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Damien Fereza

"I like things. What kinds of things? Everything! You could call me a sorta' pack rat..."

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a character in “I Am Still Alive.”, originally authored by Sadist_Orba, as played by RolePlayGateway

Description

NAME; Damien Ian Fereza, known to close friends as Pack.

AGE; It's hard to tell under his hood and cloak, but he is thirty-two.

SEX; Male.

APPEARANCE; Pack appears to be a dirty, sleazy homeless man to those who have never once met him in their lives. However, upon even striking simple conversation, one will realize that Pack is quite a gentleman, and not quite as bad as he seems. Pack wears a hooded, grey trench-coat that has seen better days. It has pockets this way and that, and has plenty of dirt, as well as blood, caked into the fabric. The dark grey colour has faded after years of continuous wear and tear. The hood that is always up and over Pack's face hides all but his usually grinning mouth. Underneath the coat, a dark black shirt is visible, which appears to be much newer than the coat. His pants are a regular pair of blue jeans, that seem a bit too baggy for hi light frame. Although he is a relatively small man, the many bags that are all over his person make his body appear bulbous and hunched over inside of his coat, making him seem almost surreal at first glance. The layers in his clothing have definitely helped him keep safe when near the infected. His boots are also relatively new, and are steel toed. Using pieces of scrap metal that he had previously been carrying for no reason, he turned his boots into a pair of cleats in order to kick at the infected's legs, and leave them in their tracks with ripped open legs.

Physically, underneath all of his clothing and dirt, Pack is a generically built character, other than his eyes. He stands at 5'8" and weighs about 147 lbs. He isn't well toned muscularly, other than his legs that have toned out from carrying many pounds of weight for years. He is very pale skinned, as his skin rarely sees any daylight, and he has a constant five o'clock shadow on his chin. His lips are often seen pursed into a grin, even under these dire circumstances. His face is long rather than wide, with a well structured cheek bone that gives him an almost comical look. He has short, brown hair, and fairly small ears. However, his eyes are strange to most people. The color in his eyes are very grey, and his pupils are often very small when he pulls his hood down, due to the fact that they are used to the cloaking darkness of the hood he wears. His demeanor is paranoid at best, and most people have spotted him walking slowly at night, often checking his pockets repeatedly to make sure that none of his belongings have been stolen or misplaced. Pack's voice is quiet, and fairly high pitched, and does not match the way he looks to other people.

BRIEF BACKSTORY; Pack rat. Homeless Pack Rat is what most people would call mister Fereza. To those who glanced at him from afar, he was the kind of guy you would avoid asking for directions, or keep away from at night. However, to the very few people who know him, Pack is simply a kindhearted man with a bad reputation. Pack has been living alone since he was seventeen, when his father and mother died while on a flight to Norway. No tragic plane crash, no crazed Terrorist with a plot for mass destruction and chaos: but two simultaneous heart attacks. One caused by a too high diet of slat and fats, the other caused by the trauma created by the first heart attack. They were pronounced dead within' twenty minutes. Ever since, Damien had begun keeping all objects he had come across into his possession, fearing that losing any of it would result in his forgetting his old life. Damien got his parents cars, house, pools, hotels, everything. But to Damien, this was no solace. He sold it all. He actually attempted to give it all away for free, but those he tried felt too bad for him, and always insisted on paying. By the end of his selling, Damien ended up with roughly fifty-two million dollars. And he gave it all away to charity programs. He knew money would never buy back his parents, but he hoped that his money contributions would allow another parentless child or teen to have a new home.

For fifteen years, Damien spent his time alone on the streets, only talking to familiar faces and family when he saw them. He had collected countless objects over the years, and kept every single thing that came to him. Pawning off items at several shops was his only source of income, and often times he had plenty to eat and drink. Damien eventually began to be known by those around him as Pack, seeing as he was a nice enough man to those he knew, and how Rat just seemed too mean to call any human being. He never accepted rides or change, never accepted a place to stay, even for a night, and he never once had a single regret in his life, other than not being able to trade his for his parents.

When reports of cannibalism began to break out into cities, Pack often cast them aside without a worry. However, when a man attempted to bite through Pack's coat, he knew he had been a fool not to believe. Luckily, his coat was so thick that it would more than likely take three or four of them to take him down alone. His thick leather trench coat provided just enough cover from scratches, bites, and occasional vomit, that he escaped with a small group of the homeless and made it to a shelter. Here, he gets a few looks of disapproval, but is relatively left alone to himself and his things. He has been roaming the shelter at night lately, just to make sure no one stole his things. He loved his things.

PREVIOUS PROFESSION; Pack Rat. Not quite a profession in it's own, but this allows him to have vast knowledge of city backstreets and roads. His internal map is phenomenal, and if someone makes friends with him, he will often trade goods for things he finds worth it. No money. He has a feeling that money will be worthless, soon.

OTHER; Nothing much else to say, other than I cannot wait to get into this roleplay!

So begins...

Damien Fereza's Story

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"Hoist it up, Jaw!" Pack was sitting on a newly painted billboard, yelling for one of his companions from the street to put the new paint bucket into their makeshift pulley shaft. Pack had been at work for hours, painting the sign, and occasionally sounding an alarm for the other homeless to prepare to fight tiny waves of the undead. Ever since the camp had gone to shit, Pack had been leading the homeless and those fortunate enough to find their way out towards Black Falls. Pack felt a little strange, taking the part as a shepard of the people. However, given the circumstances, he felt like a new man. "Thanks, Jaw. Now get down to that city, it's getting pretty quiet here, but I got a feeling that some stragglers will pass through." Jaw nodded gratefully, and they said their farewells.

