Devolution

[Cryo]

As I sat there calmly napping, I suddenly hear a rapping. As if someone were tapping, tapping gentily on my chamber door. Oh no, there trying to get in! well not on my shift! AH!!

The door opens with a sudden force, a gun pointed at mikes waist. "Woh, Woh, hold it! I;m human!" he said, covering up his vulnerable spot in defence.

"Oh, thank god, someone heard me!!!" She dropped the gun, embrased mike tightly, began kissing him and all but raped him in her apreciation for finally seing an intelligent, clothes face.

"Hey hey hey, I'm happy to see yo too, but Jees, we just met!"
She composed herself, apologised, than invited him in. "Please tell me that you have some sample flesh from a relitive!"
Mike didn't think so, but he trusted the gods of fate. Pulling out his lucky quarter, he flipped it, pulled up tails, then pulled something out of his pocket. It was a finger. "So that's where that thing got to!" Mike explained that when his family fell victim, his mother bit off his sister's fingers. He thought he had thrown them away, but windered why only 4 of them were in the trashcan when he knew that he picked up all 5 of them.

 

[Isolde]

Prodding the sleeping man with my tranquilzer gun I thought that maybe he had passed out from exertion or the heat of the day. I hoped that he had not been attacked by one of the creatures. I did not see any bite marks or scratches on him though.

I kept the gun level with his chest as he stirred awake for I did not know if he was affected or not.

"My name is Doctor Nancy Kenan," I said to him,"Are you alright? Can you understand me?"

I hoped to god that he would answer me in intellegent talk and not grunts and screaches.

[Edited by Isolde on 01-03-2001 at 02:57 PM]

 

[Celestiale]

Trista

OOC: Just wanted to fit Trista's stats in here since I've not really covered it yet! Trista Davidson - mid 20's; lovely in a natural, girl-next-door sort of way; below shoulder-length, untamed, auburn hair; dark hazel eyes; 5'7" and slender but tough enough to hold her own.

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IC:

Not wanting to leave my truck behind, I followed Adam back to his research facility. He welcomed me inside, guiding me to the main lab before going back to get the girl from his Jeep. My fingers trailed lightly over the large, stainless steel lab equipment. I had never seen anything like this place, and I walked slowly around the lab studying everything. Adam was still out checking on his latest capture, and I didn't want to disturb anything that could be important to his research, so I found a stool and had a seat.

"I'm not sure how I can help him here, but I know that I pick up on things pretty quickly and maybe together, he and I can figure out a way to save some of these unfortunate souls..."

I wiped absently at my eyes as I thought of my family...

"I will not cry...I will NOT! It won't change anything..."

My hand settled upon a notebook and curiosity got the better of me as I thumbed through it's pages. Most of the writing was illegible to me, and the charts and graphs made absolutely no sense.

"Doctors! What is with doctors and their awful handwriting anyway? At least Adam has youth and good looks...what AM I thinking??? My family is gone, the world as we knew it has ended, and I'm sitting here thinking about how Doctor Kennet is cute..."

I flipped another page and paused, almost holding my breath as I attempted to read it's contents.

"Is that the word 'Serum' I see??"

I was so surprised about my findings that I didn't see Adam walk back in...

 

[Kepic]

came back in to see Trista flicking through the pages of some of my older notebooks. I chided myself mentally - I should have thought to lock up some of my papers and specimen samples. Thankfully most of my notes were in my own shorthand. I composed myself before speaking.

"Sorry about the clutter" I said, "guess I should have tidied things up a little, but I wasn't expecting a guest."

She looked round quickly, I had obviously startled her.

"Didn't mean to make you jump" I said, giving her a friendly smile, "I've locked up the new specimen I caught, and given her something to calm her down. There's a shower block in the east wing... would you, um, would you take her and get her cleaned up, please? The sedative will last a few hours, it'll make things easier for you... the last female got... well, lets just say that... I had a difficult time keeping my mind objective. Inhibitions... aren't something they understand now."

I managed a slight blush as I glanced away from Trista, before looking back to her. "Um, well then, I expect you'd like something to eat - hope you like lots of stuff out of tin cans. I'm certainly feeling hungry, anyway."

She nodded. "Sure, that'd be great."

"There are plenty of rooms here for you to take your pick of sleeping quarters. I assume you've got a sleeping bag and such in your pickup?"

I walked over to her, handing her the keys to the cages in the next room. I only had two female specimens in there at the moment, and I had taken care to sedate the 'clean' one heavily. I didn't want her 'antics' upsetting my guest. I glanced down at the notepad she had been flicking through.

