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Posted: **Tue Sep 07, 2010 1:36 am**

Z-Day - 8:50 PM Mountain Time - Chimney Rock, western Nebraska
South of the ranger station-
Dan Aldrich reached the ruined body of Mutt, the skinheads' late and unlamented leader, in time to see his fellow ranger Julie St. James put an arrow right through his eye. Katarina Iliescu, one of his former captives, stood nearby with her pistol drawn. She had not been so accurate, but she was learning how to use the unfamiliar weapon. She had personally killed Mutt with a hand grenade, saving herself and Sally from the depravity he had had in store for them. The ground began to tremble slightly, and then the sensation passed. Dan and Julie did not know the significance of the tremor, but Katarina did. She had felt similar tremors at the skinheads' compound this past afternoon, and she remembered all too well what had happened there.
Outside the ranger station-
Zoe Gallagher was at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the ranger station. The rangers' green pickup truck was parked right nearby, and she knew that they and Katarina were a short distance away, though it was hard to see them. The light cast by the ranger station only extended about five yards before dissipating into the darkness. Her hands were still cuffed together, the handcuffs tight around her wrists, a constant reminder of her all too recent captivity. If it hadn't been for the rangers, she wouldn't be free now. Instead she would be in the same dreadful situation that Lara Voronova had to be in right now. Two of the skinheads had taken her hostage and escaped with her in their van, carrying her off to a terrible fate. But right now Zoe was more worried about herself. She too knew what the minor quake meant.
In the ranger station-
Raquel Orozco had been sitting at the table, crying quietly. Her best friend Alicia was dead, and now two of her former captors had made off with Lara. Now that she was free, she didn't know what to do with herself. Then the trembling started and stopped, and she looked up. "What was that?" she said. "Oh, no, not again!"

On the roof-
Sally was alone on the roof, except for Doc's body. Mutt had murdered him as one of his last acts. He would have killed her and Katarina too - or worse - if she hadn't had those grenades and if Katarina hadn't had such good eyesight and accuracy. The thought of what had to be happening to Lara was even more disturbing because it could have been her. Doc had risked everything and ultimately given his life to protect her. Now he was gone, but the information he had given her shortly before his death about a potential safe haven might still keep her and the others alive. Then she felt the ground begin to shake, and memories of the horror beneath the ground that she had narrowly escaped came flooding back. The ground stopped shuddering almost right away, but she didn't.

Posted: **Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:25 am**

OOC: Did Sally put a bullet in Doc's head, yet.

Panic welled up in Sally as she felt the ground shake. She thought of nothing more than the need to get all of them out of the area and saw little as she gathered her things and begane to descend the ladder.

Posted: **Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:51 am**

Posted: **Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:09 am**

Zoe talks to Sally.
"The ground is trembling--I think we know what that means. Do you think it is safe here?"

Posted: **Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:31 pm**

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:25 am**

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:09 am**

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:42 am**

Julie bent over to search Mutts Body. "Huh I think i found something." she said.

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:09 am**

Katarina backed up towards the building, looking around anxiously as she felt the trembles. "Wh-what?"

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:50 pm**

In the ranger station-
Raquel jumped to her feet and helped Sally down off of the ladder. "We have to get out of here!" she said, putting Sally's arm around her shoulder and letting her lean on her for support as she hurried to the exit.
South of the ranger station-
Katarina backed away while Julie searched Mutt's corpse and Dan stood idly by. Mutt had already been picked over thoroughly. Both his backpack and his utility belt, along with all they contained, had already been taken. There was no sign of any keys, so presumably they were gone as well. That would explain how the skinheads had gotten the van started. If his keys had been on a ring, they would have just grabbed it and taken them all at once. It would be a lot trickier to start the skinheads' pickup truck now, which was parked outside the farmhouse to the northwest. Her own truck was just to the north, outside the ranger station, and both she and Dan had keys for that. However, only three people could fit in the cab, leaving everyone else to ride in the bed of the truck - a dangerous proposition. With two trucks, everyone could ride in one of the cabs.

The one thing Julie did notice almost right away was the bulge under Mutt's shirt. She hastily unbuttoned it and saw that he wore a bulletproof vest underneath it. It had already stopped some buckshot as well as shrapnel from a grenade. No wonder he had been so hard to kill. It was a very big vest, much too oversized for all of the women, though Raquel might have been able to get away with wearing it. It could fit Dan in a pinch, though it would still be fairly loose on him.
Outside the ranger station-
Katarina backed away from the body and into the circle of light surrounding the ranger station. Zoe saw her emerge from the darkness, but she couldn't make out anything else yet.

