Long Way Down

[Nismo]

Yoshimi

Yoshi knew that she shouldn't look down but she did so anyway. Regretting it instantly, she looked up, her eyes clamped shut. Breathing deeply, she drew the back of her hand across her forehead and opened her eyes. Squinting through the glare, she glanced towards her prey- an old truck wheel tied to a piece of rope hanging from the roof.
"Hokay," she half-said half-breathed, before beginning to edge along the ledge towards the wheel. The ledge was on the fourth floor of the old hospital and was currently awash with sunlight, which seemed to make the walls slightly sticky underneath Yoshi's palms. The wheel was outside of a room that was blocked, forcing Yoshi to scale the outside of the building. As she inched along, she decided she needed some climbing gear if she planned on scaling tall buildings in the future. Taking her mind off of the ledge caused her to slip. She grabbed at anything behind her and found an open window.
"Sheeeeeeet…" she muttered, as she straightened up against the wall. The heat was making her careless. Mentally slapping herself, she realised that the wheel was almost within reach; only a few more steps and she'd be able to cut the rope. She got out her pocket knife and opened out the blade.
Reaching out she grabbed the rope and tugged at it gently it seemed to be in good condition and whoever had tied it to the roof had done so very efficiently. Making sure she had good footing she began to saw the rope, slowly but surely the fibres split.

On the roof above, the outsider gang noticed their rope wobbling.

Yoshi heard a scraping noise above and glanced upwards to see a wheelbarrow come tumbling towards her. For a moment, she wondered why such a thing would be on a hospital and why it would have fallen off. She flattened herself against the wall. As the barrow hurtled by, one of the handles clipping her right leg before being sent spiralling away by the ledge. Yoshi flinched and bashed her head on the window behind, causing her to stumble forwards. She reached out instinctively and grabbed the rope. Clambering up, she managed to stand on the wheel. It seemed to be holding for now.
Looking up, she noticed several members of an outsider gang looking down at her.

[Ekurian]

Lesley & Outsiders

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The Outsiders began throwing things at that girl that was hanging from their wheel-rope. Bricks, sticks, chairs... and each other.

But wait, they weren't throwing each other.

Three of them came hurtling out of the open window with shocked expressions on their ugly faces: a hospital bed on wheels had just shoved them out. They scooby-doo legged in the air, flailing at something to grab- a window sill, a drain pipe, that girl they'd been throwing stuff at. Their hands missed their targets and they hit the floor with a dull squish and crunch.

Another followed after them, this time having been pushed out by someone else. He squealed like a piglet before he hit the floor. He landed on his head; his skull splitting open on some bricks and spewing brain matter and blood.

The remaining Outsider gaped like a fish out of water, only a few seconds before his face met a heavy piece of metal. Bones crunched and blood squirted and he joined the rest of his little group at the bottom of the hospital outside.

Yoshi's apparent savoir, a rather short wiry woman wielding a shovel, stuck her head out of the window and squinted, getting a better look at whatever the group had been throwing stuff at.

"You hangin' in there?" she chuckled.

[Nismo]

Yoshimi

Yoshi stared open mouthed as the outsider gang rained from above crashing to the ground below. As she peered at the ground she wondered who or what had come to save her. The answer came from the voice of a woman poking her head through the window above. Yoshi jumped when she spoke and almost slipped. Looking up at the woman she smiled, "Good thing you turned up ain't it". As she finished speaking the weakened rope started to split, twisting the rope around her right arm she leant down and jerked at the tire with her feet, finally the last fibres split and she made a grab at it with her left hand. Right arm burning she swung towards the building letting go of the tire so that it crashed into the room below. A crash echoed inside as a bed was sent skittering away. Untangling her arm she started climbing up to the window where the woman was. She grinned "Didn't want it get damaged did a"

[Abel]

Royce

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Moving his hand over his eyes to help dim the light, he continued walking. Looking around to see if there was anywhere that might seem like a good and "somewhat" safe place to rest for a few minutes. Finally making it up this little hill, he begins to glance around and spots a hospital. Squinting his eyes, he notices it's the back of it. Giving a short glance up to the sun he decides to head there to finally get out of the heat.

