Session 6

From Deadhaus

[20:30] <@uhrwerk> So... When we last left off, James had just seen the image on Tanya's laptop...
[20:30] <Tanya_Greene> Then the credits rolled.
[20:31] <Tanya_Greene> (Last time, on Deadhaus... *pans to Jame's shocked face*))
[20:31] <James_Sessenwick> (:O!!!)
[20:31] <@uhrwerk> (James, you see what looks like a hidden camera video of Room 104. It looks to be a live feed, since you can see Chastity caring for Miles. However, there's a definite lack of vines or thorns in the image.)
[20:32] <Tanya_Greene> (Wait, you're saying Tanya sees it but not James? XD Oh bloody delightful.)
[20:33] <@uhrwerk> (That's exactly what I'm saying. )
[20:36] <James_Sessenwick> "...Mmm?" James says, scratching his cheek. "Camera in there? That's a bit odd... I didn't see one."
[20:36] <Tanya_Greene> "No, the vines. Don't you see them?"
[20:39] <James_Sessenwick> "...Vines?" He would pause. "I don't." He would say quietly.
[20:39] <Tanya_Greene> "... But they're right there. And the hummingbird with the forceps."
[20:42] <James_Sessenwick> "It's a normal room and a normal guy. But... something is very wrong with this place."
[20:43] <Cherice_Martin> "So what're you two looking at?" Cherice slips out the door - not much else she can really do to help right now - and goes to glance over their shoulders.
[20:44] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya closes her laptop, "Well then I'm going insane."
[20:44] <@uhrwerk> (Cherice: It looks like Tanya's hacked into the hospital's surveillance system. Only, you don't remember your crew installing any cameras in the examination rooms. must have been someone else.)
[20:44] <Tanya_Greene> "Oh, nothing..." She looks innocently at Cherice.
[20:45] <James_Sessenwick> "Hey, don't look at me. I doubt I'm exactly a paragon of metal health, here..." He'd say, looking down at the screen.
[20:46] <@uhrwerk> ((Let's go with Wits plus the higher of Subterfuge or Empathy))
[20:46] <Tanya_Greene> ((I need a dieroller. >>))
[20:47] <Miles_Brandenburg> (want me to roll for you hon?)
[20:47] <Tanya_Greene> ((Roll(3d10)+0:
[20:47] <Tanya_Greene> 4,8,2,+0
[20:47] <Tanya_Greene> Total:14))
[20:47] <Tanya_Greene> ((got 1.))
[20:47] <Cherice_Martin> (2 sux here.)
[20:47] <@uhrwerk> (Yeah, she's not exactly on the level.)
[20:48] <Cherice_Martin> "...Right. You know, you might wanna leave the security system alone, 'specially if there's weird shit goin' on."
[20:48] <Cherice_Martin> "Though I don't remember installing any cameras in there..."
[20:48] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah well, if there's weird shit going on? I wanna know about it, and trust me, I've seen some seriously weird shit thanks to that."
[20:49] <Cherice_Martin> "...Thanks to what?"
[20:50] <James_Sessenwick> "You know? This is a lot of weird shit. In fact? Why are we still here?"
[20:50] <Tanya_Greene> "... Y'know, cameras. Hey, look, last guy who caught me was a teleporting zombie." Tanya whispers, looking at Cherice with an serious, innocent-terrified face, "I can't make this shit up."
[20:51] * Miles_Brandenburg stirs a little, needles and asphyxiation were not a good way to end a day.
[20:52] <Cherice_Martin> "Uh... tele-wha?" O_o;;
[20:53] <Cherice_Martin> "Man, and I thought that dream I had was fucked up."
[20:53] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah, I ran from him, and he vanished and reappeared right in front of me. That shit only happens in videogames.'
[20:53] <James_Sessenwick> "...Mine didn't teleport. It looked like a nurse. Like something out of a horror movie. I cracked it pretty hard, but it didn't seem to notice."
[20:55] <Tanya_Greene> "Oh, last time I was in that room?" Tanya points to the door to 104, "Spiders. Made of syringes."
[20:55] <Cherice_Martin> "I haven't seen any zombies. Just fell asleep on the job, dreamed about a marble and some creepy little kid playing around in the ceiling ducts, running through a void, and next thing I know I'm waking up in a bed with Nurse fuckin' Ratchet pokin' at my head." Cherice headscritches. "Uh.. I'm pretty sure it was a dream."
[20:55] <Tanya_Greene> "That's what I was running from when I met him." she gestures to James.
[20:55] <Cherice_Martin> (Scary nurse is scary! D:)
[20:56] <Cherice_Martin> (*hides behind her*)
[20:56] * Cherice_Martin frowns, thinks of something and reaches into her pocket. The marble...
[20:57] <Cherice_Martin> "...what the..." And there it is, a bright green marble, sitting in her palm.
[20:57] <Tanya_Greene> "Heh, that marble mean anything to you?" Tanya asks, making a shot in the dark.
[20:57] <Cherice_Martin> "Picked it up from that kid, the one up in the ceiling."