"Ah, some of my notes on the serum I'm working on" I said, "or should I say we're working on, now?"

Of course, I already knew it worked perfectly. I'd have to put aside some of my current experiments while she was here, and rehash old ground. Though, I was intrigued by her natural immunity to my genetically-tailored virus.

 

[angie girl]

Girl Monster

ooc: Kepic, hope this is the role you thought I might take? I will try to catch up.

My character is the female creature that the doctor just captured. (I see that I am the only one dufus enough to play a devolved character.) At some point her name was Angela, she was 23, a darling lil brunette, but not without her faults and crimes. Anyway, all of that is lost on her now. Her friends used to call her the brunette hunkette and that is about all she remembers at first.

ic: Well no. Am not saying this body thing here is anything like them tasties used to come in red and golden arch pockets. Them were so tasty. But ok? No way for hunkette to find any more them kinda tasties. Cause come on, the boy monsters were all over those places. Plus maybe all the tasties eaten anyway. And you don wan me to tell what them boy monsters do to little girl monsters. I mean I did that ok? Was way big ouch. And don even remem how hunkette got away. Special lucky to get some warm cozies to put round me. Was brrrr at night. So am staying way far way from boy monsters. If I toll ya bout this funny thing they have where I don have anything? You would way laugh at me.

So chewing on this red and pink body part thing. "Chew your food Angela!" I hear but I don even look round anymore causs know no other monsters around. Them head sounds just happen. An then feels this whap! on my backside part. Sorta like when boy monsters slap when they are doing that stuff that is pretty uncomfortable. But then I have the pictures from another place. Don know wha else to call em. Mostly when way tired and the huge yellow thing is gone away. Pictures. Now am staring up at yellow thing. And pictures start.

 

[Cryo]

Look! Agumon't warp digivolving to wargreymon! Go wargreymon, you can squash that bug! Don't worry. I'll capture him. hmmm. who should I use. that wargarurumon is a touch one. I know. I CHOOSE YOU LIZARDON! CRASH!!!!!

Mike blinked 5 times, frozen in suspicious confusion. His arm is extended like he just threw something. He's sitting in a bed. His eyes were watery and crusty because he was just asleap. Infront of him, in shambels on the floor was an old fasioned Wind up alarm clock. THe round thing was somehow grabbed in his sleep and tossed against the wall with great force, creating the waking crashing sound.

Putting a hand to his groggy head, he got up and walked to the coffe machine. After taking a few sips, he hears a noise. going to investigate, he comes to a door. Behind the glass in the door is one of the devo's (his name for devolved humans being Divo's). That was normal enough. What struck him as odd though was the DIvo showed signed of limited intelligence. Most devo's he met were mindless ans squirls, scurring and eating and screwing through instinkt. This one however was intently watching a screan. On sight of Mike though, she gave a shriek and shrank back, but still payed half attention to the screan. Odd...

 

[Isolde]

Nancy walked up behind the man who was looking at the woman she had captured for some samples. The woman was not hurt-just not happy about being locked up. Nancy guessed she couldnt blame her-she guessed she would be the same way.

The screen before the woman was filled with moving pictures of simple everyday scenes. By measuring the eye movements and reactions to the pictures, Nancy could judge how much intellegence was left in the 'creatures'.

"Sad, isnt it," She spoke to the man who she had brought in from outside,"To think that she was once just as you and I are now. Thats why I need people who are not affected. I need to know the difference between us and 'them'."

Walking away from him and going to her desk where her research materials were, she said over her shoulder,"I'm Doctor Nancy Kenan. Did you hear my broadcast?"

Turning to look at him hopefully she said,"Are you here to offer your help?"

 

[LittleRedDevil]

I shook my head but followed him to my jeep. He started to climb behind the wheel, but I put my hand out to stop him. "Sorry buddy, no one drives her but me," He looked like he would argue the point, but he slid over.

I started the engine and just like I knew she would, she purred to life. I didn't know quite where to begin. If there was anyone else, where would they be? I decided to ask my somewhat uncooperative companion.

"Where do you think we should go?"

 

[Angelus]

"I would say the local supermarket but it has undoubtedly been ransacked by now so I would say the mall. We will definitely find everything that we need there."

Hunter looked at me before she put her foot down on the accelerator and shot off down the road, heading towards what she thought was the local mall. When they got to the building they saw a large group of human creatures in front of it. Hunter was about to stop the jeep but I shouted to her, "Don't, floor it. We can get through them."

