This game is seriously the tits. It's not fun and bright, its doom and gloom. More than once I've wiped out my own team by being selfish.
For the sisters:
"I wake up in a ditch, my red plaid workshirt covered in blood. I'm not bleeding, who's I wonder? I gather myself up, rifle through my backback, and take my bearings. Thank god for cub scouts I thought, as I turn on my flatchlight, breaking up the ilky darkness of the setting sun and head towards a road in the distance. All of a sudden, the prattle of a radio breaks up the silence. I quickly lower my backpack off of one shoulder, and find the radio in a back, undiscovered pocket. Wait a minute I thought, this isn't my old backpack? how long have I been out cold for, who looted my sleeping, drenched body? Through the cackle of the radio I hear a myraid of voices, calling for help, some offering trade, some barely speaking english. "How am I die". I hear a monotone voice slice through, "food for guns?"
Now the doubt starts to creep into my head like a thief in the night. Worry racks my body, like a thousand ants gnawing at my skin. I'm unarmed, hungry, and its getting dark. I decide to chance it, and state clearly, I am willing to trade, where are you?". The disembodied voice replies, "Campos". Ahh, I know this name, I thought, I saw it on a road sign a couple miles back, I'm heading in the right direction.
I press on, keeping heartrate keeping beat with the sound of my shoes hitting the pavement. Now nightfall, a haze has fallen over the valley. I can see two towers stretched tall in the distance. As I run through a crumbling neighbourhood, I am grabbed suddenly by a tall, eastern block looking man, his eyes full of fear, he mutters, "Da, comrade, I am gypsy king, they call me AK47". Behind him is a smaller fellow, shaking in fear, nervously jangling a large 44 calibre handgun. He seems to have pissed himself. After some quick pleasantries, it is obvious that I am going to have to assume leadership.
Suddenly, we hear a CRACK CRACK CRACK, and the night sky is illuminating sharply in a tall building just west. I charge, leading the way, someone might be hurt! 47 and 44 (whom I've affectionately named) try to keep up, but my rugby training gives me the advantage. I vault through a window, yelling for my other two piss-soaked comrades to follow, and charge up the numerous flights of stairs. What could only be described as a scene from the recesses of the mind of a serial killer, greets my eyes as I reach the 4th floor. Blank-eyed people, blood and entrails running down their mouths and throats, are gnawing at the midsection of a still barely alive soul. They seemingly smell me, and start to give chase, and as I turn around to run, I'm run pell-mell into 44 and 47, who are too stunned in fear to react. I blow by them like a cat on fire, and the last thing I hear is their dying screams as they are quickly consumed and overtaken by the horde.
I run and run far. I've made it to the outskirts of town. I find a shallow depression in the earth to bed down for, my heart finally starting to calm. If this is the first day, how am I to survive the next...."