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Post by bc on Feb 10, 2008 13:25:02 GMT -5
Isaac followed the group with a slight smile across his broad, flat front. He liked the feeling of the downdraft from the helicopter's blades, the wind in his grille, and everything else about driving as he was. "It definitely beats dying. I swore I died in my sleep 'cause I always knew that was how I was going to die. I fell asleep in my truck and woke up here... as my truck. Definitely beats dying." He paused for a moment, "In a way, we kind of have died. Think about it... if we're stuck here forever, our old lives are long gone."
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Post by elizar on Feb 10, 2008 13:56:58 GMT -5
Sam listened in as driving. It seemed that the newcomers were adjusting agressivly fast, and it was both a good and bad.
"We are trying to find a way for you to return." He said. "Maybe you can even have the option of staying here or going back." I know at least Maxwell wants to return. Sam thought. "It's all guesswork at the moment, but I do like to think I have progressed the last week in getting a gateway open."
Maxwell was back in the town a different way than the rest of the group. He followed the scent trail subtly so he wouldn't get anyone's attention. Attention was not desired if he was to get an alien out from where everyone could see.
The trail led him to a clinic. He sunk on his shocks, then entered carefully and went into the waiting room. He saw the purple viper, and could get from her right away that she was tuned. God I hate tuners. Maxwell thought though he was one of them. They can always smell something different about us jumped.
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Post by ebonyviper on Feb 10, 2008 16:01:14 GMT -5
Perhaps it was the purple that reflected off the light in the waiting room that made it look as if Ebony was that color. But she was actually black. She had been waiting there in the clinic, even though being around medical paraphenalia made her jumpy, for Maya to get better.
She turned as the newcomer came in and picked up his scent. Strange, she thought, He smells just like Maya. Is he one of these 'hyoomans' she talked about?
(((((OOC: I wasn't sure whether or not I had any reason for being here... but I can't stay long... I have to go back up now to help my mom with the rest of the laundry... won't be able to fully RP until that's all taken care of...)))))
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Post by Tracker89 on Feb 10, 2008 19:11:10 GMT -5
"You two thought you died? Well, the last thing I saw before coming here is a strange light through the trees...so when I woke up I thought I had been abducted and turned by aliens into a living helicopter!" Gina said, laughing, but the humor quickly faded when the subject of going home came up again. "Being a helicopter is interesting, and I wouldn't mind it for a bit...but I have a good life back home and there are many people I'd miss. I hope you can get that gateway working, because I don't want to be stuck here forever."
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Theo gritted his teeth...it didn't take much to figure out that Destiny was describing a car accident. "It wasn't really that bad for me." He said. "I had just fixed a broken-down BMW I had bought recently, and when I tried to turn it on, electricity flew out of the dashboard and knocked me out. When I woke up, I had become the BMW."
Up ahead, the small buildings of Crystal Bay were coming into view.
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Post by bc on Feb 10, 2008 19:55:13 GMT -5
Isaac sighed as he continued driving. He didn't have much of a life back at home. He didn't have many friends at all, didn't have family. The fact that so many folks were now socializing with him, and allowing him to be involved in the group was perhaps what made him want to stay there.
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Post by Reiji Neko Mitsukai on Feb 10, 2008 21:04:18 GMT -5
Destiny paused for a few moments, making sure Theo wasn't about to say something. "What am I?"
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Post by elizar on Feb 11, 2008 6:50:44 GMT -5
"A GEO Storm, and rather pretty at that." Samuel said. He entered the town, then looked back at the others. "Where would you want to go first, a diner or the motel?" He asked.
Maxwell was not comfortable. He was unsure of how far the likeness to car extended, so he wanted to get to the jumper as soon as possible. Then an idea hit him. The black viper was a tuner, but there were few that treated tuners, and such public clinic would most likely be one of them.
"Hey, you're here with someone else, right? Would that someone have some similarities to me in regards of scent?" He asked.
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Post by ebonyviper on Feb 11, 2008 12:43:46 GMT -5
Ebony looked calmly at Maxwell. She could certainly identify the scent and it matched with what she had picked up from Maya. "Yeah, I brought her here," she replied, "but I don't know why you would have such an interest in her. Do you know her?"