[20:58] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah, but like... Do you have any special connection with marbles?"
[20:58] <Tanya_Greene> "'Cause I found a very specific crowbar in the ruins of room 104."
[20:58] <Cherice_Martin> "Um... I don't... think so?"
[20:59] <James_Sessenwick> "I have a crowbar. Doesn't mean much of anything to me, though."
[20:59] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya looks a little embarrassed and shrugs, "Well, whatever. Forget about it."
[21:01] <Tanya_Greene> "Anyway, Nurse... Whoever doesn't need us anymore, right? Why we still here?"
[21:02] <James_Sessenwick> "...Hey, maybe that is something." He'd say, patting her on the shoulder. He'd look over at the nurse. "Hmm..."
[21:04] <kiyo> Who was busy cleaning up and ignoring signs of mass hysteria slash insanity.
[21:05] * Cherice_Martin pokes her head through the door. "Uh... can I come in?"
[21:05] <Cherice_Martin> "I didn't want to get in the way."
[21:06] <kiyo> "If you'd like. I'm about done here." And so she was, straightening the nurse headcap thing absently.
[21:07] <Cherice_Martin> "Is he gonna be okay?" She isn't squeamish, but bedside manner isn't in the job description and all.
[21:09] <kiyo> "I would assume so, although I expect your delusions might infect him as well." She turned away sharply to write some notes instead.
[21:10] <Cherice_Martin> "Hey, mine was just some dream or... something." Cherice lingers, not sure what the hell she's supposed to do or say. So she looks at Miles. "Hey. You doing better? You scared the hell out of us."
[21:10] <Cherice_Martin> "How the hell did that happen anyway?"
[21:11] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I DON'T HAVE A PRETTY FACE!" Miles vaults up.
[21:12] <Cherice_Martin> o_O?
[21:12] * Miles_Brandenburg held his head in his hands for a moment.
[21:12] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Oh christ."
[21:12] <Tanya_Greene> "Well, looks like that's number four." Tanya comments to James, after hearing Miles scream.
[21:13] <James_Sessenwick> "...I really need a smoke."
[21:13] <Tanya_Greene> "Want me to watch your back?"
[21:13] <James_Sessenwick> "Sure."
[21:14] <Cherice_Martin> "Chill, kid. What happened to you?"
[21:14] <Cherice_Martin> Calmcalmtoughgirlcalm, even though she nearly shit herself when he screamed like that.
[21:16] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I don't even know how to start."
[21:16] <kiyo> The nurse had twitched her pencil in that 'I might break this' manner, but otherwise managed a cold glare at the screaming.
[21:17] <James_Sessenwick> James nods, and makes his way towards the first door to the outside. Oh sweet delicious nicotine. Sweet delicious freedom.
[21:18] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya follows along to make sure James doesn't immolate himself or something.
[21:18] <@uhrwerk> The rooftop balcony gives James and Tanya a nice view of I-45 across the street, wreathed in a creeping fog...
[21:18] <@uhrwerk> Only, shouldn't there be more traffic this time of night? And shouldn't they be able to see the lights of downtown, fog or no?
[21:19] <Cherice_Martin> "Well, start wherever you need to."
[21:21] <James_Sessenwick> He would light a cigarette, and inhale deeply. And exhale. Oh dear god that was delicious. "Look, about the vines and all? I'm not sure why, but I'm willing to believe you. Just a gut feeling."
[21:22] <Tanya_Greene> "Heh, well, thanks." Tanya looks around, particularly at the road.
[21:24] <Miles_Brandenburg> "You ever see that one smut flick?"
[21:24] <James_Sessenwick> He paused, and looked out at the lights. Or lack of. "...Oh... um. Tanya. Isn't... ah... where the fuck is downtown?!"
[21:24] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Planet of the Bondage Barriastas?"
[21:24] <Cherice_Martin> "...I saw Planet of the Apes once?"
[21:25] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Not the same."
[21:25] <Tanya_Greene> "I dunno, I'm looking..." Tanya replies, with a voice that says, "I coulda swore it was right there..."
[21:25] <Tanya_Greene> "Shouldn't there like, be lights?"
[21:26] <Tanya_Greene> "Maybe it's like national astronomy night, or something."
[21:26] <Tanya_Greene> "Coulda swore they'd put stuff like that on MSN, though."
[21:28] <Cherice_Martin> "I guess not. Well, assume I've never seen porn in my life and just tell me what the fuck happened."
[21:29] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Who's never seen porn before?"
[21:29] <Tanya_Greene> (("What, you pay for porn? lol, noob.))
[21:30] <Cherice_Martin> "I grew up in the sticks with my crazy old grandma."
[21:30] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Alright well, whole shitload of medical tubing decided it wanted to be an artist and set up some fucking piece of installation art."
[21:30] <Cherice_Martin> "Right. I got that. But tubing doesn't... well, it can't do that by itself."
[21:31] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Hey who's telling the fucking story?"
[21:35] <Cherice_Martin> "So tell the fucking story then."
