[EVENT POST] I FEEL STUPID, AND CONTAGIOUS.

[dishearten]

CHARACTERS: Open to all!
DATE: 3/11-3/12, ICly
WARNINGS: Zombie attacks? Violence? Shopping???
SUMMARY: Lockdown at the mall! Grab your CDs and your soft pretzel, it's about to get bad.

LET'S GO TO THE MALL LOCKDOWN Business has been rough for Woodhurst Shopping Center ever since riots and unrest about the Bristol Virus have shunned most to their homes. Perhaps ill-advisedly, in attempts to draw a few more customers back into the polished halls of the grandest shopping experience Woodhurst has to offer, a weekend of big sales, great bargains, and fun family activities was widely advertised in the Woodhurst Watch. There was even a scheduled public concert, performed by the University Choir. The turnout was smaller than hoped, yet the air was quite optimistic. Shoppers enjoyed the day of activities and fun, and the sense of security was bolstered by the increased security detail. There was even some members of the press on hand to document this return to normality in a troubled time. Everything was going well, until a scene broke out in the food court. Security tried to quietly remove members of the choir that suddenly seemed to snap, plowing into one of the food stands and starting to feed on raw meat. However, a good handful of them escaped instant confinement, and while many of the visitors fled the mall as soon as they could, soon Police Detail arrived and put the entire building on lockdown. Nobody in and nobody out until the situation was resolved. 18:00 TO 23:00 HOURS Anyone unlucky enough to be trapped in the mall is left to their own devices, with very little knowledge to go on. This includes many civilians, as well as a small number of Audentes agents. This also includes a small number of infected, more than just the university choir. There's a voice over the loudspeaker imploring people to hide in stores, barricade doors, and stay put until help arrives. The majority of the infected seem to linger in the Food Court especially. Bad news for anyone trapped and starting to get hungry as the hours pass by, without any obvious assistance from the outside. The members of ALASTAIR have a choice, help protect or just do their best to avoid the infected themselves. Characters can get into the Security Office for a camera feed on what is happening in the mall, and potentially use it as a base of operations to work from. 00:00 TO 02:00 HOURS It becomes apparent that the number of infected in the mall are somehow increasing, despite the lockdown. It means that those that have squirreled away into stores and outlets are growing less and less safe as infected numbers multiply and they begin attacking barricades. To make matters worse, anyone that hasn't found cover will find the infected extremely reactive, and willing to give chase around the mall. The security feed indicates the infected seem to be coming in from the Parking Garage. Investigation will reveal a sewer outlet on the bottom floor. Characters will have to decide whether they should utilize the tunnel as a means of escape, or if sealing it off would ultimately leave the remaining hours of lockdown a little less violent. 04:00 TO 09:00 HOURS It's been an agonizing 12 hours, and with surprisingly little aide from the outside. With time to make preparations and put plans in place, now it's time to end this lockdown once and for all. Audentes is tasked with neutralizing the remaining infected as well as escorting any remaining civilians to safety, by any means they decide on. It is up to Audentes to decide how the end of this event plays out, be it removing or otherwise drawing away the lingering infected, or putting them down once and for all. There are plenty of civilians that have been bitten and attacked, leaving the question in the air as to whether they are infected as well. What should be done with those that could be bringing the virus back to their families? The team is going to have to decide on the answer to that.

Comments

[thinhammer]

[ Naruto pauses his attempt to suck any and all moisture from the plastic itself now that all the blue has gone, not intending to waste even a drop, and looks at Shizuo incredulously. ]

Fat?! [ He repeats, remains of the once vibrant freeze pop hanging out of his mouth. ] How's a little piece of this gonna make you fat? I've eaten like four bags and I ain't fat. People are dumb.

[ Yes, Naruto, people are indeed dumb. He takes a handful of the chocolates and trades them for the empty wrapper, popping a few into his mouth to start off with. This issue is the same issue he has with being told that he can't eat cup noodles for the rest of his life, because they're bad for him. He's been eating them for most of his life already and he's turned out fine, so he can't see the problem. It probably helps that he... very rarely stops moving, and compared to other people probably gets more excercise just being himself than anyone else might going to the gym, but.. details.

He looks up at Shizuo then. ]

You're the first old person I've seen who likes candy, though.

[ He says this like it should be a compliment, apparently oblivious to the fact that he probably shouldn't go around calling people old. ]

[longtempered]

[The incredulous look is a relatable one, and Shizuo shrugs back at him, evidently just as nonplussed in turn.]