Pack sat on the edge of the cat-walk that protruded from the side of the large billboard, feeling as safe as he ever had in his life. A couple of the undead were slowly mucking about in their own torn bodies, seemingly doing nothing in particular. It seemed they were most at peace when their were no humans about... or, at least, no living humans... It's like they knew. Knew who was one of them, without a second glance. If only it were so easy for the humans... Pack had to turn down a few people in their haste, noting bites and wounds on them. After those people at the camp began changing, he knew their was no hope in allowing these infected to chase the traveling survivors. Pack watched one of the undead trip over a can two streets over from where he was sitting. The sight of the familiar husk reminded Pack of the events that unfolded not more than four hours ago...

The old woman. Martha. She allowed him in. Pack saw the rash, and remembered what the man had looked like when he attacked him in the alleyway. Pack had been quietly roaming the camp for hours, never talking to anyone but those who spoke to him first. Mainly, the homeless. Pack took a few of his friends, and left instantly. They went out of a back loading bay, and skipped supply scavenging, seeing that there was already someone taking their same initiative into affect. Pack already had food and water stocked up in his bags, he was in no need of gathering more. As they stepped out, they considered locking the door behind them, but Pack thought better of it. He had already known there were others planning to escape. The smart ones would need a quick exit. From there, Pack took Jaw, Annie, and Cooler through the side roads and alley ways, avoiding as many of the undead as they possibly could. When they got near the sign, Pack got the group started. They piled enough goods and boxes up to get onto the cat-walk on the sign. Pack lowered the ladder, and the others came up with some paint. They ended up having to remove the ladder, when the undead began to gather underneath. Eventually, they managed to get around fifty something people on the right track to the safe city. Cooler and Annie left early, leading most of the group onto the roads ahead. And now Jaw was gone.

And now Pack was alone. Waiting. Watching for signs of life. He would wait three hours. If no one had made it by then, he'd head out alone. For once, in his life, he hadn't wanted to be alone. Pack sighed, and looked to his left hand. In it was a remote. He pressed the large, green button on it, and four flood lights lit up from the ground level, making the large bill-board glow in the night sky. On it, was painted in blue paint, on a white back drop, "All Alive, Avoid Downtown, Overrun. Head Through Vering's Alley, Go to B.F." Pack chuckled a bit, knowing he didn't have enough room to write out the entire name. But he knew people would know. He had hope for humanity.

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"Damn!" Pack narrowly avoided the brick thrown at him from below. He should have known this would happen, after all, most people were used to others keeping the good things to themselves... He knew some people would stray from the path, and he knew they'd come back, with either a horde of zombies behind them, or crazy accusations of how Pack had screwed them over. Pack remembered perfectly well that the man standing below him had taken a left at Dane St. and not a right. He had a perfect view from atop his perch. But the man insisted that Pack had screwed him over, raving on about how he was no messenger of the people, that he was the Charon of the survivors. Charon. Pack chuckled a bit, as he regained his posture. Unfortunately, however, this was no laughing matter. This man managed to not only blame Pack for his own mistake, but he also brought some friends along... Around a dozen or so shambling husks.

"...and you have no right to just throw me out there, you damned fiend! You were trying to take our souls to hell, fucking Charon! Let me up, now! Or I will kill you, and so help me, you and your kind will go straight to hell!" Pack yawned. He knew the man was bluffing. And besides, he would have let him up, if there wasn't a chunk of his arm missing. He knew the distinct bite marks, by now.

"Listen, man, Chuck right? Chuck, you're dead. You're just as dead as those creatures down the alley. You fucked up. But you can still save others... Take this. Run away, lead the Undead, and shoot yourself. You won't suffer. You won't turn. The infected will more than likely avoid your dead body, not that much solace can be taken from that." Pack removed the light-weight pistol from his left side coat pocket. A police officer had given it to Pack when he had been bit, and asked Pack to shoot him. Pack had a few other guns, but didn't really know how to use them. He generally stuck to his baseball bat for protection. "Please man, I am sorry that you fucked up... people do it. It's in our nature. But please, don't fuck up my life, or other people's lives. Do the right thing..." Chuck's eyes were starting to glass over. Red, repulsive boils were beginning to burst on his face. Chris looked to be on the verge of vomiting.

"Fuck you." Before Pack could respond, Chuck lifted the gun and fired. Pack knew a man without previous firearm training could never hit him from this far, but the shot still caused him to scramble back. Chuck aimed for a second shot, but the gun already clicked empty. Pack could hear the weapon click hungrily faster and faster. "Oh.. no, no!" Pack was still on his back, thanking the stars that he had not been shot, when he heard the gun ting and click against the hard, cold alley way ground. The disgusting screeches and moans of the undead filled the alley. The sound of scurrying, escaping feet echoed down the tight walkway of the infected. Then, a few minutes past, and the sounds of the shuffling monstrosities ceased. The smell of blood and vomit finally escaped Pack's nose, and he finally sat up from his position.

"Sorry, man..." Pack whispered to Chuck. Pack had a feeling he might flip out. So he left the man one bullet. A single, last chance escape plan, to avoid the pain and suffering that many have suffered before him. Instead, he chose to make his last human acts those of hindrance. Pack would pick up the gun later... maybe. If he remembered. He had two other pistols in his left coat pocket. With some strings. A little bit of soda. Hell, he was well off alone, if he wanted. He could survive for a few weeks on this sign. But he didn't want to. Human nature, maybe. Right about now, Pack wanted someone to talk to, that wasn't trying to blow the top off of his fucking lid with a hand-gun.

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Marcus scanned the road below. He was on the roof of the last tower block that could be jumped to from another, and now - save for the stairwell and fire escape - he had nowhere to go, not that it mattered. If the infected could work a fire escape or a locked roof hatch, he may have been more careful, but there was little need. The street was quiet, no survivors and few infected were seen. The smell of smoke still hung around, and the sky had become a dark grey, but whether the fire was still raging, or even if it was spreading, he couldn't see from this roof.

"...ooking for something?” came a quiet voice around a corner that was just out of hid vision. At this distance it was hard to tell, but the voice sounded feminine. It also sounded annoyed, so Marcus assumed there was another person there. He continued listening for a short while.

