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JUMPSCARES MOD. ([personal profile] monstermasher) wrote in [community profile] jumpscares2015-07-09 11:52 am

( OPEN ) GAME START.

▶ WHO: Everyone.
▶ DATE: July 9th, 2015 (Day 1)
▶ WARNINGS: Blood, violence, general zombie horror.
▶ SUMMARY: You've met with a bad... however that line goes. Welcome to Earth.

GOOD MORNING!


Please try and ignore whatever it is that you just heard. It should only last for up to a minute... maybe.

It... it is morning, right?

There are no windows.

There's a light, but it's barely considered one. The compound runs on a solar generator, but that doesn't mean it has a lot of power. The light seems to be hanging from the ceiling, swinging precariously. That's when you might actually start to wake up, sit up, find the things that are familiar to you... and then some of the things that aren't. It'd be wise to explore the small room you're in before leaving through the steel door, but there's nobody around to tell you that.

Outside is a tightly knit compound, just as dark and metallic as the room. The hallway you're in houses dozens more doors identical to yours, and if you're unlucky there may be more people poking their heads out through them, just like you. There's a dull glowing sign that reads MEDICAL BAY but not all of you remember being hurt. Some of you may be just fine, apart from the memory of the sound you heard when waking up.

The Medical Bay is stocked with enough medicine to last a couple of months. There's almost everything that can be found in a hospital. Somebody was thinking ahead.

Outside of the Medical Bay are more doors, some are even locked—many aren't. There are living quarters, a food storage, a kitchen, some laboratories; even a room full of computers and nothing else, all with a screen asking for a password. There's only two doors out of the compound, a vehicle bay with what appear to be a few military jeeps and trucks, and the front doors. It's on the inside of the front doors that something is painted in bright red, flecked with what smell like blood:

DO NOT GO OUTSIDE WITHOUT A GUN AND WATER.
GUNSHOTS ATTRACT THEM.
HOLLOWS IS 1.3 MILES NORTH OF HERE.
GOOD LUCK.


And on the outside of the doors, if you choose to open them:

THE WORLD ENDED JULY 3RD, 2015.


Now... how long ago was that? And where is this place? Luckily for you, Hollows is a small town that can be raided. It hasn't been too long since the apocalypse—surely you'll be able to find something there. Batteries, food, weapons, maybe some people—and what you're guaranteed to find. Them, whatever that means.

Outside of the compound there's a fence with a single gate. Nothing can get past this unless you let them in for tea, so be careful. There's a shooting range and a large shed full of weapons and ammo, enough to last two months if you're careful. Guns, knives, anything that would be used by the military and police is hidden away in the shed. There are even a few hunting bows with arrows.

If you climb up the ladder to the top of the wall, there's enough room to walk along the top. There's definitely something moving in the distance, something you should definitely be worrying about. Maybe it's time to get a good look with a sniper rifle...?

Oh.

It's gone.

Maybe it was just a trick of the light. Regardless, it's impossible for everyone to stay in the compound forever. There are nefarious things at work! The choices are to go to Hollows, stick around, or go somewhere else. Really, the world is almost a blank slate. Maybe more of a used slate, but still yours to explore.

When the night comes, you should be hiding. The screamers, the ragers, whatever the hell they are, are running full tilt through the streets and across the landscape, running through anything in their way, ripping apart anything alive. If you don't make any noise, they won't notice you. Especially since they're stuck listening to each other. But if you get noticed by one, it won't be long until a horde forms... you might be able to outrun one for awhile, but they don't seem to let up on their breakneck pace. Maybe someone should have told you how to kill them.

OOC NOTES.


There will be zombies in Hollows. Whether you meet them on the way there is up to you. Apart from the undead and the animals (maybe somebody should let those poor creatures out of their houses) the town is completely deserted. In fact, the closest thing you can find to a human are the bodies of those who died without being bitten, and there's even few of those. You can find anything you'd find in a normal town here, and are free to loot and raid the houses and stores—the cops won't be coming, after all. The power is OFF apart from what you can find that is solar powered or still has a charge. If you're lucky and find another town while exploring the first few weeks, you might find an area that still has power—thank hydroelectricity.

Just keep in mind travel time... and travel expenses.

You have creative freedom over everything else. The world is open. The only stationary places are landmarks and cities—if you want to go to Texas and talk to the poor astronauts stranded up in space, it's there. (Might be a long trip, though...)

If your character can figure it out by geography before getting to Hollows, the compound is located a few hours from the west coast, in California.

The way to kill a zombie is blunt force to the head. The head doesn't need to be removed, but significant damage needs to be done to it. This does not include the throat—it needs to be a headshot.

There's also a glaring hint. The computers in the compound, asking for a password. It is impossible to hack at this time. There will be more on this later!

