User:NovaCiv
About Me
- A short woman with dyed blonde hair tied into a loose ponytail and honey-brown eyes. She shuffles through pages of notes and hand-drawn maps of Malton. She has a Yang ☯陽 tattoo on the back of her right hand.
- A malnourished, gaunt zombie with dirty, tangled hair covering its half-closed eyes. It's quite lethargic and doesn't seem very interested in your brains. It has a Yin ☯陰 tattoo on the back of its left hand.
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Dual Nature |
| This User or Group supports the Dual Nature Policy & believes that the citizens of Malton should embrace their two-fold nature. |
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Sacred Ground Policy Supporter |
| This user or group supports the Sacred Ground Policy and acknowledges that all Cemeteries in the city of Malton are considered Revivification Points. |
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Profane Existence Policy Supporter |
| This User or Group supports the Profane Existence Policy & asserts that all Wastelands in the city of Malton are revive-free zombie zones. |
Journal
2025 Journal
14 Mar
- You are in your safehouse at Dandison Auto Repair. The building has been very strongly barricaded.
- A portable generator has been set up here. It is running.
- Somebody has spraypainted ⛩️☯️ Malton Taoist Temple ☯️⛩️ onto a wall.
- You are wearing a silver medallion of Saint Jude, a white long-sleeved shirt, white robes and grey overalls.
Six thousand, four hundred and thirty six.
That's how many days it's been since I woke up in Malton.
It was 2007, July 31 at 11:08:08.
It's been seventeen and a half years since then.
The world has changed so much... but Malton has stayed the same.
I'm not the same person I was then.
I've died and reanimated too many times to count.
I carry so many memories, but they belong to someone else. Someone who no longer exists.
The moon is red tonight.
Something's coming tomorrow. Something big. Some people are saying it's the storm of the millenium. Other people are saying the military is finally going to bomb the city. Some people are saying its the end of the world.
I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, but there's something in the air. It's like an electric sensation that you can smell. It's not just the stench of death, it's something else. Something new.
There's something coming to Malton. It's almost on top of us. I believe it's finally time for all of us to die. To really die, I mean.
Final death is coming for Malton. We can't avoid our fate any longer.
Rest in Peace, Malton. May All Beings Everywhere Be Happy And Free.
I knew this day would come some day... I knew we couldn't cheat death forever.
I expected when the time came... I would feel sadder... ha...
Isn't that funny...
It's the end of the world and... I'm... finally... happy...
- You leave Dandison Auto Repair.
- You are standing outside your safehouse Dandison Auto Repair, a four-storey red-brick building with black crosses painted across its doors. The building has been very strongly barricaded. Also here is Zom Brannzz (22HP).
- Lights are on inside.
- Somebody has spraypainted ⛩️ EVERYTHING THAT HAS A BEGINNING HAS AN END onto a wall.
- There is a dead body here. It smells strange.
- You fire a flare into the sky above the city.
Goodbye.
NovaCiv (talk) 10:03, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
21 Feb
- You are inside Lush Auto Repair. The doors to the street have been secured.
- You are wearing a pair of safety goggles, a set of rosary beads, a white long-sleeved shirt, a black hooded sweater, grey overalls and a pair of steel toe-capped boots.
Survivor's log:
I first came to the Malton Taoist Temple at Dandison Auto Repair in 2023. I remember leaving Ackland Mall summer before last with all that goth gear, then spending a few days around the Coram Building. I found the person who had helped me out before and helped them out a bit. Nothing special, just doing fuel runs, patching people up with gauze, nothing special. It was a pretty cool operation they had set up there. I don't think I've been by since, but it seems like they're still doing their thing there.
They uh, have this thing that they do every day. Or almost every day- on the radio, I mean. At the CORAM Building, I don't totally get how it works... but there was a couple people keeping the city-wide (I think) Emergency Broadcast System working. And anyway, almost every day they broadcast what like, goofy holiday it is. You know like, chocolate pudding day or like, uhh, national 'forge your own path' day or something cute like that. And if you got a radio tuned to that frequency, and I do right here, then when they broadcast you'll hear it. Like I said. Quite an operation. And it's been running like, almost the entire 20 months or whatever since then. There was a brief period where zombies destroyed the tower, and another time when like, idk someone high-jacked the frequency maybe? Anyway yeah, almost the whole time, most days they broadcast something. It's kinda nice how even in the apocalypse someone is still keeping track of, and letting everyone know, when it's national "watch the sunset" day.