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Post by darkelf3769 on Feb 11, 2008 13:46:33 GMT -5
Morgan watched Isaac sigh, thought silently a moment. "There was a deer in the road.... I noticed it too late, and when I swerved my Rover tipped. Then I woke up here... like you, as my vehicle. I don't know if I'd want to stay here... I have a life, family, friends, pets.... But here, I guess, I could have all those things too, in time...." She looked at the buildings as they approached them, wondering what car cities were like. "I'm hungry.... what do cars eat?" she asked, curious.
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Post by bc on Feb 12, 2008 9:02:01 GMT -5
"I didn't have anything back home except my truck and the road. My family disowned me the moment I turned 18, and I just hit the road... made my own life without ever giving them a second thought," Isaac said to Morgan in response to her statement, "I don't even think about it anymore. I'm the kind of guy that moves on real quick." He thought a moment when Morgan asked about what they ought to eat. "As for food... I really am not sure, although I'd assume we would need the same fluids and what-not that a normal vehicle does." He shuddered a bit and stuck his tongue out at the thought of drinking diesel fuel. "Lech..."
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Post by Tracker89 on Feb 12, 2008 12:05:17 GMT -5
"Well, you heard them Sam...it looks like they want the diner. I could use some Premium myself." Theo said, before turning to Isaac. "Yeah, they...I mean we, drink fuel, motor oil, and a few other fluids for nourishment." He then laughed. "Don't worry about the taste...now that you're a car it'll be like drinking water. They also sell oil with different flavors, and even a few solid foods, so it's not like there isn't variety."
"If you cars drink gas and diesel that means I'll have to drink...whatever helicopters use as fuel." Gina said, showing her lack of knowledge on aircraft. "I guess that means that I'll have to head to the airport once I get hungry."
As they entered the town, she flew up to avoid both the nearby buildings and attention, as a helicopter hovering a few feet above a group of vehicles probably wasn't a common sight even in this world. She was now outside the cars' hearing range, although she could still hear them quite clearly.
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Post by elizar on Feb 12, 2008 15:53:22 GMT -5
"As Theo said." Sam agreed. "And you -" He looked at Gina. "You are correct. Most helos have some kind of job that involves the airport, or in military, so only few places serve both cars and helos. Maxwell told me about the slaving you had in the past, there is something similar that happened here, cars superior to any kind of aircrafts and boats." Sam said in distaste. "Most boats are still struggling for respect whereas the aircrafts have gotten it by leaps."
They entered the diner where Maxwell worked usually at. One of the other servers recognized Theo and Sam, and nodded knowingly. She didn't know the full story, but she had seen Theo as 'normal', and knew about that at least. Sam took the liberty to get few small 'samples' for the cars to see what they preferred, while he and Theo got Premium.
So it's a she. Maxwell was relieved. "We and few others share a condition so to speak." Maxwell chose his words carefully. "She doesn't know about us yet, but it is best for her and us if we stick together."
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Post by ebonyviper on Feb 12, 2008 16:26:26 GMT -5
"I don't doubt that," replied Ebony, "but I wish you wouldn't play that game with me. I know what she is because she told me when she woke up. Told me that she thinks there might be others like her and wants to find them. But I'd like to know who you are first before I decide to take you to see her."
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Post by bc on Feb 12, 2008 18:54:44 GMT -5
Isaac followed the group into the cafe, and parked at the end stall to give himself room. He was still getting used to his size, and didn't want to end up wedged somewhere he couldn't get out of. He looked to Theo for a moment, "Is there anything that tastes remotely like a good, potent cup of coffee?" Yeah, he was a pretty typical trucker.
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Post by darkelf3769 on Feb 13, 2008 0:11:16 GMT -5
"Well hey, if it's like water then I'm game. Now's not a time to start being picky, anyway. What's good?" Morgan parked near the others, far enough to give them space yet close enough to be identified as one of the group. She looked around, studying the diner's decor. Interestingly enough, the smells emanating from the place had been unidentifiable, but appetizing as she had come in, and now they were strong, causing a feeling rather akin to hunger inside the Disco.
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