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Oren Itano	oren	12/10/08 18:25	View
	Missy	12/10/08 22:22	View
The backstory of Vulpes.	Vulpes	12/11/08 01:46	View
Erica Kessel	Erica Kessel	12/11/08 07:52	View
Missy's Story.. a Do-over and another Chapter	Missy	12/11/08 22:38	View
	UsrBinPerl	12/11/08 23:48	View
	oren	12/11/08 23:57	View
Kwekwe's Backstory	Kwekwe Karu	12/12/08 01:02	View
	UsrBinPerl	12/13/08 00:35	View
Eternal Sunset	Missy	12/13/08 12:19	View
	Kit Ristow	12/14/08 00:01	View
	ShyMathys	12/14/08 00:27	View
Masks	Alissa	12/14/08 00:58	View
	Lorae	12/14/08 01:24	View
	UsrBinPerl	12/14/08 22:07	View
Missy's Story Continued..Part 3	Missy	12/16/08 08:43	View
Missy's Story Part 4: Innocence Shattered	Missy	12/16/08 18:34	View
Missy's Story Part 5: Innocence Annihilated	Missy	12/18/08 17:16	View
Small Dangers	Vox	12/18/08 21:36	View
Saint of The Abyss: Part 1	Luciferiel	12/19/08 05:21	View
Zero....-1	Justa Zero	12/19/08 17:38	View
Zero....1	Justa Zero	12/19/08 18:26	View
Óðr’s Daughter. Chapter I: A Guiding Dream	Asil Karu	12/20/08 02:39	View
Omega To Alpha	erinnic	12/23/08 16:49	View
Her Bloody Tears [-Past Event-]	Methias	12/23/08 18:09	View
Lost Kitsune - A Shattered Mind	Kiera	12/25/08 18:51	View
Usr's story Part IV	UsrBinPerl	12/27/08 20:34	View
The Essex	Heir Maelstrom	12/29/08 04:23	View
Kwekwe's shame	Kwekwe Karu	12/30/08 18:11	View
Joint Round Robin Fic Anyone...?	erinnic	12/30/08 19:07	View
God Was On Her Lips As She Died	erinnic	01/02/09 23:31	View
Love and Betrayal - A New Beginning	kessjuliesse	01/03/09 13:46	View
The Diary of Cody Woodhen	codywoodhen	01/05/09 21:35	View
Missy's Story Part 6: Innocence Abducted	Missy	01/07/09 06:23	View
Cursed Blade	Yannis_Martynov	01/08/09 21:27	View
Story Thread: Community Round Robin Fic	erinnic	01/09/09 23:25	View
The demon within	Canly Fargis	01/11/09 16:14	View
Ziau- CoLA's Very Own Casanova	Ziau	01/13/09 02:09	View
Twisted Attentions	erinnic	01/21/09 20:34	View
Inspiration- music and roleplay	Ziau	01/26/09 08:01	View
Compilation! Where were you when it all happened?	Ziau	01/28/09 09:12	View
The Clock Struck Midnight	Malice Ashdene	01/28/09 22:31	View
With Precision- a poem by Kelly Welch A.k.A Ziau Jua.	Ziau	01/29/09 04:36	View
Alisa's dicovery of a new world (character sheet + story)	Alisa Draconia	01/30/09 19:17	View
The Shadow Stepper- Ziau the Enshadowed.	Ziau	02/01/09 07:26	View
Krista Lemon arrives to the streets of Lost Angels	Krista	02/03/09 00:09	View
Back Story Upto the Excile of Rune.	RuneCrimson	02/03/09 21:59	View
War with the Brood, war with the Coven, and the Pack.	Ziau	02/07/09 04:11	View
-- Halcyon's Backstory --	Halcyon Nacht	02/08/09 00:22	View
Planer/Exonar family (aka, Erinyse, Khalan, Viridian, Cummere, Selena)	Cummere Mayo	02/08/09 03:53	View
Kit's Backstory	Kit Ristow	02/10/09 18:40	View
Eyes in the Dark	Keyla	02/11/09 09:47	View
Surfacing Part I	Llyr	02/13/09 22:21	View
Surfacing Part II	Llyr	02/13/09 22:35	View
Tama-Chan: A Cat's Story (Tamara's background)	Tamara	02/17/09 07:35	View
Project: A map of Post Apocalypse North America	Tamara	02/17/09 19:21	View
Dreamtime Revelations	Winter	02/19/09 18:08	View
Reaver-the echo of the Blackwind	AntiZero	02/23/09 00:43	View
On the Origin of Species	Tamara	02/25/09 22:38	View
Confession	Kit Ristow	02/26/09 01:39	View
Personnel File: Pointe, Zsuzsanna C. (Inactive, Deceased)	Su Pointe	02/26/09 03:32	View
Malice, in a Different Kind of Wonderland	Malice Ashdene	02/27/09 18:07	View
The Dark of Inspiration	Kit Ristow	03/01/09 21:42	View
Jheric: Crucified	Kayle Ashdene	03/03/09 10:53	View
It's my life	arsene_Braveheart	03/05/09 18:18	View
The Tradgedy of the Hybrid	Digital Enigma	03/29/09 07:09	View
