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Author Topic: Worm: Edwardstown  (Read 135796 times)

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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #315 on: September 11, 2014, 09:15:25 pm »

I let out a frustrated sigh as I stood up. I was being reminded why we broke up.

"I'll get it, just...I don't know. Food's in the kitchen. You made coffee, you know that. Blagh."

Answering the landline, I asked "Hello? Who is this?"
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #316 on: September 13, 2014, 02:48:46 pm »

Selina gets quite pale, both at the feeling, and the man in front of her. She opens her mouth to speak, then closes it, repeating several times. She finally manages to get a word out, terrified out of her wits at the scenario before her.

"Help... please call help..."


Theres a bit of her mind still working despite how stunned she is, taking a step away from the man, and subsequent steps if he tries to get closer, but never really getting too far away.

"Wait, wait. Hold on. Remain calm. You need a blanket? Are you hurt? Do you need an ambulance?" he asks, seemingly quite unnerved by your behavior. A sudden surge of uneasiness hits you when he starts fumbling in his pockets.

Jake sighs and continues browsing for something else. Those masks would have been great if he could get one of the face of Dissent's friend or parent, but he didn't know enough about her to do that. Perhaps a thematic mask would be better. Maybe something styled like a tower or wall. Or a shield.

You notice that masks that look like towers, shields or walls have several things in common. Firstly, they all seem to be rather blocky, kind of like one of those cheese hats. Secondly, they're really goofy-looking, like something a mascot would wear. Thirdly, they're fairly rare, because dressing up like a piece of architecture, as you find out from several concept sketches found on an image search, is pretty much the most clear-cut example of a crime against fashion and sensibility a person can think of.

It seems that if you want a mask you'd be satisfied with, you need to make your own, or at least find somebody crazy enough on the internet to custom-make one for you.

Kyle sighs when he sees the portly face of his mother.
"Well, the dogs are gone and someone stole the TV. And there isn't any blood so it wasn't some unlucky robber."

"Oh... dear," your mom says. "How... how did they slip past you, whoever they were? We should call the police, I think. This will not stand, I tell you."

Resigned to the fact that the television is unhelpful Steven tries searching around the internet for any hints as to what the project Ed kids were photographing and what they could be planning.

You immediately head over to Project Ed's website to learn if there's any upcoming events or anything of interest in the photo gallery. There you find little - the site hasn't been properly updated for over six months, as it often is with hastily-started things. As for any other hints, well, parahuman forum posts, what little there are relating to this place, seem to mostly center around the idea that Project Ed seem to have really scaled back activity recently. The most obvious reason put forward for this is that they're probably off somewhere plotting something, or maybe just getting high off Ilo's stuff - really, could be either one of the two, or both at the same time. Nobody's really concerned, although two people do mention that Project Ed's apparently going to have a big party somewhere outside of town in a couple weeks, 'gonna light up the sky' says one post.

Alex would relax and look for cat videos on TV

Ah, funny animal shows. They fill your heart with such relaxed cheer, the closest thing you know to happiness in life. And they've got cable in this VIP room, so you've got a whole lot of funny animals to entertain yourself with for hours to come, until you eat a suspiciously high-quality lunch and get a rather wonderful sponge bath afterward. Hours turn into days, whiled away in contentment, until you are seemingly healed enough to be discharged - you still can't really talk, though a complementary hospital notepad has been provided to you by hospital staff, and you walk out of a hospital with a smile on your face for the very first time. You could get used to this kind of treatment.

When you're finally out, you wonder what to do next. See Kibbel immediately, take a walk to get your body used to regular movement again, or maybe something else entirely? You feel a bit like you're floating on air, so relaxed is your mind.

Carrie looked downcast as she finished face petulant as only a child can manage, "I don't like it."

"Carrie, come on now. He's making a lot of sense. Lets just go home and..."

"No! I want this, I need this, this is..." Carrie does a quick scan of the building, all the while trying to understand. "This is not about me, its about everyone else.  And I'm not ready yet. The words come out as a dull monotone.

Her father nods, a little concerned, but he thanks the officer and subtly motions Carrie towards the car for home.  Once outside however, she stops at the nearest bench and just sits.

Your dad doesn't quite notice your choice of seating at first, and walks toward the car, but ultimately turns back and walks up to you again, quite concerned.

I let out a frustrated sigh as I stood up. I was being reminded why we broke up.

"I'll get it, just...I don't know. Food's in the kitchen. You made coffee, you know that. Blagh."

Answering the landline, I asked "Hello? Who is this?"

Jake shrugs apologetically, and walks off toward the kitchen.

"Serra, baby, it's your aunt. Have you, uh, had any luck?" the shaky voice of your aunt is on the other end.
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #317 on: September 13, 2014, 03:01:13 pm »

"Mom... I was in the hospital. You visited me when I was there."
Kyle gives her a concerned look.
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« Reply #318 on: September 13, 2014, 03:03:07 pm »

"...9...1...1..." Is all Selina says before she runs away as fast as possible, trusting the feelin to get her the heck out of here NOW! Before something bad happened...
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #319 on: September 13, 2014, 03:25:53 pm »

"Mom... I was in the hospital. You visited me when I was there."
Kyle gives her a concerned look.

"I remember that, yes. I mean after you got out. You just came back and holed up in there as usual. I remember walking down the stairs and there was the most wonderful smell of pancakes coming from in there. I was so proud of you at that moment," she says wistfully, tilting her head as she examines the ceiling.

"...9...1...1..." Is all Selina says before she runs away as fast as possible, trusting the feelin to get her the heck out of here NOW! Before something bad happened...