*Crack*

The voice of someone shooting. Only one bullet, in the distance behind some buildings. Was somewhat fighting the infected? If he could see, he would help, but he wasn't going to give up his vantage point. At any rate, no other shots were heard and the city returned to silence. He turned back to face the voices.

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All Christian could do was stare, his lips ajar as Hannah snapped at his question. She was right, he was interrogating her - he needed to know whether or not she'd be a liability. Now, he wished he had never asked. He stepped forward, now only a meter from her as she had advanced on him and he looked at her, searching her eyes for... something. He didn't know, but he knew his own face would be giving away his guilt. He let her finish, her voice soft.

"Hannah... I'm... well, I am sorry..." He started awkwardly, eyes on his shoes, rubbing a hand across the nape of his neck. "I want to say I didn't mean it like that, but... I can't lie. I wanted to know if you would hold me back but now..." He paused, his eyes flickered up to hers. He felt awful and stupid; he had only known her an hour or so, and yet he could tell she wouldn't be a dead-weight. She was clever, he could tell. And used her initiative. But it was her bright spark of hope that, surprisingly, Christian found the most, well, comforting. And he knew he didn't need to dig around her, because he did want to travel with her. And he did deserve the guilt trip she had sent him on, telling him she had been left twice, but survived. He didn't realise she was fast, but when he thought about it, she did look it. All slender and toned... He dragged his mind from stumbling into the gutter and sighed.


"I'm sorry. I think... I think we should travel together... To Black Fal-"

The crack of a gunshot, though muffled, smacked Christian's inner-ear. His head spun, eyes narrowed. Muttering aloud to no-one in particular. "The undead can't shoot, not enough motor control..." He looked at Hannah and smiled. "It could be another person... survivor." Hannah had already changed the way he was thinking. He still didn't think they should run to the rescue. But a reconnaissance mission didn't seem such a bad idea. After all, Hannah was small and fast. And clever.

"Should we investigate... Travel buddy?" He grinned stupidly, hoping she wouldn't stab him.

Just over her head, Christian spotted a door in the kitchen. Maybe a weapons cache. Or even just a shovel...

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Pack sat for a lonely five minutes. The longest in his life, he'd wager. He knew that Chuck had to be dead. He was already infected, if he hadn't been chewed to bits before he turned... It was looking quite badly for Pack. He knew he could easily escape the undead below, but doing so alone would have felt like a failure. Like he hadn't-

There was a flash of light. Pack had seen it from his peripherals as he looked down. Three seconds. Four. And another flash. Pack stood up. "Holy shit on a fucking shingle." Pack saw the third flash, and there was no mistaking. A real, honest to god, preferably non-cannibalistic human being! Pack quickly stood, making sure not to tumble over the edge of the sign with his bulbous packs moving him this way and that. He stood, using the back drop of the sign as a way to highlight his body, and did a little hop, with his hands above his head. Pack couldn't help but yelp laughs of joy, and he had never felt better. His sign was working better than he hoped! Pack stopped his victory dance, and pointed above his head at the words painted on the sign, using very large and awkward body movements to make sure the person could understand. They seemed a few blocks away, but they would know his message. He pointed his finger at the sign, then put both hands high over his head, and pointed to himself. He then pointed the direction that would take anyone to Black Falls. He had signaled that he needed a traveling buddy, that he was a friendly and energetic guy, and that he would be willing to help show the way. Not that he fully expected his entire message to get through, but he knew enough of it would. He then did another little, comical leap, and even threw in a heel clip. He was feeling happy as hell, and he wasn't afraid to show it.

Still grinning to himself, Pack pulled a bottle of whiskey from his left bag. From his right bag, he managed to pull out a tattered rag, and a lighter. Taking a huge swig of celebratory whiskey, Pack prepared to clear the way of undead. He stuffed the rag in the three-fourths full bottle of whiskey, and lit the tip of it with his lighter. "Here you go, guys. Your time is done. Now, get the fuck out of my world. I got people to help!" He then dropped the bottle. It fell as if in slow motion to Pack. Sparkles of fire and glimmering glass drifted down into the center of the twelve or thirteen undead. As it made contact with the ground, the whiskey splashed about, lighting when making contact with the flames on the rag. It wasn't anything like the movies or video games Pack had heard about, where they would explode in flames and scatter bodies. But it worked. The flames splashed up onto the pant legs and clothes of the infected interlopers. They began to swing about, and try to escape their inevitable fate. However, each one had eventually fallen to the ground, either still slightly lit, or in smolders. Once the carnage below had ceased, Pack looked in the direction of the flashes of light, and gave the biggest, most important thumbs up of his life.

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As Christian apologised Hannah's frown lessened and she returned to her normal pose and regular tone of voice. Hannah's eyes softened too and she closed the gap between her and Christian with a brief hug and "Thank you" then moved back. Christian began speaking again "I'm sorry. I think... I think we should travel together... To Black Fal-" a blaring gunshot - muffled slightly - filled their ears. When Christian's words leant a possible nod to survivors in the area Hannah's eyes widened, "You're right!" she said in a hurried whisper, "But a gunshot can't be good!" Hannah looked to Christian and moved towards the kitchen doors that opened to the restaurant, she held the door open and spoke casually "It sounded not too far away didn't it? We may be able to get a better idea of where to go out on the streets" Hannah beckoned Christian to follow and moved into the dining area.

The restaurant was rather fancy to look at; the walls covered in a mahogany wood that were a rich dark red and lovely silk curtains framed the windows out the front that seemed to follow the front of the building the whole way. Hannah cautiously moved out to the center of the restaurant and flashed a quick look behind her to see if Christian was in the room too. Hannah's knuckles whitened as she gripped the butchers knife in her hand, ready to swing it at anything that got in her way. "I don't see anything in here... or out on the street at the moment..." Hannah moved around the tables, "This place looks like it wasn't actually opened when the outbreak really went to shit..." Hannah continued as her walk around the restaurant became more casual as she concluded it was empty.

