The Walking Dead (IC)

The Jeffinator

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“Fuck...” Logan mumbled as his phone ringing pulled him from his deep slumber. It sounded farther away than usual, though. The moment consciousness returned to him, he contorted his face, his head erupting with a throbbing pain.

“The fuck?” he said as he opened his eyes and found himself mostly inside his closet with his feet sticking out into the room. He was using a shoebox as a pillow and his neck cracked as he began to get up, the early morning sun hurting his eyes.

After being greeted with a momentary bout of dizziness upon standing, Logan looked around to see his room and entire apartment trashed. Empty bottles of beer and hard liquor strewn about, pizza boxes, Chinese food containers, dirty dishes, chip bags, fast food wrappers, etc. Unfortunately, the mess wasn't anything new – his place always looked like that since Alanna left.

After checking his phone to see four missed calls from a girl he fucked the other day, he threw it on his bed. Walking out to the kitchen and grabbing a beer, he chugged it until the bottle was empty. A second one, gone. After the third bottle chugged while standing in the kitchen, Logan was feeling a little better. He threw a few frozen burritos on a paper plate, popped it in the microwave, and went to the bathroom.

After using the toilet and washing his hands, he splashed some cold water on his face and looked at himself in the mirror. His eyes were bloodshot, deep rings under them. He hadn't shaven or showered in days, his short hair was a mess. He was wearing a pair of boxers and a Black Sabbath t-shirt that was partially torn and covered in stains, both old and new.

When his burritos were done, he grabbed the plate in one hand and two bottles of beer in the other. He walked out to his living room and plopped down on the couch, setting his beers on the end table and the plate on his lap. Grabbing the remote, he turned on the news and started stuffing his face.

“Holy shit,” he said with a mouth full of beans and meat. They were showing footage of sick people piling into hospitals and clinics, infected with a mysterious virus that no one could identify. This virus was nothing new, for weeks they had been reporting on it and it's isolated occurrences, but apparently it had begun to mutate and became airborne.

Unfortunately, that was only the beginning. Logan kept a close eye on the news channels in the weeks to come, and soon, they began to report that the people who died from the virus were coming back to life in a zombie state. They started calling them Walkers.

A few more weeks passed, and the virus stopped showing symptoms all-together. Anyone could be infected, and they wouldn't know it until they died and came back, or with a blood test. Even if one had the virus in their blood, if they were bitten by a walker or got the walker's blood or saliva in their own bloodstream, the symptoms of the virus returned and they were dead within a few hours, coming back as walkers.

The outbreak spiraled out of control, and the military began sanctioning off certain areas of the city. People panicked, riots began, shots were fired. Death, explosions, fires, cries of pain, fear, grief. Containment walls were breached, walkers overpowered the military, and soon damn near the entire city was dead and walking.

The city's power grid went dark and running water came to a stop shortly after as the pumping stations' backup generators used up all their fuel. Eventually, Logan had no choice but to leave his apartment. He gathered what he could in his old military dufflebag, grabbed his crossbow and quiver, and headed out the door.

Soon he found himself with a group of nineteen survivors, wholed up in the basement of a lower Manhattan financial firm. They were making plans to get out of the city, which was overrun by millions of walkers. Soon after leaving, they encountered a larger group with about forty members who had also escaped the city. They joined together and headed south along the shoreline.

A few weeks later, they were spotted by a survivor colony just off the coast. This colony had about four hundred people living in a “fleet” of boats and yachts. They would sail up and down the shoreline, looting supplies when needed. Logan's group joined the colony, as did many smaller groups of survivors in the area.

Life was somewhat happy for a while, but when Logan and a few others were on a supply run into a small beach town, they encountered a large group of about seventy, comprised of criminals from various gangs and mobs that had joined together to survive. They captured and tortured Logan's group, until one of them broke and revealed the location of their fleet.