As the building begins to grow in size as he gets closer, he rounds the corner walking along the side of it, every now and then looking into the windows to see if anyone or anything is there. The corner to the front of the corner gets closer, pulling his backpack around he pulls a bottle of water out that is half full. Turning the corner he opens the bottle and takes a drink, he stops as he hears a squish noise under his boot. Slowly lowering his eyes to see what the noise was he sees a few pieces of pink spongy clumps. His gaze following the chumps to the source, finally stopping on a person who appears to have had a brick smashed on his head. His grow as the bottle slips from his hand. The only thing going threw his mind is "Lovely, there goes any desire for me to eat." The he grins and chuckles a bit to himself. Leaning down he picks up the empty bottle and frowns at the wasted water.

Turning his eyes to the doors of the hospital he sees four more bodies on the ground, squinting his eyes looking up he can't make out anything close to the roof from the glare of the sun. Standing, he begins walking towards the doors avoiding the bodies until he reaches the doors. Slowly and quietly he opens the doors poking his head in and glancing around. No sight of anyone or noise, he slowly moves inside and begins wandering the building. Rounding a corner he comes into what looks like a waiting room and some broken chairs. Collecting a few of the legs he stacks them on top of each other then looks around for a flat piece of wood that would probably have a cushion on it. Unfortunately he only managed to find a flat piece of wood stripped of its cushion. Placing it on the stack of wood he sits down and stretches his legs out. Before closing his eyes he reaches down on his right leg, pulls the pant leg up and takes one of his knives he hide on himself out. Gripping the blade tightly he lays his arm over his stomach and leans back against the wall closing his eyes to finally get some rest for a bit.

[Ekurian]

Lesley

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Lee reached out the window as far as her short legs and arms would allow, and managed to reach the other woman's arm. As she grabbed it and pulled he up, she squinted at her face. Her face cracked into a crooked smile, "Yoshi! Should've known it was you, danglin' off a rope. You fucking lucky bitch, eh?"

Taking a passing glance out of the window, Lee saw a figure walk into the hospital, although she couldn't tell whether or not they were living, undead, or another wasteland freak. She gestured out of the window, "We might run into company on our way down. Just seen someone or somethin' comin' in. We'll get your tyre and get the hell out, yeah?"

[Myalech]

Daniel Knight

Daniel had been travelling for ages now, living off anything he could find. He was using the crowbar - which he carried as a weapon - to keep himself propped up. The burning heat was finally getting to him, and he had found his way to an old hospital, hoping for shelter and more importantly, water.

He was filthy, his T-shirt and trousers cloaked in dirt. He had his father's crossbow strapped to his back as usual. He honestly hadn't got much of a clue what was happening anymore, he just needed water and shade. He entered the building, the shadowy interior quickly cooling him down and relieving him from the glare of the sun.

Daniel thought that he had seen others enter this hospital on his way here, but his blurring vision and knowledge of the optical illusions which heat could generate made him less wary.

He had a feeling that he had entered via an entrance other than the main one, probably a former fire exit. He wandered towards a heap of rubble and, albeit uncomfortably, lay himself against it to relax himself. He was beginning to feel better already, but he still required water. He rasped a cough, out of breath and his throat dry and sore.


((hope this'll do for an intro, if not message me and explain what's wrong, please))

[Nismo]

Yoshimi

Yoshi smiled as Lee reached down to grab her, "If you call being caught in a rainstorm of oustsiders and gardening tools lucky then yeah, guess a am" she laughed. Her feet against the wall she hooked her free arm over the window ledge and dragged herself in with help from Lee. As she dropped to the floor she turned and peered out of the window. "I don't see anyone now, soooooo, yeah we best get moving hadn't we". Yoshi pulled the hammer from her belt holing it upside down and moved to the door listening carefully, it seemed quiet. She turned to Lee, "Shall we"? she grinned.

George

Geogre yawned and stretched out on the recently re-righted bed he was wearing his usual clothes, a shirt and trousers and his jacket was hung on the back of the door. He had wedged a chair under the door handle and also constructed an elaborate system that would drop an empty medicine bottle on his head if anyone tried to open the door, he was happy that he'd be able to get a good sleep without being eaten. He closed his eyes and sighed deeply. "FUCK.......A..........Duck" he exclaimed as something slammed into his leg, opening his eyes he caught a glance of a wheel smashing into his defence system sending a bottle towards his defenceless forehead "Bollocks" he muttered as it smashed onto his scalp. Sitting up he brushed the glass of his face and swung his legs of off the bed the one that had been hit wasn't broken but he'd need some support, spotting a cane in the corner he limped over and tested it for strength, it seemed to be holding. Right he thought to himself, time to find out whos throwing wheels about.

