2013 (Main Thread)
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				Title: <strong>2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>cassia</strong> on <strong>22-07-2010, 19:01:53</strong>
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				Ten acres of land lay silent under a thin layer of snow; the day earlier it was a cover three inches deep, but with the new day's temperature rising to forty degrees, it had begun to melt. A few patches of straw and dirt had emerged under the white blanket, and elsewhere it was thinning and turning slowly to slush. The ground was still frozen, except for small areas going to cold mud where exposed to hours of direct sunlight.<br><br>The farmhouse, twenty miles from the nearest large Missouri town, had not been inhabited for at least a year; it had been owned by an elderly couple, but when the husband died, his widow left to live with her daughter and put the house and land up for sale. No one had purchased it, and the weathered, faded For Sale sign was still in the front yard, a now disconnected phone number barely legible. The livestock were gone, though occasionally a horse's neighing or the moo of a cow could be heard, faintly, from another property along the dirt road.<br><br>The kitchen was dim, lit now only by the sunlight; candles and a battery-powered lamp were available for emergency use after dark. Alison had three bags full of cans and boxed food, some that she had brought with her from the dormitory and some she had picked up from a corner store on the way over. Looting had smashed in the store's windows and there wasn't much left, but she was able to fill two grocery bags with beans and canned meat that hadn't yet been picked over, and a few bags of chips that would keep for at least a couple of months.<br><br>I hope I'm not the only one awake, she thought. She'd seen two other cars parked in the driveway, so someone else had to be here, but she didn't hear anyone. The silence inside the house and its accompanying loneliness was crushing, and she wanted someone to talk to - anyone. And anything at all to do. There were sights burned into her mind that she didn't want to think about, and keeping busy at something else was the only way to keep them away. She was still waiting to wake up from the surreal nightmare, but no nightmare she'd ever had felt like it lasted for weeks. Maybe the pandemic wasn't real, and only affected one or two states. And the Army cut off communications and they'll be here soon. The complete lack of aircraft in the sky made that an unlikely scenario, but Alison was going to hold on to anything she could for as long as possible.
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				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>22-07-2010, 19:27:30</strong>
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				Miles away, in the center of a small town, Kathy sat outside, on the cement stairs of the College's main entrance. Behind her, the broken glass doors barely hanged on their hinges anymore, and the entrance hallway was a complete mess, with trash everywhere, graffiti on the walls, broken down lockers, and CDC notices about a possible epidemic situation laying on the ground. Outside, the front yard was empty, and the street, usually busy at this time of day, was deserted. In fact, the only noise Kathy could hear was a few birds high in a tree.<br><br>The girl sighed. Dressed in her usual clothes, wearing her shorts, small leather boots, and a top jacket that showed an indecent amount of cleavage, which her parents made sure to reprimand her about every single day. But now, they were gone. Everyone was gone. First, a few people had gone missing from class, staying home sick. Then, the classes became more and more empty, and lines could be seen in front of hospitals, police stations and any authority building. Soon however, it was chaos, as people panicked. Kathy had watched it all, trying to stay as optimistic as she could, but in the end, she remained alone.<br><br>She brought a chocolate bar up to her mouth and ate a bite. The cafeteria and the vending machines had been her main food source lately. She thought about the others, and wondered how many had survived like her. At least, she hoped others did survive. Otherwise, this would be a very lonely life.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Snark</strong> on <strong>22-07-2010, 20:21:15</strong>
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				Samuel Thompson stood in the bathroom, looking in the mirror, unaware that anyone else had arrived. He had found this place becuase someone had written about it in big letters on a bathroom stall in a mens room of a nearby malll he'd been trying to live at just a couple days ago. What he'd found was... well at least it was in nice enough condition. He was planning on looking for whoever that first car belonged to, but he'd only been here a little over an hour, and he hadn't stumbled over whoever it was yet for whatever reason.<br><br>So there he was, looking at his reflection. It was the first laugh he'd got in a long time. He'd looked like shit! With all the dirt and grim of somebody whose been living to try to survive. He crossed his fingers when he turned the faucet, having discovered that running water only worked some places and not others. Luckily it worked. He was able to use the sink to at least wash his sink and hair. He considered trying out the shower, but he was still trying to find whoever else it was still here.<br><br>He'd assumed he found the owner of that first car when he wandered into the kitchen and saw a young woman. He smiled his friendly smile, that seemed so out of place in this awful world. "Hey there." Sam said, in a happy sort of tone, not sure what else there was to say. He'd known there were other survivors, becuase there had to be, but he was trying not to act too excited.<br><br>... Even if the thought of overpopulation creeped into his mind from time to time.
