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#Post#: 9510--------------------------------------------------
Iceman and Agro (Cancelled)
By: Aussie Boy Date: December 28, 2013, 8:33 am
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6:32am. 6th September 2042
Arthur woke up sitting against a tree on a rock he had rolled
there the night before and looked around, the fire was still
smoldering and his dog, Agro was asleep at his feet. Around the
fire a bit more was a family sleeping in a tent next to the van
they are traveling in and across the fire from theme were two
Mercenaries sleeping on a tarp in sleeping bags under a tarp
strung between the bikes they were traveling on to give them
cover.
Arthur grabbed his pack and put it on and then slung his
crossbow over his shoulder and checked the 4 bullets he had for
his revolver were still in there and then started walking away
with his dog in tow while everybody else was asleep. He stopped
a few minutes away and pissed on a tree before continuing
walking down the old road; Agro also pissed on the tree and
followed Arthur.
8:46am. 6th September 2042
A Blue Toyota Station Wagon with yellow flames on either side
pulled up outside a small cafe and two men got out wearing a
metal plated leather armour and sat down at a table outside the
cafe, they ordered a drink each and waited, until a woman came
and sat down with them, she had bright red hair and a rose on a
clip in her hair and she was carrying a Katana on her back.
"Big Beau. Jenkins" She greeted
"Rosey" Jenkins greeted.
"You two, know why you are here?" She asked.
"Not a fucking clue, we were just told it was a personal favour
for Jamal" Big Beau stated.
"Ever heard of the Iceman?" Rosey asked.
"No..." Jenkins said.
"Jamal wants him alive... He's about 185cm tall and weighs about
120kg. Long brown curly hair, blue eyes, beard. His right arm is
covered in scars, he has some mean burn scars on the right side
of his rib cage. He has scars on both cheeks and several
tattoos. Typical wander type. Real name is Arthur Barnes" Rosey
explained.
"What did he do?" Big Beau asked.
"That's not important, now he was spotted by one of my scouts, I
was out of town at the town, he shouldn't be that heard to catch
up to, if you two get moving now" Rosey stated.
"Ritio. Come'on Jenkins" Big Beau said, they stood up and went
and got back in their car and drove up the old road through the
middle of the small town, through the ruins of the old town and
along the road weaving through the thick overgrown bush.
12:32pm. 6th September 2042
Agro began growling and Arthur took his crossbow off his
shoulder and looked around and spotted what Agro was growling
at. A Feral Pig stood on the grass on the side of the road,
Feral Pigs were becoming increasingly Carnivorous and more
likely to hunt other animals and even humans, due to the large
increase in wildlife since the world effectively stopped after
the war.
It began inching closer ready to charge at any time, Agro was
well trained but also had been mauled by a Feral Pig before and
had the scars to show for it and was hesitant about attacking
it, Arthur fired his crossbow and the bolt went straight through
the pigs eye and killed it instantly.
"Not where I aimed, but it'll do, ay Agro" Arthur said to his
dog.
Arthur went over to the pig and pulled the arrow from it's eye
and then slit it's throat with his knife. He knew the whole pig
would be good for food or go for a decent prize, but he wasn't
able to carry the whole thing or keep it fresh for long enough.
So he took the ears and hoofs and sealed them in a plastic bag
for Agro and took a few slices of meat who would eat for lunch,
dinner and breakfast. He pulled the tusks and teeth and moved
on.
"Agro!" Arthur shouted as he realised his dog wasn't by his
side.
Agro came running up the road from the pig with blood around his
mouth and nose. Arthur just laughed and they continued walking
along the old road, until he heard something coming up behind
him.
"Off the road Agro" He said and walked off the road and stood
there with Agro as convertible jeep with reinforced panels, a
V12 engine and a cage with chicken wire over the top covering
the seats.
It came to a stop next to Arthur and a bloke covered in tattoos
and sporting a colourful mohawk sitting the passenger seat
looked at Arthur. "Oi you kill that pig back there?" He shouted.
"Yeah mate" Arthur shouted back.
"Mind if we have it?" He asked.
"Knock yourselves out" Arthur shouted back.
"Awesome" He said.
The jeep reversed, turned around and headed back to thje pig
carcass while Arthur continued walking until he reached an
intersection where he stopped as the jeep came past again and
turned left which according to the sign was heading a small town
called Bollon, population 121 people. Arthur didn't want to
stop, so he continued heading North after having a drink from
one of his water bottles and giving Agro a drink from his cupped
hands.
3:31pm. 6th September 2042
"I think I see him" Big Beau said as he looked through his
binoculars as Jenkins drove the Station Wagon.
"Get the slingshot ready" Jenkins said.
Big Beau reached over to the back seat of the car where a
miniature armoury and all their supplies sat, then on the back
of the back seat was a cage that blocked off the back of the
car, as well as cages over the windows and no internal door
hand. Arthur heard the car coming and he cautiously walked down
a 5 foot tall step bank and stood in the grass with Agro as the
car slowed down and stopped right above Arthur.
"Agro. Get!" He shouted as he seen Big Beau about to shoot
something at him. Agro took of running as Arthur pulled out his
revolver and fired a shot at the car, barely missing Big Beau as
he fired the blunderbuss type weapon and a chain with a ball on
each end came flying at him.
