DoE file would have an address, which is a starting point, but yes, this is looking pretty pathetic. I retract the idea."
Seth- "No, no, that's the right way to think. This is an incredibly weird problem, so it needs incredibly weird solutions."
Stevie- "How did they do this in the first place? Did a certain amount of people just get killed outright, or was the dead starting to come back enough to cover the world in zombies? The possessed guys helped kill some outright, same with ghosts. And what was that stuff at the Columbia Tower?
I'm sayin' if we knew the way they went about it better, we could figure out places they had to be in person, and even if they're gone they mighta left clues."
Marie- "That's a bit of a reach. Can we shelve this for now and move on?"
Seth- "Wait, we wanna find out more. Maybe instead of goin' right there, we try and find some footage. There's all these news stations right around here. They must've got the video, so that's one place that seems pretty likely for us to find some hints."
Stevie- "King 5! It's on Dexter like two, three blocks away, and it's the station I recorded anyway! Let's do it!"
Marie- "OK, we'll plan a mission for some people to investigate there. Next item... kill as many zombies as possible... Ideas?"
Ben "For zombies I'd recommend big construction vehicles. Just roll right over them, back and forth, until they stop moving. The bigger, the better, but even a regular snow plow set at decapitation height ought to work wonders."
Marie- "I can already tell this part of the discussion is going to be spectacularly vile."
Seth- "I like it. Maybe if we were in some kind of enclosed place, like a big garage, so it wouldn't get hit from all sides... Keep all the zombies in the line of destruction."
Stevie- "A wide alley like the one behind us... Seems like there's alleys like that running in a straight line through this neighborhood parallel to Westlake all the way to Mercer."
Chantelle- "No way we can get a snowplow. I couldn't even guess where those are kept, but I doubt it's close to here. But there's a ton of construction... I wonder if those things need special gas? I still don't like ideas as well that involve people going out there in the zombie world, but I guess most of these ideas are gonna be like that."
Marie- "OK, I've noted that we should try to sequester some construction equipment for later use, if possible. What else?"
Stevie- "Chokepoints. Except the Somme and other horrors of modern war, seems like most of the times in military history when a small force wiped the mat with a larger one was because the invaders were stupid enough to send troops into a well-defended chokepoint, like a bridge or valley.
This enemy is real stupid, so we get a bunch aware of us and coming at us through an alley, single file or close to it. We put 'em down one at a time for as long as it takes before they remember self-preservation or we run out."
Chantelle- "I don't think they get tired and we do, plus people have to get so close... I don't like it."
Thierry- "They seem unlikely to cluster that conveniently as well. Then there's Ben's idea of getting their attention and dropping weapons on them from the roof."
Stevie- "Lawn darts, hehe."
Marie- I don't want to be an unnecessarily pessimistic voice, but that seems rather difficult and inefficient. It's about 60 feet, so they'd have a lot of time to get out of the way."
Chantelle- "So you need a fast weapon. How about javelins? Javelins on ropes! Is that harpoons? Anyway, they'd cut through the air faster and be easier to aim than heavy stuff."
Thierry- "I'm starting to like this notion."
Seth- "Hey, ropes. I thought what if we get three people or so. Two people have a rope. They run on either side of an alley or road, zombies would be too stupid to get out of the way of the rope. They get knocked down. Person behind the rope runs up, two in the dome. *pshew pshew* Best part, quick getaway. All you need is a rope and a gun."
Stevie- "That one sounds fun, but I think you'd need a pretty crazy running crew to volunteer for it. Good luck!"
Thierry- "Lure them into a building and shut the doors. Put a big sign outside that says "Do not open." What do you think? ..."
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Post by Gillsing on Nov 18, 2012 8:36:41 GMT -8
Stevie- "The explosion! We heard a little about that but I didn't have the whole news coverage on my recording and no one else in the building was able to tell us much about that. Some kinda black gas coming out of the Columbia Tower. You saw the news that night, right? What do you remember about that stuff, Ben?"