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				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 03:50:11</strong>
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				The silence of the deserted college campus was steadily being broken by an unmistakable sound... the roar of an engine. A car was driving somewhere in the city, and coming closer, the noise growing louder by the second. It turned the corner and was revealed - an ambulance, with the white and blue colors of the local hospital on its side, its sirens off and silent. It drove up closer to the entrance, screeching to a halt as it saw the woman sitting on the steps. The engine shut out and the door opened, the driver walking the long way around, past the bulk of the vehicle.<br><br>He was a large black man, young and strong, his hair cropped short. He looked attractive, but half of his face had been wrapped in gauze, with blood soaking through. He was wearing sneakers and surgical scrubs, with a dark leather jacket over top and a construction worker's tool belt around his waist. He was carrying a baseball bat in one hand, the wood dragging along the pavement as he walked.<br><br>The man stared at the girl for a long time, as if he was suddenly face-to-face with a unicorn or a mastodon, something he had thought he would never see in a realistic universe. And then he shrugged.<br><br>"Looks like misery loves company after all," he said. "You hurt, girl?"
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				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 04:08:04</strong>
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				Kathy took another bite of her chocolate bar when she heard an unusual noise. She looked up, and soon spotted the source of that noise. A vehicle, still working, with someone in it! She stood up, and watched the ambulance come around the front of the school in amazement. Finally someone else alive and well, it had been weeks since she had seen one.<br><br>As the man came close, she looked at him suspiciously. She didn't like to see him drag that baseball bat, but he seemed uninfected, and he talked to her. She looked him up and down, and slowly nodded her head. "I'm... I'm Kathy." she said simply. She couldn't believe it was really another human being, alive and well. Finally she would have company. She only hoped that he was not some type of sicko or criminal. She came up to him, still eyeing the baseball bat.<br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 04:26:08</strong>
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				"Kathy, huh?" said the man, eying her up. She didn't look like she was gonna cause any trouble, but looks can be deceiving with the collapse of all human society. Anyone and everyone was likely to be out for themselves, willing to kill for some scraps of food or a bottle of clean water. He watched her eyes, seeing them following the bat in his hand. She was scared. "Don't you worry about this, I'm not looking to start any trouble, this is just in case I need to finish some."<br><br>He shifted the bat to his other hand and reached out to shake hers.<br><br>"You can call me Al," he said, stepping forward, trying to bring a smile to his face. It didn't really work. "You a student here? I was... Pre-Med. I got drafted to a hospital when all this shit first went down, but now... yeah. Heard about some survivors holed up in a farmhouse couple miles outside of town, came back to get my things... maybe some real food, a shower and some fresh clothes, a good solid night's sleep... didn't expect to find anybody else here."
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				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 04:34:49</strong>
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				Kathy seemed more relaxed. She was a strong minded girl and decided not to let his weapon intimidate her. She shook his hand. "I can't believe you're here. I haven't see anyone in weeks. I thought... I thought I might be the only one left alive." As he told her about the farm, she smiled. "Others would be alive too? Then maybe there's more out there! There could be many more who survived this!" She always tried to see the positive side of things, even though it was difficult in such a harsh situation.<br><br>She followed him back to the vehicle. "I've been pretty much living here ever since this crap happened. I emptied the cafeteria and now I'm left with chocolate bars and chips from the machines. If we're going to a farm maybe there's some fresh fruits and such!"<br>
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				Post by: <strong>Rachubka</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 04:42:00</strong>
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				Salvation. A new start.<br><br>That was what he called it. Moments before splattering his brains against the far wall. The sad thing about it all was his was not the only blood along it. This little family pharmacy had been run dry except for perhaps a few bottles of ibuprofen, polysporin, and some gauze bandages. That's all that Hayley took notice of, however, as any of the other aisles had a corpse lying still in it. The windows had long since been smashed into, the glass accompanying each and every one of the young girl's steps as she went to the back room to find out if there was anything else of use. All she found was a crazed man who had given up on this day to day life. Should she have been five, ten minutes later, she wouldn't have had to be witness to the sight.