Pestilence of the Dead

"So are we still going the right direction?"Isabelle asked.

oop: Sorry for the short posts. I haven't been able to think of anything

Alma scanned the map. "Yes, we appear to be going in the right direction" she said. She also glanced interestingly near the bottom of the map at a certain location before giving it back to Nico. She was silent for a while and appeared to be thinking about something.

Nico puts the map away and they continue walking. Step by step, Nico's breathing becomes deeper and heavier and the humidity seems to be getting worse rather than better. If these people find out who I was... Nico begins to think about negative circumstances but pushes it away, quickly returning to his attempt at small talk, "So, uh, what'd you girls do before? all this shit broke loose?"

"Goodie.... the one question I can't remember the answer to...."Isabelle thought. "Uh.... before everything went bad I was going to college."Isabelle lied.

"I was working as a therapist" Alma replied, that was half true but she decided that she wasn't going to tell them the whole truth at least for now. She didn't really see any point in going in too much depth in her life.

"A therapist? Probably comes in handy with all this bullshit nowadays," Nico says, looking around at the post-apocalyptic wasteland. "College? Never went. Heh, I was a repo man. Kinda like a bounty hunter, but way less cool. Had a fair share of fights, though," Nico says, almost getting nostalgic about his shitty job.

[OOC: Yo, new person! Feel free to join in when ha want, if you haven't been edumacated on the unique stuff tell us and we'll get you up to date]

Oop: Think we should pm Crimson?

"Repo man?"Isabelle repeated. "I dunno if I could've done that. People would be too rude about it..."She said. "And some people could use a bit of therapy with the way things are now."She added in response to Alma.

Alma shrugged. "I don't know if it's even worth trying to give therapy people at this point, I think it's probably too late. Besides, I don't know if I'll be able to do it anymore." She listened to both Isabelle and Nico. She was curious at how they would react if they knew what she did.

"Yeah. When the shit hit the fan my brother took me with him and took me under his wing. We had a solid group for a while, most of us were cold blooded raiders. Kill whoever to get what we want. But karma's a bitch, I guess," Nico says, telling these Alma and Isabelle small parts of his story. Maybe if he told them the truth they would trust each other. While Nico enjoyed pretending he didn't need a group, he knew he was going to need people--people he could trust.

[OOC: Yeah, we can do a group message thingy]

"Wait, you were Raiders?!"Isabelle yelped, stopping. Suddenly she wasn't so willing to go with Nico anywhere any more, knowing that.

Alma stopped after hearing Isabelle speak. She knew nothing about these 'raiders' so she didn't speak. She just decided to let them speak further. She did have a feeling that whatever this is will cause some problems between the two, which could possibly backfire on all of them.

"Yes, ma'am," Nico says, he figured something like this would happen. Better to get it out of the way as fast as possible, "My brother had connections, he was part of a big gang. Got me in. Saved my life. I wish I could say I hated what they did--what we did, but I didn't. We had nice cars, plenty of food, weapons, water. Ha. We had whatever the fuck we wanted. It was almost enjoyable. The nightmares from killing all those innocent survivors didn't last long...it become almost an instinct. Take what we want, no regrets. But we got what we had coming. We tried to raid a big camp, but they had the edge, better guns, more people. We had to retreat. They must've tracked us down and found us, 'cause that night we got ambushed. I don't know if it was a miracle of God or what, but I survived. Guess karma had mercy on me for some reason..." Nico says to Isabelle. He slips his hand down to his gun, just feeling the handle with his fingers in case she got angry and tried to do something...rash. "You seem awfully quiet over there," he says to Alma, "Got anything to say to me?"

"A-ARE YOU HEARING WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?!"Isabelle yelped. "I DUNNO IF I WANNA HELP YOU ANYMORE! I MIGHT ASWELL LET YOU GO WITH YOUR STUPID IDEA TO ATTACK THAT CAMP! MAYBE THE ZOMBIES'LL EAT YOU! THAT IS ASSUMING YOU WERE EVEN TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ZOMBIES TO BEGIN WITH!"She shouted angrily.

Alma sighed. This IS definitely going to go out of hand and is going to interfere with their plan. She immediately started going through options in her head. She could calm Isabelle down but she's not entirely sure she could. After hearing what Nico said to her, she thought a little before saying "I've done worse before the zombies appeared". She moved closer between the two, in case a fight broke out. "Whatever we think of each other, we can't sort it out here. We are pretty close to the camp so it would cause huge problems if you do. Once we've done our job, then maybe it would be better for you to sort out your issues in whatever ways you see fit"

[OOC: We can probably add the new player when we get to the camp]

Nico is shocked by Alma's calm reaction. Typically raiders get a much more...mind blowing reaction. "Let me guess, you don't trust me? How can we trust you? Take off that mask, show us what you're hiding under there. Then we can talk about goddamn trust!" Nico says, his voice increasing in volume. This wasn't good. Yelling would definitely attract a horde and the smarter zombies would definitely take advantage of this opportunity.

Isabelle did jsut that, taking her welding mask off. "I WEAR THIS STUPID THING BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU! SOME TIME AGO SOME RAIDER WHO BROKE INTO MY HOUSE STABBED ME IN THE EYE AND PRACTICALLY TORE IT OUT OF MY HEAD!"Isabelle shouted.

Alma looked around herself to see if there was any zombies around to hear them. When Isabelle revealed her face, Alma wasn't too surprised that her face would be damaged, though she didn't know it would be quite like this. However she remembered that they need to move away from this area before any zombies heard them. "Can we at least move this conversation somewhere else?" She asked. "If this goes on now, some zombies might hear us."

"YOU-" Nico starts, but shuts up as he sees Isabelle's face. Guilt. One of the few things that was forbidden in his group of Raiders. He just stares in shock and swallows hard. "I'm sorry..." Nico whispers. This is why the raiders never left survivors. No survivors means nothing like this would ever happen. Nico shakes his head in shame. "Yeah, we should go..." Nico says, before hearing a loud shriek from down th street.

Isabelle was slightly surprised by Nico's response. She was about to add to her rant, before the shriek caught her attention. She put her mask back on and continued forward, not saying anything else.