a_gentle_boy: (Wrath)
Lucas ([personal profile] a_gentle_boy) wrote2010-10-21 01:46 pm

Twenty-First PSI

[filtered and whatever]
[The voice that speaks into the phone is strangely calm.  After having suffered a severe shock and half-believing he had been transported back to Westport, Lucas wisely decided to remain at home.]

Please listen, everyone.  There are some things you should know about these people.

We called them the hazmat men when they first showed up in Westport.  They started off pretty slow and they weren't much of a threat, but as the days passed, they became much faster, stronger, and smarter.  I don't know how they'll behave now, but to be on the safe side, you should assume that they're at full power.

If you have to fight them, you should know that there's nothing underneath the suits.  Blunt force won't do anything and they won't react to getting hit.  What you need to do to break through -- stabbing or piercing or shooting works.  When the suit is opened, they release a lot of poison gas that can kill you if you're too close.  If you touch them or if you inhale any of it, the chemicals will burn you badly.  Some people died from the gas alone.

They attack with axes and they carry gas sprays with them.  Don't let them touch you.  The best thing to do if they're chasing you is to run.  They're not too fast.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-10-22 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Not unless all those clues were fake . . .

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-10-22 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
I don't believe it. There's got to be something true in all of those clues. Otherwise they wouldn't keep getting mad at us."

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-10-22 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think so, either. So I think . . . something other than Lucy led us into that town.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-10-22 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
The ghost of Richard Grey . . . ?

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-10-22 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Shiraasan falls silent, not knowing too much about whoever that is but too prideful to ask.]

...

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-10-22 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

The one that spoke in that dream when we all came back.

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-10-22 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Him.

You really think a ghost could've done all that?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Not really. But I think somehow, he had a hand in it.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I think if I knew that, I could answer a whole lot of other, more important questions, too.

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
And if we knew, we might be able to get out.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I guess there's no point in guessing.

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Probably not.