Board Thread:Role Plays (AU)/@comment-24416658-20150721064545/@comment-24416658-20150804063505

As sunset reaches the wasteland, you have all made camp. As the fire burns in the middle of the circle of bedrolls, Penelope brings out her harmonica and starts playing. Alexander hums along, simply looking at the fire. The stars begin to come out overhead, a sight that, during the Pre-War times, would have never been seen around these areas.

"Ho, there!" A voice shouts out from the darkness. Alexander leaps to his feet, hand at his hip, and Penelope stops playing, looking towards the voice.

"Friend or foe?" calls out Alexander, ready to pull out his gun and start shooting. Footsteps can be heard crossing the earth, as a faint figure's outline gets closer. He is followed by a small animal, a dog. The person comes into view. It is a man, roughly 30 years old and black. He wears a checkered shirt and brown pants, and is sporting a suave gambler hat.

"Blessings of the Lord be upon you," he says, holding his hands out in a peaceful manner, "I did not expect to see anyone alive here. Do you not know what happened here?" Alexander calms down, hands crossing over his chest. The man sighs.

"My name is Joseph Young," he says, moving closer and sitting at the campfire, "I did not mean to intrude. I, along with around thirty of us, are all that's left on New Canaan. Sadly, the Lord's work has been ruined by men led by Satan himself." The man sighs. You see that he has a peculiar pistol on his hip, and a strange submachine gun on his back. He looks up at everyone as his dog walks around, whimpering in front of each of you.

"A tribe of devils descended upon our city almost a year ago, now." Joseph looks tired, bags under his eyes. "They...they slaughtered almost everyone. Men, women, children. Their leader, a beast named Salt-Upon-Wounds, had their bodies chained to the cliffs, destroyed the town, and salted the earth. He saw us as Sodom and Gomorrah, in the eyes of the Devil. My people have fled south, and two of us remained in Zion. I suppose you have met them, traveling this way?"

"Actually," Alexander said, hand behind his head, "We decided to skip Zion. I knew a route that helped us bypass the radiation clouds and shit around the south of Utah." Joseph nods.

"I understand." He swallows, then takes a heavy breath. "One of our flock who remained in Zion had left us before, followed a sinful path. However, he was cleansed by fire, and brought back into the Lord's eyes. Sadly, we did not get to see him again, for the destruction of our city has almost destroyed us." Joseph looks around the camp.

"You must have questions, I believe. Feel free to ask. I am the Lord's servant, and we are all his children."

(Music)