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Post-Warm Bodies
Mar. 7th, 2021 05:22 pmOngoing updates as canon updates happen....
A few months have passed since the end of the first book and Julie is living out in the ruined suburbs of the city with R and several Nearly Dead neighbours (one of whom she has dubbed ‘B’). Having been given a semi-defacto role of leadership given her ‘expertise’ with the Dead and her relationship to the deceased former leader of the Stadium, she is supposed to have 24/7 guard but has a tendency to run off, believing that it doesn’t give a good impression to the Dead who are trying to fix themselves to have guns pointed at them all the time. She is doing her best to move forward with her life but is often frustrated by R’s avoidance of his past, because she sure as hell can’t forget about hers so conveniently.
She and R are on their way to the Stadium for a meeting called by Rosy when helicopters fly overhead - a strange sight, given that it was assumed that none of them were still functioning and that there was no one around to actually use them if they were. She tries to talk to her best friend Nora, but the frequency is jammed up by the BABL signal and she can’t get much information out of her about what’s happening.
When they arrive at the Stadium they discover that communication with Goldman Dome, the nearest neighbouring enclave, has been cut off and no one can get in touch with them. The line suddenly gets patched into a line called Fed 800, an old security line from the early days of the zombie disaster that no one has heard in years. Not long after this, they realise that Axiom, a corporate militia thought wiped out in the Borough Conflicts a decade before, have taken over Goldman Dome and are currently coming for them.
Julie takes an elderly friend of hers (Ella, Rosy’s wife) home and then finds R getting drunk in the bar. The television flicks away from its usual broken stream of different football games and shows an undisclosed location in the stadium. This room is later realised to be the location of the LOTUS feed signal, another pre-apocalypse relic that served as America’s last attempt to stop dissent by stifling it as well as being used to transmit messages via image metaphors and brief audio.
Shortly after this image shows a shocked Rosy wondering how Axiom even knew the place was there, a bomb explodes, killing all of the remaining leadership of Citi Stadium. Rosso is killed in the blast, and more Axiom soldiers appear to try and take the bodies. Julie refuses to allow them to take Rosso, and after a brief fight, is knocked out. Meanwhile, in the clinic (morbidly dubbed ‘the morgue’), Nora tries to keep soldiers from taking any of the Nearly Dead who are recovering there.
Julie wakes up tied to a chair, faced with the unsettling smiles of more Axiom agents. She and R are tortured as Axiom try to gain their compliance with regards to what they call the ‘unknowns’ - the Nearly Dead - with bare electrical wires. She briefly agrees to help them but rescinds this offer when they are told that the ‘interviews’ (ie, the torture sessions) will resume if their compliance slips at any point. They then cut off her left ring finger in two parts with a pair of cable shears.
She wakes up in a locked bathroom three days later - July 26th, her 20th birthday - and shares a brief, slightly hysterical amusement with Nora at their situation before someone enters the room. It appears to be Perry, her ex (and dead) boyfriend, and she collapses from the shock of seeing him. Not!Perry escorts them out of their holding cells, and they find out that they are in Goldman Dome, which has been entirely taken over by Axiom using the same terrorism tactics as Citi Stadium. The man, later revealed to be Perry’s older brother Abram, smuggles them out of the Dome in a truck under the pretense of taking a few Dead out to be cremated.
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A few months have passed since the end of the first book and Julie is living out in the ruined suburbs of the city with R and several Nearly Dead neighbours (one of whom she has dubbed ‘B’). Having been given a semi-defacto role of leadership given her ‘expertise’ with the Dead and her relationship to the deceased former leader of the Stadium, she is supposed to have 24/7 guard but has a tendency to run off, believing that it doesn’t give a good impression to the Dead who are trying to fix themselves to have guns pointed at them all the time. She is doing her best to move forward with her life but is often frustrated by R’s avoidance of his past, because she sure as hell can’t forget about hers so conveniently.
She and R are on their way to the Stadium for a meeting called by Rosy when helicopters fly overhead - a strange sight, given that it was assumed that none of them were still functioning and that there was no one around to actually use them if they were. She tries to talk to her best friend Nora, but the frequency is jammed up by the BABL signal and she can’t get much information out of her about what’s happening.
When they arrive at the Stadium they discover that communication with Goldman Dome, the nearest neighbouring enclave, has been cut off and no one can get in touch with them. The line suddenly gets patched into a line called Fed 800, an old security line from the early days of the zombie disaster that no one has heard in years. Not long after this, they realise that Axiom, a corporate militia thought wiped out in the Borough Conflicts a decade before, have taken over Goldman Dome and are currently coming for them.
Julie takes an elderly friend of hers (Ella, Rosy’s wife) home and then finds R getting drunk in the bar. The television flicks away from its usual broken stream of different football games and shows an undisclosed location in the stadium. This room is later realised to be the location of the LOTUS feed signal, another pre-apocalypse relic that served as America’s last attempt to stop dissent by stifling it as well as being used to transmit messages via image metaphors and brief audio.
Shortly after this image shows a shocked Rosy wondering how Axiom even knew the place was there, a bomb explodes, killing all of the remaining leadership of Citi Stadium. Rosso is killed in the blast, and more Axiom soldiers appear to try and take the bodies. Julie refuses to allow them to take Rosso, and after a brief fight, is knocked out. Meanwhile, in the clinic (morbidly dubbed ‘the morgue’), Nora tries to keep soldiers from taking any of the Nearly Dead who are recovering there.
Julie wakes up tied to a chair, faced with the unsettling smiles of more Axiom agents. She and R are tortured as Axiom try to gain their compliance with regards to what they call the ‘unknowns’ - the Nearly Dead - with bare electrical wires. She briefly agrees to help them but rescinds this offer when they are told that the ‘interviews’ (ie, the torture sessions) will resume if their compliance slips at any point. They then cut off her left ring finger in two parts with a pair of cable shears.
She wakes up in a locked bathroom three days later - July 26th, her 20th birthday - and shares a brief, slightly hysterical amusement with Nora at their situation before someone enters the room. It appears to be Perry, her ex (and dead) boyfriend, and she collapses from the shock of seeing him. Not!Perry escorts them out of their holding cells, and they find out that they are in Goldman Dome, which has been entirely taken over by Axiom using the same terrorism tactics as Citi Stadium. The man, later revealed to be Perry’s older brother Abram, smuggles them out of the Dome in a truck under the pretense of taking a few Dead out to be cremated.