<br><br>Then again, had she been that much later, she wouldn't have known about this farm house. Grabbing everything in sight, or at least everything that was a fair distance away from the newest of corpses in this city, Hayley threw it all into her backpack an then jumped into her car. It wasn't her fault. She had to keep telling herself that. To see so many dead people and then to see one off himself right in front of her was something else. Not wanting to dwell in it too much, the teen sped down the road, toward the farm house, in her Mazda 3. <br><br><hr><br>Driving through the night was easier since the country as she knew it died around her. Closer to the cities there were some bodies lying around idle cars, but some other clever motorists weaved paths between or around these obstacles, making it easy for Hayley to do the same. Driving fast was still unadvisable, with the weather being what it was and a body laying on the road as common as a squirrell was a few years back. Humans were bigger, unfortunately, and tended to do terrible things to vehicles as the teen learned with her last couple of cars. <br><br>Over the next hill, Hayley could see what looked like the farm house in question. Closing the distance, it was clear that there were others in the buildings; the cars in front of the main house was evidence enough. Cutting the ignition, she stepped out of the car, left skater shoe first, and then the other. She wore tight, dark blue jeans, lest some maniac who was messed in the head wanted one last lay before he succumbed to what he thought was the flu, forcing her to slide this way and that (scrapped knees are the worst). It hasn't happened to her yet, but considering what she just saw almost half a day ago, she wasn't putting it passed anyone. A few layers of tank tops followed by a thin hoodie covered her body. The last little accent that Hayley bothered to keep were her aviator sunglasses. It made her feel cool, along with surviving.<br><br>Not wanting to be much of a prima donna, Hayley stepped into the house and walked around. She could hear a couple of voices and some shuffling toward what she thought was the kitchen. Making her way toward the voices, she came to the sight of a couple making small talk. "Didn't interrupt anything, did I?"
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				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 05:45:54</strong>
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				"Just crap food left, huh?" Al sighed, opening the door. The back of the ambulance was filled to the roof with boxes, plastic storage containers, jugs of water, gas cans, paper bags, first aid kits, just about anything he could find that would fit inside. Some of it was full, most of it was empty. "I suppose it's better than nothing. If there's gonna be people there, they need a lot of food, and we should bring as much as we can. And we're gonna need water, medical supplies and gas, too. Luxury items only if there's room, but if we get enough gas stored up we can come back out on more supply runs."<br><br>He reached in and started rummaging around for something.<br><br>"We should get started soon..." he said. "Right now, though, I need some food, about a week of showering and some fresh clothes. I've been wearing these damn scrubs for months. Ah, THERE we go!" he pulled out an open box full up of tin cans. "I got baked beans, chicken soup, dinty moore, all kinda stuff. It's not much, but it's probably better vending machine crap. Want some?" 
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				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 14:05:34</strong>
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				Kathy looked around the back of the vehicle. She was amazed that he had managed to get so much stuff in there. She had been surviving day to day, not really stockpiling anything, but he had obviously planned ahead. When he offered food she declined. "No thanks, I just ate." She got used to not eating a lot, and didn't think it was needed to change, since they would most likely need the food to survive longer.<br><br>Looking back to the school, she added "I explored pretty much the whole building. There isn't much left. The water isn't working, there's no electricity, and there's nothing really to salvage. Maybe some of the other buildings in town are better off, I don't know." In reality, she was eager to get out of this deserted place and meet more people. A farm would also look less deserted, even if there was not a lot of them there.<br>
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				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 18:39:06</strong>
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				Anne-Sophie ran out of luck...a few miles away, she had lost control of the car she used and had crashed in the ditch on side of the road. Luckily, she had not injured her self. A few bruise would appear here and there but nothing major. So she adjust her back pack and started to walk. <br><br>With her legendary luck...she saw no car. Again, why was she heading that way? She saw something written on a wall...and was tired to be alone. So she decided to walk...a few miles...pffff she had done more during her service...she was not a wimp...so she walked and look around..listened...she never new...<br><br>God she missed company...even if she was not a very talkative person, she loved hearing people talk. She missed her class...she missed her fiancé who died with all the others. She knew deep down inside...that she was not alone...She always smiled when thinking that.. The famous Budweiser beer add were the dog goes back to his planet and goes "Wazzzzzzzzzzzzap" and the US solider hears it over space and say "'Man we are not alone"<br><br>Now she felt like screaming it so she yelled at the top of her lung "Wazzzzzzzzzzzzap", Hopping someone would answer it. Slowly she walked...cursing for not finding a car. <br><br>She saw a small town near...and well since it was on her way...she might find more indication...she never came in this part of the country. 
