Topic: Food, Flight, and Information (Read 94 times)
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Food, Flight, and Information « Thread Started on Sept 3, 2008, 7:17pm »
Merrick didn't know what time he had come to on the beach, but he did know that the sun had been high in the sky, and that had been... One, maybe two hours ago. He spent a great deal of time wandering up and down the beach, searching for something... But he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He had come to the Grocery store in hopes of finding (Somebody. There has to be someone left. There has to be) something to eat. His search was not in vain. He packed the backpack he had found near a deserted house to the brim with every food he could ever imagine. He smiled that strange smile that he had always had, the smile that seemed more like a grimace of pain. The smile that wasn't contagious. He was still sort of shocked to see the store so deserted, and he could feel that cold feeling creeping up on him. He began to hurry along the aisles, so sure that the next time he turned around, there would be some sort of grotesque monster, some hideous thing that only small children could imagine, but everyone could fear. It would be the thing that had made everyone else disappear, and it would take hold of him, and he would be gone too. He would be floating around in nowhere in particular, white all around him. A place so vast that if you set off in one direction you would never find your way back, yet so small that the invisible walls around you would squeeze you so tight, you felt like you might collapse on yourself. For this was the place that Merrick imagined everyone had gone to. A white place, where nothing was everything, and you were doomed to live out eternity in solitude. Merrick started to run.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #1 on Sept 3, 2008, 7:55pm »
Matt had walked down from the academy to the beach to see if there was anything interesting. He heard something from inside the store. That's interesting. He thought. Usually nobody's there. He knew that a lot of bullies took the stocks of food and that it would run out soon. He couldn't figure out what they were going to do once that happened.
He pressed his face to the brick wall of the store. Dangit! He thought. Brick was one of the hardest things to see through. He used all his concentration and finally got a fuzzy picture of what was happening inside the store. There was a black haired kid he'd never seen on the beach or at the academy before. He was considering going in and introducing himself, when the other boy broke out into a run. I wonder what he's running from. Matt wondered to himself. He walked around to the door and pressed them open.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #2 on Sept 3, 2008, 8:33pm »
Merrick had reched the cashier stands when he saw the boy. He had light brown hair, cut very short, and stood quite taller than himself. He had never seen him before. Merrick's eyes sent these messages to his brain, but his mind had become blind to everything but fear. To him, there was still something back there, waiting to devour him, to swallow him into nothingness. He continued running, but in his hurry did not care to watch his step, and his right foot caught on a plastic bag. Merrick slid along for a few feet before toppling over, and crashing into one of the metal shelves that lined the aisles. His mind was blurry and incoherent, the world around him foggy and confusing. His head felt numb where it had hit the shelf, and his back was brused from the cold, hard floor. For a moment, all Merrick could see was the white celing of the store, and he began to fear that the monster had swallowed him whole, and he was now residing in "nowhere in particular". Where nothing was everything, (Or was it everything was nothing?) and everyone floated on... and on... and on... But then something else (It's the shelf! Get out of the way!) came into view. It was large, grey, and fuzzy, like everything else had become when he had banged his head. It seemed to be coming towards him. How strange. (The shelf is falling! MOVE!) It came closer, and Merrick's vision began to clear. This thing... It was a... (Shelf!) A... Uhh... (SHELF!) A shelf! Yes, that's it. A shelf. It's a... "Shelf!" Merrick squealed as he snapped awake, his mind suddenly clear. Something had clicked into place, and as if by reflex, Merrick's hands flew up and the shelf and it's closely packed contents stopped inches away from his face. With a bit more effort, he used his power to throw the shelf backwards, so that it landed a yard or two away. He felt the same kind of release that he had felt when he had completed his task on the beach, but it was smaller and more pleasant this time. A sort of feeling relaxation that spread it's way slowly from his fingertips to the back of his neck. Slowly, shaking a bit, Merrick got to his feet and took his bearings. The feeling of fear was gone now, and for that, Merrick was relieved.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #3 on Sept 5, 2008, 7:28am »
'Calm down kid, I'm not going to hurt you.' Matt said. 'You're acting like you've seen a ghost!' He flinched as the kid skidded across the floor, ramming into a shelf. When the shelf started falling, he made his way toward it, but he knew he would be too late. He wasn't particularly sure he wanted to see this kid squished.