Ben- "Uhh... Not much. Now that you mention 'Tower' I remember why I was thinking of a tower or some sort. I'm not even sure if I heard it from that news cast or if it was someone at the mall telling me about it. I think someone said something about bio-terrorism. " Ben- "Huh. Maybe that's why all those cars crashed into each other? Because the people in them were possessed or turned into zombies? Seems a bit stupid even for panicked people to cause pile-ups in every intersection." Ben- "Javelins don't sound that easy to aim. I was thinking of luring a crowd to a set position, and then dropping a fridge or something on them. Though preferably something that's sturdier, since a fridge would break apart. Do they really have enough sense to get out of the way? Wouldn't they be too fascinated by the rattling bag of cans? Well, that's what I'd like to find out." Ben- "I don't see why you'd need the rope if you have a gun? And I sure don't see how you could clothesline a horde of zombies; after each one the runners would lose momentum. And if it's not a horde, how is it any faster than just running out there and ganging up on them? Apparently they're not contagious?" Ben- "That could work, but it seems kind of inefficient. First we'd have to scout the building, and then we're probably going to quickly run out of suitable buildings. You know, unless we manage to create some kind of elaborate maze that just pulls in zombies until the building is filled to the brim. Literally.We could probably lure them in with a living and breathing human taunting them from a safe position, and when enough zombies have gotten inside, the bait could just climb up on the roof or out of a window along some prepared escape route. Possibly using ropes. Oh, wait. It's coming to me... What if we could attract a huge horde of zombies to the front of a really tall building? Like an infinite horde? And then we lure them up the stairs to the roof, and then we lure the line of zombies to the ledge and get them to step over it and fall down like lemmings? Surely that would crack some skulls?" And Ben had more, less impressive ideas: "One pretty simple method might be to use whatever high ground might be available. Get a gang together, leap up on crashed cars and such, and attract some zombies and kill them as they try to climb up on the cars. Would be really great if we could do it from a truck of some kind, because there's no way any of these shambling zombies could climb up on one of those. At least not before they get clubbed. Athletic people could even get a harness of some sort and climb up on a structure, fasten some grappling hook or such, and then sit at a comfortable height, feet against the wall and act as both live bait and death from above. Eight feet up, with a long club? Not sure if the club should be fastened to the wrist to keep it from being dropped, or if that would be too risky in case the zombies grab for it. Maybe a spear would work better... We could probably build a suitable wall around here, that would offer complete safety while still giving easy reach with clubs or spears. But do we really want a huge pile of dead zombies near where we live? Seems better to kill all those zombies somewhere else, preferably downwind from us. The nice thing about construction vehicles is that they'd be able to traverse the rolling hills of dead zombies that any massive slaughter would create. Even if you could kill a hundred zombies without them touching you, if you're not on a moving vehicle, you're going to have find some way to get around without having to wade through a hundred corpses. And if someone does decide to sit in a harness, they'd better be prepared to climb a bit higher as the pile of dead zombies build up underneath them. Perhaps it might be possible to build some kind of portable fortification that could be carried in pieces and then assembled quickly on top of a car? Like wooden walls that could form a small and extremely safe fort from where a few guys could stab and smash until they got tired. Maybe even use guns? Perhaps try to do it near a building? That way people could climb inside if they get too tired before the zombies stop coming. Maybe we could even find a building that's already got windows high enough from the ground to be safe, and yet low enough that they'd allow zombies to get poked by spears. Still, there would be the inevitable build-up of corpses, so mobility seems to be key."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 18, 2012 21:08:32 GMT -8
Marie- "This is getting to be a bit much for me. Can we move on to the next topic?" Thierry- "Deep apologies, Marie. I feel the need to mention one more method. The garage under the nearby Amazon buildings - the one with the tall towers and skybridge - That would be very easy to control the entrances to and have a huge amount of space to work with. Set up a non-electrical way to operate the gate. Admit zombies as long as you like, close the door when you like, and deal with them at your own pace in an isolated but wide open space... Well, I suppose there are many ways to do this. What do you say we simply set a quota of zombies dispatched per day, that we must collectively meet or exceed whenever possible? Twenty a day seems a humble goal, one hundred ambitious but doable. What do you think?" Seth- "Maybe we do as many as we can one day, see how hard it is, and set our goal based on that." Marie- "So noted. I'll schedule a day for zombie genocide soon. Next..."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 20, 2012 19:56:11 GMT -8
The group addressed the rest of the list. The meeting took a little over an hour. There were no huge revelations, but a lot of plans and ideas were formulated... Ghost watch - Is there a better way?
This was very hard to get a consensus on. Some people just weren't willing to lose sleep over it. A night watch of two people with fire patrolling the occupied floors seemed as much as the larger group was willing to commit too. Secure/explore our neighboring buildings
With the idea that the population was likely to expand as people were rescued, most people favored the idea of securing near buildings in a similar way to the 403. Clear streets - secure neighborhood. Construction vehicles?
Seth especially wanted to figure out a way to start securing / fencing off entire streets, that would allow free travel between secured buildings. That worked well with Ben'd idea to get into construction equipment. Indeed, the neighborhood had major construction projects left hanging, so lots of fences, barricades, and vehicles for the task. Others felt this seemed a bit early to be talking about that. Get more people
How to help people the best? Invite people from small enclaves with insufficient resources to join up with 403, save isolated survivors, establish good relations with other groups. Aside from having more active recon missions, not much more came of this line of conversation - for now. Go to hotel where people were spotted, say hello? Alliance?
