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Do you wish the short stories at the beginning were longer? Are they any good?

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Dude just write more about Pre-Nuke Highway in the thread for Highway short stories.
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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #75 on: May 11, 2015, 05:41:59 pm »
"Klutz. Okay I'm going to head out and get Ivan, who wants to come with?" Irving says, getting up with his hand in his Mataba,
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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #77 on: May 11, 2015, 09:26:01 pm »
"Agh, damn."

Seb growls in frustration as he scoops up the fallen kettle and slams it back onto the stove, it's battered shape deforming a bit more.  He...may have neglected to mention that he assigned the big lummox to road watch duty, quietly hoping that he'd forget about the whole mission and wander on back to base.  He probably should have remembered when he caught a faint whiff of his scent while on the roof earlier.  That man does not bathe often, if at all. 

No time for that now.  He needed to get this done.  He refills the kettle and cranks up the heat, firmly holding it in place by the handle and bracing himself against the ceiling with his free hand.  Catching Amy's whine, he comments, clearly irritated.

"If the movie's so boring, you might consider actually doing something productive.  You've a sewing kit and a camera, don't you?  Put two-and-two together and figure it out."
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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #78 on: May 11, 2015, 10:16:38 pm »
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"Good evening American wasteland, its another post-apocalyptic day on the east coast. Gloomy as all hell, the sound of looters and raiders pillaging in the distance. I'm you host Anthony Gladden, your one stop shop for some badass music, tonight in the playlist we have Tufcat's Starting Over to set the mood. Followed by El Huervo's Rust. Keep it eighties!", says your monotone host as his voice fades out as the sounds of gentle synth music takes the spotlight. It was quiet out on the road, the skies dimming into darker greys as your trip home progressed.

It'd been a long time since you've actually been home, every time you'd get back the company would send you on another errand as soon as you'd reach the gates. But this time was different, your boss spoke of some larger trip that they're planning. In your position this sounds great, but in reality you wouldn't mind staying at home for the rest of your lives. The East Coast ain't what it used to be, gloomy skies, "burning" rain, and mutants roam the surface 24/7; not to mention all the people you gotta worry about, Remnants, raiders, looters, and just average people trying to scrape by (but you honestly think the Remnants are the worst of the bunch).

You flick on your headlights as the Sun enters it's slumber behind those distant mountains, all you can see is the road ahead, and the sleek bodies of scurrying Trogs trying to find their next meal.


Home

El Huervo- Rust


Rain gentle patters against the RV's thin plastic-like windows, in the distance through the trees and tall grasses is a faint haze of light standing boldly out through the spaces. Home. You drive through a thicket of grass, behind it, a secret dirt road that leads straight up to Hamshire's gate. You heard your grandparents saying that this was a road that was once used by the resistance to transport firearms to the borders, and further into the past to transport booze.

Your headlights illuminate the front gate, the gate is made out of two chain link fences reinforced with road signs and other pieces of scrap, over the gate is a small wooden sign that probably belonged to a restaurant (It reads: "Welcome to Hamshire, Medieval Dinning in the Modern Ages No we don't serve vegans". You honk your horn and two guards appear out of a small "guard post" made out of bits and pieces of a ice-cream truck. They unlock the gate and you drive into the town.

The town itself wasn't really that big all things given, but it was still a decent size, shit some towns you've been to don't even have beds or a private place to go. So as quaint as it was, it was still leaps and bounds ahead of the "competition". Near the entrance gate is a bunch of tents and 'dead' RVs that have been claimed by the Earth, the poorer folks of the town live here, and built along the entry road is a small biker bar that Mrs. Marget runs. Further into the town is 'main street' and the suburbs, various shops, brothels, bars, and hotels sit crowded in the center of town. And in the "outskirts" is the Deliverance Co. HQ, built inside of a Church of the Lord, and its 'checkpoint' being a schoolhouse; on the church grounds are hastily put together buildings acting as armories and barracks, where you'll have to report to later tonight.


The kid stands to his feet and walks over by the counter, "Are you guys going to drop me off? Or are you taking me in?"

Reminder: Your goal is to get the info promised from Mrs. Margret when you drop off her kid.

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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #79 on: May 11, 2015, 11:44:39 pm »
Seb scoffs at Mack's question, taking a swig from his freshly filled flask before responding. 

"And risk having you wander off and come a cropper of some other nonsense?  Who do you take me for, kid?"

He was just glad to be home, so to speak.  This job's been a mess. He gestures with a clawed hand towards the RV's side door. 