The Sin of Wrath	molly switchblade	04/02/09 21:28	View
Golden Boy	Ephran Ehrler	04/15/09 06:12	View
Story About A Girl	Aesendria	04/24/09 15:34	View
Climaxe by Smith and Wesson	Sloan	04/28/09 06:19	View
My new project ATTENTION Russian Characters!	Ziau	05/01/09 06:42	View
NSFW A Typical Tuesday Night for Missy	Missy	05/06/09 20:48	View
Post your profile links!	Cortero Landar	05/07/09 10:25	View
Making Logan Suffer	Aesendria	05/12/09 07:09	View
Jeanne Varun	Jeanne Varun	05/14/09 08:24	View
The Vanguard's True Purpose	Logan	05/16/09 01:03	View
Cortero's Infernal Armor	Cortero Landar	05/16/09 06:52	View
Bookstore Surprise	Aesendria	05/16/09 23:16	View
Post your profile links if you have in-story info in them!	Cortero Landar	05/18/09 10:33	View
Promises	Aesendria	05/24/09 02:44	View
Cyber Evolution Bios, Anur Seda, Cyber Reaper, and Commander of CE	Theassassin	06/08/09 11:28	View
Was any of it real?	Youko_Giha	06/12/09 15:28	View
A shift in priorities	Logan	06/17/09 04:21	View
Going home	Ludvig	06/17/09 19:10	View
'Ren in Japan	oren	06/18/09 23:11	View
Thelma across the board	ThelemaJuliesse	06/26/09 15:09	View
Pre-fiction: How Kayteear got here.	Kayteear	07/15/09 16:43	View
Story Time	Charissa	07/17/09 19:03	View
Pack Airship RP.	Tai	07/27/09 02:49	View
My Character	Lilith13	08/05/09 22:34	View
Lilith	Lilith13	08/06/09 09:30	View
The Haunter in the Dark	Shadow	08/14/09 21:50	View
The Flying Heads	Kwekwe Karu	08/16/09 16:52	View
Why selling coffins is impossible in CoLA	Ziau	08/23/09 04:14	View
Paint it red!	Ziau	08/23/09 07:51	View
Young Cowards.	Ziau	08/23/09 08:28	View
Great video for RPers and people passionate about writing.	Ziau	09/05/09 08:55	View
Dux - 264 BC	Dux	09/10/09 18:41	View
The Thing at South Gate Sanitarium	Shadow	09/15/09 22:09	View
♪♫ Do you wanna RP my avatar ♪♫	Kayteear	09/17/09 14:45	View
Jessica's Mother	Jessica Susser	09/21/09 04:19	View
Ziau Challenged me to. NSFW	ChasityDawes	09/21/09 07:17	View
The Divine Machine.................	Theassassin	09/21/09 22:29	View
I Bleed my Blood for Myself.	Ziau	09/22/09 22:28	View
Cronicle of a death	Kayteear	09/24/09 01:34	View
"Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself"	DavidJoshua Artful	09/26/09 17:07	View
Old Versus New	Digital Enigma	09/27/09 20:28	View
The Shadowed Order, The Eternal Order, Ordo Machina	Theassassin	10/06/09 06:55	View
Elamyrath's History	Elamyrath	10/10/09 00:52	View
The here, the now, the dead. The Minus.	TheMinus Ziskey	10/10/09 12:41	View
Before bed ritual.	Amy Guisse	10/17/09 04:13	View
Alone?	Ike	10/18/09 15:34	View
IS this High School again?	Theassassin	10/24/09 12:49	View
Sidhe vs Drow	Orlok Lectar	10/29/09 04:08	View
Daddy blues	arsene_Braveheart	11/17/09 19:01	View
Chronicles of SIE	agentlyseria	11/22/09 12:27	View
The Lady In Black(A Drokan Exile Twisted Love Story)	AntiZero	11/29/09 06:36	View
The growing Darkness.	Leirain Koray	12/01/09 11:04	View
The lycan	Kayteear	12/01/09 16:00	View
City of Lost Jackman: The Untold Hollywood Blockbuster	AntiZero	12/02/09 07:11	View
Coming home for christmas ..	Kes	12/10/09 22:17	View
Bunneh Vs. Lich, DBZ style	Karsha Yutani	12/14/09 11:59	View
A Farewell	Roland	12/16/09 20:50	View
Of Death and Rebirth	Digital Enigma	12/21/09 20:14	View
The Story of Reoco	Reoko Farspire	02/06/10 20:47	View
Homecoming......... The Story of Orpheus Darkfold	OrpheusDarkfold	03/11/10 02:27	View
The Story of Orpheus Part 2	OrpheusDarkfold	03/13/10 23:15	View
Who owns who?	Kayteear	03/22/10 22:03	View
Missing the Ocean	ricercar	03/23/10 22:27	View
Letter to the editor: Manners in LA	Tink	03/25/10 16:58	View
Chasity Backstory	ChasityDawes	06/14/10 19:43	View
Something Black and Violent...	DavidJoshua Artful	06/19/10 22:23	View
Doctor Visit	erinnic	07/12/10 04:26	View
