The Elbow Room

[Melody Arachne]

"Oh hell, its going to be one of those nights, huh?"

Melody stashes the bottle she's been pouring from under the bar, and pulls out her own shortened shotgun and box of rounds. She plants a hand on the bar, hops up and over its wooden surface.

"Fine as frog hair, Murray, got your back ... Zhivago, you okay?"

[Definitely Not Axe Hack]

The DJ jumps out off the tree once seeing the cades are down. He hurriedly runs into the bar.

"Frickin' zeds! Outta my way! Hey don't claw at me! That's it! You're the first I'm killin'!"

He heads to the dark corner and grabs his bag of Paris Hilton CDs and proceeds to chuck them at the zeds. The first zed he killed was the one that clawed at him.

"How do you like that now? Not so pretty is it?"

The DJ chucks more CDs at a group of 5 zeds who have made their way to the center of the room. One of the CD missed and hit a beer bottle, shattering the bottle and spilling the beer that was in it.

"Oops. Sorry to whoever beer that was! Now where was I? Oh yea..."

He resumes his CD chucking.

[Lachryma]

Something in Lachryma's mind snaps slightly. Life is short, no? she thinks to herself. Then she proceeds to stand up...from under the partially collapsed barricades. Murray's masterpiece is just a touch demolished now.

Her ballroom gown is now ruined and zombies are all around. Understandably Lachryma is annoyed.

She breaks the neck of the nearest zed with a surgeon's knowledge and a medic's precision. She adds the mostly harmless body to the mound of stuff formerly known as the barricades.

"Annoying dead ones. Go bother mall."

[Murray Jay Suskind]

As Murray tried to focus on the barricades with the chaos swirling around him, he noticed one zombie who seemed to be following him around just outside the barricades. At first Murray just told himself that if the zombie tried to go after him Melody would take care of it, but at one point he could have sworn that the zombie was looking at him right in the eye. Eventually the zombie cocked its head and slowly moaned "Marr-ah?"

Murray dropped his hammer out of surprise and looked over the barricade at the zombie. It was one of his old colleagues from the College. He went to the same academic conference as Murray, but had been one of the first to go. Murray dove back behind the cades and asked, "Does anyone have an NT syringe?"

[Lachryma]

Lachryma drops into a crouch and pulls out one of her needles.

She sneaks up behind Murray's friend and stabs him in the back of the neck.

"There, is done. You owe me rat now."

She turns away and starts directing some random patrons of the bar on the proper way to shove a bench against the door.

"Put your back into it!"

[Vito The Don]

Vito grabs his gun and runs to the cades. Looking outside he sees a bunch of Zeds. "Come on. I just fricken' killed these things." Once again he opens fire mowing down Zed after Zeds. "Am I the onyl one with a gun around here? Jeeze!." he sits back down by his gunshop. "Any one want a magnum? Down at Vitos ammo shack, We got 6!."

[Murray Jay Suskind]

Lachryma ran off immediately after jabbing Murray's fellow professor in the neck, not noticing that the zombie just stood there. "Oh shit, he's a rotter," Murray murmured. As he turned around to ask where the nearest NT facility was, he felt someone gripping him by the shoulders. He tried to whirl back around and confront his assailant, but the grip was too strong, the zombie too quick. He felt the teeth sinking into the base of his neck. As Murray fell to the floor he looked around and saw his old colleague looking down at him with a chunk of Murray's flesh in his mouth. The zombie actually seemed to smile as he dove onto Murray, continuing the assault.

[Lachryma]

Lachryma could recognize the sound of ripping flesh anywhere, and so she spun around to see Murray being eaten by a former friend.

"Is absolutely lovely. I just waste needle," she says to herself. She unhooks her Mosin Nagant and carefully, slowly, she loads a round, works the bolt, and settles into a firing stance.

She adjusts the sights slightly. Then she holds her breath. Finally, she pulls the trigger lightly, with just her fingertip.

"Ow, that hurt shou-Argh, I miss? Stop moving head, dead one!"

She loads another round, apparently ignoring the clip function of her rifle.

[Melody Arachne]

"Ah, hell, too close for the shotgun ..."

Melody drops her shotgun on the table, moving to the wall and taking down one of the "In Case of Undead" fire axes and swinging a few practice swings.

She advances from the rear of one of the deaders, taking aim, waiting until he bends down so she'll have the proper angle, and...

swwwwwwing! the flat side of the axe catches the shambling undead at the base of the skull, sending him sprawling. She quickly reverses the axe and sends the blade crunching through bone. "Yeah! That's how Rangers do it, dead boy!"
She leaves the axe buried in the dead thing's head, using it to drag the body towards the remains of the cades.
"Somebody chuck this thing out for me, would yah? I got the cades ..."
She begins piling the broken furniture haphazardly in the doorway.

[Lachryma]

Lachryma nudges the body with her foot.

"Is dead."

She turns away from the corpse and climbs up on a table. She reaches up and pulls down the cheap chandelier, then tosses it in the general direction of the barricades.

She climbs down, grabs DJSpinbad's collection of bad music, and tosses it too in the general direction of the barricades.

She grabs Vito's sign and tosses it at the door.

Finally she joins Melody in adding to the barricade.

[Murray Jay Suskind]

Murray stood up with a strange feeling coursing through his veins. He knew he was infected. His grip on life and reality draining with each second past, with each movement made. Finally, with his voice cracking from strain he asked, "Anybody know how to cure an infection?"

[Lachryma]

Lachryma looks up from her barricading work.

"Infection? Um...is bad, yes...perhaps infusion of alcohol work though."

She pulls out her medkit and tosses Murray a bottle of rubbing alcohol.

"Drink up, it save life."

"Maybe" she stage-whispers.

[Leon Silverblood]

Leon continued throwing darts, a bored smirk on his face as the zombies filled the room. He took some pot shots, getting one in the eye, another in the groin.

"Boy, I suck at darts."

Samtha is at the center of the room, getting kicked around and somehow reppearing each time on her feet. Her knotted poly-hair is becoming very afro-ish, but aside from that she looks pretty good. A few burn marks, a tattered pink bikini under a trenchcoat, a bandolier of ken dolls and a 3-inch shotgun proportionate to her 7 inch height. It makes a firecracker-like noise and proves at least powerful enough to turn a zedified rat's head into vapor.

Leon looks around, not really caring to participate this time until he sees Murray's trademark pallor, clamminess, and short breathing. He watches Lachryma administer administer first aid as collects Samantha and suggests to her: Cauterize?

[Vito The Don]

Vito looks down at the doll. "Has anyone seen the Chuckie movies? 'Cause if I wake up and that damn thing is at my throat, Leon you can kiss that thing goodbye." Vito looks around "My only fear are ventrioqouest dummies and that thing is kinda like one." Vito goes back to modifing his uzi. He turns to Lachryma."I want to make a uzi that shoots syringes, whats you opinon on the matter?"

[Lachryma]

Lachryma barely looks up from from treating Murray.

"Uzi? For needle? What is point? Is one shot, one revive, so automatic weapon is not useful."

She pulls out a bag of blood from her medkit and hooks it up to Murray's arm. She then puts her full attention on Vito.

"On second thought, crossbow work well."