Arthur moved and ran to a tree, as Big Beau took a GP35 from the
back and got out the car and fired several shots at Arthur,
purposely trying to distract him. Arthur moved across to a
different tree, Big Beau took cover from another tree and fired
two more shots at Arthur, Arthur backed up and then another
chain hit him, it wrapped around him as he crashed to the
ground. Jenkins left the blunderbuss on the bonnet of the car,
picked up the double barrel shotgun and ran down to Arthur.
Arthur got up and went for his revolver but was tackled by a
charging Big Beau. Big Beau tried to pin him to the ground, but
Arthur landed several left and right hooks and broke Big Beau's
nose allowing him to escape, but before he could get to his
revolver he got the barrel of a Shotgun pointed squarely between
his eyes.
"Iceman..." Jenkins said with a sick smile.
"Fuck..." Arthur muttered. He glared at Jenkins and then at Big
Beau who came to face to face with Arthur while blood was
pouring out of his nose. He grinned and then hit Arthur over the
head with the pistol.
5:29pm. 6th September 2042
Arthur sat in the cage at the back of the Station Wagon with
Agro, he had blood running from the side of his head where Big
Beau hit him with the pistol and was wearing only a pair of
footy shorts and a blue singlet, he had been stripped of all his
gear.
"Iceman, how long you been running Iceman?" Jenkins asked.
"Over a year now" Arthur muttered. "And it's Arthur. Fuckwit" he
added.
"Why the hostility Iceman?" Jenkins taunted.
"Because I've been hunted for 12 fucking months by stooges like
you, your stupid fucking boss has ruined my life enough already"
Arthur ranted.
"Don't call us stooges we were just trying to be friendly"
Jenkins taunted further.
"Well as far as I'm concerned. Yous. Can go. And get fucked"
Arthur said. Which elicited a laugh from his captors.
Arthur then noticed they hadn't taken Agro's collar off. Agro's
collar had a swiss army knife taped to it for emergencies and
considering he wasn't tied up, he could move freely around the
back without his captors noticing too much. He took the tape of
quietly and used a screwdriver tool on the screws holding the
cage that was separating the two sides of the car in place.
As he got to the last screw after almost an hour of quietly
undoing screws he began to decide which weapon would be the best
for him to use. He decided on the double barrel shotgun, one
shot for each man.
"You know why they call me the Iceman?" Arthur asked as he
removed the last screw and leaned on the cage to hold it in
place.
"Why?" Big Beau asked.
"Because I'm slippery, you could say I'm hard to hang on to"
Arthur explained.
Both Jenkins and Big Beau were confused for a moment before they
both realised what he had just told them, as Big Beau went his
pistol Arthur let the cage dropped, reached over the seat and
pointed the shotgun at Jenkins and without hesitation pulled the
trigger only for it to click, it was empty. Big Beau pointed the
GP35 at Arthur, but Arthur used the shotgun to bat it away.
He got himself right over the seat and grabbed hold of the
pistol as well and managed to turn it on Jenkins quickly,
blowing Jenkins's brains all over the drivers side window.
Arthur and Big Beau fought over the pistol as the car sped out
of control. Agro jumped the seat and latched onto Big Beau's
hand and he dropped the pistol, but so did Arthur.
The car came to crashing stop as it slammed into a rusted out
hunk of a car that had probably been sitting in that spot since
the beginning of the war. Big Beau bailed out of the car and
tried to run, but tripped over himself and out if desperation
pulled his knife, as Arthur came after him. Arthur stomped on
his arm and then kicked Big Beau in the head. Arthur grabbed the
knife from Big Beaus hand and slammed it into his chest, pulled
it out and repeated it and then again and then slashed his
throat open and slammed the knife into his chest one more time
as he quickly bleed to death.
Arthur crawled away and sat against the crashed the station and
looked at Big Beau's body in amazement as Agro got out of the
car and sat at Arthur's side and which the blood run out of Big
Beau's lifeless corpse.
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: Wetbizket Date: December 29, 2013, 2:27 pm
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Wow lol, I was actually thinking of doing a post apoco story,
just couldn't decided what style to do!
But this is really good coming from a long break of story
writing! I also like the Shotgun with the ball and chain in it
lol. I was waiting for the Iceman to blast Jenkins face but the
gun was empty, great moment! Also excited to see a new story pop
up, great job Mate! 8)
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: Aussie Boy Date: December 30, 2013, 10:53 pm
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Cheers WB. I appreciate the comment.
You should write one dude. Anything you write is good.
I have had a long break from posting, I didn't stop writing, I
just slowed down and nothing I wrote, I liked so it never made
it past that first draft.
The idea for the ball and chain launcher just popped into my
head as I was writing it.
Expect to see more weapons like that, plus melee fighting, as
ammo is scarce in this world, but scarce enough to ignore when
someone points a gun at face. More coming soon.
Quick note, I made a mistake with the dates, 2035 was from an
earlier draft and the notes from that, this is actually set
further ahead and once I find my notes I'll fix it and also
write the next fucking chapter, since everything I had written
down is gone!
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: OGDaboss Date: January 9, 2014, 1:37 pm
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OGLuke forgot the password to his old account how clumsy of me
lol.
Terrific starter bro, loving the post-apoc feel and those are
some insane weapon ideas, big beau's death was both dramatic and
intense, can sort of picture them how you described it but only
you know it for what it is.
