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This thing seriously needs to email me when a post is edited same as it does when there's a new post. I'll get behind the times here.


*lol* at the blonde kids thing. I hadn't noticed, but you're right - I must subliminally find blonde kiddies creepier or something. But hey, isn't it always the fair-haired one who turns on the others or whatever? Good day to be a brunette. We're physically more trustworthy. *nods*

As for the whole situation with David: I'd reckon the gang'll be staying at the clinic for at least another day (unless the good doctor busts in and kicks them out), so that gives David time to bluff the others into thinking he's fine, if nothing else. Or, if he's suddenly decided he'd rather adapt to working with others and try for the security of the clinic ...

Also, let's not forget the Park itself. Technically we're still named after it, after all, and Jill and Wesker's fate is still undetermined. It was what, about a week ago Park-time? Chances are they're dead I suppose, but the Park itself is still there as a fort for stopping by, and there's food there, and weapons.

But after that, I'm really liking the idea of the group going on the road, wherever it's to. Bit a' new territory for us. Looking forward to whatever you decide on in the next post

30 pages! My god, woman! And here I thought you had studying or something silly like that to do

Awesome. I wasn't expecting any more 'sidequests' before the big set-out, but considering we've got practically all the characters who're rubbing each other the wrong way in one place, this is going to be fun *evil grin* Oh, and I loved that second to last line - a rabid monkey with a screwdriver, huh? Seriously, I literally laughed out loud (and it wasn't the first time; his encounter with the token brunette kid had me giggling too). I think I said it before, but you've got a better grasp of Dean and what comes out of his mouth than I do.

So, let's see, I will probably have something up tomorrow. Can't wait to sink my claws into this situation. Probably won't have time to do all I want to do tonight, though, so there may be more coming after that. I fully intend to rant *lol* Oh yeah, and something I haven't done in a while: YAY US FOR REACHING SEVEN PAGES!


...I missed you, bolded red text.

Will deliberately double post so you (Jess) know it's recent ;)


Seeing as though I'm working on 3 assignments at the moment I might just wait for you to continue and not contribute at this point, at least until I see what you add to your post (if you're still keen to do so). As much as I want to write realistically I'm not in the right frame of mind to do anything justice - I tried last night and didn't like the 3 or so pages I came up with and subsequently scrapped them. So for now I'm just going to wait and see what else you write and hopefully next week I'll be able to contribute something more constructive (at least after I move house on Sunday, we'll see).


So yeah just to clarify I'm NOT going to update this week and instead leave everything up to you. Mean I know. But right now I can't. Sorry *snuffle*


While I'm here I will say well done on a few points in your last post. The observation of Trinity (aside from the fact you forgot in one part to replace where I'd referred to her by name and you didn't change that, leaving it as Trinity where it should have read in the first person, but no matter, I still knew what you meant ;)) - and her addition to this 'Three B's of survival' was out-loud funny. Well done. Why the hell didn't I see that one before? XD Kudos! Also I've got to say I was hella-stunned in regards to her comments about Dean and Rae - that made the jaw drop, what the hell's going on there? *nervous laugh* Way to intrigue me... and way to make already present tensions a billion times worse... Begs the question as to how all of them intent on going back out in the infested world are going to function let alone survive as a team when they're all too busy looking at each other with narrowed eyes... Damn you're good. Oh and that 'deal' between Trinity and Jonathan *lol* Is it just me or is there something behind those (empty) words? I couldn't help but feel as if one (or both) are keeping their true feelings locked up behind this impassive facade. Deal my ass. You know they're keen on each other... Just wondering of course if this will come to a crux at some point (which I'm almost certain it will, but between who of course remains to be seen). Again, well done. And one more thing, I know this back and forth between us is heavily dependant on perception (what one person sees one way, another will no doubt see it in another light) I just wanted to clarify that Rae wasn't 'knitting' as you so succinctly put it. That using the needle and thread was a direct statement on the fact that the consumerist society ended when the bombs dropped, so true to survivalist mentality, you make the best with what you've got (unless you come across or steal something better); she wasn't doing her best impression of a 60 year old, for the record. At least not in my mind. I'm a tad disturbed that you saw it like that *lol* No matter, just had to clarify. I'm anal about the little things sometimes... plus I don't like looking at 'myself' *scoff* in such a geriactric light *cough* Ah it's all good.


