Gore Fest

[Srgntcuddles]

Jerry led the two out of the hotel and in to a restaurant down the road. A customary flash of some papers by Jerry got the three a frightened waitress and a quick seat. When they sat down the waitress took their orders quickly and scurried off to the back. True had ordered a Coka-Cola with some chicken and fries. Jerry ordered a steak with a glass of milk. Their drinks got there shortly after the order. "Thanks!" said True with a happy smile. The waitress looked at him and practically ran off. "...Jerry...Why are people so scared of me...?"  he asked sounding sad. Jerry sighed and stared at his glass of milk. "It's not you they are frightened of...It's Nier. You should know why." True put his head on his hand as it rested on the table. "That's not fair." he huffed. "Nier sucks!" Just then his hand jerked from under him and he hit his head on the table. After that he just laid there silently waiting for his food.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

She camouflaged herself, and rather than follow them out the door, she scampered out the window and took the rooftops. Part of the reason she did this was because she was ordered to keep out of sight from the other contestants, and so she technically could not be bothered with joining Jerry and True wherever they were eating. She eventually ran herself to a lone alley after she watched Jerry and True enter the diner and lifted a lone sewer top. She surveyed the place, even though she was practically invisible to the naked eye to make sure no one was around, then disappeared into the man hole. The ladder lead to an area that looked like a typical sewer area, but with the right navigation, it would eventually run into a secret entrance, and past that a lab.

She maneuvered gracefully enough to take out the two guards that stood watch over the entrance to the lab and enter without a problem. The lab was clean and white, with a few windows that suggested a city scape, but Rigor knew they were false from previous escape attempts. The scientists and security seemed to be bustling with energy, a result from the panic that was spreading like a plague from her absence. She uncamouflaged when she got to the hall of containment cells, not able to contain the urge of irritating the beasties that would be let out into the games. She pressed her face on the glass of some of them, while she simply strutted confidently, savoring the freedom that they didn't have with others. When they roared and went into fits of rage, Security rushed to find Rigor irritating them.

[Srgntcuddles]

When the food arrived both True and Jerry dug in. True finished first and Jerry shortly after. It took about an hour by the time they paid and left. "Alright, let's go get your ticket." True groaned from his full belly and went along with Jerry. The lines were long, but Jerry walked up to one of the booth and showed the papers. In seconds he got a ticket and read it as he walked off. "456. Even. Looks like you'll be taking a chopper." "Nnn...I think I ate to much...When is it? I might get airsick." "Everyone will probably be getting to their required mode of transportation this afternoon. Then it's off to the island; once there you're very well on your own. You'll have to do what it takes to survive, aside from company supply drops that will be distributed from time to time." "What's in'em?" "Weapons likely, food, maps to various things, various other useful tools and supplies. Some of the stores are actually stocked before the show, with weapons and other provisions." "Awesome! That sounds like a video game or something." "Yes but it is anything but...You will probably want to let Nier handle most things...He's more of a fighter..." "Aww....He gets all the fun!" Jerry sighed as they walked on.

Meanwhile in the underground facility...

Upon Rigor's return the personnel of the facility were both annoyed and happy for her return. The scientists were continuing their observations where as the guards were taking the two guards she knocked out to the infirmary. They were replaced within minutes and more guards and scientists chased Rigor about as she annoyed all the other experiments. "11-9, you have given us quite a scare when you escaped." said one of the scientists. "Yes, it is good you have returned." chimed in another. They were jotting down various things on their clipboards and continuing to observe her. The guards however were not pleased with her antics. They never were. After a little bickering between the guards and scientists a man walked in, immediately the bickering stopped. A fairly older man walked towards the group, black hair, looked in his early 40's with a goatee. He wore a similar white lab coat as the rest of them. "Good morning, sir." said one of the scientists. The man's name tag read "Darl". He didn't say anything rather examine Rigor. "You should keep a better watch on this one. What are you payed for?" the man snapped. "Yessir, mister Darl, sir!" said the guards. "If you feel like escaping again, 11-9, I'll have you assigned a personal guard who can do the job. I'll pull someone from Dog squad. You are not to leave until it's time for a proper field test." said James sternly.(Darl btw)

[Gabag]

Karl moved out of the alley and got lost in the crowd. "Since i'm an escapee I doubt they'd give me a ticket, time to improvise" He thought to himself as he glanced around for easy pick pocketing for tickets. He saw some men drinking breakfast in shots, a little too easy, grabbing the ticket from drunkey's hand, he sped off, knowing how efficient the guards were.