I know where you coming from in regards to having all these
ideas and then it all falls through and you're left with a blank
memory and it happens with me all the time I'm very forgetfull
of things but if you think something you can do it, erase the
negative and focus on the positive. you still got it aussie!
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: Gangstarr4 Date: January 14, 2014, 1:52 am
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Interesting story, glad to see your still doing stories about
the apocalypse
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: Aussie Boy Date: January 23, 2014, 7:48 am
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6:39pm. 6th September 2042
Arthur slipped on his boots over his lightly armoured pants and
placed his boot knife back into it's holder on the inside of his
left boot. He put his armoured jacket on over his blue singlet
and buttoned it up. He grabbed his bag, unzipped it and put his
stuff back in it, as well as, as much valuable or useful stuff
from the back seat of the car the bounty hunters were driving.
He tied a sleeping bag, wrapped in a rope hammock to the top of
his pack and then tied the ball and chain launcher and shotgun
to his pack. He put his belt on and put his knife back on left
hip and put the GP35 in his pistol holster on his right hip and
put an extra clip and a half clip in a pouch behind the holster.
He put the revolver in his pack with it's 3 remaining bullets.
Finally
He walked around the car, took his knife and cut Jenkins cheeks
to match his own and did the same to Big Beau and then cleaned
the blood off his knife on Big Beaus shirt.
"Come'on Agro" Arthur called and started walking North again
after being taken back South by the bounty hunters.
Agro rushed to his side and they began walking, but headlights
in the distance caught Arthur's eye, he turned around and saw
the bright headlights coming at him. "Here!" He said to Agro and
quickly rushed off the road and hid the trees and watched as the
headlights got closer and closer and eventually went passed
Arthur and revealed a 4 wheel drive with cages welded on both
sides and and on the front and back. It had large spikes on the
front and a blower sticking out of the bonnet.
4 People got out: One was Rosey, a mean red headed woman and a
part of the infamous Blade Tribe, her blade was a long Katana.
The other three were her personal and longest serving thugs,
Gordon and Stan, they were members of the Guardian Mercenary
Company and Roberts, he was an initiate member the Blade Tribe,
but he was yet to earn his nickname or blade. Arthur knew them
all.
"Rosey! This is Beau and Jenkins" Gordon stated as he checked
the bodies.
"They've been cleaned out" Stan stated as he checked the car
while pointing his crossbow in the car.
"Do you think this was his work?" Gordon asked his rubbed two
fingers over the slice across the Big Beaus neck.
"Are their cheeks cut?" Rosey asked as she scanned the area with
a torch.
"Sure are!" Gordon stated.
"Jenkins's is the same" Stan stated.
"It was him then" Rosey stated and slowly drew her sword.
"I know you're out there Arty!" She yelled.
Roberts climbed up on top of the car and armed his bow and arrow
with a torch mounted on it and scanned the area around Rosey.
"Just come out and fight like a man!" She shouted. Arthur just
sat there in the shrubs quietly and petted Agro.
"Come'on, he's probably heading North" Rosey said.
The group climbed back into their vehicle and started to drive
off and as they did, Arthur rolled from his sitting position and
onto his stomach and fired an arrow into the side of the
vehicle as they drove off. It continued driving and Arthur
assumed they didn't notice it. He waited for several minutes for
the sound of the vehicle to disappear in the distance.
He walked out the thick shrubs and started walking south on the
star lit road, keeping his ears out for anything coming as Rosey
and her crew could easily come back his way.
6:23am. 7th September 2042
Arthur awoke early in the morning sleeping on the hammock with
the sleeping bag unzipped and covering him like a blanket. He
saw a Kangaroo near him, causing him to jump to his feet which
caused Agro to fall off the hammock and onto the ground as he
was asleep on Arthur feet.
Arthur looked at the Kangaroo for a moment and then started
packing up his stuff but constantly watched the Kangaroo and had
to keep Agro with him, otherwise he'd attack the Kangaroo and
the sizeable Kangaroo would win the fight.
Arthur slung his Crossbow over his shoulder, kicked dirt on the
smouldering ashes of the previous nights fire and started
walking, he came out of the bush and back on the road. He was at
the Intersection to Bollon once again and he was hoping he
wasn't far away. As he walked along the old road, signs of
civilisation become more and more obvious; signs advertising
businesses in the town and even a few old houses and even more
mailboxes on the edge of dirt roads going off into the bush. One
sign was more prevalent that the others though; it was for a
construction company that built and shipped holiday cabins.
He rounded a corner and walked through an old town, that place
was abandoned and it appeared to have been cleared out of
anything valubale, many buildings appeared to have been stripped
off useful parts, like doors, tiles, wooden planks and sheets of
metal.
As he walked out of the same town he noticed a large warehouse,
surrounded by a fence, the fence was covered in sheet metal and
was wrapped in barbed wire, but it was probably only 2 metres
high.
He walked up to the gate and was stopped by two guards just
inside in the gate. "State your business".
"Trade?" Arthur said with a shrug.
"The dog?"
"What about him?" Arthur asked.
"He needs to be restrained"
"He's right" Arthur argued.
"He NEEDS to BE Restrained!"
"Fine" Arthur said. He took a dog lead from his from his bag and
attached it to Agro's collar.
