#misc. verse.

Happy Birthday, Shy~!

Thought we'd come by and surprise ya!

Hugo and I got you a rare copy of Children of Devils on Betamax, this super old vampire movie he really likes~! I also got you a gift sub to Archie's Twilight Ballet Twitch channel and a membership to the New Eridu Ghostbusters and Paranormal Investigators Society~!

I happen to be good friends with the group's founder and president, and she told me that for an esteemed colleague such as yourself, it was on the house~!

Billy got you an official Starlight Knights replica sword, complete with lights and sound~! I think he got them discounted wholesale somewhere because they're from last year's show and we have like two dozen of them sitting in our hallway, but he swears it was one of the best seasons ever~!

Trigger got you an extra large box of red bean buns she personally caramelized with her electric sniper rifle, and Nekomata got you this live mackerel she caught at Midsummer Fantasy Resort with her bare paws~! It's a rare subspecies~!

Also, she wants to go hang out with Pharaoh. She says they have much to discuss.

Escort services are not among the jobs I accept commissions for - and plus I don't think Hugo would be very happy about that - but if you're still looking for birthday kisses, Nekomata loves attention, and Billy will probably do anything if you let him talk at you about Starlight Knights.

Just don't ask Trigger. She'll panic and run away up on a roof somewhere.

For @dreamsofalife with Love

Jill spins on her heels to find the source of the voice addressing her, and sees someone standing before her. They look human, but not...exactly, and it's clear by their physical condition they've been through hell themselves. She's cautious, sizing the stranger up, but not yet reaching for her weapon.

"You've been watching me," Jill observes plainly and calmly. Evidently, there are other actors at play here. She wonders if the stranger might be an undercover operative, or a B.O.W. sent to kill her by Los Illuminados, the KGB or some remnant of the Spencer family or Umbrella Corporation, but she's never seen a B.O.W. display such obvious sapience before: Typically they're uncontrollable shambling monstrosities, or soldiers programed to obey orders without question with no free will of their own.

She decides to take a chance, slowly beginning to raise her hands, but not keeping them far from her holster.

Sgh.Everett Safe Guards Ashley!

https://www.tumblr.com/andthemouseroared/751113914317717504/classsymemes-a-comprehensive-list-of-scenarios?source=share

It's a scene of hellish chaos as the B.O.W. army fires round after round of incendiary ammo and lobs grenade after grenade at the ramshackle wooden structure Ashley and Ethan have taken cover in. Fire rages and the ground is rocked by explosions as timbers burn and buckle around them. Ashley begins to cry out:

"Ethan! Look out! The building is about to..."

Before she can finish her thought or even process what's happening, Ashley feels the wind knocked out of her by a bodily tackle shoving her clear of the collapsing inferno.

Dazed, she looks up at her savior and finds Ethan on top of her.

After a moment to regain her bearings, Ashley nervously breaks the silence.

Jill is in her office going over some paperwork.

Every so often she seems to make some kind of note with her pen, or turns to her computer and types out a quick string of characters. She is totally focused on the task at hand.

Trondo looked at the horde of zombies with stunned face. He was firing, punching and throwing kunais at them... And for every one of those bastards he was killing, another ten appeared.

The sound of gunfire pierces the air and a hail of bullets rain down on the advancing B.O.W. force. Precision headshots instantly eliminate some, while machine gun and rifle fire thins out the front lines.

A woman's voice calls out to Trondo, feminine, but commanding:

Friendly starter for @martinsolaristhebirdvampire from Ashley!