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Topic: Schizophrenia
Subject: Ooooh! That smartededed!
Sorry, Lyra...
Guess I'll go shut up and color, now... 
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 20:06:01.
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Topic: Just joined
Subject: Jeez! I'm gonna need to rehydrate!!!
All this facelickin's dryin' a feller out!!!
Welcome, Broton!
Holler if we can help you find anything.
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 16:53:08.
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Topic: im new
Subject: It doesn't just look cool...
...it is cool!
Opinions vary on this, though:
Welcome aboard, Diamond...
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 16:51:38.
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Topic: Schizophrenia
Subject: I know what might lick you....
...me!!!
Welcome to the Inn, Necro...
I used to be schizophrenic, too, but we're okay, now!
Poor attempt at humor hereby retracted... or should that be re-smackeded?
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 16:50:13.
Edited on 2010-09-02 at 20:38:28 by Eol Fefalas
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Topic: LD Filler: The New Adventure
Subject: LOL
I couldn't help but think of Alacrity and the preponderance of "We're all gonna die" comments that he gets any time he updates a game he's running...
Great stuff as always!
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 16:37:00.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago
Subject: Part the first...
“Murphy… Tommy…Tom Murphy…”
Smooth, Sarge. Real smooth. Shoulda gone into communications instead of twistin’ wrenches, huh?
The man at the end of the aisle looked at him in puzzlement… much the way Murph was now looking back at him… Guy looks awful clean… not like he’s been just runnin’ and hidin’ for the last ten days… wonder where he’s been?… still trying to get his mind around the surprise at having found another survivor and figure out a way to put his words together in a more comprehensible fashion. The words came together in his mind okay but, after that frenetic and bumbling intro, he didn’t trust his tongue not to fumble them. He was aware of Mac standing nearby – caught the skip-tracer out of the corner of his eye, first aiming at the new guy and, then, lowering the .357 when the new guy turned out to be just that and nothing more… He felt Emily and Jake and Alaster behind him… He glimpsed Amber off to his right… Murph was tactically aware enough… maybe that’s why any social graces were difficult to grasp just now… Thankfully, Amber interceded…
“Tom’s right… I think you scared us as much as we scared you. We just… needed some medicine and supplies.”
Murph found it kind of weird, at first, that the guy didn’t so much as glance in Amber’s direction when his mouth opened to reply…
"I'm uh... N…I am Steve Kramer, No relation to the angry guy.”
…but the way he stammered out those first few words eased that back a notch. Just as freaked to see us as we are to see him, Murph told himself, And I guess I’d have a hard time looking at anything else but the guns if I was on his side of the show, too…
“So,” Steve Kramer squeaked nervously after a second. “come here often?”
Yup… And I’d probably have said something corny like that, too… Murph allowed himself a chuckle, then, too, although it didn’t make it past his lips until Amber chimed in with her reply…
“Only when the toilet paper is on sale… any of it left back there?”
…When Murph heard Amber’s voice the way he had grown accustomed to hearing it on a normal night at Patty’s – disarming, playful, sweet and smoky – that repressed chuckle snorted past his lips and nostrils and he could help but turn his gaze in Amber’s direction and smile at her…
There’s public relations in action, right there, baby,
…The smile on Murph’s face was followed by a quick wink at Amber before he let the woman do what she did best and charm this Steve guy into easy banter. He kept his ear on the conversation, of course, but turned his eyes to surveying the little drug store and the rest of the group from O’Brian’s basement. At the moment, most all of them were still blinking in Steve’s direction but those surprise-locked gazes were quickly being broken as Amber took the lead in dealing with the somewhat skittish man. The store looked to have a bit more than just the meds they’d hoped to find, too… some extra (and clean) clothing, bottles of water, basic stuff you’d find in most any small pharmacy like this…
“Hey, Murph,” Mac said, “I think everyone should grab a water or sports drink now. All that alcohol, and nine days of limited water, everyone needs to rehydrate, especially Emily. If she’s got pneumonia, she is definitely dehydrated cause the fluid in her lungs came from the rest of her body, plus she most likely has a fever too…”
“Yeah,” Murph nodded, offering a more relaxed grin to the bounty hunter, now, “I was thinking along those same lines. Good idea… might wanna make sure we grab enough for the road, too… not sure how long it’ll be until we can get hunkered down…
You heard the man, folks,” he said to the others as he moved towards where the Cubs backpacks and t-shirts were displayed, “grab a ruck and load up with only what you need and can carry.”
