City of the Dead: Act 1, Chapter 1

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Fegte · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

He chuckled when Ashley pointed out it was nice to see a familiar face. I agree, but I really like it when the face hasn't been turned into a zombie. He added jokingly with a smile. When Sench introduced himself, in a way reminding him of the army for some reason, and then Ashely did the same he thought he might as well. Sora, 16 years old, Male as you can see. Blonde Hair, Hazel Eyes. I'm skilled with computers including hacking, though I'm not entirely sure what help that will be now. Yes I can drive. And I'm pretty good at spotting everything and anything that I see will help do something like defensing. He explained, pointing his shoulder to the toilet paper.

OOC: OK next time I'll do better than that. Razz

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Velidina_Shiatamme · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

Hikari didn't know what to think about these people at first. She didn't think this could be happening, but her reality told her that it indeed was happening. The sight of the teacher indeed seemed real enough for her. She trembled slightly with the thought that she could die anytime, if she wasn't careful. As the male in front of her started talking some more, she felt safer. At least he wasn't a Zombie. When he described his talents, she shook her head. He had the same talents as her. That really came as a shock to her. Oh well. She heard the others speak and figured maybe that the man who instigated this conversation could lead the team. "I'm... Hikari Mizuhaka. I'm also a hacker, mainly from my infatuation with electrics. I also am somewhat of a good runner." If they had played lunch football at all, they might have heard her name as quite a decent halfback. Even if they didn't, if they were in the Electronics Department at all, they may have heard her name in the ones who got into trouble for being found on the school teacher's computers, and actually screwing around on them, on their names. "Other than that... I don't think I can do anything... And I don't know this building very well... I'm a Freshman... and I just recently came here from Japan..." Her accent seemed to accomadate her words, and it didn't seem like a forced one. Her voice also seemed to stay... dark, if you want to think of it that way. Quite a contradiction to her name. "I'm fourteen... and you can see my physical features for yourself." Her right eye was blue, while her left was brown. "And I think I forgot my eye-changing contacts... did I? I guess in this case, it's actually a good thing. At least if you see my eyes, you can tell who I am..." She shrugged her shoulders. "And... Sench-san, was it? I think you should lead... you seem to know the most here." She blushed at Ashley's complement, but her voice was the same-dark. "I"m not that good... but arigato, anyways." She turned back to Sench. "So... what'll it be, Senpai?"
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Sench · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:02 am Post subject:

OOC: Again, not much for me to do with AJ. Locron, you're dangerously close to the edge. Nobody is dead. Velidina, it's senpai

Time: Tuesday, April 11, 13:06 PM
The Mall:
Although almost ready to give up on his own, after stumbling into a bunch of survivors, Yukimaru seemed to regain his will to live and help others. The meeting didn't go without some conflict, but in the end, the nineteen people who remained alive in the mall have gathered and even came up with some kind of plan. The plan seemed good, however, there were too many undecided factors, and apparently some things that the security guard failed to consider. Although he probably didn't even realize it himself yet, but there was no way it could be pulled off without at least one person dying in the process, a sacrifice necessary to save the others. But as he was about to set the plan in motion, a single zombie got in his way. Although it was quickly dealt with, there was no use trying to convince anyone that none of the creatures heard Yukimaru scream. No, it was quite apparent from their movement that they did hear him. They heard him and began to move towards the place where the sound came from. Luckily for him, they weren't intelligent enough to use escalators properly, and mostly just bumped into it from the sides, unable to properly react to a sound from above. Yet sooner or later, some of them were bound to stumble upon the moving stairs.

