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Cαrl Grιмeѕ ([personal profile] postocular) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2018-06-11 12:55 pm

Don't Dead, Open Inside || Action

Who: Carl Grimes, a bunch of zombies, and you
Broadcast: kinda?
Action: Waystation
When: Right now


(( ooc: This is a blanket content warning for blood/gore/death. So! There are zombies ahead and you’ve found yourself on the waystation! You have two options: evacuate, or fight them off. Things of note to remember: Being bitten or scratched are the easiest ways for infection. We don’t suggest being eaten. Magic will be hit or miss depending on player preference/discretion. Characters who become zombies will be treated as in-character deaths. Standard rules apply! The event will last a total of 24 hours. Have fun, and enjoy all the undead things. If there are any questions or anything at all, feel free to pm this journal or hit me up at [plurk.com profile] skorozima. ))

[ The Fleet has been floating along its predetermined path for the past few days, getting further and further away from the Yadrolla System and toward unknown territory. Along the way, those oh-so convenient waystations continue to pop up at their usual intervals. Identical in every way to every other, boring waystation. Neat, right? There are even some of those familiar orange-skinned aliens and some human travelers milling about and generally minding their own business. It’s a good place to stretch your legs, get sodas of questionable flavor, and take those nifty new pets for a walk!

Interrupting the general peace of the waystation, a shrill siren starts, and a robotic voice comes over the intercom as well as all communication devices on the station and surrounding spacecraft, repeating a monotone message. ]



ATTENTION. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. LOCKDOWN IMMINENT. ATTENTION. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. CALMLY EVACUATE USING THE NEAREST EXIT. LOCKDOWN IMMINENT..

[ Soon, it becomes apparent to those on the waystation what the emergency is. A gaggle? A murder??? Just.. a lot of undead. They’re not in any particular hurry, shambling and stumbling along.. until they spot what looks like some good eats. That seems to get them excited, arms stretching forward, teeth gnashing, and more growling than any sort of verbal mishmash meant to be words. THEY’RE NOT A WORDY PEOPLE, OKAY?

For those looking to escape, it’s quite easy to outrun them unless you’re not paying attention to your surroundings. Corners can be tough! Just don’t get bit or scratched and all is well, except for their incessant attempts at making you a snack. For those who haven’t come across them before, or have run into some variation of them in another world, they’re resilient up to the point of losing their head or the brain being destroyed. Limbs being broken or missing don’t seem to slow them down, just send them a little off-balance.

All they know is attack and eat.

For those of the fleet still on their ships, they gravitate around the waystation, seemingly not wanting to go anywhere. There is a short window of time from the emergency alert to the entire waystation going on lockdown. Those wishing to help evacuate can do so- but they have to be quick!

Once the lockdown is in place, communication ceases with the waystation. All the rest of the fleet can do is sit and wait, and hope for the best. The doors will re-open twenty-four hours later, once it’s clear the situation is handled and they can regroup, count their losses, and wait once again for the perished to rejoin their ranks. ]
ginger_firebird: (Mantis Rage)

Action!

[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-06-14 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, Captain, he does so admire how vicious you are when the mood strikes and the bloodlust really starts to kick in. Mantis knows the sounds of Looma fighting from anywhere and does what he can to break several zombie limbs from the safety of the ceiling as he moves closer. A zombie's head suddenly explodes in front of Looma's face as Mantis comes into the scene. He smiles wickedly behind the mask and waves.]

Mind if I join in?
tough_love: (How nice to see you!)

[personal profile] tough_love 2018-06-14 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, fortunately none of that spatter actually makes it onto her face, thanks to that delightful height advantage. She might have nigh impenetrable skin- at least for the sort of things she's used to encountering out here- but any zombie juice making its way into her eyes or mouth would probably end badly for a lot of people besides just her.]

By all means!

[At least she's not upset at his kill stealing- sure, she swats the now-headless corpse aside hard enough to send it and several more of the walkers crashing into the corridor wall, but she's...smiling, at least? The actual, happy smile, not the I'm-going-to-tear-your-world-a-fucking-sunder smile. Sure, the differences were slight enough that it might have taken some practice to spot them, but it was a very important distinction to make.]

I would be a terrible captain to deny my crew the joy of battle!

[Well, it's not much of a battle for her, since the stakes seem to be pretty low. But it's probably slightly riskier for everyone else, even if they do have weird mind powers. And hey, if Mantis sticks close, she can at least carry out her duty and ensure he makes it out alive. Speaking of which, she did want him to enjoy things to their fullest, so she would at least give him the option of floating down to ground-level safely, and extends all four arms to her side in preparation- and offering a brief warning, prior to doing anything too reckless...]

Cover your ears!

[It's as much a warning as a barked order, but he can obey it or ignore it as he sees fit. At best, it might just keep his ears from ringing after she brought her hands together with a thunderous clap- no doubt made worse by the close confines of the corridor they were in. The ensuing pressure wave may not have been enough to kill off any of the walkers, but it did hurl the shambling horde back several meters in a jumbled heap. Easier for him to manage, should he decide to join her on the ground!]
ginger_firebird: (Mantis Drunk)

[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-06-14 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[He laughs at the way her hands go about grabbing and crushing and ripping apart. It's the pure and raw delight of being happy with what's going on. She slams the undead into walls and floors without even trying it's great!

He does cover his ears, though and actually cries out in great delight when he sees the sound wave sending the zombies flying.]

Perfect! I have a good idea.

[He lands close to her and takes a deep breath. The sparks of flame are small at first, but he gets them to spread across more than a few of the masses surrounding them. Even more importantly, those few flames quickly spread on their own.]

I usually only see this in horror movies at home. Crush the heads.