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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3201: Nov 21st 2013 at 10:38:55 AM

"You got it. The word of the day is matches." Red said before lighting the piles.

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3202: Nov 21st 2013 at 10:43:07 AM

Max pulled back from Red and stood up, "You're a real firebug, ain't ya?" he said with a chuckle.

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3203: Nov 21st 2013 at 7:34:50 PM

Either the spirit didn't feel like doing anything to stop the pair, or Lisa was telling the truth, as nothing stopped Max and Red from burning the hobby shop down. The cards burned easily though it take take a bit for the flames to catch on the walls and floor properly, but in due time the building came down.

Meanwhile, after making sure Recon was properly clasped on, Dune moved around to the other side of the helicopter and secured himself with the other clasp, standing on the left side landing struts. Grey was fidgeting and occasionally giving a light growl in the direction of Dune, Flyer, or Recon, but Dusk was laying down rather calmly and finally gave a quick growl at Grey, who then laid down as well.

As they finally took off, the helicopter slowly rose into the air and Flyer muttered some complaint about it struggling with the weight, but soon enough they were underway back towards Green Fields.

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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3204: Nov 21st 2013 at 7:51:23 PM

Red went up to Lisa and gave a grin.

"That's some impressive magic you have there if you can harness a spirit." Red observed. "How'd you do it?"

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3205: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:05:16 PM

Lisa glanced over at Red from her sitting position in the back of the jeep, still holding her Winchester, the lever of which was now moving back and forth on its own a few times. "Blackmail" Lisa said, her expression rather neutral. "If I had to choose between getting exorcised into the afterlife or getting stuck in a gun, I'd take the latter option too" she explained, turning her head back to the gun to watch the lever moving back and forth.

It was a little hard to tell if she was being serious or not.

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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3206: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:10:09 PM

"Nice." Red said. "Can I see that shotgun? See if the spirit is visible?"

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3207: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:10:31 PM

"Or maybe it's just waiting for the person who shoved it in there to get their head in the range of the barrel," Max said, stepping up behind Red. "Because it cares more about revenge than blackmail. Do we really have to keep that thing around? I don't know if we can trust it."

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3208: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:16:25 PM

"Not like you'll see much. It's only visible inside it" Lisa said, handing the shotgun to Red. "So the spots where the ammo goes in and comes out are it, maybe peek down the barrel... It's not loaded" she added, and glanced at Max.

"If it wanted me dead it could have tried harder in the shop. So long as I'm around, it'll behave, I guarantee ya'" Lisa told him, placing her right hand on her hip.

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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3209: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:20:27 PM

"Well Max - lookiee here. This thing would be a real match against mons - you know?" Red said - holding the shotgun out to Max to inspect.

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3210: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:23:13 PM

"I'm not buying a suit, though," Max said, taking the offered shotgun to give it a brief lookover - being careful to not point it at anyone, 'unloaded' or not, "In the shop it had some nerdy toy swords, but now you gave it access to a 12 gauge."

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3211: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:32:47 PM

"Still could've tried. Thing didn't even put up a fight; just rattled stuff around a bit until I explained the alternative" Lisa said with a shrug. "'Sides, since I'll be holding it, it won't exactly get the chance to shoot me, and I could still exorcise it pretty much whenever; and it knows that" she added, looking at the gun specifically for a moment.

The lever had still been moving back and forth, opening the shell ejection a few more times, but finally stopped. The intake slot for reloading clicked a couple times, then the trigger pulled, making the hammer click forward. It didn't shoot.

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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3212: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:33:35 PM

"Alright - well when you guys are done - I'm gonna be looking for more buildings to clear before nightfall comes around." Red said, hopping into the Jeep and heading to the nearest building.

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3213: Nov 21st 2013 at 8:53:41 PM

Max quickly hopped into the jeep with Thor before Red took off, "Make it quick, and be careful. Helicopter's going to head back so we're not going to have any help."

FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3214: Nov 21st 2013 at 9:00:58 PM

"I've been doing this all day without chopper support. Don't worry." Red said.

edited 21st Nov '13 9:53:04 PM by FantasyLiver

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3215: Nov 22nd 2013 at 2:12:14 AM

"That's exactly why I'm worried," Max said. "So far we have two people hurt, a dead wolf, now her gun's haunted, you burned down a toy store, and we're playing hide-and-go-seek trying to find places around here where a vampire and a succubus might just be lurking around, waiting to kill us."

He patted Thor on the head.

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3216: Nov 23rd 2013 at 7:37:16 PM

Overrun town

Reaching the next couple buildings, a laundromat then later a garage attached to what used to be a carwash, took a while because of the roads still being blocked up, but was ultimately uneventful. Not a single living (or unliving) thing, monster or otherwise, was encountered until the garage, when they encountered a rat; not a giant rat, just a rat. There wasn't much to loot either, between the two buildings they found just a mostly empty bottle of detergent with bleach, and a corded power drill that appeared to be fully intact; with no power to test it with though, there was no way to be sure unless they brought it back to Green Fields.

