tushanshu_logs | Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

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Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

Characters: Any and all PCs
Date: January 20th - 23rd
Location: All Sectors
Situation: Tu Vishan continues swimming along the ocean floor after his monumental dive, but it turns out there are a whole bunch of undead that want in on the party!
Warnings/Rating: Underwater situations, violence, potential gore; to be updated as noted.

>See the comments of this post for various situations and areas available for tagging.
>Each header will be set for a date and/or area.
>Feel free to start your own header for specific situations.
>The Palace subplot will be run in a separate log.
>Refer to the two OOC posts for further details. 01 | 02

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[She doesn't recognize the voice warning her, but it hardly matters - she's turning in an instant, shotgun at the ready, but the creature is already down - not permanently, but enough to slow it down at least.

Shepard gives the unfamiliar man a swift nod, then points the small group of people around a corner. There's another small group of zombies rushing at her left flank, but she saw them, and before they are in range of her shotgun, she balls up one hand in a fist, a crackling blue energy gathering around it. On release, the blue light hurtles at the zombies, knocking them back like a bowling ball through pins.]

[Shepard will take whatever help is offered to her - as long as the person seems competent. So she only looks vaguely surprised when a girl literally lands near her.]

Some of the more resilient husks I've run into. [They aren't exactly like the husks she's used to dealing with, but that's the word she has for them, so that's the word she's using. A flash of blue energy and Shepard knocks a few more of them away with a shockwave. It doesn't stop them, just knocks them aside.] You have a safe place to get to?

[Early on, after the usefulness of fire has been made clear, Dorian is outside looking for material for torches, not especially worried. They're zombies. They couldn't possibly kill him. He stuns and runs when confronted by them, because there is no point getting into a fight you can't win, but some of these things are much faster and much stronger.]

[Thus, a jiangshi ends up getting hold of Dorian Gray and biting into his neck. Dorian cries out in pain--

—and the jiangshi recoils, looking more or less like someone who just bit into a rotten apple.]

[The wound is already healing, but now Dorian is indignant.]

What? I—but—oh, my God. An undead philistine. For the record, vampires think I taste divine.

[Now he really wants to burn all these zombie jerks. He is so irritated that he wastes the bottle of alcohol he had planned to use as a last resort, smashing it over the head of the jiangshi (who is no longer interested in him) and setting it on fire with his lighter.]

Edited 2013-01-23 02:54 (UTC)

[ Astrid's been quiet since her arrival, and with all the extra strangeness going on since then... Olivia's a little worried about her. She's decided to go check on her - at the very least, it seems she should introduce herself to this version of Astrid, maybe offer her a little company...

She's just crossed over into the Earth Sector when the bodies start dropping from the barrier. The wet thump of a body against stone catches her attention instantly; she turns, startled, and without thinking starts to move toward the body even as the kedan on the street shout in alarm, some crowding closer to look while others back away. At first she can't see it clearly through the crowd, but even then, it's obvious something is wrong, as if the kedan's reaction alone doesn't indicate that. There's something about the color of the skin, off even for the kedan, and...

Zombie, is the first thought, when Olivia actually gets a clear look at it. She's seen the post on the network, heard murmurs among the kedan, and maybe the barrier was supposed to keep them back... but that is very definitely a waterlogged corpse, and as Olivia watches, it starts to push itself upright.

The reaction among the kedan crowded around is instantaneous - they run, stumbling over each other, but clearing out in fairly short order... which leaves Olivia standing alone just a few yards from it. She freezes, her eyes locked on the corpse as it tries to sort out limbs somewhat damaged from the fall, breath caught in her throat. She backs away one slow step, two, like it's a wild animal, because some part of her knows if it chases her, she doesn't have a chance. Her free hand moves instinctively for a gun that's not there, and she lets out a soft breath that's almost a laugh as she remembers.

Of course. Just her luck. ]

[Pepper had been hurrying on her way to one of the smaller stores for a quick and clean supply run when the 'rain' started. She hadn't noticed at first because the bodies had been so few at first. She'd actually managed to make her way to the store and buy the things she needed before she even encountered her first body. She was passing by one of the abandoned bonfires when she heard a sickening thud. A few moments later she saw an arm, mottled from the water and splattered with blood from the fall. It was crawling it's way toward her, arm digging into the ground as it pulled the rest of itself along. There wasn't actually much left. A shoulder and a rotting head that was only partially covered in flesh. The creatures one clouded and lifeless eye seemed to be focusing on her.

Pepper took several steps back, fingers curling tightly around the handle of her bag. Another thud, only slightly further off and another more pieces joined the first. She could hear her own shrill scream escape her as she started swinging the bag at the ever encroaching body parts. First underwater, not this. It wasn't long before the bag ripped, sending the contents flying.]

Edited 2013-01-23 03:09 (UTC)

[ Kara immediately recognizes that voice when he speaks and she laughs, grinning as she keeps an eye out for more. ]

Yeah? Like what? Getting your ass kicked at pyramid or cards? [ cause she's good at both c: ]

[ Maybe Rikki shouldn't be doing this. Good intentions and plenty of training aside, she's not a superhero, no special powers, no shiny gadgets but her shield - a lot of people would say she's got no place in a fight like this, but that logic didn't keep her inside during the Skrull invasion back home, and it's not going to do it now.

She's patrolling from the rooftops, moving with no real pattern, just running toward the sounds of trouble and seeing what she can do to help. At least the zombies don't seem to have figured out how to climb buildings... so far, anyway. ]

[ Snorting at the reply, Jack nonetheless draws a smiley face on the ground. ]

Good. Because we might want to find some place a little less out in the open.