[21:35] <Cherice_Martin> (seriously, do we both have the wrath vice? XD;)
[21:35] <Miles_Brandenburg> (Yes)
[21:36] <James_Sessenwick> "I... need much more than a smoke." James says in that tone that can't decide if it's exhasperated or desperate.
[21:36] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Alright, so I'm in here with a bunch of fucking tubing."
[21:37] <@uhrwerk> Hey James? Good news... At least the bus back to the 'trose is idling just out front of the hospital. You know, despite the fact that the closest busstop is on the other side of 45?
[21:37] <Tanya_Greene> "... Don't suppose two smokes would work."
[21:37] <Tanya_Greene> ((Is the parking lot visible?))
[21:37] <Miles_Brandenburg> "And this guy in full scrubs comes in and starts yelling at me, how I'm not supposed to be here yet. Then the tubes decide they want to show me their legend of the overlord impression, and bam I got twenty yards of latex crawling down my throat."
[21:38] <James_Sessenwick> "...You have to be kidding me." He would tap Tanya's shoulder. "The 82 doesn't run up this far, does it?"
[21:38] <@uhrwerk> ((Yeah. Everything on this side of the highway is pretty much clear))
[21:38] <Tanya_Greene> "No... I don't think so. I can check, if you want." Tanya isn't terribly familiar with it, but uh, that shouldn't be right, right?
[21:40] <Cherice_Martin> "...you know what, I'm just gonna take your word for it. This whole night is fucked up." She glances out the small square window of the room, then blinks. Where'd those other two get off to?
[21:41] <kiyo> Chastity just shook her head a little and sighed, one blonde strand of hair escaping her ponytail.
[21:44] <James_Sessenwick> "Look it up, would you?" He would ask, still watching the bus.
[21:44] <Cherice_Martin> "They sure left in a hurry." Cherice goes to the door, reaching for the knob to open and look outside for them.
[21:45] <@uhrwerk> (James: According to the bus, Cheeseburgers are buy-one get-one at Happy Burger))
[21:45] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya pulls out her laptop, and does a search for the bus stop's general stops, links, and such.
[21:46] <James_Sessenwick> "Mm. Happy Burger...." James takes a moment to wish he had enough cash to take part in that.
[21:46] <@uhrwerk> (Tanya, give me Int + Computer)
[21:47] <Tanya_Greene> ((Roll(7d10)+0:
[21:47] <Tanya_Greene> 4,8,10,4,10,2,6,+0
[21:47] <Tanya_Greene> Total:44
[21:47] <Tanya_Greene> ))
[21:47] <Tanya_Greene> ((Then a 9 and 1, so 4.))
[21:49] <@uhrwerk> (Oh, yeah... Not only do you find the bus schedule for the Houston Metro, you get bored and decide to hack the route planning system. Congratulations, you now have real-time status of every bus in the fleet. Oddly enough, the 82 shows as Out of Service.)
[21:50] <Tanya_Greene> "... Uh, that bus is out of service." Tanya peers over the railing next to James.
[21:50] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah, that one right there. Out of service. But it isn't."
[21:51] <James_Sessenwick> "Guess I'm not getting on it, then." He says, shaking his head. "Yeah, too good to be true, right?"
[21:51] <@uhrwerk> Cherice: They're standing together on the edge of the roof, looking at something down below
[21:52] <Tanya_Greene> "Would you like to know where the next-nearest bus is?"
[21:52] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Um..." He stared at the nurse. "So if I'm the last man in Houston."
[21:53] <Cherice_Martin> (XD)
[21:53] <Cherice_Martin> (First he runs through a maze of needles, now he's hitting on the nurse. Brave, I'll give him that. :D)
[21:54] <Tanya_Greene> ((Miles Brandenburg, world's bravest porn store clerk.))
[21:56] <kiyo> Flat look. "In your nightmares." Scribble.
[21:56] <Miles_Brandenburg> "..."
[21:56] <Miles_Brandenburg> Miles could feel his penis whimper.
[21:57] <@uhrwerk> (ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Ice Queen)
[21:57] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I'm going go check on the other people."
[21:57] <Miles_Brandenburg> Miles stood and kind of limped out the room, it was just his ego wounded but sometimes that was enough
[21:58] <Cherice_Martin> "Hello?" Cherice slips out into the hallway. Looking out the window she can just barely see the boy and the girl from earlier sitting up on the roof. Damn, this place was quiet.
[21:58] <James_Sessenwick> "...Wait. Tanya, what room were we in?"
[21:58] <Tanya_Greene> "104. Why?"
[21:58] <kiyo> =_= The nurse popped another pill and smoothed down the front of her uniform before heading out as well since leaving kids unwatched was recipe for horror.
[21:59] <James_Sessenwick> "...This is the roof."
[21:59] <Tanya_Greene> "... Yeah, it is, isn't it?"
[21:59] <Cherice_Martin> "How the hell'd they get up there so quick?" Cherice looks for a stairway exit.
[22:00] <James_Sessenwick> "... Tanya, I'm kind of realy fucking horrified right now."
