Saturday, April 13, 2013

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The team set their sights on a camp just outside of Sacramento California. The closest meet up point relative to all parties involved was at Zigoat's shitty apartment in the equally shitty central coast town of Santa Maria. The working plan was to drive North and meet up with one of their message board contacts at a secure location in San Jose. After that checkpoint, a little finesse and improvisation would have to be used. The zombie hunters knew that they could rely on the generosity of others for supplies and shelter but convincing others to give them a ride or let them borrow their vehicles would surely be a difficult task.

On the eve before the group embarked on their journey they penned a paranoid list. A paranoid list was a sheet full of questions that authority figures might ask. Should any member of the team get separated and interrogated they wanted to insure that their collective stories jibed.  Their cover story was good but Betelgeuse also needed to be certain that the origin of their meeting place was kept secret. If one of them accidentally let it slip that they had met on an online forum to discuss various zombie related conspiracies the results would be catastrophic. 

As with all good lies the team decided to keep the details of their relationship as close to the truth as possible  and only omitted or altered the parts where the words "government" or "conspiracy" appeared. The crux of the lie was that the team was searching for information in order to assist the government in finding a cure for the condition. Well into the early hours of the morning KATT continued the refrain "We want to give America's young minds anything we can to engender a positive result. We are all in this together."