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Post by Eagle Eye MacAllister on May 23, 2006 14:10:54 GMT 12
On a two rocks carefully balanced to hold a lying body, a short, thin boy slept deeply, snoring loudly. He was a strange sight, with a top hat on his face to keep out the sun, curly red hair that seemed to stick in all directions, and a long brown coat wrapped around him like a blanket. Underneath his coat, he had on jeans cut at the knee, worn sandals, and a dark green T-shirt that had the word "Eire" on it. His name was Condor. He rolled over on the stones and off. When he hit the ground, his eyes flew open in surprise. He leaped up from the ground. When Condor realized where he was, he relaxed, and sat down on the stones, running a hand through his flaming red hair.
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Rico Brooks
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 24, 2006 8:39:38 GMT 12
Rico stepped through the tree's and saw the red headed boy before him, wiping dried blood and some fresh from his long combat knife with his old oil rag, he'd rolled the leather arms of his jacket up and his massive forearms were covered in oil again.
He nodded to the kid and noticec his shirt, then looked back at his complextion and then his hair, his lutonian accent ringing out through the tree's
"...Irish ? "
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Post by Eagle Eye MacAllister on May 25, 2006 17:40:19 GMT 12
Condor, startled, leapt up, seeing Rico. He brushed off his shirt and as he did, many things fell from his pockets, the fortunes of recent thieveries. He rushed to pick them up, then nodded back. "Aye. I'm Condor. And let me guess. You are......English?", he said. He was wary of the other Wildcat, but he was wary of everyone who was English. He pulled his hat from the stones he had left it on, doffing it carefully, so as not to mess up his meticoulusly combed hair.
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 26, 2006 4:04:10 GMT 12
Rico smiled broadly and stepped forward patting the kid on the back and then leaning against one of the thick oak trees, he dropped the massive knife into its leather sheath hung at his waist and tucked the oil rag into his belt
"...I ain't gonna take your trinkets mate. Just there's a lack of decent people round now...they are either in a different Tribe.....or their dead. " Rico sounded solemn for a while then lifted his eyes to the boy again
"....So how long you been in under the fence then ? "
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Post by Eagle Eye MacAllister on Jun 5, 2006 4:18:17 GMT 12
Condor shrugged. "Two, maybe three, months. How about you?" He leaned over, picking up the few trinkets he forgot to pick up from the ground, including a tiny pencil, a plushie toy, and a huge knife. Condor then leaned back and sat on the stones, stuffing the things in his many pockets.
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Post by Rico Brooks on Jun 6, 2006 3:55:29 GMT 12
Rico nodded looking down at the smaller boy, he noticed the large knife and grinned and then shrugged, placing his leather gloved hands behind his back
"...Well i've lived in New Pork since before the...sandstorm hit it...when it did me and my brothers where out of town and when the dust settled we came back to clear our garage out and thats when...when...well that's all in the past "
Rico choked upon his words slightly and cursed himself for rambling on, he almost let slip about his brothers being killed. He'd told no one that, people just saw Rico as the big kid who showed the smaller ones around and looked out for them and occasionally bringing back beer and naughty magazines, not some big blubbering bafoon who couldn't keep his emotions in check.
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Post by Eagle Eye MacAllister on Jun 8, 2006 9:20:27 GMT 12
Condor raised his eyebrows, noticing the choke and the curse. He felt sympathetic to anyone who couldn't talk about what happened to them. Then, trying to pretend that he hadn't noticed it, he dropped the topic, changing to the sandstorm. "So, what do you think set off the Black Plague, anyway?" He pulled out an old, scratched pocketknife and flipped it open, then started picking his nails.
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Post by Rico Brooks on Jun 9, 2006 3:42:06 GMT 12
Rico nodded gently and instantly said
"...The Military, there's no doubt about it " He said it in more of a rolling shrug as if it were a mere idea but his eyes suggested his was set on that belief. "...What about you ? "
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Post by Eagle Eye MacAllister on Jun 13, 2006 15:57:34 GMT 12
"Eh, pretty much the same thing. I always knew those right-wing fools were going to set somethin' off." Condor said, flipping the switchblade back into his pocket. He turns his full attention back to Rico, as if it hadn't been all the time. "So, how did you get caught and dragged into the Wildcats, eh?"
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Post by Rico Brooks on Jun 14, 2006 3:41:07 GMT 12
Rico grinned and gave a small wink placing his hands up behind his head and resting upon the bough of the tree
"....I didn't get dragged in so to speak, I come here...I wanted to join the Wildcats...they were the only ones with the same views as me and wern't as....pathetic shall we say as some of the other tribes " Rico smirked gently and then shrugged gently
" Yourself ? "
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Post by Eagle Eye MacAllister on Jun 17, 2006 3:48:07 GMT 12
"Huh. Well, I had just cut through the razorwire walls. I was trudging on for a while, when the Wildcats came upon me suddenly. I was taken completely by surprise, and knocked out. I woke up in the Pit. They kept me there for weeks, then let me out and allowed me to join them.", Condor said, shrugging. "Just like most of the others."
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Post by Rico Brooks on Jun 22, 2006 22:50:03 GMT 12
Rico kicked off from the tree and stretched his arms above his head, his thick leather jacket squeaking gently with the strain, his blinked his bright blue eyes several times and then dropped his arms to swing down by his side with a heavy content sigh. Fixing his gaze upon the smaller boy sat before him.
"...Sounds like I got it the easy way then eh !" he gave a gentle laugh and smiled, gesturing to the Wildcat territory around them
"...So where you holed up ? Living in one of the office buildings outside the park or ?.." he had found a nice three roomed flat above an old computer store just opposite the park, it was still within wildcat territory though as over the months of being there the Tribe had expanded beyond the wall blocking the grassy inards of the park. He had a room spared and it was getting lonely on his own.
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