THE STREETS

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

The streets around El Corazon are a dense maze of abandoned automobiles. A few rotted zombies lie among them, some covered in car air-fresheners or other chemicals. This barrier, plus the building's awkward location, keep monster problems low.

Very nearby, REI's spooky ass remains a domain of monsters.

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

A party of adventurers approached the kingdom of El Corazon.

Kenny (To Micah)-
"Should we just run around on the cars here and clear the neighborhood for them? Seems like the friendly thing to do."


Shredded Zombie-
"HURgggl!"


Judy-
"Yuckers!"


Richie-
"Are we close?"

Richie didn't know the club was on the far side of the block from where you were approaching, and the wall o' cars they built was fairly seamless from the wall of cars these roads were made out of.

[∆§Indea§∆]

Micah-
“I guess, if you fucking want to...might be good too, for uh...experience and shit. Because uh.. yeah”

Micah was somewhat mesmerised by the jabbering zombie, what was it trying to say anything or was it making noises just for the fuck of it? Its shredded sexless features made it impossible to determine what it had looked like before. Past a few lingering clumps of blonde hair in the fleshy mess, you'd need dental records to figure it out.

He really didn't really want to go near it, but since he'd given the two girls a hard time for being inexperienced, he'd look like a nob if he didn't take at least a couple on. Fuck!

He moved quickly over the car to the struggling zombie, trying not to vomit. He held his knife shaking slightly towards it. In the hopes the zombie's struggling motion would cause it to meet with his knife and do most of the work for him.

With a bit of effort his knife did indeed meet suddenly with the zombies forehead with a sick scrapping *thruuppsh* and a trickle of rotting goo slid from the wound. The goo ran down the blade and onto Micah's awaiting hand. He shoved the zombie away with the bottom of his shoe. Urrgh! He wiped his hand on his jeans in disgust.

He parkoured his way to the safety of the car tops to search for another easy kill.

Micah took down another three zombies including a jawless granny and a nerdy hipster zombie with a missing leg before he decided to call it in. He made his way through the car maze with ease and waited on a nearby upturned blue Honda for the others to finish their re-kills.

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

Kenny-
"Alright. Let's get everything we can see without drawing attention from further off, right?"

Kenny was in better condition than the first time he'd run with Micah - hopping car to car and working the zombies easily. The other new people were slower to act. Richie hadn't heard Kenny's hot plan, but saw what those guys were up to and joined in. He didn't like the unstable cars for fighting on and dismounted when he approached a zombie. The short-handled weapon required some clever moves, but he managed.

Judy and Cathleen were much more clumsy in their efforts, but they had reach, and were light enough to not rock the surfaces of cars much. Judy bashed a golfer zombie in the head with her club, needing more than one hit as her strength wasn't quite enough. She seemed pretty impressed with herself nonetheless.

Judy-
"Whack! Whack! You can't get me, sucka!"

[DKender]

Oh, so now you want to be a good friend.

Alex lashed out at an undead woman squeezed between two cars. Desperate to break free and attack, she was thrashing violently. The movement resembled a macabre version of Micah and Nora's "dance" from the party. He struck her temple hard, then climbed over the car and dropped between two new zombies. They turned simultaneously, arms outstretched. One had long, thin nails that resembled claws. The other wore a bloodied apron. Alex uttered a furious sound, struck clawman with his weapon, and punched apronman soundly. The zombie staggered back but didn't fall ...

Oof. That was a risky idea. His hand stung. Alex shook it, willed the pain away, and rekilled the straggler properly, via sledgehammer.

Flushed with guilt, he climbed onto a minivan and took a deep breath. Why treat those wretched things like punching bags? They deserved mercy, not anger.

It was Kenny's fault. Granted, Alex knew he shouldn't let personal gripes interfere with missions, but the resentment was overwhelming.

Maybe they should talk sometime and settle matters like adults.

Ugh.

Calmer, he returned to the fight and moved to Richie's neck of the car pile. That kid had potential. Perhaps basketball players weren't all show, after all.

[◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊]

Richie-
"Hey, so... where is the place?"

He took advantage of Alex coming over to hop back for a minute, resting on the trunk of a silver Lexus.

[DKender]

"Oh! We're there already. Pretty much. It's the tacky bunker building thatta way!"

He joined Richie on the Lexus and pointed in the direction of El Corazon. It was at this moment that Alex's glass-less glasses slipped off his face and clattered onto the street.

"Aww."

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

Richie looked at the fallen frames.

Richie-
"I would not pick those up if I was you."

Hark. Someone harkened to them, from El Corazon's roof.

Tarina-
"Wow! Hey! It's you guys again!"

[∆§Indea§∆]

Micah had been sitting on the edge of the Honda, idly kicking at it's side as he waited for the others to finish up. The sudden sound coming from the roof of El Corazon gave him a slight fright and he almost fell completely off.

He attempted to brush off the action as a spring to the next car, but the sheer awkwardness gave it away and he landed hard almost tipping it. He headed slightly more confidently towards Alex and Richie to see what was going on.

[DKender]

"TARINAAAA! Oh, that's Tarina. We found him locked in a supply room, REI. That place is infested to the roof with ghosts." He turned his attention from Richie to Micah. "Feelin' all right, my man?"

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

Judy-
"Smooth move, Michael!"

Cathleen-
"I'm sure she means that in a loving and supportive way!"

People picked their way through the cars to the area near the dumpsters behind El Corazon. No zombies perturbed them along the way.

Richie (To Alex)-
"Glad they know us."

Up on the roof, the familiar hairdo-haver spoke to them.

Tarina-
"Yeah, I remember a couple of you. You wanna come in?"

[DKender]

"That'd be super duper. Oh. Also. Please inform Miss Kat and Mister Kyle that we're here. I want them to meet my anarchist friend. An. Are. Key."

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

Tarina-
"Cool, man! I'll be at one of these back doors. Stay put!"

He disappeared. People hardly had time to say anything before he opened a door in front of them.

Tarina-
"Come on in!"

((Proceed to El Corazon Building - the Lobby!))

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

Out in the separate, smaller building on the block, some people were totally getting their freak on... Until she was satisfied again.

Cathleen-
"Man, Rafi, you've been a madman tonight. A machine!"


Rafael-
"That's all for you, babe. You just rocked my fuckin' socks off."


Cathleen-
"Mm... Yeah... Still..."


Rafael-
"'Sup, girl?"


Cathleen-
"We need to go. It's so late... And I'm starting to remember where I am. Hell, you can even smell death in here just a little. That's... I'm just... Starting to feel like, what was I thinking?"


Rafael-
"Oh shit, I'm sorry. I... I never wanted to make anyone feel bad or creepy. Crap. Look at this. I'm romancing you in a filthy shotgun shack in pile of dead cars and people. That's horrible. I'm so sorry."


Cathleen-
"Oh, Rafi, I didn't mean it like that... Shit, I'm bad too. Look at us. We're pathetic."

She smiled weakly and started to put on her clothes. Rafael flexed and put a hand on his neck, looking like a weirdly mature-looking kid. She paused for a moment and looked at him, inquiring.

Rafael-
"Oh? It's nothing. Really."


Cathleen-
"Hm. What's the matter?"


Rafael-
"Well, I really don't mean anything by this, like, that we should anything about it, but,I didn't go."


Cathleen-
"What?! You're crazy!"


Rafael-
"I meant it, we don't have to do anything. I'll just go do some solo action later, have dreams about you - it's all good."


Cathleen-
"Don't be fucking absurd. I have another condom right here. Let's do this!"


Rafael-
"Yes'm!"

[Thy Dungyeon Maestyr]

A rustle, a tap. Someone was rapping on the window.

Cathleen-
"Jesus damn!"


Rafael-
"What the hell, man? I'll look."

Rafael looked out the window.

Kenny-
"Is there a 403 guy in there? We gotta get out of here before it gets too dark."


Rafael-
"Uh, I'll check?"

And so on!