Early heart run.

[restorefromsave]

As you step through the door a siren goes off, the sound echoing in your ears for several minutes as the world goes completely black and empty.

You’re not falling but you’re not really standing on anything either, and all that you can percieve is the sirens still blaring, loud loud loud in your ears--

There’s an explosion so huge you don’t see or hear it so much as feel it through to your very bones. You feel an impact, strange and unsettling, and you think you might be dead? Because you can’t feel your body anymore.

Slowly the sound begins to fade and light and feeling returns, allowing you to see where you are. You’re also alive, good for you.

You end up here at the end. Unless you're Yuki, who ends up here.

((Join #checkmate))

Comments

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

What feeling indeed, at best you feel unsettled but there's no way to define what the feeling is. Good? Bad? It's like trying to make out a picture on a screen covered in static only instead of a picture it's an emotion. It sure feels weird.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[lets... go... and decides to check out one of these shapeless lumps and dust some snow off of it]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

You brush the snow off a cold shape. It’s a human body, mangled and long dead. Perfectly preserved in the cold.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

Shit...

[anyone recognizable?]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

It doesn't seem to be anyone you know. He looks about your age, if not a little younger.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[:( is there anything like a rake or a shovel around?]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

Everything is covered in snow. It's hard to tell what anything is. But there are no obvious gardening tools.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[well, at the very least, I'm going to go around and move snow off of everything so they're more visible]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

That's going to take a while....

You find... You find a lot of corpses. Actually most of the ground that isn't the cleared path is dead people. You also find some shrubs and benches and a bird bath and a garden shed.

But mostly dead people.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[I will put all my energy into doing this thing!!! the bench will be a welcome sight because I am gonna flop down on it when I'm done]

What's with all the dead people, ughhhhhh.

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

Ughhhh is right. :(

Wait was that ugh an echo? This area doesn't have the right acoustics for an echo though does it?

Oh there it goes again uuughhhhhhhhh. Rrnnnnghhh.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

...








PENIS

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

Nope, not an echo. Definitely distinct "unnnghhh."

Some of the bodies are starting to... lurch to their feet.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

Oh shit, zombies.

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

Yep.

They're still in the lurching, staggering to their feet stage right now though, you've got a minute.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[one hand immediately goes to his whip--and then freezes, a rush of images going through him]

--shit...

[looks around for a way out, not the way he came]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

There's the garden shed but it's not big or sturdy, and there's the mansion.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[-->MANSION, let's run quick]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

You run for the mansion, the zombies hot on your heels. Turns out they're the sprinter type of fast as hell zombie once they're on their feet.