Murph’s path to where the packs were hanging took him past Emily and, when he got to her, he smiled reassuringly and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, starting to guide her over to the Cubbies display. “How ya holdin’ up, kiddo,” he asked…
((Stopping here for the time being… I think the Murph/Emily collab will work in nicely right about here… more to come once Ali and I have coordinated…. Murph’s definitely got more thoughts on the pieces of conversation he’s picking up between Amber and Steve… ))
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 16:26:58.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Och!
I dinnae know wha' th' lass es bandyin' on aboot, sair... I cannae, fer th' luv o' heather an' haggis, e'er imagine why we'd be tryin' tae rally ye inta a Trek mode at all... Now... ef ye'll excuse me, sair, I be needed doon en TAC! Et appears there be a coupla sheepshaggers en me office tha' are due a boot leather s'possitory!
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 15:52:52.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Me too...
... Murph's got a short list for Save Rite, himself... he's more interested in what's available at the hardware store... and what kind of decent grub might be had from the Treasure Island (but still not sure he's willing to risk running everyone through that place... it kinda creeps him out)...
Anyhoo... Murph post and a collab with Emily is in the works... should have some postable stuff before too long. 
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 14:44:06.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Nope... sorry if it sounded that way...
T, I wasn't necessarily aiming my comments at anyone in particular and at all of us in general (including myself)... Olan and I were discussing some of the moments in the game and between that and some of the chatter on the QA, I just picked up on a few things that made me start thinking... which turned to "thinking out loud" a la that post... and just trying to get it out there so you guys could all see "where my head is at" both IC and OOC, I guess... and to keep our group as a whole kind of "in frame" (not sure that's the term I'm looking for) so we didn't make the GM go "Huh?" too awful much...
Anyway, I totally understand the characters we've all got working (well, as much as I can know, anyway) and how their actions and lives pre-zombieville would influence and affect what happens, now, and I'm not challenging anyone on anything that's happened so far... Just saying that the sequencing and such might have baffled us into those so called "surreal" moments...
Like I said, wasn't my intention to point fingers, bash anybody's playing, actions, characters, or anything like that... Just kind of clearing my own brain, more than anything, and sharing thoughts I figured might be useful or whatever... Sorry if it seemed otherwise.
Now: on to other stuff...
Great collab Meri and UncleDog... Ali, I'll collab with you whenever you like.  I'l collab with anyone, for that matter... Just holler at me, you know?
Posted on 2010-09-02 at 00:07:36.
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Topic: most silly superpowers
Subject: I can...
...lay on the floor without holding on or falling off...
...does that count?
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 18:18:12.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: ...
Okay, some “behind the curtain” stuff from me, here, by way of trying to put some “perspective” on things… Before I get started, though, I just want to point out that nothing that I put in the Q&A or nothing I tack on to the game thread is ever intended to come off as Eol trying to monopolize the game or bash anyone else’s RPing or anything of that nature, I promise… I’ve loved this game from the outset and I’ve enjoyed the hell out of everything about it so far, I just kind of thought that it might help if I tossed out a few things in regards to events so far in hopes of mitigating any ‘misunderstandings’ IC or OOC that may be threatening to (or have already) rear their ugly heads:
Murph: At the start of all this, Murph was just a guy who decided that 9 days in the basement was enough… he couldn’t stand to watch Emily get any sicker, couldn’t look at Amber worrying over her phone, didn’t want to sit there and watch Alaster drink himself to death, etc… Help obviously wasn’t coming and, given the type of guy he is, figured that anything would be preferable to dying of starvation down in O’Brian’s cellar. So, when, he tore down that barricade and stepped out into the ‘apocalypse’ there wasn’t a single thought in his mind about being any sort of ‘leader’ to the rest of the folks in the basement… he just wanted out and, if he could, once he got out, find some help to bring back to the others. Thing is, the rest followed him out of the basement, gave him more to worry about than just himself, and that kicked his “Sgt Murphy” thing into gear… and, following that, it seemed that everyone else kind of started looking to Murph for the “now what?” moments. Given that, he kind of went; “Okay… I guess if I’ve gotta do this, I’ve gotta do this… let’s do it right”… so you get Murph in his “take charge” mode, etc….
