A City of Stone!

[Brian]

"I'm Liao, from Desert Town," Liao replies cheerfully.  "Who are you?"

[Halbarad]

"I'm Phil," the dark-haired boy replies. "Nice to meet you, I think. Or it'd be nicer if the town wasn't full of zombies."

Shaking his head, he gave the boy a puzzled look. "Desert Town? Where's that? There's no deserts anywhere near Sixton."

[Brian]

"I walked a long way," Liao says, gesturing vaguely.  "But I think we need to worry about the zombies, right now.  We'll need to get rid of them and the robots, and the computer, in order to make this place go back to normal, I guess?"

[Halbarad]

"Yeah..." Phil replied, frowning a bit. "I just hope stopping those robots will stop everyone from being a zombie, too."

Shaking his head, he looks at the other boy. "So what do you think? Should we go now? It's a long ways up into the mountains, and it's already nighttime."

[Brian]

"We could go," Liao said.  "I think we'd make it very quickly, but....  Do we have a plan?"

[Halbarad]

"Well, sort of," Phil says, scratching his head. "I thought the first thing was to find the main computer that's controlling all the robots and stop it. Then if that doesn't stop the zombies, try to figure out what's making everyone act so weird. But if you've got a better idea, fire away."

[Brian]

"'Wisdom is not always found from within'," Liao says.  "But, I was asking if there was anyone we could talk to about robots and computers first.  Maybe someone who knows something about what's going on."

[Halbarad]

"I don't think anyone else DOES know about the robots," Phil replied, shaking his head. "I mean I'd never heard about anything like it until I went to look, and I wouldn't have even looked if I hadn't seen something metal come down in the mountains during the meteor shower last night. We could probably ask around, but I doubt anyone else will know anything either."

[Brian]

Liao nods thoughtfully.  "Well, it's late.  Why don't we go, peek around, and see what information we can gather.  Then we can come back here and plan better," he suggests.

[Halbarad]

"Sounds okay to me," Phil nodded. "And hey - thanks."

[Brian]

"No problem!" Liao says cheerfully.  "Now which way do we need to go?"

[Halbarad]

"Well, I'm not sure who else is here," Phil says. "Are there other people here besides the police?"

[Brian]

"I don't know," Liao admits.  "I just got here.  But I figured we should go since we both have stars.  The ones with the stars are supposed to keep the world from getting dark.  That's what I learned."

[Halbarad]

"If you say so," Phil replies somewhat dubiously, looking down at the star emblem still in his hand. "Anyway, where'd that policeman go?" The boy heads out of the office, looking around for anyone else.

[Brian]

Laio follows Phil, trying to work out in his mind how to take Phil with him if he teleports.