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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Umm...


Who died and put the new guy in charge?



M.


Posted on 2010-09-15 at 14:33:25.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Door Number 1


I like Mac & Murph running across the street to get food.

((please dear God no candy bars... get useful stuff, canned meat, fruit, veggies, crackers, PB... and a can opener, because if we have to reenact that scene from The Pianist I'll cry))

With a gun, her prior training to be a nurse and her bag of goodies Amber is more needed with the injured... although I'm not sure how great she'll feel about being left with the good Reverend and watching Murph walk off, but it makes the most sense

M.

Posted on 2010-09-15 at 13:54:47.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Guns


So long as whoever goes across the street has guns that would probably make the most sense.

*shudders* God I just agreeed to splitting up the party for a bit. I'm going to help get us all killed I know it.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-15 at 13:38:05.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Well...


From a player p.o.v. having Emily fix up Mac's shoulder while still in the store would make the most sense. He's currently unconcious, so he shouldn't scream too much, and it will be easier to move him if he's properly stitched up.

We also have shelter to do it in currently, who knows when the next time that will happen will be... oh and at least some daylight from the windows to help as well. Waiting around another few hours will make it more difficult I'd imagine... I watched them try to do that on M.A.S.H. a few times, it always caused more problems than it solved.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-14 at 22:28:29.

Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: Favorite Poem


For a Dead Lady

No more with overflowing light
Shall fill the eyes that now are faded,
Nor shall another's fringe with night
Their woman-hidden world as they did.

No more shall quiver down the days
The flowing wonder of her ways,
Whereof no language may requite
The shifting and the many-shaded.

The grace, divine, definitive,
Clings only as a faint forestalling;
The laugh that love could not forgive
Is hushed, and answers to no calling;
The forehead and the little ears
Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;
The breast where roses could not live
Has done with rising and with falling.

The beauty, shattered by the laws
That have creation in their keeping,
No longer trembles at applause,
Or over children that are sleeping;
And we who delve in beauty's lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

Edward Arlington Robinson

((I'm terrible at writting my own poetry, much better at prose, so I just use other people's. Robinson is one of my all time favorite poets))

Posted on 2010-09-14 at 14:56:05.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Umm...


Well I was waiting for Teddy to respond and come in personally.

Beyond that for someone to make a decision. I'm playing the passive character who in all honesty is just going to follow Tom around like a cute little puppy until she gets eaten or does herself in.

Mrs. Bickerson will have opinions if I ever have to pull her out, but Amber doesn't really.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-14 at 14:09:19.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: LOL


I don't think a high would be the goal in that situation.

Yeah... just maybe we wary if she hands you a drink.

She just handed Tom some water! Beware! It might be laced with something... 'What Tom? I thought I discussed the suicide pact with you... no? Well... umm... you won't go alone...'

M.


Posted on 2010-09-13 at 18:43:02.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: True enough...


Father Teddy has yet to answer Amber's question as to whether he plans on eating anyone yet. He might just say yes and we'll have to try and bash his brains in.

I doubt Amber would know where the police station was... or would even be thinking too hard about it even if she did. Hell I'm not even sure where the police station is in my city... yeah come to think of it I only know of where one is in the whole expanded city I live in. *shrug* Can't say I have much need for them, thankfully. They've always shown up in a car when I've needed them. (which has happened more than I'd really care to think of *sigh*)

But... I digress...

How about we just skip the whole discussion of where to go... The hardware store's gotta have some rat poison, we can lace that in some coolaid from Treasure Island and forget the whole mess

M.


Posted on 2010-09-13 at 18:00:34.

Topic: LD Filler: Deranged Mind
Subject: I want one of those!


Maybe the kids in the neighborhood would stop vandalizing my property if I had one sitting in my yard

M.


Posted on 2010-09-13 at 14:24:12.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: :)


Well... we shall miss Ali, but good job Dad. Math, while terrible, is not optional.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-13 at 13:52:10.

Topic: The Great Photo Contest
Subject: Waiting...


For a Pets section to go up, not finding anything submittable for kids (and certianly not for baby for a few months) yet. But I got a great kitty pic in the wings...

M.


Posted on 2010-09-12 at 21:04:32.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Well there we go...


Took us a bit further out but not much I'll admit.

Enjoy.

Ohhh... and Amber wouldn't throw up much of a fuss if someone proposed just turning 'Heaven's Gate' at this point, so a boat is fine.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-12 at 20:49:00.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago
Subject: Welcome Father


The makeshift bandage was secured into place, Mac was still unconscious.

So likely he doesn’t need any of your drugs to quench the pain… more for me…

She pulled back into a crouched position, knowing she could do nothing further at this moment, the doctor in training should really take a look at him, when she got a chance. Judging from the sound of gunfire exploded to her left, though, she didn’t think that she would have the chance just yet.

The hatchet she had picked up sat at her side, almost blankly she looked down at the brand new gleaming edge. Lucky for Alaster she did, for in its shiny face she caught a glimpse of something less than human moving nearby.

