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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 11, 2013 23:31:33 GMT -8
None of the pictures present had names attached and nothing resembled yearbook files at all. Probably this was just stuff for the school newspaper, or which several months of copies were on hand. Beau paged through them furiously.
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 12, 2013 9:51:32 GMT -8
Ben kept looking around, rummaging through a few disorganized stacks of papers. Ben- "Maybe the best we could hope for would be pictures of jocks and popular kids who are always the ones the revenge-kids want to get back on? Maybe we'll encounter familiar faces if the mummy had special plans for some of those kids? Though if he just went for their arms, I guess that wouldn't help much."
Stevie- "I heard those dicks at Columbine were just killin' anybody, but mostly girls. Shit, I can't believe this is how it all started." It sure was looking like they'd have rely on blind luck."Hopefully that 'visual communications' place will have something. If he really did make the video here, he might have left some clue there. Though in this day and age I guess he would've had access to his own equipment. All it takes is a phone, right?" The pool was looking more and more like the place of interest.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 12, 2013 16:56:52 GMT -8
Kyle- "Yeah, man, I don't even think there's a point in taking any of this stuff with us. It's crap." They shooed a couple of rats out of the doorway and shuffled out into the hall. A few more zombies were stumbling around the fallen ones from before, and Kyle and Stevie got rid of them as well. Beau and Seth didn't even bother to look in that direction.
They quickly came to the back door. They could go out there, cross a short courtyard, and enter the other wing over there. They stepped out into the day, now finally cooling off, long rays of the sun casting the courtyard in shadows. There were scattered zombies about, and they could see something weird walking generally in their direction, from the area of the stadium. Beau found something about it disturbingly familiar.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jul 12, 2013 17:20:21 GMT -8
Beau- "No! He does this before... Have 'zeh gun ready!"
Seth- "Oh shit... is this it?"
Seth carefully drew the gun, keeping it low. Seth- "I ain't shootin' this unless I have to..."
Stevie- "A little bit closer, baby cakes..." Stevie readied to throw his flare, but waited for the slow-moving creature to come closer, for a surer aim. It obliged, coming steadily nearer. Tiny Monster- "..."
Seth- "Oh my god... it's a baby...?"
Beau- "..."
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 12, 2013 23:44:10 GMT -8
A baby? Just a baby? Probably less of a threat then? Psycho-Ben was a bit relieved that it wasn't actually the mummy, but... could it be a demonic undead? Or was it more like the blood guy – some sort of semi-autonomous undead, set to wander the school with a bunch of carefully selected balloons? Ben- "I wonder if those ghosts are some special people the mummy really hated?" And therefore he captured their ghosts and imprisoned them, forever forcing them to travel the grounds of the High School of Hell!
Psycho-Ben sure had some imagination.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 12, 2013 23:55:14 GMT -8
Kyle- "Might be, Ben. Convenient they stuck all the ghosts together for us, though."
Stevie- "Here goes!" Stevie tossed the flare, and the ghosts went up in with a loud rolling hiss. As the black smoke rose and the black tatters rained, the silvery wires attached to the tiny monster's arm fell slack, like weird whips. It still held its arm aloft awkwardly, and spoke. Tiny Monster- "Sseth...."
Seth- "JEZUS SHITBALLS CHRIST!
Beau- "She is possessed... They can know your name, non?"
Seth- "G--I'll... I'll do it... I should, shouldn't I...?" Seth tried to get a hold of himself. Stevie- "Yeah, you seem the best at these things, but I'll do it if ya need a break."
Tiny Monster- "Sseth...."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 13, 2013 0:01:46 GMT -8
((Does Ben want to do the honors?))
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 13, 2013 1:16:10 GMT -8
Ben was about to let someone with a real weapon handle the situation, because he didn't want the others to look at him like some guy who had just bashed in a dead baby's head with multiple two-handed blows from his bokken. But then it struck him: Noise bad. Ben- "Uh, don't shoot. We don't want to alert anyone else who might be around. Better to do it with..." ... Ben looked at Stevie's katana and his own bokken, and Kyle's axe. If it was true that the possessed didn't have any powers during the day, they should be able to handle this one.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 13, 2013 1:57:04 GMT -8
Kyle- "Alright. People already think I'm some kinda crazy creep anyways." He started toward the little thing.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jul 13, 2013 2:01:46 GMT -8
Seth moved to stop Kyle, holstering the gun, when Beau stopped him. Beau- "Let someone else do these things sometime..."
Seth- "..."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Jul 13, 2013 2:15:28 GMT -8
Kyle went forward, then Ben, then Stevie. The thing reached back with its arm as if to use the wires as whips, but rather slowly. Kyle's first blow knocked it down. It didn't twitch much, but they decided to make sure and put in a few more thwacks with their respective implements of destruction, sending juicy dark chunks into the tall grass nearby.
Zombies had finally staggered up on them, and they put those things down with fury. It was strange. Fighting zombies, once you got used to it, was like being an action hero. You could do the kind of showy, stupid moves that wouldn't work against humans, and they worked quite well. Stevie and Ben looked like chubby samurai of doom.
Beau stood near the door they intended to enter, and opened it when everyone was ready to go in. Inside, the long hall was much more empty than the other wing's had been. The men dusted off and composed themselves, when they heard a weird sound, like horseshoed footfalls or high heels, only staggered and clumsy in rhythm.
The source of the noise rounded a corner and staggered into view.It was about Stevie's height, staggering on strange, rigid leg replacements, and somehow arranged itself into a sassy pose. Its voice was screechy and weird. Large Monster- "Fools! KNOW ye not what thou trespass against?! I COME FOR SETH!"
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jul 13, 2013 2:29:54 GMT -8
Seth- "WHAT? You come for ME? WHY?"
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 13, 2013 3:03:06 GMT -8
Ben- "Waaaiitaminute... Isn't Seth also an Egyptian god?" Or was it some snake god in that Conan movie? Ben wasn't entirely sure, but he didn't rule out that ancient Egyptian stuff got reused in fantasy fiction. Snake? President Snake? Hmm...
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Jul 13, 2013 17:51:11 GMT -8
Seth- "Huh? No I'm not...!"
Large Monster- "FOOL! SETH IS THE UNMAKER, THE RUINER, THE SUNDERER OF LIMBS! ALL of the beauty you Here BEHOLD, is the work OF HE!!!"
Kyle- "Shit, you're right, Ben. I fucked up."
Seth- "NUH UH! SHUT UP!" He couldn't hear Ben and Kyle's quiet talking over the screechy dude and the flare hiss, and was addressing the creature alone.
Kyle- "Seth, uh, man, that's another name for --"
Large Monster- "FOOL! You don't KNOW?! WHY ARE you ALIVE? You're Supposed to be DEAAD!!!" The thing was very whiny.
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Post by Gillsing on Jul 13, 2013 18:01:58 GMT -8
Ben- "Uhhh... so Anubis is Seth?" That might explain the arm centipede, if the mummy had been trying to create a snake. Though Ben wasn't sure if the actual Egyptian god that was called Seth was a snake-headed guy or a crocodile-headed guy. Didn't one of those guys have a cobra head? Or was that just from Stargate? Clearly Ben should have researched all this when he first heard the German mummy call himself "Osiris".((Don't bother to change this Gillsing. We ninja'd you a bit but it still works fine.))
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