Hannah reached the door of the restaurant and placed a sweaty free hand on the door knob. "Quickly get what ever else you need Chris..." she said quietly as she peered down the street, "We shouldn't hang around too long, that's my number one rule when out in the city alone..." Hannah peered down the street spying a large billboard with a message written across it and... "Someone's on top of that!" she said bewildered, "How the hell did he manage that?" Hannah turned her head to look at Christian, "there's a billboard a few blocks away, but you can see it from here... A man's up on top of the catwalk connected to it..." A smile broke out across her face, "There are survivors..." Hannah's eyes met Christian's with a stern stair as if to imply that what she said next was law, "We're gonna get him Chris..."

Hannah looked back down the street to the the sign, "We're not gonna be able to grab his attention from here... if we go down Dane St we might be able to come out a street or two near the sign..." Hannah kept looking down the street, her hand still grasped on the door knob "We'll be able to get his attention from that distance and see why he's still up on that sign... Just incase the infected are near... Or if he's infected too..." The end of her sentence trailed off with a sad tone that could be very true. Hannah looked down to the grown not liking that thought, as she raised her head up to look back to the sign, the man on top was gone... "He's gone!" gasped, she kept looking out the window to the billboard, "we've gotta go see Chris!".

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Kat raised an eyebrow, watching the odd movements of the guy on the billboard. She was in luck, he had noticed the light. And now he was doing some sort of… odd dance. Pointing at the words, yeah, I got it, she thought. Did he- was that a heel kick?! Seriously, no one does that in real life. Kat let out a laugh; the sound was almost foreign to her now. It the first time she had done so in days. Maybe she had finally found someone she could travel with safely. The thought lifted her spirits, and she laughed again, but quickly covered her mouth, looking around. What was that? Shuffling? She had been still for too long, not paying attention. Good way to get yourself killed, Kat. Or worse.

She glanced around, squinting in the darkness, when she once more heard the shuddering moan and the shuffling feet of an undead human. Kat slid her flashlight back into the flight suit pocket above her knee and slipped her knife from its sheath just in time to spin away from the reaching hands of an undead. "Hell no, not tonight, you fucker!" she whispered. Moving quickly, she slipped up behind the thing and slid her knife through it's head, watching it twitch and shudder to the ground. Kat had to resist the temptation to retch up the little bit of food she'd eaten that day as she slid the blade back out and wiped it clean on the now dead person's tattered clothing.

She tucked her blade away once more, glancing up to see the dozen or so undead beneath the billboard lighting up. Kat grinned. "Clever, you are." She turned in the direction that he had been pointing, the direction of Black Falls. She would meet him in the trees beyond the clearing instead of making him double back for her. Darting out from her spot in the shadows, she headed for the trees, glancing back to make sure the guy was ok climbing down by himself. The oversized military backpack bounced on her back; it looked hilariously large compared to the tiny girl carrying it, but she had gotten used to carrying bags just like it during her time in the Air Force. She moved quickly and made it to the trees in no time.

Kat slipped behind one tree and pulled her flashlight out again. She turned, hoping the stranger was close behind, and flashed the light once to give him an idea of where she was. A grin broke out over her face as she heard his footsteps drawing nearer. But when the shadow finally reached her, she realized that he was heavily hooded and wore a strange, creepy trench coat. Oh God, please don't try to kill me, she thought desperately. I might be able to outrun him if I have to… She took a deep breath, trying to not let her fear get the best of her. He had seemed friendly enough from all the craziness on the billboard. She stepped out from behind the tree, waving.

"Good idea with the sign there," she called out. She moved closer to him. Man, he seems tall. Oh wait, everyone's tall compared to me. "Hey, I'm Kat," she said in a friendly voice, though she ran her flashlight over him, looking for any signs that the undead had torn his clothing or gotten a chunk of him. He seemed well enough, not that she could really even see his face at all. It made her uncomfortable.

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Getting down the sign was the easy part. Hell, the smell of the charred bodies that he descended towards wasn't even half bad. The hard part for Pack was to decide on running back to where he had previously seen the light, or running ahead a bit to meet them further. If they made it this far, surely they hadn't wanted to wait in one place for too long. In either case, it wasn't hard to decide, since he knew they would end up going that way anyways. So, he ran. Hilariously, might I add. Every bag on his body seemed to shift his weight this way and that, even though the truth was that he was running in a straight path. As he turned a corner, a flash of light was just switching off, and he knew his train of thought had been true.

Pack made a bit of a light jog of the last stretch of land between he and his new companion. As he approached, he spied that his traveling partner was a woman, decked out in some military grade gear. Not that shit you pick up from Walmart for Halloween, either. Very real, very militaristic gear. Pack wasn't sure whether to jump for joy or dive behind a tree. What if she had a gun? What if she shot him! No, no, she would have done so while he was on the sign. Still, Pack was a little worried. Pack made a slowing stop about three or four feet away from her, just as she said:

"Good idea with the sign there." This brought another one of his little grins to his face.

"Thanks. I was starting to worry that it was attracting more infected than living." Pack shifted his weight from foot to foot, obviously happy to have met another person. "Listen, let's begin the formalities while we're on the move. The longer we stay right here, the closer one of those things get." The two went walking towards where Black Falls would be, dead or alive.

"Hey, I'm Kat." The woman said, sounding a bit chipper. Maybe she was happy to have found a person who had lived as well. Pack grinned again, seeing the swath of light from her flashlight move this way and that.

"I'm not bit, trust me. This coat, keeps the teeth at bay if they ever get too close. I've got two other shirts under here, and although the coat is old, it is leather. Saved me from a bite, once from a bulldog, once from one of those... well, fuck it, Zombies." Pack kicked away an empty can, as they walked through a small street. Pack made sure they avoided working street lamps, and main roads. "Sorry, you know, if I look funny. Long ass story. Where'd you get that bag? Sorry, I've got a thing for bags." Pack turned his body towards Kat to show her the twenty plus bags across his body. "It's why they call me Pack. My real name's Damien, but I prefer Pack. Suits my persona." Pack ducked under a half-assed boarded up, abandoned building's door. "Short cut, to the next street over." Pack could hear her behind him. He wasn't going to kid himself and pretend that he hadn't noticed her good looks. But he wouldn't fuck up his chance at a traveling partner by ogling all over her. "You know how to use a gun? A hand-gun? I got two left, I lost my third one. Guy was turning... thought I'd give him an alternative. Bastard tried shooting me, instead. Fucked up world, huh?" Pack stopped long enough to wrestle the gun out of his left, largest bag.

