You'd think that on a team with a Fictional, two Newsies, and an Irwin it would be the Irwin that would mess up and get themselves killed first. I mean, I've nearly bit it more times than I care to remember. Despite all odds it was the Fictional, Buffy Meissoner, that went first on that team. What are the odds of that? I've never been much for reading, but if she was part of a site as big as After the End Times she must have been pretty good at what she did.
How did they say she died? In the field. I don't know about you, but most Fictionals that I know would rather wipe their archived work than go on a road trip in zombie territory. But Buffy isn't why I'm writing today.
Sad to say, but the After the End Times team just can't seem to shake trouble. Today I logged into my messages to find a few pings from my friends directing me to the front page news and the CDC. It seems that Shaun Mason, one of the craziest Irwins of our pack, managed to survive his sister as well. Georgia Mason was the head Newsie of their site as well as one of the administrators. Man could she write. It was nice to have a Newsie with some bite to her work. Her last transmission was...difficult to read. Not that I'm normally one to say something like this, but go download what she attached to that last message. If it was worth dying over I'm sure there's something interesting about it. I know that my spidey sense is tingling about these documents, so I'm going to check out and see what they say.
I'm not sure what happened, but I hope that the rest of their team will be alright. A word of advice to the remaining couple: Take a break. Go home, and stay safe.
And someone, give those boys a medal.
EDIT: I've been receiving some remarks about the tone of this post. I am in no way glad about the death of any person. If some of you had been following me from the start then you would recognize my style of communication. I do sincerely hope that Mr. Mason and Mr. Cousins will be able to handle what had happened. Especially with the whole fiasco that got revealed about the former Governor Tate. With everything that's gone down I'll repeat again, go to that last transmission or any of the number of people that have reposted and download the files Ms. Mason put out before she died. I'll be re-uploading them myself once I'm done with this post.
From That's Not Johnny, the blog of Sara Taranio, June 20, 2040