[22:00] <Tanya_Greene> "Well, that makes two of us..."
[22:02] <James_Sessenwick> "Alright. We agree to stay together, right?"
[22:02] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah. I was afraid you might incinerate yourself, or something."
[22:03] <@uhrwerk> Cherice pushes open an exit door, and finds herself standing behind James and Tanya. A large square room with a sliding metal door sits behind her, but there's no stairway exit she can see.
[22:03] <Cherice_Martin> "...what the *fuck*."
[22:05] <James_Sessenwick> "...!" James about jumps out his skin at the new noise. "Oh! Oh, it's just you."
[22:05] <Cherice_Martin> "How in Christ's name...?" She glances behind her to see if Miles and Chastity followed her up. Out. Whatever.
[22:06] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya turns around and waves lazily, "Oh, hey."
[22:07] <Cherice_Martin> "...did you two get out here the same way?"
[22:07] <Cherice_Martin> (Cherice: What is happening to my wooooorld. D:)
[22:07] <Tanya_Greene> "... I think?"
[22:07] <Tanya_Greene> "How'd you get here?"
[22:08] <Cherice_Martin> "But... hospitals don't do that." Stating the obvious much, but this is just seven kinds of fucking *wrong.*
[22:08] <Cherice_Martin> "I opened the corridor exit? The one that had another corridor on the other side, two floors down, the last time I went through it?"
[22:09] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah, that sounds about right... You know, maybe if we had like, some climbing gear or something, we could get out of this hellish place. ;_;"
[22:09] <James_Sessenwick> "I'm almost ready to take the fucking chance and jump. But... yeah. I think we need to stick together."
[22:10] <Miles_Brandenburg> "...So that creepy nurse remind you of..." Miles looks up from his rant as he emerges on the roof. "...Huuh?"
[22:10] <Cherice_Martin> "Yeah. Okay." Cherice isn't about to argue with that, not now. "Looks like we'll just get more lost if we try to get out alone anyway."
[22:11] <Cherice_Martin> "Um. Hi." She sort of does this hand-raise thing at Miles. "You sure you should be walking around?"
[22:11] <Tanya_Greene> "Can we try going downstairs before some sort of freakish heilocopter made from hospital tubing tries to kill us, or something?"
[22:11] <Tanya_Greene> "Because I'm really scared right now, and this open air thing isn't helping."
[22:12] <Cherice_Martin> "Only if we can stop by my work station on the way down." Cherice cracks her knuckles. "I want to grab my tool box."
[22:12] <Tanya_Greene> "Sounds good."
[22:13] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I prefer vertigo to chemical castration."
[22:16] <Cherice_Martin> "I want my fucking sledgehammer."
[22:16] <James_Sessenwick> "I want the fuck out of here."
[22:16] <Tanya_Greene> "I'm with James. Out of here is good."
[22:17] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Yeah sick of this shit."
[22:17] <Cherice_Martin> "Because if she's right, I wasn't actually dreaming, and there's... things that're gonna do to us what happened to you," she jabs a finger in Miles' direction, "I'm gonna knock the shit out of them so we can get out of here."
[22:17] <Tanya_Greene> "I suggest we just run if it's teleporting zombies, because hitting them might not work so well."
[22:19] <Cherice_Martin> "So... uh, here's hoping we can actually get off the roof the same way we all got up." =_=
[22:21] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Should we like hold hands?"
[22:21] <James_Sessenwick> "I don't want to wind up holding someone's severed hand."
[22:21] <kiyo> (I'm confused over my location. x.x )
[22:22] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I don't want to get fucking lost alone."
[22:22] <@uhrwerk> (Let's assume that you followed Cherice and Miles up to the roof, just for simplicity's sake)
[22:22] <Miles_Brandenburg> "You want some latex anal rape? Fine with me, call me some time I know some guys."
[22:23] * Cherice_Martin looks at the assembled, uh, group? and pauses before kicking the door open again and peeking around to the other side.
[22:23] <kiyo> The nurse blinked back to attention, having been staring down at the mist, gripping her notes close to her.
[22:23] <Cherice_Martin> (What the shit? XD;;;)
[22:24] <Miles_Brandenburg> (I couldn't think of a more descriptive way to state what Miles feels happened to him)
[22:24] <Cherice_Martin> (Wow.)
[22:24] <Tanya_Greene> (Yeah, that was just, uh...))
[22:25] <@uhrwerk> The sliding door opens to a small room built of unpainted cinder block. Several lumpy, man-sized bags are scattered around the floor, framing a ragged hole torn in its middle. Several of the corpe-things stand motionless around the hole, pointing down into its black, yawning mouth with stiff fingers.
[22:26] <James_Sessenwick> "...You stay on the far end of the group from me." James says... and then goes really quiet again at the new surroundings. "...Oh no."
[22:26] <Cherice_Martin> "What now?"
[22:26] <Tanya_Greene> "... What ARE those things?"
[22:26] <James_Sessenwick> "No, no, no. Fuck this. Fuck you. I am not going in the hole. Fuck all of you. You especially!" He'd say, pointing at Miles.
