{ TASK } Squads vs Zombies - Zone 1

[Marushii]

This is Zone 1. Zone 1 connects to the FORT and to ZONE 2.

DEFENDERS:
You see some plants around you. They pay you no heed; they're just plants after all. You think.

ZOMBIES:
YOU AREN'T HERE YET!





Moving on the Field:
Before you may enter the field, you must pick a route: A, B, C, D, or E. As a defender, you MAY change routes mid-field as long as it's next to you. That is, if you pick Route B you may only switch over to route A or C. D and E are too far away. This can be done ONCE every 12 hours. Otherwise, you may only attack those in the same route as you.

Ie, I am in Route D and there's a zombie in Route E. I had just switched to Route D from C. Even though the zombie is technically next to me, I cannot attack it.

Because of this, when you enter a route thread please post which route you're in at the top of your post in bold. Example: Omega 17 is on Route E.

To move further up the field, you need to enter and exit by means of ROUTES. The Routes will open up every GM turn.  

[Pales]

(ENTERING FROM FORT)

Once he stepped outside he felt no real relief just yet and somehow the smell seemed even stronger now but then that wasn't really a surprise as much as it was something he ought to have expected now that he was going about doing something. He peered around for a moment or two and it seemed like there wasn't anything TOO close to them yet but that is what prevention is for!

Theta Seven reached into his knapsack and brought out a stake to defend himself with and was pleasantly surprised that it hadn't magically disappeared and he wasn't going to be forced to punch a zombie (when it got to that point) in the face.

Unless it does magically disappear sometime along the line and a cynical part of him wouldn't doubt it if that did happen. He started to wander forward going along Route A.  

[iStoleYurVamps]

(Entering from FORT)

Beta 1 steped out from the supposed safety of the broken down whatever and onto the gay purple sand. Ugh, she hoped it wouldn't get into her suit. Last thing she needed was to get the gay everywhere. Even if she was gay. Or wait. Maybe she wasn't. She would need to see some tits and a** first. Then she would would judge. Otherwise how could she pick? Afterall, it was a very sensative topic and a very sensative area. Boobs and asses that was.

Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Her dagger was pulled out. Zombies? Bring them. SHE WOULD FIGHT THEM MORTAL KOMBAT STYLE. HARD MODE. She was also going to stand in this middle isle and look imposing. Because the middle was totally the most dangerous and badass. And Beta I was going to be the badass. SURVIVE LIKE A BOSS OR DIE LIKE A KING PIMP.

Her thoughts were also in capslock.

(BETA I is on ROUTE C)  

[Katarina Everard]

[Entering from Fort]

"Hey Thev, wait up!" Deva called out, jogging up behind him while breathing a bit heavily. Goodness... she was either seriously out of shape or the smell was getting to her more than she thought, since it felt like her lungs were coated with the stench of decay and death. It was starting to make her panic a little, but knew that keeping it together was key if she was going to get through this with her team mates alive.

Speaking of team mates, her thoughts went out to the others... wondering if anyone was going to join them and what Deli had decided. Poor guy, he seemed to be holding it together but Deva wondered just how much of it he was hiding beneath his jokes and if he could ever be serious about things even now.

[Delta 5 is on Route A]  

[Mediciner]

(( Entering from the Fort! ))

Deli was indeed panting from the short trip away from the . . . whatever that place was. He'd call it Home Base. So yes, Home Base was not very far at all, but the guy wasn't out of breth due to fatigue - more like close to hyperventilating.

What the hell am I thinking? I should've asked for a gun . . . Because his fists weren't going to do him much, he figured. Or maybe they would? Oh God, the thought of squelching rotten flesh hitting his hands, armored or not . . . He gagged a little.

He spotted Beta 1 traipsing her own route like a very, very courageous woman. Or someone with a death wish. Deli did not want to die. No he did not. No no no no, not by zombies especially. Aalskdhasldh.

And of course, Thev and Deva had to go and pick their own route as well. AAAAAGH. Why couldn't they all beeline one way and bulldoze the zombies? Preferably with him near the end? "Wait up!" Deli called after his friends, sticking to Route A as well. "But not too much! Really, lead the way and all that. Fist guy over here doesn't wanna touch those monstrosities."

 

[Zyphiris]

(( Eta II is ENTERING from the Fort ))

The some of the others were ahead of him already, and Eta II could see that they were ready for battle. The putrid stench was even more potent outside the fort. Eta II stopped using his nose for his sake.

Eta II looked at some of the plants up close. Creepy.

Time to go, Eta II muttered to himself. He picked the route between the few who had a head start. At least, he comforted himself, maybe if I call for help they might come.

