Bacon

Resident evil: Racoon city survivors

9.28.1999

The older gentleman looked over the room from his position by the jukebox alongside a few other individuals as he leaned forward in a chair. His hand rested inside his jacket, more specifically on his conceal carry, as he grimaced a bit at the distant sounds of gunfire. He glanced around the bar, though the young woman who was just getting up with a hammer in her fist.

This wasn’t how his night was supposed to be going. He was supposed to be sipping on a shot of tequila, and reminiscing about his squadmates, maybe talking to the bartender a bit. The last thing he’d expected was for the dead to be mobbing the streets and eating people. From the sounds of things, there were people out there who were understandably putting up a fight.

Bennett pushed himself out of the seat with a grunt of effort, before making his way over towards the bar. As much as he didn’t like it, she had a point. If the army was involved, it had to be worse than it looked. He was at least thankful they hadn’t just dropped a nuke and considered the issue solved. Yet.

“Alright ma’am, but what’s your plan to do that? We’re on the south side, and there’s an awful lot of city between the cordon and us.” His tone might’ve been a bit more accusatory than he intended, but just moving out there without a plan was asking to get people killed. He reached into his jacket and, the bar’s no smoking policy be damned, he pulled out his pack of cigarettes out of his coat, taking one out for himself and offering the pack to her. Everyone needed to calm down, and some good ol’ southern tobacco always helped him, at least.

Resident evil: Racoon city survivors

Well... what if it wasn't bipedal? I'm thinking something In between the Varcolocs from 8 and the penultimate Nemesis fight to give an idea.

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Levi was expecting a few things to happen, such as the Large Body’s charge, or the next volley from the Scarlet Tangos, or the swarm of heartless moving in to keep him pinned.

What he wasn't expecting was the sudden arrival of a certain friend, nor how a good number of the Heartless turned to address her, the Large Body included.

“Hoshi?” He muttered, shocked at her timely arrival, but he quickly traded his surprise and relief for focus. Her appearance galvanized the Heartless away from him, and gave him the critical seconds he needed to right himself.

At Hoshi’s prompting, he rushed towards the Large Body’s rear. He knew full well how hard they could hit, and he wasn't sure if Hoshi would take that as well as he could. Plus, it didn’t take a genius to know she made it mad. He needed to stop that thing now. Levi’s bat knocked away a soldier that tried to intercept him, as he launched himself into the Large Body’s rear. Thrust, underhand, overhand, and it was reeling. As it lept in the air in an attempt to flatten him and get Levi out from behind it, he rolled back towards Hoshi as it came down, flattening a pair of shadows that had pursued him.

Levi turned back to face Hoshi with a smile he couldn’t suppress. “Thanks for the save. Looks like we’re even.” He paused for a moment as one of the Scarlet Tangos threw a fireball towards them, but he smacked the fireball with his keyblade. As he did, it flew into the Large Body, which staggered it and scorched the front plate, and though it didn’t seem to do much, he noticed through his strange ability it had done at least some damage, so when the others in the volley came, he sent them towards the Large Body as well. It was hurt now, despite the fact that there wasn’t any physical indication of that. Wouldn’t take much more to bring it down.

Levi then addressed Hoshi again. “Lucian’s out here somewhere too. Would love to catch up, but as you can see I’ve been kinda busy here.” He gradually realized Hoshi’s exhaustion, as he then looked back towards the current issue; the Heartless. “You think you can handle this? I don’t mind if you need to bow out.” He asked, as the Large Body started gearing up to charge, but he simply took a deep breath, and stuck out the flat of True Light’s Flight as a shield and planted his feet, with the confidence of knowing it had worked before. “The Large Body wouldn’t be an issue, if not for the swarm of pests.” He muttered under his breath, rather annoyed at the Heartless. Still, he couldn’t help but smile.

If she’s alive, there’s hope for the other two. I’ll have to ask her how they got off the island, but it’ll be after this problem is dealt with.

I Am Thou: A Persona/SMT Inspired Story

The Velvet Room

As Daniel approached, the young man started moving to intercept him with an intensity in his eyes, and a grimace across his face. “If you dare to lay a hand on our master, you will not leave alive.” He said, his tone as forceful as his words, despite the soft volume of his voice. A large silhouette appeared behind him briefly, that of an armored humanoid figure with a staff or spear, though it is impossible to tell further detail. The woman stepped forward, wearing a slight smile on her face instead of the young man’s grimace. “While my brother may be a bit too aggressive, I share his sentiments that you should not threaten our master.” As she spoke, her voice carrying a certain soothing quality, despite her harsh words. Another silhouette appeared behind her, that of a little girl that radiated terrible power and a menacing aura.

