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 Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:12 am
Jamal stumbled from the jungle, having not gotten perhaps more than a few yards in after being zapped down earlier, caked in mud and looking disoriented as all hell. He was clad in shorts and a tank, which he had been sleeping in until he was awoken by the lights and then the odd tingling at his neck. What the ******** was going on?
He stepped hesitantly into the road that cut through between his duplex and the one next to it, not really wanting to be seen but feeling the need to get some answers. As long as he didn't run into Antony...
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:20 am
Pyroth had been in his duplex, the wound on his shoulder stitched up and bandaged using some of the supplies he'd been able to procure from the medical room. It still hurt like hell but at least it wasn't bleeding too badly any more. He had tried, with various degrees of success to scrub his fur clear of the blood that covered him and to return some of the dryness back. He ended up with slightly pinkish looking fur which practically screamed he'd been covered in the stuff. He still had no idea what the staff were playing at, he had suspected a lockdown but been surprised when his duplex was untouched.
As soon as he felt he was good to go, still with a slight headache but not so bad as earlier, he headed out again. He really should have taken a rest, but he was both jittery and worried, memories of the night before returning in dribs and drabs. Something was off on the island and he really wanted to know what.
He headed from his duplex to stand on the path that led towards the cafeteria, once there he had a good look around, wondering if anyone else was in the vicinity or if they, like him had woken in the jungle too.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:34 am
Jamal hissed, wincing as his muscles twinged in complaint to his odd 'sleeping' position the night before, and continued to walk forward, ears twitching as he caught the sounds of a door open.
He rounded the corner and caught sight of Pyroth. His first thought was to act like he didn't see him and go to his duplex to get cleaned up first, a slight fear of being seen with his newly acquired features brimming at the forfront of his thoughts. After the Antony incident, he was leery of meeting up with anyone for fear of losing grip. In fact, he hadn't seen anyone for nearly two days. However, he quickly felt this was a ridiculous fear; Pyroth would understand what it felt like to be seen as a monster. Maybe the coyote man would know what was going on.
"Hey," he called out as he approached, trying to look more confident than he felt, and gave him a wave. "Did you jus' wake up?"
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:48 am
Pyroth turned as Jamal made himself known, glad to see a familiar face. Well, at least as familiar as people got on this island anyway. Apparently Jamal had felt the sting of another change. Pyroth sympathised but felt the best way to show that sympathy was to merely skim over the changes, no one liked to dwell much after something like that in his experience, even he was a bit leery about mirrors these days.
He gave jamal a nod and a slightly anxious grin, the coyote was still unusually tense. "Hiya." he said before shaking his head "I wish I had just woke up, that way I could say the last few hours had just been an off-kilter dream." he frowned "I don't know what the hell the labtechs are playing at but I woke up in the jungle earlier, injured and covered in my own blood. I can't even remember properly how I got there or what the hell I was doing, but I know I hadn't just lost the reins, when that happens, I can remember" he flicked his ears back peevishly "They are up to something. The coyote can /feel/ it. Besides, I met some others in the jungle, Kav...Kaveri I think the vulture woman was called and Cassidy, they both came back to the duplexes"
He rubbed his temple with a paw "I just wish I could remember more than a little of what went on. I think it was a boar that tagged me. I shouldn't have been out hunting in earnest though, I caught something last night." he didn't realise that "last night" had been on thursday night.
Shaking his head, he glanced back to Jamal. "Sorry for whingeing at you, you know it's not you it's directed at, it's those gits up at the labs." he relaxed slightly "I came out to see if I could find out what's going on or if I'm just a paranoid wreck."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:02 am
Jamal listened with an unusually somber attitude, his own ears also flicking back as much as they were able and his whiskers fanning the air as he tensed his jaw. He was thankful Pyroth didn't ask about his changes even if the tiger was currently as confused as his human self was.
"I ain't got no idea what's goin' on. I thought it was onna them lockouts again, but I see da electricity is back," he said, confusion evident in his voice. "I woke up when da lights came back on 'n' I got dat weird shock feelin' in ma neck. Don't know why 'cause I wasn't doin' nuthin' but sleepin'. It was weird though...it didn't knock me out right away like da usual times when they shock ma a**. I managed ta get outside 'n' inta da jungle b'fo I went down, I guess." He waved absently to the trees that he had come through to emphasize this, his face twisting into an irritated grimace
"Ya don't 'spose dis is anotha' of their sick experiments, do ya? So help me god, I'll ********' go off if it is."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:17 am
"I thought it was a lockout too, glad it wasn't though, I needed dried off, and to get something done about that wound. So much for giving a damn what happens to islanders." he raised a brow as Jamal went on, he couldn't even remember being knocked out, now that he thought about it, his head and neck had been killing him when he woke up, only his shoulder took precedence on the pain scale. "I must have been out too then, still doesn't explain everything though."
Pyroth's hackles bristled. "I'm with you on that one, if they are just ******** us around again for their own sadistic pleasure I'm going to get seriously pissed off, and I'm normally a calm person ." It was the frustration colliding with sheer fury that made Pyroth feel even worse, no matter how angry he got, he would just be a dog on a chain snapping at them from a distance. It was the kind of frustration that drove you up the wall.
