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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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Author Topic: The Highway [Only took 18 years]  (Read 28751 times)

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Re: The Highway: INTRODUCING SPUZZ!!!
« Reply #480 on: December 27, 2015, 08:59:45 pm »
Derek looks over his pile of guns and decides to always keep the Model 29 and Browning Hi-Power in his holsters, putting the rest of his pistols in the custom center console. He grabs the Marlin, and puts it in the passenger seat. He radios the RV and says," Lets stop at the nearest town, I could use some supplies." He shoves the moldy food into a box, putting the moldy bread in another box so eh could cultivate it for penicillin.
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Re: The Highway: INTRODUCING SPUZZ!!!
« Reply #481 on: December 27, 2015, 11:42:31 pm »
Having taken the task of driving, Chalk chimes back in response Derek. "Pssh, see any towns 'round us? Know of any towns 'round here? Helpful signs advertising cheap guns? No? Well, guess that has to wait, huh?" It's a little hard to read into his sarcasm through all the growling static from his false voice, but judging from the robotic chuckle following the statement, it's not in bad spirits. "Anyhow, I'm pulling up here. Could be useful.....things in the trunk of this car." Chalk doesn't know why he'd think there would be loot in an ancient old car. A good gut feeling, maybe?
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Re: The Highway: INTRODUCING SPUZZ!!!
« Reply #482 on: December 28, 2015, 01:07:15 am »
GET OUT OF HERE STALKER [Graham/Broke Caravan]

Isaac: Mordecai slips his piece into his lab coat then leans over to whisper to you, "Believe it or not he used to be very different back in the day, he was one of my patients. Back before he got into the caravan business he was a bouncer for some nightclub back in NeoTokyo. Took a few good hits every once in a while, mostly from muties that had too much to drink or from ones that just despised humans." Taking a deep breath he continued. "Never had the prejudice he has now, but I think that came when he... it was probably due to Kat- *sigh* Missy's brother. If I can, I'll tell you what happened later, not now though."

Everyone Else: Finishing your meal, with your bellies full of delicious stew. You lock and load, getting ready to head into the belly of this horrible place. The Leader informs you all of what to expect once you arrive down there. You pass through corridors dimly lit with propane lamps, past empty rooms cleared of any valuables that might be their with half the doorways blocked by desks and filing cabinets.

"-mutants of the feral sort, fleshy blobs, anomalies, Hell even the structure itself is a danger if you're not careful. The Russian's built these places to last, but the past thirty or so years have no been kind to these concrete walls; our forefathers never considered corrosion and gravitational breaks to tear down what they created. Back then they never had to worry about the Hellish crap we do. So for the tourists, please be watchful around you, stay in groups, and if things go crazy try to get back to the surface.", he explains to everyone as he approaches the elevator doors. He presses the button and the doors open, allowing the group to enter.

You ride the elevator down quite a ways, the doors open to reveal a pitch black concrete room. Everyone switches their lights on: you see a medium sized concrete room, the floors are cracked and smeared with a rust colored substance, you can smell something acidic hanging in the air, the walls are lined with servers and reel-computers that are all oozing corrosive brown ooze. There are two doors, one is knocked off it's hinges leading west into a hallway, while the other door is cracked open it leads east into a small bathroom.

The STALKERS flood into the concrete room and prepare to head west. "I wouldn't touch that brown shit, believe it or not it's battery acid. Really, really corrosive battery acid. That shit will melt right through the bone.", one of the STALKERS explain as he looks into the west hallway.

Mordecai looks interested in scooping some of the spoiled battery acid. For what reason that could be you can't place, maybe to help remove the common wart?

Joshua stacks up against the doorway leading west with some of the other STALKERs, waiting for the signal to storm into the room.

Deliverance Company

Derek: After making the call you see the RV pull over to the side of the road to loot the car [READ THEIR UPDATE TO SEE WHAT THEY FIND]. Being a smart cookie you decide to use your moldy old food to create penicillin! You now get +1 penicillin for every 20 ticks!

Chalk: You walk up to the trunk of the old busted up sedan, you jiggle the handle but it doesn't move. Do instead you bang it! The trunk flies open revealing a skeleton in the fetal position clutching a rusty (beyond any use) 38. snub nose and holding onto a gallon of gasoline! Feeling it you guess that there's about half a gallon [.5 fuel] in the can.

The RV
Food: 75/100
Meds: 5
Fuel: 16.7 Units [You use .8 fuel per 5 ticks]

Storage: [5/???]
-{All yer' shit you brought} [5 spaces]


Derek's Car
Food: Some moldy fast food
Meds: 2
Fuel: 19.3 Units [You use .7 fuel per 5 ticks]

Storage: [5/20]
-{Pile of Guns} [5 spaces]

Farming
1+ Penicillin for every 20 Ticks [20 Ticks Remaining]



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Re: The Highway: WOW DEREK G8 MOVES KEEP IT UP!
« Reply #483 on: December 28, 2015, 02:12:13 am »
Graham looks around the room, cringes at the acid. He keeps an ear out, trying to hear something, anything, metal scraping, footfalls, anything. He pulls out his knife, having it held in the hand steadying the rifle. "Could you keep the sound to a minimum? I want to know where the thing is before it knows where we are. It must make some sort of noise or something." He says, quietly. He seems to be focusing on listening on any foreign sounds, trying to block out breathing.
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Re: The Highway: WOW DEREK G8 MOVES KEEP IT UP!
« Reply #484 on: December 28, 2015, 02:43:27 am »
Ivan turns off the car and runs to Chalk.
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Re: The Highway: WOW DEREK G8 MOVES KEEP IT UP!
« Reply #485 on: December 28, 2015, 12:10:40 pm »
Isaac walked into the room, moving quietly as he could and keeping his SMG pointed at one of the doors. He whispers just loud enough for everyone to hear "You think it's like the things from above? Those blob things?"
Then he whispered quietly to Mordecai "I got an idea for this acid stuff if you have anything to hold it. Acid grenades sound like an all to useful tool."

