on apping one of my old Left 4 Dead mains to Prisma

[axemeaquestion]

Really?

Seven years ago it was the crazy superpower world - not that I minded having super powers, really - but now you wanna take me to the crazy alien sex planet? Really?

[insert face journey here]

... girl, you got a weird idea of how reunions work.

[SIGH]

No zombies, at least. But I'm still not thrilled about leaving the boys behind to fend for themselves.

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Just poked this comm again and saw this post; belated HEL YEH for L4D/L4D2!

[walking_nuke]

Alien ... sex planet.

[This dude over here looks simultaneously bewildered and weirded out. Taking a second or two to process the implications he then adds:]

Well—'least it ain't alien death planet.

[Then he realizes she also said "seven years ago" and "crazy superpower world."]

Wait, are you a Logos Receptive too?

<3!

[axemeaquestion]

Look. I'd agree with you there, but "at least it isn't" is still about the most unhelpful thing you can say to just about anything. Let me at least complain a little.

Logos? I, uh... I got no idea what that means, sorry.

[walking_nuke]

[He looks a little crestfallen when she says she doesn't know what Logos is.]

Yeah, I get it—just lookin' for some kinda silver lining, yanno? An' Logos, well—you mentioned somethin' happenin' seven years ago and getting superpowers, I thought that you might've been from where I'm from.

[axemeaquestion]

'Fraid I'm not familiar, sorry. [She frowns a little more sympathetically this time.] It was a place called Siren's Pull. Something about the place itself gave everyone powers.

[walking_nuke]

Damn. Yeah, ain't familiar with'at. Me, apparently I've had'is ability all my life an' didn't know until shit hit the fan. Same story with everyone else who's a Receptive.

[Though now he's curious:]

What was it like'ere? At Siren's Pull?

[axemeaquestion]

[She huffs a small laugh.]

I'll be honest, it's been a long time. mun I don't remember a whole lot. I guess it was normal, in some ways... which is saying something for me, coming out of a zombie apocalypse. But there were a lot of other things that weren't. Besides the superpowers, a lot of bad stuff came out at night. "Monster" kind of bad stuff.

[walking_nuke]

So you got superpowers an' a target-rich environment to test 'em on, sounds like.

[Or so he hopes. Though now that she's mentioned the zombies again:]

You arrived'ere from a zombie apocalypse, though? Like—we're talkin' legit zombies an' not like ... converted POWs?

[axemeaquestion]

Yep, that about sums it up.

Legit zombies. Not TECHNICALLY undead, but pretty close to it.

[walking_nuke]

Not undead? So—somethin' viral? Like rabies?

[He remembers there were a few horror movies based on that premise ... just a few short years before the Bane invasion.]

[axemeaquestion]

Viral. Yeah. Hell of a virus, though, the way it mutated people.

[walking_nuke]

Mutated?

[Okay, that wasn't in those zombie flicks.]

What'd it do to 'em?

[axemeaquestion]

A lot of things? Like, uh... some of 'em spit acid. And got really ugly.

I still remember the concept art of the Spitter. TERRIFYING.

[walking_nuke]

Damn. That is some serious heartburn.

[He wonders if that's just as infectious as ... well, whatever method of transmission that virus uses. Being a Demolitionist, he's definitely not in the right field to puzzle that out.]

An' I'm guessin' if'ey're viral zombies, they're smarter an' can run?

best girl

[axemeaquestion]

I dunno if I'd call them SMART, but they can definitely run.

[walking_nuke]

So one outta two. Still bad enough.

Where I'm from, we don't gotta deal with zombies like'at. Our enemy likes to recover our war dead an' convert 'em, and anyone'ey capture alive, into cannon fodder. Cyborg zombies with weapons.

[axemeaquestion]

Ugh. Nasty.

[walking_nuke]

Yeah.

Not very fast, an'ey can't turn people into zombies or anything, but when you put them down they don't stay down. Not unless you rip'a control chip outta 'em.

[hometownunknown]

I mean, I'd take sex planet over zombies any day.

[axemeaquestion]

Oh, definitely. But who says I can’t complain a little?

[hometownunknown]

Assuredly not me, that would make me a hypocrite.

[ A half-hearted chuckle. ]

[axemeaquestion]

I was gonna say, I better not be getting a lecture from YOU of all people, Nick.

[hometownunknown]

Hey, it's not my fault my suit's expensive. It's a shame to let money go to waste.

[ Not that money had much meaning in an apocalypse. ]

[axemeaquestion]

What’s money got to do with this?

[hometownunknown]

[ He mostly complained about his suit, but if he admitted he realized that, then he'd be admitting he knew how much he complained so-- ]

Just... making a comparison. [ Shrug. ]

[axemeaquestion]

Fair enough, Nicolas. [She grins at that.]