"May I come in now"
"Cause any trouble and it'll be a lead ball to the heart"
The guards opened the gate and let Arthur and Agro in, as they
walked in, Arthur noticed one of the guards had a Musket in his
hand. "Nice gun, Crossbows more effect and quicker to reload"
Arthur commented as he walked past.
"I can pull an arrow out of me if it hits me" The guard
retorted.
Arthur looked around the town, the warehouse was in one corner
with a heap of salvaged supplies and sacks of wood piled up
nealy around the warehouse, the holiday cabins were all over the
town, most of the same design, but each one was made to be
different. Several seem to built for use as shops. Arthur
spotted the jeep that had picked up the pig he killed the day
before and near it, hanging off a metal structure next to a
cabin was the pig, as well as what appeared to a BBQ and an oven
under a roof on four logs sticking out of the ground.
He walked over to the jeep and looked it over, admiring it, as
it was well built and looked very good.
"Can I help you Mate?" Someone asked.
"Just looking at your jeep mate" Arthur said.
"Oi... I know you" The bloke with the colourful Mohawk said as
he walked down the front steps of his cabin.
"I know you too, what'cha doing with the pig?" Arthur asked.
"Dog food, usually take it hoofs and ears and dry them out, but
you got all the good bits, so I'm just making the rest into dog
food" He explained.
"Fair enough. Look I need some directions" Arthur said.
"Yeah, where do you need to go?" He asked.
"I got a heap of shit I need to trade and I want somewhere to
get a drink and I'm looking for some work if there is any around
here" Arthur explained.
"Shop just around the corner from here, pubs big two story place
with old caravans on either side of it and old mate at the servo
has been recruiting people a few days, something about an escort
to Adelaide"
"Thanks mate" Arthur said.
"No worries" He said and headed back inside.
Arthur walked around the corner and traded the shotgun, ball and
chain launchers, some knifes, some food he took the from the
car, he didn't like as well as a few books for cash and some new
bolts for his crossbow. He walked over to the old Service
Station/Restaurant and found the bloke he was looking for, he
was rewiring the lights on his truck. Arthur looked at the
trailer, it was a flat bed trailer, with the metal gates on each
side, and they were covered in lengths of wood creating a fence
on either side of the trailer.
"Can I help you, young feller?" He asked without taking his eyes
of what he was doing.
"I was told you're looking for people?" Arthur asked.
"I am"
"Well I need money" Arthur stated.
"ReallY? You any good?"
"That depends on what I'm doing?" Arthur asked.
"Escorting a truck"
"I can do that, I've done it before" Arthur stated.
The old man stood up straight and faced Arthur.
"This is very valuable load, going to Adelaide, I'm expecting
trouble, you certain you can handle it?" He asked.
"I'm pretty fucking good at what I do, I'll manage" Arthur
stated.
"Alright then... Roger Harrison" He said and extended his hand.
"Arthur Barnes, but they call me Iceman" Arthur said while
shaking Rogers hand.
"Why Iceman?" Roger asked.
"Cause I'm slippery, so slippery not even the reaper can catch
me!" Arthur said making the last part up off the top of his
head.
"Good to know, well I guess I should introduce you to rest of
the crew then" Roger said. "Follow me" He added.
They walked to pub and went in through the open door and turned
left straight away to see a table with 7 Mercenaries all seated
eating different meals and talking.
"Oi Boss" One said.
"Macca. Everybody. This is Iceman, he'll be joining us on our
trip" Roger stated.
"Cool... Boss, so we set to go now?" Macca asked.
"One more replacement and we're all set" Roger said.
"Boss do you know how often Mercenaries come through places like
this, we could be here for days" Macca stated.
"I don't care, I'm hiring one more and that's that" Roger said
to Macca.
"Fine, good food here anyway, they got a deep fryer, not many
places got one of them" Macca stated. Roger rolled his eyes and
walked out the pub.
"Take a seat, Iceman" Macca said and pulled out a vacant seat
next to him. "If that is your real name?" Another one of the
Mercenaries said with his eyes opened very wide, exaggerating.
"Sounds familiar that name" One other said as Arthur sat down.
"I know, you were involved in the Bourke campaign, weren't you?"
One said.
"Yeah I was, I didn't do anything memorable" Arthur stated.
"Bullshit, Arty B, slippery as Ice, strong as an Ox and twice as
Ugly. Shot in the left thigh, thrown of a 16 foot ledge, a car
accidents and got trapped inside a burning house, you would not
die" Arthur came to sudden realisation of who he was talking
too.
"John "the Turkey" Robson" Arthur said. He reached across the
table and shook his hand.
"Can someone explain what the Bourke Campaign was?" Someone else
asked.
"Andy, th Bourke campaign was a 3 day long clearing mission,
every person involved got paid a lot of money to clear Scalpers
from a town up north called Bourke. 16 dead on our side and 38
dead on their side, the rest were captured, pretty fucked, they
wouldn't surrender and mutilated every person they could" Turkey
explained.
"Is that how you got the scars on your right arm?" One of the
female Mercenaries asked.
"No, I... The town I grew up in was raided by a gang, I got them
fighting for my life" Arthur explained.
"Oh, anyway, enough chatting, I'm Taylor, you can Call me Tay.
You already know, Macca and Turkey. Baby face here is Andy.
Blonde chick is Brodie. Blond dude is Musso, and that's Mandy
over there patting that dog" Taylor explained.