To Lisa's frustration, there were no demon summoning ritual circles to be found either. There was actually the remains of a circle faded into the tile floor at the back of the laundromat, but Lisa identified it as a skeleton raising ritual that had already been used; not what they were looking for and completely harmless now. She even walked over it as if to demonstrate, and if Red or Max tried, nothing would happen to them either.

Finally it was reaching late afternoon, about the time they would want to think about heading back if they wanted to reach Green Fields before nightfall.


Helicopter/Green Fields

After a quiet ride back to town, they were as usual greeted by Shevon and a couple officers at the empty parking lot they used for landing, having heard the helicopter approaching. After some initial alarm seeing the dire wolves, Dune explained it was because of Molly being a werewolf, then informed the sheriff that Molly and Recon were both hurt. Shevon and the officers saw to getting them to Doc's, the dire wolves followed, Dune headed to Garnets, saying something about wanting to see the 'Ghoul gun', while Flyer saw to refueling the helicopter.

At the bookstore, Doc saw to the unconscious Molly first, though really just checked her injuries, cleaned her up a bit, and redid what Jerry had already did. "With rest and a hearty meal, she should be fine within a day or two, at most" Doc mentioned idly, not sounding concerned at all. He then looked at Recon, and raised his eyebrows a little. "So what about you? They said you were hurt but didn't say how" he asked the mercenary, ready to treat him but not approaching in case Recon wanted to refuse treatment.

edited 23rd Nov '13 9:49:01 PM by FirockFinion

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TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3217: Nov 23rd 2013 at 9:36:40 PM

With a start, Molly jolted awake, seeing what was around her, she just put her head on her knees and sobbed.

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nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3218: Nov 23rd 2013 at 11:54:15 PM

If Red or Lisa hadn't grabbed the bottles or the drill, Max made sure to - you never knew what might come in hand during the apocalypse. "Water in the desert", after all. He also made sure not to go anywhere near that circle, which he covered up by walking Thor out to use the restroom.

"Well," Max said. "Better head back before the witching hour -" he cast an awkward glance at Lisa. "Uh, sorry, didn't mean it like that, I know you're a good witch and you look much - I mean... it's an expression!"

gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3219: Nov 24th 2013 at 10:38:15 AM

"Bunch of runners got me down to the floor and started kicking the crap out of me. Couldn't bite through my armor-,"

Recon looked up and saw Molly, and walked slowly over to her and sat down beside her.

Without saying anything, he put an arm over her.

TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3220: Nov 24th 2013 at 1:03:51 PM

Suddenly, almost instinctively, Molly shoved him away from her, she looked at him. "Get away from me."

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Thelastgreatwarrior When words are not enough from Not here Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: In another castle
When words are not enough
#3221: Nov 24th 2013 at 6:45:00 PM

Jerry missed his opportunity to get in the jeep (Which he was going to get being that he had to stay behind because of the lack of space in the chopper.) and drove off without him. He then groaned and jogged after them.

"Somebody barbequin'?!"
FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3222: Nov 24th 2013 at 7:05:49 PM

"Lisa - is there any spell you know of to actually find the vampire sonuvabitch?" Red asked impatiently.

"We've been to four or five buildings and we haven't a clue as to where he or his army is. What the hell is up?"

gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3223: Nov 24th 2013 at 7:27:10 PM

Recon nodded.

"Sorry, I just...sorry,"

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3224: Nov 24th 2013 at 8:43:25 PM

Overrun town

Lisa just glanced at Max for a moment, then shrugged; apparently the comment didn't bother her. "I'd still like to set up for Fang... But with the werewolf out of commission, we're at a lot lower strength" Lisa admitted hesitantly, still not happy with that, based on her expression. She then glanced at Red, and thought for a bit. "... Not really" she finally said neutrally, "as for his 'army', I dunno, maybe that bandit guy was right. Maybe we've pretty much eliminated all Fang had already."

To add to the point, Lisa motioned around them at the remains of the city, easily 7/8ths of which, if not more, had been burnt to the ground. "It's not like many zombies could have survived this" Lisa muttered, resting her chin on her other hand. "We should regroup with Jerry and Og and get out of here" she added, huffing a breath out of her nose.


Doc's bookstore

Once Molly was awake, Dusk and Grey likewise moved over to the reading bench she'd been laid down on. After Recon approached and got pushed away, they both stared at him, Grey letting out a light growl again.

Doc watched the exchange, one eyebrow raising up a little bit. "I'd prescribe some good alcohol, but I don't think we really have any" Doc said quietly to Recon, though Molly would still hear it clearly. "Now, do you want me to treat your wounds or not?" he asked, stepping over to the metal table he used for treatment.

edited 24th Nov '13 8:44:22 PM by FirockFinion

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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3225: Nov 24th 2013 at 9:03:24 PM

Red looked around at the city.

"Maybe so - but shouldn't we be chasing after Fang before he raises another army? I'm all for living to see another paycheck but I figure the odds of getting another paycheck increase a lot when there's one less vampire in the area."


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