entranceway | [Video] Entry #2

[The camera's pointed at Jay's shoes. Wherever he is, it's carpeted, and it's at least somewhat well-lit. When he finally speaks, it's at a whisper and oddly flat.]

If anyone was thinking about using the last house on...Lakeview Drive for shelter...

[A gas can swings into view, and a narrow stream of gasoline leaks from the spout onto the carpet. The camera tilts for a second, revealing a well-furnished suburban bedroom with lazy gasoline loops painted across both the floor and the bed.]

...Don't.

[Jay starts down the stairs, trailing fuel behind him.]

Don't get anywhere near this place. If you're looking for me, [He tries and fails to suppress a cough. The fumes must be getting to him.] I won't be around either.

[He's in the living room now. Jay pans the camera across the room--couches, coffee table, TV, stereo--before dribbling the last of the gasoline across the floor and up to an open window. He tosses the can aside.]

Last warning.

[Jay reaches up to the inactive stereo, twisting the volume dial as low as it can go. Hand visibly trembling, he switches it on. Nothing. Good. He switches the input to "radio". His breathing is audible now, high and ragged.

He twists the volume knob, and the speakers come to life with the deafening roar of...well, you win some, you lose some.

Jay bolts from the house, leaving the front door hanging open.

There's chaos for a moment, leaves hit the camera lens, and then Jay's looking down from a reasonably sized oak tree. A corpse shambles into view, heading straight for the house. Jay cuts the feed.]

[OOC: Jay has just attempted to create walker-bait out of the last house at the end of a dead-end street. Very loud, very flammable walker-bait. He's stolen Tim's lighter, and he's planning to shut the front door and light the place up through the window once enough bodies find their way inside.

Feel free to use this post to yell at him/cheer him on/try to stop him/try to help him.]

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[That implies his plan was ever on the rails. And that he... had a plan. The Masons would help him come up with a plan that doesn't completely suck.]

As you know, I don't bluff.

[In case there was any vague idea that the threat might be empty.]

You still have to get out of your current situation alive first.

[Jay's standards for a successful plan are "did something and didn't die", so it's a pretty low bar to clear.]

I've got someone coming. Sounds like they're from the same universe as the "walkers". They say they're bringing something that will make us smell like a zombie, so we won't get targeted.

Michonne or Clementine, then. Last I checked they're the only ones.

You're extremely lucky. There's a chance you'll actually live through the event.

[Provided no one drives a FUCKING CAR into the gasoline soaked house but why would anyone do something like that??]

oh my god, what have you done?

if you live through this I want you on my team.

does this mean i'm hired?

Not for my team. Shaun can make his own hiring decisions.

you are a menace to yourself and society at large.

you're hired so i can keep you from burning wonderland down by accident.

I'm NOT a

[Jay quickly backspaces. It's easier to justify the camera and the uploads and the rest of it. It's not as easy to justify this. "I was trying to help!" only goes so far when you nearly got two people killed. For all he knows, the fire's spread past the limits of the property, and even more people are in danger.]

I'll take it.

my very first intern.

if mom and dad could see me now.

So we're clear, the murder threat still holds.

[Shaun can entirely take care of himself. But Jay is a walking disaster and George isn't bothering pretending she is anything approaching reasonable where Shaun is concerned these days.]

[An unpaid intern at 28. Sounds about right.]

We're clear.

Seriously, thank you.

[Maybe he can do some good for once. Or at least not make things worse. Sure, he's almost groveling at this point, but he doesn't want to lose this chance.]

[Video] Entry #2 - Event Day 3

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shaun's message has been a beacon of light and joy these past few days