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				Post by: <strong>cassia</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 18:46:28</strong>
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				Alison jumped when she heard another voice. She’d known that there were other people in the house, and a part of her had been looking forward to meeting them, but at the same time, she wasn't expecting anyone to come up out of seemingly nowhere. She didn't know what she had been expecting, exactly - after all, it wasn't as though there were many other ways for them to come across each other in such a small place. "Hello," she said hesitantly, and turned around to see the young man.<br><br>She didn’t know anyone there, or if she did, she didn’t know that they were there. And as far as she knew they were on their own to protect themselves. She had to hope that these strangers were trustworthy, because if they weren’t, there wasn’t anywhere to go for help. The newcomer didn’t seem threatening, though, and she let herself relax a little bit. “I’m Alison. Sophomore at the state university.”<br><br>She thought she heard a door open and her head turned towards the source of the sound. She couldn’t hear anything else at first, then a few footsteps, and another girl entered the kitchen. <em>There are at least three of us, then</em>, thought Alison. <em>That’s a start. And then there have to be more.</em> It was a very good sign; the more that arrived, the less the devastation, right? Rescue crews would have to be arriving as soon as they could. Still no sign of anyone other than the three of them, except the extra car in the front, but for all she knew that may have been left behind long ago.<br><br>"No, you're not interrupting. I just got here a few hours ago," Alison told her.
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				Post by: <strong>Snark</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 20:17:35</strong>
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				He saw that this woman he was speaking to seemed nervous, but why shouldn't she be at a time like this. He tried to provide a comforting sort of smile as he introduced himself. "Pleasure to meet you Alison. It's been way too long since I saw another living person." he says, taking a seat in the small kitchen, also hearing the dorr opening and turning. Two attractive women? Oh, he was getting too lucky now!<br><br>He gave a little wave to the new girl, still trying to seem friendly an non-threatening, knowing things were always going to be tense at times like this. "No, not at all. Welcome to civilization." he joked, looking through all the different cabinets of any cans, but he knew Alison had probably already had a look. Luckily he had a good amount of food in his pack already.<br><br>"Name's Sam. Pleasure to meet you." he repeated for Hayley now.
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				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 22:38:51</strong>
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				Al sighed, his shoulders visibly drooping, setting the box of food down.<br><br>"I suppose it was more optimistic than anything, really," he said, shutting the door and locking it. He had grabbed enough stuff from the hospital to survive for a while, and he figured that he had more than enough supplies to make it to the farmhouse. He was mostly coming there for personal reasons, the scavenging was just a bonus, really. "No sense hanging around here, is there? I just gotta get something from my dorm room..." he hefted his bat. "Maybe find a vending machine along the way. You can come with me or stay here... doesn't matter, really."
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				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>23-07-2010, 22:42:31</strong>
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				Kathy nodded then replied "I'll wait." Then, she went to the front of the vehicle, climbed on the hood, then jumped a surprising distance all the way to the top of the ambulance, landing on her feet. She was clearly very agile, more so than a typical girl, from all of her training to be a gym teacher. She sat down on the roof and waited for her new companion to get back, looking around from time to time, just in case she spotted something interesting.<br>
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				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>24-07-2010, 02:21:25</strong>
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				As Anne-Sophie walked in the city, She entering the city, she spotted a nice little pick up truck that would do just great...and luckily, the key were under the sun visor. She drove around a little bit..and tough the place was nice to she went around the local college... there were always some vending machine in the dorms sector. She could makes some food reserve...and from what she counted...she could store enough food to get to that place she was heading. <br><br>Things were getting better...a almost brand new truck, sure to find some food. The only thing she was missing was companionship. Even if she was a usual loner, someone to talk to...could be great. <br><br>She entered the lower lever dorm...making sure her pistol she had "borrowed" was ready. She got out her crowbar, ready to smash vending machine.&nbsp; It was food hunting time.
