bakerstreet | The Road

The Road

Maybe you’ve always been traveling this road. Maybe you just started. But, either way, now you have a companion. They say it’s not about the destination, it’s the journey. Now you’re going to have to find out.

1. Post-apocalyptic. There’s not much left of the world out there. But there’s still this road, and at the end of it, they say, there’s a haven.
2. Epic fantasy. It’s a long and winding road, through forests and plains, and all manner of treacherous fairies and giant spiders along the way. Supposedly, at the end of it there’s a castle, a dragon, and a treasure.
3. Yellow brick road! A journey through a world weird and wonderful, and at the end, if you’re lucky, is a way back home.
4. Road trip! Route 66, cheap motels, diners, small-town America and the open highway.
5. The Eternal Commute. Welcome to hell. Or New Jersey. Either way, really. The two of you are stuck in this car, in traffic, and you’re getting nowhere. Eventually, one day, you’re going to get to your destination.
6. Wilderness road. Maybe you’re lost, or stranded, or this is all you’ve ever known. All you know is there’s only one road in all this wilderness, and if you’re ever going to get back to civilization, you’re going to have to follow it.
7. Shangri-La. You’ve heard a rumor about this road. It goes somewhere. Somewhere special. El Dorado. Atlantis. Camelot. But if you ever want to get there, you’re going to have to follow the road. Don’t stray.
8. WILDCARD

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[Up for all prompts and AUs/cross-canon. Especially interested in post-apoc or Shangri-La, though road trip would be fun with canon-mates.]

[ omg??? hello!! i'm rusty, but would you like to do a thing.. ]

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ombremoon - 2016-10-02 22:56 (UTC) - Expand

[Open to all prompts]

[Open to all prompts, but eyeing up post apocalyptic in particular]

( open to all prompts! )

[Would you be up for something with this one?]

gatekeep - 2016-10-04 05:23 (UTC) - Expand

axeatyourside - 2016-10-04 23:16 (UTC) - Expand

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[4/5 are the most likely, but I'm open to ideas.]

When you realize that your life is a bad mixture of an apocalyptic blockbuster and neo-noir art film, it seems like little matters in the big scope of things. This was Sam a few weeks ago. First they canceled Pyramid league because of the new bird influenza, then his manager and coach both died. At the end of that week there was three surviving members in his team. The next week they realized it wasn't an influenza and everything just spiraled out of control from there.

Now, several weeks later and a lacking any resemblance of a normal life, he's sitting in a car with a lady he almost shot in the head just few days ago, trying their best to get the hell out of Dodge. Most of the main roads are blocked, so they've been taking the dirt paths through little towns in the size of a fly shit on the map. It's either that or walk through the infested highways.

Cellphone towers went down a while ago, the car radio only spills out white noise but they found a tattered looking map from the last rest stop that had decent instructions to a rescue center. Maybe it is still functional. Maybe it's not. It's worth trying, though.

"You want to stay on this road," he tells Kara after consulting the map yet again. "All the crossing roads lead further to inland."