forum Zombie Apocalypse RP (Still technically open if anyone wants to join)

Started March 02, 2019 by @Becfromthedead group

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Jaylin found Pollux by the pharmacy. She shook off her nightmare before walking over to him, unable to hide her yawn.
"Ugh, what time is it?" She asked casually, looking around for a clock.

“It’s still dark out,” he said, “Don’t know the exact time.”
He yawned and stretched his arms out.

"Well I don't think I'm falling back asleep. I might as well stay up." Jaylin said, sitting down on the floor.

"I might… we shall see," Pollux replied, "I dunno. I'm feeling pretty off at the moment."
He sat down next to her.

Jaylin looked up at the ceiling. "Did you figure anything out while I was sleeping? Anything that could lead to a cure?"

"Logan says she thinks they did some actual research on the disease here. However, I think the files might be on the computers, and I can't get into them," Pollux explained, "Also my research was novice stuff. I made sure to tell her what I found, and she said she'd already been told that by a doctor around the start of the outbreak. So… I helped myself and you, but clearly other scientists already know what I 'discovered.'"

Jaylin had completely zoned out after Pollux mentioned that he couldn't get to the computer files.
"Those computer files hold important research, huh? I wouldn't give up on them quite yet." She said, a jolt of excitement running through her.

"Oh, that's right. You're good with computers, aren't you?" Pollux asked, "Are you suggesting you could help?"
He raised an eyebrow, very interested by now.

Jaylin grinned. "Oh, I can help alright."
She stood up, stretching her arms out before turning back to Pollux. "You wait here. I'm gonna go get my laptop."
With that, she ran off to where she had left her bag.

Pollux nodded and waited for Jaylin to return. He wasn't showing it outwardly, but he was ecstatic that they might be able to find some helpful research.

After a few minutes, Jaylin returned with her backpack. She was still smiling as she took out her laptop, opening it up and leaning back against the wall.
"Okay, what's the name of this place?"

Logan kicked her chair back to Pollux. "What're we doing now?"

"Hell, I dunno. I'll go find a sign."
Pollux got up and found the map on the wall he had used earlier. He came back with an answer.
"Grayborough General Hospital," he said, "And we are in… are we in Virginia? Forget the town name, I don't even know the state for sure."

(Time to make up a bunch of hacking stuff)
She ignored Jordan, focused on this research.
"Grayborough…" Jaylin typed in, eventually finding the hospital's website. "I've done plenty of stuff like this before. I even have a program designed to make stuff like this easier." She was in her element now, copying and pasting seemingly random numbers and keywords.

Pollux heard Logan's question and looked over.
"Trying to get into those files that the hospital may or may not have," he said.
"I'm glad you know what you're doing… I wouldn't even know where to start."

(I'm going to explain what the research was, so tell me if I need to change it to fit the plot or something.)
"It's pretty easy once you get the hang of-" Jaylin cut off, staring blankly at the screen.
All across her laptop were pictures of infected people. There were blood splatters on walls, a victim having some sort of frenzied seizure, and humans with dead eyes and sickly pale skin. Each picture had a caption explaining what the images showed.
'The victim coughed up blood and vomit for three straight hours'
'After the victim experienced a few dramatic seizures, they could no longer walk to the other side of the room'
'A full transformation'

(Okay! Everything seems fine so far!)
Pollux leaned closer to her to see the computer screen.
"Oh… That's… There has to be more to it than that, right?"
His eyes scanned the images and their captions several times over.
"I've seen this stuff before… It's not new knowledge."

Jaylin nodded, her face a little going a little pale. "Yeah….yeah there's more. Sorry…I've just never seen some of this stuff before. It's a little… unnerving to say the least."
She closed out of the images, pulling up a new tab. It was a short sentence on an otherwise blank document.
"CDC. Atlanta, Georgia." Jaylin read out loud.

"I don't know much about zombies. Just that the brain has to be whole in order for them to function and be taken over. That's why zombies only die if you attack their head," Logan added.

"Yeah," Pollux muttered in response to Logan, "I've killed my fair share. Honestly, it makes things a whole lot harder…"
He shifted his gaze back towards the computer screen.
"What about the CDC?"

Jaylin furrowed her eyebrows, desperately trying to find something else connected to the document.
"There's… nothing else. That's it." She pulled up the document again, using a few decoding tools to see if there was a hidden message somewhere. "Just…CDC. Atlanta, Georgia."

He frowned. "I wanted to head there anyway. I guess that confirms my plans, but…"
Pollux folded his hands together.
"Guess this stuff is super secret, huh?"

"I don't know my geography, I live in the Northwest. How far is that from here?" Logan asked, peering over Jaylin's shoulder. "Are you one of those fake hackers from movies that just suddenly can pull up a million different programs and figure things out super quick? Cause the real hackin' stuff is a person writing codes on a piece of paper, figuring out if they would work or not."

I'm sorry just hackers from movies kinda annoy me and so my character is gonna be a piece of shit about it))

(Lol that's fine I have no idea what I'm doing)
Jaylin nodded to Pollux before turning to Logan. "Actually, I've designed and borrowed a bunch of programs that do most of the math and complicated stuff for me. If I had to do a hacking job that I hadn't done before, that would be a completely different story."
She turned back to the laptop, staring at the screen. "There has to be something I'm missing. All of this seems like pretty logical and public information."

"Well, then you have to ask yourself, 'why would they hide anything?' Or is this just a 'go to the CDC and you shall be saved' type deal? I'm not a fan either way. Not to mention that's at least eight hours by car, I think. That's really far."
Pollux leaned up against the wall.