Chapter 29- Beyond Our Walls Part 3

[IamPaul]

I got home a while ago to a sobbing girlfriend sitting in front of my pc. When I asked what was wrong, she replied "Angel's dead." I just knelt there holding her, stumped, cause we don't know anyone named Angel in real life. After a short pause, she kinda got the hint that I was clueless as to who she meant and went apeshit on me. She started going off about how stupid I am, what a big bitch Pegs is, and some real awful vocabulary about Scratch...

I just finished listening to the chapter...sad stuff indeed.

BUT BURT'S ALIVE!!!!!! WOO!!!

Just do me a favor KC and don't kill off Saul...he and I (I hope) are all she has left...lol

Now we need a mock intro with Michael Swan. Instead of "we're alive....." it would be "Burt's Alive"

[Privateer]

Nope. Angel is dead.

-Signed-

Dreamcrusher.

I'd call you the David Weber of audio drama, but don't know if anyone would get the reference. :P

And as an aside, I do have to note, as a relative neophyte to the forum, how awesome it is that the writer actually comes down and contributes. Eapecially after he's gone and done something like that. Kudos!

[Osiris]

Now we need a mock intro with Michael Swan. Instead of "we're alive....." it would be "Burt's Alive"

Perhaps, something more generic?

"Some are still alive."

"We're mostly alive."

"What the fuck bbq, Kc that last episode was messed up, bro." I think I would probably shit my pants laughing if I heard Michael Swan deadpan that.

[Leedo2502]

I don't know why everyone is all happy that Angel didn't tell the Mallers that the tower folks went to Ft Irwin. If Angel gave them that info the Mallers would have to travel just shy of 200 miles of Zombie infested, car clogged roads. If the Mallers were that stupid to try They'd loose plenty of people to the desert and dehydration. Then upon arriving at Ft. Irwin the rag tag army of exprisoners armed with whatever they were able to scrounge would have to take on a larger force of well trained highly efficient soldiers from the US Army.

To be sure Angel did right by his freinds by not letting the Mallers know where the Tower guys went since Angel wasn't privy to what awaited them when they got to Irwin. But the reality is that Angel didn't save the remnants of the Tower, he unintentionally saved the lives of the Mallers.

[Nate Eeez]

Would it really matter if the Mallers knew where the Tower folks had gone? I think the Mallers would be foolish to follow. But we know more about what that trip would entail than they do. Would they even know how to get there?

They wouldn't survive the trek though zombie country. Not all of them at least. I could see Scratch surviving, but mostly because she is far less interested in the other Mallers surviving than reaching salvation for herself. So while the Mallers are being mauled to death (see what I did there), she'd sneek away. Though, to complicate matters for her Durai would survive too.

Though, the Mallers seem to have a decent set up somewhere. Hi-tech medical equipment and a professional doctor who not only plays one on the podcast but also in real life. They're doin' pretty well for themselves at the moment.

[Osiris]

I don't know why everyone is all happy that Angel didn't tell the Mallers that the tower folks went to Ft Irwin. If Angel gave them that info the Mallers would have to travel just shy of 200 miles of Zombie infested, car clogged roads. If the Mallers were that stupid to try They'd loose plenty of people to the desert and dehydration. Then upon arriving at Ft. Irwin the rag tag army of exprisoners armed with whatever they were able to scrounge would have to take on a larger force of well trained highly efficient soldiers from the US Army.

To be sure Angel did right by his freinds by not letting the Mallers know where the Tower guys went since Angel wasn't privy to what awaited them when they got to Irwin. But the reality is that Angel didn't save the remnants of the Tower, he unintentionally saved the lives of the Mallers.

He's right. It makes more sense to kill off the antagonist in the middle of the story.

[AdrianHD]

Haha. I enjoy everyone rationalizing a scenario in which Angel is alive. It's like in Lost- "____ could've made it out! They could be alive!" The writers had to reiterate about 4 or 5 times that they were dead. It's like, until you show the character's corpse being eaten by rats, they're still alive :P Also, Kc, feel free to add a scene in which rats eat Angel.

On that note, I listened to the finale again, did you intentionally put the sad death music during the the tower collapse to show Angel's pending death?

[Red Shirt]

Not quite. Though there is a whole show dedicated to overweight chefs on some channel....

Officer Candidate School, I believe.

Yes you got it, I'll come to it in a minute.

There are four routes to becoming an officer in the US Army:

West Point

This is the premier school for training officers for the Army. Four years of arduous physical and mental training. The Officers that West Point turns out do tend to be arrogant, but still generally competent and decent leaders. WP graduates tend to get promoted ahead of their non WP peers. The last I heard it took either a congressional appointment or the recommendation of a Medal of Honor recipient to get in. (I could be wrong)

"Other" various Military Academies

Such as the Virginia Military Institute or Norwich Military Academy. Similar in scope, but no where as exclusive as WP

OCS

To become an officer this route, you either enlist with a college degree or attain one after your enlistment. With a degree in hand, you face a series of interviews and a whole raft of paperwork after which you attend the school part OCS. OCS Officers were enlisted once and generally speaking, usually Sergeants or Staff Sergeants. These tend to be the better officers than most.

ROTC

Reserve Officer Training Corps. This route may be one of the easiest. It is a program that can essentially be taken as an "elective" at any decent college or university that offers it. While participating in the ROTC program at a school, you also serve as a Reservist in a unit and drill on the weekends with them.

I would say it is likely that Lt Angel Tenudo went the ROTC route. Probably even drilling as a cadet with the 223rds rear detachment while they were deployed before he got his "Butter Bar."

There is no way that Angel would have gotten the officer option from a judge with the Army or Jail sentence, even if we still did that sort of thing. Remember Saul's story of how difficult it was for him to get in? That was for enlistment.

[Laura]

Okay, I finally just finished it. I didn't realize it was gonna be like... like this! My reaction: "Oh my God. Oh my God! Oh my GAWD!"

It's a really good thing my roommate wasn't in. Her suspicions that I'm insane would have been confirmed.

[Osiris]

Okay, I finally just finished it. I didn't realize it was gonna be like... like this! My reaction: "Oh my God. Oh my God! Oh my GAWD!"

It's a really good thing my roommate wasn't in. Her suspicions that I'm insane would have been confirmed.

It's how other people know that it is an amazing show.