"Number 572? So I'm getting a helicopter. At least I'll be on and off before it becomes an issue, because I doubt the guards can accost someone on a helicopter."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Rigor threw up her hands and put them on her hips, mocking the scientist that was scorning her until the guards snatched her up. She grinned playfully afterward, allowing them to carry her off, "I was stretching my legs, alright? Look at that cell." Her face changed to an expression of disgust as she eyed the room when they escorted her to it. "It's practically begging to be remodeled. No colors, no toys, and the people here don't have any manners." She huffed sarcastically, "You could at least give me something to play with other than a wall." It had a heavy metal door with the numbers "11-9" etched in a stencil like font. They placed her in the cement room. There were no windows, and if anything, it resembled a solitary confinement cell. The guards shot out after shackling her to the chains that were attached to the walls and floor, knowing that if she wanted to leave she could have despite their efforts. The chains were merely something added in her absence to use as a provision to at least slow down her antics. When the door slammed shut, she shot the guards dirty looks from the barred slot in the door. "So when's this field test going to happen?" she growled.

[Self-sain]

"Next" a vendor called, 'finally" the komodo dragon thought to him self, "her you go" the women said had, she sounded as if she had a sinus infection, and had been a smoker for her whole life. "Thank you" he quickly said, smiling, this was his ticket to glory, 'now where to next' he thought, he tunrend around, having to do a double take just realizing what a vulgar creature she was, "er.. eh mama.. now what", "next", "mama I ask-", "NEXT" she yelled, he moved away, irated, wanting this to hurry up, he wanted to kill something with out being penalized.

[Srgntcuddles]

The morning crawled on into the afternoon, all who held their nerve this far had gotten their tickets. The booths began closing and the people were moving now to their modes of transport. Those with odd numbers headed for the boats at the docks where as the ones with evens headed for the various helipads throughout the town. The boats were large ferries, there were a few of them, several hundred of the contestants got on what ever one they could. There were many many more helicopters however. Blackhawks. The boats were going to set off to the island to Archteris' many docks. The blackhawks were going to land and various helipads or clearings in the city. From there they would have to navigate and survive on their own.

Jerry guided True to a blackhawk and he got on after a goodbye. True was a little nervous and was recommended to let Nier out only after landing. He too thought it was a good idea.

At the underground facility Darl seemed irritated by Rigor's comments. He was turning to walk off when she asked her question. "Soon enough." he replied looking at his watch. "The games should be starting shortly. I am certain...Your need will arise."

[Self-sain]

Stuv looked around after getting of the helipad, "great now what he said out loud, 'guess I better start making my way to the floor he said, getting inside the building, as he walked down he tried to recall how long he had to survive, or was. It he had to be the only one to survive. He continued onto the next floor, 'should I meet up with other people, or just keep my distances... I wonder how many will die' he knowes he shouldn't... but he smiled at that thought.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Rigor slumped down in her small cell and looked around. She hated it here, and didn't understand why she had to stay cooped up when she could be out roaming, and watching her prey. She stood back up and looked out the slot, wondering if she could pull she same stunt she did last time. She figured from how everyone had been acting they were really meaning it this time when they said she would be let out soon.

[Armalite_]

"Damn boats..." Sam muttered to himself as he sat and waited in the bowels of one of the oldest looking ferries around. It smelled like dead bodies and fart. Many of the people that surrounded him smelled like vomit and beer. The engines in the next room were making a lot of noise before they were quickly shut off. The ship was rocked with a loud bang. They had reached port. The doors dropped open and many of the contestants began to shuffle out. Sam sighed, for the first time in his life, he felt nevous. All crazyness aside, this was something he knew he shouldn't have gotten into. He laughed to himself before he was pushed out of the boat by those behind him.

[Srgntcuddles]

The black hawks and ferries arrived at their various assigned locations. The contestants moved out of their transports, a lot were nervous, many still quickly scurried off and disappeared into the city. Eventually the others did so as well. A grayhound was following Stuv as he maneuvered through the building. Though he was paying more attention to a small map. Earlier in the day the hound had met up with a shady character who dealt him a map of the city with various key locations marked on it. Once the two exited the building the hound looked around to get his bearings. He snickered aloud before folding the map up, putting it in his back pocket and ran off. It was clear he had the map and it was easily distinguishable if you looked at it. Night was still several hours away and it didn't seem there was any zombies around. All it was were contestants running about gathering supplies and finding suitable locations to begins setting up a place to hide. This early on people were forming small groups to increase their odds of surviving.

True got off his black hawk and due to his size was pushed around. They landed on top of a couple story high building. The contestants he was with ran off inside leaving True on the roof. He walked over to the edge to get a look around, he saw several of the contestants around going in and out of shops and buildings. He sighed and rested his hands on the railing as he looked out. "I suppose it's time for me to go...Good luck, Nier." With that he moved his eye patch over to his right eye. Nier stood there for a moment quietly. "About freakin' time..." he said to himself turning and heading inside.

Meanwhile at the facility...

