LOL

Indeed!!!

ok Ill post tonite when I return from my knights of columbus meeting


Easy

not sure where to tie into the story?

Understandable.

I have just alluded to an escape route that will take the characters into an ancient underground water way. I suggest that where ever it ends up is where we run into your man. It may even be more believable if he locates some old water works building or something that offers passage into the sewer system.

It doesn't make a lot of sense that Miles would just feel like exploring a dark labyrinth. Somehow he'll have to hear or perhaps detect something to spur him on.

If you set something up we can work toward you in a believable manner.

agreed...something will cause him to investigate the waterworks ...

I'm going to write in the story that as he's investigating the occurence that the planet will remind him of the old Planet of the Apes movie

Easy

I suggest that this be the last the group sees of Gavin. Beyond the grate there could be a labyrinth of canals and tunnels in which the group could easily become separated. Perhaps we'll seem some carnage left over... a few rat bodies, but no Gavin.

Seems a good place to me as well.

I figured I would write my post that way which allowed Tiph the opportunity to expand on it so Kasai can either use this as the opportunity to take a break from this thread or perhaps something else for him.

I picked up on that...

So the characters have to make it through, the hole in the grate to escape. The idea is move the frenzied rats away, or at least closer to the surface of the water, then they have to carefully swim under the water without alerting them. The smaller ones can squeeze through the opening.

There's a breathing space on the other side of the grate, but who know's how long the canal will flow before it opens into an area with some walkways or ledges.

I am also thinking that this canal might flow into some giant cistern or something... a giant filter... just a thought... it can go anywhere we want. I am impartial.

We should, however, end up in some sort of old Water Works plant so that Easy's character, Miles can hook up.

I follow your idear, Tiph. Sounds like a good one too. And the best place for us to meet up with Miles.

My guess would be his sensors have picke dup on some uncontaminated water he can use for drinking which will lead him to that locale.

But first we gotta make it past the rat farts.

What happened to Salem Midvale...I thought he went to investigate the airship reported incident?


Still looking for away to hookup with Salem midvale or Plymouth...which one do I not want to hook up with?

Easy

Midvale's a sub-character that I created to stir things up back in the town of Stonehaven and because the we're moving on westward, to Lake Tahoe, the plot line surrounding him fizzled out.

Miles should attempt to meet up with Plymuth and the Hybrids. The best way to do this is to continue on with your own story and eventually they will cross over. At least that's way I generally do it. I find the transition is smoother when a character has some 'story' under their belt.

You still need to establish some sort of story line in the water works where the characters currently are. It can be any sort of setting really, so long as it seems a logical place that our characters might pass through.

Right now, the Hybrids are tagging along with Plymuth who on his journey from the East coast, encountered many non-humans and humans who were going to a mystical place called Tahoe. They say that there is a great man there... a Messiah.

Plymuth's curious and he's encountered a few things that has given him some faith so that's where he's going... at least that's a final destination, there are plenty of adventures to be had along the way.

ahhh ok..and a lil quote added by John Lennon

Life happens when your busy making other plans

so I certainly dig what you're saying here

I certainly can make other plans using the waterworks as a base but add a twist

If you dont object, I think Im going to use the theme of the planet of the Apes to add a thriller of sorts

Is that ok???

Y'know I really think the 'Planet of the Apes' would provide an awesome setting. The movie became a common theme in apocalyptic settings. In the other story we even have an ape man.

The general premise here is that Hybrid's, which are the result of Human experimentation prior to and after the cataclysm, are free to roam the Earth. Naturally their is dissension between them and their former Human captures, but I was depicting that back in Stonehaven a settlement had formed... probably not in the theme of things really... so we're moving on from that.

It's best to view the world as sparsely populated and full of creepy new life forms.

Now, we all know that it is very unlikely that the radiation from a nuclear war would produce significant mutations, even in a hundred year span. So, what I kind of came up with was that a mutating virus got released into the environment. It originated in the U.K. and spread from there. The idea behind the virus was that it was a vehicle to carry strands of Hybrid RNA and effectively began to transform other life forms. Why? Why not... scientists just seem to screw with nature because they can. Guess they gotta do something with that grant money.

The idea behind my ICHTHYO-SAPIEN character is that his people were infected with the virus and an evolutionary transformation was accelerated a thousand fold.

It seems a plausible idea for a mutant world and one that Miles could probably wrap his head around.

In accordance with this theory, it WOULD make perfect sense that primates, especially would evolve very quickly and we could very well have 'highly intelligent' apes on our hands. Of course the one thing I've always disagreed with is the role they placed gorillas in. Gorillas, of all the primates, are least likely to turn aggressive. It is the Chimpanzees we'd have to watch out for, they are VIOLENT. Not the Bonobos though... they're lovers, not fighters.