Bloody horrid creatures! It’s just wrong to fall to one of those. A wound from a weapon, starving to death, hell even a belly full of pills is better… anything is better than being eaten by these things…

Her blood soaked hand reached over and grabbed the handle of the hatchet, quickly rising up to her feet (another one of those neat tricks you learn while taking off your clothes), she moved fluidly, swinging the weapon in an arc until it buried its head in the decaying back of the creature with a squishy thud.

Just like the thing she had whacked with the crowbar earlier she barely thought while she did it. As the creature fell to the ground she stared at it, then let her eyes tick up to Alaster a moment. She gave him a quick look that could almost be a smile, but wasn’t quiet there.

Near the front of the store there was more commotion, shots firing, screams peeling across the linoleum. She, however was busy bending down to pull the hatchet out of the mound of flesh laying on the floor to give them much more thought or attention.

Finally a deafening round sounded off followed by a more surreal silence. The silence drew her attention. The front of the store was truly a scene from one of those Triple B’s. Gore splattered the floor, sometimes in heaps large enough to be one of those creatures, or one of those she had been trapped in the basement of O’Brians with. She imagined, rightfully, that she was starting to look like them too. Blood and sweat smeared over flesh as badges of their pain and effort.

One of the piles began to move, and she realized with a bit of horror that it was Murph, crawling off the floor and to his knees to spit up whatever was left in his stomach. The others were gathering around another heap of flesh, that seemed to be wearing the clothes Emily had been earlier, she was down, but moving some.

Mother ******. I don’t have the training to deal with the wound I just clogged up with pads… not really. We need her. Dear Lord what if she’s been bitten… what if we have to kill her like we should have Jake?

“Report,” she heard Murph ask in a hoarse voice and noticed that he was standing up now, “how’re we doin’?”

God… what if he’s been bit?

Her mind flashed an image of the bottles in her bag.

How are we doing? ******. That’s how we are doing. And not in a good way…

She looked over at Mac still unconscious on the ground. Next to him several items that had been in her bag were spilled across the floor, a few covered in his blood. She reached down and picked up one of the bottles of water and stepped closer to Murph.

In a shaky voice she tried to answer him, “I got… Mac bandaged up… its only temporary though, he’ll need further care,” her eyes went to Emily nervously then back to Murph, “he’s unconscious.”

When he reached for her she passed the bottle of water to him, letting their fingers brush for a moment.

“Sexy move there Tom…” she whispered to him and forced a smile to go with it.

“Yeah,” Alaster answered before Murph found the proper use for his own breathe and replied for himself, “He's fine. Miss trooper over here bashed that zombies brains in, no problem. Murph has a nice thank you in store for her.”

“For you, too, kid,” Murph muttered, drawing up to the group at Amber’s side, “You two definitely saved my a**… Thanks.”

“I want to know who saved us from out there. That man has style whoever it is.”

“That man has Jesus and a bazooka is what that man has,” Murph smirked, catching sight of Reverend Artillery’s form wading across Treasure Island’s parking lot.

“I can’t say I ever had much use for Jesus or a bazooka, but right now I might be willing to reconsider my feelings on both subjects…” Amber muttered then watched as the man approached and called out to them.

”My children, God truly lays a magnificent gift before me in this time of need. He has told me of your struggle, and I am here to ease your burden. If you would have me enter, I would very much like to make your acquaintances.”

“Eloquent speaker at least…” Then taking up the role the group’s PR consultant she rose her voice. “So long as you promise you won’t eat us you’re welcome to enter. Otherwise we’ll have to smash you into a bloody pulp before you get your dinner.”

And I’ll take the first swing… I will die out here… but not like that… not like that…


Posted on 2010-09-12 at 20:46:47.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Well...


I figured the gauze she had was probably not sufficient enough.

And yeah... I had just read Gerald's Game. She uses pads in the book, and that was the reason I had Amber pick them up.

Glad I got to use them so quickly. They are super absorbent.

I'm actually debating if Amber would be willing to 'share' some of her 'candy' with him...

If the zombies don't kill him she just might.



M.


Posted on 2010-09-10 at 15:02:05.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Ohhh...


And sorry Mac, I know you don't have the doc with the best intentions... nothing personal though.

We've all been watching Amber degrade into her current fatalistic state for awhile now.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-10 at 14:35:32.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago
Subject: Bet you've never worn one of those before...


Amber had stood up in order to head out of the hardware store when the others were ready. In her head the thoughts of small children in horror films kept flashing through her mind. Around her she knew that things were happening, people moving and speaking, but she had lost her ability to currently focus on it too much. Standing while she considered the possibility of her son’s death was enough for her to worry about right then.

It was not until the curses ran out through the air that she even tried to consider any of the people she was traveling with. Reality dug into her like a shard of glass with the curses. She had turned toward them just in time to witness Jake burying an axe into Mac’s chest.

That feeling of being in a fish tank returned just as the soft fleshy thud of the impact hit her ears, and she was grateful for it this time. Somehow the slow swimmy feeling where noise was filtered out was comforting. The sounds of breaking glass, distant inhuman screams, familiar human commands, and finally gunshots came to her but from another dimension.