"That dog is Agro, he's mine" Arthur stated.
"Well know we all know each other, I think Musso should keep
telling his story" Macca stated.
1:02pm. 7th September 2042
The group of Mercenaries were still gathered around the table
telling stories and telling each other things they have learned.
That was when Roger walked in with someone by his side. "Boys
and Girls this is John Barbos, the final member of our team, now
pack your shit, we're leaving in 27" Roger explained.
"We can't" Macca said.
"Why not" Roger asked frustratedly.
"We already got a John" Macca joked.
"Get in the fucking trailer and shut up" Roger said.
"I'll be waiting" Roger said and walked out pub.
"Right John, I'm Macca, this is Turkey, this is Andy, this is
Brodie, this is Tay, this is Musso, this is Mandy and this is
Iceman. Myself and Turkey have been escorting this load for a
few days now, further North we were attacked, by Bikies, most of
our team died and we were run off course, we ended up here and
have been recruiting people for 5 days now, Iceman I hope your
taking all this in" Macca said almost without drawing breathe.
"What's your story?" Tay asked.
"I'm a local, I just got back into town this morning from a
hunting trip and I need money so I decided to join" He stated.
"Any experience" Turkey asked.
"I've been hunting for 10 years now, I'm a very good shot and
I've had to fight off scavengers more than once" John said.
"Good enough, come' on let's go" Macca said.
1:27pm. 7th September 2042
"Agro, right to ride up front with you?" Arthur asked Roger.
"Sure, it'll be good to have some company up here" Roger said.
Arthur lifted Agro into the cab of the bonnetted truck and then
joined the other mercenaries as they climbed onto the back of
the truck and over the front of the trailer and into the
trailer, down either side were gaps wide enough for one person
to walk down and at the back was a lot of space, in the middle
of the trailer were dozens of crates, each labelled simply with
"Construction Material"
"We're escorting Construction Material?" John Barbos asked.
"That's very expensive shit in them crates, plus the paperwork
Roger has in the cab, plus this truck is worth a fair bit as
well.
"So Roger said we're heading to Adelaide, why?" John asked.
"After the war between the Remnants, Scalpers and that stranded
Somalian Pirate group in ended in 33, after 3 years, Adelaide
took advantage and started rebuilding the city, and killing any
gang member with in range of their weapons, they're rich,
powerfu;l and ever growing, they'll pay out the arse for what
we're guarding" Turkey explained.
"But we're crossing the Hay Plains, it's still home to a Remnant
gang that patrols the roads taking big scores" Brodie stated.
"That's why we're here?" John asked.
"Exactly" Turkey said.
"So we'll head out to the Hume Trade Route, stop at Wagga Hill
and then travel west to Hay Via Wagga?" Arthur asked.
"How'd you know that?" Macca asked
"We're going across the Hay Plains, quickest and safest way,
until we reach Hay at least" Arthur stated.
"Right, once we're past Hay, that's when we're going to earn our
money" Macca said.
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: Wetbizket Date: January 23, 2014, 5:14 pm
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I'm so excited!!! Cant wait to see how the crew can fight off
those damn raiders!!!
As you can tell, Im enjoying the hell out of this tail mate,
love all the details!
I may have to put my post Apocalyptic story on hold, mine doesnt
stand a chance against this one! ;D
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: Aussie Boy Date: January 25, 2014, 8:31 am
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WB, your writing is great, go for it, I guarantee you, it will
be good, plus two post apocalypse stories running at the same
time won't hurt, as long as we don't steal each others ideas we
should be good.
7:23pm. 7th September 2042
Roger reversed the truck into a yard next to Service Station and
as he stopped it and got out, Tay and Turkey closed the gates.
The yard was one of many around the Service Station and was made
of chain-link fences with green material draped over them and
topped by barbed wire to stop anybody climbing in. As well as a
parking place for the truck, it had a caravan, a concrete slab
and poles to swing hammocks from.
Arthur swung his hammock and put the sleeping bag on it and
walked over to the fire burning on a dirt patch in the middle of
the concrete slab, he pulled up a round of wood and sat down on
it and started going through his bag, he pulled out the meat he
had left and smelled it and turned away.
"I wouldn't even feed that to Agro" He said.
"I know, I can smell it from here" Brodie said from across the
fire, sitting on a milk crate.
"You got something to eat?" Roger asked.
"Yeah" Arthur said as he looked through the stuff in his bag, he
pulled out a pack of noodles, a metal bowl, a fork and a bottle
of water.
"So why aren't we going straight there tonight?" Andy asked as
Arthur prepared his noodles to cook over the fire.
"Cause, if they attack us, they have the advantage at night,
we're better off defending the load during the day" Macca
explained as joined the group sitting around the fire.
"mmm... I've seen it before, they rode a fourby ute up along
side a truck and distracted them, while guys jumped on from
quieter vehicles while everybody was distracted" Turkey said and
then checked the lamb chop he had sizzling on a metal plate
hanging over the fire.
"Don't get the juices from that lamb on my eggs" Brodie warned,
she was frying eggs.
"Alright, we'll be heading out at about 5 tomorrow morning, so
everybody get as much sleep at possible" Roger suggested.