The Streets (Locron):
Despite suffering some injury, which was miraculously minor considering what he lived through, Locron's judgment was not clouded at all. Of course, it wasn't that hard to realize that crowds of people moving in such clumsy and slow manner were neither a natural nor a good thing. He chose a street towards which to move at random, and quickly went down it, safely avoiding being surrounded in the parking lot. However, it seemed as though he thought he was completely invisible and the steps of his heavy army boots inaudible, because he went between the ranks of undead like they were just normal people. He took a turn into an alleyway, trying to stay away from open areas. It could be a good idea, but he didn't give it enough thought. As he walked some distance through the narrow passage between two buildings, he could see a few creatures ahead of his, blocking his path, although unaware of his presence for the time being. It wouldn't be a problem by itself, but his way back was now also blocked by the creatures that slowly, but relentlessly pursued him. He was trapped between two groups of zombies, one closing in, one standing still in his path, and there was no place to turn left or right. However, there was a dumpster standing by the wall to his right and a fire escape ladder to his left, though it was too high to reach from the ground.

The School:
As Sieva spoke about himself, and as he watched the others as they told him a little about themselves, he didn't stop observing and studying them for a moment. None of them seemed to be in a state of mind that would be appropriate for the situation, but then again, them being alive already spoke in favor of them not being ordinary people, whatever that could encompass. However, they were nothing like him. The older girl, Ashley, seemed almost cheerful; the boy Sora tried to joke, but his positivity had a different feel from his classmate's; the young girl, Hikari, was just scared and confused, and doing her best not to show it. Naturally, the actions of all three were simply a defensive maneuver with the goal of preserving their sanity, and lives. The boy himself wasn't that much different probably: he couldn't believe that even he could take an event of this kind and scale calmly - but his defensive mechanism worked on a subconscious level, allowing him to remain himself completely. Alright, now that we know each others' names, we can have a civilized discussion, - his manner of talking wasn't always this weird, actually, it was usually pretty normal, which was a direct indication of how unsettled he was, despite appearances. He was worried if a group like this wouldn't just get in his way, he couldn't help but think that way, even though he wouldn't be able to simply abandon them either, now that they met. No, picking a leader would be a bad idea I think. It would work well for most cases, but this situation is anything but normal, and fighting fire with fire isn't an absurd idea. I would everyone to share what they have seen in the building up to this point so we can decide on the safest potential escape route. I'll start, - he added, and then paused for a few seconds, obviously recollecting all the events of that day and structuring them for other people to understand from being told.

I was in my classroom when this started. I'm not easily impressed by crowd movements, so I stayed back when everyone went to check out the commotion. Even after a few minutes, nobody returned, so I couldn't help but feel curious and also left the classroom. The word "panic" was written all over the place, though it was a while before I actually found out the cause for it. I waited aside for everyone to stop moving in a dense crowd or leave, which was one of the reasons I am here right now. I wasn't moving or talking, so when the ones who died someplace else came from another corridor, they didn't notice me and went directly for the crowd. Since then, I've been sneaking pretty much all around the building in order to avoid getting trapped, but at every exit, it was the same: a crowd of these... creatures, formerly students and teachers who were desperate to get out. It's almost as if they can think, because the ones who died in the halls are roaming the building freely, but the ones who died in the exits are barely moving at all. Well, I was eventually driven up here, and the way I came from is littered with corpses, really dead or ready to bite into someone at any moment, I couldn't tell. In other words, I wouldn't advise going there. Since the zombies inside the building aren't staying in one place, my information on their location is likely more harmful than useful. Any of you have something to say? He realized they were all taking a risk by staying in one place, but if they moved without thinking, they would die for sure, especially since there was now four of them. However, before anyone else could even start talking, a loud booming noise came from another part of the school, shaking the whole building and making the windows rattle. Not a second later, the automatic sprinklers turned on as the fire alarm went off. The sound was extremely loud, especially so since the group happened to be standing right under a speaker. Not good! They react to sound most of all! We have to move, now! - he shouted to the others, trying to be heard over the alarm and taking a step down the corridor along the windows, the opposite from the way he came. For now, there were no zombies in sight, but how long would that last? At least the alarm would cover their footsteps and voices and the raining water their figures.

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Teddy · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject:

Yukimaru and Keiji ran down the mall towards the store he remembered seeing Mira before she left her radio behind. The two had seen that the Zombies had begun to mobilize after the boy's scream and time was vastly running out. He sighed and then looked to the the entrance of the store Child's Fantasy. The door was wide open and he ran in and then stopped. Keiji ran into the security guard who dropped his keys and then looked at him.

