Diary of the dead

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They’re mutating. Sweet Jesus, they’re evolving! Hunters first, now... things, exploding, corpulent corpses full of... God, I don’t want to think about it. Whatever it is, infected – hell, ZOMBIES – love it. Zoey caught a stream of it and in the blink of an eye a howling mass of dead was all over here. We couldn’t club ‘em off! Had to blast ‘em with buck and 9mm rounds. I think we clipped the poor girl, maybe Francis with his shotgun, but she didn’t complain.

Just got back up and ran with the rest of us.

‘Course, she was covered in shit by then. I hate sewer fighting. Still, we made it into the hospital, so that’s a small mercy. As always, the safe house is stocked up, and I’ve even picked me up an M16. Thing’s a piece of shit – an M4 would be much better for this kind of fightin’ – bit man, it feels good to have a proper longarm.

We’re moving out again. Write more if we’re still alive at the end of this.

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Time was, I hated the sound of choppers. Too many bad memories... but now... music. God-damned music to my ears.

The fight up through the hospital was bad. The worst yet. Hunters, Boomers, things that... shit, some things I just don’t even want to try and remember. That little girl, the crying girl... what she did to Francis... shit.

But we got to the elevator. Left a pile of dead up to my shoulders in the corridor outside, had to cave in a Hunter’s skull when it leapt into the elevator car after us, but we got there. Then it was the long slow ride up, Lord knows what skulking about on the car’s roof.

We high-tailed it out before we got a chance to find out.

The upper floor was under construction, open to the sky. Louis got pushed off by the biggest lump of dead muscle I’ve ever seen, some kind of flesh Tank, and I had to get Zoey to cover my ass while I hauled him back up. No way we was leaving him to fall or get torn to pieces. Not after that Witch and what it did.

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3 Comments

davidian Nov 26, 2008 9:38 AM	Oh man, I've been resisting but I think I'm going to have to buy this game if I can get some of my mates onboard as well (I'm looking at you Mr_Andersson)! Damn you Aussie Peso!
Hawkeye Nov 26, 2008 12:33 PM	It's worth it, totally worth it.
Hoonbernator Dec 4, 2008 3:45 PM	Awesome Awesome Awesome game - buy it on Steam el cheapo (of quarters with some friends and its like $37 each!) Awesome single player, even better multiplayer. Great game for the casual gamer - no grinding in this puppy!

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