Gabby Perdide	vacantghost	07/19/10 04:42	View

Topic Erica Kessel

Poster	Message	Date
Erica Kessel	Part 1 A sweltering August day in San Francisco began with the shattering of glass as bricks and stones were thrown through the windows of the downtown Army recruitment center. The crowd had formed overnight after reports on the news that yet another fifteen thousand were going to be sent to the ends of the earth to kill and be killed in the name of Democracy; a term which had, over the past twenty years, been twisted from its original meaning. Having your vote counted was no longer a right given to all, but a privilege bought for a price that kept increasing each year, and now these affluent leaders had again decided to determine the fate of the common people. Parents whose children had been killed overseas, young men and women who had received their draft notices, or just people who saw the injustice that had taken over the world gathered on the streets to protest. The first gun shot was accompanied by screaming and panic. As the crowd tried to scatter, the police moved in to surround them. The directive from the government was that no dissenters should be allowed free, and as the jails and prisons quickly reached their capacity, the only solution left was to kill them. Many police officers had deserted in recent months, not willing to slaughter those who had committed only minor crimes. Some of these ex-cops were in the crowd and realized what was about to happen and what the only hope of survival was. A man and a woman, both in their forties, ran through the crowd, looking for a way out. They had joined the crowd when it appeared to be a peaceful protest, and the violence started so suddenly there had been no time to get away. The man took the woman's hand and headed towards an opening near the side of the recruitment office building. In all the screaming and gunfire, no one would have noticed the two shots coming from the roof of a nearby building. The man collapsed onto the ground, his life draining out onto the pavement from the side of his head. The woman fell a second later, clutching her side and convulsing as her body reacted to the foreign object in her body. A third shot from the roof ended it, perhaps the only act of mercy that took place that morning. After the battle had ended, an officer approached the bodies of the couple, notepad in hand. Reaching down he removed a wallet from the man's pocket and flipped it open. After sliding the driver's license out, he jotted down a number on his notepad and removed a stack of bills, then tossed the wallet back onto the man's body. A photograph of a twelve year old girl fell out. This girl is Erica Kessel. Twelve years old is old enough to understand political situations, especially when it involves the death of your parents. Erica had been raised in a home where corruption in the government, civil liberties, and contempt of those in power were commonly discussed topics. When her parents died, the police were too busy to bother notifying anyone. The names were taken for official documents, but for the friends and families of the dead, they had just gone "missing". Of course, they all suspected what had happened to them, but going to the police station to confirm it just meant being added to a watchlist of suspected dissenters. Erica knew where her parents had gone that night, and when they didn't return and she saw the news the next day, she knew what had happened. She was mad at the government, mad at the police, mad at authority, but she knew that there was nothing she could do. She continued going to school, as her parents often said that the power of words and the power of ideas were the