Chapter 42-2- Chasing Ghosts

[Litmaster]

Pretty sure they found him at the flipped over truck. Don't think he crawled away and hid, he just stuck at the truck, shooting at anything that decided to try take a bite on him...

The left side of the gun truck seems to have taken the heaviest blow. Pucks damage is also to the left arm. These are consistent with him getting out of the building and getting into the truck and the driver side being rammed by the big one. We hear no mention of the other soldiers bodies, so my guess they did not make it out of the building. It is possible that they did get out and were dragged away, but that is not the impression I got from Puck. he says their dead, not they got dragged away. So, myguess is they died in the building, or are still inside with so many biters that there is no way to rescue them like in Alliens 2.

This is quite possible, but I am wondering: where they heck were all the rest of the zombies? They should'a been pouring outta there like bees from a kicked hornets nest! (Ok, smartass, I KNOW that bees and hornets aren't the same thing and don't share each other's domiciles. I merely made the stylistic choice as a writer to not repeat the word 'hornet' twice within such close syntactic proximity. It would be bad form, clunky, and, frankly, would sound like shit [the sentence, not the kicked nest. the nest would probably sound like BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, followed by "Aaaaaaaaaargggggh!!!"] But I digress...)

One other exchange I found particularly intriguing was Burt and Saul. It was touching, but what I was really drawn to was Burt's

"It is my choice."

These are the same words that Tanya used when speaking to CJ, right? I know she said them, but just a little fuzzy on to whom.

That's also the words Burt chose when ending his booze hiatus at the Tower party... remember?

Can you clarify point 5 for me please? I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at. On point 8, we might finally see a use for Riley being a “Pro Archer.” If she can bust out enough of those windows and get a few burning arrows through there, it might even the odds a bit.

There may have been 3,000 originally but don’t forget we have evidence that zombies are dying off due to starvation (unless I imagined that, it’s been a while). If we assume that the “normal” ones are susceptible to starvation and that the only food source may be other zombies given the contained nature of the facility, there’d be a whole lot less than 3,000 left to contend with. Plus, the enhanced Z’s of various shapes and sizes may be nomming down on the regulars in absence of other meal choices. Either way, it evens the odds!

Well, keep in mind that the blue text in my earlier text was just pasted from an L.A. Magazine article, so I've never actually seen the pods myself. I image the obervation booth being some clear glass control booth, at the intersection of 3 or 4 branching hallways, each lined with cells. That would give the single guard an unobstructed view of every hallway. Oh, and good point about the dwindling 3,000. Still a hella lot more Zeds than people, though... and we're losing 1 or 2 every episode!

"- are there no other humans left on the planet? No signals on ham radio at all?"
A lot of that was covered in Season 3, so there most likely won't be any external world influences or discoveries. Are there others? Most likely.

AND MEANWHILE, OVER IN BOSTON... !

Do you guys think Scratch will ever come back in to the story, becasue she was important at one time but at the same time she could have left. I just think for some reason it will show that she never comes back, just to show what a true to life story it can be and also throw us for a loop. What so you guys think? maybe they will concentrate more on the z for once.

They are going to bring Tardust in as a consultant to supervise their fertilizer bomb project...

Either Scratch will return and kill most of the characters or Osiris will return and kill most of the characters himself due to Scratch's absence.

Heh heh... he must be hating life ever since she dropped out of the story.

[Shrunken]

try to think of a place with kids where they're 'confined'...
Orphanage
Hospital
School

Juvenile correction facility. Possibly located near the prison

[TacticalJHP]

Are there others? Most likely.

MEANWHILE - In Ashland, Kentucky....

Groups of people are sitting around in the local Waffle House, eating steak and egg breakfasts before going to work at the oil refinery and steel mill, pondering why the Directv has not worked in over a year...

[Gooer]

MEANWHILE - In Ashland, Kentucky....

Groups of people are sitting around in the local Waffle House, eating steak and egg breakfasts before going to work at the oil refinery and steel mill, pondering why the Directv has not worked in over a year...

You mean, Meanwhile, a ragged group of misfits find each other in St Louis, where they start their convoy to up L.A to see if any of humanity has remained...

[Witch_Doctor]

You mean, Meanwhile, a ragged group of misfits find each other in St Louis, where they start their convoy to up L.A to see if any of humanity has remained...

I got the turret!

[tonyhind86]

I call shotgun!

No pun intended...

[Witch_Doctor]

What about KODI and a decent amount of C4, if there is any available?
And how many fertilizer-trucks would be required to deliver enough trouble to this building?

Title for Chapter 43: Tyler Perry's K.O.D.I. Goes to Jail, Featuring Scott Marvin as Medea.

[UndeadSweeper]

WItch Doctor! Where you been old buddy, old pal!

[UndeadSweeper]

KODI? I wonder if Datu can build a Matagun for him?

[Zombie Yeti]

Yes. We have been known to include credits for people not included in a particular episode. If there's ever one area I screw up the most, it's the credits. We spend so much time on the episode that we get burnt by the chore that's credits.



Wasn't Lady just mentioned? She's fine. In a backyard running around in the colony. Eating dog food. Doing Dog things.



Off Vigness... (Sp?) It's the road near where they were.



I really hope I don't shoehorn those in at the end either! But really, that's not my style, or at least I hope it's not. I'll have to consult with the writing side of my brain. That guy does all kinds of crazy stuff.

Ok, a few of these I'll field. Don't get too excited. There's some things that have been explained about as much as they were intended to be. I'm gonna only pick things I feel need commenting. Looking at the outline of the rest of the story, I think you'll be fine with what comes.

"- the significance of water (notice how neither michael nor vic drank any from the well)" ---
Michael and Vic wouldn't have drank the water because it most likely looked like mud. And at that, unfiltered. Water around CA isn't that clean in its natural state. Water's significant because it's the most basic requirement for human life. Everything else can be managed as long as you have water. It's why we, as humans, settled around water sources.

"- angel tenudo's ties to the family" ----
This story line is pretty much done. There's gray areas intentionally, but all you're supposed to know in the story is that Angel was once part of something similar to what Scratch and Durai were, but then turned his back on it and went into the military to get away from all that. I might mention it in passing, but don't expect something huge. Whatever plotlines it was part of are pretty much over.

"- are there no other humans left on the planet? No signals on ham radio at all?"
A lot of that was covered in Season 3, so there most likely won't be any external world influences or discoveries. Are there others? Most likely.

I will agree with the water comment I lived in Ventura and sb we drank bottled water even filtered it tasted awful metallic and was colored lol