Suzy’s Strange Saga
While this place might very well not work out, you decide you need to at least make a go of it. Given that you turned to murder and banditry fairly quickly you think you need some semblance of law and order to keep yourself from becoming a complete savage, but more importantly you think Donna needs this more than you do.
This whole week, Donna’s been flip flopping a bit on the whole “trying to get her life together” thing. Granted she hasn’t had a great foundation, but if you stay on the road and just drift, about the only thing she’s ever going to be useful for is…well bait for whomever else you decide to rob in the future.
“Hey Donna, I think we should stay here and by that I mean try to do what we were doing in the trailer park until we ran out like a pair of thieves.”
“Suzy, you know that place wasn’t turning out good for us.”
“Yeah, I know, that’s why I ultimately agreed with your plan to leave it…but I can’t help think that if we’d done things a little differently…well doesn’t matter. My point is, I think we BOTH need some structure.”
“Structure? You’re joking right?”
At this point you grab Donna by the arm and go to speak to her away from the earshot of those nearby.
“No Donna, I’m not fucking joking. Thursday, we stole a truck and killed two people who were just trying to stop us. Earlier today, we basically did the same thing except it was premeditated. You see a pattern emerging?”
“Hey, I didn’t mean to run over that woman at the trailer park and I didn’t know you were going to kill those two guys with the car.”
“Donna, don’t play the babe in the woods routine. Granted I’LL take the blame for murdering those guys in cold blood, but you knew damn well that it was a possibility. You went along with it.”
“I went along with it, because you were practically shoving me in the road, telling me to strip to get those guys attention in the first place. It wasn’t YOU who had to role-play a pig on a spit to distract them. Besides, we had to do it for survival.”
“And that’s my point. First we’re doing it for survival, how long before we start doing it for fun? I mean…(Sigh) I don’t know about you, but for the past few days, my mind has been going to a dark place. Quite frankly a place I didn’t think I had. I mean I’ve killed several people at this point and I don’t feel particularly bad about it. Like I don’t feel anything.”
“Geez, Suzy…”
“Yeah, I’m apparently more fucked up than I ever realized, but what about you? I mean you’ve relied on your looks and sex to get what you want for the most part. Do you really think that’s a great way to go through life? I even used you as slut bait so we could rip off someone a lot easier. Hell, I pretty much pimped you out and I think it’s the only thing fucked up thing I’ve done recently that I HAVE actually felt bad about doing on some level. You shouldn’t have to be taking random dicks in the ass and mouth just so we can get by. And I’m really sorry for that. We both NEED a better plan for our future and drifting from place to place isn’t it.”
Donna’s silent for a moment.
“But what would we do here? How would we contribute?”
“I dunno, but I’m going to go talk to that Henry guy about it.” You say and then head over back to Henry who is overseeing his people taking all the shit out of your car.
“Oh hey there…Suzy wasn’t it?” Henry remarks.
“Yeah.” You answer.
“Well Suzy, you’ll be happy to know we haven’t taken much, save for the couple of first aid kits you had. We got tons of food and water, so we really didn’t need any of that. Oh, didn’t take your weapons either. Got enough of those too.”
“Um…thanks, but I wanted to talk to you about staying.”
“Good, we could use the help, so what skills do you have?” Henry asks.
“Well, I killed a lot of those cannibal freaks. I also had to kill a few regular psychos as well this week. Guess you could say I’ve become a fast learner in the ways of the gun…so do you need another lookout?”
“Wouldn’t turn one down if you’re feeling up to the task. Not many here actually want to do it. Anyway, I’ll make sure to get you a rifle, but what about your sister? What’s she do?”
Before you can answer, your sister Donna has come up to speak for herself.
“I’m a people person! I used to plan parties and other similar social events. Made sure people had a good time. Now while that might not sound very useful, I think given our current situation it could be. I mean I can’t imagine spirits around here are very high. And when spirits aren’t very high, everything else goes to shit. I think I could help out in making sure people stay positive.” Donna says with a chipper tone and a smile.
Henry scratches his head and returns a brief grin.