A couple guards approached Rigor's containment cell. They opened her door, entered and undid her bindings. "Come on, the suits wanna do some testing. Come with us. No funny stuff this time either." said one of the guards. With two behind her and one leading in front of her they escorted her out of the cell. As they walked you could see a few specimen tanks that were containing something were empty. They continued escorting her down the white corridors, it was so clean it felt odd for some reason. After awhile Rigor was taken through a door, they slid open as they went through them. Inside was a seemingly empty room, from there the guards left her and waited outside. The room was completely white, it looked as if nothing was there, no corners, no door they came through, nothing, just white. "Greetings, 11-9. We're glad you decided to join us. I'm sure you are wondering why we brought you here. Just some tests, we want to ensure you are capable of handling your field test." spoke a voice seemingly from nowhere. "Now if you will..." said the voice again. Suddenly an opening appeared in the distance, a door had slid open. "...Step through the door and we will begin." Inside were a large number of weapons of various caliber to choose from. When inside she would be told by the voice "Choose a weapon that you think suits you and let us know when you are ready."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Rigor followed begrudgingly, not liking the authoritative feel of being a pinned up animal in the eyes of the others there. She looked at the white room carefully, and listened to the voice, acting somewhat like an annoyed child, the voice being the parent, as she tapped her foot and rolled her eyes, not that they could tell due to her lack of pupils. When the omniscient voice silenced, she stepped forward. While she usually didn't care for such formalities, she felt the need to humor the people watching. After all, she had been granted an audience. She disappeared into the room and scanned the weapons that hung on the wall. From guns to medieval weapons, the walls were covered. She finally reached out, grabbing a scythe. The dragon chameleon usually preferred to improvise with what she found in the environment, but given the white, cleanness of what she had seen so far, she figured that there would be nothing available to her past this point. She held it out testing its balance, and threw it into a couple of techniques for good measure, then looked up to where she thought someone may have been watching her. "This won't run out of bullets."

[Self-sain]

The snickering was quite irritating, stuv finally tunred to yell at the dog, but then he saw the map and the dog dash, "HEY!!" He said running after him, 'why did it have to be a gray hound, why couldn't it be something like a turtle, something slow!' He thought to him self, komodo's weren't slow, but they have nothing on gray hounds. He was falling behind, he almost lost sight of him, he hoped the dog would stop soon, he slowed a little, to quite his footing. He saw the dog, looking down at the map, he hid behind an adjacent wall from where the ran from. The dog then looked up at the two story shop, and tunred to look if anyone was around, stuv quickly ducked, hoping the dog didn't notice him, he peaked back up, and saw the dog creep inside.

[Gabag]

Karl vacated from the chopper and made haste to what he thought was east. He saw something that looked like crates over in that direction.

"weapons perhaps? ammuniation? medical supplies?" he thought as he hid from some other contestants who might want to 'persuade' the good doctor to help them.

[Srgntcuddles]

The store that the gray hound had run into was an antique store. Inside the dog let out an evil satisfied laugh as he looked at the stuff. It was various odds and ends, no one seemed to have found it. It was a fairly large store, in the back end of it were some ascending stairs to what seemed to be a small house. Two rooms, one bathroom, kitchen and a bathroom. Downstairs were several racks of mostly junk, though behind the counter was a case with a few guns. The hound made his way back there and found the case only to be locked. He found out the hard way that the glass was reinforced. He would need a key to get in. He double checked to make sure no one had followed him before spotting the staircase. He set his map down without thinking and went over to the stairs and went up to begin looking for a key. If Stuv decided to walk in he could find the map easily and just leave, or go upstairs and find the key before the hound. The hound did not seem like he was in the mood to share anything.

Meanwhile in the facility...

A door opened before Rigor after she had picked up a scythe. "Go on through. We will begin your test." said the voice. Through the doors were various obstacles, it was a course. Lots of hurdles, climbing walls, gaps to jump and various other things. As she stepped through the door it closed behind her once again leaving no trace of a door. "Proceed to the end of course. We shall monitor you and gauge your motor skills. You can begin whenever you are ready."

Nier made it out of the building, upon stepping off the curb a car whizzed passed him nearly running him over. He looked at it going down the mostly empty road, it had to be doing at least a 100 mph. "IDIOTS! WATCH WHERE YOUR (Censored) GOING!!!" he shouted raising an angry fist. It was a futile effort but he couldn't really do much else. "Idiots...Hmm...Now to get my hands on something sharp." he chuckled and walked off down the road. He eventually found a restaurant and wandered in. There were a few people inside scavenging for food, but he payed them no mind and walked into the kitchen in the back. He headed for a knife rack, luckily only two were missing out of the several there. It seems the survivors didn't want them and felt a different weapon would suffice. He collected 11 knives, stowing them in various places. Immediately after someone came in behind him. It was the person who took the two knives, clearly because it was in his hands. "What're ya doing in my kitchen, boy?!" said the pig. He was fairly large, pretty fat actually. He was also wearing a chef's hat. "...Your kitchen? I didn't see your name on it ya (Censored) (Censored)." "Who you calling fat?!" Nier turned nonchalantly looking around and over his shoulders as if he were looking for someone. "Uh...Ain't no one else here that's as fat as you, (Censored)." The pig laughed heartily. "Looks like we're having RAT today!" Nier smirked and merely drew two knives himself getting ready to fight.