[22:27] <James_Sessenwick> And then he'd begin to back away from the door.
[22:27] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Hey you know that term kid?"
[22:27] <Tanya_Greene> If there's any debris, Tanya'll attempt to pick something up and chuck it at the hole, to see if it responds in any way.
[22:28] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Life's a bitch."
[22:28] <Cherice_Martin> "Fuck me." Cherice feels her stomach turn into a nasty knot. "...doesn't look like we got a choice, kids."
[22:29] <@uhrwerk> Tanya kicks a small chunk of (rock? bone?) down the hole... She hears nothing for a couple of seconds, then a metallic clatter issues up from below. The corpse-things twitch in time with the noises.
[22:29] <James_Sessenwick> James blinks, and then shakes his head. "Fuck you old man! Fuck you and your passive bullshit!" He would say, heading a bit warily closer to the hole. "...I... there has to be another way."
[22:29] <kiyo> Chastity had already turned around, checking the time from her wristwatch. "Oh, I think my shift ends now, nice meeting you all, need to stop by for some eggs on the way home." Hole, what hole.
[22:29] <Miles_Brandenburg> "You ever wonder if you could fly, because we could try that."
[22:29] <Tanya_Greene> "Did anyone time that drop? How the hell far down is that?!"
[22:30] <Cherice_Martin> "Uh, Miss... Bell?" Cherice coughs. "Uh... I think you might wanna come along. You know. Since it's the roof, this, or a three hundred-foot drop to the bottom."
[22:30] <Cherice_Martin> Yay, she remembers her glance at the nametag! :D;
[22:31] <kiyo> "I wouldn't dream of intruding, you children have fun with... with..." She stared over her shoulder at the corpse things for a moment.
[22:32] <kiyo> "..." She made a squiggly note on the corner of the paper.
[22:32] <Cherice_Martin> "How're you planning on getting out of here?" Wherever here is now.
[22:33] <Cherice_Martin> (brb, chargin mah ipod.)
[22:33] <James_Sessenwick> "Okay, kicking something else down there." He'd say, looking about for something he can shove. No, James, not your fellow survivors.
[22:33] <Tanya_Greene> "What about those corpses?"
[22:33] <Tanya_Greene> "... If they're even corpses."
[22:34] <kiyo> "The same way we came, of course." Nevermind that that way wasn't there now.
[22:34] <Cherice_Martin> "You mean the door that isn't there anymore."
[22:35] <James_Sessenwick> "I'm not touching the corpses. You, asshole, you touch the corpses."
[22:35] <kiyo> "I'm sure it's there, you just aren't looking hard enough!" Snapsnap.
[22:35] <Miles_Brandenburg> "...Anyone want to make a damn parachute?"
[22:36] <Tanya_Greene> "What, do I look like Macguyver to you?"
[22:36] <Cherice_Martin> "Oh, for fuck's sake. I'll go through the hole if you people need a goddamned guinea pig."
[22:36] <Cherice_Martin> "Just to prove we're all freaking out about nothing.
[22:36] <Cherice_Martin> "
[22:37] <Miles_Brandenburg> "...You're going jump down a goddamn whole?"
[22:37] <James_Sessenwick> "...No. We don't go down the hole."
[22:37] <Cherice_Martin> "Then you got any suggestion?"
[22:37] <James_Sessenwick> "No one goes down the hole until we know what the fuck happens at the bottom."
[22:37] <Cherice_Martin> "Maybe I could shut the door and open it again and see what's behind Door Number Two."
[22:37] <Tanya_Greene> "Maybe we'd like to, I donno, look down the hole? Did anyone do that yet?"
[22:38] <Cherice_Martin> "Be my guest."
[22:38] * Cherice_Martin is starting to long for her flashlight. x.x
[22:38] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya fishes around in her backpack for her Mag-lite.
[22:38] <Cherice_Martin> (*puts on her project zero 3 soundtrack*)
[22:39] <kiyo> Meanwhile, Chastity shook out another pill with shaky hands and stared down the balcony with slightly wide eyes.
[22:39] <Tanya_Greene> Once she's got it, she edges toward the hole and aims the beam over the edge, tenatively peeking over the lip of the hole.
[22:39] <James_Sessenwick> James takes this oppertunity to dig out and smoke another cigarette.
[22:40] <@uhrwerk> The corpse-things stand motionless above her, turning their heads to stare at her with empty, bleeding eyesockets as she approaches the lip of the hole.
[22:40] <Miles_Brandenburg> "You know this kind of reminds me of journey to the center of the Titanides."
[22:40] <Cherice_Martin> "Titanides?"
[22:40] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Giant woman."
[22:40] <Cherice_Martin> (Poor nurse. *pats her*)
[22:40] <Tanya_Greene> "Ohshitteleportingzombies..." Tanya cringes as she approaches the hole, hoping they don't move.
[22:41] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Womens."
[22:41] <James_Sessenwick> James would, after a moment, grab his crowbar out of his pack. "...Tanya, need some help...?"