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:08 pm**

As she hurries to the exit, something caught her eye.

Posted: **Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:24 am**

Posted: **Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:40 pm**

Sally held it together mentally as yet another of the relentless indead plodded towards the Ranger station.
"We have incomming!" Sally yelled to everyone. "Coming down the road from the north."

Posted: **Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:15 pm**

"Let's hit the son of a bitch with everything we got, that way we'll be sure to take it down."
Zoe readies the grenade.

"Julie, afterwards drive me over to the other truck at the farmhouse, I reckon I can get it started."

Posted: **Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:19 pm**

"No need to waste our ammo" Sally said. "Dan, do you still have your rifle?"

Posted: **Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:41 pm**

Posted: **Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:01 pm**

Posted: **Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:21 pm**

Dan tenses at the rumbling and the girls reactions. He decides the vest could be invaluable and pulls it off of Mutt.

Posted: **Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:53 pm**

Zoe changes her mind about blowing up the zombie with a grenade--she's not a good at thowing, anyhow. She races back to the ranger station.

Posted: **Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:56 am**

In the ranger station-
Raquel guided Sally out the door and down the stairs. "We have to go before it gets here!" she cried.

Outside the ranger station-
Zoe was actually already at the bottom of the station's stairs where the green pickup truck was parked, since she hadn't gone anywhere yet. While she was fairly accurate with either a baseball or a grenade most of the time, the darkness made it impossible for her to see where it was. By the time it got into the light, it would be too close. Katarina stood still, unsure of what to do.

Raquel and Sally emerged from the station and came down the stairs. Sally could see that the zombie was still a short distance away.
South of the ranger station-
Julie watched while Dan removed Mutt's shirt and then took off his Kevlar vest. Underneath, his wounds were visible. The buckshot wounds on his chest had been bandaged, but he had never had the chance to do anything about the shrapnel, some of which had penetrated the vest.

Posted: **Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:39 pm**

"Quickly, everyone, let's get in the truck and head to the farmhouse" Sally said, moving quickly to the truck.

Posted: **Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:53 am**

Dan decides to put on the vest later and readies his AK-47. "What is it?' he yells.

Posted: **Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:39 am**

Posted: **Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:25 am**

"Can we hide?" mewls Katarina.

Posted: **Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:49 pm**

"Dan, Julie: Hurry back to the truck, there is very little time." Sally yelled. "Girls, hop in the back and hang on." Sally raised her pistol and aimed at the zombies head.

Posted: **Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:45 pm**

"I'm coming!", Dan yells as he runs with the AK-47 in one hand and the vest in the other. If he needs to shoot he will try to chuck it in the back of the truck or ditch it. He races towards to the drivers seat of the truck keeping an eye out for the threat.

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:51 am**

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:41 am**

"Can we hide?" mewls Katarina.

"Get in the back of the truck, you silly puss!"

Zoe climbs into the truck as well. She readies the shotgun.
"Which direction is the zombie coming from?"

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:55 pm**

"It's coming down the road from the north" Sally said. Aiming carefully, she squeezed off a shot with her .45 at the zombie, hoping to get lucky while everyone made it to the car. The round sailed through the darkness and found it's mark; striking the zombie in the head. While she was lucky to hit the zombie, she barely did so.

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:26 pm**

Julie ran with Dan toward the truck not having seen anything yet. As she ran she paused to look down the road to the north like Sally said. She did not see anything.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:41 am**

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:05 am**

While the other sprinted for the car, Sally took aim once again and fired at the zombie rapidly moving towards his next meal.
With nerves of steel, Sally aimed and squeezed the trigger on her .45 caliber pistol. The gun bucked in her hand as the slug exploded from the barrel of the gun. Piercing hte air with a crack, the round struck the zombie in the head again with devestating results. Headless, the zombie fell to the ground lifeless.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:07 am**

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:24 am**

Outside the ranger station-
Sally's uncanny accuracy obliterated what was left of the zombie's head, and it collapsed while still some distance to the north. Dan and Julie reached the truck, while Zoe and Raquel scrambled into the bed.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:26 am**

OOC: Can I use my second roll from above?