"What the hell? Be more careful." Yukimaru said as Keiji helped him up and then sighed.

"Why are we here?" Keiji asked as Yukimaru looked around the store frantically.

"It's here. But I can't remember where." Yukimaru said as he closed his eyes and tried to remember every camera he had seen. He cycled thought 100 cameras till his mind finally closed in on one with a woman walking out of the store and leaving a radio where the counter for the cashier was.

"What's here?" Keiji asked as Yukimaru ran over to the counter and then looked at it. "It's not here!" He said as his heart froze.

"Yuki! Come on! We need to get out of here before those things get lucky." Keiji said as Yukimaru near cried but then looked up when he saw the mirror behind the counter and then saw that inside the counter were two handsets.

"There!" He said as he jumped over the counter and then turned to the counter and pulled out the two handsets. "Here!" He said as he tossed Keiji the second set.

"A Radio?" Keiji asked confused.

"With two of them we have twice the chance of contacting someone. We need to do this if we need to get out of here." Yukimaru said as he and Keiji ran out the store. But they stopped several feet down when the elevator 15 feet in front of them made a noise as if the elevator had arrived on that floor. Both their hearts froze as the door opened and then several zombies came out.

"You gotta be fucking kidding me!" Keiji said as Yukimaru froze and stood still. "Yuki! Yuki! Snap out of it. We gotta go!" The young man said as he pulled the boys arm and ran down the long way around the mall. As they did, the few stragglers that lucked out began moving around towards the noise they heard. Keiji pulled Yuki whose mind went back to when the Zombie grabbed his leg. But before the horror would repeat itself Keiji slapped him awake. "Wake the fuck up!"

The slap brought Yukimaru back and then he looked at Keiji. "Sorry..." He said as noticed they had arrived at the escalators. "I'll send it back up and then reverse them." He said as he dug into his pocket, Keiji looked at him nervously.

"Move fast...." He said as several zombies had caught on to the noise. But before either of them could do anything, a loud shrill scream went off as the sound of footsteps became louder as people began to show up at the escalators. The girl in the kimono looked down at them as several people from the 19 they had were missing.

"The monsters have found a way onto the elevators! We don't have time for your plan!" She said as she came down and 5 others, 2 children (boy and girl) and 2 females and a male came down with her. "Those who got caught were too far for us to help."

The small group had now regrouped in a bad spot. The Zombies were closing in on them and Yukimaru was their leader and had to make an on the spot decision.

"We need to go now." Yukimaru said as he dug into his pockets and realized that the keys were gone. "What!?"

"What now!?" Keiji screamed.

"The keys!" Yukimaru looked back over to the store they were just in on the opposing side of the mall. Without them, he couldn't unlock his car or the mall security van.

"Fuck the keys! Let's go!" Keiji said as Yukimaru began to run towards the store. But before he could, the blond grabbed his arm and pulled it down. Yukimaru fell down to the floor as the group looked on, shaking as time on the second floor was vastly running out as another group popped from the elevator.

"I need the keys! I'm not going without them!" Yukimaru said as he stood up.

"And we need you! So stop being foolish and lets go!" Keiji said as He picked up the tiny Yukimaru and fireman carried him.

"Put me down!" Yukimaru said as the group proceeded downward with Keiji and the guard on his shoulders. Yukimaru didn't want to struggle but he was right. Time was running out and alternative means would have to be sought out. As they arrived to the bottom on the first floor, the group knew for those 7, only 4 of them would make it.

"Yuki...." Keiji said as he put the guard down and then looked at him. "... what now?"

"We need to get to Madame's Salon. The security door there will open when I swipe the card. Problem is that it takes 20 seconds to open the door. And with this number of Zombies...." Yuki said as one of the young women and the other young man approached them.

