Event: Itinerant Horde

[decaymod]

THE HORDE ARRIVES...

Friday morning brings with it biting temperatures, a thick fog which dissipates not long after the sun rises, and many, many zombies. As the Horde shambles into the area, the survivors of the Quad area are setting finishing the last touches of their plan and getting into position for their operation to Split and Destroy the Itinerant Horde.

This post will be used for all miscellaneous scenes set during this plot line. There will be a second post going up for mission scenes which will count for plot success activity tomorrow morning. Characters who volunteer for missions all know the plan but will not receive their own assignments and partners until late this evening, at which point the Cascade Hills teams will be dispatched to their locations.

Meagher Valley teams will be positioned Saturday morning, Providence Ridge teams Sunday morning, and Trumbull Valley teams Monday morning. The Horde is impassable by car, so please be mindful to note which side of the Horde your character is on at any given time. Those on teams will be prepared to camp out for a few days at their final locations, and will have safe elevated spots scouted for them ahead of time, but are also welcome to shelter at any community once the Horde has cleared it (ie, if you are assigned to Loch + Keogh, you can return to Whitney Field after the Horde clears it on Saturday afternoon).

If you have any questions about logistics, please do not hesitate to ask me either here or in the #questions channel on the Discord server. I realize this is a little complicated but I'm happy to help figure out where your character will be and be able to get! I'll have team assigns for people at about 9pm PST tonight, and the post for mission scenes will go up tomorrow morning.

FRIDAY 10:45 AM

The Horde reaches Morgan's Crossing in Cascade Hills.

Beau Betancourt and Ares Makepeace are positioned here to make the first attempt at splitting the horde with Burton Wolfingbarger (Biker) and Vic (Deadhunter) [18].

FRIDAY 2:45 PM

The Horde crosses the Kelenqua River at the Bridge Fort in Cascade Hills.

FRIDAY 5:30 PM

The Horde passes the UU Church south of Lowl.

FRIDAY 9:30 PM

The Horde passes through Downtown Lowl.

Arlo Rattray and Mud are positioned here to make the next attempt at splitting the horde with Otto (Responder) and Keller (Responder) [12].

SATUR. 8:00 AM

The Horde passes Loch and Keogh Self-Storage in Cascade Hills.

John Hwang and Margarita Son are positioned here to make the next attempt at splitting the horde with Carly Vega (Scav) and Howie Standish (Lundegaard) [7].

SATUR. 1:45 PM

The Horde passes by Whitney Field Depot.

SUNDAY
12:30 AM

The Horde passes the Wind Farm in Meagher Valley.

Mara Kaufman and Gideon Ames are positioned here to make the next attempt at splitting the horde with The Witch (Deadhunter) and Della Heydecker (Responder) [15].

SUNDAY 6:00 AM

Approximately halfway through its journey through the Quad area, the Horde passes Grace Lutheran Church in Meagher Valley.

Roswell and Billie Kaplan are positioned here to make the next attempt at splitting the horde with Nolan (Scav) and Bell (Network Agent) [6].

SUNDAY 4:45 PM

The Horde passes through the village of Sawyer's Crossing before passing Lundegaard Lumber.

MONDAY 6:15 AM

The Horde passes Camp Winchester on its way to Marshall.

Bunny Rabbit and Lola Bellison are positioned here to make the next attempt at splitting the horde with Brandson Gunn (Lundegaard) and Elwood Gunn (Lundegaard) [16].

MONDAY 11:40 AM

The Horde passes by the city of Marshall in Trumbull Valley.

Reggie Goodleaf and Angel are positioned here to make the next attempt at splitting the horde with Bug (Deadhunter) and Amy McBride (Scav) [20].

TUESDAY 4:00 AM

The Horde reaches the town of Spencer's Mill in Trumbull Valley.

Dutch and Edgar de Leon are positioned here to make the next attempt at splitting the horde with Foxy (Deadhunter) and Mickey Wilkerson (Network Agent) [6].

TUESDAY 5:00 PM

The Horde reaches the town of Fairfield, where the Quad teams intend to lure any remaining zombies to the Fairgrounds on the other side of town.

Carter Betancourt and Court Slaughter are positioned here to make the final attempt with Jonah Shaw (Responder) and Big Mike (Biker) [19].

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SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[castnet]

 

NOVEMBER 10th, 2013 ▪ PRESCOTT ▪ 9:47 PM

 

Court's nearly vibrating with nervous energy, pacing around the main bay of the fire station in an attempt to keep herself from quite literally bouncing off of the walls. There's so much going on already, so many people hurt, and all she needed was to find a bit of peace in this chaos to steady herself before starting her, at least, three day long trek with Carter, Jonah, and Big Mike.

So she's pacing and counting her breaths and clutching her backpack straps tight, not willing to take it off as the next second might be the one they were finally called to jump into the tail-end of this mission.