He whistled as Merrick saved himself. 'What was that?' He asked. 'I don't think i've ever seen that power before.' He tried to think of an academy kid he knew that could do that, but his mind turned up blank.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #4 on Sept 5, 2008, 2:23pm »
Merrick turned owards the source of the voice. The boy, of course, he remembered him standing in the dorway before he had taken his fall. In his excitement he had ignored the boy's questions, focusing only on his own. "So there are others." He said as he walked cautiously towards the boy. "I was afraid I was the only one left..." Left where? In the city? The state? The country? Merrick didn't know, so he stopped there. "The name's (Peter) Merrick," He held out his hand. "I don't think I've ever seen you here before." His head still ached, and the edges of his vision were a bit blurry, but Merrick found it important to hide his bewilderment, excitement, and astonishment. If there was one thing that Merrick hated most, it was (Fear) weakness.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #5 on Sept 5, 2008, 5:05pm »
Matt looked down at the outstreched hand and snorted. 'Where have you been kid? Nobody does that anymore.' He said. There was too much chance that you'd never see your hand again if you joined it with that of a stranger. He could see uncertainty on the younger kid's face. He hides it well. He thought. Only someone with omnivision like Matt would be able to tell. 'So seriously, where have you been?' He asked.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #6 on Sept 6, 2008, 9:32pm »
Merrick gritted his teeth at the other boy's indignance. But he supposed it was right to deny pleasantries. After all, this wasn't a very pleasant world. Merrick thought back to the origin of the friendly gesture; how it had once been meant to show that neither person possesed weapons. Then I guess to offer my hand would be a bold-faced lie, because it seems like I've got the deadliest weapon in the world. Merrick found this thought amusing, and lowered his hand without any signs of anger. "Where have I been? Well... I (Lived) live near the beach. When I found out that everyone had disapeared, I just..." What had he done? Merrick refused to let this boy know that he had hid inside his room for days, afriad that he might disapear too. He had discovered his power, tested it to his limits. He had freed himself completely from (Peter) weakness. He had changed. But this was not for the boy to know. "...stayed there," he continued finally. "And discovered this..." Merrick added as an afterthought, as he picked up a candybar a few yards away and began to unpeel the wrapper casually. "What about you? Where have you been? And do you know anything else about what's going on?" Merrick was determined on setting the spottlight on this new kid. He needed information about this strange new world.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #7 on Sept 7, 2008, 1:43pm »
Matt watched the candy bar floating in the air. 'Hm. I know a girl that can do that with water, but I don't think i've seen actual telekinesis yet.' He thought out loud. 'You seem to have pretty good control of your power.'
'I've been at the academy with most of the other kids. You must have lived pretty far down the beach if you thought you were the only one left.'
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #8 on Sept 7, 2008, 2:17pm »
Merrick's lip twitched invoulantarily. The candy bar fell onto the cold floor. It took all of (Peter's) Merrick's willpower to keep from snapping the boy in half where he stood. There were others like him, others with... powers. That was (interesting) unfortunate. Highly unfortunate, especially for (you) them. Merrick had always wanted to be (free) special. And he had been. Until this boy had the audacity to tell him that he wasn't? That there were others, just like him? Merrick thought that it had been destroyed in the wrekage of his shoreside mansion, but his past had followed him, clung onto him like a castaway to a piece of driftwood, desperate to ruin him, to destroy his dreams, to take away his power. No, I'm special. I'm the most special person there is. I am, I am, I am, I AM... He had calmed. He had control... "Control? Yeah, I guess a week or so of practice will do that to you." He smiled. "So there are other people who can... do special things? And they're at an academy?"
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #9 on Sept 8, 2008, 7:04am »
Matt shrugged. 'Well, yeah. I can do something, and most of the people I know can. But they're not all at the academy. Some of them hang around here.' He said. He looked around, focusing through the walls of the store, to make sure there wasn't anyone harmful nearby.
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #10 on Sept 8, 2008, 5:01pm »
So they weren't all like him. There were some that had remained... Insignificant. This was good. "So here you are, everything you have ever known is in the palm of your hand, complete and total freedom has finally been granted to you... And all anyone can think to do is play school like a bunch of kindergardeners?" Merrick asked, chuckling to himself (although it sounded as if he was in the prosess of vomiting). "What a brave new world." Still, Merrick felt a need to visit this academy. To see what new (people) powers there were out there. Maybe even to eliminate the competition... But that wouldn't come until later... Yes, that would come in due time... In due time...
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #11 on Sept 12, 2008, 4:40pm »
Everything we've ever known? Matt thought. It's not like we've had powers like this forever. 'It's not like anyone has any assignments or homework or anything.' He said. 'We just stay there because that's where we were before everyone disappeared. There's still some food to be salvaged, and beds and walls and insulation. It feels...homey.'
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #12 on Sept 17, 2008, 12:29am »
(OOC//: When I said that "everything you have ever known is in the palm of your hand" I meant that there's no-one to tell them what to do, or how to do it. Anything that they've ever wanted is theirs.)
Homey? A school? Merrick wasn't so sure about that, but he was sure that he had to find this place. "Can you tell me where this place is? Can you take me there?" Merrick could hear his voice rising in excitement. He wanted to know who else was left... Becuase something had been bothering him. This boy hadn't mentioned any adults, and Merrick certianly hadn't see any. He didn't know why such a pleasant thing would trouble him so much, all he knew that it did...
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Re: Food, Flight, and Information « Reply #13 on Oct 11, 2008, 2:01pm »
Matthew contemplated for a moment. Well, he is smaller than me, what's he going to do? He thought. 'Okay, I'll take you there. Let me just grab some soup.' He said. He took an armload of Campbell's off the counter. I wonder what I'll do when the store runs out. He thought. All the shapeshifters would just start hunting, but what would he do? So he could see really far, so what? Maybe he would want to be a friend to this boy. He had a pretty useful power. 'I'm Matt by the way.' He said, and he led the way out of the store.
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