The pair stopped as the long-nosed man raised a hand. ”Clerval. Safie. There shouldn’t be any need for that.” The long-nosed man said, as the pair stepped back and the large silhouettes vanished just as quickly as they appeared. The long-nosed man nodded, before turning back to address the assembled. “I apologize for my attendants. Though, I would advise against violence. Rest assured that we do not intend you harm, quite the opposite in fact, as you are guests here.” He said, completely unphased by both the threat from Daniel and the display from his attendants.

“Regardless, I will answer whatever questions I can. Though I cannot answer everything.” The long-nosed man said, as he first turned to address Ami and Flint. “Allow me to start with your question. This is a place between the worlds of sleep and waking. Physically at least, every one of you is asleep right now. As master of the Velvet Room, it is within my power to bring people who possess a certain gift here. As individuals who possess this gift, I called you here so I might speak with you.”

The man then turned to address Radcliff. ”As for why you’re here, if I attempted to explain everything now, you would not understand. And besides, there are some things that you simply must find out for yourselves. However, all will be revealed in due time. For now, I will explain what I can.” The man then leaned forward in his chair, tenting his fingers once more as he began. “The world as you know it is on the precipice of oblivion. Under normal circumstances, I would call on a special individual to save it, but unfortunately they have turned away from that path, and the world, in the current state, is doomed.”

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

For the sake of not keeping things dragging along, do we want to plan on cutting ahead to Guard Armor in the 3rd District? Or do we want to let the Heartless attack play out a bit longer?

@Bacon just in case I'm not clear on it, Levi is already in the 3rd District? If so I can have my upcoming post include Hoshi swooping in for their reunion moment.

@IAmTheIsland

Correct. And go for it, I left him in a bit of a situation on purpose.

Resident evil: Racoon city survivors

“Could be worse. At least these freaks aren’t shooting at us.”

Name: Michael Bennett
Age: 66
Starting Items: Colt M1911, One Spare Magazine, Zippo Lighter, Pack of Cigarettes
Job/Study: Retired (Prior US Marine Corp, and US Postal Service)
Short Bio: Bennett originally hails from the state of Georgia, having joined the Marines in early 1950 at the age of eighteen, in time to fight in the Korean War. After coming home once the war ended, a friend he met in the service hooked him up with a job in Raccoon city around ‘58 when he got out of the service. For the past few years, he’s been comfortably enjoying retirement when everything went to hell. He was drinking to the memory of some of his departed friends once the radio came on, and now he's hunkering down in the bar in question, at least until he had all of his faculties back.

Kingdom Hearts: Heroes of Hope

Well, we said we were doing Atlantis, and Kita was a princess of heart. So that would make the Atlantian king the holder of the royal authority.

In theory, at least. In practice, that's up to Kindred.

Resident evil: Racoon city survivors

Here's what I've got so far regarding a CS. Still missing a face claim for now, but otherwise does this work?

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-Appearance presently missing-

“Could be worse. At least these freaks aren’t shooting at us.”

Name: Michael Bennett
Age: 66
Starting Items: Colt M1911, One Spare Magazine, Zippo Lighter, Pack of Cigarettes
Job/Study: Retired (Prior US Marine Corp, and US Postal Service)
Short Bio: Bennett originally hails from the state of Georgia, having joined the Marines in early 1950 at the age of eighteen, in time to fight in the Korean War. A friend he met in the Marines hooked him up with a job in Raccoon city around ‘58 when he got out of the service. For the past few years, he’d been comfortably enjoying retirement when everything went to hell. He was drinking to the memory of some of his departed friends when the radio came on, and now he's hunkering down in the bar in question, at least until he had all of his faculties back.

Resident evil: Racoon city survivors

How about we start with a hunting rifle and a pistol? He may be able to loot another gun later, remember the police officers and UBCS are fighting all over the city

@Who is Who

I was just going to have him start with a handgun. I was talking about guns he had experience handling in general. My bad for not clarifying.

Resident evil: Racoon city survivors

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Well, I guess it couldn't hurt since he has the cons of being old and might run out of bullets if we don't come across a gun store or the police station, I assume he suffers from PTSD as well so im eager to see how he reacts to all this apocalypse. What firearms you have in mind? Please don't say a minigun

Also, I don't think we run into a Tyrant since they had very specific missions, perhaps a few lickers or an oringinal boss fight

@Who is Who

The firearms I had in mind wasn't anything crazy, mostly pistols, rifles (semi-auto, bolt-action), and shotguns. Maybe SMGs at your discretion, but it wouldn't be until after his time in service that the army started handing out M14s and M16s, and he wouldn't have been a machine gunner, so he wouldn't have much experience with full-auto weapons.