4:48am. 8th September 2042
Roger drove the truck out the gate while everybody packed up
their gear, except for Arthur who had already packed up his
gear, he ran the chain and padlock they had used to lock the
gate for the night into the Service Station and picked up and a
cardboard box that contained an old 2 litre coke bottle full of
orange juice and a 2 pieces of home made bread, toasted with
home made jam on them for each person.
He gave the tired looking woman the chain, padlock and some
money for the food and carried the box outside, he gave some
toast to Roger and offered some orange juice, but he shook his
head and said no. Arthur reacched in the window and patted Agro
and then climbed along the truck and into the trailer, he
carried the food down the back of the trailer and everybody ate
their toast and shared the orange juice as Roger began driving
along the old road.
"Best food I've had in a long time" John Barbos exclaimed as he
finished his second piece of toast.
"Got that right" Brodie said.
9:16am. 8th September
"Boys and Girls, this is Hay, for the next 4 hours until we
reach the Mildura Ruins, we are more prone to Remnant gang
attacks than anywhere else in the South East of Australia,
considering our load and all" Macca warned as they drove through
Hay, which was nothing but a few abandoned farms and a sign
warning any travellers of any dangers.
"What're you doing Iceman?" Andy asked looked at Arthur playing
with his crossbow.
"You can just call me Ice, if you want, I prefer Arthur, or
Arty, but whatever... "I'm winding my crossbow back, I can fire
it regulary or for long shots, I can wind it up, so there is
more tension on the bow and fires the bolt further, gotta make
the first shot count, cause I might not get the opportunity to
reload" Arthur explained.
"Ah, okay. Cool" Andy said.
"Tell me something, have you ever done a job before?" Arthur
asked.
"Um, no, this is my first job, I lived in Bollon for years and I
finally decided to get out and explore when I heard Roger was
recruiting" Andy explained.
"That is why Tay called you a Baby Face then, no just for your
lack of scars, or a beard for that matter" Arthur said as he
slung the crossbow back over his shoulder and started eating a
can of tuna.
"Yeah, do you mind If I ask about you scars?" Andy asked.
"Shoot!" Arthur said with a mouth full.
"Those ones on your cheeks?"
"It's called a smile, I pissed somebody very powerful off once
and then laughed in his face, if you ever get one, don't scream,
it rips your cheeks open" Arthur explained.
"One on your hairline?"
"Fight in a pub, over a claim myself a scavenger found together"
"How about that really faint one on the right side of your
neck?"
"It's one of two permanant scars left from Bourke, considering
how much shit I went through in just three days, I'm lucky that
it's" Arthur explained.
"What's the other one?"
"On my back, got hit by an arrow, only went flesh deep, but it
was nasty enough to leave a scar" Arthur explained.
"Oi, what you talking bout?" Macca asked.
"Scars" Andy said.
"Well don't look too much into it, but look at Turkey when he's
not focused on anything, it looks like he's staring into the
distance" Macca said to Andy.
"Huh?" Andy asked.
"Before the war, theycalled in the 1000 yard stare, soldier who
went through hell, or traumatic shit, usually ended up with,
it's mental scarring or some shit" Macca explained.
"Woah" Andy said.
"We all end up with it, if we survive long enough" Macca said.
9:34am. 8th September 2042
"Oi I think I just saw a Remnant scout!" Tay yelled.
"What did you see?" Macca asked stopping his conversation with
Andy and Arthur.
"A Chinese guy sitting next to that old shack over there, with a
telescope" Tay explained.
"You sure he was Chinese?" Turkey yelled.
"I know what they look like" Tay yelled back.
"The shack probably had a radio on it, get ready everybody,
expect anything" Macca said and then ran up the front of the
trailer and yelled at the top of his lungs to Roger that a scout
had spotted him and Roger blew the airhorn twice, to signal he
had heard Macca.
Everybody checked their weapons and prepared even though this is
what they signed on for, they were still nervous, Remnant gangs
were never an easy fight.
10:01am. 8th September 2042
"Here we go" Musso shouted from atop one of the many large
crates on the trailer as he looked through a pair of old
binoculars.
"What do you see?" Macca asked.
"Got, one heavily armoured pre-war military jeep, looks to be 8
on board, we got a yellow dirtbike, a blue dirtbike and a quad
bike, all with a rider and passenger, we got a roofless sedan
and a white sedan, each with three in them and a white ford ute,
with 2 in the front and 2 on the back and they all look to be
well armed" Musso explained.
"Everybody get ready, Andy. John. Be careful and do exactly what
we tell you" Macca yelled.
Arthur had 10 arrows ready, one had a long thin stick of
Gelignite tapped to it, he had an eleventh loaded and a target
picked out for his explosive arrow. He checked the magazine in
his GP35 and took his revolver with only three bullets and
placed it on a box at the back of the load that had spare
arrows, bolts, several Molotov cocktails, a couple of hammers,
machetes and cricket bat.
The fleet of Remnant vehicles gained ground on the heavy truck
quickly as everybody got ready. Arthur was at the back of the
trailer with his crossbow ready, as was Tay with her bow and
arrow and Turkey with his crossbow.
The roofless sedan came speeding past and raced towards the
truck cab. "I got him" Turkey shouted. "I'm with you!" Mandy
said as they both ran up the side of the trailer, as Arthur
fired the first, arrow, putting it straight through the
passenger of the yellow bikes shoulder, causing him to fall of
the back and the rider to almost crash the bike.
