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Post by Gillsing on Jun 30, 2013 0:01:19 GMT -8
Ben was tired, and his buttocks hurt. This was the longest he'd ever gone on a bicycle. Ow. Ben- "I'm going to assume that all this smoke is from burning the dead. Yup."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Jun 30, 2013 12:30:54 GMT -8
He agreed to that, but otherwise had nothing to say. Well, that or the car fires. Or maybe houses were on fire. Where were the working hoses when we needed them? He kept an eye on the others and looked from side to side at times to see if there was anything of interest in their surroundings. Any clues? The cars probably didn't offer much shelter to anything, but did the houses look inhabited?
Did these vampires decay in sunlight? What were their weaknesses besides sleeping during the day? He would never know, but trusted the judgement of the others.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 30, 2013 14:02:26 GMT -8
Beau- "I remember this from before... We did not see these fires, but the men on the highway. They say a vampire may sleep in a car."
Joe- "Yeah, I bet that's vampires burning." The houses were too far away to see anything about. The closest houses showed no sign of residence, but given they'd have to be fully camouflaged from vampires at night, there'd be no reason to flaunt yourself in the day either. ((I totes wanna move on, but occupado. Back in a while.))
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 30, 2013 19:40:06 GMT -8
Kyle- "Huh. Weird place to hide. Guess if the day is on your ass and you were running around up to the last minute, you'd hide just anywhere."
Becky- "I guess they really are just straight-up destroyed by light. Punk bitches..." The guys looked down on Tukwila and could tell the city still had a lot of zombies. The closer they got to the mall, the more obvious it was. Getting in would require some kind of strategy, to avoid drawing thousands of zombies down on one's head. The road signs indicated the best exit for Southcenter Mall was coming up very soon. Joe- "Hell of a mob down there. I wonder how we should get into the mall? Fast and furious, banking on their short memories to let us get in without getting trapped, or through some kind of stealth?"
Stevie- "All that open parking lot between us and the mall, I don't see how we could possibly sneak in. Any ideas, guys?"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jun 30, 2013 21:38:14 GMT -8
Seth- "Why don't we just do real good zombie impressions? Like that part in Shaun of the Dead. Isn't that even in our flyer? Has anyone ever tried it?"
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Jun 30, 2013 22:07:46 GMT -8
Patti- "To hear Dr. Bebe tell it, you'd have to be some Super-Method, Ultra-Badass Heath Ledger motherfucker to pull that off. But I don't know if anyone's ever tried it. Maybe we could practice it a bit up here on the highway where we can control how many shamblers we have coming at us. Just a thought. Feels pretty silly, but if it works we can laugh about it later."
"Next best thought is the sewer. Pardon the pun, but that sounds like a pretty shitty option. And I'm pretty sure we'd just get lost down there."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 30, 2013 22:18:05 GMT -8
Kyle- "Plus if vampires don't actually need to sleep or lose powers in the day, but just have to avoid burning, it could be hella dangerous down there. Let's get all Marlon Brando in this piece." ((The best way to experiment would be to find some zombies you could surprise, walk by them, and see how it went. You can leave your bikes on the guard rail and shamble down the highway a bit, and when you've gone past a few cars with zombies that didn't see your approach, you can see how they rated your performance.
Roll d20, no penalties or bonuses. If you had to act like pleasant human beings or charm someone, some peeps would have modifiers. This is more physical, and y'all have seen thousands of zombies by now. So get into it!
In other things, Brett should post his "People Pot Pies" poem in the writing section.))
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Jun 30, 2013 22:21:48 GMT -8
Patti- "I coulda been somethin'." Patti propped her bike up against a stopped vehicle and cocked her head to the side in her best zombie Brando impression and shambled down the highway. She figured if anyone went in front of her, she might end up laughing and blowing her cover.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jun 30, 2013 22:45:26 GMT -8
((I'll post results when all have checked in.))
Peeps tried to get their zombie on...
Kyle- "..."
Becky- "...*keeheehee*..."
Joe- "*derrrp*"
Stevie- "*buhhh*"
Kyle stumbled over himself and tried to recover by making it look like a zombie mistake, but moved too quickly and had a zombie swiping at him. Becky got the giggles and gave them to Joe. Fools be crazy from the heat.