And if they need me I'll be there too.

(( Eta II is going down Route B ))  

[poke mattix]

((Entering from the fort on route A!))

Eta V was already puffing from the effort to catch up to the others, and he could also see them starting to take different pathways. This wasn't a good idea, they all had to stick together! If they started to move off now, the zombies would just go after them one by one! Not wanting to be separated, he ran after Deli, whom was also having trouble keeping up with his comrades. "don't split up!" he called to anyone who was near.

From his position he could also see Eta II going down a different route. Why was she doing the same thing as well? The fact that many of them were branching off was making him nervous. He didn't want to be by himself..especially with a zombie force coming his way.  

[artificial insomnia]

[ Entering from Fort onto Route A. ]
( hrrrg argh sorrysorry for terribly short post /distracted again sobsob )

Exiting onto the first length of the field, Theta-two raised her hand as though to shield her eyes from the sun. Quickly enough though, she dropped it, remembering the mask on her face that had almost become just another part of her. The first thing she noticed - a second time, really - was the purple sand washing over her otherwise dark gear. She wondered briefly how it would feel to have it between her toes, to walk barefoot along the beach. And then she laughed, because with all the absurdities of the island, she wouldn't be surprised if the sand cut off their toes.

There was no relaxation once she'd let herself into motion and gotten out of the fort. Now, the stench was worse, penetrating her senses and making her want to vomit. Shifting the weight of her knapsack, Theta-two shifted to jog after the other team members, her mind numb to conversations with herself as the form of zombies appeared in the distance. Here went nothing... and she only had a wooden stake and strangers at her side. Why couldn't it be sparkling vampires? She thought caustically to herself, settling to go after the others along Route A. After all, how bad could it get? She touched the edge of Excalibur and felt an adrenaline shot straight to her skull. Pretty ******** bad, she thought caustically to herself, but her feet never stopped moving.

Lets get this show on the road.

 

[Marushii]

For some odd, inexplicable reason the ground begins to shake. It isn't the tremble that is barely noticable, nor is it the shake that makes you stumble before falling flat onto your posterior. Rather it is the sudden shake that skips straight to making you fall flat on your back, face, or side. It is from there that you get a rather charming view of the rapidly darkening sky (or of the sand should you be unfortunate enough to fall flat onto your face). In addition, you also quite easily spot four identical forms. One of them comes closer.

"All must bow before me! WHY AREN'T YOU BOWING?!" Moments later fire consumes all, causing an explosion and knocking you into the air! Thankfully a parachute that you didn't know you had kicks in, and you gently land HERE.

(( Everyone living has now landed in the FINAL EXAM thread!

In addition, please go HERE for the offical reason behind this wrap-up. ))
 

[Mediciner]

Ah, how much easier it was to be among other people. Strangers or friends, it made this whole nightmare of a survival game easier.

"A-Ain't nothing gonna split us up, Shakes," Deli intoned shakily to Eta V, but with injected smiles and happiness and SUNSHINE. That's what those plants needed, right? EFFING. RAYS. OF LIGHT. OUT HIS BUNGHOLE.

Were the pendants enchanted to make him nuttier than usual? Or maybe he was working off the adrenaline of realizing he was about to go and fistfight with things that didn't care if a rib or two got tugged off. Or maybe both.

Not that it mattered, because he next thing Deli knew he was not looking at Deva's sweet lil' hind, but rather the sky. Which wasn't sweet at all. Huh. Was it a darker bruised purple, or was it just him? Wait, what knocked him down in the first place? Sky whut?

And then he heard something that sounded familiar, and yet wasn't at the same time. And then he tilted his head and saw something that was familiar, but . . . not the right colors. Wasn't the one he saw more . . . bronzey? But then, he had heard tale of more horses on the island.

Oh wait. Four of them. Super.

Deli decided maybe it was a good time to start praying instead of telling jokes. Unfortunately, he was not able to piss himself with fear. Why did this matter? Had he pissed himself with fear at the sight of the hellhorses, he would have jogged his mind enough to actually pray - which involved thinking.

However, he could not piss himself because he had not had to drink for a handful of days now. And thus he could not shake his brain from the mind-addling haze filling his head. As such, the command to begin praying never made it.

The command to joke, however, did. Why? Jokes did not require Deli to think at all.

"Why couldn't the pony sing?" Deli squeaked as he laid prone on the ground, watching the impending figures grow closer. "BECAUSE IT WAS TOO HOARSE.!"

"Where do you take a sick horse? TO THE HORSEPITAL."