With that in mind (and taking into consideration the ‘freak outs’ between the beginning of the game and now) let’s flash forward to where we are with the entry into the Save Rite, the “pissing match,” and Murph’s reaction to it… The way I saw it, everything with Mac’s enter strategy was cool with Murph (it went right along with what I imagined would have been laid out in Murph’s ‘this is how we move, this is how we defend, this is how we blahblahblah’ army-man demo back at the police cruiser) up until the point where Mac gave Alaster the ‘go ahead’ to go in first… had Mac looked at Alaster and said; “Get yer hoopty-walla-cha-cha back there and cover those people… we’ve got a plan, let’s stick to it… whatever” I don’t think the “surrealism” issue would have popped up…
Now, that said, I can completely understand where the thoughts/ideas came from… it’s the end of the world… we’re all freaked the frig out and we’re all hitting those primal instinct moments and everybody’s doing what they can to hold it together and show that they’re useful to our little band of hapless survivors buuuut… given what had already happened up to this point, I can see where Olan got the “surreal feel” from. We, the party, should have gotten any of that “I go first… No! I go first!” toe-stepping stuff out of the way a block or two back, probably…. Soooo, again, not trying to monopolize or be the big man on campus or anything of that nature, at all, but here’s Murph thinking that the survivors have ‘nominated him leader’ (even if it wasn’t what he wanted to happen) and doing pretty good about it all the way up until we have to make entry into the Save Rite… then it came unhinged when a case of the “I got giant cajones” broke out…
Which, I guess, would segue into…
Murph and Amber: Yep… there apparently is a little something going on there… as things have developed it’s been revealed that Murph and Amber knew each other before any of this happened and, even though it was only a ‘waitress/regular customer’ type thing (at least on the surface) before the ‘end of the world’ hit, both of them had entertained thoughts of something else (and are, perhaps now regretting not acting on when they had the chance)… Even if they hadn’t, though, Murph would still likely prioritize Amber first due to that existing relationship giving him an ‘anchor’ in reality, so to speak… Nothing he’s done so far should be interpreted as trying to be the “Alpha Male” and win the girl… Just some modicum of familiarity that he’s clinging to… So, is there a romance brewing between the mechanic and the barmaid? More than likely, yeah… assuming they live… But Emily being sick and needing medicine before he feels the group can make a good “run for it” or a “decent stand” at the very least, and Amber ‘needing’ to get to her son are the two BIG things driving Murph through all of this…
Goldingit! I think I rambled my way into a loop there somewhere… derailed my train of thought or something… ACK!!!
Anyway… bottom line, Murph’s doing what he’s doing not because he wants to be the boss or even wants to be a bad ass… what he really wants is to wake up and find out this has all been a bad dream, but, as long as the nightmare goes on, he figures it’s his ‘duty’ to get Amber and Emily taken care of even above the others… he’d like to help the guys, too, but when it comes right down to it, he figures the guys’ll do all right on their own if it comes right down to it and, most likely, if he ever feels that the “sausage fest” is getting too far out of hand, he’d probably be inclined to ‘ditch’… taking Amber (and Emily if she didn’t out and out refuse) with him just to insure that it wasn’t bravado/machismo/whatever you want to call it that got them all killed… Safety in numbers, you know, unless those numbers keep tripping over one another.
Okay… Eol shutting up… sorry for expounding out loud and, again, no offense or anything like that intended… just hoping for a somewhat more stable ‘group dynamic’ and such… You don’t want Murph leading? Let him know… he won’t cry about it. You do want Murph leading? Go with “the plan” and keep the primal instincts at bay unless we’re getting mauled by zombies…
Who knows? One of our two new additions (or one of our already existing group) may just nudge Murph out of that ‘de facto leadership role’ anyway… Who’s to say Murph doesn’t buy the farm in the back of the Save Rite? 
Okay… seriously… I’m zippin’ it, now… [/runoffatthemouth]
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 17:26:34.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: *grins*
I'm working... I'm just multi-tasking work with Meri-stalking...
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 14:55:58.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Dig the new name...
...in the "Players for this game" line in the game thread!
Welcome to the madness, Gruggles!
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 12:36:12.
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Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: LOL
I thrive on the confuzzlness!
+1 for the upsidesy-downsy post, though... Haven't read a post while hanging from my ankles in a while.
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 11:34:28.
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Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: Reason is overrated....
...Besides, Grugg ate all the seasonings... on toast points... with jam....
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 11:25:56.
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Topic: Last one to post wins - Part II
Subject: I agree to disagree...
...and to always like pie...
...and to welcome Mats... *facelick*
Slobber-squeegee post!
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 11:23:04.
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Topic: Anyone for a freeform Star Trek game?
Subject: Ooooooh Duncy!!!
I am a bit loaded down with games and such at the moment... but... for you, O' long absent one, I suppose I can muster a Mac appearance. Might not be able to play a MAJOR part, but I'd certainly be honored to drag the ol' haggis outta mothballs for ya.
And, should I manage to stuff some more 'freetime' into the bank somehow, I reckon I could even be coerced into going beyond 'bit part' for ya at some point...
