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Dude just write more about Pre-Nuke Highway in the thread for Highway short stories.
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Author Topic: The Highway [Only took 18 years]  (Read 28747 times)

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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #150 on: June 01, 2015, 02:53:05 pm »
[[Alright I'm going to fast forward to the next morning, clearly you guys are getting bored with the Soviet Weapon fetishism. (Hobocop I'm sorry I had to fast forward)]]

Fine, fine, we'll cut to the next scene you lazy buncha a-



Alright you feel time pass as you all pile into the RV and sleep the day away, the weaponsmith that mainly Hobocop talked to provided him with plenty of info and ammo on each gun. But in order to save time so you guys don't get bored, here it all is in short hand: [They don't jam] [Most of the AKs tend to overheat after prolonged fire] [The M4s are most accurate] [Mostly flavor text about lore about the war years ago, anyone who wants said lore just PM me and I'll write up a one-sided conversation from the weaponsmith telling you about these weapons]

You all awake to the sounds of Deliverance Company soldiers eating breakfast, getting weapons, and loading up their vehicles for today's raid on those damned raiders. Sun shines through the tattered RV curtains. You remember that you need to take out those bandits that lie outside the town first before heading north to the grand battle.


The Doctor [Jove Update]

The door swings open sending a mist of snow into clinic, in the doorway stands a man, medical mask on, blood stained apron, white surgical gloves, slicked black hair, and tired looking eyes. "Alright, come in, come in, take a seat on that couch by the fireplace and we'll begin. I think I got some tonic in the back freezer." The man leaves the door way and heads deeper into the clinic, you can hear his heavy footsteps thumping somewhere in the back followed by glass bottles and ice being moved about. Inside the clinic its quite quaint, to the right is a small fireplace room with a TV mounted over the fireplace, with some couches and rocking chairs. And to the left is a desk with an old Prabble II Computer that lights the desk in a sickly green glow, and behind the desk leads into what looks like a checkup room.

You hear the footsteps grow closer as he appears again holding a bottle of scotch with a glowing orange liquid swirling around in it, "Alright this'll solve whatever is going on around your balls, just take two swigs of this a day and it might clear up within a week or two, and also a piece of advice from me; stay the hell away from the Red House down the street this time. You can either pay right now or I can put it on your credit."

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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #151 on: June 02, 2015, 09:02:57 pm »
Jove held the bottle. He looked at it's confusing ingredients list with a quizzical look, then looked to his crotch with concern, and then back up to the doctor with fear. "I believe you're mistaken," Jove laughed rather nervously as he held the bottle away from his abdomen. "I'm just here for directions, not for a pickup. So please, I don't need this." He held the bottle out with his as-elegant-as-they-can-be-metal-fists.
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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #152 on: June 03, 2015, 01:22:59 am »
Organ Donor [Jove Update]

From what you could read on the label, its a potent mixture of morphine, anti-radiation drugs, and a shitload of Viagra; the warning on the label also reads as such: If you experience any swelling, vomiting, sweating, convulsions, hallucinations, migraines, random combustion, or a erection lasting longer then 4 hours please consult your doctor.

The doctor lifts down his mask and looks at Jove with eyebrows raised. "Huh... normally people come in here because they got the clap from the 'local nightlife' down the road. But if its directions you need I can tell you all about the area.", the doc takes the bottle from you and sets it on his desk. "So further north you may or may not hit Montreal and that place is pretty bad this time of year... with its 'Love Fest' they got going on this year; which is nothing but a giant rave. Um *tsk-tsk* to the uh... south you got Burlington which is nothing but a shelled out town filled with small tribes, might be a good time. A little bit further to the east you got Maine, and finally west you got more border and eventually you'd hit New York." He takes a seat in the metal-chair behind the desk, it scraping across the wooden floors. He takes the bottle of tonic and shoves it in a bottom drawer, then pulls out some papers that he then begins to scribble on. "And... if you got the stomach for it, I got a job in recently. From my fellow Doctors out East, probably the same ones that fixed up those hands of yours. If you're interested I could give you the details."

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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #153 on: June 03, 2015, 09:45:31 am »
The wolf mutant rouses from him slumber, sprawled on his side on the floor of the RV, his armor in a rough pile next to him, wearing only a simple dark green shirt and brown cargo pants underneath.  Cracking an eye open, he snorts, clearing his nostrils and catching a whiff of the food being served outside along with Ivan's unwashed filth not too far away. 

Rolling his 400-something pounds of muscle and bone to all fours, he stretches and loosens his aching muscles with a yawn, vaguely cat-like.  Seb had woken up a few hours prior to take a drink from his flask before returning to sleep.  A habit he'd developed over the years.  Scooping the treasured container from it's resting place nearby, he sits up, cradling it close and running his claws across it's tarnished surface for a few moments before taking another swig, shuddering at the bitter taste, and getting to his feet, donning his armor and heading outside to grab something to eat, preparing for the trials of the day ahead. 

He returns from the mess tent with several plates of some kind of meat and eggs and a platter of battered metal cups filled with water balanced in his claws which he lays out on the RV's kitchen counter, the Bear holstered against his torso, and eats his own portion while scrawling a rough note with a scrap of paper and some charcoal for the others to read once they woke. 

'Heading out to take care of something in town.  You lot eat and start loading the equipment.  I should be back before you're done.  And get Ivan cleaned up.  Please. 

-Seb


Satisfied, he secures the note beneath his empty plate and leaves, walking into town and taking in the sights, sounds, and smells as it comes to life for the day.  Local merchants open their storefronts, and residents come out to tend their gardens or head out scavenging for things to trade.  Some greet him cautiously as he passes by, a bit intimidated by him but recognizing his service to the community, but others refuse to make eye contact, and he could smell their distrust, a subtle twist distinct from those who were more friendly.  Whether that was because of his association with the Deliverance company or because he was a mutant, he wasn't quite sure. 

