Day Four
It was a particularly cloudy day... the clouds hung low in the sky and the visibility on the ground wasn't very good. While the town was out foraging, Smith, Jacksonville and Whitmore decided to keep watch in the bell tower of the ruined church. One of the villagers polished his rifle, and made sure it was fully loaded and ready to go. They assumed they would be safe up there, because the zombies had never left the darkness of the forest during the daytime.
From the direction of the falls, the zombies emerged. In spite of their weakened state, they were out in force and more numerous than ever. They immediately ran to the church ruins and began to bang on the wooden door which led inside the bell tower. Within minutes, the door had been smashed in and the zombies were advancing up the old wooden spiral stairs, all the way up to the top of the tower. The rifleman began to pick them off one by one, but many of them had already begun to ascend the tower itself.
The man with the pistol stood at the top of the stairs and knocked a few of the zombies off the stairs with carefully aimed headshots, but soon the horde would be upon them. Kansas told Claude to stand aside, and she began firing her machine pistol in the direction of the horde, specifically at the staircase itself. The bullets riddled the bodies of the undead, but many of them continued to advance. If they made it all the way to the top, they would be overrun and all 3 of them would die.
Smith ran towards the top of the staircase and grabbed hold of the bell rope, and swung across and kicked a zombie in the face, knocking it off of the dilapidated wooden frame and causing it to fall to it's final demise. Pointing her TMP at the horde, she unleashed a torrent of bullets that caused many of them to stagger in pain, and with a roundhouse kick to the lead zombie, many of them began to tumble down the staircase. She withdrew her blade and used it to hack away at the rotting support structure above her. Within seconds the zombies were upon her, biting into her flesh and causing massive pain.... but she continued. Whitmore and Jacksonville aimed carefully and began shooting the zombies off of her, but the damage was done. She was bleeding heavily from several massive wounds and bites, but she managed to hack through the wooden beam which supported the section of stairs above her head. Just as the wooden structure began to collapse, she jumped into the abyss.... and grabbed hold of the bell rope. Section after section of the spiral staircase collapsed onto the section below it, crushing zombies and continuing to pancake until it reached ground level a hundred feet below.
Smith could barely hold onto the rope, and she felt ready to pass out from the blood loss. The other two villagers pulled on the bell rope until she was safely at the top. There they attempted to stop the bleeding until help could arrive. The zombies couldn't reach them now that there was no access to the top of the bell tower... and the ringing of the church bell was sure to cause the foraging villagers to return.
Dusk
The villagers arrived back in town with a bundle of goods. Those in the bell tower (guard post) lowered Kansas C. Smith down to ground level by rope, and they all met at city hall. It was there that the Police Inspector arrested George Townshend on charges of murder and attempted murder. Townshend looked genuinely puzzled, and asked why he was being accused. The Cop told him that he had witnesses and evidence of his activities from last night, and discovered the Bloody Axe in his cell. There was no doubt that George Townshend was the axe murderer. Townshend looked absolutely dismayed by the charges, and could not even offer a defense.
"But... I was asleep.... then again, when I woke up, my clothes were all ripped and covered in blood... but it's all coming back to me now... it was like waking up from a dream... or a nightmare... not knowing if it was real or not... it feels like someone else entirely. I didn't even recall the bloody clothes until you just accused me. What's happening to me? How could this be? Why...."
George Townshend stopped in mid-sentence. The sun had gone down, and the clouds in the sky had dissipated. It was now nighttime.... and his eyes began to change color. They now took on a more yellowish tone. He stood there, confused for a moment.
"What just happened? I blanked out there for a second. Why are you all staring at me like that? Did I do something wrong? I feel.... strange. Like I am coming down with something bad... I feel dizzy... I'm burning up...."
Suddenly, he stopped talking and fell deadly silent. Then he lashed out at the Police Inspector and tried to strangle him.
The officer pulled out a gun and started firing into his stomach, but that didn't help at all. Another villager aimed a shotgun at Townshend's head and blasted it clean off... but Townshend continued to choke the Policeman within an inch of his life. Reloading the shotgun, the villager fired at the torso of the creature, and it was knocked clear of the Policeman. It immediately started to squirm and sprouted tentacles and a second, grotesque looking head... George Townshend must have been infected with the Las Plagas parasites. It got up and escaped from the village and ran into the forest... to join its zombie brethren.