most powerful things there are, and no one can take those things away from you. Almost four years later, just after Erica's 16th birthday, the largest natural disaster in the history of human civilization occurred. If seen from a distance, the planet entering the tail of Wormwood would have resembled a shroud being drawn over the face of a corpse. Massive shards of ice rained down on the surface, and a large fragment hit Erica's neighborhood, destroying her house and school. Luckily, Erica was not there at the time. After a few days, the friction created by the ice screaming through the atmosphere raised the global temperature to the point at which most animals could not live on the surface anymore. No longer having a home or a school, Erica had started living in the subways with many others who had lost their homes, and were now joined by those moving underground to escape the torrid surface. Finally, darkness fell upon the entire planet as the air became saturated with ash and dust. When light finally returned to the city after months of darkness, Erica and those that had sought refuge underground emerged to a ruined city. All over the country and the world, governments had crumbled in the blink of an eye leaving the people alone, without laws, to do as they please. Authors throughout history have written about the human condition, many asserting that at their most fundamental level humans are benevolent creatures. In the ruined San Francisco, the ultimate test of this theory was performed. Realizing that resources were now scarce, everyone went their own ways, killing each other to get what they needed to survive. Erica, who had always held contempt for government and authority, watched as the true nature of humanity revealed itself in all its horror in front of her eyes. It did not take long for Erica's ideas about the necessity of government and rule to change, be that a democracy or dictatorship. As the days went on, history seemed to be repeating itself from the beginning. The primitive beings began to realize there was strength in numbers and sharing of resources, and the chaos became more ordered as the fighting turned from every person for themselves to wars between groups. As more and more died, the population eventually reached a level that was sustainable by the meager resources left. Each group began to realize that they were able to provide for themselves without starving, and some semblance of order was finally established in the city. The Vampire Coven in Los Angeles had been in power for a few decades, but in San Francisco humans were left alone for the most part. After Wormwood, though, more and more Vampires started to trickle into the city. Perhaps they were emerging due to the same resource problems the humans faced; or maybe they had come from Los Angeles, running from the enemies the Coven now found itself facing. Either way, their presence in the city began to grow. It was a day approaching the sixth anniversary of Wormwood when Erica woke up and realized she had died. She stepped out of the alley she had found herself in and recognized a part of town that she hardly ever visited. A quick glance at a newspaper meandering down the sidewalk in the evening breeze told her that she could not remember the past four days. She felt the fangs in her mouth, the stillness in her chest, and the chill of her skin and knew what she was. She stood on the sidewalk and looked up and down the street, contemplating what she would do now.	12/11/08 07:52
erinnic	this is cool not only cause it's well written, but also because it offers up a unique perspective to the actual apocalypse. sweet :)	12/11/08 22:19
Erica Kessel	Thank you :)	12/11/08 22:52