Zombies! RP + Sign up

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IC (In Character):

Shaun Rutledge was about to become the greatest hero the world has ever seen, it's just no one would appreciate him. He printed out the last farewell letter and put it in a folder. It was not a letter to anyone he knew, it was a letter to whatever came after this. Telling those who followed the plague that was humans not to make the same mistakes. Shaun turned to look at the person he had captured. They were in the city now, and his test subject was less than willing to co-operate.
"You should be proud. Your about to help the start of a revolution." Shaun said as he prepared the injection.
"No, your about to cause the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs." The girl countered as she struggled against her bonds, "Your evil."
"I'm the saviour of the world."
"Your a crazy maniac."
Shaun sighed, "I did hope you'd see sense. But some minds just aren't capable."
"You know what? Your a coward too." The girl stated.
"How so?" Shaun asked.
"You only have one injection. I take it you probably have an escape pod that your going to wait out the end of the world in."
"But my dear, the injection is for me." Shaun explained.
"Then what am I here for?"
"Well, even zombies need to eat." And then he injected himself.

And so the zombie apocalypse began.

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Piper

Unaware of the start of the apocalypse just across the city, Piper was at school. She was sitting at the same boring desk looking out the same boring window at the same boring view.

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Eli

Eli was closer to the building where Shaun was. He sat in class trying in vain to focus on what the history teacher was saying.

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Added :3 Lets get this show on the road!

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Eli /!\ Warning Violence /!\

It had been little more than a few minutes after the launch when Eli began to see the first signs of the apocalypse. He himself did not have a window seat but the signs were first seen from the window.
"What the?" Said one of the other boys as he leaned towards the window.
"Felix! Do you see me out the window! The lesson is over here." The history teacher scolded. Felix did not look away, instead his eyes widened and he got out of his chair suddenly.
"Yuck! Oh Disgusting!" Felix said as he turned and bolted out the door.
"Felix! Come back here!" Yelled the teacher seeming to take no interest in what was outside, unlike his pupils. The class immediately crowded the window. Eli tried to get a view but having been on the other side of the room he was one of the last students to reach the windows. Screams were heard, people barfed and Eli was pretty sure he smelt the acrid scent of pee.
"What?" Eli asked still unable to get a view, "What's going on?" But the best he was rewarded with was a kid who tried to explain, but only managed stutters.
Eventually he managed to get to the front, and what he saw he would never forget. By that time little was left to show the prey was human. Its attacker looked injured itself but it was clearly human, or at least had been once. Then the thing paused from its meal as if sensing being watched. The thing's head slowly turned to face Eli, then it grinned. Showing all gore covered teeth. Eli barfed.

And so the zombie apocalypse spread.

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Piper

The bell rang to signal the end of the period. Piper followed her classmates to lunch, blissfully unaware of the developing situation.

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Eli

The school had gone into immediate chaos. Eli was pretty sure no one at his school hadn't heard what had happened. Of course no one knew what was going on, and it didn't help that some teachers had bolted even quicker than Felix.
The situation was getting worse outside. More of the cannibals were outside now. They seemed to know that the school was full of defenseless children, but for now the teachers had locked the doors. The school itself was a fairly solid building. It was basically a concrete slab with windows on the higher levels, nothing fancy. At the moment Eli could see the things (he had no idea what to call them) were waiting outside, the doors holding them out. But Eli knew they could not stay inside forever. Eli didn't know how long he could sit here. Sighing, he went downstairs.

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Piper

Piper's school was a more modern structure. It was covered in large windows and all and all lacked walls. She sat at the end of the same table Katrina sat at. That was another thing Piper's school lacked, tables. She and her best friend were forced to share the table.
Piper looked longingly at her friends lunch. Harriet always had delicious food and she never forgot it, unlike Piper. Harriet caught her friends gaze and sighed, but she handed over a muesli bar.
Piper smiled gratefully, "I'll pay you back."
Harriet humphed, "Sure you will."