Seb was moving to one place in particular, a hovel with a crudely painted sign on aluminum siding out front reading 'Sky's High Smokes', the very top of a greenhouse visible behind it.  The local medicine man, and Jared's brother.  The smell of rich earth and fresh plants reaches his nostrils as he gently pushes the door inward, a salvaged bell ringing signifying his entry.  Inside, the desk looked unattended.  Hm.  He was probably out back doing his rounds. 

"Skyler?" Seb calls out.  "Here for a refill on my prescription."  He places an empty satchel on the counter and waits, straining his senses for approaching movement out back, but didn't dare intrude, not wanting to hear another lecture on the particulars of cannabis cultivation and how his musk interfered with proper air transfer.  Or something. 
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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #154 on: June 03, 2015, 08:47:10 pm »
Des stirs from his sleep, and grumbles something about a quickly fading dream. He opens his sleep-fogged eyes and finds that he'd fallen asleep on the floor of the bedroom, halfway to the bed. He didn't even bother to take his armor off, apparently. He sighs, and picks himself off of the soft carpeting and gets to his feet, the clanking of armor announcing his awakening. He stretches out his arms and yawns long and wide. Finally he rubs his stubbly chin and shakes his head to really wake him up, and he gets started on the new day.

Des picks his way around the various snoozing RV-mates in the cabin and slips out the back door with as much grace as a man wearing a bunch of road signs can. Shutting the side door behind him, he follows the sound of food and cooking to the tent where the company men ate. He slips into line and waits to receive the first hot meal of the day. The week, too, if he remembered correctly.

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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #155 on: June 03, 2015, 09:03:28 pm »
Drake had actually been awake for awhile now. He was just too lazy to get up, but now the shuffling and clanking from his fellow Deliverance Company and the smell of delicious food has woken him up. He gets up and leaves the RV, not needing to put on his armor (Only needing to change out his gas mask filter), as he always wears it, all the time, because of unhealthy paranoia.

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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #156 on: June 03, 2015, 09:22:52 pm »
Irving just hangs around the RV, waiting for the mission to start.
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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #157 on: June 09, 2015, 01:47:18 pm »
Zaweri smiles as he attaches the last screw of his gun in place.
"She's good as new now..."
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Re: The Highway: Border Towns and Raider Scum
« Reply #158 on: June 15, 2015, 04:49:03 am »
[[THIS FUCKING HIATUS IS OVER!]]

Don't they know its the end of the world?



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You hear some rustling in the backroom, followed by the crash and banging of metal tools. "Sh!t, fcuking dammit!" Suddenly out from the corner of the doorway in the back, a young face pops out, definitely not Skyler. "You're hear for a prescription? Could I get a name or something, Skyler hasn't really taught me much about this." The kid says approaching the counter dusting off mulch from his faded-orange apron. He looks no younger than fourteen, with freckles blending into his tanned skin, and curly red hair that stretches below his ears.

The Breakfast Club

Des and Drake, the only one of their group to need morning sustenance head off to the mess-tent to get some delicious, wholesome, and very American bacon&eggs even though their wolf friend Seb already brought them some food. Guess they aren't really "awake" in the morning.

Anyway...

They take their spot in line, behind some more 'hefty' fellows that look like they could cut some portions out of their daily intake. I mean sh1t, its an apocalypse and yet these guys are chubbier then that fuk that advertises tires. Must be radiomen. After some moments they head up to the serving table, the heat lamps warming all the breakfast delights like: bird-mutant eggs (is this even humane?), Molite bacon, and finally salient-green made toast with wheat germ for texture. Yes, the food benefits here are "great".

The food server's look at you impatiently, "Yo', hurry and pick something you're not the only pricks needing food."

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Re: The Highway: LIke an RP, but without the RP
« Reply #159 on: June 15, 2015, 07:32:48 am »
Drake takes his food onto the plate I assume he has, and goes back to the RV with his food, and further contemplates the implications of the bird-mutant eggs, right as he guiltlessly takes a bite into one. Damn, they taste good. (You, as the slave narrator must narrate his contemplation for me. Since I'm too lazy to do that myself.)
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Re: The Highway: LIke an RP, but without the RP
« Reply #160 on: June 15, 2015, 11:42:04 am »
Amy groans, then sits up.   "I smell food.    Food is good."  She says, stepping into the kitchen and grabbing a random plate of something.    "Wait, is that...     Eurgh, nah."   She puts the plate of eggs down, and picks up a piece of 'bacon'.

"Huh?   Oh hey.   Note.    ...Yeah, he should probably have a shower at least."

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Re: The Highway: LIke an RP, but without the RP
« Reply #161 on: June 19, 2015, 09:50:16 pm »
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Re: The Highway: LIke an RP, but without the RP
« Reply #162 on: June 20, 2015, 03:45:54 am »
Irving picks up a plate of toast and bacon, he picks up a strip of bacon and eats it, he does the same for the toast. After he finishes eating he gets up and sits about for a while.
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Re: The Highway: LIke an RP, but without the RP
« Reply #163 on: June 20, 2015, 04:21:40 am »
(look who actually posted! Time to roll into this like a boss)

And like the mysterious ball of goo that he was, Gooious sees Irving and walks up to him since he had a faint memory of him. He hadn't done much since he got really drunk and there was probably cocaine involved. He then bubbles to Irving "You look familiar... You're Irving right?"
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Re: The Highway: LIke an RP, but without the RP
« Reply #164 on: June 20, 2015, 04:24:44 am »
"Hmm...? uh, Oh yeah, I am. You Gooious?" Irving says.
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