Ben amused people by telling them what he knew about the balcony nudists. After a bit of debate, they decided to send two people as runners to scout the place before sending an envoy proper, and then to keep the numbers low. Seth was insistent that the group should have a handgun in case of meeting the possessed dead, but agreed it should stay out of sight. Printing how-to pamphlets? How? Also, missing people flyers.
Seth had a notion to start advertising who was at the 403 building, so that loved ones would know where to find them, and hopefully start a trend within the region. Ben's idea for "How to Kill Monsters" fliers was well received. But both required printing technology or wrist killing labor.
Then Seth remembered something Anna had once told him - Cornish College of the Arts had a printing program, which used pre-electrical technology! An old-school printing process, just a few blocks away! Some idea of a mission was drawn up. Finding missing family for Jonah/Peg & others -- or help them to leave?
Marie explained that she had been passed a note from Peg, trying to explain just how powerful her need to know about her missing partner was. It was a difficult, tragic situation, which was undoubtedly shared by others in the building.
Seth said the first order of business was a recon mission, maybe on motorcycle, to look at the routes out of town. It was generally agreed to. Power generation - get gas-powered generators.
This seemed feasible to find. Stevie particularly felt that a lot of buildings might have miniature generators for emergencies that could be excised and brought home. Actual building generators were of course too large, but some might yield useful parts. Gas - collect as much as possible - siphon on streets?
Another mission for scavenging crews. Not too difficult to arrange. Find more food! -- Make trips to likely locations
This had already been arranged, but Chantelle and others had some opinions about how to go about it that were discussed. Long distance communications - radio, etc.
((Care to research this Ben? I suspect without relay towers, even very long range "ham" radio would probably not work. I could be wrong.)) Mostly, people were pretty convinced there were no authorities left to contact, but it still seemed like a good side project. The meeting got tense occasionally, but it was good to air the ideas that people had previously only exchanged in passing in the halls. Seth thanked everybody present...
((Gillsing, any noteworthy ideas on these issues? Curious what anyone specific had to say about anything? Say so. After this we'll go to the wrap party and Ben can talk to any of the councillors he'd like individually.))
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Post by Gillsing on Nov 20, 2012 23:30:58 GMT -8
(I could try to google around for info about ways to communicate without assistance from the electrical grid, but I'm content with having this be futile. Not sure what Ben could research in the current situation? Maybe he could try to locate books that describes how HAM radio works? That just doesn't seem to be something that Ben would know.
And he wouldn't know exactly how satellite modems work either, since he's never needed one. And the technological requirements of such equipment would likely be online, which is now inaccessible. I could also imagine that he'd need an account with username and password before he could even connect to a satellite, never mind finding out how to connect directly to someone else. With no internet, that'd end up being pure guesswork. If the story needed it, he could've just 'teched the tech', but there are many hurdles that could make anything too difficult.) "Oh no, I wasn't thinking about contacting any authorities. I was thinking of contacting other survivors in other cities, or wherever someone may have some way of communicating with us. I figured it could give us an idea as to which areas might have been left unharmed, and if anyone out there could tell us something we don't already know. Someone could have seen a mummy or something. Or if we become the first ones, we could tell others about it. Same thing as the pamphlets, really, but long distance." Thierry- "Good ideas. Let's see what we can do about making them happen!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 20, 2012 23:42:51 GMT -8
The meeting was adjourned, and people drank room temperature cokes and ate iced oatmeal cookies. Bryce slumped in a chair, holding his mouth, brow furrowed. Stevie- "Buck up, kid."
Bryce- "Huh. Yeah, maybe I should do that."
Stevie- "Or mope, ya wiseacre." Stevie moved on to chat with Marie. Seth- "Hey, what did you think? You feel alright?"
Bryce- "The halls of power man, they are too heavy."
Seth- "Well, you don't have to be my assistant if it's too much."
Bryce- "Y'know I said I was gonna follow you around on a random whim, with no forethought, but I still feel like I should finish what I started. If I can."
Seth- "I'll be happy to have ya." Bryce resumed his pose.
((Does Ben have any private thoughts for anyone present? Do so here.))
