Network | Video | PSA about recent Dogtown results

[energyfieldgood]

Who: Rodney McKay
Username: imwithgenius
Warnings: mentions of dead bodies, skeleton horses, amnesia, blood, zombies, guns, bullet wounds, supernatural compulsion, violence, death


Yes, hello. Maybe you remember the mysterious Dogtown building past our oh-so-very-scenic river of blood that some people around here considered the holy grail of answers. Well, we went to check it out. And why would we deny you all the enlightenment it held.

[It's sharp, snide. Someone's in a mood. Even for Rodney, it's a mood.]

You ready for this? It's a zombie. There's zombies now because apparently that's what this place was lacking. You know, just the other night I thought in between all the skeleton horses and amnesia and breaking down of critical infrastructure there's such a lack of dead bodies pursuing me, it's a real letdown.

Dead guy's dressed like a hunter or trapper and shambles with a jolly tune on his lips. Oh, and did I mention the gun? Because there's a gun. Because not only do we get the Terminator's fleshy brother snapping at our heels, obviously he should be able to rain down a hailstorm of bullets at us while he's at it. Because that's fair.

So if you hear whistling, I highly recommend removing yourself from wherever you are unless you feel like playing target practice with things that go Natty Bumppo in the night.

Comments

Voice, un: Pegasus cw: mention of spiders, death

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

[John is probably right next to Rodney. Or at least not very far.

This also resulted in said zombie killing him and him coming back as an Avatar. But he’s trying to sound perfectly normal about things. He’s fine.

Everything is fine.]

PSA to his PSA, we found an antidote to some kind of spider venom, so it wasn’t all for naught.

But yeah. Terminator hunter zombie that whistles and scares the crap out of you with his whistle.

[He does not like that guy. He does not like that guy one bit.]

Turns out fighting zombies isn’t as fun as advertised, who knew?

He’s also unkillable as far as we know so if you see him around, don’t engage. Just run.

[Good luck everyone!]

[abrightboy]

What methods have you tried? To kill it, I mean.

[abrightboy]

There was only one skeleton horse.

[energyfieldgood]

While absolutely not the point, you can't prove that. Maybe we all saw a different one. Maybe there's an entire horse army.

Text un: Chosewell

[failedpromise]

(Cortana hates this. That said, she's not letting people witness her panic at this news. Hence the text.)

Did he still look mostly like a Human corpse? Or was he more monstrous?

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[energyfieldgood]

Very human. Better preserved than he probably should have been now that I think about it.

text: ceasetherain

[wewillwewill]

Would you explain the nature of this undead manifestation in detail? My understanding of what you call a zombie on this star is limited.

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[energyfieldgood]

Basically, it's a corpse that comes back to life without higher brain function and tries to eat you. Except he doesn't quite fit the bill. Most zombies are slow and shamble without being able to use tools. This one is fast and definitely knows how to work that rifle.

Where are you from?

[video] un: cupkate

[bossyboiler]

Nothing good has come from Dogtown.

[ Is she wrong? It remains to be seen. Is she a coward for not ever wanting to go? Maybe. ]

[energyfieldgood]

[Nothing good at all.]

At this point I think we have gathered enough evidence to assume that there probably won't. I'm starting to think the place is nothing but an oversized honey trap.

un; username

[canofmanji]

How sure are you that it was a zombie and not just a really ugly guy?

[energyfieldgood]

I know what a dead body looks like.

And when a dead body suddenly gets up, that definitely ticks the zombie box.

un; mkblackwood, video

[lowficharm]

[Martin's making a little bit of a face, because he has no idea if this is going to be better or not, but also this entire thing sucks.]

If it's better, it's... probably not a zombie? I mean, Avatars can live a really, really long time, even though they're technically not traditionally alive? What I mean is it's not a, uhm. Not something that can probably make you into a zombie. Also.

[helping????]

[energyfieldgood]

[!!!]

You think that was an Avatar?

[That's not helping, considering everything that just went down with Sheppard. He'd suddenly prefer zombie??]

I thought Avatars are still... human. Intelligent. All the reports always mention about how people talked to them or at least tried to.

Voice, un: Pegasus

[ferriswheelsandfootball]

[Welp.

That’s alarming.

He’s just gonna send a message to Martin too because he’s a lil’ bit worried about that, as a newly-turned Avatar himself.]

What do you mean, not traditionally alive? How long do Avatars live, do they just rot away like our buddy out there or something?

[Just. Gently screaming on the inside.]

Voice, un: 13371uk@

[cuttypie]

You went back into Dogtown!? After what happened last time?

Why did you go back into Dogtown?

[energyfieldgood]

[Rodney just scowls at the camera. Then turns the tablet around to film Sheppard before he brings it back on himself.]

To find [airquotes] "answers".

text; un: freakscene

[cacophonish]

whoa sounds like dogtown really went to shit

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[energyfieldgood]

As opposed to what exactly?

[Excuse the newbie, he only knows it as the locked off hellhole it's become lately.]

[video, un: rue]

[ruevealing]

[All of this is most distressing!!]

Are you quite alright, dear doctor? I hope that you remain unharmed after such an encounter.

[energyfieldgood]

[Rodney is halfway ready for an aggressive remark because how is he supposed to feel with everything that he just recounted?! ... But he stops himself in time, his mouth opening, closing, before he exhales.]

... I'm fine, Rue. I wasn't injured.

[He just watched John die and then come back which wasn't traumatizing at all, nbd.]

It's just been, you know. A long, sucky, horrible, mind-scarring day.

voice; un: pierson

[easilyamused]

Zombies aren't new, though your whistling friend sounds a bit more like a revenant. Did it seem to be guarding the building?

voice; un: piltoversfinest

[clavesregni]

He got up and started shooting after I took a bottle of purported spider venom antidote from his hands. It's unclear whether he was guarding anything or whether taking the bottle simply woke him up in a ready-to-shoot state.

text; un: architect

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Wonderful. Because that is precisely what this world needed.

[energyfieldgood]

Yeah, we should all get together for horror bingo at some point.

voice ★ un: lilith

[sathan]

Zombies?

( even that word sounds as if he's being ludacris )

Are you certain he's truly dead?

[energyfieldgood]

You know, if I had the energy for further exasperation I would get very vocal about how disconcerted I am that you are the third person now raising this point.

To answer your question, I was very sure up until the point he started moving autonomously and firing a gun. Which corpses generally do not do. At least in my world?

voice; un: piltoversfinest

[clavesregni]

We've got to go back there.

[energyfieldgood]

For the sake of newfound mission camaraderie I will pretend you did not just say that to me.