[22:41] <James_Sessenwick> ("You know, crowbarin'? I'm pretty good at that. :3")
[22:41] <Tanya_Greene> "Make sure those things don't like, touch me or anything." She stammers meekly.
[22:41] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Don't hit them to hard they're uh... soft."
[22:41] <kiyo> Nurse also smoked one, looking less spooked after a while. She was refusing the look in the direction of the hole, however.
[22:42] <@uhrwerk> Down at the bottom of the hole, maybe 5-10 feet below them, the flashlight's beam cuts through the smoke to shine dimly off the side of a rusted boiler
[22:42] <Tanya_Greene> "Hey, there's like a boiler down there, or something, but I can't see a floor."
[22:42] <Cherice_Martin> "Boiler?"
[22:43] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah, it's all rusty... Man, how long has this thing been down here?"
[22:43] <Cherice_Martin> "I had my crew down in the boiler room earlier. Maybe they left some gear."
[22:43] <Tanya_Greene> "It's all smoky and stuff."
[22:43] * Cherice_Martin sounds... somewhat hopeful?
[22:43] <Tanya_Greene> "Okay, I'll uh... Hold the light if anyone wants to go down first..."
[22:44] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Fuck it, lemme go."
[22:44] <Cherice_Martin> "It doesn't look all that deep." Cherice considers.
[22:44] <James_Sessenwick> "...I... I guess I'll d-" He pauses. "...Okay, yeah, I like that idea better."
[22:44] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah, he's got experience."
[22:45] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I got experience?"
[22:45] <Cherice_Martin> (*is dying laughing*)
[22:45] <Tanya_Greene> "Yeah, with the stuff. And the tubes, and things."
[22:45] <Miles_Brandenburg> "That's news to me."
[22:45] <kiyo> Snort.
[22:45] <James_Sessenwick> "Get down the hole already."
[22:46] <Tanya_Greene> ((I wonder if Jesus is still down there.))
[22:46] <Cherice_Martin> (That's what I was wondering. :3)
[22:46] <@uhrwerk> (:3)
[22:46] <Tanya_Greene> ((Zombie jesus!))
[22:48] * Cherice_Martin is eyeing the corpse-things warily.
[22:49] <Miles_Brandenburg> Miles squatted down beside the edge of the hole. "You know it's almost like some kind of big old metaphor."
[22:49] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya illuminates the boiler for Miles.
[22:49] <Miles_Brandenburg> "...Big and gaping."
[22:49] <Miles_Brandenburg> "All kinds of weird feelings like... y'know an urge."
[22:50] <Tanya_Greene> "Are you like, a Psych major, or something?"
[22:51] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Adult entertainment merchant, actually."
[22:51] <@uhrwerk> In the corner of the room, one of the bags rustles and twitches for a second
[22:51] <Tanya_Greene> "Close enough."
[22:52] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I wasn't thinking that, more like a mouth."
[22:52] <Tanya_Greene> "With corpses standing around it. Yeah... The symbology is impeccable. All we need now is some black candles, maybe a chalk pentagram..."
[22:52] <Miles_Brandenburg> He began to lower down his hands gripping onto the lip of the pit. "Most tail I'm getting tonight if it was one of those."
[22:53] <Cherice_Martin> She glances at Chastity. "...You gonna be all right?"
[22:55] <kiyo> She smiled thinly and nodded. "Oh. Overtime compensation." She made a note of that.
[22:56] <@uhrwerk> Outside of the room, the night goes black.
[22:57] <James_Sessenwick> He nods, and heads over to the edge as well. "Tanya... if you want me to hold the light while you head down, or... you know, I got my lighter. You can make the jump when the others are done." Wait, James showing backbone? This is new. Or maybe he just lapped terrified back into rationality.
[22:57] <Miles_Brandenburg> "You know what if I die? Fuck you guys." MIles let go of the lip to drop the rest of the way into the hole.
[22:57] <Tanya_Greene> "Okay... Sure." She nods, "Yeah, that's good..."
[22:57] <Cherice_Martin> "I'm not too thrilled about this either." She keeps an eye on the room, grotesque as it is, while Tanya and Miles crouch around it. What she can see of it. It seems... inexplicably dark now.
[23:00] <kiyo> ...Did it get dark all of a sudden? Nah. She inched over to the others anyway, though.
[23:01] <James_Sessenwick> "...All go together
[23:01] <James_Sessenwick> ?"
[23:01] <Tanya_Greene> "We don't even know how the landing is, we might hit each other or something..."
[23:01] <@uhrwerk> Miles finds himself in a pitch-dark room that's redolant of smoke and machine oil.
[23:01] <Tanya_Greene> "Hey down there!" Tanya shouts down. "You okay?"
[23:02] <Miles_Brandenburg> Except for the gripping primal fear of dying and the soreness from dropping ten feet, it reminded him of his apartment.
[23:02] <Miles_Brandenburg> ...Well almost.
[23:03] <Miles_Brandenburg> "I'm not dead! "
[23:03] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Someone give me their damn light."