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Re: The Highway: WOW DEREK G8 MOVES KEEP IT UP!
« Reply #486 on: December 30, 2015, 11:13:50 pm »
Derek grabs a length of well-used rubber hose from the back of his truck and an empty jerry can, walking over to the rusted wreck of a car to see if he can siphon some fuel. Before he sticks the rubber hose in the tank, he checks the dashboard compartment for any maps.
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Re: The Highway: WOW DEREK G8 MOVES KEEP IT UP!
« Reply #487 on: January 01, 2016, 05:26:05 pm »
You don't belong here, don't you get it? [Graham/Broke Caravan]

Graham: Listening carefully you can hear gurgling and something slithering very slowly across the floor in the next room, from previous experience you know that it's the sounds of a Glurp. A passive blob of human flesh that slithers and slides around making cute little gurgling noises (think of a blob fish/not that orange blob crap from above). You also think you hear something far more sinister echoing out deeper into the building, the shrieking of metal scraping across concrete.

Mordecai nods to Isaac and pulls out a small vile, putting it under where the acidic sludge is dripping he collects a bit of the acid. Seals it and slips the container into his jacket pocket.

Deliverance Co.

Ivan: You run to Chalk.

Derek: You set the fuel siphoning gear next to the gas tank of the car. You approach one of the rusty doors and pull it off, getting inside the car you search it's dashboard to find decomposed traffic tickets, a water damaged "Laborer Documentation" paper, and a slightly damaged map of the US during 2017. Despite some water splotches in the western regions, you have a decent map of the East Coast and Central US.

It shows what cities used to be where, checkpoint locations, worker's union camps, embassies for the US, Chinese, and Russia, and it also details the borders of these countries. With Russia taking up most of the northern parts of the US excluding New York, Maine, and the rest of the East Coast. While China occupies most of the south.

Using the sky you try to pinpoint where you're at, you guess you're somewhere around [Here] a little bit past Hamshire and way away from where the battle took place up north. If you keep heading west you're bound to cross over into the desert, you also see that you're near the ruins of Smithville. You've heard rumors of a new Church that moved into Smithville and they're hiring mercenaries to protect their missionary caravans, along with having a mutie problem in the sewers.

The RV
Food: 75/100
Meds: 5
Fuel: 17.5 Units

Storage: [5/???]
-{All yer' shit you brought} [5 spaces]


Derek's Car
Food: Some moldy fast food
Meds: 2
Fuel: 20 Units

Storage: [5/20]
-{Pile of Guns} [5 spaces]

Farming
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Re: The Highway: Getting faster and better at updating
« Reply #488 on: January 01, 2016, 06:04:07 pm »
"There's... A Glurp nearby along with... Metal scraping, that's no anomaly. I'd keep that vial at the ready." Graham whispers loud enough for everyone to hear,
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Re: The Highway: Getting faster and better at updating
« Reply #489 on: January 01, 2016, 07:12:35 pm »
"Ready when you are." Isaac said as he lifted his SMG and took aim at the door way.

((Hey AJ, what I'm thinking as far as the acid goes is finding some glass scraps making the end of a grenade shell and filling it with the acid then closing it off. Probably put some metal over it and put in the standard powder load for Isaac's grenade launcher. Would that work?))

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Re: The Highway: Getting faster and better at updating
« Reply #490 on: January 01, 2016, 11:44:09 pm »
((I'd imagine if you throw it hard enough the vial 'll shatter))
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Re: The Highway: Getting faster and better at updating
« Reply #491 on: January 02, 2016, 12:16:08 am »
((I'd imagine if you throw it hard enough the vial 'll shatter))

((Or you know it's being shot out a grenade launcher so the glass is just a big "fuck you" to anyone that gets hit with it.))

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Re: The Highway: Getting faster and better at updating
« Reply #492 on: January 02, 2016, 12:43:42 am »
((It's being fired out of a grenade launcher, so suddenly you have a smaller explosion mixed with acid that melts you to the bloody bone. The glass is so the acid doesn't melt through the metal like some kinds of highly concentrated acids would, well if I recall science class correctly. My character is kind of based around rigging together make shift weapons, ammo, and coming up with better ways to kill shit. So I think making acid grenades for his GL would be somewhat feasible, but IDK, acid grenades still sound really useful for those things that don't die from bullets.))

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Re: The Highway: Getting faster and better at updating
« Reply #493 on: January 02, 2016, 01:38:55 am »
STALKERS

The STALKERS heave a sigh of relief, "Alright just a few of the little ones, you know out west in the nicer towns, people keep them as pets. A little fucked up if you ask me, but hey they pay us for them. Worse they'll do is "hump" your leg and ooze on you. Now let's move." The STALKERs rush into the western hallway, their lights bobbing around illuminating a storm of dust particles. You can see the Glurps glistening in the light, making small belching sounds as they try to slide away from the STALKERS.

The hallway is quite short and is in the shape of a 'T'. At the end of the hallway is a gold plague that has been warped from extreme heat, to the right the hallway leads into some stairs that descend deeper into the facility. Some Stalkers are already making their way down, Joshua heads across the hallway towards the door at the end of the hallway, readying his gun he peeks inside.

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Re: The Highway: Getting faster and better at updating
« Reply #494 on: January 02, 2016, 01:52:45 am »
"Don't get your hopes up, there's something else there." Graham says quietly. He keeps his rifle at the ready.
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