"I didn't keep it loaded, since I'm not much good with guns. But here's the couple clips I found. Take em'. Just don't shoot me in the ass or anything!" Pack knew he was rambling on, but he was glad that Kat had some good responses. He was in the mood for conversation. "When we exit this damn building, we'll be able to go straight down the side streets, and out of the city. We'll need a vehicle, though. But, assuming we won't get our mitts on one that works, we'll be hoofing it for a couple days." Pack stepped out of the window, rather than attempting the door he knew to be always locked. So far, so good. They saw only a straggler or two, one of which had been stuck under a light post. When Pack stepped out from behind a fence, he fell back over. A truck zipped by, loud music blaring from within'. Probably some drunk teens getting a kick out of the whole scenario. Pack stood from the spot he had fallen, and looked back to Kat, who was eying him curiously. Everything seemed so much brighter... too bright. His eyes began to water from the pain. Then he realized, his hood had fallen, and his pale skin was exposed to the wind and the lights down the street. He could feel his small pupils dilating, and he scrambled to get the hood back over his head. "God, it is so bright out here at night! How can you stand it?" He said, almost defensively. He turned, and pointed. "We'll go that way. The truck that just passed us, is heading for the freeway. Those punk ass kids will get out, and try to push other cars out of the way. They won't last long. We can try and save them, but worst case scenario ends up with us driving out in a fancy new ride. Win, win."

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It was getting boring from up on the roof. Cold too, despite the inferno that seemed to stealthily creep forwards. The survivor(s) he heard earlier had disappeared and the world became silent. Even the infected were gone - he was truly alone. He scanned the streets more carefully, but the waning light was making it harder for him to see anything. Looking back towards the stadium, he judged that it would take between 3 to 7 hours for the fire to reach where he was at its current rate, assuming it didn't burn out, but he knew how unpredictable fire could be.

He was about to give up and head onto the streets when a noise picked up, a faint rumbling getting louder very quickly. In a distant part of his memory, he felt he recognised the sound. Looking on the streets, he was almost blinded as a truck appeared from nowhere - a god-forsaken truck! - that was seemingly driven by infected...or teenagers. It swerved left to right and music could be heard very loud, a periodic 'wub wub' almost shaking the roof. The truck passed quickly, clipping a car on its way and loosing the remnants of its bumper, then, with a turn of a corner, it was gone. Seconds later, a group of people - numbers hard to tell - appeared where the truck had come from. Infected? Was the truck escaping? He trained his sights on the hooded one.

No...a human, and next to him a woman - albeit a small woman in combat gear. He recognised the uniform as Air Force and remembered the backpack, comically big on the woman, as being a particularly heavy if big one. He shouted down from the roof, waving the rifle laser across the street in circles. "Hey! Up here! You mind if I come with you?", then, without waiting for a response, he sprinted down the interior stairwell and almost threw himself onto the street, glad of human company.

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Kat was in awe of how much the man could talk. She had been traveling alone, for the most part, for about a week now. She had taken to carrying on full conversations with herself, but never had she been so chatty as this guy. He asked a lot of questions, too. Well, so far this guy was turning out to be nicer than some of the others. And with all those bags on his back… yeah, she could definitely outrun him if she needed to. Ah, the advantages of being small. She waited for him to pause in his chatter for a moment, then finally blurted out her answers to his questions.

"I was in the Air Force, actually. That's where I got my bag from," she said, giving her backpack a tap. At least she wasn't the only one with a bag that was seemingly much too big for her. "And yes, I know how to use a gun. I lost my damn holster, but I do have one." She kept her own 9mm in the pocket above her right knee; easy to reach for if she needed it quickly. Her knife was clipped around the velcro at her waist, which cinched her flight suit so that it better fit her slim body. Hell, they'd had the short flight suits, sure, but they still seemed to make it look like she was swimming in the things unless she had them cinched up. Sometimes she felt like a 10 year old dressing up in her mother's uniform. "Anyway, you can keep this if you want. Maybe we'll find someone else who'll need one." She held the gun that he had handed her back out to him, just in case he wanted to carry it himself.

As they slipped into the building, Kat looked around nervously. He must have known his way around here pretty well, to just expect the building to be empty. She would have stalked around corners with her knife at the ready if she had been alone. Just as they disappeared inside the door, Kat thought she heard a shout. But maybe it wasn't a shout. Could have been one of those damn zombies for all she knew, and she wasn't about to stick around.

Kat slipped out the same window that Pack had just disappeared out of, jumping backwards when the truck drove by. "Teens? You think?" she asked. "Won't they attract the zo-" She stopped, tilted her head when she realized that her companion had fallen and that his hood was no longer up. He was pale, paler than her, and she was a red-head for pete's sake. She raised an eyebrow as he slid the hood back up over his head, and she was about to ask why he kept it up all the time, when she heard footsteps in the room which they had just left.

Kat slipped her gun out of her pocket with practiced ease, flipping the safety off, and trained it on the newcomer. The flashlight still in her other hand, she held against the gun and eyed the new man suspiciously. "Hold it! Where'd you come from?! You don't look like one of them…" she commented, tilting the flashlight down a bit to look for bites. The fact that he had stopped when she raised her gun meant that he definitely was not a zombie, but she couldn't be sure that he didn't have any bites, so she waited for an answer before lowering her weapon.

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He instantly lowered his rifle, then - instead of dropping it which would be a bad move were they to be ambushed - slipped it over his shoulder. He then raised his hands in a mock surrender.

