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1. Gun them down.
- 4 (66.7%)
2. Make a break for it.
- 2 (33.3%)
3. ssssssssssssss
- 0 (0%)

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Voting closed: December 04, 2009, 08:17:53 AM


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Re: The Ends
« Reply #460 on: April 12, 2009, 08:23:32 PM »

2.  Even if we had time to booze it up, we'd have to deal with the aftermath, and being on the move while plastered is a bad idea.  This isn't the place to hunker down.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #461 on: April 12, 2009, 08:30:12 PM »

If all of our male drives are now handled by Benny, getting cured will be even harder than we thought

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #462 on: April 12, 2009, 08:55:27 PM »

Who is driving?  Benny is driving!  How can this sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #463 on: April 12, 2009, 08:58:51 PM »

Full disclosure: Benny is my favorite character to write

2 is locked in. Update forthcoming.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #464 on: April 13, 2009, 02:57:52 PM »

2. No, you need to keep moving.

You decide now is not the best time. You help Jesse finish up loading down the car with supplies.

"Looks like we're going to be eating a lot of jerky and canned ravioli for awhile," Jesse notes, dumping some final cans and packages into the backseat.

"Are you kidding? In college I survived on nothing but ramen and macaroni for months on end. This is a cake walk," you reply.

Jesse smiles and heads around to the driver's side. "Mind if I drive?"

You shrug. "OK with me. You have your license, right?"

Jesse smirks. "What if I said no? Would you ground me?"

"Nah, I'd just be sure to buckle up," you say.

Smooth, you think as you duck into the passenger seat. Sure to buckle up. Real funny guy.

Jesse turns the key in the ignition, adjusts her mirrors, and slides the seat forward a bit. "Looks like we're gonna need some more gas pretty quick," she notes, glancing at the fuel gauge.

"There's an extra can in the trunk," you say, "but I don't know about finding a working gas station. We might just have to switch vehicles once this one goes dry. Keep your eyes peeled."

Jesse nods and pulls out and away from the store, back onto the road. "Well, here we go," she says.

Another five minutes of driving brings you up out of the canyon and onto a small side road that connects with the main highway, about two miles past the bridge, according to Jesse. As you pull back onto the highway, you look behind you, but see only empty road until it turns.

"So what were you before the world ended? A student?" Jesse asks.

"Yeah. I worked part time at a grocery outlet, stocking shelves late at night."

"You know anything useful?"

"Eh? What do you mean?"

"You know," Jesse says, "first aid, cars, shooting, anything like that."

"Not really," you confess. "Though I do seem to have a knack with guns, at least so far."

"My dad took me out for lessons," Jesse says. "A few times to a range, but mostly just out into the woods. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. My mom didn't know. He'd borrow weapons from his friend. Said he didn't want his daughter living her life without knowing how to defend herself. Always seemed pointless to me since we didn't have any guns anyway, but it turns out it was a good thing, I guess."

"You any good?"

She shrugs in her seat. "I guess I'm not bad. I can hit the broad side of a barn, if that's what you mean."

"What's the biggest gun you've ever fired?"

"Probably an AK," she replies. "Or maybe a double-barreled shotgun. It depends on what you mean by 'biggest.'"

"An AK-47?"

"Yeah."

"Aren't those, like, illegal?"

She glances at you. "I guess?"

"Er, sorry. Sometimes it slips, you know, the whole zombies thing. Anyway, how'd you guys get ahold of an AK?"

Jesse turns back to the road. On one side, a gentle green slope rolls by, spotting with brush, oaks, and sycamores, as well as some other trees you're don't recognize. On the left, past Jesse's head, the ground slopes down until it hits the base of another hill, then veers steeply up. At the base there's what looks to be a dry creek bed.

"Dunno. My dad probably got it from his friend. Guy was in Vietnam, I think."

"Hmmm," you say. "You know where this guy lives? Might be nice if we could 'borrow' some things too."

"Yeah, I do," Jesse says, "but my dad said he was dead, remember?"

"Point. Still might be worth checking out, once we get to Limestone. This friend lived in the city, right?"

"On the outskirts," Jesse replies.

"Near side, or far?"

"Far," she says. "House with a vineyard. They grow 'em all around here."

You nod. The scenery flashes by. Jesse is driving pretty fast, around 75 mph. It makes you a bit nervous with how windy the road is, though the highway itself looks well maintained.

"Could you slow down a bit?" you ask.

Jesse glances over at you and smirks a bit. "Sure, mom."

You grin ruefully. "Sorry."

The car drops to about 60 and you stare out at the hills. Really, it's quite pretty. Out here in the middle of nowhere, it's hard to tell the apocalypse has occurred. The car is starting to get pretty warm in the sun, so you roll your window down and hang your arm out the side. The wind feels good. Hell, if you close your eyes, it almost feels like you're on a road trip.

Ten or so minutes pass in relative silence. You pass an overturned car off the side of the road, skid marks leading into a nearby tree. Otherwise the trip is unmarked by anything out of the ordinary.