There's a commotion coming in towards the bay, an empty stretcher pushed alongside what was soon to be revealed a hulking mass being carried by someone on either side. What the hell... "Rattray!" she shouts out as her pace quickens towards where he's being led inside.

SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[halligan]

Thank fuck the Black Fever's got his tongue because he was about to croak back 'Rattray!' — a name that's neither factually correct nor welcome. Since that gives him an extra few moments to get his shit together, he shoos away Otto and Keller by insisting he won't drop and get a concussion between there and the field hospital proper, but really he just like. Is tired. And doesn't want an audience but does want to see Court, so.

Does he look like shit? Well, he's been on a rooftop for two days—with half the supplies they'd needed—tending Black Fever, a bite wound, and a withdrawal-ridden drunk with a broken femur—puking and bleeding his electrolytes out all over his stupid shirt. So, like, not his best, but he's trying his best, and that's what counts.

"Guess who–" okay, maybe he wasn't steady as he thought, but he can just lean on this table "–got his–" wheeled table "–zed bite–" wheeled table with no brakes "–merit badge–" that part's gasped out when his support whooshes out from under his hand and all however-many-hundreds-of-pounds-of-less-solid-man-than-he-was-three-days-ago-but-still-pretty-solid man tumbles to the floor into a dignified* and very handsome** heap.


* not verified by an objective source
** nor this

SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[castnet]

"Arlo!" Idiot, idiot, idiot man, she can't help but think to herself as she quickly clears the space between them around the same time as Otto and Keller. She glares at the latter, not liking their vibe at all, in turn getting across "back off" wordlessly as she starts to help the bloodied, unsteady dimwit (affectionate) up. This is why you just couldn't leave men to their own devices as it turned into the blind leading the blind.

"C'mon, big guy, let's get you up," Court says through a grunt as she moves to a crouch to help Arlo to stability, opposite Otto attempting the same.

SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[halligan]

"Table's fault." Arlo grunts himself when every limb aches like it grew whole new offshoots just so they can ache multitudes more and his attempt to obscure it's middling at best.

"Was gonna text you," he mutters, not wanting to concern Court any more than he has even though that's a stupid notion for about twenty reasons, but he's a little more than aware for the moment of how many times he's played damsel in distress this past week and a bit. "To be safe. Didn't think you'd be here still."

SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[castnet]

"Uh huh, I'm sure," she simply agrees with him; knowing calling him out in front of an audience wasn't going to help anyone. There's also the part where she's terrified to see him like this, so obviously unwell to the point he wasn't even denying it.

Despite herself she smirks at his words, readjusting his arm over her shoulder some before looking at the hunched giant while they walked. "Yeah? That's smart, cuz I hadn't even considered maybe playing it safe." Perhaps better than anyone Arlo would know how much Court leaned into her humor when anxious.

"Couldn't let you army crawl your sick ass to the field hospital, so I told them to wait up." She'd done no such thing, but again it was easier than acknowledging how worried she'd been or how unsettled she was by the current sight of him. "...though now we gotta make sure we get you checked for a concussion, as well."

SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[halligan]

"This skull's thick as a brick 'n we both know it," he replies, sotto voce from the strain of... well, existing, and the massive pain in the ass that keeping on existing happens to be. He squeezes an arm, maybe for reassurance or maybe simply for literal support, and it's definitely not the one around Otto. "Word of advice, don't get bit out there and don't get a femoral fracture neither. Do something more fun."

SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[castnet]

"That's the CTE talking, 'lo." Though she can't see him straight on, Court still uses her periphery to ensure she's not seeing any obviously blown or oddly dilated pupils. Though she jokes, her concern for the man next to her is obvious as she returns his gesture, gently squeezing where she had an arm around his back. "We got this," she says apropos of nothing, it would seem, to anyone but the two.

"Mmhmm, mmhmm, I can see how that'd be a bit of a drag, no pun intended. I'll consider taking this into account, as yeah, that all sounds hella shitty." The bite ward looms ahead of them and Court tells herself Arlo will be safe there. He has to be.

SCENES: SUNDAY: Arlo & Court

[halligan]

And something occurs to Arlo when he notices her face suddenly more in-view because bite-brained as he may be, Court's been was his best friend through two marriages and the intervening period. Her tone and sprinkled-in reassurances communicate more than they fix.

He pauses to shoo away Otto (for the second time; everyone's favourite Responder finally waves him off and Just Leaves, which is fine with him) so he can clutch her shoulders and give her a full view of his face. With red seeping from his eyes and more smeared across his cheeks—and, oh god, if you could see the state of his hair under his hat? that lick of bangs sticking out from the closure like a narwhal horn's only the beginning—it ain't his prettiest presentation but he wants her to know that he's made it back. Like everybody has, and will be, at least so far.

He also opens his eyes wide because he wants her to know he doesn't have a concussion.

He looks insane.

"We got this, C."