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Post by Gillsing on Nov 21, 2012 0:58:11 GMT -8
(And this is where I assume that USA/Seattle and Sweden both showed the same type of holocaust documentaries to their school children, and kept it up for long enough to subject a young Ben to such a horror.)tab Ben wondered if his zombie-killing ideas had been too much. Evidently they had been too much for Marie. The thought of streets covered in dead bodies brought him back to the time he'd seen a clip of a snow plow pushing around droves of emaciated holocaust victims, bodies tumbling over bodies in a rolling wave. tab The scene had only lasted a second or two, but the idea of treating dead people like so much garbage had seemed revolting to Ben's young mind. Then he'd viewed the same clip later in life, and it hadn't looked nearly as bad. There hadn't even been as many bodies as he'd remembered. So apparently he had grown so used to the image in his head that it was no longer shocking. tab Though to be sure, it would look even worse if they actually used a construction vehicle on a zombie horde. Any such vehicle would become completely covered in splattered blood, and the streets might become difficult to make out beneath all the bodies. And perhaps they might later come to regret every zombie they killed? For some reason that they couldn't possibly know about right now? tab Ben's mind kept running along, but he felt that he had shared enough of his thoughts for the time being.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 21, 2012 2:12:08 GMT -8
((Yeah, I saw those films. I think Kelly managed to miss 'em. Spooky stuff! Some disagree, but I think it's a good idea to make baby humans aware of the potential consequences of being a hateful shit.)) The meeting dissipated! Bryce and Seth went out to the community center, followed shortly by Thierry and Chantelle, and so on.
Ben had nothing special on his plate for the day. He could work on electronics if he wanted to, or fool around. At 2 PM he was expected for a rooftop patrol, lasting two hours, but people were OK with trading shifts or bribing others to take over their tasks, so he could even get out of that if he felt like it.
The schedule had Sonya working the roof before him.
And so went the day!
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Post by Suyoi on Nov 26, 2012 11:19:00 GMT -8
Dr. Victor lugged the wheelchair to the door of apartment 608 with his good arm. Though he wasn't exactly weak, it was quite a trek without the elevator. Why had that fat slob even activated the elevator in the first place? It wasn't very proper to get everyone's hopes up. After a few moments to compose himself, he knocked on the door. "Hello, Miss Zoe. Can you please tell Ms. Oshiro that Dr. Victor has a present for her... if she is available for her out patient check up. Thank you." Zoe- "Doctor Mister? OK, I will check on her availabilities."
As he waited, Dr. Victor checked the brief modifications he had made to the chair's feet; a small circle cushion of one of the bar stools was tied to the blades, giving much needed padding for the woman. Also, at least she could manipulate the room easier not to mention make her own way around the 6th floor. But, most likely what she would appreciate, was the built in nap sack on the side for her notes, board, and pens. Zoe- "OK, she'll see you now - oh man. Hope I don't have to push that." Doc Vic was shown in, and Marie smiled widely on seeing the chair.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 26, 2012 20:12:25 GMT -8
Marie- "That's great! Now I can be like Patrick Stewart in X-Men. I really appreciate that, doctor."
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Post by Suyoi on Nov 26, 2012 20:40:15 GMT -8
Dr. Victor offered her a genuine smile, as well as his hand in assistance in carrying her over to the chair. "I made some slight modifications, considering your predicament, so it should be all right. At least now you can move about the floor with ease without needing to wait on chivalrous men to carry you around... unless it's what you want, and then the chair can just be our secret." Marie- "Oh, I think I'll give the chivalrous men a rest. Even the best are not as pleasant smelling as they probably were a few weeks ago. Or maybe I'm just not close to men often enough to know, heh. Oof, mm, thank you!"
Without the slightest bit of effort or strain, he lifted Marie into the chair like a knight would carrying a lady from the dragon. "Please feel free to test it out, and let me know if I need to move things around here to get you some better access, all right?" She wheeled it forward and back a bit. Marie- "I don't have the arm strength to do it for long, but I've got an assistant..."
Zoe- "Aw man."
Dr. Victor absently scratched behind Frank's ear, nodding slowly. "I won't say it suits you because you won't need it long. But, in the very least, I hope it gives you a little more freedom than what you have now. Your administrative assistant here can show me out. If you need anything at all, Marie, I don't want you to waste pleasantries or anything, okay? Just ask." Marie- "I'll send someone to ask, because I'm in a position to do that. Sometimes being laid up is nice. "
He turned to Zoe and smiled. "Sometimes, Zoe, it's the patients who don't ask for anything that usually need the most. People are weird, especially grown ups." Zoe- "Oh yeah, I know all 'bout it."
Once finished he left with a wave and that smile, clicking the door behind him shut.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 26, 2012 21:19:03 GMT -8
Zoe- "His name is Dr. Mister, right? He didn't say I was wrong."
Marie- "Then it simply must be true."
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