Chapter 21 - "Mark of the Beast" - Part 1

**Arkum** · Apr 30th, 2011, 05:28 PM

Perhaps the slaves are people they picked up at the colony. They were mostly workers.

**WestonWisdom** · Apr 30th, 2011, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Arkum

Perhaps the slaves are people they picked up at the colony. They were mostly workers.

How would the slaves have escaped the colony? or do you think they would have been traded? I can't really see the trading for people thing working out for the leader of the colony, as leadership seems unstable and trading away a large amount of people for oil wouldn't exactly be good for the leader's reputation.

**Zombiehead** · Apr 30th, 2011, 06:09 PM

From what we know, the Colony is still standing, it's only been 1-2 days since MPK left. It's likely these slaves were just scared people that sought shelter with the Mallers and got the short end of the stick or scavengers/survivors they found wandering their "territory."

**Walrusgus** · Apr 30th, 2011, 08:47 PM

Wow. Amazing episode! I feel bad for Lizzy though of course.

About the slaves I would probably think they are just random people who have been rounded up, there must be other people out there like Skittles right? Maybe he was in there?!
They could be from the colony though. All that shooting that was going on when Michael escaped with the others.
Also the Mallers talked about how they were using the same radios, so maybe they heard Michael's call from the Colony?

**timberwoof** · Apr 30th, 2011, 09:07 PM

Honestly I don't think the Mallers are intentionally going to the Arena. I think they are heading up 110 to find some place else to live and they are going to just come across the arena. I don't think it will be the tower folk who are going to burn it down. I'm along the lines of last resort run a tanker into it and blow it up kind of thing. I'm waiting for the next episode. 2 more days.

**Th3_T3ch** · Apr 30th, 2011, 10:20 PM

the slaves were most likely people the mallers rounded up as everything was hitting the fan. I would think they aren't going to the arena, but are going to one of two places. First, and unlikely, they are headed to the colony. I say unlikely because the mallers had a taste of what other people could do from there attack on the tower. The second is, as unlikely but more possible, the other tower. It sounds unlikely, but they have probably figured out where it is by now. I don't think the arena because why would they be bringing slaves also why leave the mall completely? It just doesn't make any logical sense to bring tankers and slaves to a place filled with zombies.
After listening to WND, the mallers could reasonably be headed to Catalina. They don't know about swimming zombies AND they took tankers, I'm not a boat person myself, but the tankers could be filled up with fuel for a boat to Catalina. It makes reasonable sense to include Catalina in a list of possible destinations of the mallers.

**Arkum** · May 1st, 2011, 05:20 AM

Do the Mallers even know about the arena yet? I can't recall if Michael called the tower on the radio when he broke his arm or did he make it back to the tower? Tar mentined they had 40 radios on 40 channels so I assume they've heard every conversation over the radio for some time now.

**WestonWisdom** · May 1st, 2011, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by Arkum

Do the Mallers even know about the arena yet? I can't recall if Michael called the tower on the radio when he broke his arm or did he make it back to the tower? Tar mentined they had 40 radios on 40 channels so I assume they've heard every conversation over the radio for some time now.

I got the impression that the 40 radios were only introduced after the War, as Tardust mentions "bird talk", which was only adopted after The War, therefore it's possible that the 40 radios were only necessary after the War because the rat perished/had a change of heart after the war.

This doesn't mean the mallers don't know however, the scouts could have found it(they have been 7 miles ahead of where the road got blocked, at least, either that, or the rat told them about it.

**Leedo2502** · May 1st, 2011, 12:58 PM

I'm betting that the mallers were going south to The Colony. That being said I'm going to guess that The Colony and The Mallers have had no contact and that THe Mallers are heading in that direction with malaice in their hearts.

Also I'm guessing that Scratch is now in charge of The Mallers either Duria is dead or wounded after The War and she is carying out whatever plans that he had for the fuel tankers mentioned earlier. And Marcus is alive after the coup attempt, he just seems like to good of a "Bad Guy" for KC and Shane to toss him after one Chapter (at least I'm hoping thats the case).