Well that's it from me for now. I'll go back to work in the real world and let you work on things from your end. Again apologies I can't contribute this week. I'll try and make up for it next week perhaps. We'll see =)


And because I know you're a fan of bold red formatting; Good luck!

Oh and EDIT: *lol* moment:
"In. Damn me if I let you do something this batsh*t crazy without at least one token sane man."

-- Edited by Ravynlee on Tuesday 4th of August 2009 04:24:36 PM

Sounds fine. I've read and reread and will try and get something up this week now I've officially moved. Will edit this post when I have more time at my disposal

Sweet to say but at least from my point of view we're just 'well practiced' - if you want in I think that'd be awesome. Any ideas on how, when, details etc??

Okay - um *thinks about it*


Well quite frankly a LOT is happening (or has happened) so I won't bore you with the details. The basic things that you probably should know are characters (or at least some description in case you want to make mention of them and 'get to know them' as you go along/start writing). The thing is there are what 5 or 6 of us in this place in the middle of a desert we refer to as 'The Clinic' or 'The Doc's place' etc (the Doc is a complex character who's recently become infected in the hopes of curing his blindness - think of Trent Reznor from NIN in his 'closer' days - at least I do ;) - He's also disappeared, best to ignore him for the moment and focus on those of us that are left for the time being).


The main characters are Trinity (also known as Jamie) who is Jess' character, and she is some kind of super-human species. After the war broke out and people were reanimating Jamie was a human test-subject for what was hoped to be a cure for infection. It didnt work as it was hoped and as a result she's now somewhat immortal, she's faster, stronger and so on than the average human but the side effect is it's wiped her memories so she doesn't know who she really is or where she's really come from. The only clues we have to her comes from another of Jess' character's called Dean (who I like to think of as Dean/Jensen Ackles from Supernatural, don't know why, just do) - he's described as a country hick of sorts who arrived out of the blue (back when we were all back at The Park - where we originally started this story) and claimed to be a childhood friend of Jamie. It's probably confusing to note that Trinity and Jamie are the same person, the only one who ever calls her Jamie is Dean, the rest call her Trinity, which is the name she chose for herself in her amnesia (and is also the name of her sword, but... I won't keep confusing you). Dean also is super-human but not as 'perfect' as Trinity is, having also been infected (according to his story, we don't really know how true any of what he's said is yet, there's no proof yet, but Trinity's compelled enough by his stories to want to leave the rest of us and head out to find some answers). Dean's abilities are only known to Trinity so no one else knows that he too isn't 100% human. For the record they both look ordinary except when 'in the zone' whether killing or running at impossible speeds etc and then their eyes glow red. That explanation is worth a story in itself but for now, I'll just reinforce the fact most of us don't really know what Trinity or Dean are really capable of, and they really don't seem to know themselves. Jess has also introduced other characters but for now I'll skip ahead and mention the rest as we go along.


Ask questions if you need to, there's a lot to get your head around most probably - but don't panic, as we speak I'm splitting the group up so you won't have to mention many of the others unless you really want to. Let me continue.


Next I guess are my characters; Rae and David - and a third semi-character that I keep referring to but actually died at the start of this story named Rob. All three of us are very human (Rob's now a zombie btw, but I'll get back to him later - And think Disturbed for the Dave reference). Rae's... I have no idea. The literal opposite of the real life me I'm thinking XD. She's pretty much the opposite of Trinity, she's insecure, seen as weak for the most part, and Dave's the surly one of the pack. Their back story (if you needed to know) was basically Rob saved Rae, they saved David, and later Rob died. It's a weird 'love triangle' and basically David's extremely possessive of her and there's constant tension between him and her or him and the rest of the group. He basically doesn't play well with others. It's worth noting before the war we learned he was a prisoner convicted for murdering his girlfriend/fiance so people really don't trust him. Rae's really his only ally, but he acts like her master. This has caused friction between Trinity and Rae in recent posts (too much to really elaborate on without further confusing you) with Trinity basically having this crazy love triange of her own between Dean and newcommer Jonathan (Davis, Korn fame - don't worry, we'll get to him eventually). Now just before Rob died we learned he and Rae concieved a 'child' (I use the term loosely because Rob was actually infected and dying at the time - long story XD) and what resulted was an abomination known as 'Taijitsu.' This creature, technically Rae's child, is a kind of mutant. We keep referring to it because it looks hideous (and Rae's scared of it) but it seems to 'think' human and has been looking out for and protecting the group, even if they all look at it like the rest of the zombies. Trinity, being some kind of hybrid herself, can communicate with it - but up until recently we don't know how trustworthy this monster really is. It keeps to the dark and scares everyone and everything (zombies included) all except Trinity, who last post had a plan to take a few of us out to find it and prove her claims it wasn't a monster (we didn't find it by the way).