“Well now, that is an interesting proposal and I have to say you do have a pretty cheery attitude. You’re right in that everyone has been on edge and not in the best of moods. I’m really not sure how you propose to change that, but if you can do it, well that would be pretty helpful. Though you’re still going to have to do something else in the meantime, I think the wait staff in the diner needs help with going through the inventory. Go see Anne in the diner; she’ll be able to direct you. Okay, well that’s settled. You ready for your assignment Suzy?”
“Yeah, hold on. Just want to talk to my sister for a moment.”
“Sure.”
Once again you take Donna aside away from earshot.
“Donna, what was all that about planning parties and shit?” you ask.
“What? I did used to plan parties over Julie’s house remember?” Donna says.
“I didn’t think you guys actually planned them so much as you just invited a bunch of people over.”
“Well okay, yeah most of the time that was the case, but really I was the main one that got those parties going to be more exciting than they actually were. I also curbed the more destructive elements that actually occurred at those things by keeping people positive and happy.”
“So…what? You’re going to turn this place into a rave orgy?”
“No…well I mean I wish, but all I have to do is take my interpersonal skills and channel them in some way that will work here. Look, you said we need to try to start over. Well, I’m going to improvise with what I can so we can make a go of it here.”
“You’re right Donna. Okay, well I’ll leave you to it.”
Before you leave, Donna moves in to hug you. You weren’t expecting it, but you return the hug.
“Be careful Suzy, don’t get eaten.” Donna remarks.
“Don’t worry about me, you just focus on what you need to do.” You say.
With those parting words, Donna heads towards the diner and you go back to Henry for your assignment.
Henry apparently has already told some of his people that you’ll be joining them on the truck tops keeping a look out and hands you a rifle. Henry also mentions that this decision was met with mixed results. Some were happy since it meant they could take more breaks, others didn’t like the idea since nobody really knows who the fuck you are and don’t see why they should trust you yet. Still, Henry is pretty well respected you guess around here, because other than some grumbling nobody is outright making a major case out of it.
Henry takes you to the far back end of the truck stop. He says he hasn’t really put many guards up here since its away from the road and borders the wilderness and so far nothing has come out from there yet, other than the occasional wildlife.
“Now I don’t think anything actually will be coming up this way, since I imagine if we did have another cannibal attack they’ll be coming from one of the other directions, but hey we shouldn’t just keep our back completely undefended. Now you’ll be here until about midnight, I hope you’re up for that.” Henry remarks.
“That’s what I’m here for.”
“Hm. Well like I said, there probably won’t be much going on and about the most likely thing you’re going to have to fight off is boredom. Um, if you need to go bathroom, there are some port a johns nearby, though suppose if you REALLY need to, you can go run over to the diner if you’re a little more concerned with cleanliness, but whatever you do make sure you at least tell Larry over there so he can keep extra watch while you’re gone.” Henry points to a man over on top of a truck on the far side of where you are before continuing.
“Anyway, that’s about it, and if you see anything that looks dangerous, yell your head off and warn us.”
“Okay, got it.” You answer.
You climb up the ladder propped against the eighteen-wheeler and take you place as a guard.
A few hours pass and just as predicted, nothing happens. You’re not really bored yet though since you’re taking a mental count of the number of rabbits you see hopping around in the field and making up little bunny names and little stories about their little bunny lives.
Every once in awhile while you’re walking back and forth along the truck, you wonder how your sister is doing. You also wave to Larry once in an attempt to be friendly, but he doesn’t return the wave and ignores you.
Eventually he has to pay attention when nature calls.
“Hey Larry!” you shout.
“What?!” he answers in an annoyed tone.
“I gotta pee!”
“So? Go over the side of the truck, its what I do when I gotta piss.”
“Yeah, I’m not a guy and I don’t have the luxury of the world being my toilet. I need to use a proper bathroom. Henry told me to let you know so you can keep an extra eye on things until I get back.”
“(Sigh) Fine, don’t fucking take all day though.”
With Larry’s acknowledgement of your bathroom needs, you go down the ladder and run to the diner. (You sure as hell aren’t going to use those disgusting port a johns)
When you enter the diner, you find a variety of people singing songs and joking around. You then see Donna dressed in a waitress uniform wave to you.
“Hey Suzy! You done with protecting all of us?! This is my sister Suzy folks! She’s the one that saved my life more than once this week!”