Little did they know, Zombies were now little more than 2 blocks away.

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Piper

Piper looked at the girl with a shy smile, "I don't normally eat much. I'm good with the bar, but thanks anyway. I'm Piper." She said.

Zombies were now less than a block away.

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Eli

The sound downstairs was terrible. There was a rhythmic thumping as whatever outside attempted to come in. Every now and then a large thump caused the small gathered group to look up in alarm. But the rest of the time the group looked somberly at the ground, not even acknowledging Eli.

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Piper

A kid screamed. Piper was among the group of people who immediately turned to their heads, though in hindsight she would have rather not been. For what her eyes rested on was a rather gruesome sight.
The Zombies had not yet reached the children. They watched from just outside the windows. Their eyes flicked around the room greedily. Glass shattered, more screams.
"Run!" Yelled the first person with common sense. Piper didn't argue. She abandoned her scavenged lunch and made a dash for the exit. Unfortunately, so did about every other student. It was chaos. The door was small and simply could not fit so many students through, but people were desperate. Meanwhile, the zombies made a cool calm approach to the kids.
Screams out in the corridor. Piper felt herself being pushed back away from the door, closer to mouths of the zombies in the cafeteria.
"There's more in the corridor!" Someone screeched over the panic confirming Piper's fears.

The Zombies were upon them.

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[will edit with Eli's story later]

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Piper

Piper blinked in surprise as Kat whispered in her ear. But as soon as Kat left the group of struggling bodies she lost interest. Piper could hear screams all around her and she wasn't sure she wanted to see Kat become another one of them.
Next to her, a kid was grabbed. She screamed as the Zombie pulled her away from the group and she fell to the ground. The poor girl grabbed around desperately trying to get a hold on something, anything. Her eyes traveled up and Piper was able to recognize her, it was Harriet.
Without thinking Piper sprinted at the Zombie. Her feet found its chest and with an almighty kick she forced the thing away. Immediately she searched for a weapon. Piper's hands tightened around a metal chair and she swung it at the zombie as it attempted to regain it's balance. The good news: Piper hit the zombie, The bad news: The chair wedged itself into it's rib cage and wouldn't budge.
The truth was Piper was no hero. She grabbed her friends hand and ran. The other zombies clearly sensed they could get easier meals from the panicking group and made little effort to stop them. Piper took it as a blessing and ran.

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Piper

Piper ran out of the school grounds and surveyed the situation. Most of the houses had been busted open, except one. It's door had an very odd paint job. The door was splattered in red and looked like it had been done without brushes. The doormat matched the blood red door... oh. Piper turned away.
Zombies roamed the streets. They weren't like your movie zombies, they seemed to have a mind. They knew how to do things, they just had no morals left.
"Over there!" Harriet whispered and pointed to a building on their right. It had been abandoned years ago so the job of boxing it up had been done for them. Piper had been there before, with Harriet. When they were younger they had tried to make it their playhouse. But the fact of having to share it with spiders and cockroaches had put them off. Spiders didn't really seem to matter anymore though. They ran for the building.
Piper scrambled up rope ladder that lead to the top of the tree and Harriet followed suit. Then, it was a leap from the trees thick limb to the window. This may seem simple, but the jump was across a two story gap. And believe it or not his made the task daunting. Harriet jumped across but Piper waited to see if Kat would follow them up the rope ladder, so she could pull it up after.

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Piper

As soon as Kat was up the ladder Piper pulled it up. Zombies moaned and groaned below them. None of them quite formulated word. Even though Piper wasn't cold, she shivered.
Piper made the jump herself. In the corner of the room Harriet was sobbing. Piper made her way over to her. "It's OK Hare." She whispered, "Where safe now. They can't get us here." I hope, she added silently.
Harriet moved violently pushing Piper to the other side of the room. "Stay away from me!" She screamed. Piper blinked in surprise as she fell to the floor.
"What..."
"I'm sorry." Harriet whispered shaking her head in apology. Her eyes met Piper's once again and Piper could see just how scared she was.
"Harriet, What's wrong?" Piper asked, getting to her feet once again, though she was pretty sure she already knew.
Harriet winced as she moved her leg. On it was a ghastly wound. The edges looked like they were bubbling and the edges of the looked rotten. It took all of Piper's strength not to lose the lunch she had managed to eat.
"It bit me." Harriet whispered so quietly it came out more like a tiny breath.

