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[Video] Entry #2 - Event Day 3
[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.]
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.]
text
"In the future"
It's great how you just automatically know I'm from the past compared to you.
What gave it away? Did Alex tell you?
[Wait. Dammit. He doesn't think she knows he knows she knew Alex.
Well, cat's out of the bag now.]
Tim told me you two knew each other.
Also about my followers: I know where they were coming from. Safer to keep moving, though.
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Yeah, Alex and I had a talk about it at a party once.
Just sort of about the world as a whole.
Plus, most people here show up from around the 21st century, so I'm getting used to being somewhere in the realm of 150 years ahead.
Besides, I figured you knew him if you knew Tim.
Wonderland has a way of pulling in people together, but not always in the best formations.
Sounds like your life's just about as exciting as mine was, though.
Or maybe you're just good at making it read like a movie.
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Not sure about that.
[But she knew Alex. That's the important part. She knew Alex, and she might be able to help.]
[Well, it's too late to help Alex himself, if Tim's to be believed. But maybe he'll show up here again. They're all from different points in the timeline, right? It's possible.]
When he was here, how was he?
Alex I mean.
text
He was... just a kid.
Helped him during an event and we just got to talking, I guess.
Eventually he got me back.
But he left once.
Didn't come back the same.
[She never could quite get through to him after that again. Not in the same way. Not with enough time to save him.]
He never told me many specifics, to be honest.
text
[He didn't deserve any of this. Jay's life wasn't going anywhere anyway, but Alex? He had drive and passion and all that other bullshit they say about real artists. He loved what he did and he had a girlfriend and real friends who wanted to help him out and now he's--]
[Cross-legged on the floor of the safehouse, Jay's got an arm wrapped over his midsection. It didn't even leave a mark.]
I think I know why he didn't.
I didn't figure it out back home, but Tim told me when I got here, and I guess it makes sense. I mean, I don't think it's true, but I can believe Alex believed it.
Do you want to know?
text
Is she intruding if she takes it? Is she violating his privacy if she accepts?
He's not here. She may never see him again.
She needs to know.]
I do.
If you feel comfortable telling it.
text; private
[He sets his next comment to private.]
[Jay doesn't like talking about it. He prefers to let the footage speak for him. But that won't work here.]
There was something following us back home.
It could make you forget things. Maybe worse.
It took a liking to Alex.
When I got here, Tim told me that Alex believed it was contagious.
text; private
Contagious?
How could something physical be contagious?
Unless it was a hallucinatory disease?
text; private
[Jay sends the message quickly. He's not making this up. He's not seeing things. It showed up on camera. It's real.]
It messes with your head.
Makes you forget things.
Makes you sick.
I kept getting a really high fever.
You saw how Alex was.
It only affected one of us before it started affecting the rest of us, and I guess Alex decided the first person passed it on to everyone else.
text; private
Sorry.
But that's interesting, albeit not like anything I've ever heard.
Not that I'm saying it's not a possibility.
A lot of my job is figuring out shit that shouldn't exist.
What did you do about it, then?
text; private
Got it on camera, mostly.
Used the tapes when I couldn't remember.
Made sure people knew what happened.
Tried to find anybody who was still alive.
ended up getting shot
At least I did something
text; private
Oh shit.]
I'm sorry, kid.
That's a shitty thing to have happened.
It's hard, being the only person who understands the gravity of something like that.
Until you go down with it.
I get it.
text; private
[It's the understatement of the century, but it's still oddly...nice, he guesses. Nothing dramatic, just acknowledging that bleeding out alone (until he wasn't alone) on the floor of an abandoned school is kind of awful.]
Thanks.
[That's all he can really say. It's sincere, though, and he hopes it doesn't come off otherwise.]
[But now Jay's curious.]
Back home, are you
You know
["Are you dead too?" isn't a question he ever imagined himself asking, but here he is.]
text; private
I was, for a while.
Not anymore.
It's amazing what a few billion credits, top medical technology, and two years will do.
So I know how it is to die and live for a cause only you understand.
text; private
Whoa.
That's crazy.
I only really had a couple hundred dollars to my name, so I guess I wasn't exactly a great candidate for a medical miracle.
[It sounded smoother in his head.]
But that's good.
Not that you're dead but that we're
not alone, I guess.
text; private
Someone with money just decided I was too important to stay dead.
He wanted me to do a job for him, which I did wanna do, just not for him.
So I did it and stole all his stuff at the end instead of coming back.
The crew liked me better anyway.
[She knows its... hard, to say the least, though. Knowing there's no going home. Knowing she's marching towards her end, too. (Or, well, so she thinks.)]
If you ever need to talk about this stuff, let me know.
There's a higher percentage of people in this place that've died and come back than just about anywhere else, but its still terrible.
So y'know. Whenever Wonderland actively stops trying to kill us for a while.
text; private
Sure.
[He doesn't need to talk about this stuff, no matter what Tim says. He's fine. He's handling it. He's dead and he's scared, but who wouldn't be? He's reacting like anybody would.]
I'll let you know.
[He can see why Shepard's crew liked her better, though. Wouldn't hurt to see her again.]
text; private
Absolutely.
I'm gonna get back into the fray, but stay safe, kid.
Maybe no more fiery explosions for 24 hours.
Doctor's orders.
Or uh, commander's orders.
Whatever.
text; private
24 hours. Sure.
You stay safe too.
text; private
Having guns instead of magic is much more my wheelhouse.
Then again, give the person the stuff they're trained in, and it goes better.
Who knew?
Anyway.
See you later.
text; private
To be honest, I think Tim and I are gonna stay inside until this all blows over.
See you later.
[She'd better be as good at this stuff as she sounds. Then again, she's a "space marine". She should be.]
text; private
Bye, kid.
[Oh, she is. And now she's off to fight more things, so they don't have to.]