Everybody started firing arrows at each other, from bows,
crossbows, wrist mounted crossbows and all sorts of weird arrow
launching devices. As The Hummer tried to get along the left
side of the trailer, Arthur used his second arrow, the explosive
one. He loaded it and lit the fuse and aimed at the driver of
the hummer, but as he went to fire the riders of the Ute had
fired 5 arrows from mounted and modified crossbow, taking out
two of the three outside tires on the right side and causing the
explosive arrow to stick into the front plate of the blue
dirtbike and exploding, killing both riders and mutilating both
their bodies, first from the explosion and shrapnel and then as
they bounced dwn the down.
Brodie and Andy were dealing with the Ute on the right side, as
Macca and Tay were dealing with the Hummer on the left side.
Arthur ran over to John who was crouched down holding his
shotgun. "What're you doing?" Arthur exclaimed as he reloaded
his crossbow. "I only got five bullets, I don't want to waste
them on any stupid shots!" He yelled over the sound of the
roaring engines and the yelling.
"Get to Macca to try and sot any weaknesses for you and look
through the gaps in the wood to try and find any, it's mostly
armoured heavily, but there will be a weakness!" Arthur said as
wound the crank on the crossbow to give his shot an extra punch.
"Go!" Arthur yelled and then ran to the right side of the
trailer and fired the metal tipped arrow at the Ute's tyre. It
hit the rim and bounced off.
An arrow narrowly missed Arthur's head as he ducked back down
and then Brodie popped up and fired her only shot from her sawed
off shotgun, but missed her intended target, she shattered the
windscreen and hit the dash, where she had meant to go through
the bonnet and hit the block. "Fuck!" Tay shouted as dropped her
bow and ripped a small arrow out her wrist. "Fuck this!" She
yelled as she went over to the chest and grabbed one of the
Molotov Cocktails and went back over to the fence to through it.
Tyres shredding on the left side, caused her to drop the Molotov
on the floor of the trailer, smashing it before it was even lit.
"One's on the side" Macca yelled as one of the remnants had
jumped onto the fence and was climbing over.
John waited for the perfect opportunity and then fired a single
shot into the Remnants head, blowing half off it clean off and
sending him flying through the arm and landed flat on the road,
his body was then run over the white sedan, chasing them also.
As this was happening the Ute had thrown a hook over the fence
and were pulling it on. Andy and Brodie were trying to get it
out the wood, before they tore the fence off. Arthur rushed over
to help.
As he reached them, the fence went flying, taking the one next
to it with it, due to the way the wood had been attached,
leaving a large gap in the trailer. As it fell away, Andy fell
off the trailer, Arthur caught him and Andy grabbed hold off the
trailer, Arthur tried to pull him up and as Brodie tried to help
also, the Remnant that was riding in the passenger seat had
climbed from his seat and jumped across tackling Brodie and then
grappled with each other as Arthur tried to get hold off his
pistol, but couldn't let go of Andy with one hand without almost
dropping him.
An Arrow pierced Andy's back and as the fence across the back of
the trailer was torn away by spears that pierced them attached
to ropes. Musso hurled at Molotov Cocktail at the Sedan, going
in through the space were the windscreen once was and setting
the 2 inside on fire, while the third standing in the boot the
mounted spear launching weapon could only watch in horror as
they can ran off the road and flipped onto it's roof across the
rocks and dead grass that surrounded the road.
Then a short spear from a divers spear gun hit Musso in the
stomach, he fell onto the ground and started bleeding profusely
from the wound and blood also ran from his mouth as he tried to
pull the spear out. John reached over to the fence and fired his
second shot into the bonnet of the hummer, but it didn't even
got through the metal.
He ducked back down and loaded two new shots into his shotgun
and Macca stuck his head up at random times, trying to get the
Remnants to waste their ammo and find a weak spot for John. The
wheels were covered, the body was armoured and nowhere looked
like a good place to strike. Arthur tried to drag Andy back on
as another arrow pierced Andy's back. Brodie and the Remnant
both fought for the lives in the small gap between the fence and
load on the right side of the trailer. The Ute swerved as the
flaming wreckage off the roofless sedan slowed down, while
everything else maintained it's speed.
Arthur was able to drag Andy up and hug him with his left arm,
he was able to keep hold off him that way while he drew his
pistol and fired 3 shots of his 13 into the one of the Remnants
in the back of the Ute. He turned to his left and fired one shot
into the Remnant Brodie was fighting, he stumbled and she took
her knife and slashed him and then slashed him again and then
tackled him to the ground and began stabbing him repeatedly as
he had knocked several teeth from her mouth earlier in the
fight.
The Ute pulled away as the quad bike raced up and both the rider
and passenger were armed, the passenger had his spear gun
reloaded and the rider had a Browning Hi Power Mark 2 pistol, he
fired a shot through Andy's arm and it was stopped by Arthur's
armour from going into him. The Passenger fired his spear gun,
it missed Andy and Arthur, Tay seen it coming and split her legs
apart, it went between her knees and smashed through and got
stuck in the fence on the other side.
Arthur fired five shots at the quad bike, killing the roder and
wounding the passenger as it went in front of the Ute, the
passenger managed to jump onto the bonnet as the Ute knocked the
quad bike out of the way and sent it and it's deceased rider
flying through the grass and rocks on the side off the road.
