[Irene] “...And Matt. I’m guessing you two never really got to know each other in what, the three years you’ve been in the same school?” [Alicia] “Ah Matt. It’s hard to know everyone in my grade. I think I’ve seen you around.” She holds out her hand for him to shake. [Matt] "Ah, hello." You wipe your blood covered hand on your pants before holding it out to shake. [Travis] You see that Matt and Alicia are basically meeting for the first time so you turn and watch the hall for any movement. [i]Glad some people can relax a little with a zombie horde about.[/i] You decide that there might be some useful stuff in the chem lab to scavenge and slip in past the others and start to cautiously look around for anything that might be useful. [Irene] “Yup, I only got to know him fairly recently as well. Even though I saw him in the morning a lot when I was running to school. And that apparently he’s lived within a minute or two walking distance from me for six whole years. Yuuuup.” [Matt] You shrug. [Alicia] Alicia got up while Matt and Irene were talking and noticed Travis wandering around the room. She slipped on her bag. “So, any tips? Since I just woke up and stuff. And are you sure I shouldn’t get any chemicals? I mean, we’re in the chem room.” [Irene] “I think it’s more important for you to get some sort of protection, same with you, Trav--where did he go?” Irene looks around, and spies him in the chemistry room, sifting around, “But chemicals could be good too.” [Matt] “I have no idea how to create a bomb with chemicals. If you guys know how, then great.” You rummage around the room looking for the Bunsen burner lighter thingies, since you figure they'll last you longer than matches. You eventually find a drawerful and pocket two. [Travis] You find some of what you think might be useful chemicals and other assorted items. [i]I’ll have to ask what chemical are with cause they all see to be clear liquids for the most part...[/i] You carefully put them on a counter next to you and look toward the group to make sure they didn’t head back without you and see that Irene looking over in your direction. You shrug. “Never know what might be useful.” [Irene] “Oh, I wasn’t judging you. Did you find anything though?” [Travis] “Found some chemicals, no sure what any of them are, but we might be able to make some kind of grenade thing with acid in case of an emergency or something, but we would have to be careful with what we put in them and when we would use them.” You sort through the non chemicals and find some scissors and tweezers. [i]Might be able to create a throwing knife, wouldn’t really be any good, but it would be something...[/i] [Alicia] She follows Irene and Travis while they were talking. “You think we should find matches or lighters? I mean, since the power is out, doesn’t it kinda get cold at night?” She scanned the closet that Travis had opened. [i] Darn nothing with the label on sodium yet. [/i] [Irene] “Yeah, those would be dangerous,” turning towards Alicia, Irene responds, “It’s practically summer so it’s not really all that bad. But matches and lighters would be useful regardless.” [Alicia] She gives a wry smile to Irene. “Okay maybe it’s just me that gets cold. Or just me getting over the chills.” She opens a drawer. “Here. I put these here at the end of last year at the end of our chem lab.” She hands the matches to Irene. [Travis] You look up from the scissors. “We would be able to cook some meat and boil water with fire, wouldn’t be a bad idea to use them, but again it would have to be sparingly until we find more stuff.” Your mind turns back to the path toward Giant. [i]Yea, and if we can get to Giant, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to get to my place and get my dad’s knife collection and arm up a little better than homemade weapons.[/i] [Irene] Irene gives the matches a look, she had never used one before. After all, she had grown up learning to never touch them--in case she managed to set the house ablaze or something. She then holds them out for Matt to take and remarks, “You could probably put these to use better than me.” [Matt] “Thanks,” Matt hears heavy footsteps heading their way, accompanied with screams. He runs towards the source of the sound. [Irene] Irene notices Matt run off and glances back at Travis and Alicia and says, “Matt and I can go help the person, you two should keep working with the chemicals and such.” Irene rushes in pursuit of Matt. [i]I would have had to do a lot of explaining if they saw what I was going to do next. This is only for the best.[/i]