She slammed her foot down on the accelerator and blasted straight through the creatures, throwing them everywhere before going straight through the front doors. When she finally stopped the jeep I jumped down and looked around, this place was a gold mine and virtually untouched.

 

[Celestiale]

I swallowed hard and nodded as I accepted the keys. I hadn't been close enough to touch one of the creatures since my Mom had changed, and I wasn't especially looking forward to this.

"I'll tend to her now then, and choose my room after I've taken her back and made sure she's comfortable."

All thoughts of the notepad and it's contents escaped me as I headed next door. It seemed that both creatures were sedated, but I immediately recognized the one that Adam had locked in the back of his Jeep. I approached her enclosure slowly, smelling the air around us. I only sensed confusion, the fear she'd been emitting earlier was gone. She was crouched behind her small cot and I kneeled down cooing softly to her, like I would have to ease a frightened kitten.

"It's okay honey...don't worry. I'm not gonna hurt you sweetie..." I coaxed tenderly.

Slowly she slid out from her hiding place and came to me. I posed no threat I guess. That and the fact that she was really sedated and perplexed, left her so very vulnerable and easy to manipulate. I took her hand and helped her to stand, leading her out of the pen.

East Wing....East Wing...

I looked around for something that might guide us to the showers and spotted a sign on the wall with arrows directing the ways to various parts of the building, including the "East Wing".

"Here we go!" I said lightly to my sleepy charge. "Just come with me and I promise that you will feel a LOT better after we get you cleaned up!"

It wasn't hard to find the showers, but it WAS difficult to try and relay the concept of bathing to this poor, sedated creature. After leading her into a stall, I decided that I'd have to jump in with her and do more helping than I would have liked. I quickly stripped down to my underwear and grabbed a few folded towels off a nearby shelf before turning on the shower and sliding in to aid her. She moaned softly as the water hit her filthy body, trying to cover her head with her hands and crouching down low. I took one of the towels and soaked it thoroughly, then found the soap dispenser on the shower wall.

"Oh sweetie...it's okay...I promise that this won't hurt you...you are gonna feel so much better when you're clean."

She seemed to relax and I lathered her up as best I could. I found that underneath all the grime was a very pretty girl. How sad that she was reduced to this...

We just HAVE to help her! I feel so lucky to have found Adam...if he has the knowledge and I have the will, maybe we can save her....and others!

I pet her head gently as I worked on drying her off. I felt so bad for her, and guilty that I was still normal. At least I could do my part to help those I could. I smiled softly at her and inhaled the scent of her clean body.

"There! Isn't that better?" I mused. "Now to find you a gown of some sort until we can get you some clothes!"

I rifled through the cabinets and found what looked like a hospital gown and bathrobe. They would have to do for now, and I eased the gown over the girl's arms and shoulders, tying it in the back. When the bathrobe was in place, I finished drying myself off and got dressed. I watched the girl slump over onto the bench as she watched me with glazed eyes. I threw my long hair up into a quick ponytail and went to her, helping her up again. We made it back to her enclosure with no problems and I put her into bed, covering her and smiling.

I guess they aren't as scary as I thought they'd be...

The thought stayed with me as I headed back out to my truck to get the rest of my things.

 

[Kepic]

I had secured the more incriminating papers and samples in the lab safe, while Trista was dealing with the new specimen. I smiled to myself, I hadn't expected to come back with two specimens for my experiments.

Trista... I had to get some blood and tissue samples from her... find out what had protected her. Then, I might be able to come up with a more permanent cure for myself than the serum. I had to take a dose every three days... thankfully, it was quite easy to prepare once you knew how, and I had a small batch of it ready made in my own sleeping quarters.

And the specimen I had just collected... there were some things I wanted to try on her...

That could wait... after all, time was something I had plenty of... until after I - we - had eaten. A couple of small can's of vegetable soup followed by tinned peaches wasn't exactly gourmet stuff, but it was typical fare for me these days. One of the few things I missed were good restaurants.

 

[LittleRedDevil]

I headed toward what looked to be a sporting goods store. I figured a sleeping bag and some other supplies would be helpful. I just prayed I didn't run into any creatures. I didn't want to hurt them, they were after all humans, at least they used to be. Maybe we could find some traqulizer darts. I picked up what I thought would be useful and headed back to put it in the jeep.

I looked around at the empty mall, it really wasn't the same, not without all the shoppers. Whatever had happened, whoever had done this, had to be stopped, and soon.

