[Open] Zombie apocalypse, AHOY

[zomboii]

Who: Unnamed & YOU
Which: Open log
Where: Reverein & dreamscape
What: Unnamed has a dream about his home....a zombie apocalypse :')
Warnings: Pandemics, disease, undead, mild gore...bc they zombies


Dream - cw zombies, mild gore, pandemics, disease

[ The dream begins with a city of towering buildings. Skyscrapers as tall as any world of modern civilization, built so that they could touch the clouds if only the right weather permitted it. City stretches as far as they eye can see. It's a marvel and a feat of engineering, creating the impression of a cast society...until the details of the image become clearer.

The vast buildings are battered and broken. The city is not pristine, but ravaged by time and nature. Some of the skyscrapers have toppled, their inside burnt out by some long-gone calamity. Others lean precariously to one side, whole sections of its floors missing. This metropolis...is nothing more than ruins.



Roads are flooded; their signs overtaken by wild growth. There are cars, worn and rusted and broken. Dozens upon dozens litter the streets. Some have their windows smashed in. Others, it's as if something has broken its way out.

Potholes and debris are everywhere. Storefronts have been looted and lay ruined or boarded up. There are barriers over what could have once been strongholds, old stores; banks; park gates. Disrepair is everywhere.

Something has happened in the city. Something very, very wrong.

Little clues can be found here and there in the form of graffiti on the walls: NO WAY OUT some say; others read SHELTER AHEAD, long-since crossed out. Several of the houses have old Search & Rescue marks on them, the red of their paint long since faded and worn. The numbers, for those that understand them, are clear: 5DB, IF. Dead Bodies. Infection.

The dream starts there. An empty house, broken and cold; the scent of damp mildew lingering in the air. There are old photos on the walls, but their surfaces are caked with dirt and grime. Some are broken and the pictures inside are all but rotted away. The kitchen table is broken in two down the middle, as if from a large impact. The front door lies flat in the entrance. There are scratch marks in the rotted wood. Something tried to claw its way in--and succeeded.

There's a stifling, isolated feeling which permeates the dream...right up until a (perhaps familiar) sound comes from behind: ]

...Auh?

[ Unnamed blinks at your character: dishevelled and dirty, clothes in tatters...but most of all, confused. What are you doing in his world?? ]


[ ooc; WELCOME TO ZOMBOI'S HOME WORLD, Y'ALL. It sucks 8') And it's filled with zombies! (the slow-moving kind). Feel free to dreamhop as normal or as one of the infected! Wanna be a zombie? GO FOR IT. Zombies will ignore other Infected & leave them alone, but if you'd like them to respond to your character as food...that is also fine. You can also tag as if post-dream (aka your character saw the recording) and went to find him after.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART. hmu on owlits if you have any questions/wanna plot/etc

EDIT: it is also 100% optional for dream!zombies to recognize your character as food!! they could ignore them, not notice them, be indifferent to them, etc. Horror threads are not a must c: ]

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oh my G O D akechi pls????

[zomboii]

[ This is not House of the Dead Akechi you are not supposed to go around murdering everything like it's an arcade game?? For someone who missed the zombie zeitgeist, he is offing a heck of a lot of them. And with remarkable efficiency.

It's a miracle Unnamed hasn't seen him doing it yet. There's an intrinsic sort of understanding that there's someone here to find that comes with a dream, but it's not until the body Akechi 300's off the roof falls down in front of him--right in front of him--that he startles.

He's no stranger to the Infected doing stuff like that. They're not all that aware of their surroundings on a good day, and if they see something that attracts them...well, they'll go after it regardless of what obstacles lie in their way. This particular zombie has landed on its head, so it's out for the count. Unnamed only spares a second to kneel down beside it and make a short "Ouh?" It doesn't react, so he leaves it.

Curious as to what could've made it walk off a building of all things, Unnamed backs up a ways and peers up at the roof. ]

[herewardbound]

He wasn't looking down, at that moment. He was looking across the rooftops, gauging distance. Could he jump to the next house...? Probably. He'd made shorter jumps, and clad in the naval coat that had come with Captain Nemo, he had no doubt in his abilities. It was really just a matter of finding whoever the dreamer was without alerting the horde to his presence.

He took a leap- and landed on the next house's roof. Now, what to-

Movement behind him.
In one fluid motion he drew his pistol, turned, aimed-

And immediately lowered it. Noriyuki. Looking... very pale. And very dirty.

And very dead.

And ahhhh shit.

[zomboii]

[ There's no doubt that he looks the part. Everything about him fits in with the setting: he's dirty, he's pale, the purple of his lips more pronounced than normal. His clothes are tattered and frayed; covered in dark brown stains that most certainly aren't dirt. If all that isn't enough, the tear in his jeans on his left leg supplies a very obvious answer in the form of a bruised, purple ring of teeth-marks that don't seem to have healed, despite how old the wound is.

The only thing that sets him apart from the undead Infected around them is that fact that he is very much staring at Akechi, and very much looks as though he recognizes him. ]

Ouhh...ah? Auh?

[ The gun in Akechi's hands doesn't even register. He's never seen one before and has no idea what they do. What interests him is the fact that someone he knows is in...his world? How?

He lifts a hand to try and reach out, but the action is aborted when a zombie lurches in front of him and he accidentally smacks them with it instead. Its head lolls toward him, but...that's it. It doesn't react to him in the same way others had to Akechi. He might as well be invisible; a second or two, and then it continues on its way.

Unnamed watches it for a second, but quickly remembers--

"Grumpy!"

It's meant to be thought to himself, but this is a dream: he thinks it, and the impression of his thought carries straight to Akechi as well. ]

[herewardbound]

Suddenly, it all made sense. The water, the weird... childlike behavior, from someone who was clearly older-

Son of a bitch and they were ignoring him too.

"Noriyuki. This is your home, isn't it?"

[zomboii]

[ "Yes!" He waves happily, oblivious to the revelation Akechi has just come to. "This is my home! You're here, how did you get here? Are you from my world too?"

He's not "yelling" up at Akechi, not technically. But the exchange still attracts a few of the nearby zombies all the same, though their only interest is...well, Akechi. Sorry bro. ]

[herewardbound]

"You're dreaming. Do you have a way to get up here? Because your friends there haven't been particularly friendly to me, so far."

[zomboii]

Ouh...

[ "I'm dreaming? I'm asleep?" The thought hasn't even occurred to him, but that isn't uncommon among people who dream. He hasn't entered the dreams of anyone who's been lucid right off the bat before. Even looking around now, everything seems like it fits; despite the fact that Akechi comes from another world and couldn't possibly be here.

"I...I'll try to find a way up! Wait for me!" ]

[herewardbound]

Try to find a way up. Great. Akechi sighed... and cast his eyes around for something that might enable that. A ladder, a bit of rope, anything- There was a fence over there. Maybe... "How's your balance? You could climb up that fence over there, it's only a few feet to the edge of the roof."

[zomboii]

[ "Can't I go in the door?" Dream or not, he's still much more resourceful than the corpses shambling around. He even knows how to use locks now! He could slip in, then make sure he closes it up nice and tight behind him. No Infected getting in.

"Do I have to climb?" His balance isn't terrible, but his dexterity isn't great...one wrong move would be more than enough for him to topple off. ]