We also have a group of others that we met at The Park, 1 woman and 2 men named Amy (Lee of Evanescence), Keith (Smith from Anarchy Club if I remember correctly) and Corey (Taylor of Slipknot/Stonesour fame) - Jess correct me if I got any of that wrong ;) Basically Amy and Keith are together and Corey seems to be their sarcastic sidekick. I'm not sure how much detail you really NEED about them coinsidering as I said as I write this I'm also writing the group splitting up and leaving these 3 (probably) behind us. If you want more details ask, but we do refer to them, so just a heads up if you ever want further information about how they came in the scene or something. Probably not really relevant for you, at the moment you just need to remember the main ones, Trinity and Rae and Dean and David and anyone else we bring in after that, etc.


Now, Jonathan. Jonathan's a bit of a madman. He's fairly unpredictable, and we met him in the sewers after he took a kid hostage and tried to coerce Trinity into things that Dean didn't appreciate. Dean and Jonathan are essentially fighting for Trinity's affections, so that tension is important to pick up if you write about them. Jonathan's human but he's fearless and he's very fast come out of nowhere basically to replace Dean as Trinity's 'other half' (even if they seem to be in denial about their relationship). Trinity's abilities mean that everyone basically looks to her as a kind of saviour with awe and fear, and she's not comfortable at all about being boss - she just wants to be 'normal.' David doesn't want to be friends with anyone, he is the cliched stereotype of aggressive independance but Rae seems to be the only one he actually trusts, so he's not likely to be friendly or welcomming to anyone, in fact he's almost always the opposite. Good to keep that in mind if you talk about him. You'll get used to his attitude soon enough ;) Dean is more sensitive than Trinity, meaning she hides behind her toughness as a kind of defence but Dean's better at 'acting human/normal' and he's an old-fashioned country guy at heart. He's laid back and a little immature at times but he's just as deadly as Trinity is to some degree, he just accepts it better than she does... probably.


We also refer to that character I mentioned before named Doc or Doc M. There's a lot of talk about him but if I tell you about his past and how it all ties in to ours it may just further confuse you (if you're not confused already I'd be amazed XD). Basically all you need to know is, is that he used to be a surgeon before the war and afterwards went a little 'crazy' and lives out in the middle of the desert essentially experimenting on people and zombies alike in order to find a cure for the infection - and on the side he also seems to be running an orphanage for young kids (which he experiments on - Jonathan stole one before and held her hostage, that's how Trinity found him). We have all been staying at his camp we call 'The clinic' among other things that is situated near an underground Military Base now overrun with hundreds of infected zombies (this is where Taijitsu has been hiding out and where the Doc gets his zombies to experiment on). Recently the team went in to the base to search for that missing kid and it was discovered that the Doc may have had something to do with what happened at the base, namely breeding a super-breed of zombie that is faster than the normal one, and can actually think and stalk like a predator instead of some mindless drone like most of the others. The Doc, blind from Macular Degeneration (and also infected), injected himself with Trinity's blood to cure himself - he went mad and ran off and we haven't seen or heard from him since. He left behind his small group of kids and Amy and Keith and Corey had decided to stay behind to look after them until/if the Doc came back while the rest of us went out with Trinity to help her discover clues about her past.


This is generally where the story's gotten to. Where I am at the moment in writing I don't want to spoil, but as I said before I'm in the process of dividing the group up so IF you want to incorporate yourself into the story you can wander the desert giving us your back story OR come across the crazy Doc (if you're feeling adventurous / maybe he experimented on you too and you're only coming to remember it and are looking for anwers?) OR you know someone in the group from somewhere else either before the war or after it, or better yet an enemy, OR you find yourself at the abandonned camp we started at called 'The Park' (either scroll back to the very first page here to get the place details, or read back on Jess' previous recent posts in the story thread as Trinity went back there) and maybe you could have 'spotted her/or someone' and watched her go and are waiting there now trying to figure out your next course of action, OR you're from another camp of survivors (we've mentioned one called 'Mountainside' I think, built in the side of a mountain of course, not all that far away from 'The Park' and a place we haven't really explored in any detail but you could if you wanted).