Right? Beats me, seriously. I don't know how much of it they're eating, but it sounds like they're sure as hell going about it the wrong way.

[Make that two of them who get more than enough exercise to burn off pretty much anything they might consume, though--Naruto had his ninja livelihood, and Shizuo has a temper flighty enough to evolve into table-throwing spells on a frequent basis. Physical fitness made easy, truly......but no, obviously other people just eat candy the wrong way, that's totally what the issue really is.

Naruto's next comment earns an arched eyebrow over his shades, but Shizuo pops another piece of chocolate in his mouth more or less impassively; in other circumstances, or coming from other people, he'd probably be more miffed at the implication than he is right now. But the presence of sweets tends to help with his temper in general, and he feels like this kid's on his level already...so he's willing to let it slide at least this once. Instead, more mildly:]

Hey, who are you calling old? I'm twenty-four, at least give it until I'm thirty or something before you go throwing that around. [He might not be some juvenile delinquent anymore, but still!!!] Or are you even younger than you look, or something?

[thinhammer]

What? No, I'm sixteen.

[ He looks only a little annoyed at that; he hates the idea of being seen as a kid and thought it was pretty obvious that he was at the very least a teenager, but he guesses he deserves it for assuming Shizuo was an old guy. The shades don't help, really. All the people Naruto knows who wear shades are kind of old. ]

Twenty-four isn't that old, I guess. Kakashi-sensei is older than you, and my master is way older than both of you, so...

[ This is all said conversationally, and he name drops like the titles will mean anything to Shizuo, like he's familiar with the people he's talking about. Of course he knows he's not, it's just a hard habit to kick. He rolls up the discarded plastic and the few wrappers he's accumulated, then peers around Shizuo toward the box of freeze pops again. There's an orange one sticking out of the top.

.... He wants it.

He wonders if Shizuo would fall for a trick, but only ponders on the matter for a handful of seconds before he suddenly points off somewhere past where they're sitting, yelling-- ] Look, what's that ostrich doin' over there?! [ --And lunges forward without even an ounce of subtlety to grab his prize. ]

1/3 oh my god

[longtempered]

[Ah, sixteen...so like, a high schooler? Basically a high schooler. But maybe not really, as Shizuo vaguely muses to himself, considering Naruto idly over another mouthful of chocolate. The kid mentions a teacher, but also a 'master'...? Which is probably not some new high school teaching trend, exactly. Well, but there's a lot of people from all kinds of weird-ass places on this team, so it wouldn't be so surprising if this kid was from a completely different kind of world...

And honestly Shizuo is almost distracted enough by this line of thinking that he probably wouldn't have noticed an attempted grab at another freeze pop anyway, but. Then Naruto's pointing and yelling about--ostriches???]

[longtempered]

[--And well, how could he not look over? There's flesh-eating people roaming this mall already, at this point pretty much anything is possible--]

--Huh, what?!

3/3 naruto why are u like this

[longtempered]

[.....Naruto lunges over to snatch up an orange freeze pop, and Shizuo whips his attention back to him incredulously.]

...Wait, seriously?! What the hell! All you had to do was ask for another! You didn't have to bring up ostriches, damn it... [Playing him for a fool...KID HE THOUGHT THEY HAD SOMETHING...HE THOUGHT THERE WAS A BOND?? WHAT IS THIS BETRAYAL?????]

(angel emoji)

[thinhammer]

[ Shizuo, my dude, this is how he treats all his friends!! This is how you know you've made it.

Naruto twists himself away and juts his legs out so his ass goes skidding across the floor like he's concerned Shizuo will punch him for the slight, but.. He doesn't look very concerned about that possibility. He gets smacked often enough that it's hardly even something to be concerned about anymore, but avoiding it comes kind of naturally. As it is, he's got a little shit smile on and is happily tearing the top away with his teeth again, looking at Shizuo like he's a fun arcade game rather than a guy who could literally put Naruto through a wall. ]

How did I know you'd say yes, y'know?? [ He says, mouth full and oh god please don't dribble all that down your chin, kid. ] You coulda said no and then it would have been even harder for me to steal one.

[ Trust him, he's had his entire childhood to work out the best way to trick people in these kinds of situations. ]

Like ya said, anyways, they're all melting. You gotta eat 'em quick!