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 Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:46 pm
"Forgive me if I don't believe that, Dan."
Lithil spoke only for herself- she could tell Thestalon was on the same mind-track as she was, but she wasn't sure about her other 'teammates'. Stepping forward, eyes still cold as ice, she gave Dan the once-over.
"You were obviously controlling an entire hoarde of zombies. Why should we believe you aren't some kind of newly mutated deceptive drone?"
Her hands balled tighter into fists, nails digging into the soft flesh of her palms.
"Dude, you say you don't want anyone to get hurt and you specifically run around with a bunch of flesh-thirsty maniacs? It just doesn't make any sense!"
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:02 pm
Missy walked over to Lithil. "She has a point. Give us one good reason we should believe you."
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Dan sighed. "You can look at this however you want but do you seriously think anyone would have enough brains to make a drone this advanced?" He said to them pointing to himself.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:08 pm
Lithil gave the guy her best blank stare, eyes hooded and one eyebrow arched over her dusty forehead.
"Dude, I'm an evolution machine. I'm capable of adapting to any environment or situation within a few seconds. I'm quite sure that, in this kind of situation where mutations are running wild like some kind of abomination to God, something like you could have spawned somewhere along the line."
Folding her arms over her now-shredded tanktop, her second eyebrow came up.
"So that argument's null. Next?"
Turning to Missy, she whispered out of the side of her mouth:
"Seriously, though, why aren't we killing this guy? Not to seem like a homicidal maniac or anything..."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:20 pm
Dan lowered his head and then looked back up at them with pained eyes. "Look, i dont know what i am. I dont remeber anything from my past. All i know is when i woke up from what ever happened, i was surrounded by a group of people who said that if i did what they wanted i could live. What would you have done?" He said to them hoping it was enough.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:27 pm
"Bashed their heads in with a metal pipe."
Lithil said simply, spreading her arms in a 'no biggie gesture'.
"I mean, really, in a place like this where anyone's an enemy, it's really just the best survival tactic to kill them all. I mean, if they were drones then it woulda been simple."
She paused in her monologue, then blinked.
"Wait, wait, wait."
She held up a finger, as if something was bothering her. Taking a breath, she dove in again.
"You said... people. As in, not zombies. People capable of something nearing some kind of sentient speech or something. Who were these guys?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:35 pm
Dan laughed at the woman. "I would have killed them but they held guns to my head, and yes they were people. They didnt tell me who they were but by the looks of the lab they had me in i would say they are behind all that has happened." Dan said to her. He liked how this one thought.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:47 pm
"Damn..."
The plot thickens, eh?
Lithil processed this information, assuming a thinking position probably stolen from an anime. Her bent index finger was held to her cracked and bleeding lips and her brow furrowed, she considered the situation.
I guess the blue-haired dude wasn't lying, there's definitely someone or something behind the epidemic, and it sounds like some kind of psychotic bunch of scientists or something.
"This is like one of those video games. Weird..."
Glancing up to Dan, she cocked an eyebrow again.
"You remember where the lab-thinger was?"
She didn't know about the rest of the group, but damnit she wanted answers.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:14 pm
"I can remeber bits and pieces of where it was. It was surrounded by towering buildings so i am going to assume it was in the city." Dan said while trying his hardest to remeber. "Oh and it was in a huge a** building." He added. "Im sorry i cant remeber that much. The s**t they used to knock me out was lethal." Dan appologized to the group.
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Missy stared at Dan. She was perplexed at how quick the conversation had turned. She wanted to ask so many question such as were there others like him or was he one of a kind.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:22 pm
"Hhhhmmmm... damn useful, that."
Lithil remarked dryly, picking at a fragment of skull glued by tacky blood to her pipe, fingers becoming delicate as they danced between the glass shards. She blinked.
"Are there more of you, then? It's possible there's a bunch of psychos using the adapted to wipe out all the remaining threats... but why would they want to clear out the city...?"
She nicked a finger on the glass, and stuck the finger in her mouth, sucking at the tainted blood.
"Dew yu ruhmem-"
She took her finger out between her lips.
"Can you remember any others in the lab thing?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:36 pm
"I do remeber seeing things covered with black sheets. Im not sure what they were and i didnt really want to find out." Dan said while shivering a little bit. He hated that place and never wanted to see it again. "I think they might have been drones of some sort." He added.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:46 pm
"Eeesh..."
Lithil shuddered, wiping the glass cut on her shirt. It was pretty much healed anyway and besides, an infection could be easily dealt with with her new condition. She could remember when she was a kid, how a weeping cut would make her recoil in horror as yellow pus would seep underneath the bandage, but now she just viewed all kinds of gore with the same blank, grey-eyed expression of one who had seen it all before.
"They're probably trying to reconstruct the unaffected gene, judging..."
The girl commented, showing impressive insight or at least a history with zombie villains from horror movies.
"So they can create superior humans, maybe...?"
These comments were more to herself as she stored her pipes away in the carrier at her back.
"Huuuh... well, Dan, if you don't want to come, you don't have to. But, I'm telling you all now, I for one am going to check it out."
She placed a hand on her chest, standing up straight.
"There's gotta be a way outta here and if those creeps don't know then I wouldn't know who to ask."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:49 pm
During the whole conversation, Ian stood by quietly.
After a moment, he turned and walked back to the diner.
Along the way, he stopped at every corpse that had its clothes in a fairly intact state.
Every stop, he would reach into their pockets to salvage anything useful. He found about 20 bucks and a broken cellphone, or at least, he thought it was broken, because it didn't turn on. A further check showed a cracked screen, so he assumed it was broken. Still, the internals would maybe be useful later.
Ian crawled through the barricade and sat alone in the diner, waiting for the rest. He guessed that before they headed out to the mall, they would need a plan.
He leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes. He thought back to his home before the apocalypse, before he went on vacation and ended up here...
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:46 pm
He didn't know how it happened or why. All he knew is that he had been given an opportunity to live out his wildest dream. The world was his to wreck and he wasn't about to let these mindless fleshbags stop him. His resemblance had shifted to something like a large iguana. He barreled down street after street, flipping cars and crushing the undead in his way. Ever since he had used his power to escape the institution, it had been a field day for him.
He stopped abruptly. He swore that he could see someone. Maybe he was delusional. Nobody could have survived. Then again, he had. He heard voices from an alleyway. Maybe he really had found someone. It's a good thing too, the silence was getting to him. He padded over and laid down like a gigantic puppy. He wanted to appear docile and agreeable, which was quite a challenge for a fifteen-foot lizard. Surely this would get their attention.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:54 pm
Missy watched Ian walk back to the diner. Part of her wanted to go with him but the other part wanted to stay and listen to Dan and Lithil talk. That was untill this huge lizard laid down infront of them, then all she wanted to do was figure out what the hell that thing was or who it was you could say. "What the hell is that?" Missy asked while pointing to the lizard.
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Dan was about to respond that he did want to come but he got side tracked by Missy's question. He turned to see what she was looking at and almost jumped ten feet backwards. He was terrified of lizards.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:02 pm
He raised his head a few inches off of the pavement. "That's just rude. A simple 'How do you do?' would have sufficed, but no. Be it as it may, I could understand your agitation." He lazily got up, then slowly began to shift back to his human form. He rose to his feet and bowed. "Orex Halden at your service, ma'am." Before ending his bow, he picked his gun up and threw the strap over his shoulder, letting his hand rest on the assault handle.
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