"I shouted you from the roof before. Guess you didn't hear me." he sighed. "I was a guard back at that camp over there. Guess that didn't go to well..." he pointed back out the room with his thumb. "You're the second group of survivors I've seen. The first... well, they wandered off too quickly, and at any rate, I was getting lonely."

He looked over the woman, and the man when he came walked closer. "You air force?" he quizzed. She was wearing a distinct uniform. The man, meanwhile, was an enigma.

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Pack had been milling the question and answer session he had with Kat through his head. He remembered that she already had a gun, which was good. He had shrugged earlier, and took the weapon back. He wouldn't know how to use it well, he probably couldn't hit a target unless it was close, but it was intimidating to other people.

"Yeah, they will attract a shit load. But we won't. We'll have to sneak-" He was turning when he saw Kat lifting her firearm. Pack raised his eyebrows, going into fight or flight mode. He clumsily went through his bag and pulled the pistol out of his left bag.

"I shouted at you from the roof before. Guess you didn't hear me. I was a guard back at that camp over there. Guess that didn't go too well..." Pack nodded sullenly. "You're the second group of survivors I've seen, The first... well, they wandered off too quickly, and at any rate, I was getting lonely."

"I know the feeling..." Pack said, remembering the few hours he spent on the sign, which had felt like centuries. The man was looking them over, and he knew what was up. Military man, military woman. Soon they'd talk about shit Pack had no idea about. They'd probably end up together. It was the cynical unconscious thought that put another grin on Pack's face. Maybe next time, Pack.

Pack turned, and monitored the road, listening to the two military members speak to each other. If either had spoken to Pack, he never heard it. He was scouting out the truck. Like he said, the riders were teens. Also, they were drunk. One was vomiting on the ground, while the other clumsily killed an infected, using a makeshift spear. They wouldn't last long. Waiting a moment to let the two finish their formalities, Pack spoke up. "Name's Pack, sorry, I didn't catch your name man. Your tag says Yosef though. I like it. Cool name. anyways, there's some kids down the road, I'm sure you heard the truck go by, blasting that Skriller or Zomboid bullshit. Anyways, they're dead meat if we don't help them. And if they are dead, we at least need their ride. You all up for it?"

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"I shouted you from the roof before. Guess you didn't hear me." he sighed. "I was a guard back at that camp over there. Guess that didn't go to well..." he pointed back out the room with his thumb. "You're the second group of survivors I've seen. The first... well, they wandered off too quickly, and at any rate, I was getting lonely."

He looked over the woman, and the man when he came walked closer. "You air force?" he quizzed.


Kat lowered her gun, flipping the safety back on. She smiled sheepishly. "I did hear something, but I was afraid you were one of the undead freaks." She tapped the nametape velcroed to her chest. "Yep, air force. The name's Kat."

She tucked her gun back into her pocket, still hoping she'd come across a holster one of these days. She felt so ghetto; might as well tuck the thing into her shorts. Her eyes slid over the man, and she quirked one brow. "What about you?" Any old bum could get a hold of the camouflage uniforms that military men and women wore, but this guy… He had the look about him.

After a moment, Kat glanced over at Pack when he spoke up once more.

"Name's Pack, sorry, I didn't catch your name man. Your tag says Yosef though. I like it. Cool name. anyways, there's some kids down the road, I'm sure you heard the truck go by, blasting that Skriller or Zomboid bullshit. Anyways, they're dead meat if we don't help them. And if they are dead, we at least need their ride. You all up for it?"

"Well… yeah, I think it's a good idea, but-" She turned to face the other guy. "You said you saw other survivors? Think we should look for them or hang out or something? I hate to leave others behind." Not to mention a tiny female traveling with two ridiculously tall guys wasn't the most comforting situation. Hadn't any other chicks survived out there? For a moment she thought of the few girlfriends she'd had back on the base. She'd never been too girly, but sometimes she missed the girl talk. Or just the mindless chatter at least. She hated being so serious all the time.

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Christian grinned at Hannah's crude implication at his weapon but it was quickly wiped from his face when he saw the mass of undead shambling down the end of the city. His eyes widened in horror when a horn in the distance drew their attention straight to Hannah and himself. Within seconds, Hannah had his arm and they were running down the street, and Hannah was right - she was fucking fast. A good meter before him already and widening the gap. Her over-stuffed bag swayed as she run, and Christian could feel his legs burn. "Whe-"

Hannah shrieked before he could finish and what she said nearly made him shriek girlishly too. A zombie was chasing them, running after them. He could hear the jerky moan, the shaky sprint. "OH MY GOD!" Christian shouted, adrenalin kicking in and giving him that boost for a few seconds. He looked up, panic squeezing his lungs and saw Hannah looked down an alley and was running back towards him. "FUCK FUCK FUCK...! SWING YOUR CROWBAR-"

Christian needed no more encouragement. With what was an unnatural speed and agility, Christian spun around and his crowbar collided with the oncoming zombies skull, his mouth open mid-groan. It flew to ground and Christian brought his foot up, a focused scowl written in his brow as he smashed his foot into the undead man's eyes, once, twice and then it cracked open at the sides, gooey blackened brains sliding out. Christian leapt back, chest throbbing as he wiped his forehead. He glanced at the incoming horde, their moaning and shuffles filling the streets, alerting others.

"We have to go. Another fucking fast zombie could be here any moment." He grabbed her hand and moved down Collins St, the arched entrance to the Zoo small in the distance. He looked at Hannah as he ran. He felt a sudden urge to protect her, despite having very little idea how to do such things. He couldn't believe he was even thinking such things; 3 hours ago, he would have tripped her up to save himself. He skidded to a halt and hurried back up to a small garage in which a Lamborghini sat, sparkling. Christian's eyes shone with a bright red reflection and felt his heart thud as he brought his crowbar down into the bonnet, then across the windscreen. The alarm wailed to life and Christian stumbled out, and took Hannah's hand again, running to the end of the alley, gasping. The zombies shuffled through the alley and all turned to cram into the garage, the noise enticing them.