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				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>24-07-2010, 02:53:57</strong>
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				Inside the dorm was a tall black man with bloody gauze over one eye and half his face, squinting into the sudden light. He was walking out of the main hallway wearing jeans, a football jersey and a leather jacket, carrying a bulging plastic garbage bag over one shoulder, and the other hand held a baseball bat. He stared at her until his eyes adjusted, holding the bat up in front of him.<br><br>"...you're not Kathy," he said. "Who are you? Where'd you come from?"
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				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>26-07-2010, 14:03:35</strong>
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				Anne-Sophie froze when she saw the other human being...it has been weeks since she saw one who was not dying. She wasn't sure she was imagination or is he was real. It took a few seconds before she replied...looking at him. Could it be true..had she found in the same day someone, a truck, some food? or...was he the kind to be left alone?<br><br>Anne-Sophie did not care...it was a human being. She looked at him and smiled, No I'm not "Kathy". I'm Anne, Were I come from, would have meant something before...but not..its like any part of this land. Who are you sir?
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				Post by: <strong>Rachubka</strong> on <strong>26-07-2010, 15:16:32</strong>
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				Hayley smiled as the two introduced themselves, nodding to Allison first and then Sam. It as strange to meet so many people in such a short period of time having hardly seen any in the month prior. Not that she was complaining or anything; strength in numbers, right? "My name's Hayley. This the welcoming committee of 'The Commune?'" She liked that better than Civilization. <br><br>Wandering away from the doorway that she came in from, Hayley moved to the microwave sitting on the counter. To amuse herself, she just started pressing the buttons. Imagine how funny it would be if it just started running. "On my way here the road was littered with signs to this place. You both just got here, right?" Hayley started speaking before turning back to face the two inside the kitchen. As she did so, the hood covering her messy, slightly curled hair fell off of her head. As embarrassed as she was about her hair now (she was spoiled with perfectly straight hair before all this crap), she made no move to cover it again. "Wouldn't you think that someone would be here already? I'd prefer not to think that someone brought us here so we could be eaten, you know?"<br><br>Hayley asked the silly questions, but in her own little way, it made sense to her to think about it. If someone was trying to gather as many survivors in the area without showing him/herself, maybe this whole thing is just a brilliant salvaging scheme. Life on the road surrounded by corpses tends to make one cautious. Allison said she pretty much just got here, while Sam hardly looks like someone who is settled in. Maybe those signs are just really old...
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				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>28-07-2010, 02:44:21</strong>
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				"Anne, huh?" said the stranger, lowering his bat. "I'm Al. I used to go to school here. If you're here to scavenge you're pretty much out of luck. A girl named Kathy's been living here and she damn near cleaned the place out. I just came back to get some personal stuff."<br><br>Al opened the bag to reveal it was full of clothing, all piled up into a loose agglomeration.<br><br>"If you're hungry, though, I got some food you can share," he said. His face was cool and emotionless, and his voice was level and calm. He was almost impossible to read, his entire presence seemingly designed to not let any facet of his inner self out. But he seemed to realize that this wasn't exactly helping the situation and smiled, just barely, sticking the bat in the bag of clothes so he could extend his hand. "I've got a van full of supplies out front. Some other girl and I heard about a farmhouse where some other survivors are holed up. We're gonna try and make it there, you wanna come along?"
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				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>28-07-2010, 03:16:00</strong>
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				Anne-sophie raised an eyebrow to Capsarc's offer.. -" I have some food, but just wanted to make sure I did not miss any, as&nbsp; I'm not sure how much Ill need and, shen i'll go across an other city. Thats all right, ill try to go by a grosserie while im in town. <br><br>Anne-Sophie took a deep breath not sure if she wanted to so to much to the stranger...but...the fact that she was talking to someone lifted all her suspicion. - " are you heading??" As she said that, she look quickly into the open bag. <br><br>
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				Post by: <strong>cassia</strong> on <strong>28-07-2010, 18:50:20</strong>
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				"People don't eat people when there's other food," Alison said. "Not... sane people." Her last words sounded less certain, even as they were coming out of her mouth. Sanity couldn't be counted on; there were too many people who were already unhinged, and recent events pushed them over the edge. She wanted to believe that if alive they were far away, but she didn't know. Sam and Hayley seemed normal enough, but one could never know so soon, and she still wasn't sure who else, if anyone, was already there.<br><br>She changed the subject a bit. "I saw signs for other places too. I picked this one because the way to get here didn't go through the middle of any other towns. Maybe there are a lot more people. There <em>have</em> to be." 