I spent around a week helping out at CORAM, and then headed north for Dandison Auto Repair. It was abandoned as I expected. I did find some evidence that the temple used to be there, even among the mess. I found some little charms... yoga mats, candles, incense... stuff like that. Taoist stuff.
I tried to be careful and quiet at first. I was trying to get a feel for the area before I started calling too much attention to myself. The most conspicuous group nearby is the Soldiers of Crossman at Crossman Grove Police Department. They're seasoned, that's for sure. They've been in the area for a very long time. They've always been willing to lend a hand if I'm in rough shape. One of them said to me, "seems like every time I find you, you're in need of healing", haha. All in all they seem reliable.
On one of my first days I was kind of doing my rounds in the area, and there's a factory right next to the Temple- uh Dandison AR. I saw some graffiti that said "HOME OF THE MOUSE" and thought it was funny, but didn't think much of it and painted over it. A couple days later, a little creature appears at the doors of the Taoist Temple, explains their name is CrunchyMouse, they've been in living there for a number of years, and if I would be so kind as to not paint over their sign they would appreciate it very much!
I must admit, I was embarrassed to be introduced to my well-mannered neighbour like this!
After that, I was always happy to refill their generator, or bring over a painting or old tapesty or something. They were quite nice about it and it was the least I could do, after all.
I made runs to Caiger mall for more radio transceivers and fresh clothes... when it's not overrun with the living dead.
I discovered an interesting museum to the southeast of Dandison, it's a taxidermy museum, and there's countless stuffed animals of all sorts, like alligators and eagles and bears and I don't even know, it's a really cool place. I figured out which Auto Repair Store is closest to The Lazenbury Museum (it's Gomm Auto Repair, although a hospital to the north is frequency ransacked) and made fuel runs for a few weeks while moving old museum exhibits around. It's somehow both heavy and fragile but decorating a mechanic's garage with a dead eagle is a unique experience.
Mostly I've spent the last year and a half in or nearby the Malton Taoist Temple, on the roof of Dandison Auto Repair. There's a nice view of Piers Park next door. It's nice to just sit up there and watch the trees sway in the wind...
I've been making a couple maps of the area. I've got a pretty good idea of the neighbourhood by now... And then just the other day, ZipZipskins shows up, talking about wanting to retake Caiger Mall! What a blast from the past.
I found some old city maps of the area and... there's something called St. Jude's Cathedral to the southeast. It's supposed to be pretty magnificent. I felt... drawn to it. Compelled in some way to go and visit it. I have't felt like that since I learned about Malton Taoist Temple almost 2 years ago.
And so, I'm writing this from Lush Auto Repair. I went through Caiger mall... I thought I'd check out the Mobile Phone Mast Maintenance Line... I went too far West and... some of the buildings were ruined. I hurt my leg when I fell but... I made it here, to a place overrun and ruined, called "Lush", ha. It was a disaster here... when I arrived... so I thought I'd fix some things, clear out some debris. it's looking a lot better... but there's still just a shut door between me and outside.
- Using a car door, you begin to build a barricade.
- You have run out of Action Points.
- Exhausted, you can go no further.
20 Feb
- You are inside Lush Auto Repair. The building has been completely ransacked, and has fallen into ruin. Cracks in the ceiling have let the rain in, and rust and rot creep across the damaged surfaces. The doors to the street have been secured.
Survivor's log:
i dont have very long
ive been in dandison auto repair for the last year and a half. i learned A lot. Zip foind his way there, what are the odds, right?
i had a... i dunno what to call it.
i felt compelled to go to st judes
i fell down a couple times.
i dunno why i kept going
im inside an auto repair store but it's ruined and theres no barticades
we'll see who i am when i wake up
if i can sleep
- This is barely legible. Whoever wrote this sure was in a rush.
2023 Journal
24 July
Survivor's log:
I hadn't expected to be alive when I woke up. I spent the night after my last entry feeling myself begin to turn. My breathing was weak, my thoughts slowed to a shamble, and I had lost all feeling in my arms and legs. I drifted off into a dreamless sleep as my heart slowed, like so many times before.
I awoke feeling much better. Not just good, but as good as ever. I was hours from death.. maybe less. A survivor at Coram patched me up. Their name was Sattano, and they did a magnificent job. They must've spent a long time tending to my injuries. I've never felt better. I told them I would repay their kindness and I intend to keep my word.