[ Another arrow pointing in the direction where there seem to be far fewer zombies in the distance, and Jack takes a few step, his bare footsteps outlined in icy fernlike patterns. ]

Coming?

[ Inara knew, logically, that the things pushing their way through the barriers and into the city proper were not, in fact, Reavers.

That did not stop Inara from being vividly reminded of the creatures that prowled the darkness of space, with their twisted flesh and jagged metal that cut into their bodies.

They fall from the sky like a terrible storm and Inara, in all her grace and assuredness, is terrified, but she keeps moving.

Something lunges at her, and she whirls, dagger flashing. What was it? Zombie, person...? ]

Well, if you'd ask York, he'd tell you getting my ass beat at Grifball, but our memories on how things scored out usually differs.

[ As he speaks he's pivoting to ensure they're clear from his three to his nine. There are more jianshi but they're farther away, so he chooses to reserve his ammo for now. ]

[ she's got his back completely, eyes still sharp and looking out. ]

The frak is Grifball?

[ North nods curtly to the unspoken command and rounds the corner, guiding the group into a building. There are more jianshi approaching, straggling from the other direction, and he hoists his rifle to use some of his precious ammo to temporarily incapacitate them before helping to secure the doors. ]

[ He spots a group of zombies moving in another direction and starts to move to flank them, knowing they only gather together like that when they're tailing someone. ]

It's a lot like this, but with a ball. And gravity hammers.

[Santo just rolls his eyes. He isn't going to say anything more about that. If they can find a place, and Victor is going to insist, then figured he'll at least try to rest his eyes for an hour or so.]

Either way, you look like hell.

[ she moves with him, gun still out as she reaches down to check and see how many rounds she's got left. There's a clip or two; not much. ]

You play pyramid with a ball. I'll show you one day.

Gee, thanks. That makes me feel so much better. [He's not really bothered by it, he's just keeping up the banter with Santo. Slowly, Victor gets up and waits for Santo to do the same.]

[ Animated corpses raining from the sky (such as it is) is actually one of the few things Natasha's not prepared for in any way - she's far from panicking, but she's really not sure of what she should be doing with this... so she's headed back to her suite, which is at least defensible, until she can figure it out.

She... recognizes that scream, though. Letting Pepper Potts get eaten by zombies is not something she really wants on her resume, and so she ends up running toward the sounds of struggle, gun in hand as it has been since the bodies started dropping. ]

[Nah, humans taste pretty nasty... Probably. He wouldn't know. Then again, zombies seem to enjoy the taste. Maybe they're on to something.]

Then consider class in session now. You didn't get bitten or anything, right? [He asks this as he swings at another corpse, punching it hard enough to send it flying back]

Also I'm telling you this because you're my bro, but you gotta stop calling everything inhuman a mutt. It's hella racist.

Hey, aren't you glad I'm being honest instead of trying to hook you up like this? [He manages a small smirk before slowly, and kind of staggeringly pulls himself back up to his feet, rubbing the back of his neck as if it was actually sore.] A lime green Vicsicle isn't sexy.

Sounds fun. I'll look forward to it.

[ Now that they've rounded the building he can see who the zombies are following and his first instinct is to rush in the middle. The armor means he had little to fear and he's a lot better defended than all of them. And hand-to-hand fighting is a good strategy for him when there is a limited amount of ammo. ]

[Zombie, definitely, and not apparently affected by that dagger. Luckily, your king in shining armor is here. Without, you know, the shining part. He's getting grubby. But a swift blow takes the thing's legs out from under it. Another cuts its head off at mouth level, destroying its ability to bite, and a third takes one hand. There's still a squirming body and one hand trying to grab, tear, scratch, but unable to walk or hold or bite, this one will have trouble harming anyone.]

Come with me. [Logan offers a hand, though how much more comforting he is than the jiangshi is debatable. The vulnerability and fear to him are mostly gone, but so is anything warm or human. At least he's fully alive.]

What, you like getting your ass kicked, Sasquatch?

[ that nickname is never going away.

Kara's instincts are also to rush in the middle because honestly - she's bullheaded and that's how she operates.

However, she has no armor. There is nothing between her body and those things and it she darts forward, she'll probably get eaten alive. ]

I'll cover you--!

[ The light of fire itself isn't enough to draw attention in the Fire Sector, obviously, but the smell of burning flesh and the sound of someone retching... That does distract Natasha from her attempts to get to the palace as quickly and quietly as possible, and she she detours to investigate.

Cautiously, she peeks around the corner, gun in hand, presenting no target and barely even noticeable. The street's mostly clear for now - just a charred corpse, and a girl bent over retching - but it won't stay that way for much longer. Natasha turns down the street, movements quick and efficient, keeping an eye over her shoulder as she approaches Katniss. ]

Ms. Everdeen. Are you hurt?

[ She would have done a lot better covering him from a distance, but it's too late to say so, and he finds himself forced to knock the jianshi back to prevent her from being bitten. ]

Watch it! You're not as protected as I am. Get back!

[ He's doing his best to cover both sides, but sooner or later, if she doesn't retreat, he knows he's bound to slip up. ]

[ The zombie is in her face, teeth snapping and stink rotting, and she's jerking back because flashbacks and then--

Then there's...someone helping, saving - rescuing her.

Logan.

Logan who is no longer terrified and vulnerable and holding a hand out that she is taking right now. ]

Thank you.

[ she's not as poised as she'd like to be and her voice wobbles slightly. The dagger disappears into the folds of her dress, her hand gripping his. ]

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Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

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