"Hey! Wait!" the guy says as you run off, but he doesn't follow. You leave him in the dust fairly easily, the adrenaline, or possibly epinephrine, pushing you onward. You'd say you've worked off your light dinner by the time you feel it's safe to stop, and the unease has subsided entirely.
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« Reply #320 on: September 13, 2014, 03:28:46 pm »

Selina tries to stop the shaking of the fear she is experiencing, glad the feeling went away. She HAD to find a phone or something! She begins her sneaking slow search for a pay phone, school, or police station. Desperation was kicking in.
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #321 on: September 13, 2014, 04:12:47 pm »

Kyle stares.
"Mom. I was just released now. This is really weird, no news reports on the fact I was apparently shot, no one remembers what happened and for some reason I found a weird knife near the place I last remembered being."
Kyle pulls it out and shows it to his mother.
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #322 on: September 13, 2014, 05:34:52 pm »

Alex would look around the parking lot. He would stare around, looking for his black 2006 mustang.
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« Reply #323 on: September 13, 2014, 06:13:51 pm »

Selina tries to stop the shaking of the fear she is experiencing, glad the feeling went away. She HAD to find a phone or something! She begins her sneaking slow search for a pay phone, school, or police station. Desperation was kicking in.

Your search is slow indeed, and rather lacking in success as a consequence. They don't install pay phones this far out in the outskirts. At least not outside. And schools and police stations are similarly scarce, although you eventually (you dare say early morning may be slowly approaching now) notice a group of people lying out on a lawn, watching the stars calmly in the near-complete darkness, chatting about all kinds of things. They seem like fairly young people, about four in number, and sound quite friendly, or at least so you would guess from the tone. You're not exactly in the frame of mind to decipher the Seinfeldian twists of their current conversation, freezing and desperate as you are.

Kyle stares.
"Mom. I was just released now. This is really weird, no news reports on the fact I was apparently shot, no one remembers what happened and for some reason I found a weird knife near the place I last remembered being."
Kyle pulls it out and shows it to his mother.

What knife? You don't remember any knife. You don't have any knives on you, actually, which is a tad strange, you think. You like knives, after all. Maybe your knifelessness needs to be rectified. You hope whoever looted your apartment didn't steal that as well.

"Oh. You were? I thought you were out two days ago. I mean, I didn't see you, but the neighbors did hear somebody moving in your place. I thought it was you being your usual self, I suppose. You do have these strange habits. You're growing up, you know?"

She scratches her chin as she considers the rest of your words.

"But you shouldn't be so down they didn't put you on the news. Not being on the news is good news almost all the time, don't you know. If you're on the news, means something really terrible has happened to you, and you seem okay, right?"

And then she gets back to her original train of thought.

"But wait! You were robbed! We should call the police, maybe?"

Alex would look around the parking lot. He would stare around, looking for his black 2006 mustang.

It is nowhere to be seen. You suspect it may have been left at the warehouse that blew up. Somebody probably impounded it as a best case scenario, or it was merely stolen and chopped up for parts as a worst case scenario. In any case, it seems like it's time to familiarize yourself with how the bus system works again.
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #324 on: September 13, 2014, 07:55:20 pm »

Kyle nods after a bit of thinking.
"Yeah... Do you have the strange feeling that you're forgetting something to?"
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #325 on: September 13, 2014, 08:18:54 pm »

Alex would slowly walk to the nearest bus stop. He would check his wallet for money. Does the bus stop accept credit cards? No, of course not. Do you need exact change? He hadn't been on one since he was twelve.
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« Reply #326 on: September 14, 2014, 04:17:14 am »

"I dont... Get it. Why... WHY!?! I have powers, finally I have powers and I'm not supposed to use them?

"Carrie, please. You need time to think about this. Your mother..."

Carrie shouted through her tears. "Mom's dead Dad. She died being a terrible person. I heard her order one pf her men to blow themselves up. I can't even think of her in a good light. Is she why I don't get to have friends over? Because you two were afraid that someone would find her out?  I don't even have friends!  You scared them away didn't you!?! her voice was becoming hysterical and her father couldn't get a word in edgewise.

"Carrie, I'm sorry."

"You're sorry!?! What does that even mean?  If we had to go through this again you wouldn't have lied to me?  There's nothing to make this better.. Her last sentence returned to her abnormal monotone, she stood, "I'm going on a walk.  I'll be back for dinner."

"Carrie, wait."

Having no desire to speak with her father any further, Carrie walks away, teleporting when no one else is looking. She goes in search of something to tes the combat effects of her powers on.
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Re: Worm: Edwardstown
« Reply #327 on: September 14, 2014, 05:28:34 am »

Hitting a dead end in his project ed research steven contemplates ways to conduct combat in a less destructive and more directed fashion which would hopefully limit the amount of collateral damage he caused.

Ever one for the simplest solution steven decides that he needs guns and body armor and a buttload of ammo.

Thinking about ways he could possibly acquire such objects Steven triesto remember any details he can about the local police station and any armored transports that make high value deliveries around town.
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« Reply #328 on: September 14, 2014, 10:24:58 am »

Selina gulps. She MIGHT be able to get help more easily in the morning when there are a LOT more people around. She would be seen as she was by dozens of people... but maybe she could get help without risk of being taken. Too many eyes watching everyone to make sure no one tried anything? But... she was cold, miserable, and not all sound in the head. She couldn't last too long before SOMETHING happened... She comes to a desicion.

Assuming that atleast 2/4 are female: Selina approaches slowly and tries to ask for help.

Assuming 1/4 or 0/4 are female: Selina tries to find someplace a little warmer to wait until morning to get help.
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« Reply #329 on: September 14, 2014, 12:56:56 pm »

Jake sighs again. He didn't even need something that complex. He searches for a featureless metal mask with eye holes and a mouth hole. He could always paint a design on it later. If he can't find one, he'll probably have to call one of his friends that is in shop class to make him one.
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