Until, that is, you round a bend and a stench of rotting meat comes to your nostrils. You wrinkle your nose and peer ahead, rolling up the window.

A white fence borders a large, closed off area on a hillside. You can see several large piles of dead animal. As you come closer, see you see the flies, buzzing around and on the piles.

"Are those... buffalo?" you ask incredulously.

"Yeah," Jesse says. She points past the yard to a large white sign by the side of the highway.

Green Hills Buffalo Ranch

"I wonder what killed them," you say.

"Who knows?" Jesse shrugs. "Does it matter?"

"I guess not," you reply, but something inside you thinks it might.

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1. "Pull over. I want to check it out."

2. There's nothing for you here. Keep heading to Limestone.

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #465 on: April 13, 2009, 03:36:49 PM »

Yeaaaaah, as much as I like discovering new ways to die, Buffavines don't strike me as a fun thing to mess with.

Vinealo?

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #466 on: April 13, 2009, 04:13:58 PM »

Could be another player character. 1.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #467 on: April 13, 2009, 04:55:52 PM »

Jesus shit, Buffavines. Get the fuck out.

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #468 on: April 13, 2009, 05:15:26 PM »

2
Ut oh, looks like some cavines did a number on some delicious buffaloes.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #469 on: April 13, 2009, 05:20:28 PM »

We should take a look.  We've been passing up a lot of opportunities to find out more about what's going on just to run from one place to the other sort of meaninglessly.

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #470 on: April 13, 2009, 05:22:27 PM »

Really Romo?  Open fucking spaces?  With lots of bodies?  You feel like this is the best place for us to stop?
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #471 on: April 13, 2009, 07:08:05 PM »

Better than a dimly lit house with lots of bodies! :whoops:

Not gonna push too hard but we can stay by the car.  We don't have to go run up the hill and slide down it into the buffalos.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #472 on: April 13, 2009, 07:08:24 PM »

Romo wasn't involved in our last death. I'll give him the benefit of the smarts. 1 but if we die I blame someone else.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #473 on: April 13, 2009, 08:01:47 PM »

Hey, I wasn't involved in that stupid move either thanks.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #474 on: April 13, 2009, 08:16:10 PM »

THE DEAD BUFFALO ARE A CLUE

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #475 on: April 13, 2009, 09:08:58 PM »

THE DEAD BUFFALO ARE A CLUE
It is a bit strange for so many corpses to be left lying about, actually. Faceless seem to be a lot more thorough than this.

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #476 on: April 13, 2009, 10:16:50 PM »

1. "Pull over. I want to check it out."

Jesse looks over at you, her eyebrows raising under her shades. "You serious?"

"Yeah," you say.

"What the hell good are a bunch of dead buffalo to us?" Jesse asks. "It's not like guns grow inside buffalo livers."

"It's just odd, that's all. From what I've seen, the Faceless scoop up all the dead meat."

"Well, maybe the buffalo were too big for them," Jesse says.

"Maybe. Maybe not. We hardly know anything about this infection. I think a little investigation couldn't hurt."

Jesse shakes her head. "Whatever. I don't have a good feeling about this, though."

"Don't worry," you say, smiling. "I won't let you get hurt. You can stay in the car."

"It's not me I'm worried about," she says, frowning at you.

Jesse pulls off the highway and parks. Beyond the fields, you can see some buildings. They look to be part of the ranch. About a dozen dead buffalo lay rotting in the sun between you and them.

You open the car door, and start to step out. A hand on your shoulder stops you.

"Be careful," Jesse says, worry written on her face.

You smile and take her hand away. "Danger... is my middle name," you reply.

Jesse shakes her head. "You're not just doing this to impress me, or something stupid like that, are you?"

Yes.

"No," you say. "I'll be fine. Trust me. I've handled worse than a few dead animals."

Jesse frowns, but doesn't reply. You step out of the car and survey the scene. The sideroad you're parked on the side of runs up to the buildings, then circles around back to the highway. Green, lush hills roll in the background, dotted with trees and brush. There's a gate not far down the road where you could gain access to the fields.

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1. Enter the fields, examine the nearest buffalo corpse up close.

2. On second thought, you're more interested in those buildings up ahead. Tell Jesse to drive you up to them so you can investigate.

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #477 on: April 13, 2009, 10:18:52 PM »

they left the bodies to feed their eggs when the eggs open and the eggs will open as soon as we stick our stupid heads in one of those carcasses

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Re: The Ends
« Reply #478 on: April 13, 2009, 10:24:08 PM »

Don't listen to that guy, it's totally a good idea.
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Re: The Ends
« Reply #479 on: April 13, 2009, 10:28:02 PM »

well.

-We're unarmed

-We have to enter a gate to stare at the buffalos, far from the car

on the other hand:

-The corpses look mostly abandoned

-If they weren't eaten or taken for some reason, there could be a clue to help us against these things

-The worms don't lay eggs that's just crazy

Leaning towards 1.
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