Christian sighed. The idea had worked, though it wouldn't last long. They needed to get out towards where this gunshot was heard, towards the guy Hannah said was on the billboard. They weren't gonna survive alone, not like this. Christian looked at the Zoo, the silence within unnerving.

"Let's go." And Christian took Hannah's hand again and run through the entrance, the first time in his life he had entered a zoo without paying.

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"Yeah, we should find them. Sorry about that... I am kind of in fight or flight after that truck flew by." Pack wiped his brow beneath his hood, he had begun to sweat. It wasn't too hot out, but hey, he carried about one-hundred pounds of miscellaneous junk in his bags at all times. "They will probably head somewhere with lots of protection, if they don't know how to get to Black Falls... I dunno' where to start, though. Should we get that truck first? Every second we wait, those guys get closer to-" a scream pierced the air. Pack whipped around, and saw one of those... things, on top of one of the teens. Huh?... That horde was too far away to be there yet...

The one tearing the kid apart stopped, and looked up. The two other teens looked baffled. One turned, and ran instantly, while the other hesitated. The infected on the now dead boy stood quickly, with great speed, and barreled towards the now running boy. "It's... fucking running... That one's running! You guys got guns, shoot that runner! Shit, do they all run? Fuck, man..." Pack was baffled. This broke the damn rules, it had to. What about Romero? Didn't he say they ALL walked? This one was like an Olympic fucking sprinter. Before any of them could make a move, the runner tackled the boy to the ground. "Shit! Let's go!"

Pack ran, and hoped to god that the others were following behind, or would pass him soon. "Shoot! Shoot it!" the boy yelled, as the infected chomped into his arm. Pack raised his weapon, but was too slow. One of his companions had already let the shot roar. Then, a second shot rang. And a third. The infected had slumped first, brains and blood pouring from his gaping mouth. The second shot split the skull of the boy that had pleaded for help. And the third shot killed what was soon to become another infected, and who had previously been the boy trying to move a car.

"Holy... Shit..." Pack slowed his gait. Eyes were blazing back and forth as he searched, not only for the third boy, but for any more running infected. But nothing was visible. "Fuck man... this sucks..." Pack slumped against the back of the truck, still warm and pulsing, due to the ignition never having been switched off. "Man... let's find the others... the other survivors." Pack sighed. Shit was going down. He could feel it. They just needed to find the survivors. "I don't know how to drive stick... someone else do it." Pack got into the bed of the truck, and sat against the back. "Any one got any suggestions on where to head first?"

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Kat was about to open her mouth and mention heading toward the truck when the scream rang out through the air. She spun, slipping her hand back into the knee pocket for her gun. Her eyes widened as she watched the scene unfold before her. There was one undead on top of a kid on the ground, but at the sound of the scream, it looked up and took off running. Running. "Oh my god." The words fell from her lips in a breath. Not for the first time that night did she feel the contents of her stomach flipping and beginning to rise in her throat.

She heard Pack screaming something next to her, but it was the boy that had just been taken down who pulled her out of her thoughts. "Shoot! Shoot it!" the boy yelled, as the infected chomped into his arm. Kat sprang into action, running toward the teens, just a few seconds behind Pack. She raised her gun and closed one eye, staring down the barrel. Breath in, breath out, pull. Sweet relief to the boy who had been getting his arm chewed off as the infected fell. As she took another breath and prepared to pull the trigger again, the kid who had been attacked turned and locked eyes with her, pleading. "I'm sorry," she whispered, letting lose a bullet that went right into his head.

A third bullet whizzed past her head and she knew that the new guy had finally moved out of the window he'd been standing in. Kat finished her sprint to the truck. "Man... let's find the others... the other survivors." Pack sighed. "I don't know how to drive stick... someone else do it." Turning back to look at the new guy, Kat said, "I'll drive, you go back with Pack in case there are more." Kat was a good shot, but this guy had said he'd been security… on the roof. That meant he was an even better shot. "Any one got any suggestions on where to head first?"

She was about to answer when she heard a shuffle and a soft sob. She turned and spotted the third kid, ducking behind a broken down car. "Kid! Come on, we've gotta get out of here! Get in the truck!" she called out to him.

But the boy was stuck, frozen. He shook his head, tears streaming down his cheeks. Kat knew that the gunshots they'd just let off would attract more of the undead. They had to get out of there, and now. She stomped over and reached out to grab the boy's arm, trying to tug him up and toward the truck when he gave her a fierce shove, causing her to stumble back. The momentum and the oversized bag at her back caused Kat to fall backwards to the ground and she sat there a second, glaring at the kid.

That's when she heard one car alarm go off, further back in the city. She quickly pushed herself up and spun around, looking in the direction, her long red ponytail flicking forward over her shoulder with the movement. "That's gotta be them, right?" She tilted her head when another alarm went off just moments later. "That has to be them!" Forgetting the kid, she stepped up to the side of the truck, eyeing Pack. He had seemed to know his way around the city pretty well. She certainly didn't. "What's back there? Where could they be headed with those alarms? They're obviously trying to draw the freaks away…"

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Pack's thoughts were churning heavily. The kids they had tried to save were reduced to one, and he was already fucked up after witnessing all this violence. Luckily for Pack, he had been used to the violence by now. When the infected stormed the main streets in huge numbers, he had fled to the back alleys. A few chased, but they were slow, and he easily lost them through the labyrinth-like alley paths. In the past few days, he had only seen a few, here and there. The horde under his sign was the biggest since the first days. Now, running zombies. Fucking runners. Maybe it was just a couple, but still... that was fucked up.

A car alarm, and a surprised Kat woke him from his thought process. "That's gotta be them, right?" She tilted her head when another alarm went off just moments later. "That has to be them!" Pack looked up, and saw that Kat was looking to him for a guess at where they were. As if to confirm, she said "What's back there? Where could they be headed with those alarms? They're obviously trying to draw the freaks away..."