Logan was furious at the little bastard that cracked, and soon, the criminals grabbed a few boats from the docks and headed out to the fleet. Logan and his group eventually got free from their ropes and frantically searched for a boat, but by the time they found one and got to the fleet, the gangs had taken it over and raped and killed most of the members.

A dramatic series of events played out as Logan tried to save who he could, ultimately ending with him and a few others on one boat and the other exploding. They threw down blankets on the floor of the cabin and slept there that night. The next morning, Logan sat on the deck, staring at the sky. What where they going to do now? He didn't know...

OOC: Okay, so, your characters are asleep in the cabin right now. Whether they were with one of the groups in New York, part of the fleet, or picked up along the coast, it's up to you. You can either be part of the group Logan led on the supply run when they met the gangs or people he rescued from the fleet before blowing it up. How you got to be in this boat is up to you.

If Mel wants to get to Montana to her parents farm, maybe she suggests to Logan that they go there, with the hope of a safe haven. As for how long it's been since the outbreak, let's say the first signs of the virus began appearing in early March 2012, and now it's September. That makes it about six months since the outbreak. This exceptionally long intro post was necessary to make a reason for our characters to be placed together since some of them have different starting areas.
 
Connor couldn't sleep , nothing unusual in that he'd lost count of how many sleepless nights he'd had since everything had gone to shit, but knno as he lay awake the morning sun rising Connor reflected on the last six months.

His plan was the travel on to England after reaching New York work for a few years while fitting trips to Europe into his schedule, his older cousin Alex had done the same trip ten years earlier and ended up back home in New Zealand with an Austrian wife, a lawyer who was to put it bluntly ...fucking stunning...and Alex was an ugly bastard...or at least he had been.

The last phone call he'd been able to make to his parents had been to the news that the virus had spread accross the world and Auckland, his countries largest city had been cordoned off from the Bombay Hills, no body could get in but bodies ...dead bodies were coming out......that was where Alex lived...his parents were in the South Island far removed from danger, at least Connor hoped but he had to know, so his grand ,and so far unsaid, plan was to head to the west coast find a yacht and island hop all the way to New Zealand, ironically since living on the boat town he felt it was doable if only he could reach the west coast.

Connor had boarded his flight to Manchester England when the quarantine kicked in he was that close , of course England had the same issues as the Yanks but somehow not getting to his final destination had always bugged Connor, the airline had sent him by bus back to his hotel (thank you MR travel Insurance), the hotel was equally thrilled to see him and dismayed because they were being overrun with airport passengers needing accomodation..but Connor being Connor had agreed to share his room with a couple the Kranskys married one year heading to Poland so she could met his family for their anniversary at ten o'clock they had a massive arguement and MR K left the hotel without his wife.

She had been a teen beauty queen and his trophy wife it took less than a hour for 24 year old Sara Kransky to be fucking 18 year old Connor, not his first American woman but the one he'd been with the longest, almost a month, she had died just before they encountered the boat city ..walkers, Connor had shot her dead body in the head when he finally reached her. Since then he'd had a number of one off's but hadn't allowed himself to fall for anyone.

He'd hardened in a way he didn't like but that was his reality he'd been part of a large group of fourty that had escaped New York , of course they had started off with something like two hundred ,hooking at first with Logan's group and then various other small groups until the reached boat town..good people all ,oh sure there were arseholes and idiots but all worked hard to keep everyone alive .

He'd been on board one of the boats when all hell broke loose a second time, normally he'd be part of one of Logan's raiding party but had sat this one out to learn a little more about navigation from Ted an elderly fisherman with years of boat knowledge Connor had been unlocking for several weeks.

Ted was dead...so was Peter , Christine even Aussie Syd his closest friend ..ANZAC's stick together...he'd killed two of the raider's fighting back as best they could but they were overwhelmed...and now as he lay awake he wanted to be back home where it was safe, he hoped...but instead he was in the middle of a fucking nightmare and worse off than ever.
 
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