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Post by Gillsing on Mar 21, 2013 23:06:50 GMT -8
Ben- "We've got this floor secured now, but what if someone needs help somewhere else? Maybe we should try to... Um... Eh... We can only fight zombies in the stairwells now, right? Because that's where they are, and that's the only ways up or down from this floor. Unless we use ropes to get down to lower floors." Ropes! Ben didn't have one, and he doubted anyone else did. Ropes just never turned out to play a big role in the defence of the 403 building.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 21, 2013 23:35:09 GMT -8
Davin raised an eyebrow and Stevie smiled. Davin- "Ben, I can't believe you're entertaining thoughts of helping Anna go nuts out there."
Stevie- "Haha. A rope. We could totally make something out of bedsheets, like an old cartoon about naughty kids."
Anna- "Hm... I was just thinking open a door down the hall and hop on pop."
Davin- "No way I'm letting you breach the floor - at least not until we start cleanup tomorrow."
Stevie- "No way. We rappel down to the streets and start fightin' em from tha ass in. It's the fastest way to find out how our poor friends in the clinic made out, and I wanna do it."
Anna- "Ooh, me too."
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Post by Gillsing on Mar 21, 2013 23:46:08 GMT -8
Ben- "Well, then! A demon broke the window in Kenny's apartment, so we might as well use that one. But we're going to need a dozen bedsheets or more to make something long enough to reach the ground. And we'd only be able to go one at a time, because bedsheets rip too easily. And I don't know if it'd even be possible to carry a flare while climbing. Sitting duck for flying hosts, if there are any out there." And why wouldn't there be? If ghosts made it into the 403, it stood to reason that they would've come from the outside, and perhaps there were more outside than inside?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 22, 2013 0:11:56 GMT -8
Davin- "Sound insane enough to you yet? Are you done?"
Stevie- "Whole floor full of sheets - plus electrical cable and other odds and ends... We can totally put something together. Wanna help, Ben?"
Anna- "Yeah, sounds like a plan to me."
Davin- "Fine, fuck it, go crazy, you crazy bastards."
Anna- "Like you could stop me."
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Post by Gillsing on Mar 22, 2013 0:28:39 GMT -8
Ben- "Oh, sure. I'm in! Let's get to work!" The whole plan seemed just crazy enough to work, and perhaps it'd mess with whatever plan the undead might have. Because surely someone was behind this. Maybe that hateful mummy?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 22, 2013 0:39:09 GMT -8
Davin couldn't believe it. It was unbelievable. Stevie, Anna, and Ben made sure they each had a fire source and a weapon, and went out to the hall...
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 25, 2013 17:50:00 GMT -8
These people remained in Basil & Monty's apartment, all clustered in the living room, with torches, candles, and any other source of fire they could handle.Sharma, Basil, Lilla, and Eve were resting on available surfaces, supposedly with the idea of getting some sleep if this turned into a long night. Of course, no one would be sleeping now.
The heat had people sweating. Chelsea and Mega couldn't help fussing over Sandy's wounds. Sandy sat on a stool, stripped to her bra, while art kids picked glass out of her back, and she talked quietly with Davin. Sandy- "You're worried about Sandy and Rex, aren't you?"
Davin- "Yeah, but what can ya do?"
Sandy- "What the hell are we going to do if a dark ghost just slips through the floor?"
Davin- "The notes say they can't really do that. Just stay sharp. Hell, we're doing all we can. What if those bastards that left get themselves killed? How much harder will it be to clear the building of monsters tomorrow without them?"
Sandy- "What would you do?"
Davin- "We should've had a chain of command in place, so someone could order them to stay."
Sandy- "Someone being you, right? And you know Anna would disobey orders."
Davin- "Yeah... Hell." The room sweated and bled and quavered in the dark night air. The smell of ghosts wisped about the room, threatening but never coalescing into something you could put a torch to.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 26, 2013 2:25:04 GMT -8
Basil- "Bloody hell, I... BLOODY HELL!" Basil had been looking at the ceiling at just the worst moment. Eyes and eyes and eyes. A long shadow cast by a beam on the window had quickly blossomed into a seven foot black rose-like mandala from which several ghosts peered, as if from across a breach in the Universe itself.
He fell silent, then Eve, Lilla, Sharma, and Volya. A few torches fell from limp hands, setting the carpet on fire. All- "*SHRIEEEEEK!*"
Davin- "God no!"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Mar 26, 2013 12:27:01 GMT -8
The combined groans and sussurances from the ghosts sounded like a loudly creaking attic. The cold ashy auras caused a chill in everyone in the room.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 27, 2013 22:58:17 GMT -8
People suddenly came to their wits as the ghosts went... indistinct? They lost their human features and began to deform, raining down from the ceiling like a jell-O bowl being upended in slow motion. Basil- "I CAN'T GET OUT OF THE WAY!" The goo splashed down over people, hit the torches on the floor, and went up in flames. Everyone screamed and choked. The room filled with black ash and smoke... Basil- "Someone help me! Am I on fire?"
Lilla- "N-no... I think we're OK."
Davin- "What the hell was that?!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 28, 2013 20:22:41 GMT -8
People tried to sort themselves out. Davin- "You two, keep fire handy. Everyone, keep your eyes out. I'm gonna go across the hall."
Sandy- "I'm with you." They grabbed their torches and went out the door.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 28, 2013 23:16:21 GMT -8
Shortly after this was sorted out, Sandy returned, letting everyone know the zombies had decided to take a nap.
Eventually, everyone came into communication, and everyone in the building was moved into the rooms at the extremities of the 6th floor for the duration of the night.
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