Finally, if your character is exploring outside of the compound (or extensively inside of it) there's a comment here for linking me the thread. You can also PM me! I'll be ducking in with what your character may or may not have found, via a response to the actual RP thread.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS please direct them here!
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[personal profile] expeditiously 2015-07-09 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pietro's been outside, has also seen the message about the end of the world and the state that it's now in. They must've failed, even if there's more left than he expected.

Even so, he still searches hard for his sister, believing with all his heart that she's survived the end. She must have, because Pietro doesn't feel that heart breaking, not the way hers did for him. She's alive, and eventually he finds her.
]

You think I would lie to you, little sister? [He smirks as he steps from the shadow and the rubble, but what he feels is nearly weak with relief to have found her.] If so, it really must be the end of the world.
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[personal profile] allages 2015-07-10 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it cannot be pietro. pietro is dead and the end of the world surely did not bring back the dead. if it had, it would not be the end of the world but a new beginning. ( later, she will come to realise just how ironic that thought really is, but right now, she believes it. )

her brother is dead, and she wishes the truth of that did not resonate, that she didn't know it with certainty. her brother is dead, and she wants to believe so badly that he isn't; she wants to believe it isn't true and that means that she cannot believe the figure in front of her at all. maybe it is grief and maybe it is stress, maybe someone else got into her head the way she manipulated the avengers.

it doesn't matter.

what matters is this: her brother is dead, and so this person cannot truly be her brother, no matter how badly she believes it. she cannot believe it, because she wants to.
]

My brother is dead. [ that is spat out, grief making her voice sharp and her tone bitter, her shoulders drawn up tight and tense.

but -

but he sounds like pietro and he smirks like pietro and he feels like pietro when she pushes her mind past the barriers of his, and she almost wavers. she wants him to be alive, she wants her brother back.

she doesn't know what is true anymore.

weaker, her tone much less aggressive and more questioning, she adds -
] I felt you die.

[ i saw your body she doesn't say, or i wanted to die with you or i buried you. ]
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[personal profile] expeditiously 2015-07-11 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[So he did not recover. Pietro thinks he must've already known that, already knew that when he hit the dirt, the next step for him was to be buried underneath it. Maybe this is the age of miracles that Baron von Strucker talked about. A result of Hydra's longing or time travel or the sheer longing of the true miracle, his sister. Whatever it is, the fact remains that her brother was dead, but he's here now.

Her grief hurts him more than any bullets. Pietro continues closer until he can lift his hand, brushing the backs of his fingers against her tear-streaked cheek. See? That is her brother's touch too.
]

I took some good advice. [The smile comes back to his lips, gentler this time.] I walked it off.
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[personal profile] allages 2015-07-13 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he does not recover and she felt her brother die; she's seen his corpse and it hurts. it still hurts, like she imagines a gaping wound in her chest would hurt. it's as she'd told ultron: she knows what it is like to feel her heart ripped out, what it is like to die. she experienced both the moment pietro died — and yet, he's here. the man in front of her is undeniably her brother and undeniably alive and it isn't until he touches her cheek that she realises that she's crying.

he says i walked it off and wanda laughs. if it's a little wet, a little too close to a sob, there is no one but pietro around to tell.
]

How is this possible?

[ but she doesn't wait for an answer to move forward, to reach her arms around his middle and hug him, holding him. with her head to his chest, she can feel his heartbeat as truly as she can feel his mind. ]
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[personal profile] expeditiously 2015-07-13 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pietro shakes his head gently. He doesn't know, and he doesn't care, not when there's a chance to turn her tears into laughter. Not when her arms go around him. Pietro holds her in return, his chin resting gently on the top of her head.]

It's magic? I don't know, I only know that I am grateful to be here with you.

[Because it's not all good. The world out there is dangerous in a way that even they know nothing about.]

We must stick together. It does not matter how bad it gets as long as we do that.
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[personal profile] allages 2015-07-14 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ maybe she shouldn't question it. there are things in this world that she does not understand, and once upon a time she would not have thought that her own powers or pietro's are possible. life has proven her wrong on that account, has it not?

so she nods against his chest, and holds on.
]

I will not let you out of my sight again.

[ she says it almost like a joke, but she isn't joking at all. the last time she'd sent him away, he had died. she intents not to let that happen again. ]
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[personal profile] expeditiously 2015-07-19 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Good. Makes it easier to keep my eye on you as well.

[There's a smile in Pietro's voice. He kisses the top of her head, lingering in this moment until he's sure that it's real, that this isn't some dream. Only then does he pull back, taking his sister's and.]

We must see what's out there.
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[personal profile] allages 2015-07-20 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it is real, he is real: here and solid and alive, and wanda can hardly believe it. maybe she doesn't need to believe it, maybe she can just take this second chance and grasp it with both hands, hold on to it firmly. if magic is real, if aliens and science can create it, why should she not have her brother back?

she squeezes his hand, smiling.
] We will.