At this point everyone says hi to you.
“Um…hey. I actually just came in to use the bathroom” You reply caught a little off guard.
“That’s Suzy, always the social one.” Donna laughs and then goes back to talking to the crowd.
After taking care of business in the bathroom, you wash your hands and see Donna entering the room.
“Gotta hand it to you Donna, it hasn’t been a few hours and already you’ve got the people here in a good mood.” You say.
“Yes, and I didn’t fuck all of them to get them that way in case that’s what you were thinking.” Donna says.
“Sheesh, I saw some children out there. I know you’re not a degenerate Donna.”
“Well, I’m glad you don’t think I am. Never thought I’d say this, but your opinion of me has started to matter more this week. So how’s guard duty?”
“It is what it is. I’m not quite the people person you are though, so all I’ve managed to do is piss off the one person assigned near me. On the bright side, I’ve managed to stave off boredom by making up stories in my head about the bunnies bouncing around in the fields.”
“Heh, well you always were the imaginative one. Well I’ll see you later.”
You leave your sister and return to your guard duty, which continues to be uneventful. As the night comes your stories about rabbits give way to stories about wandering possums and raccoons instead. Thankfully no cannibals though.
Eventually someone comes to relieve you of duty. Some guy you haven’t seen before, but at least he’s a little more cordial than Larry.
You return to the diner where you find most people now asleep. Donna is still awake and sitting behind the food counter playing solitaire. She waves you over.
“Suzy, there you are. I waited up for you so I could show you where we’ll be sleeping. Come on.” Donna whispers and takes you through the back kitchen.
“Hey you didn’t eat today did you? There’s a lot of food here you know. There’s also a shower in the waitresses’ private bathroom if you need.” Donna says.
“Nah, I’m good for now. I’ll worry about that stuff tomorrow.” You reply.
“Okay, well here it is.” Donna says and opens up a small storeroom, which doesn’t have much space.
“I tried to make it as comfortable as possible with a few blankets I borrowed. There are our bags of clothing. I figured those might work as pillows of a sort.” Donna says.
“Well I guess it will have to do.” You answer.
You lay down on the make shift bed on the floor and try to get as comfortable as possible. Donna does likewise and you drift off.
This whole week, Donna’s been flip flopping a bit on the whole “trying to get her life together” thing. Granted she hasn’t had a great foundation, but if you stay on the road and just drift, about the only thing she’s ever going to be useful for is…well bait for whomever else you decide to rob in the future.
“Hey Donna, I think we should stay here and by that I mean try to do what we were doing in the trailer park until we ran out like a pair of thieves.”
“Suzy, you know that place wasn’t turning out good for us.”
“Yeah, I know, that’s why I ultimately agreed with your plan to leave it…but I can’t help think that if we’d done things a little differently…well doesn’t matter. My point is, I think we BOTH need some structure.”
“Structure? You’re joking right?”
At this point you grab Donna by the arm and go to speak to her away from the earshot of those nearby.
“No Donna, I’m not fucking joking. Thursday, we stole a truck and killed two people who were just trying to stop us. Earlier today, we basically did the same thing except it was premeditated. You see a pattern emerging?”
“Hey, I didn’t mean to run over that woman at the trailer park and I didn’t know you were going to kill those two guys with the car.”
“Donna, don’t play the babe in the woods routine. Granted I’LL take the blame for murdering those guys in cold blood, but you knew damn well that it was a possibility. You went along with it.”
“I went along with it, because you were practically shoving me in the road, telling me to strip to get those guys attention in the first place. It wasn’t YOU who had to role-play a pig on a spit to distract them. Besides, we had to do it for survival.”
“And that’s my point. First we’re doing it for survival, how long before we start doing it for fun? I mean…(Sigh) I don’t know about you, but for the past few days, my mind has been going to a dark place. Quite frankly a place I didn’t think I had. I mean I’ve killed several people at this point and I don’t feel particularly bad about it. Like I don’t feel anything.”
