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TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3476: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:33:30 PM

Molly told the wolves to try to get onto the car, she turned to red. "Slow down so they can get on!" She screamed, "Look, it's either us, or every man woman and child in the town. Alright? I say we should just get out there and fucking fight!"

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nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3477: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:35:09 PM

"Swarm?" Max asked incredulously. "Jesus Christ Almighty what are you talking about? These things didn't get here overnight. If they had wanted to overthrow the town they'd have done it a long time ago. That sewer is the only source of food they have for dozens of miles. Red, just drive us out of here. Drive away from Green Fields if you're worried about them following us. But for the love of God, let's get somewhere where we aren't surrounded by manholes and can just pick off the spiders at a distance."

FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3478: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:35:32 PM

"I'm with Wolfy on this. I'm driving us towards a hair salon that I found last time. It should be okay to hole up in against spiders I guess." Red said.

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3479: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:36:28 PM

"Depends on the wall and what the biggest spider they've got is. From the biggest I've seen so far, I wouldn't rely on a wood or plaster wall; bricks would hold out for a while, but not forever I think. Concrete would be fine" Lisa responded to Recon.

"Sniper support? What do you want me to do, kill five out of the dozen I can see climbing one building alone before I need to reload? I'm toting a hunting rifle not a gatling gun" Dune replied to Red.

There was then another voice on the frequency, Shevon, as she switched over from the police frequency after Flyer radioed her. "What the hell's going on? Something about tons of spiders and you wanting me to come out there and help make a final stand?"

"I think that's the jist of what the loud guy wants, yeah."

"That sounds like one of the dumbest suicide plans I've ever heard; and I've already told you, if me and my officers leave town, that leaves it defenseless, so no. Just flee out to open ground and run circles around the city, shooting back at them as you outrun them is what I would do; worked back when we used to have groups of spiders attack here months ago" Shevon suggested.

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gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3480: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:37:20 PM

"No, not on the streets. Too easy to get flanked, surrounded, swarmed. We need a place where we can hold out. Where they have to bunch up so we can take out two or more with a single shot. The wolves need to stay out of it. They won't be able to fight without getting overwhelmed or caught in the line of fire."

Recon tried desperately to think of a place. No windows, one door, preferably roomy enough that they wouldn't feel cramped.

"Shevon, how long as it been since the last spider attack at Green Fields?"

edited 22nd Jan '14 8:38:42 PM by gameknight102xx

TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3481: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:40:09 PM

Molly nodded grimly, she turned to Dusk and Grey, telling them with as much authority as she could to just head to the Town, and that she'd be there later. She frowned, looking at the Spiders, drawing her Bow, and taking aim, firing at the Swarm, hoping to at least kill one.

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gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3482: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:41:13 PM

Recon looked up before shooting out his hand to the wolves, as if trying to pull them back.

"Not back to the town. They'll lead the spiders right there...!"

edited 22nd Jan '14 8:47:21 PM by gameknight102xx

FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3483: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:41:40 PM

"Recon - I already told you - I'm taking us to a place we can hold out. The hair salon, remember?" Red told the other hunter, still driving in that direction.

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3484: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:48:56 PM

"We don't have the resources to fight these things in the middle of their nest," Max pleaded. "Red, that hair salon will wind up being a coffin if you take us there. The only thing that can protect us from these spiders is distance. We can drive until they're too tired to follow, then circle back and kill the stragglers, but we cannot hope to take them all out. This isn't a movie."

TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3485: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:50:44 PM

"Can they tire?" Molly shot back, "Can they? Or are we just going to let them wander? Listen, we're the meat here, they'll come for us!"

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nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3486: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:52:16 PM

"If they're going to come to us, then why the hell are you so opposed to luring them out into the middle of a killing field where we can carve into them like turkeys?" Max replied, exasperated. "Right now they can surround us at any second!"

edited 22nd Jan '14 8:52:24 PM by nman

TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3487: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:54:06 PM

"They'd have an easier time doing it in a field!"

