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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. ]
hollowvictor: (This isn't funny at all)

[personal profile] hollowvictor 2018-06-22 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a nice crunch from the one Sam flung away and it doesn't get back up, so there's that. Bucky shoots three more in a row, buying them a little more time. His free hand comes back to ever-so-slightly brush at Sam's hip. Not too much to distract, but enough to tell him it was Bucky and not some ghoul reaching out. He smiled.]

Are you going to give me a choice?

[He felt better knowing Sam had them, just in case, but he knew he wasn't likely going to win this fight. He might be...more now, but one of them was still partially metal and that won out on the 'who's less likely to get bit' argument.]
Edited 2018-06-22 03:51 (UTC)
sizeofyourbaggage: (all right then)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2018-06-22 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ The touch is calming - as calming as it can be in the middle of a zombie outbreak, anyway - and Sam shifts a little, twists his hip until Bucky's hand is closer to the sidearm in its holster. His own smile is probably obvious in his tone. ]

I always give you a choice, farm boy, just one of them means you gotta put up with me making sad eyes at you.

[ It's easier to joke about when he knows he's probably going to win. Bucky is... amazing, but Sam wouldn't want to leave anyone without a longer range weapon in here, much less the love of his life. He's fully prepared to argue that his wings count as a longer range weapon. ]

If we can get somewhere more open, we can find a place up high to catch our breath.

[ He can fly them up and they can wait it out, a little. Survive. It's what he would have done in an arena. ]
hollowvictor: (Skeptic)

[personal profile] hollowvictor 2018-06-22 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[He has to swallow his own protective instincts, but he takes the firearm and shoots another zombie with his other hand, giving him a chance to drop the spent clip from his other weapon and reload.

Sam's right, they can't stay here, it's too boxed in, they need to get out into the open. There's another pathway down the hall in front of him that branches right and should empty out to a clear area, but there were still monsters between them and there and who knew how many past that turn.]


I have a plan. Trust me?
sizeofyourbaggage: (all right good point)

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2018-06-22 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Always.

[ He doesn't even have to think twice. Whatever Bucky tells him to do, he'll do - and that's not because of anything the Capitol'd done. That's just Bucky. If he's got a plan in a situation like this, Sam's got faith it'll be a good one. ]

I'll follow your lead.
hollowvictor: (These other Buckys don't impress me)

[personal profile] hollowvictor 2018-06-23 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He barely had to ask and didn't need to hear the answer, he already knew, but hearing it was nice anyway. It put a corner of security in his racing mind, a safe spot in all the danger. He trusted Sam with every fiber of his being, if Sam told him to do something, he'd do it without questions or hesitation...and it was both terrifying and amazing. It went against every instinct he'd ingrained in himself and he wouldn't change it for anything.

Worst and best still, he knew Sam felt the same.]


Right. We're going to rush it. They keep coming from around a corner up there, so I'm going to guess there'll be a few down that way, but there's open air too. Follow me, I'll hit every one I can that tries to stop us. The second you have room to stretch your wings, open air or not, get us airborne.

[In an ideal situation, they'd start airborne, a little more speed and maneuverability to get them out and Bucky's guns to stop them from reaching the pair, it wouldn't break a sweat. But the hall was still too narrow, even in this junction area, and who knew about the hall they were staking their lives on. But it's what they had with neither of them comfortable with the other taking short-range risks.]