"We'll make noise to help you escape. Get you and Keiji out with the kids and the Kimono Woman." The young man said as Yukimaru went to say something but a hand appeared over his mouth and Keiji looked down shaking his head to stop him. The woman and the man ran off and began banging against glass of the stores and Yukimaru and Keiji sighed and then took their resolve and began running a straight path down toward the other end of the mall.

"Yuki...." Keiji said as he looked at the guard as they ran.

"Yea?" Yukimaru responded.

"When we get to the door, I'll go last to make sure you and everyone else get in safely." Keiji said in a tone that meant "Don't stop me". Yukimaru nodded as a large group of zombies took down the young man who screamed run loudly.

"Shit!" Yukimaru said as the other side had already begun on the woman. She too fell quickly as Yukimaru began tearing. The screams of their fallen comrades was enough to bring a sizable group away from the center of the mall which was a straight run.

The group made it to the door but now Yukimaru was searching through his pockets for the keycard. His shuffling about was causing alot of noise and Keiji held him still.

"Shh!" He said as a group of zombies from the entrance stood there, as if looking at them. "If you make a noise, they will move." Keiji said as Yukimaru gulped and then dug into his back pocket and found the card key. Keiji released him and then the guard walked over to the door and swiped the card in the reader. As he did, a loud beep went off and the zombies at the entrance awoke and began moving towards them.

"Shit!" Yukimaru cursed and more zombies began moving towards them. The kids began crying which didn't help.

~15 Seconds remaining.~

"Move towards the door!" Keiji said as he pushed them into the wall nearest the door and they began to get surrounded. "No matter what... you're going in that door, Yuki."

~ 10 seconds remaining.~

Yukimaru closed his eyes and began praying. He hated what he was and had become. He hoped that if he lived passed this day, that he would change who he was. Become stronger for himself. The boy looked at Yukimaru and then sucked his teeth.

"You've done nothing but cry since we met you! You're... a big pussy!" The child said as he ran off and kicked a zombie.

"No!" Keiji said as the zombies swarmed the boy.

5... 4... 3... 2... 1... The door popped open. It was now or never.

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Locron · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject:

As Locron made his way down the narrow streets he peered back towards the location he had emerged from only to see a crowd of people following his every footstep but in a slower manner. Still it caused some problems due to the slight fact that he had this unknown organism both in front and behind him with no way to escape. Although the number of creatures in front of him only number in the single digits it was still a slight problem which he would have to over come.

As he scanned the local area for some method of escaping he noticed a dumpster with wheels against the wall just before the passageway narrowed again. Slightly above the dumpster was an old and rusty fire escape for a nearby building but several complications popped into his head. The first was that the fire escape could provide a method of bypassing the creature if it would hold his weight but then he would be in an unfamiliar building which would most likely contain an unknown number of hostiles and possibly put him in an even worse situation then he was in now.

Thinking of an alternate strategy Locron approached the dumpster and tried to pull it. Amazingly the dumpster was lighter then expected and only consisted of the joint weight of the metal frame its self and what little items where contained in it. As he moved the metal dumpster into position down the narrow alleyway he let out a sight of relief due to the fact that it just fitted leaving no room for the creatures in front to flank him. Moving his gun to his back Locron planted his shoulder against the dumpster and pushed with all his might causing it to move at a slow pace but gradually pick up.

When the dumpster first made contact with one of the docile creatures it made a rather horrific crunch due to the bones of the creature giving way. This sound repeated several times until the dumpster emerged from a side street and rolled straight across the empty road and into a shop window. Looking back to the remains of the cretues which had been pushed away on exiting the alleyway he noticed that although almost all their bones were broken they still crawled across the floor towards him.

Turning away Locron shoulder his gun and the proceeded south away from the hordes of zombies and towards the distant high school. Although one of his possible escape routes were blocked there were other bridges which he would possibly use as means to escape this unimaginative video game known as life.