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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3488: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:54:35 PM

"We can have the best of both worlds." Red offered. "We'll hole up in the salon for a bit, and we'll kill a big chunk. Then we'll get Dune to clear the exit for us, hop back in the Jeep and drive to kill the stragglers. That work for everybody?"

gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3489: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:55:24 PM

"Certain kinds of spiders don't tire. They generate more energy than they consume. Not sure if these spiders are one of those types, but I don't feel like gambling our only means of escape on it. If this jeep runs out of gas and we're still out in the open? We're fucked."

Recon patted the seat of the jeep. "Considering its carrying several fully-grown people and going as fast as possible, that's gonna happen real damn soon. We don't have to worry about that though. We'll run out of ammo and luck long before that. There are people I know that can hit bulls-eye every time from a moving vehicle. I'm not one of them, and I seriously doubt you are either."

edited 22nd Jan '14 8:56:58 PM by gameknight102xx

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3490: Jan 22nd 2014 at 8:55:46 PM

"These things have nowhere to hide out there," Max said. "We'd have time to make every shot count. You try doing this Leonidas bullshit, we're going to run out of ammunition and get killed in a heartbeat."

He turned to Recon, "And I thought we filled up the tank? We should be good for at least a hundred miles."

edited 22nd Jan '14 8:56:29 PM by nman

TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3491: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:00:01 PM

"Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while, Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies...." Molly quietly sang as she continued to shoot arrow after arrow into the horde of Spiders.

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gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3492: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:02:10 PM

Recon sighed and rubbed his mask.

"Battles ain't won without taking risks..."

Recon took the nearest window.

"Red, slow down. We're doing it Max's way. Set a course for Green Fields and drive as slow as safely possible. This quad-barrel on my back can kill four or more per shot if I can aim it right. If we're gonna put hundreds of lives at risk, might as well do it right."

He pointed to Max.

"If you want a firing spot, shoot out the back."

With that, he raised his gun and waited for the spiders to come closer, until he could count their eyes.

edited 22nd Jan '14 9:22:59 PM by gameknight102xx

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3493: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:04:00 PM

"I don't know, around half a year. We stopped seeing giant spiders by the time the organized undead attacks from Fang started. We figured they probably either went to ground or migrated somewhere else" Shevon answered Recon.

Grey hopped off the jeep and ran down the street to leave town. Dusk followed right after her. The spiders ignored them.

Meanwhile, turning to go towards the hair salon had the jeep turned down the street. Down the street in the direction of the manhole that the spiders had opened themselves and had poured out of. The bright side was that that past tense was correct; there were not currently any more spiders coming out of that manhole cover.

The not-so-bright side was that that meant there was something to the tune of twenty spiders between them and the next turn they would have to take. Make that nineteen as Molly took one of the small ones out. The group seemed to be composed of four larger ones, which had bodies alone slightly bigger than the bounty hunters, and the rest that small size mentioned before.

There was also the matter of the group of spiders to their left and slightly behind them too, that had come out of the manhole Red had climbed into. There was only about a dozen in that group, and only two of the larger ones. In the end, trying to go either way down the street from the parking lot involved spiders. (Though one way went into town while the other went almost immediately out of it.)

They could also try going around the back of the walmart, since there was space to drive there; but anyone who glanced over that way would see there was more spiders climbing on its walls and roof, coming around from somewhere behind it.

"I'm coming to you guys so I can help there... Also why are none of you shooting yet?!" Lisa said over the radio. Looking over slightly to the left in the distance, in the direction of the bowling alley, they could see Lisa rising up in the air over the burnt husks of buildings, flapping her wings repeatedly to gain altitude.

"We're heading further in. We're getting the attention of a whole lot of them; gonna keep 'em away from you lot, right" Flyer said on the frequency, as the helicopter in the distance did just that.

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gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3494: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:07:58 PM

"Need to get them closer!" Recon said back to Lisa.

