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Chapter 4 - The Caravan (Perimeter & Canal)

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GM
GM, 730 posts
Sat 7 Mar 2015
at 04:28
  • msg #1

Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

Please use this thread for Canal related activity. The Canal is located on the compound of the Caravan in the industrial park.
GM
GM, 731 posts
Sat 7 Mar 2015
at 04:36
  • msg #2

Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

A bloated body floats in the center of the canal on the turf of the Caravan compound. Face down, the features are indistinguishable, the gender unable to be identified without further investigation. It might have been there for 24 hours or more.
Dominic Dubreton
player, 249 posts
The Guy with the Sword
"Doc"
Sat 7 Mar 2015
at 18:45
  • msg #3

Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

---> The Past & Pending

Sure enough the floater was just as Karen had said it would be; a swollen, stinking mass of rotting flesh encased in old jeans and a tattered shirt with a halo of scum surrounding it.
Uttering a single curse under his breath Dominic gave off a weary sigh before speaking to Karen and anybody else that was around "Well...there’s good news and bad news; Bad news is that I think our days of drinking this water is over. The goods news is we found this guy before we all got a bad case of sickness and diarrhoea" and that was a best case scenario, though in their weakened states even that could be fatal "Ok lets get him out then at least we may be able to use the water to wash clothes with or something" and besides which if this guy burst the stench would be unbearable.
Drawing his sword Dom crouched down by the canal's edge and reached out with the blade hoping to snag the things jeans and bring it closer to the edge "Do me a favour and somebody grab onto my arm or something because there’s no way in hell I want to be taking a swim with him in there"

Sam
NPC, 25 posts
On and off Caravaneer
Useful Trouble
Sun 8 Mar 2015
at 05:53
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Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

-Chapter 4 intro post

Sam had followed along with the commotion, always a man who knew when and where to find trouble and the utmost authority on how to start it. He'd been bored lately, and so this was a welcome distraction from what he might normally be doing; harassing other Caravaneers. It was never to the point of the kind of the danger and violence that Sam had inflicted on the Caravan months before, when the group had left him for dead. But with Sam the formidable nature of the Southerner was such that he was both an asset and a potential troublespot. He was a fighter, knew the South well and its peoples, and was more cunning than many gave him credit for. Sam was the one who had shown the Caravan the way out of the Fort, and he, not Toby, emerged last from the escape tunnel. Somehow he had seen cooperating with his old friends-then-enemies-now-friends-again as a mutually beneficial situation. Or maybe he missed them.

"I'll be your whistlin' Dixie."Sam answered the call for a volunteer with a deep Southern slur, stooping down the canal slope, reaching his long, firm arm to take a strong yet testy grip on Dominic's free arm, allowing the other man to extend his reach outward. With Dominic trying to establish purchase on the floater's jeans, Sam chuckled, after a moment loosening his grip intentionally so the other survivor would lurch forward towards the water before the tall man reasserted his grip. "Saved ya."

The bad joke did allow Dominic to catch the soggy jeans with the tip of the late Christopher's sabre, however, though the hold was precarious.
Dominic Dubreton
player, 250 posts
The Guy with the Sword
"Doc"
Mon 9 Mar 2015
at 17:53
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Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

With Sam gripping onto his arm Dom was able to stretch further out over the murky water of the canal; the paramedic unconsciously biting his bottom lip in concentration as he tried to catch hold of the things jeans with his sword. The whole experience was like some macabre fairground attraction; in fact Dom could almost hear the Carney as the tip of his sword created tiny ripples within the water around the corpse Step right up folks! Hook the dead guy and win your gal a fabulous prize!
In Hindsight he should have expected Sam to pull the stunt he did; his heart lurching violently in his chest and his breath catching as he came perilously close to landing face first into the canal “Sam...Has anyone ever told you that you’re an ass?” Dominic asked in a casual voice once he’d managed to steady his breathing a little. All things considered he felt the comment to be rather restrained though the fact that hurling abuse at the southerner would probably only result in him being dropped into the canal may have had something to do with that. On the plus side however he had managed to snag hold of the dead man’s jeans and as tenuous as that grip was he should be able to pull the body closer to the canal’s side.
Using the sabres tip as a hook Dominic slowly and gently pulls the blade and by extension the body towards him. He only managed to pull it a couple of inches before whatever he’d hooked onto gave way but by that point the body had enough momentum behind it to carry on floating towards them under its own power. With the body now moving Dominic was able to take a more stable position on the canal’s bank and free himself of Sam’s somewhat dubious help. Now all they had to do was get it the rest of the way out of the canal without it bursting.
Karen
Player, 78 posts
The Traitor
Caravan Member
Mon 9 Mar 2015
at 23:05
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Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

Karen tossed her jacket aside and knelt down beside Dominic and Sam. "Almost there! Almost there!" she called out excitedly as the body floated towards the canal edge. Karen reached down and grabbed an ankle, making sure the cadaver didn't float on down stream before they could haul him up out of there.