The dumpster turned out to be quite heavy: the carcass itself was probably a good hundred pounds, and it definitely had a lot of garbage inside. In addition to that, its wheels were anything but well-oiled, and as the man tried to push it, they emitted a loud screech in protest to having to turn. However, with some effort, he was still able to get it moving. It wasn't such a bad idea: use the large metal case as a shield while rushing through a crowd of the dead. Of course, it wasn't a video game, which apparently the man got stuck in his head. The first zombie to get hit by the dumpster fell down and was ran over, but at that exact point, the giant flaw in Locron's plan showed. The dumpster was stuck on the body, refusing to move any further. It would take much more strength than what one man could muster to force it through the rib cage and skull of the creature that was still clawing at its side. Pushing it wasn't working, so pulling certainly wouldn't, besides, its handle on Locron's side seemed to have been broken off a while ago. The man was now stuck between the dumpster and a crowd of zombies approaching from the back. The solution was obvious, but the loud noise he created attracted more of these undead from the other side. He ended up standing on top of the dumpster, with crowds of zombies trying to reach him from either side. They were too dumb to climb, but very quickly, some of them fell on the ground from their clumsiness and the rest walked up these improvised stairs, finally being able to crawl on top of the dumpster.

Escape was now impossible, but at least he could end his life without pain. A single gunshot brought a conclusion to this story.

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Locron Hicross (Locron) is dead

OOC: Although it doesn't really matter at this point, the ladder and dumpster were on the opposite sides of the alley, not the same. And the ladder was the only valid escape route in this situation. I expected you to jump across, but I guess I could go with you moving the dumpster to underneath it and climbing, despite the certain degree of god-mod that would entail. But shadow-playing into it being light, god-moding into it being easily movable, because even an empty metal case of it is quite heavy and where did you ever see anyone oiling a dumpster's wheels, god-moding into mowing human bodies down like thin glass bottles or something... that was just wow. Plus, thinking of an escape route, why the **** would you try and head for the school, and how the **** do you see one from several kilometers away in a ****ing city? The second worst post in this thread, but it isn't that far behind Shadowdmn's really.

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Locron · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:27 am Post subject:

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Mizuki asked me over PM to skip her, but I wanted to wait since it's kinda difficult since her character is directly involved with the rest. But she said she won't get online till next week again Sad

Guess I'll shadow-play her in my moderation for now

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Fegte · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject:

Heh Heh, I was asleep. I know nothing, but what you've told me and that there was a zombie in this hallway. He said, rubbing the back of his head, almost embarrassed. Just then a loud explosion was heard, and the sprinklers turned on to put it out. What, they react to sound, crap! He said, just loud enough to be heard by the group. As 'Sench' ran, he thought he'd follow. After all he had no idea where the zombies were and where they weren't what they can do, nothing he really knew about them. Sure he had played video games, but who knew how true those could be. He remembered the toilet paper and paper towel rolls in his pockets, protected from the water, they could still be of some use, but not right now.

OOC: Dude, wtf. This is your fourth post, and after the second (pretty sucky) one, you said you'd do better next time twice already, but so far, it's only been getting worse. You may not be breaking any rules, but your survival is also directly affected by the general quality of your posts

OOC: Okay, I'm sorry I'll try to do better. To be honest i haven't seen all that much to post about. I will keep trying to look for better posts though.
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Velidina_Shiatamme · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject:

Hikari nodded. "Yeah... I think these Zombies react to noises... since when I was in..." Hikari shook her head. "The teacher... got eaten by those... zombie things, and were about to find me... when a noise drew their attention..." She looked to the ceiling. She wasn't really used to talking this much, especially to strangers, and in English. She looked back to the boy who called himself 'Sench,' but she called Senpai. Why? Well, he obviously was a upper-classmen, so it seemed to fit. That's when she heard the fire alarm, and the sprinklers turned on. She hardly swore, but now was one time she did so, although it was in her head still. It wasn't the best thing that could happen to them, really. But at least no zombies were here, yet. While running, she chanced a glance to look at Sench. "Um..." she started, her breathing only slightly laboured. "Do you think... that the entryways would be open now, from the Fire Alarms attracting them away?" she asked hopefully. Other than that single statement, she kept her eyes on where she was running, hoping that she wouldn't run into anything- whether moving or not.

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