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:30 am**

Sally scanned the area for additional threats but found none. She ejected the clip from her .45 and checked how many rounds it contained. Taking note of her ammo levels, she slammed the magazine back into the pistol and engaged the slide.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:35 am**

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:40 am**

Sally waits for Dan and Julie to arrice, the jumps in the cab of the truck; not wanting to risk jumping into or out of the bed of the truck with her injured leg.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:33 am**

Katarina dives into the back of the ute, mewling, and tries to find something to grab onto in case the ute leaves in a hurry. She is so busy looking for something to grab a hold of that she doesn't notice anything outside.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:42 am**

Dan scans the darkness but can't see anything. He helps Julie into the truck and jumps in the driver seat to start the truck.

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:06 pm**

Zoe squinted as she peered into the night, but she couldn't see a thing.
"Nice shot, Sal."

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:30 pm**

Julie arranged herself in the cab making sure her seatbelt was on and that there was room in case someone else wanted to get into the truck. . She looked around again but again did not see anything.

Posted: **Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:20 am**

Outside the ranger station-
Dan got behind the wheel after Sally slid into the middle seat of the cab and Julie got into the shotgun seat. Dan started up the truck, and the engine purred. The headlights illuminated the empty road to the south, the direction the truck was facing. Zoe, Raquel, and Katarina rode in the bed of the truck, with nothing to cling to but the sides.

Raquel suddenly pointed to the north, where she had spotted something. She was afraid, but not terrified. "There's another one coming!" she cried, "It's faster than the first! Let's go, let's go!"

Posted: **Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:24 am**

Since Katarina didn't trust herself with a gun on a bumpy road not to shoot a friend, she simply ducked behind the edge of the ute and grabbed hold of the edges, making a point not to look and damage her already frazzled psyche. Besides, the car would out-race the zombie surely.

Posted: **Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:04 am**

Posted: **Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:53 pm**

Sally sat sandwiched between Dan and Julie. She looked for the rapidly approaching zombie but was unable to see it in the darkness.

"Hurry, Dan." She said with a tinge of panic in her voice. "We've got to get to that truck."

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:02 am**

Dan starts accelerating towards the white pickup truck. He planned to swing around by the truck so that the headlights illuminate the zombie. "Zoe, you and the others in the back grab the truck when we stop, I will deal with the zombie."

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:09 am**

In front of the house-
Dan turned around to the northwest, though nobody except Raquel saw the zombie yet, even with the help of the headlights. While the pickup truck bounced through the woods, she took aim with her pistol and squeezed off a couple of shots. "I hit it once!" she called. "But I just grazed it." She looked around. "Oh, no, we're getting closer to it! It's getting closer to us! It moves so fast!"

The truck reached the small farmhouse and pulled up near the white pickup truck that was parked outside, just south of the house. "No, don't get out!" cried Raquel. "it's too close! It'll be here any second!"

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:26 pm**

"Where is it it?" Dan yells.

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:37 pm**

Franticly scanning the area around the truck, Sally tries to catch a glimpse of the zombie but is unable to in the chaos.

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:22 am**

Misfit wrote: "Zoe, you and the others in the back grab the truck when we stop, I will deal with the zombie."

"Hold on, girls."

The truck reached the small farmhouse and pulled up near the white pickup truck that was parked outside, just south of the house. "No, don't get out!" cried Raquel. "it's too close! It'll be here any second!"

Zoe readies the shotgun.

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:31 am**

In front of the house-
Raquel fired again, her wild shot disappearing into the dark. Then the zombie came running out of it with angry red eyes and blood coating its mouth and chin. It had fed before, and it was intent on feeding again. It ran right up to the back of the truck, latched onto it, and began to pull itself aboard. Raquel shrieked and shot it in the left thigh, but she didn't even slow it down...

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:11 am**

Katarina saw the zombie but was too mentally numb to care. She fired her gun and managed to hit the thingsomewhere (9).

OOC: I can't roll for damage as I don't know what damage my gun does.

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:21 am**

Dan, jumps out and seeing the zombie winces at the site of the thing but is unaffected. He moves towards the zombie raising his rifle.

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:23 pm**

Once again Zoe is shocked at the sight of the blood-drooling zombie, however, the mental chip at her sanity is barely noticeable--she just twitches one eye. She looses off the shotgun.
"Take that!"

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:32 pm**

Posted: **Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:48 am**

Outside the house-
Though it was awkward for her to wield the shotgun, Zoe managed to pepper the zombie's right leg with buckshot. Katarina put a bullet in its gut, and Raquel put another one into it, plinking its arm. It hardly seemed to notice as it fell upon Raquel. She screamed again when its teeth tore into her arm, nipping her flesh. She barely managed to keep her wits.