This was not the kind of thing Karen had done a thousand times back in her Atlanta PD days. Having primarily spent her days in SWAT, and being trained by the American Government to kill people from a distance, Karen was most comfortable as a sniper. This, was a little too up close and personal. "I got him Dominic. We just gotta pull him out." Karen looked behind her for Bill and the others to help.

The movement of the body through the water left a trail of dark sludge behind it, slowly spreading in ripples out from the source.
Dominic Dubreton
player, 251 posts
The Guy with the Sword
"Doc"
Thu 12 Mar 2015
at 23:27
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Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

Unfortunately for Dom he had done this before, or at least been involved with fishing bodies out of rivers and canal’s. The first time had been an accident; the young woman having fallen in after having too much to drink. Had she been sober chances were she’d have been able to get out by herself as it was there had been several minutes of frantic attempts to revive her before declaring her DOA. The second time however hadn’t been an accident and it was that particular incident that came to mind as he looked down at the body floating face down in the water before him, all it needed were a few bullet wounds to complete the scene “Be careful what you grab hold of, we don’t want to recreate the napalm scene from We Were Soldiers Dominic warned as Karen took hold of the man’s leg to halt his progress down the canal.
Pausing long enough to return the sabre to its scabbard; the blades part in this little escapade now complete, Dom knelt down beside Karen and took hold of the arm and collar of the dead man’s shirt hoping that the fabric would prove stronger than the putrefying flesh within “Ok...on three we lift him up onto the bank...one, two, three”

Hank Lucion
Player, 62 posts
Fri 13 Mar 2015
at 01:50
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Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

--->From compound

Seeing the commotion and several people already arm down on the edge Hank figured that was where the body was. Walking over he peered over the edge and grimaced. Not that the dead bothered him much at this point, they were certainly worst when they didn't stay dead, but something about the sludge trail... At least he had the decency to stay dead. Hank muttered, kneeling on the other side of Karen, reaching out to grab the other leg when it came within range. I can grab a tarp if you'd think that work. On their travels he had made sure he and Tom had a roughly equal split in supplies, just in case. Right now one of their tarps was wrapped across a couple pallets they had saved from the fire, making what Hank called their "tent".
Karen
Player, 79 posts
The Traitor
Caravan Member
Fri 13 Mar 2015
at 03:57
  • msg #9

Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

When Dominic called "Three" Karen pulled on the limb of the deceased. Water logged and not offering much cooperation, the body came up out of the water several inches before Karen's strength gave out. The dead weight slid back down the side of the canal and splashed down into the water, more dark sludge seeping into the slow moving water. "Hank! C'mon, get in here!" Karen ordered, sounding every bit the part of the cop. "We can't lift him like this. Grab his waistband!" Karen braced herself better this time, throwing her leg down over the edge of the canal. She'd have something to push against, but she was closer to the potentially lethal water source. If this guy was a zombie before he ended up in here, this water might carry whatever kind of sickness that made him that way in the first place, and Karen did not intend to swim in it.
Sam
NPC, 26 posts
On and off Caravaneer
Useful Trouble
Fri 13 Mar 2015
at 05:29
  • msg #10

Re: Chapter 4 - Caravan Canal

Sam, highly amused, as beset with silent laughter after giving Dominic the jump. It became clear that once the body was reeled in close enough that the Southerner wasn't keen on getting his hands too dirty. He was accustomed through his life, but he found immense satisfaction in watching a former cop and paramedic player hero. With the elder Lucion soon jumping in to assist, Sam was securely planted atop of the slant of the canal, on level turf. "I think that thing just moved right there!" He exclaimed, sarcasm dripping off of his words, though he usually spoke that way. "Lordy lordy, maybe its Kaidan all growed up, aha." He added on a little spice for Karen's benefit, not trying very hard to be clever at that moment, but hoping to distract and agitate the nominally unstable and unpredictable woman into proving her reputation right. That, or fall into the water with new "friend", possibly dragging the others with her. What a hoot.
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