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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 23, 2013 15:47:00 GMT -8
Marco and Tyrone - the gunmen - had not drawn yet, but were looking at each other intensely. Marco was chuckling like a madman. Everyone had scooted their seats back, ready to spring into action as necessary.Big Guy- "It's quite simple, you fool. Zombies are the resource of the world, the food of the new! Get with the program, or join the cattle!" Ben, as leaning a burning object of anything is unsafe, you are still holding your flare-on-a-stick. Your bokken is sheathed. Big Guy is apparently unarmed, but confident. Both sides have one guy with a gun, and your side certainly has the weapons and numbers. But what do you do?
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Post by Gillsing on Jan 23, 2013 16:13:33 GMT -8
Ben dropped the boxed lunch that apparently consisted of zombie meat. Ben- "Why don't you just keep your zombies and let us leave? We have no interest in killing your zombies if you don't want us to. You can keep them all!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 23, 2013 20:48:17 GMT -8
Big Ghoul- "I don't know... Think you'd make a pretty good zombie yourself, Ben! So much meat! Mm mm..." His eyes lolled around in their sockets, maybe a little too yellow-grey to be healthy. His tongue lolled out of his mouth, unnaturally long and purple, his teeth now more obviously crooked and sharp. Kristen- "Good eating! Eat to live! Arrrr!" Marco went for his gun and the soup was on.
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Post by Gillsing on Jan 24, 2013 0:39:05 GMT -8
((Since I don't know which one of these ghouls are too close or too far away, I'm just going to take a chance that Marco isn't beyond reach for Ben's torch-staff, and that going for Marco with a long spear wouldn't put Ben in Tyrone's line of fire.)) Without a word Ben spun his long torch into a two-handed grip, and jabbed at Marco's face. Monsters were dangerous, but so were guns.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 24, 2013 2:11:21 GMT -8
Nora had to duck to not get whacked by Ben, but was young and spry, so no big. Marco got a face full of fire! Burn! He didn't see that coming, and tangled the gun in his pants as he tried to draw it. Marco- "Fuckin' ARGG!" Tyrone smiled as he busted a cap in that creep's dome. He said something not very audible above the ringing the gun had left in everyone's ears. Tyrone- "Good job, Ben!" The big ghoul on campus was a small man, and not very intimidating. He jerked to his feet in a creepy movement, the chair flying away behind him, and lunged for Ben. Lashonda leapt onto the table and took a huge over-extended overhand chop at him. It severed his left hand! Lashonda- "Hands off my boy, B-sack!"
B-sack- "YaaRRRGGGGG!!!" Kristen was skittering along the periphery of the room like an animal while Ivan tried to whack at her and Nora wrestled the gun from Marco's pants. By the way, whatever these guys are, one bullet to the head seemed to work just fine.
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Post by Gillsing on Jan 24, 2013 2:44:17 GMT -8
Not enjoying the prospect of having sharp teeth sinking into his juicy flesh, Ben quickly retreated and brought the torch around to keep the Beez away. Ben- "Hhhh!" Where was Kristen? She wasn't getting behind him, was she? Ben tried to keep an eye on everyone.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 24, 2013 3:17:45 GMT -8
Backing up, Ben slammed against the wall a little harder than he'd intended to, letting the torch dip awkwardly. It bounced off of the big ghoul's head. BG- "Argg! Kaizen! Why have you failed me?!"
Lashonda- "That doesn't make a lick of sense."
Ivan- "Lashay! Kristen!" Lashonda didn't see Kristen in time to stop her as she ran at Ben, but at least Ben saw her coming.
Tyrone and Nora were jockeying for good positions to use the firearms safely while Lashonda was distracted. Ivan was getting around the table, BG was flailing, the blood from his stump sluggish enough to suggest an abnormal metabolism if not full undeath, and Kristen was coming at Ben with bony fingers bent like talons. Kristen- "Die, Porkpie!"
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Post by Gillsing on Jan 24, 2013 4:08:01 GMT -8
Up against the wall the long torch suddenly felt like a liability instead of a useful tool, so Ben simply dropped it as he threw himself down on the floor. Rolling around so that he was lying on his back, he pulled up his legs so that his feet would be ready to kick at Kristen and her clawlike fingers. He hoped that he'd be able to keep her away long enough for someone to... Ben- "Shoot her!"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 24, 2013 22:36:16 GMT -8
Ben had to kick at her a bit, and then shots rang out, deafening the crap out of everybody. He saw Kristen jerked out of the way by the impact, and Nora standing over her with her gun arm shaky.The young lady carefully manipulated what she figured was the safety lever, and put the gun down as if it was dynamite. Ivan and Lashonda helped Ben up.The first words he was able to hear, as he stood over the corpses of a billionaire and his assistant, were Lashonda- "-zos, haha... That shit just made my muffuckin' day."
Nora- "Come on, it's not that funny. What were they? Were they human? What the fuck was going on here?"
Tyrone- "I don' even want t' know."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 24, 2013 22:37:36 GMT -8
Ivan- "What do you think, boss?"
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Post by Gillsing on Jan 25, 2013 2:41:36 GMT -8
Ben- "Oh man, what a nightmare. Thanks for the save, Nora."
Nora- "You're welcome."
Ben picked up the torch-staff from the floor, and then looked at the Big Guy's body.Ben- "I'm wondering if that guy was a monster to begin with, or if he started out as a human who... apparently just decided to eat zombie flesh. Maybe this is what you become if you eat zombies?" Lashonda- "I'd believe he was always a monster, but ... I admit, it seems pretty unlikely."
Nora- "That's got to be it. This is what happens when you eat a zombie! They got real desperate, ate a zombie, and turned... horrible."
Ben- "Anyway, since we don't know what he was, we should probably burn all three bodies to make damn sure that they don't start moving again. In case that's something they could do. If they were all alive they'll probably turn into ghosts, at the very least. Think we could drag them outside, or throw them out a window?" Lashonda- "We could squeeze 'em out a window. Less nasty than hauling 'em down stairs in the dark."
Ben- "As for the running zombie, it looks like zombies might actually be afraid of these ghouls. Either that, or it really was a survivor who's been hiding from both zombies and ghouls. Seems unlikely though. Seems like they killed everyone they could, and were too hungry for more to keep up the charade. But I guess the responsible thing would be to search for prisoners or other survivors. Just in case." Tyrone- "When you're right you're right. We'll look 'round. I'll send the trash out th' winda first."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 27, 2013 3:14:54 GMT -8
Nora- "Yeah... If you eat zombies, you become a ghoul... That seems like a good word for it. Then the zombies are afraid of you because you're a natural predator for them. Insane... We'll probably have to answer a million questions about this shit when we get back, won't we?"
Ivan- "You know it, Punky Spice."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jan 27, 2013 3:17:42 GMT -8
The rest of their time at Amazon was uneventful that day. On getting home, Ben needed to be interviewed extensively by Dr. Melange about the new monster they had discovered. ((Gillsing, you can RP as much or as little of what follows as you like. Let me know, and we'll figure out how to proceed. But probably best to just omit the rest and get on to Ben's next episode...))
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