[Ekurian]

Lesley & Shuffler

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Heading towards the door, Lee paused for a moment with a confused expression on her face. "Coulda sworn I just heard someone shoutin' 'fuck a duck'..."
She shrugged and moved to the other side of the door, nodded to Yoshi, and pushed the door open. Peering out, shovel in hand, she saw that the coast was clear and began moving down the corridor.
"Hospital's never been so busy," Lee said in a low voice, "It's like everyone's decided that this is the place to be today."

She half jumped as a Shuffler stumbled out of a door to her right. Being short, Lee always attack to debilitate first, unless she had the element of surprise. Since she didn't have that, she swung her shovel sideways and into the Shuffler's kneecaps. The bone cracked, as the Shuffler- a former doctor, it seemed- fell forward and onto it's face. Lee then turned the shovel with the edge facing down, and forced it into the back of the Shuffler's neck, going between one of the gaps in the spinal column and severing the nerves.

Pulling the shovel free, she turned it over and looked at the edge- it had been sharpened, but now it was going dull. She frowned,
"We'd better get back sharpish, I don't have a whetstone on me."

[Abel]

Royce Mason

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Sitting in the his make shift chair too long he begins to slowly fall asleep. As his eyes grow heavier his chair starts tilting to the side, the wooden legs under it moving unevenly and the chair falls. Hitting the ground, Royce yells "Fuck!" The noise echoes throughout the hospital, as he sits up he realizes the knife in his hand had cut his side giving him a slight bleeding wound. Looking at it he decides it is minor enough to take care of later. Getting to his feet, he grabs his back and sheathes his knife on his side. Looking around and listening for noise, it seems that nothing had moved from his accident. Moving down the closest hallway, he begins to look through out the rooms for anything that he could take.

As he rounded a corner he comes across a down arrow for downstairs. He wondered to himself if there was anything he could use down there. He opens the door, as the door swings his eyes widen as he sees hordes of undead staggering around or limping. Taking a step back the door taps into the wall and the undead turn their attention to him. Quickly reacting, he grabs the handle to the door pulling it closed. Holding it closed he looks up and down the hallway for something to rig it shut. Seeing an IV pole he grabs it and kicks the wheels off, putting the end through the looped handle so it hold the door shut. Listening to the moaning and howling of the undead on the other side as the slapped and slightly clawed at the door for it to open like a dog needing to use the bathroom.

He slowly starts his search again, coming across another door leading to some stairs, this time saying up. He slowly opens the door, peeking through the crack to check for undead. Noticing nothing he began moving to the next floor. Stepping up the stairs, he watches the numbers of the floor. He decides to skip the second floor in worry of more undead. Coming to the third floor, he sees the door has a window. Looking through, he doesn't catch any glimpses of undead. Royce tries to open the door and it does not budge. Looking through the window, there are medical beds thrown and knocked over in front of the door, wedging it closed. Turning around, he heads up to the fourth floor, this door also having a little window on it.

Looking through the window he sees no undead and opens the door. Thinking back to what his parents taught him he felt the need to move with silence to not be noticed. Moving down the hallways and peeking around corners. Glancing around his next corner, two figures come into view, looking down to the ground he blinks a few times seeing a corpse. Heading back down the hallway he ducks into a room, closing the door to have barely a crack open. Crouching, he watches the hallway for the figures to move by if they do. Pulling his knife from his side holster and holding it tightly in his hand if needed.

[Myalech]

Daniel Knight

Daniel decided to explore the hospital ruins. He thought he had heard someone shout "Fuck a duck" earlier, and he was sure that it wasn't just his mind playing tricks on him. Getting to his feet he strapped his crossbow to his back, and picked up his crowbar. He moved on, finding a closed door. He pulled the handle but it just came off in his hand, the door - lacking hinges - fell backwards out of the frame and slammed into the floor.