Arthur dragged Andy back onto the trailer completely as the
former Passenger took his last remaining spear and went to jump
onto the trailer with it, but Arthur shot him in the stomach, he
fell onto the bonnet and then in front of the Ute and was run
over by it.
An explosion on the right side of the trailer, the wood and
metal from the fence flew all over the trailer, John hit the
ground screaming as his left arm, and most of his shoulder and
parts of his chest were gone, everybody else took some shrapnel
and Andy lost his balance as he was standing on the edge of the
trailer, he jumped off, to avoid falling under the Ute. He
bounced off it's bonnet and bounce and then slid through the
terrain on the side of the road, kicking up a lot of dust as he
came to stop against a rock around the same size as a large
wombat.
"We gotta go back for-" Arthur was cut off by an arrow going
through his shoulder and then the last Remnant from the ute
jumping on the trailer. He came at Arthur, but Arthur shot him 3
times in the stomach.
As that happened on the right side, Macca dived for the shotgun
that John had dropped as he died and fired 2 shots at once
through the grill, between the bars of the bull bar, he
destroyed the Radiator, water pump and several other major
components on the front of the engine, water poured out from the
bottom of the Hummer, as 5 Remnants jumped onto the trailer,
before the Hummer died. One tackled Tay and they began fighting,
the rider of the yellow bike jumped onto the trailer and took a
shotgun blast from Macca that sent him flying off the back of
the trailer.
Macca showed his age and experience off 6 years of war and 22
years of surviving the post war world as he fought two Remnants
that were most likely born in Australia after the war to Remnant
parents. He held both machete wielding Maruaders off with only
an empty shotgun, as he block a chop and then smashed one in the
face with the butt of the gun, before blocking a slash and
putting him on the ground, but Macca couldn't finish him off
because the other attacked him.
Arthur tried to shoot another Remnant with a machete, but his
gun was empty so he dropped the gun and pulled his knife out and
tried to fight the remnant, but it wasn't long until the Remnant
knocked Arthur's knife out of his hand and knocked Arthur over,
as he tried to chop down Arthur though, he moved and scrambled
for the chest where he left his revolver sitting, it wasn't
there, he looked around for it and seen it on the floor of the
trailer. He grabbed it, rolled onto his back and pulled the
trigger as the Remnant went at him. "Click..." The revolver
went. "Click - Click" As he pulled the trigger twice more.
The Remnant went to chop down on Arthur but as he raised his
machete, his came flying off and his body toppled over due to
the truck following the corner in the road after a long
straight. Brodie was revealed as the body fell, holing a blood
covered Machete. Arthur nodded, took his boot knife and stabbed
the Remnant about kill Tay with an arrow, he left his body there
as he made one final push, and shoulder charged one of the
Remnants fighting Macca, he hit the ground and rolled and then
fell of the trailer and got his arm run over by the trailer.
The last Remnant looked in horror at the fate of his comrade and
then received the butt of the shotgun to the face, he fell flat
on his back as the butt was repeatedly smashed into his face but
Macca, until he stopped breathing and his brain was partially
revealed.
As they stopped and looked around the carnage on the trailer,
Turkey and Mandy walked back down with a beaten and bloodied
Remnant, his hands were tied and Turkey had his crossbow pointed
at his head.
"We need to stop Roger, we have to get back and get Andy" Arthur
after he come to senses.
"What happened?" Macca asked.
"He fell off, we need to go back and get him" Arthur said.
"Think about Arty, he fell off! How often does someone survive a
fall anything while going 100 kilometres an hour?" Macca said.
"No. No. No, we gotta stop" Arthur said.
"He's dead Arthur, I saw him land, even if he survived, any
Remnants that survived would have killed him by now!" Brodie
said.
"Fuck!" Arthur shouted as the truck passed through the ruins off
what once was Robinvale.
"Reloaded your weapons and patch up any wounds, they could
launch a second strike at any time, especially considering what
we just cost them in terms of men and supplies" Macca said.
The remaining Mercenaries all looked back down the road and
thought about Andy and hoped the Remnants hadn't gotten hold off
him. Tay looked at Musso and closed his eyes as he had bled to
death from the spear to the stomach and Turkey did the same to
John as he had died with seconds off hitting the ground after
the explosion, Arthur laid John's arm back with his body as they
also rearmed and prepared for another fight.
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: Wetbizket Date: January 27, 2014, 5:41 pm
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WOW! Intensce chapter! Iceman was short on the short end of the
stick again, He needs to find a gun with bullets in it lol!
those raiders weren't playing around, but neither was Ice's
crew. Your really dominating this story Aus, Now I'm looking
forward to the new Mad Max game that I cant play.
For my story, I'm trying to work out the kinks, I have a good
handful of characters I need to figure out how to control them.
I dont think our stories will mix, yours has more of a "Mad Max"
style, mine will be more like "The Road"!
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Re: Iceman and Agro
By: OGDaboss Date: January 28, 2014, 12:11 pm
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moar kick ass weapons, more remnants-a-dying
I admittedly skimmed through so you wouldn't think I lost touch
or interest in the stylish smash mouth post-apoc mad max
insanely brilliant and conventional weaponary killing balls deep
murder spree when appropriated doing whatever it takes to
survive in a harsh landscape despite the odds storybook telling
of A what if it happened tomorrow scenario.
But await for my official comment.
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