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The business had been open when the changeover happened, so the doors were unlocked. Juri pushed them open with one of her feet. It was too quiet as she stepped into the dark showroom. It wasn't as big as she expected such things to be, but silent cars surrounded the offices. The stench of the dead filled the air though. Her ears didn't ( Read more... )

S.T. was bored. Bored and feeling useless. He'd stomped around town, looking for a distraction from his own self-pitying funk, as the light had waned. Boredom and feigned anticipation had given way to dread. He'd circled back around to the grocery to see if there was anything less useless on the bulletin. No dice ( Read more... )

[continued from here]Sai opened the door to the grocers for both of them and allowed Shikamaru to walk in first. This is where they'd find the bulletin board in town, and the ninja had a couple notes he thought it important to leave - one to warn the other ninja specifically, and one as a general warning. He hadn't seen anyone post something like ( Read more... )

[from here]The first thing Spider noticed after charging into the hallway and almost skidding into the far wall were the stairs. Stairs were not usually a good source of information (generally people and computers were better) but in this case they were invaluable. These stairs went downwards. There were no stairs going downwards on the first floor ( Read more... )

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Now that he'd made his daring escape, Spider began considering important questions. Questions like, "where the fuck am I?" "where the fuck are my drugs?" and "did I accidentally smear shit all over myself instead of blood?" The third question would require a second opinion, and the second question depended wholly on figuring out the ( Read more... )

The static snapped Spider out of his gruesome writing trance. His initial project had been to cover the walls in his shit, but he soon sobered up and realized that the nurses would probably wash it all off as soon as he cleared out of the cell, and he couldn't even read what he'd been writing very well. Instead - and mostly because he didn't ( Read more... )

When the intercom's jingle rang through the Institute's speakers, the Head Doctor sounded a little more rushed than usual ( Read more... )

"Hello, hello," said the Head Doctor in a cheery tone. It sounded as if he'd gotten over his paperwork hangover. "I hope half of you are clean and that the other half of you are hungry! Or that all of you are hungry! Ha-ha... Either way, we'll be serving a down-to-earth lunch of crispy chicken strips and fries; we also have cole slaw, potato salad ( Read more... )

All praise to Leviathan, the Flower of Wutai was freeYuffie all but bolted away from the weirdo she'd shared her breakfast table with. She wanted to get to the courtyard as soon as possible, wanted to be free of the jolting disquiet brought on by Albedo's creepy grin, strange attitude, and his questions. If it hadn't been for the night before - and ( Read more... )

[from here]Harley passed through the door first, sweeping the light all around the room. Okay, good. There were no loud banging sounds this time around. And so far, it didn't look like any giant, monster bugs were hanging around the ceiling. No other people in here either ( Read more... )