We should have killed him… we should have killed him. We are in a Triple B, and I don’t know who the hero is. Sometimes there wasn’t one… sometimes the point was simply to kill all the characters off gruesomely… we should have killed him, but it won’t matter. We’ll all die…

But Mac, it seemed, was not dead, even after the violent hit from the axe. He had gotten up, kind of, and was making his way to the back of the hardware store, a trail of hot sticky blood following him as he went.

The gun Jake had been carrying was on the ground now, hadn’t Emily wanted a gun? Mac was bleeding, he needed help, he wouldn’t be able to stop that bleeding alone.

Terrible luck really… that axe coming out… it was holding his arteries closed. Arteries? Or veins? Capillaries? No capillaries were the little ones, where oxygen and nutrients were passed from the blood to the cells, bathing us in life… they were important though… and they could bleed…

She stood frozen there where Tom had left her momentarily considering an anatomy class she had taken in college.

Then again… maybe he was lucky. He hadn’t been bitten, just wounded. Perhaps the merciful thing was to simply let him crawl into the back, into the shadows and disappear.

What if he doesn’t want to die?

Who wouldn’t want to die in this?

If this was what constituted as life now was there really that much of a difference anyway?

What else do you have to do until you die though?


Almost blankly she turned her vision from the trail of blood to the front of the store. There were more of those creatures coming, the others were working on trying to kill them off with gun power. If she waited here they would be upon her, they would eat her and she’d end up like Jake. If she was going to go she preferred to go like Mac, from a weapon, or a pill, not from those teeth. So with nothing better to do she followed Mac back, moving through the wet atmosphere slowly but deliberately.

When she reached the point where he had stopped moving she dropped heavily to her knees and began to move almost mechanically. Opening her bag, spilling a few items across the floor as she did. Blood loss was her first concern.

A plastic bag with little pink flowers on it got her attention first. She ripped it open, it nearly exploded in a pile of smaller packages each wrapped in a soft cotton wrapper again covered with flowers. Two of these were opened up quickly and she pressed the absorbent sides of the feminine pad to the gash. Holding them down with one hand she searched for the medical tape she had grabbed. The effort was no doubt clumsy, but she hoped it would help slow the bleeding.

However, even as she worked her eyes were slightly glazed over and there was no frantic urgency in her.

I’ll do my best… but if he doesn’t make it he’s probably better off than the rest of us…

((okay… she’s kind of trying to stop the bleeding as described above. I leave her position to the fray at the front of the store up to the GM, she would have likely found the best position around Mac instead of trying to take things like her own defense into much consideration))


Posted on 2010-09-10 at 14:32:31.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: ;)


I mentioned I was a Borden enthusiast right? I kind of understand hatchet/axe wounds... but they can vary depending on the length of the axe head and how they hit so I just wanted to verify before I worked up a 'treatment plan'

Think I have something in mind though.

And I'll give King the credit he deserves for helping me pick out the correct items back at the drug store

Thanks Boss!! Post in the works btw.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-10 at 14:05:43.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Game Question


About how long is the gash on Mac? Just trying to figure out what the appropriate medical supplies to use out of Amber's bag when/if she ever makes it to him.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-10 at 13:48:40.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Ohhh! Ahh!


Shiney!

I almost cried again it was so pretty... I think I'm a little emotionally unbalanced today.

But... so excited to have you with us Grugg, that was just beautiful. Teddy will be an interesting addition to our little group that's for certian.

Very lovely work with the Bible quotes too.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-09 at 20:03:05.

Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: Wow


that was one really long win... I'm impressed.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-09 at 18:08:19.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Oh my!!




Posted on 2010-09-09 at 17:43:48.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: You totally should!


It's one of my favorite board games.

Our favorite card is the 'Last Night on Earth' card... the zombies can play it on the humans. We've only managed to use it once... you have to have a male and female character sharing the same space (the preist is exempt ), and when played they loose their turn. It's amusing.

Here it is

But you can of course find it any any 'geeky' store that sells games. Has a few expansions that are good too.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-09 at 15:55:20.

Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: LOL


Ohhh... btw... has anyone else played the 'Last Night on Earth' board game?

If not I'd highly recommend it to any zombie fanatic.

I always play the 'I'm cute card' in order to play the zombies. There is nothing more fun than sitting around plotting how to eat your friends brains.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-09 at 15:38:55.

Topic: Loaded Dice #56: Of Bravado and Stupidity...
Subject: Yummm...


Can I get that with a side of mustard please?



M.


Posted on 2010-09-09 at 14:13:07.

Topic: Loaded Dice #56: Of Bravado and Stupidity...
Subject: I'm first!


Whoo!

You got my vote.

This actually reminds me of the 4e game my husband is running right now. I'm a cleric and I've focused all my powers on healing to keep the party alive. The last few nights we've been fighting in a dungeon and I've had two fellow players dissapear down hallways (opposite hallways even), out of range and even sight of the cleric.

It's amazing no one has actually died yet.

I keep yelling at them 'Don't go down there! Not until I have a chance to follow, and stop going opposite directions, there is only one of me! I can't follow you both!!'

But they won't listen.

M.


Posted on 2010-09-09 at 14:04:21.

 


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