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[closed now!] zombie season has been extended

Who: Angeline, open!
When: Saturday, December 28th, ~5PM (sunset, or thereabouts)
Where: Locke City
What: Anthony's video post gave Angeline an Echo in which she, too, became a zombie, albeit temporarily.
Warnings: Zombieness, possible cannibalism (probs just nibbles.)

[ after anthony had pointed out her newest echo, angeline ran out of the coffee shop she'd been chilling in like hell was on her heels. she kept her head low and hooded, and her hands gloved, such that it wouldn't be terribly obvious that she was, in fact, a zombie at first glance.

she may:
- literally run into someone
- be waiting at a bus stop
- ??? i have no idea, i'm playing this by ear ]

OOC: SOME USEFUL INFO
- zombieness transmitted via zombie bite
- transformation is almost instant, but couple minutes wiggle room is fine imo
- will have craving for flesh
- can only be killed when brain is destroyed
- shamble or not, it's up to you
- zombieness is temporary and will wear off after a day, sooner if you'd like
- examples of zombies: 1, 2

- the aforementioned coffee shop can be one that a PC works at (if so, lmk!)

- please indicate somewhere in your initial comment whether you want your character to be bitten or not. feel free to shoot me a PM or plurk also!

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[ she watches jovan's supply diving with something like a false sense of calm. she's not calm, but she feels, at the moment, detached from the scene while still participating in it, albeit distantly -- like there's an additional layer or two between herself and her actions, and then another between the all-encompassing 'her' and the others.

tl;dr she did all her active flipping out on the streets and now she's recovering her strength for another flip out if this pseudo-surgery doesn't work.

at the sight of the glue, her lips pull back and her eyes narrow in a grimace. ]

That's going to be so messy... [ she holds her hand out for the tape, but realizes its full with, well, her arm.

she glances back at holly and anthony. ]

Can one of you, like, hold my arm up, I guess? [ she ends up focusing her look on holly more, and that's when she notices the difference in complexion.

one of the layers slips away. her expression becomes a little more alert.

addressing holly, she says, ] Hey, you're... You're not blue anymore.

[His mouth starts to pull a little tighter around his teeth - ready to step forward and say yes, once his comprehension catches up with the action after it's moved sufficiently past the fact that a request has been made -

Before he can nod it slackens to a more neutral tightness in an instant as Angeline's look changes.

She's talking to Holly - again comprehension's not up to pace but he takes a look at her - and then a double-take and his eyes lock on her - they're both seeing it, it's as if it's worn off and he emits an odd higher, quavering "H-hahh -- ...!" that cannot make up its mind what kind of confusion it's from - several incoherent wonders flare up sharp in his head, is it what it looks like, what happened, does she feel as if it's wearing off, and there's an uprush of an abrupt and fresh alarm that he can't place, not right now - again, one point of focus at a time and now it's Holly, don't speak too soon, see what she says - ]

[Looking up from her bag, where she'd actually been looking for the tiny sewing kit her mother had shoved in there once, she blinks.]

Huh?

[Standing she searches for a mirror.] I'm not? But I thought- does it just wear off? [She's still searching for that mirror, the small sewing kit in her hand now at least. Please let it be wearing off and not her evolving into something worse!]

[Jovan almost offers to hold her arm up while they glue it back on, but then realizes he only has one arm and it's filled with the glue and tape in question.

When Angeline starts staring at Holly, though, Jovan turns to glance at her too and...actually looks kind of horrified.]

Wh-what the hell?

It better not wear off, not while we've still got unattached arms! Shit!

[He turns back to Angeline with the armful of glue, now more frantic to put it back on her, but yet again realizing he only has one arm. He feels a little frantic now--he's not sure if they really are working with a time limit here, but he doesn't want to fuck around just in case they are.]

Somebody help me put it back together already!

[ some of jovan's panic leaks into angeline.

still speaking at holly: ] Why's it-- why's it wearing off for you?

[ THAT'S NOT FAIR. angeline's still blue! jovan's still blue!

she throws a look anthony's way. ] Hey, come on! Help us get our arms back on!

[Attention to thought snapped coherent - yes, that was one of the things that had him freshly up in panic! Gives a look back at Angeline likewise, eyes wide, haphazardly ducks a nod and confirms the order's received with a " - Mmh - !"

Takes a stumble toward Angeline - and then swings his focus over to Jovan then back at Angeline, then back at Jovan and back at Angeline, and he's already started moving towards her, bumbles over closer and tentatively lifts his hands to take - her arm, the glue, whatever it is needs to be held...]

[She's not sure why it's wearing off but when the arms come back into question, Holly holds up her sewing kit, a slightly nauseated feeling coming to her stomach at the idea of it.]

We could try this?

[Anthony looked like he was going to help too, which would be nice. Maybe the glue would work?]

[[ooc: I am so so sorry, if I end up taking so long again, feel free to skip me. I don't mean to hold you guys up.]]

[he makes a half-whining, half-crying sound at seeing the sewing kit.]

Oh jesus. I don't even--whatever! Tape, glue, needle--whatever's easiest and hurts less and gets our arms attached again before we start going back to normal! If that's even what's happening here and we're not just--dying of zombie AIDS right now or something.

[ anthony gets the dubious honors of holding angeline's arm in place.

she swipes the tape from jovan's grasp because ha ha fuck getting sewn back together. ]

We're not dying of zombie AIDS! [ she wiggles with the scotch tape until she can get it off the serrated edge, then grabs the tip with her teeth and pulls the dispenser backwards.

she speaks again, but her words are jumbled with her teeth clenched. ]

She's not dead! We're fine! We're fine! We're going to be fine! [ holy shit, they better be fine-- how the hell even would she go to work tomorrow if they weren't??

she snaps her attention back to anthony. ]

Break the tape!