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				Post by: <strong>Snark</strong> on <strong>28-07-2010, 19:26:04</strong>
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				Sam didn't like the sound of what Hayley said. It was too true. It was way too suspicious that all these signs were pointing towards this place, but the sign-maker was no where to be seen. They were the only ones around. He tried to forget about this, grateful that Alison had changed the subject. " I knew I wasn't the last man. I saw other people- most of them at least a little nuts though. But... yeah, there's probably a whole lot more that we haven't met yet."<br><br>He looked through his bag, taking stock of what he had. "I've thought about the math of it. If proportions are the same as this all over the world, there's still at least a couple million people, right? I don't have a calculator but there were eight million and I'd say one in... every few hundred lived.... The human race has gone through tighter bottle necks then that. Things will probably start getting better for our grandchildren and so on." he said, trying to stay his oddly optimistic self.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>28-07-2010, 22:17:35</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				"Am I... heading?" said Al, letting her see that the bag was just full of clothes, apparently. "You mean... heading to the farmhouse? Yeah, I'm going there... You can come along if you want, but it might be a bit of a squeeze, my car's an ambulance full of supplies and it only has two seats." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a pad of paper and a pencil. "Or if you have your own transportation I can give you directions or a map or something..."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>28-07-2010, 23:38:48</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Anne-Sophie looked at the guy in front of her....he was definitely bizare to her opinion....<br><br>- " I just found myself a nice little pickup truck...I could follow you."<br><br>Anne-Sophie took out a map and opened it and took merely a few second to orient the card. -" Lets see we are here...and the farmhouse is Southwest from here...we will cross and bridge lets hope it is still good to go...we never know. If we are out of luck...which seems to be the story of my life, we well have to make a 60 miles detour to get to the second bridge...I think we should stop at a electronic shop in town to get ourself a communication device like radio-reciever or something...what do you think?<br><br>Anne-Sophie pointed to Capsarc the route she tough would be best. and waited to see what Capsarc would say of her intinary
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>28-07-2010, 23:47:02</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Meanwhile, back outside of the school, Kathy was getting bored on the ambulance. She lay down on her back, on the top of the vehicle, and watched the clouds go by, humming a tune.<br>
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>29-07-2010, 12:12:42</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"That's a good idea, Anne," said Al. "The ambulance already has a radio built in, so we should try to get something where you can vary the frequency."<br><br>He pointed at a spot on the map a few blocks west of the campus.<br><br>"There's a Radio Shack here, and it's on the way, we can swing by," he said. "I've got what I need, so I'm gonna head back to the ambulance and wait for you there. We're just outside the main hall. Grab whatever salvage you can find and meet us there."<br><br>Al nodded to the girl and left the building, walking back to where he had parked. He was... glad to be able to meet anybody at all, let alone two people at once. The end of the world gets very lonely... still, he wouldn't go so far as to say he was happy. Not yet. Not for a long while.<br><br>"Kathy?" he said, noticing the girl on top of the vehicle. "Kathy, sorry to keep you waiting. I met somebody else, another girl, named Anne-Sophie. She's got her own car and she's gonna be following us down the way."<br><br>[[Anne-Sophie, just a little note: Capsarc is my user name, my character's name is Al.]]
