[Day 3]

[lostnload]

[After a flurry of static, the broadcast starts. Throughout the city, a woman's frantic voice resonates through a series of speakers strung among the telephone poles throughout the city.]

Hello, does anyone in the main city copy-- does anyone copy. This is channel 7!

[Transmission breaks]You have a dispatch of ELVIRA, I repeat, ELVIRA headed

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[hurricanebomber]

[He's got a radio by now and has been scanning channels. He happens on channel 7 in time to hear this broadcast.]

What the fuck is ELVIRA?

[lostnload]

Ah--Have you been under a rock?

ELVIRA, the masked soldiers....don't tell me you haven't seen them yet?

[hurricanebomber]

I just got here.

What did you mean by "purge"?

[lostnload]

Wh- [She grows silent.]

The purge. If there is any resistance, any commotion...ELVIRA comes in and wipes the area clean.

[The whirl of a helicopter blocks out her voice for a part of the transmission.]

Look, if you're in that area, you need to get out and fast!

[boobsofthedead]

[The walkie talkie sitting on the desk blasts out the message loudly, catching Shizuka attention. She quickly picks it up.]

ELVIRA? What do you mean? What do you mean by purge again?

[But unfortunately has no idea how to use a walkie talkie, so the message goes unheard. A chill runs up her spine, this does not sound good in the slightest.]

[chocolategoboom]

[snatches the walkie-talkie, lady why are you so useless]

Elaborate.

[lostnload]

Elaborate?

[Static.]

ELVIRA dispatched from the hospital about an hour ago. If you know what's good for you, flee the area. I heard them mention De La Salle-- Are you the De La Salle group?

[chocolategoboom]

No, we're somewhere else. You said this was a college?

[He enters the name into the GPS quickly.]

How big is the dispatch?

[lawofpisces]

[lalala listening in on his walkie talkie]

Wait, purged? That doesn't sound good... the living and the Holl-- I mean... ah... infected? That's terrible!

[lostnload]

I see ELVIRA has not yet reached some survivors...I guess it's lucky some of you haven't been living in as much fear.

[lawofpisces]

I don't know what this ELVIRA thing is. I just... arrived here. [a groan, since it's hard to explain] I don't know how but one minute I was one place, the next I was here.

[lostnload]

Just arrived...but the islands been closed off.

How is that possible?

[whipfist]

[His WT picks it up, and what the woman is saying sounds all too familiar.]

"Purge" as in "wipe the city of infected"?

[lostnload]

They don't do the whole city--they tend to only attack areas with activity...you can see it all over the islands, they like to wall in the areas after they've burned them to the ground.

[whipfist]

... Okay.

[That's a sufficient enough conversation for Alex, and he proceeds to turn the WT off. Best to keep silent if you wanna be stealthy.]

[felltomydeath]

[After eavesdropping on those other conversations;]

How are these guys equipped?

[lostnload]

They're in all black military gear, vests....automatic rifles... explosives. Oh and masks, you never see them without their masks, like goggles.

I've avoided them for the most part, so I don't know exactly what they have..

[felltomydeath]

[Nishi contemplates the odds of fighting them off. His suit could withstand them, and he already had figured out he could still change frequencies. If their headgear was equipped with something that could detect him though, that'd be shitty. Either way, by the time he replies he's already moving out of town. Better not take his chances.]

How many do they usually send to purge an area?

[lostnload]

I don't know..I've never witnessed a purge.