John tossed and turned in his bed. Finally, his body succeeded in rousing his mind out of its slumber, and he jolted awake. One hand felt simultaneously for the racing pulse of his heart in his ribcage and the scratches that he half-felt he should've expected to find on his chest. The other hand smoothed back the brush of hair on his head, wiping ( Read more... )

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Few days' drive turned up a few interesting things, aside from supplies. For one thing, the quarantine's gone; I can only suppose that's because there weren't enough people still alive to maintain it. For another, so's Purgatory, the entire town reduced to nothing but a giant scorched crater. I'd think it was maybe some kind of ( Read more... )

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Well. That was an interesting meeting. Agent McAllister, FEMA... or so she and her partner claim. They might be, but from my meeting with her, there's definitely something going on aside from that. She, at least, seems on the level, though; she didn't have any of the menace or slime, vague or otherwise, that'd ring any of my ( Read more... )

He would rather have had a group conversation, among those who went out to Country Road 17, directly after their defense of the town. However, at least a couple of members of the group had run off on their own, and he'd had to take an additional arrival into town, so he'd left it be, in favor of sleep, a shower, a bandage on his wound, and a meal. ( Read more... )

((regarding thisJohn had been running observation from his office window in what passes these days for the downtown area. He was a bit annoyed that he'd missed whatever happened to that Stratus yesterday, and so he wanted to make sure he caught if any other shenanigans happened. He'd ignored the initial flashes of light in his vision and pain in ( Read more... )

Town had a power outage the other night. Started in the evening, came right back on in the morning. Generators worked just fine, though. It was strange... I expected, driving around town, to encounter people out and about, either wondering what was going on, or taking advantage of the darkness to do something. Instead, everyone just broke out ( Read more... )

Pretty good turnout at the town meeting. The Sheriff had some pretty good words to say about people getting their stuff together, particularly for all the newcomers. The event was... marred slightly by the entrance of a dame who was all bloody from a gash in her gut, who got all doom-and-gloom at us before making a gun fly through the air to blow ( Read more... )

( You do not aim with your hand... )

Shit. Guess I can close the Dietz case. It's hard to snoop for your client's divorce case when your client, the husband you've been tailing, and the guy he's been seeing on the side all catch sick and drop dead within the space of a couple days. Good thing she paid in advance, I guess. RIP, Mrs. Dietz.

( Something would turn up. It always does. )