No, nowhere did his brain say it had to be good jokes. Good jokes take thought after all.

Even as one of the horses blah-blah-blah'd about something and . . . and exploded? It looked like it. Well either way, it didn't stop Deli from a final joke.

"Where do mormon horses live? IN SALT LICK CITYYYYY...."

His voice echoed for several seconds afterwards.

(( Deli is blasting off again to the final exam! ))

 

[Katarina Everard]

Deva glanced back behind her to see Deli and Eta V following behind, letting out a sign of relief to see a few familiar faces. Not that she thought her and Thev were going to go it alone, but it was certainly nice to have some back up going into this. Zombies? What zombies. Those undead could dance until they fell apart... and really... that wasn't a bad idea. But as long as they stayed together it was possible to survive, at least in her mind.

Well until Deva felt the ground beginning to shake beneath her feet and let out a cry of panic before falling onto her back. 'Oh hell... what is happening now... as if zombies weren't bad enough.... please no more...' she pleaded inwardly with whatever deity might be listening, despite the feeling that any deity there might have been deserted this place long ago. A familiar sound reached her ears as she lay there on the ground, the sound of hooves pounding against the ground and heading towards them.

"Damn it... not one of these hell horses too. I knew I should have wished for fire to destroy the zombies... need to keep my mouth shut." Deva muttered, sitting up though honestly not sure what to do now. A part of her just wanted to lay back down and give in, though half listening to Deli's stream of bad jokes made her giggle a little. "Never thought I would go out this way... listening to some horrible jokes in the middle of a forsaken island confronted by pony from hell. Guess it could be worse..."

Though she didn't get much farther than that before the wave from the explosion hit her and knocked her into the air. Closing her eyes and trying not to panic as her life flashed before her eyes, wondering what was going to happen to her now.

(Exiting to the final exam thread)  

[artificial insomnia]

Of everything she was expecting, - zombies, toe-cutting-sand, fireballs, the whole damned shebang - Theta-two could honestly say she had not seen this one coming. Luckily, the sand was relatively normal, save for the way it sprayed everywhere when she fell on her a**, a groan twisting off of her lips. Zombie apocalypse and I'm already down, the girl thought, trying to focus on the field and what in gods name had just done that to her. She only barely caught a glimpse of the four figures before there were words being belted into the air with angry flames, the heat searing as it came close; twisting into an inferno and an explosion that carted everyone sky high and into the air. It felt almost like flying to her for a moment, before she remembered that she was falling.

And then the world temporarily went black.

[ Theta Two is exiting to the Final Exam. ]
( sorrysorry for short post osdifna /kicks self )
 

[Pales]

Theta Seven gazed back and smiled as he saw (and heard) people following him. It made his bold attempt to strike forward all that much more worth it - otherwise he might have felt stupid as he spent his final moments getting munched on by something that literally couldn't keep it together (badumtish).

One moment Theta Seven was marching forward getting ready to face the zombie horde and everything it had to offer and the next moment he was flopped over onto his back as his body just suddenly gave out and collapsed under the ground shaking as if it was boneless and made out of jelly. He furrowed his brow under his mask that was odd behavior for even this sky then again why should he be surprised? Everything about this place was crazy...Even those Ponies ... Wait ponies? He had sat up to try and make sure everything (and everyone) was okay only to be met with the sight of a pony stepping forward demanding that he bow, "Already on the ground big guy," he said dryly as he tightened his grip on his weapon preparing to attack figuring that is what it has turned into. No zombies just more po--

Suddenly there was fire and he was suddenly flying, his limbs flailed a bit and he felt some actual panic kicking in...

(EXITING TO 'FINAL EXAM' THREAD)  

[Zyphiris]

Eta II watched as four things descended from the sky, one of them approaching them. He wanted to laugh – he was on his back staring at something very, very familiar. Once again, a giant pony of doom towered before him. And to think that just a moment ago, he would have rather faced all previous adversaries that he previous encountered.

FML he thought, as fire soon consumed all that was around him. Then there was the explosion.

A parachute bloomed out of his backpack. Eta II was surprised. Then again it made sense, why the hell would a backpack that just contained nunchucks weigh so much? Either way he was glad that he was carrying the backpack all this while as he drifted slowly, slowly in front of a strange building. There was a door, Eta II opened it slowly, peering in.

(( Eta II is EXITING to the Final Exam ))  

[iStoleYurVamps]

Was that-
Yes.

Yes it was.

Screaming in a fit of rage, Beta I was launched away-
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

(TROLOLOL EXIT TO FINAL EXAM)