[23:03] <Miles_Brandenburg> Something about his voice isn't so angry as panicked.
[23:03] <Tanya_Greene> "That's good!" Tanya looks back up to Cherice and Chastity, "Okay, who's next? You, me?"
[23:04] <Cherice_Martin> "I'll go."
[23:04] <Cherice_Martin> "Think there's some of my stuff down there anyway."
[23:04] <kiyo> Chastity pursed her lips and looked annoyed.
[23:04] <Tanya_Greene> "Alright."
[23:05] <James_Sessenwick> "...I'll do it." James says, gripping his lighter.
[23:05] <Cherice_Martin> She sits on the ledge, carefully trying to ignore the dead things and the stench and the utter lack of light, and drops into the hole next to Miles.
[23:05] <Tanya_Greene> "Well, let's not everyone go at once..."
[23:05] <Cherice_Martin> Hopefully next to him rather than on him.
[23:06] <Cherice_Martin> "Good fucking thing I'm not claustrophobic."
[23:07] <@uhrwerk> Cherice lands in the fog next to Miles. The hospital's boilers, though rusted, still give off a hellish red glow from their fuelboxes. It's not quite enough to see by -- more to just highlight the smokey, rusted ruin they've found themselves in.
[23:07] <Cherice_Martin> "Well, it's just as charming as I remember."
[23:07] <Cherice_Martin> She squints around. "Not much luck of finding any gear until we get a light."
[23:07] <James_Sessenwick> James sighs, and, steps up next to the ledge. "You two okay down there? M'comin'..." He'd say, stepping off the ledge into the spooky abyss.
[23:08] <Tanya_Greene> "Well uh, I'll let you go last, then..." Tanya waves to Chastity, and then jumps down after James.
[23:09] <Cherice_Martin> "We're fine! Can't see shit, though."
[23:09] <@uhrwerk> Tanya and James land safely beside the others
[23:09] <Tanya_Greene> "Coming!"
[23:09] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Throw down a goddamn light!"
[23:09] <Tanya_Greene> "Okay, where are we?" Tanya pans her flashlight around the room.
[23:09] <kiyo> ...Well, she wasn't staying alone. After a moment of baleful glaring, she followed.
[23:09] <James_Sessenwick> James lights his zippo.
[23:10] <Cherice_Martin> "Boiler room. I had some guys working on the wiring down here." Cherice squints around the room, through the smoky air and the weird red cast to everything.
[23:10] <@uhrwerk> Above them, the corpse-things watch them with their bloody, oozing sockets. That is, until the hole slowly grows over with what appears to be vines. Or is that tubing? Hard to tell in this half-light.
[23:11] <Tanya_Greene> "... Someone tell me the hole above us did not just seal itself."
[23:11] <James_Sessenwick> "...I'm ignoring it."
[23:11] <Miles_Brandenburg> "So about that latex rape thing/"
[23:11] <Cherice_Martin> "Right, where the fuck is my sledge."
[23:11] <kiyo> Ignore, la la la! She walked after whoever was in lead.
[23:12] <@uhrwerk> Tanya's
[23:12] <Cherice_Martin> "Someone give me a light, I can't see a goddamn thing."
[23:12] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya hands her flashlight to Cherice. "Okay, you know where you are, take this."
[23:12] <kiyo> "This better not take long, I really should get to sleep soon."
[23:12] <@uhrwerk> (Er, strike that)
[23:12] <Cherice_Martin> "Thanks." She pans around the room, looking for a circuit box.
[23:12] <Tanya_Greene> Once she's gotten rid of it, Tanya pulls out her crowbar.
[23:13] <Cherice_Martin> (If nothing else the Maglite is an awesome weapon. XD;;; *dead*)
[23:13] <@uhrwerk> Cherice's flashlight beam plays over the rusted chain-link fences and rusted-out gurneys and wheelchairs that sit stacked in mouldering piles around the room. Behind them, the boilers rumble to themselves.
[23:13] <@uhrwerk> Bloody blotches drip and run down the walls at the edges of the beam
[23:14] <@uhrwerk> A white-noise static blares from inside an open toolbox sitting near a fenced-in enclosure ahead of them
[23:14] <Cherice_Martin> "...Oh, nice. We're stuck in someone's bad horror flick." She blinks. Static?
[23:14] <Cherice_Martin> "Hey, it's one of our radios!"
[23:15] <Cherice_Martin> That means toolbox! She strides toward the enclosure, looking for a way to open it.
[23:15] <James_Sessenwick> "Radio...?" James turns to aim his zippo at the tool box. "...What's going on with that radio?"
[23:15] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya gently kisses her crowbar for comfort, whispering something inaudible to herself.
[23:15] <@uhrwerk> (oh no, the toolbox is on the outside of the enclosure. Lucky break?)
[23:15] <Cherice_Martin> Probably she should have remembered how everything went to static earlier, but she's slept since then. Supposedly.
[23:15] <Cherice_Martin> (Oh, right. x.x)
[23:16] <Cherice_Martin> (Radio get!)