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Piper

Harriet watched but Piper could see she had already given up.
"This is it." Harriet muttered for about the hundredth time, "I gonna become one of them." Her condition had worsened, she was shivering uncontrollably now, and every now and then a much more violent spasm went through her.
"Hey now! This isn't some Hollywood movie Hare. In real life people don't change into monsters just because they've been bitten." Piper soothed.
"Oh yeah? Then how did all those people get like that. They've been bitten Piper. You know that! Admit.." Another spasm coursed through her, stopping her sentence. "Get back! Put me out the window now!" Harriet demanded, but Piper stood frozen to the spot.

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Piper

Piper looked at her friend desperately, "Come on! Be fair! You've hardly given me anytime to pay you back for lunch!" She tried for a smile but her heart wasn't in it.
Then Harriet changed.
Suddenly her violent twitching seized. Harriet's face twisted in pain and then she went slack. Piper mouth dropped, believing her friend had just died before her, but then she heard a groan. It was a deep, mournful groan. Harriet's arm stretched out, and the thing (as Piper was quickly coming to the conclusion that it was no longer her best friend) tried to stand up. Piper hit it with a piece of wood. It fell back down. Holding back her tears, Piper used the wood like a broom and swept the thing to the window. It was weak, but getting stronger by the second. She allowed it to stand. It growled and roared.
"I'm sorry." Piper whispered, and pushed it out the window. The no-longer-Harriet-thing fell to what should have been its death, or at least serious injury. But as Piper peered out the window, she saw it get back up. Suddenly, Piper could not hold back the tears.

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Piper

Piper did not like crying. She felt stupid crying in front of Katrina, a girl she barely knew. Piper took in a deep breath and banished the tears from her eyes with the flick of her hand.
"We should search this place." Piper replied, "It's pretty run down, but we might find something. Food would be good, weapons would be better." Before she started towards the interior door, she glanced once more out the window. A few zombies had gathered below, around 8 or so, sensing fresh meat.
From here she had a reasonable view of the school. The screaming had stopped now and only the unsettling noises of the undead could be heard. Piper could barely recognize the now zombiefied kids she went to school with. One kid as a result from the feeding frenzy lacked legs. He dragged himself across the court yard with his arms. Another zombie lacked arms and legs, though it still remained a vibrating undead torso. Piper turned away.

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Piper

Piper looked around the other rooms. The place was reasonably empty. A few piles of scrap wood lay around the place. She gathered some wood in the room they had come into originally but the closest she struck to gold was some old metal pipes she had managed to rip out of the wall.
Piper sighed, "Okay, this is the closest to weapons we're going to find. What do you want to do now? I.. I want to check on my family." Though in truth Piper wasn't sure if she did. With everything that was going on what was to say here parents managed to stay alive as well?

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Piper

"It's only a short walk away. You just have to follow the main road for a while. I live at Pinecone Apartments." Piper explained.

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Eli (Finally)

Eli raced down the suburban street. His own personal nightmare of assorted old lady zombies followed closely. At least the talking one had shut up after Eli had destroyed its jaw, the bottom of its mouth now only just hanged on. Finally his eyes rested on the prize he was searching for, a car.
How did Eli get here you might ask? Well the theories on the beginning of man are debatable but how he managed to get himself into this mess is a much simpler story. The zombies got into the school and long story short Eli had run to the car park where he had taken a crash course in driving.
Eli had thought he had been doing pretty well until he had drove into the old peoples home. The zombiefied old peoples home. Then to make it even better the car had stalled. This is what some people might call a 'Bad Day'.

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