Posted: **Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:51 am**

The bullet strikes true and damages the zombie nicely. She fires her next shot, whichrips out a chunk of it, some callous part of her hoping that it remains too busy with Raquel to kill her as well. Her heart beat against her chest. She didn't want to die.

Spoiler:

Posted: **Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:30 pm**

Yet another attack by another zombie caused Sally little distress.

Sally slid across the bench seat and exited the truck so she could get a shot at the zombie if needed.

Posted: **Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:54 pm**

Posted: **Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:13 am**

Julie saw the zombie now and she kept her sanity. She stepped out of the truck, pulled her bow out, notched an arrow and aimed at the zombie's head. However the wind must have picked up and she missed her shot wide.

Posted: **Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:43 am**

In front of the farmhouse-
Katarina's bullet went right through the zombie's forehead, and it collapsed on top of Raquel - yet it still squirmed. Dan and Julie got out of the truck and readied their weapons, but they did not have time to fire yet. Raquel fired accurately, crippling the ghoul's arm. It still did not stop moving.

Posted: **Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:45 am**

Posted: **Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:11 am**

Zoe screams.
"Kill the beast."

Posted: **Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:05 am**

Katarina is nervous about shooting Lara but will attempt to press her gun against the zombie's side and pull the trigger if able (can point blank get any point blanker or will she just not be able to touch gun to it? If the latter, she won't take her shot, she's not confident enough).

Posted: **Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:32 am**

Posted: **Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:42 pm**

Dan runs up and grabs the zombie by the leg and jerks him off the truck so he can put a bullet in its head.

Posted: **Mon Sep 27, 2010 6:00 pm**

"Dan, no!" Sally screamed. "It is still dangerous"

Posted: **Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:25 am**

Outside the farmhouse-
Before Dan closed the distance, Julie loosed her arrow and it struck the zombie, causing it to collapse and stop moving.

"Get it off me!" shrieked Raquel pushing at the now inert corpse. With Dan's help, she was able to shove it out of the back of the pickup truck and onto the ground. She clutched her arm and moaned. "Ohh, it hurts!"

Posted: **Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:27 am**

Katarina will back away and look around for any other zombies in case another comes while the better shooters are all distracted. If there's anything else out there, she probably sees it.

Posted: **Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:26 am**

"Ohh, it hurts!"

Zoe wonders if Racquel will become a zombie after it bit her.

Zoe rushes to the other truck.

Posted: **Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:40 pm**

Sally raced over to Racquel and inspected her wound. "Do we have any medical supplies? I can help trat Racquel, but I will need some bandages."

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:48 am**

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:29 am**

"Did it bite you?" asked Katarina, hugging herself and looking for any other dead things.

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:48 pm**

Dan gestures at Katarina, let's get her into the van. You can treat her wound there. We need to get to Lara.

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:49 pm**

"Good call, Dan" Sally said. He helped Racquel to the van and settled into the back with her.

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:02 pm**

OCC: Sorry life took over before I could roll damage

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:55 am**

Outside the farmhouse-
"Si, Katarina, it bit me," said Raquel as Sally tried to help her, "but it's just a small bite. Sally will fix it."

Zoe reached the driver's side door of the white pickup truck and tried the handle, but the door was locked. Dan, Julie, and Katarina stood around outside the trucks. So far Katarina did not see anything. Then the ground began to tremble again...

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:48 am**

OOC: Crap, I though there was a van. Sally would have returned to the working truck. I was confused. Can I take back the last action?

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:00 am**

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:41 am**

Zoe smacked the rifle butt against the glass, but it didn't break--merely vibrated.

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:41 pm**

Feeling the tremor, terror washed over Sally: "We don't have time to get the other truck started! It's coming and if we're sitting here when it arrives, we 're all dead! We have to leave; now!"

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:54 pm**

Dan has his AK-47 raised and is scanning the darkness but can't see or hear anything.

"He yells over his shoulder to Zoe, "Can you get in?'

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:25 pm**

While Sally is not able to spot anything in the blackness of the night, she does hear something.

Posted: **Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:24 am**

Posted: **Fri Oct 01, 2010 11:35 am**

"We don't have time to get the other truck started! It's coming and if we're sitting here when it arrives, we 're all dead! We have to leave; now!"

He yells over his shoulder to Zoe, "Can you get in?'

"No, I fuckin' well can't."
Beginning to panic: she sprints back to the others.