He was about to say more when an all too familiar voice piped up over the loudspeakers, it gave him the fright of his life. He looked round, puzzled, as the doctor spoke.
"Hello my precious subjects,
If you didn't already know, my second-in-command, Dr. Aubrey Lockheart was severly injured recently. She may not survive.
No one but Aubrey has entered the labs since the travesty, and no one else is allowed to, so the guilty party must be on the outside.
Bring me the guilty party, or else you'll all suffer for this. I hope no more than that needs to be said.
If you are the responsible party, know that all eyes will turn to you. You can't escape the eyes of those you might have considered friend, or even lover.
I want the person responsible to be brought to me."
He blinked. Someone had done it, someone bagged one of the scientists. He wasn't sure what to feel, part of him wanted to high five the perpetrator, the other half was slightly anxious about the missing time he'd had and one particular fuzzy memory. He decided to side with what he'd be saying all along, glad that someone had rebelled, even if it was against one of the few decent labtechs, all of them were enemies, right?
"Someone got to her first." he smirked "Wish I'd been there."
He wasn't even sure if he had.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:28 am
Jamal jumped at the sudden crackle of the loud speaker and growling in reflex. He -HATED- being startled.
At first, he snorted bitterly at the 'precious subjects' line, but wasn't able to comment as the Dr. kept speaking and the words that came out over the speakers also gave him two different feelings; absolute glee that someone had gotten Aubrey FINALLY and a bitter resentment that it wasn't him.
"Wonda' who got 'er...lucky b*****d," he said with a sickening happy chuckle. Jamal was fairly certain it hadn't been him unless he'd been sleep-walking...though he didn't have much memory of anything other than being out in the jungle all of Friday and most of Saturday. He wondered if all the zapping he'd been getting lately was frying his brain. "I hope she ********' dies. Would serve 'er right, stupid b***h. Too bad dat don't count fo' why da lights went out..."
He didn't even think what the results would be if she did die. Certainly Moreau wouldn't be happy...he obviously wasn't happy right now.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:37 am
Pyroth shrugged "No idea. To be honest, if you'd asked me who I'd been rooting for to get her, it would have been you." he smirked deviously "Guess she's made more enemies than even we know."
He glanced back up at the now-silent loudspeakers and frowned "Sad to hear that Dr.Evil is still alive though, at least he's pissed off, get to see the way some of us feel most days." he swished his tail slightly.
"But yeah, you are right, it's not like she's rigged to the power supply. There must be something messed up going on up at the labs or out here. I don't even know anymore. I mean there are people on the island now who I've never even seen, let alone spoken to."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:44 am
Jamal gave Pyroth a fangy grin, taking the comment as a complete compliment. "Well I ain't sad she got what was comin' but I wish I'da gotten a claw in wit' whoeva got 'er. I wanna shake their hand."
Dr. Moreau's voice had brought his memory back of what had happened at the helipad. That guy was a fricken mad scientist through and through. Surprising that he could show any sort of emotion...he didn't seem to have a touch of regret when he was dealing with James.
He did managed to look troubled though with the issue of the power. He did NOT want to go without hot water and his electronics again.
"I wonda' if anyone else knows what's goin' on."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:51 am
Pyroth nodded. "Doubt we'd find them to shake their hand though, whoever it was is probably hiding out. Still, it must have been planned in advance, if the doctor doesn't know who did it then the cameras must have been out along with the power." it sounded like something he would have helped set up back home, only it would have had to have looked like an accident, someone had either been desperate in this case or gotten sloppy.
"To knock the power out as well as go after her, there must have been more than one." he shrugged, a gesture that basically said "I give up"
"But yeah, other people might know more about what's going on, we just have to find them first I think. No one's been past here for a while though, I'd smell them if they had been."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:56 am
"In eitha' case, I hope she kicks," he grumbled, shaking his head. "I wonda' what she was doin' out of da labs when da stuff was all out. Ya'd think she'd know betta wit' all da people dat want her dead." Then again, he didn't really consider the woman to be that smart either.
"But yeah...it's weird da you say you ain't smellin' no one 'cause now dat ya mention it, I don't eitha'. My nose ain't as strong as yours but usually I kin smell when people been 'round." He furrowed his brow and looked around. The village DID look unusually deserted. "I wonda' if ev'ryone got pulled off somewhere."
He ran a hand across his face, peeling some of the dried muck from a cheek, and snuffled in irritation. Jamal was filthy and the tiger was annoyed about it. It wanted a good grooming.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:07 pm
Normally the villiage was a criss cross of smells, people going to and from their duplexes, but it really was missing a lot of them today, scents faded after a short while and there was nothing he could detect recently. "They might have been. Maybe they were setting up something when things went wrong, they like sticking us in their little experiments like lab rats."
He perked his ears to see if he could hear anything nearby but just heard the usual birdsong. "Split up and see who we can find? We'd be able to cover both ends of the village that way, anything I find I can tell you later. If I find who did it I have no intention of turning them in to the labs, just want to know for curiosity's sake."
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:13 pm
"Sounds like a plan," Jamal agreed, glancing around again as though he didn't believe that the place could look so abandoned. It was sort of eerie. "We kin meet up at some point 'n' share details, which I plan on gettin' somehow."
Jamal was curious also as to who managed to do what he quite hadn't been able to do.
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