"Damn..." Daniel croaked, then his eyes noticed a water pipe down the corridor, still dripping with water. He shuffled around the door, reaching the pipe and allowing the last of the water droplets - god knows how they hadn't evaporated yet - to trickle into his mouth.

"Much better... I think" Daniel savoured the surprisingly fresh taste of the water, obviously it wasn't carrying the Dust virus, for it didn't have the weak but deathly stench which lingered about the wasteland. Heading down the corridor with a rejuvenated spring in his step, he made his way around some rubble and through a second doorway leading to a stairwell. He clambered up as fast as he could. If he could reach the higher floors he'd have a good lookout post, maybe good enough to see the elusive Haven.

He heard the echo of someone shouting "Fuck!" in a rather pained tone. He heard footsteps on one of the floors above. His heart raced, it could be anyone... or anything. Either way, he moved on up, finding a broken down doorway on another floor, the numbers of most had either faded or been broken. He heard movement, and what sounded like a door giving way. Daniel saw figures down corridor which were hastily moving away.

[Nismo]

This post was destroyed by me, ummm yeah my bad :/

[Ekurian]

Lesley

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"Ta," Lee said, taking the offered hammer and running the roughed sides over the edge of her shovel. She paused mid-sharpen and mid-stride, then handed the hammer back to Yoshi. Glancing down the corridor behind, she squinted into the shadows and through the dust in the air.
"Just heard foot steps. Weren't ours- somethin' must be followin' us," she said in a low voice, resting the shovel on her shoulder not casually, but so she could use the weight from her whole arm if need be.

[Myalech]

Daniel Knight & Shufflers


Daniel walked through a cloud of brick dust, holding his breath to avoid inhaling the sharpened fragments. Unfortunately, the cloud also obscured his vision, and he smacked into a wall.

"OWCH! FUCKIT!"

Daniel shouted in pain. It was surprising how much agony a stationary wall could inflict. He stepped backwards and turned, slamming once more, into a door, knocking it open. A pair of scrawny arms extended from the open doorway.

"Oh bugger..."

Daniel swung the crowbar hard, smacking the arms of the creature away and breaking the wrist of the beasts left arm. Not just one Shuffler, but two came tumbling out of the doorway. The poor things, infected by the Dust virus, no longer human. Daniel had no choice - it was either the Shufflers, or the two figures down the passage. He brought the crowbar down upon the head of the one Shuffler, the crunching noise of bone beneath metal was somewhat reassuring. The second was subjected to the domino effect as its partner collapsed backwards with a caved in skull.

Daniel sighed, preparing his crowbar ready to strike the other. He watched it writhe and clasp at the wall, pulling itself to its feet. It reached forwards with one arm, the other broken by Daniel's first blow. A final swing of his crowbar, smacked the Shuffler in the side of the head, propelling it into the wall which Daniel had - just moments ago - smacked into himself. The Shuffler's head compacted against the wall, and it fell backwards upon its partner.

"Funfunfun!" Daniel chuckled, forgetting the figures down the corridor. Shufflers weren't exactly strong, and it took a group of at least four to even come close to a challenge to him.
Honestly, he'd met worse... much worse.

[Nismo]

Yoshimi

Yoshi nodded "Yeah probably more weirdos that wanna kill us" she smiled and peered into a room. It was devoid of anything useful or dangerous. "Ok, we need to find stairs, gotta get me wheel".

George

George was listening to the continuing noises, he decided that they were coming from the floor above maybe the one above that. Still he wasn't going to go running about untill he was sure the coast was clear.

[Abel]

Royce Mason

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Sitting silently, Royce continues to wait. Leaning back against the wall a few more minutes fly by, finally getting tired of waiting he jumps to his feet. Putting his knife back into it's case he readjust his bag tightening it to his body. Taking his knife back out of its case, he opens the door gripping his weapon. Looking down both ways in the wall, seeing nothing he moves down the hall to the four-way intersection of the halls. Gripping his blade tighter he begins to ponder what his next course of action.

Looking up at the tiled roof, he inhales deeply threw his nose. Moving his eye sight to the hall he just walked door he yells. "If anyone's not a undead scum bag head to the fourth floor! I'll be waiting in the open!" Looking down at the floor he takes another deep breath and smiles. First thing that comes to his mind "This should be a fun wait. Wonder what might come." He chuckles a bit to himself as a little piece inside him hopes it is human.