Alive: (9/15)
TheFlax
AVSM
Beefy187
YLC
Captain Blackadder
Cultured Drizzt Fan
atheotes
Tratorix
Khazaar
Dead: (6/15)
pevergreen- Reginald St. Louis (FBI agent)
Beskar- Albany Johanssen (Actress)
Diana Abnoba- Toby Madison (Horse Rancher)
Death is Yonder- Independence Cunningham (Pharmacist)
White_Eyes:D- Daniel Nashville (Country Singer)
spl1tpersonality- George Townshend (Axe Murderer)
Kansas Smith has taken serious damage due to the zombie attack. George Townshend is dead and now fully a zombie, instead of just a carrier of the T-virus.
It is now NIGHT PHASE. You have 24 hours to decide what to do... I recommend checking your inventories and healing up. Results of foraging will be sent out.
Night Four
Frankie Mulligan and John Dover had enough of this nonsense, and they decided to go their separate ways and escape the town. Mulligan would make a break for Rural Route 2, and Dover would head for the falls and follow the river all the way to Canada. The others thought they were crazy and decided to barricade themselves inside City Hall, since the church had been destroyed.
As soon as the sun went down, the ground began to shake... and a loud roar was heard from the direction of the church.... the El Gigante had regenerated and was now heading directly for the remaining survivors. City hall was constructed out of the usual modern materials, which meant that it was easy for the Gigante to break down the walls.
Kansas Smith was not feeling 100%, but she managed to hack through several zombies with her katana. Veronica Orleans used her shotgun and kept many of the zombies at bay... but the group was running out of ammunition, and everyone was looking out for themselves. That is why when the El Gigante picked up Houston Whitmore and hurled him into the zombie horde, no one could do anything to save him... and he was surrounded by four zombies and quickly made into meat. The rest of the night did not go well, either... the town fought gallantly, but it seems the zombies had nearly defeated them. They were backed into a corner... and Smith had to break a window and allow the others to sneak out of it and dash away from the village, into the forest... where they hid until sunrise. The survivors of Fair Haven were nearly annihilated.
John Dover was nearing the falls... when he heard the sounds of zombies coming from the river itself. From behind the falls, there came a swarm of zombies... and from the river, more dead bodies crawled onto the land. The cold, wet bodies were bloated and decaying, but they were all interested in one thing; eating John Dover. But John was no fool.... he had gone through all this before. He chucked his Incendiary Grenade directly at the center of the horde, and it caused a huge explosion of slow burning fuel, which coated the zombies themselves and the ground all around the base of the falls. The bright burning flame made the zombies scatter, including the ones which were on fire. John blasted the heads off of any remaining zombies with his pistol, and said adios to the town of Fair Haven. There was an abandoned dock with a rickety wooden boat tethered to the it, and John hopped in and floated to safety. Frankie Mulligan had gone in the opposite direction; towards Rural Route 2. It seems that most of the zombies were either at the falls or at the village. He encountered a small horde of them on the way to the highway, but his Flash Grenade blinded them and caused them to scatter. Even better, a school bus filled with survivors of the outbreak was passing by and saw the flash, and stopped briefly for Frankie to get on. Frankie just smiled and played with his toy school bus and made the stop sign flap in and out. BEEP BEEP! The wheels on the bus go round and round....
Claude Jacksonville woke up the next morning with a terrible cough and a fever. He was vomiting up blood.... he did not look too well. However, the doctor took a look at him, and there was no sign of the T-Virus.
Alive: (6/15)
Beefy187
YLC
Captain Blackadder
atheotes
Tratorix
Khazaar
Dead: (7/15)
pevergreen- Reginald St. Louis (FBI agent)
Beskar- Albany Johanssen (Actress)
Diana Abnoba- Toby Madison (Horse Rancher)
Death is Yonder- Independence Cunningham (Pharmacist)
White_Eyes:D- Daniel Nashville (Country Singer)
spl1tpersonality- George Townshend (Axe Murderer)
Cultured Drizzt Fan- Houston Whitmore (Politician)
Escaped: (2/15)
TheFlax- Frankfurt Mulligan (Bus Driver)
AVSM- "John Dover" (Raccoon City Survivor: Felix Benedict)
Begin Day Five. I would like this phase over in 48 hours, 24 if you can swing it.
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