first call - backdated three hours before dawn

May 14, 2011 13:50

[ In the depths of the Darkness, gunshots echoed through the night. A young voice calls out, feminine but blunted by life’s gravity, spilling out swears as easily as her rifle ejects empty shells. ]

Francis! Louis!

[ A screech filters through, something inhuman - or maybe it once was human - before a wet schunk splatters to the ground, like maybe a ( Read more... )

c: uchiha itachi, c: spike, c: sora, c: laughing beauty, c: norman jayden, c: kimihiko ooe, !: zoey

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Voice bornfromdeath May 14 2011, 21:21:28 UTC
You know, it's not fair when people slip past the scientists. [Kimihiko sounds very amused.]

I'm not sure what a MySpace is, but if I see your friends, I'll let you know.

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Voice leading3men May 14 2011, 22:29:26 UTC
[ Highly unlikely, as she didn't even give out a description. ]

What scientists?

[ Wait. Oh god, what if she passes the virus to everyone? She didn't even thought of that. She really needs to get out of this place. ]

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Voice bornfromdeath May 14 2011, 22:33:00 UTC
[You never know. Most people tend to introduce themselves, and there's at least one Francis on the Network already.]

The ones at the baseball diamond, where you arrived. Usually they hold people and interrogate them, I gather. You must have slipped past them in the dark and not been noticed.

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Voice leading3men May 14 2011, 23:05:54 UTC
[ Well, if this Francis isn't a six-foot-biker who hates everything, he ain't hers. ]

Why are they interrogating people? Are they sick?

[ If that's the case, good thing she gave them the slip. If they realized she's a Carrier, they might have taken her behind a storage shed and killed her. ]

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Voice bornfromdeath May 14 2011, 23:08:34 UTC
Not as far as I know. They just want to know where you came from, what you're capable of, that sort of thing. They're apparently investigating people who are brought here.

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Voice leading3men May 14 2011, 23:14:57 UTC
...What exactly you mean, 'what I'm capable of'? I mean, I think your average guy off the street would know your average marksmanship. You know, point, aim, shoot, reload.

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Voice bornfromdeath May 14 2011, 23:17:44 UTC
...since when would any average person know how to fire a weapon? For one thing, guns are illegal where I come from. For another, don't you need a license even in America? I'm not sure about Canadian laws but I'm guessing they're similar.

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Voice leading3men May 14 2011, 23:27:05 UTC
[ Zoey then realizes that, uh, not everyone might not be a zombie apocalypse survivalist and thus, license laws do not apply when there is no society anymore. If what Brooke is saying is true, anyway, though this guy is cinching it. ]

Never mind. But basically, they are just looking for your resumes?

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Voice bornfromdeath May 14 2011, 23:29:21 UTC
Not exactly your resumes so much as just what you can do. Whether you're a danger to them or not, I suppose, as well as whether you're useful. Any ill effects from your arrival, things like that. They're apparently studying the Core, the object that brought everyone here, so it's wise for them to investigate the types of people it brings to find a pattern.

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Voice leading3men May 14 2011, 23:37:20 UTC
[ Zoey can feel the sensation of panic crawling through her lungs, through her spine. It's not a pleasant feeling - the tips of her fingers are shaking the iPhone that she never had before. Oh god, she's going to create an epidemic by the afternoon, she just knows it.

Pressing the anxiety out of her throat, she continues on, like she always do. Keep calm and carry on, after all.]

And if they found something they don't like? What then?

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Voice bornfromdeath May 14 2011, 23:40:17 UTC
I don't know. Considering they're new arrivals, it's possible they'd be eliminated before they made themselves known to the rest. Or it's possible they'd just get relocated to prison. Of course, there's no guarantee they're getting honest information.

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Re: Voice leading3men May 14 2011, 23:50:55 UTC
Right.

And these people, these scientists . . . they have to be working with someone, right? Who?

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Voice bornfromdeath May 15 2011, 00:02:13 UTC
The company that employs them is known as SERO. It's one of the two major forces in this city, alongside AGI.

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Voice leading3men May 15 2011, 00:36:40 UTC
Forces? What about the government?

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Voice bornfromdeath May 15 2011, 00:38:12 UTC
There's a mayor, I gather. Police, things like that. But they don't seem to really do much.

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Voice leading3men May 15 2011, 00:44:32 UTC
Capitalism strikes again.

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