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>29-07-2010, 13:01:17</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Kathy gave him a genuine smile. "I was starting to fear you weren't coming back. We're able to go now?" she asked, wanting to get away from this place that had been her home for so long, a home she had seen emptied from living beings. She was eager to get to the road and meet more people.<br><br>She came down from the vehicle and went inside, on the passenger side, waiting for Al to start it up. She asked casually "Found anything interesting inside? I'm sorry I ate all the good stuff first but that's all I had to survive on."<br><br>Kathy didn't know what to expect in that farm he had spoken of, but surely it would have to be better than an empty town.<br>
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>29-07-2010, 16:44:13</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Anne-Sophie stood there for a few seconds, closing her eyes an imagining the life before...were a crowd might have be here....God she missed crowd even if she was a loner in a crowd.&nbsp; Anne-Sophie got out and saw the ambulance not to far. She saw two people..Al and that "Kathy" Al mentioned. <br><br>She walked to them to introduce herself. She tried not to walk to military, she wanted to hide that fact to people. As she approached, smiled to Kathy and saluted her. - " You must be Kathy, Al told me about you. I'm Anne-Sophie. Hope you are not pissed off for having a third person around. My truck is around the corner (pointing toward the end of the street.), and Ill get it and be right back.<br><br>Anne-Sophie ran toward the direction she had pointed and went to her F150, and came back. She started to love that truck...she felt secure in it...a few modification and it would be a great car. <br><br>Anne-Sophie Got out of her truck, and, I'm ready, lets go to that radio shack and after we are off to go...Be carefull I saw some damaged route about 2 miles up ahead...Al, please lead the way. Anne-Sophie Got back to her truck, remembering her time with the USMC and smiling.&nbsp; 
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>01-08-2010, 06:26:09</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				"Alright, guys, let's move on out!" Al got in the ambulance with Kathy and started her up, driving off to the west, where he remembered the Radio Shack had been. The drive was uneventful, and quiet, the streets entirely empty of any of the noises of civilization. Occasionally there would be a body, one of the unlucky few who collapsed on the street and were left where they lay as the infrastructure dissolved around them. Most of them died at home, or at hospitals, like what Al had seen. The people were all dead, but the buildings were still standing. It was like the city had been hit by a neutron bomb.<br><br>The Radio Shack had its windows smashed, but it was relatively intact. In the last days of civilization, very few looters had needed cell phones and remote control cars, but they had torn the place apart looking for anything that could be used. Al stepped out of his vehicle and stared at it.<br><br>"Okay," he said. "There should be something in there we can use, but we might have to look for it."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>01-08-2010, 15:21:54</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Anne-Sophie got out of her truck and followed Al inside and went toward the&nbsp; CB section, some had been scavenged but a few models were still there...People did not know what they were looking for as the good ones were still there. She took box looked at the specs and threw the box. - "Nope, no this one. "<br><br>She took a second and putted aside - "that could do." and took a third model... yeah....I prefer this one. Anne-Sophie then went in the next row and found an Antenna, Looking at at, Ill need this for my truck."<br><br>Anne-Sophie then went to a third row, she tough that part might me harder, and she was right, almost all batteries were gone...but Anne-Sophie's searched and was lucky enough to find a pack of AA batteries she needed.&nbsp; Looking at Al, OK I'm ready, I have what we came from. Ready to go? While saying that, Anne-Sophie got out of this place and started to open her box. When she arrived to her truck, She putted the antenna on the top, and ran the powercord trough the back window. She finished to open the box and plugged her CB with the antenna and plug in the lighter switch. She started it and in a few second, she found the ambulance frequency. It was easy, as all emergency frequency around the country were the same.&nbsp; With her CB, OK All, working and ready. 
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>01-08-2010, 21:28:05</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Kathy looked out of the window as the Ambulance made its way to the electronics shop. There really wasn't much that she could use from there, but decided to go take a look anyways. She hadn't been here in a long while and figured it would be a good distraction.<br><br>She went inside and stood by the door, putting her hands on her hips and watching the others look for specific things. As Anne-Sophie found various items, she commented casually "Building something of use?" The girl seemed to know her way around electronics gadgets. This unfortunately wasn't the case for Kathy. She was more interested in sports than science.<br><br>When they were done, she went back to the Ambulance and watched her curiously as she seemed to attach an antenna to her truck.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>04-08-2010, 02:21:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Al was already in the ambulance, testing out the rig they had worked up. The ambulance radio and the store-bought CB weren't made to be hooked up together, so Al and Kathy had to coordinate to try and get something you could reasonably communicate with. It took a lot of time, a lot of guesswork and a lot of fiddling with paperclips and bits of wire, but eventually...<br><br>"Anne-Sophie, I am reading you loud and clear," said Al, looking over and nodding at Kathy. "I think we're all set to go here. Let's move on out."<br><br>[[Sorry I haven't been posting too much, I've been sick on and off for the past week or so. But I seem to be out of the worst of it, so I'll try and pick up the pace.]]
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>04-08-2010, 04:32:20</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Anne-Sophie smiled at Al's communications and answer to lead the way.&nbsp; as Ann sited in her truck, she took out her Ipod and plugged it in the truck's aux input and press play, some Enya started to play. Anne-Sophie almost felt normal. <br><br>She said to Al that she would lead the way, as she had set the course..so she started to drive slowly. 