I went looking for Troy, wondering where we should move to next. There was a lot of ground to cover. What if we couldn't find a cure, what if this thing was permant? I headed toward a store and peeked inside.

"Troy? Are you in here?"

 

[angie girl]

Girl Monster

Warmness. Not like when all the wetness fell down everywhere from the ugly grey sky when there was no big yellow thing. That wetness was everywhere and cold. Yuck. This was wetness from something else which I had never seen. Small wetness but very very warm and feeling so good.

Was gonna run from this girl thing who made lots a soft noises all the time and had pushed me into the wetness place. But the girl things never hurt me, not like the boy monsters, and now I was all warm and wet and felt so good I even let her rub me all over with the very strange white bubble stuff. She got it all over herself too so must not be bad stuff huh? All her noises, like she couldn't stop herself, me wondering why no other monsters made those noises.

Standing still getting bubbly all over and then much hard rubbing with pretty soft thing. The girl must not like the way I am looking covered with all the mud and stuff cause she is getting me pink and white all over. No idea why I should be pink but warmness is so good I don try to get away.

But sadness when warm wet stops. Am staring at the little round thing where it comes from but it won't come back. Now more confusion in my head because she is making me cover up my pinkness that she just tried so hard to uncover. She is a strange monster. And we are going back to the place with the little metal rooms, me going back in one and the boy monster still in another one. I scurry real quick into mine, thinking maybe its a safe place, knowing if he gets to me he will knock me down over and over until he does the uncomfortable stuff. All the boys do that.

It is nice they way she patts my head and touches me, with her noises softer and softer. Thinking I want to touch her too. She is strange but not a scarey monster. But I am still afraid to touch her. Am wishing there was some new dead things here though. Cause my tummy hurts and I feel like chewing on juicey dead thing. But I just curl up and let her pet me. Something will die soon, it always does.

 

[Angelus]

I heard Hunter's voice come from the store next to the one that I was in and walked out, "No, I am over here. I'm getting some travelling music."

I had grabbed a handful of CDs and walked back to the jeep, putting them into the back seat of the jeep then turned to Hunter, "We need some food, clothing and sleeping bags."

When I saw the sleeping bag over Hunter's shoulder I said, "Oh, I think I should get my sleeping bag then."

I walked into the closest sporting goods store and after grabbing a nice sleeping bag walked back to jeep, "Time to get some food."

 

[Isolde]

Nancy Kenan

I looked at the monitors again before sighing. I had hoped that my message would reach more than just one person. The continuous feed seemed to be working fine and now I was trying to boost power to get it to more people out there.

Now that I had met another, I was sure that there were more. "Please hear me," I prayed silently,"Please hear me."

My fingers crossed, I flipped the switch that would start the feed.

 

[Celestiale]

I smiled warmly as I returned to the lab and sat down next to Adam. He had opened a few tins and was ready to eat by the time I got back from bathing the girl.

"That went MUCH better than I had thought it would. She's clean and resting now, and she gave me no trouble at all." I said happily.

"It's still early enough to get some work done here, and if you would like, I'll help you get some specimens from her."

I ate hungrily and waited for Adam's answer.

 

[LittleRedDevil]

OOC: Due to some reasons I have, I'm not going to continue to post on this thread. Feel free to have my character killed by some of the devolved humans. See you on the boards.

Red

 

[Kepic]

OOC: Okay Red, thanks for joining in so far.


I pushed a plate across to Trista, as she sat down opposite me.

"Good work, thanks for that" I replied in answer to her first comment, then I added "actually, I'd like to get a sample of your blood and tissue first... I've got plenty of samples from those that have changed. You're much more likely to help me get a few steps closer towards perfecting a cure than she is."

"Perfecting?" she said, noting my choice of words.

"Well, I've developed a partial counter to the virus, still far from a full cure, but enough to return some rudimentary intelligence and short-term memory."

This was true. Although aversion and attraction therapy worked well enough on the purely animalistic instinctive level, this partial counter-serum enabled me to perform a little further careful tweaking of the mind, to help train them to suit my needs. The other specimen I had collected had performed admirably so far.

"That was why I captured the last specimen... to test her reaction to it" I said, "it's worked well on the other one, but that doesn't mean it will be effective across a broader selection of subjects. I'm also sure releasing just a partial cure would be counterproductive. They can be dangerous now... what do you think they'd be like if they remembered how to use tools - knives, guns and such like - without retaining any morale codes?"