"When we arrive at the bar, you will walk in, and I'll follow.  We clear?  Good."

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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #80 on: May 11, 2015, 11:50:01 pm »
Zidia says "I'm with Seb on This 'un"
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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #81 on: May 12, 2015, 04:42:00 pm »
Des steps out of the bathroom, with wet hair and smelling considerably better. He looks out the side window, and notices that they've finally arrived. "Home, sweet home." He turns to the others and says, "I really don't feel like babysitting today, do you guys got the delivery covered?"

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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #82 on: May 12, 2015, 04:45:22 pm »
[[Just waiting on you guys. After you drop him off, there will be some character discussion, and then your first quest will begin. Its a good one trust me.]]

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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #83 on: May 12, 2015, 05:27:08 pm »
Irving gets up from the driver's seat. "I'm going to escort this 'lil fúcker right here to Ms. Margret, if you guys need me lemme know." he heads out of the RV, he gestures for The VIP to follow. He walks to the Biker Bar.
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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #84 on: May 12, 2015, 05:45:37 pm »
Drake goes back to praising the GCM, taking a small corner piece off and eating it as a sign of gratefulness for what the Giant Cheese Monster has gifted him with.


Spoiler: GCM is love, GCM is life. !!!NSFW!!! (hover to show)

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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #85 on: May 12, 2015, 06:33:58 pm »
(What the fuck did I just read?)
Zaweri still attempts to fix the recoil spring (AJ pls)
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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #86 on: May 13, 2015, 12:15:30 am »
Bar of Broken Mutants

I know what you're thinking, "Really AJ? Sugar Ray?" But this ain't shitty Sugar Ray (depending on your definition of punk rock), this is Sugar Ray when it was punk music. That and I wanted an excuse to use some music from the Road Rash soundtrack. And a dirty biker bar seems perfect for one of their 'earlier' and much better songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjb7UD7jPqM&list=PL6436D0A287991AA9&index=11



Irving and Seb with Mrs. Marget's son Mac in-toe. You walk past the few drunks relieving themselves on the pungent smelling entry walls. Inside was a crowded mad house of humans and animal mutants with no place to call their own, people sitting at tables eating pies and pretzels while chugging down beer, people in the corner of the building either in hushed whispers or making out. Almost everyone is dressed in some form of leather armor, which probably adds more to the horrid smell of sweat and cigarette smoke in the place. A drunken beagle-mutant stupidly stumbles through you guys as you enter the bar, falling flat on his face once he stepped off the bars porch. Mac instinctively dodges a bottle flung at him, "Really jackass that's how you greet your "favorite" waiter? Man I had a long day dammit!" He says at some tattooed biker dude who was ripped to the point his muscles had muscles, and everytime the man flexed it looked like his tattooed were flowing and moving. The man stands up from the table and puts Mac in a headlock and starts teasing him, "So where'd you find him this time Seb? With that damn dealer again," He looks at Mac, "Son I keep telling you that its nothing but a gateway drug, me and your mother are going to have a long talk about this with you." ((Hope you don't mind Hobocop, it seemed to fit the character you have going)) The man's name was Jared Margret, husband of Mary Margret, and the father of Mac Margret; the family of bikers are practically Seb's family at this point, with the only person not really liking Seb being their son.

Jared points to behind the bar with son still headlocked and tells the group the entered the building that his wife was in the back counting out what they made and brewing the next batch of her famous booze.


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The radio lazily played its tunes while Zaweri tinkered around with his gun some more, hoping that something would finally click into place or that the recoil spring would fix itself. But after a little bit of tinkering he came to a final solution eliminate the jews *offensive humor* *offensive humor*, just going to the armory after they get what they needs and asking for a replacement part. You could probably exchange that bag of weed you got for something of higher quality and durability then your current recoil spring.

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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #87 on: May 13, 2015, 12:28:15 am »
We all know that the first thing to do when the apocalypse happens is to bolt every random object you can to your leather onsie.


Zidia follows them into the bar, and give a short look around. Seeing the state of the place, she curls her fingers up and try's not to touch anything.
"Lets see what we made here, quickly."


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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #88 on: May 13, 2015, 03:05:48 am »
Zaweri thinks about it a bit, and stealthily grabs the bag of weed he had set on the table. He takes measurements of the old recoil spring.
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Re: The Highway: East Coast Weather
« Reply #89 on: May 13, 2015, 07:25:39 am »
*Giant Cheese Monster worship intensifies, with Drake praying to GCM for luck on the next journey.*

(This is my way of waiting for the actual mission to start.)
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