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 00:45:56.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago
Subject: What are you doin’, Murph?
Murph was poised and ready to make entry into the Save Rite – figuring that the quick demo he’d given everybody with Joshua’s army men earlier might have stuck a little better and assuming that the others would have automatically known that his plan would have been to go through those doors the way he had been trained to – and he was just a little baffled at the debate that erupted instead of everybody falling in to where he imagined they would…
“I'll check it…”
Murph, a little stupefied by the fact that the kid wasn’t covering the rear of the party, actually blinked when Alaster appeared in the periphery of his vision.
“… If you remember what I did to one of those things after it attacked us.”
What?!? You bludgeon an unconscious thing to a bloody pulp and all the sudden you’re Rambo?!?!
Murph’s mouth might have fallen open, just then… he wasn’t sure, though, as there was a strange numbness spreading over his face and seeping into his brain… and when he blinked again he found himself looking at Mac and Mac looking back at him.
At first, the bounty hunter rolled his eyes and Murph thought that was going to be the end of it – they’d just refresh Alaster on the plan and, bing-bang-boom, in they’d go – but, then Mac turned to look Alaster in the eye and, with a certain degree of exasperation, said; "Well I'm not going to wrestle you down for the privilege, dude, so if you wanna check the door, get to checkin'.” Mac then looked at Emily and offered the girl a smirk and a shrug.
What the…?!?!
There was no disguising the bewilderment on the mechanic’s face, then… it was more than obvious in his expression when he actually rose out of the semi-crouch he had settled into upon reaching the door, let the barrel of the SLP droop towards the ground, and blinked dumbly from Alaster to Mac and back… then to Jake, Amber and Emily where they now stood, unprotected, behind them… Jesus, Murph! This has got to be a bad dream, doesn’t it? I mean… this can’t be real, can it?
They’re just tryin’ to keep their fire up, he tried to justify it for them as his flabbergasted gaze tore away from Jake, Emily, and Amber, then returned to Alaster and Mac, Bein’ courageous so they can keep goin’…
Courage gets people killed, Sarge!
They don’t know… They’re just… They don’t…
If a mind has a crankshaft, Murph’s stopped turning just then and he couldn’t even continue arguing with himself. Instead of trying to figure out how to snap this situation back into shape, he just shook his head, and stepped back, gesturing at the door as if to say, ‘All right… Knock yourselves out… But if ya get killed, don’t come cryin’ to me…’
He turned then, the barrel of the SLP coming back up to a serviceable posture as his eyes swept the chaos of the Chicago streets behind them. Once he’d verified that nothing had crept up on them, Murph looked seriously at Jake, Emily, and Amber; “You guys just stay put a minute, all right…” It was more statement than question and the grimace that twisted his lips into a grimace that was a strange comingling of frustration, worry, and anger left no doubt as to what Murph was expecting to happen when Alaster went through that door… The worst… In the time it took for him to blink a silent apology to Amber and hear the sound of his own lungs drawing in an expectant breath, the door shoved open and Alaster went through with the Browning leading the way…
Our Father, who art in Heaven…
…Then Mac went it, hand cannon at the ready…
Hallowed be thy name…
Are you serious?...
Murph’s breath shushed across his lips when nothing happened… no shots… no screams… just the sound of footsteps as the two men made a quick sweep of the immediate entry and then signaled ‘all clear’. The look of relief on his features likely wasn’t missed by Amber, as close as she was standing, and probably didn’t go unnoticed by Emily and Jake, either. “All right,” he nodded, flicking a glance towards where Alaster and Mac stood just inside the pharmacy’s doors, then giving a quick sweep of the street before fixing on the others again, “we’re good… Let’s go…” He stepped aside, then, gesturing towards the Save Rite’s entry way and waiting for them all to step passed him before following them in.
The first thing Murph did when he stepped into the pharmacy was stop to make sure the doors were closed behind him and secure the locks that were there. The second thing he did was turn to look at Alaster and Mac again, set to ask them where the hell they’d been at the briefing. He quickly realized that that should have been the third thing, and chastised himself for neglecting what should have come second when he caught movement out of the corner of his eye and realized that the Save Rite hadn’t been altogether empty… The ‘what the f***’ that had been prepped to spill from his mouth turned into; “What the… Hey! Whoa!!!” as Murph reacted and swung the shotgun towards where that flash of movement had been.
Beyond the SLPs barrel, Murph perceived a man shape as it stepped from behind one of the dividers in the back. A quick look revealed that, while neither tall nor imposing, the figure’s build suggested athleticism… buzzed auburn hair… and blue eyes that shifted nervously back and forth….