 

[angie girl]

My moff is gettin all wet and drippy. Those funny monsters chewing on great lookin stuff. And he a boy monster. Both making those all the time noises at each other. A boy monster not knocking me down doing that stuff they like so much to do. Way strange. But that stuff looks so good and wishin I was putting some in my wet mouth.

 

[Kepic]

I glanced over through the glass-panelled door and saw my new specimen staring over at us, as we ate.

"Guess she's hungry" I said, getting up and fetching another tin of peaches from the cupboard, "this should cheer her up. Should be a nice change from what she's been eating recently, I figure."

Opening the can and pouring the contents into a plastic bowl, I approached her slowly, crouched down, and slipped it into the cage, then went back to the table, to finish my own 'desert'.

 

[Celestiale]

I grimaced as Adam said "...actually, I'd like to get a sample of your blood and tissue first...". I knew that it was important that he have them, I just hated the thought of being pricked and poked.

"Of course..." I replied, watching him head over to the awakened girl's enclosure with the bowl of peaches. "After we finish eating then?"

My appetite was all but gone however, and my heart raced.

What if he can see the changes in me...what if he deems me one of those poor creatures who have lost their morals?

It didn't matter...I had to take my chances. If he saw irregularities in my samples then so be it. I would wait for him to ask questions as they arose rather than volunteer the unusual information.

"Won't you also need male specimen's for testing? What if what you have so far only works on females?" I questioned. "I mean...maybe it won't be strong enough for a male..." I trailed off, not enjoying the idea of capturing a 'male'. I had seen men-creatures doing some frightening things.

 

[Angelus]

I walked through the mall, trying to find something to grab when a scream suddenly ripped through the air. I turned quickly at the sound and grabbed my pistol out of my holster as I ran towards where the sound was coming from. When I got there I was horrified, in the middle of the floor lay Hunter and around her were at least four male creatures who were ripping into her with their teeth.

As they were tearing into her flesh she was screaming out so loudly that it was going around the entire mall. I looked at the scene before I brought up my pistol and fired. The bullet hit one of the creatures in the head which caused it to fall to the floor and the others to turn and look at me. They began to run at me but before they could close the gap I squeezed the trigger on my pistol, causing the three of them to fall to the floor in quick succession.

Once they were laying dead on the floor I rushed over to where Hunter lay and knelt down beside her, examining her. When I looked at her I saw that she was close to death and that there was nothing that I could do to save her. She looked up at me, "I let my guard down for a second and they got me. Will you do me one favor, don't leave me here so that I will be eaten by them."

I slowly picked Hunter up and placed her in her, now my jeep and drove out of the mall then to a hill where I buried her before driving off down the road.

 

[angie girl]

female creature in cage

Poking my finger into the wet stuff. Color of old dead stuff kinda. The bad dead stuff monsters gagged up on. But...sniff...lil lick. Woof woof woof! is all gone! way so much better than dead stuff. Stomping, banging the empty round thing till it's in lil pieces all over. Eeewwwww...one stuck in foot and the red stuff now. Howling.

Can hear the girl monster looking, and if could unnerstand she'd say, "jeez, I wish the females would at least remember how to sit like ladies".

 

[Kepic]

"I've several male blood samples to work with, enough to gauge a reaction to any attempted serum I develop. If it looks promising on a females, I'll then introduce it to a male" I said, before finishing the last piece of peach in my bowl.

Just as I got up from my chair, there was the sound of something breaking from the room where the two female specimens were caged, followed swiftly by loud cries of obvious pain.

"Oh no" I said, just managing to refrain from adding 'whats the little bitch done?'.

Quickly, we both rushed to see what was the matter. It didn't take long to work out what had caused her to cry out so - and she was still making a lot of noise now.

"There's a first-aid kit in the kitchen" I said, "you try and calm her down why I go grab it."

[Edited by Kepic on 01-11-2001 at 01:58 PM]

 

[Celestiale]

"Oh my God!" I yelped, running to the enclosure and whipping out the keys. "It's okay honey...I know it hurts...I'll be right there!!"

I opened the door and ran over to the girl, trying to get her to stop thrashing and howling. My arms encircled her firmly as I murmured soothing words and she settled enough for me to get a better look at the glass shard that was stuck in her foot.

"Hmmm..." I said softly. "I don't think this is as bad as it looks." I smiled at her and brushed the hair from her eyes. "Doctor Adam will be right back and he will make it feel allll better, okay?"