Posted: **Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:06 pm**

Posted: **Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:55 pm**

"Everyone get in!" yells Dan as he feels the ground shake. "What is it?"

OOC, I apologize for my several screwups,(i.e. gesturing at Katarina as opposed to Raquel, thinking it was the van as opposed to the truck)

Posted: **Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:18 pm**

Julie was going to go get her arrow but when the shaking started she quickly forgot about that and ran back to the truck jumping inside the cab

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:20 am**

Outside the farmhouse-
Katarina stood outside the trucks, unable to see what the commotion was about, though she did hear something. Julie dived into the green truck's shotgun seat while Dan got behind the wheel. She couldn't see anything either, but her hearing was able to pick out something. There was room for one more in the cab if she slid over.

Zoe whacked the white truck's window with her rifle butt; however, it failed to break the glass.

Sally and Raquel were still in the bed of the green truck. It was too dark for Raquel to make out much. but there was nothing wrong with her ears. When Sally hesitated, Raquel took the bandages and tried to patch herself up, but she wasn't having much luck.

The tremor began to get stronger, culminating in the sound of the earth rupturing somewhere!

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:04 am**

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:53 pm**

Zoe runs.

Posted: **Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:27 pm**

Misfit wrote:
OOC,can Dan hear from what direction the earth rending sound iscoming from?

Tabs wrote:Zoe runs.

Posted: **Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:47 am**

As soon as everyone is in Dan is taking off down the road South, unless he discovers that the erupting is coming from that direction.

Posted: **Mon Oct 04, 2010 3:59 pm**

"It's at the ranger station, to the south!" Sally yelled. "Go the opposite direction and fast!"

Sally begins to work on Racquel's wounded arm but is just not able to help her while bouncing around in the bed of the truck.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:56 am**

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:04 am**

Katarina gets back into the truck, whimpering slightly and chewing on her fingernails. She has the horrible feeling that they may be too late.

Posted: **Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:28 am**

Zoe runs towards the others in the truck.
"Hey! Wait for me."

Posted: **Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:08 pm**

Julie moved over enough to let someone else inside

Posted: **Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:09 am**

Outside the farmhouse-
Zoe reached the truck first and got into the shotgun seat when Julie slid across to the middle, leaving Katarina to get into the back with Sally and Raquel. Once everyone was aboard, Dan pulled out with a screech of tires. The road leading south was some fifty yards to the east, but the fastest way to it was southeast, towards the ranger station. Instead, he drove due south into the woods to bypass the station, as the pickup truck was a good off-road vehicle. He couldn't go so fast with the occasional tree in his path and the encroaching darkness, but he managed a good pace. When he felt he was far enough past the ranger station, he swung around to the southeast to get back onto the road before heading south again. Sally tied a tourniquet around Raquel's upper arm, but she wasn't able to sew up the bite wound.

After about a mile, an intersection loomed ahead. The dirt road continued south, and another road went east and west from there. Dan brought the pickup truck to a halt.

Posted: **Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:14 am**

Zoe says.
"I reckon the skinheads will have taken the road, but if so, which direction: east or west?"

Posted: **Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:34 pm**

Posted: **Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:34 am**

Posted: **Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:36 pm**

Dan grunts and strains as he tries to push the accelerator to keep going, "Julie, I have no idea why and I can't explain it, but I cannot make myself move any farther in this direction, I need you to slide over and drive"

Posted: **Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:51 pm**

"We need to get moving, guys" Sally says with concern in the back of the truck.

Posted: **Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:29 am**

Posted: **Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:23 am**

Dan is too freaked out by his sudden loss of control so he is unable see any tracks.

Posted: **Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:32 pm**

On the road-
Julie switched places with Dan while Raquel peered over the cab of the truck and studied the intersection, but she couldn't be sure which way the van had gone.

While the survivors were rearranging themselves and looking for tracks, a glow appeared behind the truck, to the north. There was an enormous diamond of exquisite quality just hovering in the air some five feet off the ground, twenty feet or so behind the truck. It shined with enough radiance to make its presence known, but not enough to illuminate the area. The headlights and even the taillights of the truck provided far more light.

Posted: **Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:26 pm**

Looking at the road Dan says, "I don't think they went this way, I think they doubled back",and as he turns to look at Sally in the back he notices the diamond. "What the hell is that?"

Posted: **Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:45 pm**

Misfit wrote:Looking at the road Dan says, "I don't think they went this way, I think they doubled back",and as he turns to look at Sally in the back he notices the diamond. "What the hell is that?"

