Panacea (Operation Shoot 'Em in the Chest and Lower Extremities) [OPEN]

[notlewis]

Bleary-eyed toil brought results, and there was a cure for ROM-199A. Now the problem came with administering it.

Down in the city, the makeshift strike team wielded modified tranquilizer rifles and each of them had 12 cure rounds to use. The infected needed to be struck solidly in order for the cure to be injected-- they were instructed to aim

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DOWN IN THE CITY

[notlewis]

GAME START.

Re: DOWN IN THE CITY

[asingleshot]

Hey, random Infected? There's a trained sniper perched on top of a monument of some sort - he doesn't know who, but there's a guy on a horse here - and he's taking careful aim at whatever moves.

Is he shooting at you?

[downloadtruth]

About half an hour after running into Luis, Big Zero was staggering around and sputtering obscenities and racial slurs about some "spic."

[asingleshot]

He was still, almost perfectly still, and so he heard the woman before he saw movement. Judging by the looks of her, and by the fact that she seemed to be repeatedly swearing something that was just out of earshot enough to be audible, there was no doubt that she was one of the infected.

Her erratic movements made things a bit difficult, but Michael had shot worse before. He carefully laid the crosshairs over her chest, exhaled, and squeezed the trigger.

[downloadtruth]

"SON of a bi..." WHUMPF!

This was so not her day.

Re: DOWN IN THE CITY

[notlewis]

Luis volunteered for this and all, feeling like he owed some kind of front line service to help clean up this situation.

He was starting to regret his decision immediately.

"Okay. I guess we..." he mumbled to rest of his group. "We just... circle around here or something and find somewhere high to stand?"

[downloadtruth]

"What the fuck is going on here?" Big Zero came barreling toward Lewis. "Everyone's gone crazy and now they're handing out guns to any spic who wants one?" Actually Big Zero wasn't infected, but with the way she normally acted, it was impossible to tell.

[notlewis]

He was already starting to regret this decision of his, and having a sudden confrontation with a woman who'd apparently caught the Tact Virus instead of the other one was not on his list of "things I want to do today."

"... I beg your pardon?" he asked incredulously, hands tightening around the rifle in case she struck.

[downloadtruth]

She stopped not far away from him. Too close for comfort, really. "I said what's going on and how come they didn't give me a gun when they gave you one?"

[notlewis]

She seemed bizarrely coherent for a victim of the virus, so Luis instead chose to take a step away from her. "What is going on is a systematic effort to cure the virus from infected crew members. And you did not get one because you are not the head of the Science Department, señorita."

[downloadtruth]

Big Zero snorted. "You're head of the Science Department? Well that explains why you'll let anyone in. So what you're killing people to cure them?"

[notlewis]

No, but he was rather tempted to at the moment.

"It's a tranquilizer gun loaded with cure rounds," he said blankly. "And I would appreciate it if you would stop the hostility."

[downloadtruth]

"What? The whiny spic can't handle anything that's not talking about how his widdle feelings get hurt?" She took a step forward.

[notlewis]

"Last warning, my charmingly tactless amiga," Luis announced.

[downloadtruth]

"Or what? You'll shoot me? I'm not infected, dumbass."

[notlewis]

"Prove it. Symptoms include unrestrained hostility and aggression."