For the moment it may be useful to give us some of your character's background and let us drag you into our posts so you don't have to feel so overwhelmed in wondering where to start off and fearing you'll get it wrong. Give me one more day and my update should hopefully be up - but I can give you this much information; at least half of us will be heading back to 'The Park' so if you want us to stumble across you there then by all means I'll write you in. As I said, give us your perspective, some insight to your past, are you starving, injured, delirious, unconscious, tall, skinny, soft-spoken, recovering from an ambush/slave trade/science experiment etc, and see what you're happier with posting. If you have any questions or concerns voice them here and either Jess or I will get back to you.


Well anyway that's probably just confused the hell out of you and scared you off (hopefully not!) but if you're still keen to do this I can't wait to see what you come up with - a new face at last - finally! *happy dance*


And just cause Jess is a fan of big bold red lettering - Good luck!

^ Thanks
I tried.

As for Davey (there's no appropriate icon for what I'm thinking so I'll leave that one to your imagination, shh! *lmao*) um... thanks again, I think. I do love MOL *giggles* even if he is a robot-sounding, weed smoking, bad mouthed little whore in it, he's still yes 'adorable' (his Happy Gilmore impersonation always cracks me up!) That pic in moi sig pretty much sums up his attitude I think, says more than any rant draft I ever could *sigh* Funny to hear you call him that too, dear old dad. Wow, been a while. I "ruined" Rob for about 4 other people during the LPF Family days, don't be surprised I "ruin" Davo for you as time goes on. Ruin him? God how I wish.

*ahem* Anyway...

With the story I have about 20 MSWord pages written up again (I know I said I wasn't going to keep doing this but I can't commit to my theses when my head's in zombie land) and I'm hoping to have it up by tonight. That will leave you (Jess, and maybe Brendan now) with the weekend to read and come up with something and I'll try and squeeze something in again next week. I won't waste my breath making statements about brevity, I'm full of sh*t (obviously ;)) and if Brendan does come on board I'll have to try and cull down such big posts anyway, it will only slow down posting time for everyone else if I don't. So anyway give me a few more hours and by the time you get around to reading this again Jess I should hopefully have my bit up for this week.

It's gotten a bit vicious at the Doc's place at the moment. Better get back to them and sort it out


EDIT: I have to congratulate you on using quotes from TPA in your sig. Each one is a snapshot isn't it? Makes me giggle. I'm easily amused. Kudos.


-- Edited by Ravynlee on Friday 14th of August 2009 09:38:24 AM

Sweet. I admit I just couldn't stay away over the week, so I actually have some typed up right now; I'll edit it up a bit (since I really didn't know what to plan for, I just couldn't stop myself; there's worse things to be addicted to I guess *lol*) and post it, then go on back to MSWord for more. Hmmm ... what to do, what to do. So many options. I love having Taijitsu and the Doc and even Dean out there as sort of chaotic elements - they could pop up at any time and mess things up for the rest of us. Makes it more interesting than just one after the other after the other "Oh no, more zombies are attacking!" situations.

But then I seem to be a bit of a sadist when it comes to these people. Let there be blood, gore, guts, gunshots, infection, broken bones, broken hearts, red eyes, knives, drowning, fire and other things I can't think of right now. *whew* Ok, off to MSWord.

EDIT: Oh, and on an amusing note, while I read the lines you've given Jonathan, I find myself thinking exactly what Trinity said: "Wow, he is an *sshole." And I'm laughing all the way, but I also end up feeling sorry for Dean - he's probably one of my favorite characters in all this *shh, don't tell Trinity and Jonathan* - and he's taken quite some abuse in these past updates, hasn't he? *sigh, but also lol*


EDIT again because I'm blind and didn't see Brendan's post: Sounds fine to me, but you might want to read some of our ranty long posts just to get a feel for things. Probably not a requirement (have to wait on judgement from the Almighty Rav on that note ), just a suggestion.

-- Edited by Jess on Saturday 15th of August 2009 07:18:48 AM

I dunno. You guys seem way to obsessed about this for me to even stick a toe in, never mind a foot. xD