"'Doubled back'? Okay, let's do as you say."
Zoe turns around.
"That diamond sure is pretty, but it can't be a good thing! You still wanna go back?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:49 pm**

Sally has an idea of what may be causing Dan's inability to drive but she is unable to find any tracks to follow.
Seeing the diamond appear behind them, Sally turns and looks at it with awe: "I have no idea what the fuck that is, but I don't like it one bit" Sally said.

"If we're looking to track down the skin heads, they mentioned another compound to the North in Montana. They could have headed that direction. Regardless of where we go, we need to move. The worm will be on to us in no time!"

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:58 pm**

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:05 pm**

"Dan! You must fight the urge." Sally said. "it's the worm. It can affect your thoughts and manipulate them to try and keep you from escaping while it kills you. You must fight it!"

Posted: **Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:57 pm**

Posted: **Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:18 am**

Katarina does what she can for Raquels' wounds, hoping that herfirst aid trainingwould keep her mind occupied and off their horrible, impending doom. "I drive? I strong mind!"

Posted: **Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:32 pm**

Dan is unable to resist the pull as he loses control over his actions. "I can't resist it!".

Spoiler:

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:12 am**

On the road-
"Gracias," said Raquel. While Katarina had no formal training in first aid, she was smart enough to know what to do. She disinfected the wound and then bandaged it using medical supplies she borrowed from Sally. "It still hurts. I can feel it burning."

Dan was still unable to move any further from the ranger station. There was nothing stopping him from moving back towards it, of course - but did he want to go back that way?

The diamond just hovered in midair, impossibly.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:25 pm**

Zoe says.
"Katarina can drive us away from here. Dan! Out of the driver's seat, you great lummox!"

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:58 pm**

Dan is unable to break free of the thing's control. "Julie, maybe you should drive us back to the station, that is probably the safest place right now".

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:35 am**

"No," said Katarina. "We each try to drive away. You get in back. I get in front. Julia not keep going then I do." Katarina nods to herself and gets out by the passenger side door to swap places with Dan. "It wants us there."

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:42 am**

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:49 am**

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:21 pm**

OOC: Sorry new job out on floor now from training so tired do not want to do anything at night. will try to do better.

IC:

Julie said, "Dan get into the truck or I will have to leave you behind!" She looked at the road but could not find which way the skinheads had gone. "Come on Dan I am not waiting around."

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:08 pm**

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:44 am**

Seeing that Dan was not outside the truck, Julie gunned the truck down the road away from the glowing diamond.

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:10 am**

On the road-
Julie rolled forward through the intersection, apparently forgetting that Katarina had gotten out of the truck and was standing nearby. Before she had driven far, Dan suddenly turned and leaned across the seat over Zoe. He threw open the passenger door and leapt out of the moving truck! Zoe, with her hands cuffed together, was unable to restrain him.

The diamond remained where it was.

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:21 am**

Julie hit the brakes and yelled at Dan to get back in the truck

Posted: **Sun Oct 17, 2010 2:25 pm**

"Dan! Dan! I'm sorry."
Zoe gets out of the truck and goes after Dan.

Posted: **Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:53 pm**

Dan is neither able to resist the force nor able to gracefully land the jump from the truck.

Posted: **Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:29 pm**

"No!" Sally yelled. They needed desperatly to get away from this area and to get to safety. "Dan, Zoe, get back here, please! Come on, I know you can resist the pull..... you have to be strong!"

Sally turns to Julie: "They are under the control of the worm. THey are not thinking clearly."

Posted: **Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:33 am**

Posted: **Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:08 pm**

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:22 am**

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:24 am**

Katarina gets into the driver's seat of the truck and waits inside with the engines gunned, prepared to drive away. If the ground starts to rattle or vibrate, she will leave.

OOC: I doubt she'd be trying to Track at this point. Any way that is away would work.

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:40 am**

On the road-
Fortunately the truck hadn't been going very fast, and Julie's prompt application of the brakes stopped it quickly, so Dan was unhurt when he rolled out. However, he was unable to move closer to the truck where it was stopped. Zoe reached his side and saw that he was okay. Katarina could not get into the driver's seat with Julie still occupying it, but she did get in on the passenger side and slide over to the middle, ready to take over if needed.

Posted: **Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:34 pm**

"Someone get him into the truck and lock him in" Sally yelled from the back. "We've got to get out of here or we will all be dead."