After thanking them, I set out for St. Eligius's Church, hoping to find Dophi alive. I wasn't too hopeful, but I grabbed a single first aid kit on my way. I'm glad I did, because I found her huddled in a corner, looking as bad as I had felt the night before. She was asleep so I didn't wake her, but I treated her infected wounds and patched her up as best I could.
That night, I made it to Ackland Mall. There were about a dozen survivors there, and it was extremely well barricaded. I felt so relieved to have a secure place to sleep for the night. I even had time and energy to change the old bloody nurse's outfit I'd been wearing. What a joy it is to have clean clothes. I didn't know they had clothes like this anywhere in Malton! Dressing like it's still 2005 really brought me back- time stands still here within the Border. I guess I'm a Mall Goth once more. :p Big black platform boots, a skirt covered in chains, and a necklace with a grinning skull. Nostalgia, comfort be thy name. I found a cute pink blouse too, as well as a white apron and one of those clear raincoats I've always wanted. I want to keep my new clothes clean for as long as possible!
I slept in the Mall. Slept really well, actually. I slept in a bit (what a luxury!) and found a coffee chain here that had some (expired but edible) ground coffee! No idea how it's lasted this long, but I'm not about to turn down coffee in the apocalypse.The survivors here in the mall had figured out some way to boil water using some mirrors and the skylight here in the Mall. I made pour-over coffee! Real coffee! and savoured it. It was wonderful. It made me feel happy. A jar of hot coffee, clean new clothes- I was even able to wash up in a fountain they'd turned into a shower. Maybe the apocalypse isn't so bad.
After washing up, I just wandered around the mall, taking it in. I came by a sporting goods store. It didn't have anything more combat viable than an axe, but I saw a small section of protective equipment for fencing. You know, like swords. Not the slashy kind, but the thrusting, stabbing kind. I've always wanted to learn fencing. Dear Reader, I spent the whole afternoon picking through that store, knowing that my chances were not good. Who would leave behind a sword? I must be extra lucky this week, because underneath the dusty boxes and cobwebs, in the back storage area, I found one. In the package, unopened, a fencing foil. I momentarily forgot about everything else and shouted in joy and triumph. I unwrapped it and gave it a swish-swish, then a couple practice pokes in the air. Goth clothes and a sword- what more could a girl want?
I'm amazed at this mall, it's almost like a little town here. It reminds me of before the outbreak. A beacon of hope and stability in the chaos of the wider city. I'll admit I thought about staying here, but I know better than to stay in one place for too long, no matter how safe it seems. I've lost too many people in the last fifteen years. Dophi and I are the only ones left from our original survivor group. So I got to the roof of the mail and moved a few blocks north. I'm writing this from Ephrem General Hospital. I'm gonna try to find some medical supplies and find Dophi tomorrow. After that... maybe I'll head to The Herman Building...?
Talk to you soon
22 July
Survivor's log:
As if awakening from a deep sleep, I am filled with vague memories of another life. I cannot remember the details but am filled with a sense of bittersweet nostalgia. I have taken inventory both mentally and physically, and I have come to accept that my life is not one from a decade ago. What a blessing to be allowed immortality. Whether my heart is beating or not affects only my set of capabilities. Wherever I am, in whatever condition, I am me, whether Human or Zombie. My mind is my own.
I Am Here Now In This.
I'm inside The Coram Building, and barricades are good. I asked Dophi to go to the East and check hospitals for First Aid Kits. Her run was... unsuccessful. The hospitals were overbarricaded.. She's inexperienced and can't climb well enough to get inside. She's at [St Eligius], infected and nearly dead already. I'm just trying to wait the infection out. Um, my hazy memories from earlier are a little clearer... at least from the last couple weeks. I don't have much to do besides wait so...
I was far West, in Grigg Heights. I saw the border wall... overgrown with plants but still as sturdy as ever. I guess i was hoping that since it's been almost 20 years since the outbreak that the military would... oh well. uhm, i was doing okay for a while- staying indoors, tagging buildings. met some other humans.. i hope someone comes and heals me soon... i found an old flyer from the Malton Taoist Temple. it kinda.. spoke to me, i guess. who knows how outdated the info was, but they used to have a rooftop meditation garden over in Darvall Heights. So that's where I'm headed. im not expecting to find anything there but... I've gotta know. maybe I'll find some answers? some guidance? i don't know. i feel uh.. its getting harder to think. i feel numb in my fingers and toes... eyes are having trouble focusing.. im gonna try to get some sleep.
2007 Journal
- 13 December, 2007
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- 15 October, 2007
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- 14 October, 2007
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- 12 October, 2007
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