Pack though for a moment. "The alarm is coming from further in town... Not too close to the main street, but close enough that the alarms would attract a shit load of those things, and any other that watched them wander would follow suit. It has to be near a park, or the zoo... listen to how the alarm echoes through the leaves, it would sound less muffled if it were by bare city walls... Fuck, man, the park would be safe, but if they had been there, they would have been able to read my sign, and they wouldn't continue in that direction... they had to have headed North-East rather than North-West... putting them in the zoo... That's our best bet." Pack sighed, letting his mental map take a breather for a couple seconds. "This truck can fit nicely through some of the alleys, I'll give directions as we go. We'll be there in ten minutes, considering we won't have to plow too many undead and Prius's over."

Pack looked around, and saw a few straggling zombies that had followed the runner into this general direction. "Some are getting here... We should move. Conserve ammo. I'm no marksman, but I think we'll need all the bullets we can conserve. If you guys run out, holler. I've stored a shit ton of ammo, after I raided the gun store with my friends. All the guns were gone, but a lot of ammunition had strewn the floor." I talk way too much... Pack thought. "Sorry... just rambling... lets go."

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Kat listened to Pack think out loud, figuring out where the other survivors might have gone. When she'd first met him, she'd thought him really odd. She'd even wondered if he would be of much use to the group, since he couldn't shoot a gun- heck, he couldn't even drive stick. Though, if he was a city boy, that didn't surprise her. How many times during deployments had Kat made fun of her city boy pals who couldn't drive the trucks around base? Half of them had never even driven at all until they'd joined the military. She'd always been thankful to be a down-to-earth country girl.

But now that she listened to his thought process, Kat thought that Pack was probably quite a clever guy. He had done the whole billboard deal, and that had worked out, hadn't it? Not to mention the five billion different bags he had on his back. How many did he have exactly? And just what was in them all? Yes, she thought. He'll definitely be a useful guy to have around. She looked forward to getting to know him- well, and any other survivors that might be out there.

She blinked a few times, pulling herself from her thoughts. Her military buddies were likely all dead… or undead by now. Kat nodded when Pack said he had a ton of ammo. She would be concentrating on driving for the most part, leaving the security of the truck to Pack and the new guy. The thought of going gangster style on some zombies made her crack a little grin, though. "Sorry... just rambling... lets go." "Right. Going," she agreed.

Kat hopped into the truck, slamming the radio off, and slid the back window open so that Pack could give her directions through it. She checked the gas situation. Almost full. Those teens hadn't been complete idiots after all. Taking a deep breath, she put the truck in reverse and turned around. She prayed that she wouldn't regret going back for these other survivors. It had sort of been her idea, and if they got bogged down by the hoard, these men's deaths would be on her hands. Not that she'd be alive much longer to regret it were that to come to pass. "Here we go boys!" she called out, putting the truck into gear and hauling ass back down the road the way it had come.

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Runners. Fucking runners! Steven had mentioned a rumour about them, but the idea of zombies was a bit of a stretch. The idea of those ruined legs running... He aimed from the doorway, trying to locate the infected attacking the boy, though before his sights could find it the infected was shot down by the woman, quickly followed by the boy himself. It didn't take him to long to muse over the reason. He had a perfect sight for another potential infected candidate, the boy pushing the cars and had since been bitten, and let loose. The boy fell behind some debris. He ran to catch up, knowing the sound of his rifle would bring the hoards running.

"I'll drive, you go back with Pack in case there are more." ordered to woman, to which Marcus gladly obliged. Climbing up alongside the man he assumed was 'Pack' he aimed his rifle back down the street. As soon as he was in place, as if on cue, an alarm lit up in the distance, quickly followed by a second one. Too far to attract any nearby infected but certainly a good diversionary tactic. The third kid seemed to be refusing to go with them and, after pushing the woman over, cowered between his arms bringing his knees up to his face. "We have to go, now!" he said to nobody in particular.

"Some are getting here... We should move. Conserve ammo. I'm no marksman, but I think we'll need all the bullets we can conserve.
"Well lucky for you, I am a marksman. Keep an eye out over the sides of the truck for anything getting close. I'll cover the back and and she should be able to ram anything in front. Feel free to change as the situation changes."

The pulled out and made a quick u-turn, heading back the way the boys had come. Ahead formed a small group of infected, but nothing special, while behind was the rubble and debris pile of cars and the boy.

The boy

He didn't watch them as they drove off, leaving him with the corpses of his friends.

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As Kat weaved her way through tiny alleys at Pack's direction, her mind went back to the kid they had left behind. She'd tried to get him to come with them. Hell, there were so few real, live people left in this world, they needed to save every one they could. But he'd been adamant about her leaving him alone, had pushed her over, even. So why did she feel so terrible? He'll be dead in no time… He probably won't even move when that hoard comes through. We should have tied him up and brought him along. Anything to save him. But they hadn't had time. Her mind argued back and forth this way while she drove.

She was brought abruptly back to the present, though, by an infected making its way straight at the truck from the end of an alley… and fast. "Oh fuck, another runner!" she called out, warning the men in the truck bed. Kat knew she could just ram the thing, but then he'd probably do considerable damage to the truck. And right now, this thing was all they had to get them as far away from this hoard as possible, once they picked up the other survivors. "Hey, uh, Yosef?" Oh hell, was that the name Pack had read on his tag? Whatever. "I can't aim from back here while I'm driving," she said, tilting her head toward the open back window so the men back there could hear her.

Kat hadn't realized she was holding her breath until she heard the shot from the new guy's rifle and watched the head of the runner in front of them explode. Man, he's good. Lessons, anyone? she thought. With no room to maneuver in the small alley, she ran right over the body, glancing back once to make sure the guys were fine in the back. Finally they pulled out of that alley and Kat could see the zoo ahead. "Pack, how about a service entrance or something? I don't wanna leave this truck if we don't have to…" She was hoping they could find some way to drive right into the zoo, pick up the other group wherever they were, and get the hell out of dodge.