“Geez, Suzy…”
“Yeah, I’m apparently more fucked up than I ever realized, but what about you? I mean you’ve relied on your looks and sex to get what you want for the most part. Do you really think that’s a great way to go through life? I even used you as slut bait so we could rip off someone a lot easier. Hell, I pretty much pimped you out and I think it’s the only thing fucked up thing I’ve done recently that I HAVE actually felt bad about doing on some level. You shouldn’t have to be taking random dicks in the ass and mouth just so we can get by. And I’m really sorry for that. We both NEED a better plan for our future and drifting from place to place isn’t it.”
Donna’s silent for a moment.
“But what would we do here? How would we contribute?”
“I dunno, but I’m going to go talk to that Henry guy about it.” You say and then head over back to Henry who is overseeing his people taking all the shit out of your car.
“Oh hey there…Suzy wasn’t it?” Henry remarks.
“Yeah.” You answer.
“Well Suzy, you’ll be happy to know we haven’t taken much, save for the couple of first aid kits you had. We got tons of food and water, so we really didn’t need any of that. Oh, didn’t take your weapons either. Got enough of those too.”
“Um…thanks, but I wanted to talk to you about staying.”
“Good, we could use the help, so what skills do you have?” Henry asks.
“Well, I killed a lot of those cannibal freaks. I also had to kill a few regular psychos as well this week. Guess you could say I’ve become a fast learner in the ways of the gun…so do you need another lookout?”
“Wouldn’t turn one down if you’re feeling up to the task. Not many here actually want to do it. Anyway, I’ll make sure to get you a rifle, but what about your sister? What’s she do?”
Before you can answer, your sister Donna has come up to speak for herself.
“I’m a people person! I used to plan parties and other similar social events. Made sure people had a good time. Now while that might not sound very useful, I think given our current situation it could be. I mean I can’t imagine spirits around here are very high. And when spirits aren’t very high, everything else goes to shit. I think I could help out in making sure people stay positive.” Donna says with a chipper tone and a smile.
Henry scratches his head and returns a brief grin.
“Well now, that is an interesting proposal and I have to say you do have a pretty cheery attitude. You’re right in that everyone has been on edge and not in the best of moods. I’m really not sure how you propose to change that, but if you can do it, well that would be pretty helpful. Though you’re still going to have to do something else in the meantime, I think the wait staff in the diner needs help with going through the inventory. Go see Anne in the diner; she’ll be able to direct you. Okay, well that’s settled. You ready for your assignment Suzy?”
“Yeah, hold on. Just want to talk to my sister for a moment.”
“Sure.”
Once again you take Donna aside away from earshot.
“Donna, what was all that about planning parties and shit?” you ask.
“What? I did used to plan parties over Julie’s house remember?” Donna says.
“I didn’t think you guys actually planned them so much as you just invited a bunch of people over.”
“Well okay, yeah most of the time that was the case, but really I was the main one that got those parties going to be more exciting than they actually were. I also curbed the more destructive elements that actually occurred at those things by keeping people positive and happy.”
“So…what? You’re going to turn this place into a rave orgy?”
“No…well I mean I wish, but all I have to do is take my interpersonal skills and channel them in some way that will work here. Look, you said we need to try to start over. Well, I’m going to improvise with what I can so we can make a go of it here.”
“You’re right Donna. Okay, well I’ll leave you to it.”
Before you leave, Donna moves in to hug you. You weren’t expecting it, but you return the hug.
“Be careful Suzy, don’t get eaten.” Donna remarks.
“Don’t worry about me, you just focus on what you need to do.” You say.
With those parting words, Donna heads towards the diner and you go back to Henry for your assignment.
Henry apparently has already told some of his people that you’ll be joining them on the truck tops keeping a look out and hands you a rifle. Henry also mentions that this decision was met with mixed results. Some were happy since it meant they could take more breaks, others didn’t like the idea since nobody really knows who the fuck you are and don’t see why they should trust you yet. Still, Henry is pretty well respected you guess around here, because other than some grumbling nobody is outright making a major case out of it.
Henry takes you to the far back end of the truck stop. He says he hasn’t really put many guards up here since its away from the road and borders the wilderness and so far nothing has come out from there yet, other than the occasional wildlife.
“Now I don’t think anything actually will be coming up this way, since I imagine if we did have another cannibal attack they’ll be coming from one of the other directions, but hey we shouldn’t just keep our back completely undefended. Now you’ll be here until about midnight, I hope you’re up for that.” Henry remarks.