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:04 am**

Zoe tries to grab Dan and push him towards the truck. She is beginning to panic--again.
"Christ! Move it: ranger-boy.
"I hear you, Sally. Can't you see I'm doing my best!"

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:05 am**

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:49 am**

Dan is still unable to resist and gain control of himself. He frantically tries to think of some way to break free.

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:40 pm**

Zoe gives up on Dan--her attempt at 'persuading' him was motivated by self-preservation anyhow--and returns to the truck.

Posted: **Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:22 pm**

OOC: Is anyone in the driver seat of the truck?

Posted: **Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:35 am**

On the road-
Zoe ran back to the truck and got back into the shotgun seat, leaving Dan alone in the road, still unable to approach the truck.

"We're not going to leave without him, are we?" said Raquel.

Posted: **Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:12 am**

"We're not going to leave without him, are we?" said Raquel.

"Go on, you go get him!"

Posted: **Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:32 pm**

OOC: Can someone use psycology on him to try and help him out or somthing?

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:49 am**

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:03 pm**

Suddenly, Sally has an idea.

Posted: **Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:59 am**

Julie cursed and said, "I will leave him behind if it comes between me and death!"

Posted: **Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:48 am**

Posted: **Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:19 pm**

He's going to resist any attempt at forcing him to come with us.... but maybe we can knock him out or something so he can't resist us?

Posted: **Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:45 pm**

"Yeah, let's do it. Well, someone other than me."
Zoe jingles her cuffs.

Posted: **Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:45 am**

On the road-
"Julie, how can you say that?!" said Raquel. "Dan saved us all. He saved you from a fate worse than death. We have to do something to help him!" She climbed out of the back of the truck. "How can we knock him out, Sally? I don't want to hurt him."

Dan remained where he was, still unable to approach the truck.

Posted: **Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:33 pm**

"Then drive the truck to him and get him in the middle and lock him in. We are DEAD if we sit here for another second! Do you understand!" Sally yelled in a moment of frustration.

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:29 am**

Dan is trying to wrench his mind away from the force holding him but still cannot break free.

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:31 pm**

Julie turned the truck around and drove toward Dan. "Someone get him in and handcuff him so we can get out of here!"

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:17 pm**

"Julie, how can you say that?!" said Raquel. "Dan saved us all.

"I imagine quite easily--Julie is talking plain sense. The sooner we go, the better, or we'll be 'DEAD' as Sally said."

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:49 pm**

On the road-
Julie made a U-Turn in the intersection and pulled up alongside Dan and Raquel. He could get back in the truck now, but he knew that as soon as it went any further away from the ranger station he would be compelled to bail out again. Behind him, the diamond still hovered inexplicably.

"You want me to hit you?" Raquel asked Dan. "There has to be better way."

Posted: **Mon Nov 01, 2010 4:16 pm**

OOC: I am honestly out of ideas here. What are the rules for knocking someone out?

Sally begins to panic a little bit as she knows the massive work is getting close and closer to them. Knowing the invevitable is about to occur, she reloads her .45's then sets to unjamming her Sig Saur.

Posted: **Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:23 am**

Posted: **Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:51 am**

Zoe says.
"Sally, if we all work together to manhandle Dan into the truck. And whoever isn't driving can sit on him.
"I'll help do it."

Posted: **Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:17 pm**

"I've got a bum leg, but I'll do the best I can. I'll sit by the door and do my best" Sally said, getting out of the back of the truck.

Posted: **Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:27 pm**

Summoning all his mental fortitude Dan is finally able to wrench himself away from the power holding him. He runs and jumps in the truck bed.

Posted: **Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:47 am**

Posted: **Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:09 pm**

As Dan returns to the truck Zoe cheers.
"Whoo-ee!
"Let's go."

Posted: **Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:42 pm**

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:40 am**

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:20 pm**

OOC: Sally never got out.

Posted: **Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:31 am**

Posted: **Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:55 am**

"Drive! drive! East or west, just move it."

[ooc: Who's behind the wheel? Is it Julie? Mr. Handy, can you just get us away from here, say, east?]

Posted: **Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:34 am**

Julie gunned the truck down the road toward the east

Posted: **Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:33 am**

On the road-
Dan and Raquel scrambled into the back of the truck. Julie turned right and drove away down the road. But after a little more than half a mile, she suddenly had to stop. No matter what she did, she could not move any further away. Neither could Sally, Katarina, or Raquel.

Posted: **Sat Nov 06, 2010 10:38 am**

"No no no!"
Zoe awaits the outcome of the mental struggle.