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>04-08-2010, 05:02:10</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				[[Does anybody want to talk or have a picnic or do anything in particular along the way to the farmhouse? Because if not we can just skip right there.]]
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>04-08-2010, 05:05:15</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				[[ nope lets go ]]
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>cassia</strong> on <strong>04-08-2010, 07:48:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"I'm more worried about making it to the summer this year," Alison admitted. "If a lot of other people get together then they could go around taking everything we have and doing whatever they want, and what can we do? We can't call the police if it's just one in a few hundred. It's all going to break down unless the only place that got hit is right around here and everyone else is okay." She shivered, and told herself it was from the cold. "We need to get the heater working right or build a fire or do <em>something</em>. It's cold in here."<br><br>She wished she had more skills that would be useful, but she couldn't think of anything. She was just a college student breezing through, not even sure what she'd wanted to do as a job. She hadn't gone camping since she was a little girl and didn't know the first thing about putting machines together and making them work with alternate power sources.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>04-08-2010, 23:35:14</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Al, Kathy and Anne-Sophie drove a few hours and finally got in sight of the Farm house they had devise to go.<br><br>Anne sophie parked on the side of the road, and took out from her bag a pair of binocular, and took a few moment and looked around. She took out a pad and started to draw a plan, and took notes. Then, she putted the binocular away and went to see Al and Kathy and showed the the plan of the farm, what she saw, she even had marked the cars that were there. She had planed two escape route, one of them was the road they were on, and the other was some other route that went in the field. <br><br>I'm not sure, I would take the chance to arrive with both our vehicle. I think One of us should go to look it around, and if its safe, We could call the other. <br><br>We don't know what to expect. For all we know, it could be a sicko who planted those message. <br><br>What do you guys think???
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>elfguy</strong> on <strong>05-08-2010, 00:12:53</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Kathy found Anne-Sophie was being quite paranoid. She wouldn't even have considered that the message would have been left by people who wanted them harm. "Uhm... Well I guess it's good to be prepared, although I am hoping they are good people who just want to pull together and survive." It seemed crazy to her that in this time of needs, people could be so untrustworthy.<br><br>She looked at the man next to her, waiting to see what he thought.<br>
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>05-08-2010, 03:00:49</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Al looked over at the farm, and then back at the girls. His eyes narrowed, his face got even more serious than usual.<br><br>"Times like this, people can get a little crazy," he said. "Anne's right, we gotta be careful, but let's not start any trouble."<br><br>He looked down at the map, studying the layout of the farm and the notes marked on it.<br><br>"The ambulance is full of food and stuff, we shouldn't bring it with us," Al continued. "If they get a look at it, they could try and take it. Anne, you're the only one here with a weapon, if you go down you could defend yourself better." He picked up the bat, hefting it over his shoulder. "I'm going with you."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>05-08-2010, 03:35:19</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Anne Smiled, wait...she went to her back pack and took out a second pistol...she cocked it once and a second time. and then took out a mag. Here, I haven't used it in a long time (a brief cloud of sadness passed on Anne's face) but it works fine...do you know how to use it?<br><br>Anne handed the gun by the barrel so that Al can take it by the handle. Be carefull at point blank you cannot miss...and it kills..
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Capsarc</strong> on <strong>06-08-2010, 04:55:47</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Al picked up the gun, his hands shaking. "I haven't ever used one of these things before. I think I might hurt one of you guys if I try to use it. Still, it'd make them think twice about making trouble."<br><br>He took the gun from the girl and loaded it, sticking it into a pocket of his jacket.<br><br>"I think we're about ready to go, let's get down there..."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: 2013 (Main Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>anne sophie</strong> on <strong>06-08-2010, 06:34:18</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Anne-Sophie, took&nbsp; from Al's pocket, wail, ill show you....in a quickly move, she remove the mag and cocked it and catched the ammo who got out from the loading chamber...<br><br>Anne-Sophie, took a few minutes and showed the basic weapon handling, and then, when she tough that Al's was OK and less nervous with the gun, she gave it back. As soon as they were ready, Anne-Sophie and Al started toward the farmhouse carefully. <br><br>As the party progressed to the farmhouse, Anne-Sophie tried to see something inside the house. <br><br>When she was close enough, She listened to see if she heard something from inside..and looked carefully inside. 
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