March Test Drive Meme

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Test Drive Meme #2

Fire and Ice Days. Four of them, to be exact. Those four days--four days and four nights--have been nothing but rain of varying intensities, but it hasn't stopped. It pours down in heavy torrents, sweeping away the grime and decay of the crumbling city. It floods the banks of the oasis and it drowns all nearby plants. To the point; it's a right pain to anyone hunting for game. Everything has taken refuge to higher grounds. Well, everything except the infected. They seem confused by this phenomenon. It rouses them from their dormant states and pushes them to be more active. If you find yourself out and about in the rain, you may want to bring a decent weapon with you and a friend to watch your back. Or to trip should you find yourself in trouble. What's worse than all that precipitation, you ask? Why would you even ask that? Haven't you seen a single horror movie? Well, since you asked; what's worse than rain is hail. How could that possibly make the situation more dire? You aren't worried about the insurance on your car, so who cares? You're sure full of dangerous questions, aren't you? Hail impacts the ground, the buildings, the cars, and the wall with a mighty raucous. The sound as it hits the pavement is deafeningly louder than the sound it makes when it impacts the waterlogged earth, slowed by the trees blocking its descent. It won't take long at all before the group of survivors holed up in the city will notice a mass of shambling Iraites beginning to congregate against the walls and gates, attracted by the noise. They're toppling over each other and pressing against the boundaries. The gate looks like it might buckle under all that weight like a dam about to burst. You might wanna do something about reinforcing that gate, or maybe even start taking out the horde if you can. There are still hunters and gatherers out in the forest. If they come back to this mess, they'll never make it into the city alive. If that's not enough trouble, you suddenly have another problem. Between the rain and the hail and the infected, a loud crack of lightning hits a tree near one of the crash sites. You can see the smoke all the way from the city and it lights up the edge of the forest. But that's so far away, how could it pose any trouble? You ask, because you obviously have a death wish. Well friend, you may recall a certain crashed shuttle in about that very direction. Such a thing is leaking some rather potent accelerant. Find a way to contain that fire or you won't have to worry about the infected anymore. You won't have to worry about much when the blaze takes out the forest and creeps through the city with a lazy hunger that cannot be sated. [Mod Note: Pick any scenario, mix and match, or combine them all into one chaotic mess of death and mayhem. Feel free to do a crash scenario from the first TDM. Enjoy~]

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[atanycost]

Rick probably made quite the sight, running through the rain and hail with the mud fro the ground splashing onto his shoes and legs. But he'd never really cared much about looks (that particular priority had flown out the window long ago), and that fact hadn't changed even now.

He paused in his progress forward, thinking that someone was calling out to him, and for just a second, he thought maybe he was about to run into Carl. But when he got closer, he realized it wasn't him, but it was another young person who, like it or not, had earned herself a place in his regard. He might even go as far as to say that he cared for her just like he cared for his own son, and his reasons for that went far beyond the fact that they both had witnessed her father's murder.

"Beth?" He managed to get out her name just seconds before he crashed into her, sending her to the ground, and him staggering backwards a few paces. It was more out of surprise than anything that he grinned through the rain and said, "I'd say you need to get cleaned up, but the weather might do that for you."

Of course, that wasn't the first thing he'd wanted to say to her. An apology, or another expression indicating his regret for not being able to do more for Hershel, had been on the tip of his tongue, but surprise made people say funny things.

Then again, what with the infected behind them and the idea that the gates were close, now wasn't the time for either of those things, so Rick just nodded and followed after the young blonde.