[23:16] <Miles_Brandenburg> "One of OUR radios?"
[23:16] <@uhrwerk> Inside the toolbox is a walkie-talkie radio and a large, solid, heavy monkey wrench.
[23:16] <Cherice_Martin> "One of mine. ...weird, though, it looks like it's just the one."
[23:17] <Cherice_Martin> "And dammit, no sledge. ..there's a wrench, though."
[23:17] <Cherice_Martin> Yoink. >.>
[23:17] <Tanya_Greene> ((Crowbar, wrench, can we have any more cliche FPS melee weapons?))
[23:17] <Cherice_Martin> "Right, so let's get going."
[23:18] <Cherice_Martin> (A board with a nail in it.)
[23:18] <kiyo> (...apus scalpel? )
[23:18] <Tanya_Greene> ((Brass knuckles or chainsaw...))
[23:18] <Cherice_Martin> "There was a door..." Swish, swish, goes the light.
[23:18] <Cherice_Martin> Pay no attention to the creepy gurneys or the blood, please.
[23:19] <@uhrwerk> In the distance, just at the edge of the beam's reach, man-sized shapes move in the fog.
[23:19] <kiyo> The nurse seemed good at ignoring them, at least, making a shopping list as they went.
[23:19] <kiyo> "Eggs, toast, jam, bleach, a new toothbrush..."
[23:19] <Cherice_Martin> "The hell?"
[23:20] <James_Sessenwick> "Maybe the roof wasn't so bad after all?"
[23:21] <Tanya_Greene> "Zombie repellant, Flamethrower..." Tanya sarcastically adds.
[23:21] <@uhrwerk> A man in work coveralls stumbles forward out of the fog. His nametag reads 'Jesus.' Only... What's wrong with his head?
[23:21] <Miles_Brandenburg> "Hey buddy, look guys some one else!"
[23:22] <James_Sessenwick> "Hey, hey man. You okay?" James would ask him. After a moment of no response, he would try again, in spanish. "<Excuse me, sir?>"
[23:22] <Cherice_Martin> "...Jesus?" Cherice recognizes one of her day laborers, only... she tenses, grip tightening around her wrench. "What're you doing here? Didn't Miguel send you home?"
[23:22] <kiyo> Chastity finally looked up from her notes, blinking once.
[23:22] <Tanya_Greene> Tanya is paying attention to the lurching and making sure she has a good grip on her crowbar.
[23:23] <@uhrwerk> Jesus doesn't answer, chosing instead to shamble forward slowly. After a second, the light finally illuminates his head. Only, Jesus' features are nowhere to be seen. Instead, he has just a featureless, oily-red mass.
[23:23] <Cherice_Martin> (Cue industrial background noise! :D)
[23:24] <James_Sessenwick> "...Fuuuuuuck."
[23:24] * Cherice_Martin swears something in French, nearly losing her balance as she stumbles backwards.
[23:24] <James_Sessenwick> Said in a small voice.
[23:24] <Miles_Brandenburg> "...."
[23:25] <Tanya_Greene> "O-okay, uh, right before he swings, backpedal! Zombies are slow!"
[23:25] <kiyo> "Oh- oh god. No no no." Chastity took a few quick steps back.
[23:25] <Cherice_Martin> "Someone take this, it'll help!" Cherice tosses the flashlight to the nearest unarmed person.
[23:25] <Miles_Brandenburg> Miles doesn't wait for the helpful hint snatching the flashlight from Cherice.
[23:26] <Cherice_Martin> (FYI, for the unaware, a maglite makes one hell of a bludgeon.)
[23:26] <Tanya_Greene> ((Yeah, ever played doom 3? XD))
[23:26] <kiyo> "Past my working time, not supposed to be in past my working time." Twitch. She'd backed away behind the others.
[23:27] <Cherice_Martin> (Nope, but I used to keep one in the dorm illegally in case of forced entry. >:P)
[23:27] <Tanya_Greene> ((Yeah, I have two. Both are very whacky. Especially with batteries.))
[23:27] <Tanya_Greene> ((Twice as whacky with batteries than without.))
[23:27] * Cherice_Martin steps forward with the wrench, shielding the poor traumatized nurse.
[23:27] <@uhrwerk> ((+2B for the Maglight, BTW))
[23:27] <Cherice_Martin> (Chastity is so wearing the D: face right now.)
[23:27] * Tanya_Greene steps besides Cherice, ready to help smash zombies.
[23:29] <@uhrwerk> You all stand with your makeshift weapons at the ready... And the screen cuts to "TO BE CONTINUED"
[23:29] <James_Sessenwick> (James has passed the :O and the :< face, and has just gone straight to >:|. Emotional overload much?)
[23:29] <Tanya_Greene> ((XD))
[23:29] <Tanya_Greene> ((Tanya's gone straight from shrieking to suggesting tactics. XD))
[23:29] <Cherice_Martin> (>:<)
[23:29] <@uhrwerk> ((That's because Tanya's played survival horror games. ;) ))