“That’s what I’m here for.”
“Hm. Well like I said, there probably won’t be much going on and about the most likely thing you’re going to have to fight off is boredom. Um, if you need to go bathroom, there are some port a johns nearby, though suppose if you REALLY need to, you can go run over to the diner if you’re a little more concerned with cleanliness, but whatever you do make sure you at least tell Larry over there so he can keep extra watch while you’re gone.” Henry points to a man over on top of a truck on the far side of where you are before continuing.
“Anyway, that’s about it, and if you see anything that looks dangerous, yell your head off and warn us.”
“Okay, got it.” You answer.
You climb up the ladder propped against the eighteen-wheeler and take you place as a guard.
A few hours pass and just as predicted, nothing happens. You’re not really bored yet though since you’re taking a mental count of the number of rabbits you see hopping around in the field and making up little bunny names and little stories about their little bunny lives.
Every once in awhile while you’re walking back and forth along the truck, you wonder how your sister is doing. You also wave to Larry once in an attempt to be friendly, but he doesn’t return the wave and ignores you.
Eventually he has to pay attention when nature calls.
“Hey Larry!” you shout.
“What?!” he answers in an annoyed tone.
“I gotta pee!”
“So? Go over the side of the truck, its what I do when I gotta piss.”
“Yeah, I’m not a guy and I don’t have the luxury of the world being my toilet. I need to use a proper bathroom. Henry told me to let you know so you can keep an extra eye on things until I get back.”
“(Sigh) Fine, don’t fucking take all day though.”
With Larry’s acknowledgement of your bathroom needs, you go down the ladder and run to the diner. (You sure as hell aren’t going to use those disgusting port a johns)
When you enter the diner, you find a variety of people singing songs and joking around. You then see Donna dressed in a waitress uniform wave to you.
“Hey Suzy! You done with protecting all of us?! This is my sister Suzy folks! She’s the one that saved my life more than once this week!”
At this point everyone says hi to you.
“Um…hey. I actually just came in to use the bathroom” You reply caught a little off guard.
“That’s Suzy, always the social one.” Donna laughs and then goes back to talking to the crowd.
After taking care of business in the bathroom, you wash your hands and see Donna entering the room.
“Gotta hand it to you Donna, it hasn’t been a few hours and already you’ve got the people here in a good mood.” You say.
“Yes, and I didn’t fuck all of them to get them that way in case that’s what you were thinking.” Donna says.
“Sheesh, I saw some children out there. I know you’re not a degenerate Donna.”
“Well, I’m glad you don’t think I am. Never thought I’d say this, but your opinion of me has started to matter more this week. So how’s guard duty?”
“It is what it is. I’m not quite the people person you are though, so all I’ve managed to do is piss off the one person assigned near me. On the bright side, I’ve managed to stave off boredom by making up stories in my head about the bunnies bouncing around in the fields.”
“Heh, well you always were the imaginative one. Well I’ll see you later.”
You leave your sister and return to your guard duty, which continues to be uneventful. As the night comes your stories about rabbits give way to stories about wandering possums and raccoons instead. Thankfully no cannibals though.
Eventually someone comes to relieve you of duty. Some guy you haven’t seen before, but at least he’s a little more cordial than Larry.
You return to the diner where you find most people now asleep. Donna is still awake and sitting behind the food counter playing solitaire. She waves you over.
“Suzy, there you are. I waited up for you so I could show you where we’ll be sleeping. Come on.” Donna whispers and takes you through the back kitchen.
“Hey you didn’t eat today did you? There’s a lot of food here you know. There’s also a shower in the waitresses’ private bathroom if you need.” Donna says.
“Nah, I’m good for now. I’ll worry about that stuff tomorrow.” You reply.
“Okay, well here it is.” Donna says and opens up a small storeroom, which doesn’t have much space.
“I tried to make it as comfortable as possible with a few blankets I borrowed. There are our bags of clothing. I figured those might work as pillows of a sort.” Donna says.
“Well I guess it will have to do.” You answer.
You lay down on the make shift bed on the floor and try to get as comfortable as possible. Donna does likewise and you drift off.