"Shevon, how many spiders do you think were left once the attacks stopped?"

Recon leaned out the window and raised his gun. He trained it on one of the bigger spiders and waited until he was sure he could get solid hits on all of them before opening fire.

edited 22nd Jan '14 9:10:24 PM by gameknight102xx

nman Since: Mar, 2010
#3495: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:08:46 PM

"Back windshield?" Max asked, turning around and positioning his gun out in front of him as level as he could manage. "What's the range on that thing you got there? We might as well drive out until we're away from any manholes and buildings, then lure them in a straight line until they're close enough for you to rip a hole in 'em."

TroyandHawk The Blinder from Back Home. Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
The Blinder
#3496: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:09:03 PM

Molly took aim for the face of one of the larger spiders, pulling back as hard as the bow would allow before releasing the arrow, all the while continuing to sing Forever Young

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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3497: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:10:58 PM

Red hit the accelerator pedal as hard as he could - going to in the "out of town" direction, charging for the spiders.

"Start shooting!" he screamed to his fellow hunters.

gameknight102xx Since: Aug, 2011
#3498: Jan 22nd 2014 at 9:18:23 PM

"Not long. Shotgun remember? I need to be as close as possibl-"

Recon nearly fell out of the car, but he recovered himself and yelled back.

"Son of a bitch Red! That's not slo-oooh!" Recon saw the new spiders.

He began to fire, aiming carefully, using the spread of his gun and aiming for the eyes.

FirockFinion THE SLORG! from The Red Desert Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
THE SLORG!
#3499: Jan 22nd 2014 at 10:09:59 PM

"No idea, we never had a good count of them to begin with. The attacks were never more than a dozen or twenty at time" Shevon answered Recon over the radio.

Molly's arrow hit its target, hitting it just above the eyes. It reared up and shrieked, momentarily overcome by the pain before putting its front legs back down and moving again. By then Red had slammed the car into the group of spiders, almost immediately squashing three of the smaller ones under the front of the jeep. The majority of the group had either scrambled to the sides or jumped onto the jeep as it blazed through the group.

A total of four of the smaller ones had landed on the jeep; two were clinging onto the left side, one right over Red's driver side window and actually reaching in to try to bite him now; the other on the back part of the jeep, scrambling to get up onto the bed. A third landed on top of the passenger seat, pretty much right over Recon's head. It immediately bit down towards him, scratching against his helmet ineffectually. The fourth didn't actually land so much as it accidentally slammed into Molly's side, stumbling her, bouncing off and landing in the bed of the jeep on its back and scrambling to get up.

There was also the other larger spider, which had managed to land on the front of the jeep, prompting Recon to shoot it in the face at point blank. With a messy and chunky spray, its face exploded, killing it. Its body slumped down onto the hood, blocking part of Red's view with its dead body and legs, particularly to his front and right where its body was.

Behind the jeep, both groups of spiders chased after them, but couldn't keep up. Lisa was swooping in from the side, also trying and failing to keep up at the moment, and yelling at the spiders below her, the remnants of the smaller group. Of the three smaller spiders, two of them stopped and suddenly turned on each other, biting at each other before the larger one caught up, pinned one down under two of its feet, and grabbed the other one, biting into and killing it. The third of the small spiders kept chasing after the jeep, ignoring Lisa.

Ahead of them they could see Dusk and Grey just starting to reach the edge of the overrun town. Movement in the burnt ruins to the sides of the road ahead of them told them that more spiders might intercept before they got clear.

edited 22nd Jan '14 10:11:56 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
#3500: Jan 22nd 2014 at 11:14:17 PM

Molly recoiled, bumping into Recon, before realizing that there wad a spider, she drew an arrow and attempted to stab it through the head, followed by stabbing at the one near Red , she paused, turning to.Red. "Fucking brake! Just do it!" hopefully the force would knock the spiders out.

edited 22nd Jan '14 11:19:51 PM by TroyandHawk

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