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Post by Gillsing on Jun 30, 2013 23:48:37 GMT -8
While people were getting ready, Ben voiced his opinion. Ben- "Not that I want to pee on the Thespian parade, but why don't we just have one or two quick guys lure the zombies away somewhere? The rest of us could just hide somewhere else while the zombies walk by. And then there wouldn't be a horde of zombies greeting us when we have to retreat after having made a lot of noise that attracted all the ghosts inside, and all the zombies outside." Though he had been curious regarding how well he'd be able to fool a horde of zombies into thinking he was one of them. So he too got in on the zombie walk, holding his bokken by the 'blade' to prevent it from dragging along the ground. Because while that would be pretty cool, it would probably make every zombie take an extra look at him just because of the noise. And that he could do without.
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Post by Dr. Jar on Jul 1, 2013 2:22:02 GMT -8
Ashley- "Grraarr?" He stumbled around wondering why the hell they were trying something from a movie.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 1, 2013 15:13:06 GMT -8
The afternoon sun the world hot and still. It boiled particles loose from the wall of cars, putting an artificial smell in the air, underlying the errant strains of choking petrol burn and death. Shining iridescent flies buzzed in the air. To one side, wild trees mostly concealed the tall hill from view. To the other, Tukwila lay low and grey - so paved over and developed that no trees could hide the damage of humanity lingering there. The effort of the journey had people a little loopy, as perhaps did the crazy feeling of being somewhere other than Seattle after all this time.
Patti went first, shambling past a line of cars. Seth hopped the guard rail and hid nearby, watching the cars for reaction. A zombie looked at her, waved its arm briefly, then went back to staring at the distant smoke rising. He considered what that might mean, and crept along, looking at the zombies in other cars.
He looked back in annoyance at the kids screwing it up. Joe, of all people? Whatever.
Next Stevie came around the pile of goofballs and shambled by. Ben chatted with Joe and company for a moment before giving it a go himself, then Ashley. Beau just held Chou out of the way. Seth kept making his observations. Above, Steller's Jays flew through the canopy like oversized shuriken tossed by a blue-themed ninja clan. They were uncharacteristically quiet.
Patti and the others formed up and strolled back past the zombies in people mode, and the things grasped uselessly at the air, not knowing how to operate their seatbelts, or otherwise trapped. Seth hopped back onto the highway, and everyone got back together. Seth- "Yeah, I don't know. I don't think you have to be Brando, but it's slow. We'll try the fast guy distraction, using the bikes." At the offramp, they had a big hassle. Aggressive drivers had clogged the shoulders to where they had to pull the bikes over the tops of cars. The sides of the offramp were covered in extremely tall grass and blackberry bushes infiltrated the cars for a way. Shy wrens made weird buzzing calls and white-crowned sparrows sang noisily from short trees.
On Southcenter Parkway, they finally had sidewalk again. Tall grass and overgrown trees couldn't do much to obscure the super-wide multi-lane roads. They bicycled a car-clogged grey river. Partway down, they saw a terrible thing.
A black bear paused from its zombie-eating to glare at them as they passed. The victim wiggled pathetically in the driver's seat of a humvee. The beast had pulled off an arm with a good chunk of the chest and began to eat right there on the hood.
Becky- "*sigh* I guess it'll have to be me. Looks like that zombie just couldn't bear the Tukwila traffic."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Jul 1, 2013 20:57:37 GMT -8
Ashley hadn't thought much of who might be a good actor. Apparently Joe wasn't so good. Neither was he, but that was expected. He sighs. He didn't have the energy to argue about the bear thing, but it was expected to some degree. They had seen a bear eating a corpse earlier, but there was something pitiful about that zombie.
He carried on, after an intent look at Seth.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Jul 1, 2013 21:11:09 GMT -8
Patti- "I think you've got the right of it, Seth. If we try to shamble all the way to the mall building, we won't get there until it's basically already dark."
She thought for a moment.
"Do we think we have time to check out the mall before calling it a night? Because maybe we should just find a place to crash now and check it out in the morning. If the mummy's holed up in the mall, that's the last place we want to be when night falls."
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 1, 2013 22:37:38 GMT -8
Ben knew why waiting wasn't an option. Ben- "The mummy could also get moving at any time. That's why we're rushing in here like this. I wonder if he's aware that his blood guy got shot down? And if he is, is he making another? Or did he already cut his losses and got moving? Or was it just something he did because he could, and it's really not that important?
We don't know, but if the mummy is still waiting for the blood guy to return, he might not wait that much longer." Was the mummy even at the mall in the first place? Maybe that's just where he went to shop for dead bodies? Ben hoped not, because searching the entire town would not work.
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