[ and assuming he does so, she then proceeds to furiously wrap it around the break between her arm and the rest of herself. ]

[He takes it! Loosely, as he's not wholly in step with what's going on, but either way he's being offered the arm to take, hold it in place the best he can, shoves everything out of his mind against the sides for a comfortable blank so as not to distract the effort -

Snapped back out when Angeline locks onto him again, break the tape, what does he need to - oh obviously tear the tape! Does it, with a couple of attempts and a couple of seconds of much too much fumbling in that much time, and throws Holly another look to verify that, indeed, she's not dead before fixing back on Angeline, still holding her arm, glimpsing over at Jovan as well - Angeline stays the focus.]

-- What -- ["What should I do now?" is what he nearly said but really let's broaden that, broaden it wide - ] -- What now - ?

[Okay she's shoving the sewing kit back into her bag and then rushes to help hold the arm in place trying to push away that feeling that comes with the idea of it.

Arm- this is an arm, an arm not apart of the body-]

I... might be sick.

[She sure does look pale in the face but she's putting on a massively brave front and not letting go.]

Nobody get sick, or I'm going to get sick!

[With Angeline's arm properly tied on now, Jovan loosens his grip on it and starts moving his hand away slowly, still ready to grasp it just in case it begins to fall off. Thankfully, however, it seems to be staying on. Somehow. (Oh god that's so fucked up.)

He then turns around and realizes his own arm is still unattached. He lunges for it with his free arm and stares at it for a few seconds before pointing it at Anthony.]

Y-you! You, tape my arm back on too! I am not going to go through life with only one arm because of this!

[ her attention is zeroed in on her arm as jovan slowly moves away from it. it's not falling off. somehow, measly scotch tape is keeping her arm attached to the rest of her body.

she feels herself go weak with relief. she releases a sigh of said relief, only to choke and cough on it when it's jovan's turn to boss anthony around. once she recovers, she glances awkwardly between the two boys and holly, unsure of which to attend to. ]

Don't, uh... Don't faint or anything, [ she feebly calls out to holly. she'd offer more (maybe), but there is the teensy fact that holly is once again human while angeline still is not.

and human still looks tasty.

she helps anthony reattach jovan's arm, all the while casting concerned ~~and interested~~ glances holly's way. ]

[He nods, shakily, on Jovan's callout, hobbles over for his part in doing the same with his arm - and is grateful when Angeline joins in, though it expresses most immediately in splitting off his attention, also to Holly.

He ducks his head under a misgiving at Angeline's call to her. Switches wide-eyed looks between his and Angeline's handiwork-armywork and her, in case she needs something next.

It might have occurred to him that she is the only living human in a room with two zombies of an inferably flesh-eating brand. If so, it's only done so inarticulately.]

I'll try.

[She looks exceptionally green around the gills but she's holding steady, grabbing onto the new arm and holding it still with Angeline and when they're finally done she gratefully takes a step back and covers her mouth to swallow down that nauseous feeling.

it's over, it's done, no more touching detatched arms.]

Hopefully it will wear off soon for you guys too?

[Jovan lightly touches his newly reattached arm, as if he doesn't believe it's still attached. And with good reason--Elmer's glue and scotch tape is not the strongest of adhesives. He tries not to touch it even more, though, or to move that arm (can he even move it again at all?) in any way for fear of undoing the tape at the last second and having it fall to the ground right as he turns human again.

Assuming that will happen.]

Oh Christ, I hope so, because I'm starting to get hungry again.

[He catches himself eyeing Holly and then forces himself to shut his eyes because he'd almost forgotten how delicious human flesh looked. And Jovan refuses to have to describe himself as a "cannibal" at some point.]

[ the speed at which angeline's eyes go saucer-wide is comical. ]

Um!

[ glaaaaaaaaancing at holly, then up at the ceiling and at the wall.

wait, duh!

she faces holly, forcing a smile that just comes out looking nervous. ]

You should totally go! Like, go home. Just in case. Can someone pick you up? It's kind of late.

[The same goes for Anthony.

Eyes go wide, that is - his glance doesn't leave Holly and it doesn't occur to him to think that after what was just said being gawked at by a zombie might be disturbing as he himself doesn't bite - that's it, on Angeline's turn, he looks over to her, look casting forth in between her and Holly, mumbles - ] I don't bite...

[Hopefully but unattached - he half had it in his mind to offer to help Holly find her way back wherever "back" exactly would be when the thought of but what he's wanted to stay put grabbed it and ran off with it - leaves that an offering, for whatever end on whoever's behalf it might be worth!]

[She glances between them all, here eyes going wide before she nods. Yeah she.. should probably go but-]

Are you sure you'll all be okay? [She smiles to Anthony, the fact the nice zombie tried to help is enough to make her smile kindly at him. He's done nothing but try to help them.]

I can- yeah I'm sure I can get a bus to a friends house. [She'd already told her mom she was staying with a friend, she couldn't call her mom to pick her up because obviously the parent in charge would have offered to take her home.

Maybe she could call Banagher?]

Yeah just--just do that. And don't get hurt or anything--stay away from the--what are they, Blood Keys!

And uh--and all that other kid safety stuff, I don't remember all of it.

[He's practically shooing her out the door with his good arm. Jovan feels terrible sending a young girl out on her own, especially when things are so dangerous as they are, but he also can't deny the fact that he REALLY wants to eat her right now. He'd rather she took her chances out there than in here.]

[ at the same time, angeline is shooing anthony out the door, too. ]

Keep safe, don't talk to strangers, run away from Blood Keys, and don't let anyone see your face!

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