The Thing Day 3

Dylflon · 08-15-2007, 03:36 PM

After an uneasy sleep, MacReady and Doctor Copper prepare for their trip to the Norwegian base. The rest of the crew busy themselves in an attempt to occupy their minds.

The radio man Windows repeats the same line “Hello, hello? Do you read me? This is American Outpost 31. Does anybody read me? Over.” over and over again for an hour.
Blair, the team’s senior biologist locks himself in his lab, creating a computer program. He loads in numbers, variables, and equations for hours on end.

As MacReady finishes packing his gear into a hiking backpack, he hears a knock on the door of his shed. On the other end of the knock is assistant mechanic Palmer.

“Uuuuuhhhh, Mac? You might call me paranoid but…well, I saw Copper go out into the snow last night by himself.”

“So what?”

“Well…you might want to come take a look at the helicopter”

MacReady ran to the helicopter at full flight with Palmer dragging behind, lungs ravaged by the combination of freezing arctic air and marijuana smoke.

The rest of the men (besides Windows, Bennings and Blair) were already surrounding the helicopter.

“Mac, someone gutted the chopper”, Norris informed in a defeated tone.
“Whoever did it also got to the rest of the vehicles”

“Where’s Doc?”, asked Childs.

MacReady immediately started running towards the camp. He was followed soon after by the rest of the crew. It wasn’t long until they ran into Copper just outside of the camp. Copper didn’t say anything in the classical sense. But what came out of his mouth could be more likened to a howl that has been inverted.

“What the…”

“Shit he’s…he’s one of those things!”, shouted Nauls the cook.

Garry pulled his revolver out and aimed it at Copper.

“Do it!”, yelled MacReady.

A shot rang out that would be heard for miles around if only there were someone out there to hear it. Copper’s body fell to the ground, spouting blood over the snowy ground.

MacReady walked into the middle of the circle of shocked and horrified men.

“I don’t know exactly what we’re dealing with here. But whatever it is, it can emulate us. That thing had not finished turning into the Doc. But if we gave it any longer, who knows if we would have been able to tell. Whatever this thing is, it wants to hide. And wait. I don’t know how many of you are infected. But for now, nobody goes anywhere alone.”

The crew walks back inside, to see Bennings, slumped over on the ground, stabbed in the throat.

The silence lasted for what felt like minutes, until Palmer broke it.

“Did Doc do that?”

Deaths:

manasecret - Bennings (uninfected) - killed by the vigilante
Bond - Doctor Copper (infected) - killed by the mob

The aliens have grown in number.

manasecret · 08-15-2007, 03:43 PM

I leave you with this.

Damn you Vigilanteeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Bond · 08-15-2007, 03:46 PM

I see I get one goodbye post... how generous. But I also see how I can't talk about anything related to the game... so...

ANGRIST

BreakABone · 08-15-2007, 03:50 PM

So.. Prof never voted against Bond.

They are in this together
And for voting off Green

I !vote Strangler!

Professor S · 08-15-2007, 04:07 PM

Honestly I didn't think it was Bond, but then again, I was out to save my own skin and I thought Angrist was my best shot at not getting killed because of the late surge in voting from Fox6 and others.

I still think its either Angrist or Yoda, or maybe both. Seriously though, after Bond got nailed i'm just confused, so I'm going to hold off on my vote and see if anyone else will show their hand.

EDIT: I just checked the other thread. I was teaching classes in the middle of the day and didn't see the VERY late surge for Bond. If I did I would have jumped on that shiznite to save my ass.

Yoda9864 · 08-15-2007, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Professor S

Honestly I didn't think it was Bond, but then again, I was out to save my own skin and I thought Angrist was my best shot at not getting killed because of the late surge in voting from Fox6 and others.

I still think its either Angrist or Yoda, or maybe both. Seriously though, after Bond got nailed i'm just confused, so I'm going to hold off on my vote and see if anyone else will show their hand.

You think I'm the alien? Interesting. Or are you just trying to take the attention off of yourself?

The Germanator · 08-15-2007, 04:12 PM

I'm not completely surprised about Bond and I'm glad we got him out of here, but mana taking a hit makes it very interesting. I can't be too sure yet, so I'm holding my vote for a bit.

BreakABone · 08-15-2007, 04:20 PM

Ok everyone who is human...

Respond to this message...

Get to the bottom of this...

Typhoid · 08-15-2007, 04:20 PM

Snap, this is getting epic.

Professor S · 08-15-2007, 04:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yoda9864

You think I'm the alien? Interesting. Or are you just trying to take the attention off of yourself?

Well thats part of it, sure. Regardless of whether or not I am an alien (I' am NOT), everyone seems to THINK I am, which will get me killed just as dead.

But the other part are the very carefully worded, and SHORT posts you make, but you might just be succunct. Typhoid is in the same boat as well with me.

I'm off the manasecret bandwagon. I think he's clean, for some reason.