Eyes that have a soul in them, Murph realized, when the man flinched and looked as if he would take off running, Not one of them, then… Somebody else…
Tommy Murphy lowered the shotgun, then, held up his left hand in a gesture of ‘no harm intended,’ and offered a tentative smile as he eased his posture and said; “Wait… wait… it’s all right, man. We ain’t here to hurt ya… it’s all right…”
God, but that freaked me out!!!
He did his best to assume an unthreatening posture and hoped his smile appeared as genuinely relieved to find even just one more survivor as it felt… “My name’s Murph,” he offered, still not advancing a step, “Murphy… Tommy…” He blinked and knew his smile was a little more genuine when a remembrance of Amber’s voice speaking his name… Tom… played in his mind… “Tom Murphy…”
((OOC:Okay, far enough I suppose… a few liberties and assumptions in the above… if there are any disagreements or whatever, lemme know. ))
Posted on 2010-09-01 at 00:41:44.
Edited on 2010-09-01 at 00:47:26 by Eol Fefalas
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Yay for updates!!!
First; welcome, at last, to the game Uncle Dog. Very intriguing post... A doggone good post, if I might say so... (Yeah, I heard the groans even before I typed that... I know... I know... )I've got Murph cued up and reacting already.
Second; my apologies if I've contributed to any surrealism... I'm trying to keep in Murph's head as best I can (doubt that he would have let the 'who goes in first' argument go on as long as it did and such, but... well, I'll address that in my next one, too...). Feel free to jab me if I start straying, though, okay.
aaaaaand...
Finally; I should have that post cranked out by later this evening... The way I'm seeing this, now, is that Murph and Amber will likely be the last in... Figure when the argument about who goes first broke out Murph probably just stepped back with a "you know what? Knock yourselves out" look on his face and kept Amber (and possibly Emily, too) from going in until the shuffle was done... Like I said... you'll see...
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 21:41:36.
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Topic: Hello, Hello
Subject: Ody wanted me to give you this!
Hiya, PartyScout! And welcome to our little corner of chaos! Always good to see (and lick) new faces... even better when those new faces are brought in by some of the older ones and thrown in front of the slobber-bus, don't ya know?
Aaaaanyhooo... like the speech goes; "Make yourself at home, poke around, post up, and have a good time. If you run into anything that totally weirds you out, call Olan or Meri or someone and they should be able to convince me to go back to my hole for a while...Elsewise, if you need anything, give any of us a shout (staff and Innmates alike) and we'll be happy to do what we can to help out.
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 19:41:54.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Also...
...re: Gay Mart... I don't think that that store and the old Gaylord's stores have any affiliation. The particular area of Chicago where we've started out is very close to one of the 'largest gay communities' in the country; "Boys-town" if I remember what I read correctly... *shrugs*... so, yeah... Gay Mart is probably seriously Gay Mart...
Hey! Where are the "fabulous" zombies, anyway???
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 13:28:22.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: *bows head*
Alas, poor computer... we knew him well, Horatio!
Sorry about that, Rog... but YAY for new computers, huh?
You've been patient with us... we can be patient with you, I'm sure.
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 11:33:57.
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Topic: Hey check out my song!
Subject: Yup...
...Good stuff, T. I knew you said you played guitar but you didn't say you played guitar! 
There's kind of a Neil Youngish feel to this tune, I think... Something along those lines, anyway... I liked it... be nice to hear it done in a professional studio, mixed and mastered and all that, you know?
Nifty to see what talents our Innmates have outside of the Inn.
And Niceville, huh? If I ever get sent to Eglin again, I'll be sure to stop by and lick your face... er... I mean... introduce myself in person... Been a couple years since they sent me that way, so I'm probably due... Stock up on towels.
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 11:31:37.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: You're a block behind, T...
Gay Mart is back on Halsted where we mashed the 4 zombies... Our party is currently on Cornelia ad Broadway... There is a Save Rite, an Ace True Value, and a Treasure Island Foods there IRL.
O'Brian's location is fictional, yes (and Olan may have fictionalized other spots as well), but the spot our party is, now, is all there as is in the really real world.
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 10:56:40.
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Topic: Zombies in Chicago Q&A
Subject: Going in....
I was actually thinking along the lines of Tiamat, here... Murph to one side of the door, Mac to the other, and Alaster playing "street sweeper" covering the party's rear...
Doors open... Murph goes in with Mac covering... Mac goes in with Murph covering... Emily, Jake, and Amber follow up... Alaster backs in last... door gets secured and then we scavenge.
Up to you guys, though...
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 02:46:44.
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