Posted: **Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:18 pm**

Julie tried to resist but found that she could not.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2010 4:43 pm**

"Oh for fucks sake! Not again!" Sally yelled. "Katarina, get in the drivers seat and get us the fuck out of here!"

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:59 am**

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:55 pm**

[Spoiler-Button]Handy. Does sally suffer any penalties for driving with her injured leg?[/Spoiler-Button]

Sally is easily able to resist the desire to stay put.

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:00 am**

On the road-
"I...CAN'T!" cried Katarina, clutching her head.

Raquel managed to break free from the force that was holding her back.

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:28 pm**

Zoe-

"I'm okay to drive--even with these handcuffs."

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:31 am**

Julie managed to resist the hold and floored the truck down the road. "Hang on we are getting out of here guys."

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:03 pm**

"Go! Go!" Sally shouted from teh back of the truck.

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:51 pm**

On the road-
Katarina groaned with the effort, resisting the urge to climb over Zoe and leap out the door as Dan had done. She somehow managed to remain where she was, and then the force gripping her mind suddenly released her. "We're free!" she exhaled.

Julie drove the truck onward to the east, away from the unseen horror that had been pursuing them. Up ahead was another four-way intersection.

"Where do we go now?" asked Raquel. "What do we do?"

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:36 am**

Julie hit the brakes then turned to the right not really sure where she was going just wanting to get the hell out of there.

Posted: **Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:48 pm**

Zoe-

"That's the way to do it: just keep on driving--no-one knows which direction to go, anyway."

Posted: **Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:15 am**

Posted: **Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:58 pm**

"Let's get a safe distance away. Then we can make a plan for where we want to go." Sally yelled from the back of the truck.

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:40 am**

On the road-
Julie turned to the right and drove south for another mile. Ahead was another crossroads.

"But what about Lara?" asked Katarina. "We have to save her!"

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:43 am**

Zoe-

"Katerina, how are we gonna find Lara? There isn't a 'snowball in hell' chance."

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:17 pm**

"Its everyone for themselves now. If God happens to let us run across her then fine but otherwise I am living to survive. You want to find her your welcome to get out at this crossroad now."

Posted: **Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:00 pm**

Dan, is still recovering from the mental strain and not cannot tell at all is the van came this way.

Posted: **Thu Nov 25, 2010 4:37 am**

On the road-
"I don't know," said Katarina. "I don't see any tracks. We'll never get anywhere on foot. Sally, do you know where the skinheads were going?"

"I can't see anything either," said Raquel. "But if we don't go save Lara, where do we go?" She moaned. "I don't feel so good."

Posted: **Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:30 am**

Zoe-

"I haven't a clue. I don't suppose we got anything as useful as a map?"

[ooc: Or a sat nav.]

Posted: **Fri Nov 26, 2010 3:14 am**

Posted: **Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:46 pm**

Zoe opens the glove compartment and pulls out some maps.
"Hooray! God, I hope I can make sense of them." She says to the rangers: "You know how to read maps, don't you?"

Posted: **Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:22 pm**

"I heard Doc talk about another Skinhead base" Sally says.

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:30 am**

Julie glanced at the map and said, "this looks like the way to go." She traced her finger on the map.

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:30 am**

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:39 am**

"There is another compoud way up in Montana but that is nearly 500 miles away. There is also Chimney Rock, which was about 30 miles north of the old compound. I'm not sure which one they would have gone to," Sally said "What about the Air Force base Doc mentioned?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:42 am**

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:28 pm**

Zoe-

"The airforce base sounds promising--hopefully it'll be safe and secure."

Posted: **Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:53 am**

Julie said, "We should stay away from the millitary. I think we should go somewhere where there are hardly any people and where we can get a good view of any zombies. We should go here." she pointed to Independence Rock, "which is about 4 1/2 hours away if we were to travel by the main roads. However that would mean going down I-25 for about 1 hour through Douglas and Casper before we could get off on wyoming state route 220. So we need to plot a map around the main zombie areas meaning it will take us about 8 hours to get there. I say we make a beeline for Fort Larmie National Historical Park tonight. It is in a isolated area, there were only about 60 people living in the town, and there are weapons there we can get as the goverment cached some there during the last terrorist attack. From there we can hole up for a bit then make a run for it in the morning hours to Independence Rock. Climb the rock and we can see for miles and miles and kill anything coming to us. Agreed?"

Posted: **Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:24 am**

"Great!--but what about food and shelter?"

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