Jack's Diary - Day 1, September 16th 2013

      It's been three days since The Hill fell. I really thought it was an absolute sanctuary, an impenetrable  land for the living. No one expected such a serge of lost souls to surround The Hill. It was almost as if they made a declaration to themselves, having finally tolerated our co-existence of violence and avoidance for long enough. All the people I cared about are lost once again, either walking among the lost souls or hiding in the basement of a small shack. I could look for them, but I feel no desire to. I already witnessed some of my fondest friends running to save their own hides and those who stood strong to protect our home succumb to the serge, with all their sacrifices being in vane. No, those who ran can rot and die of hunger for all I care. Of course, I'm no better. I walk away without a scratch on me all because I was positioned as sniper that day. Once I ran out of ammo, I could have charged down there with my club and knocked a few heads. The result would have been the same, however.

      I tread lightly across the bloody grass, taking one last look at my home. There are too many memories that lurk in the street corners and benches of this place. The thoughts come rushing in with draggers, tormenting the realization that all that was good was lost. I see old friends walking aimlessly or what is left of them. I wish I could end them, to put them at ease, but there are far to many nearby and doing so would put me in danger. Would it really be so bad?

      I'm walking out the highway entrance tonight, my first time leaving this place in 7 years. I've gathered enough food, water, and ammo for the trip from the storage house. Funny, no one thought to hide in there. I also found an old notebook to write in. I could bring my old journals with me, but those no longer matter. Paradise is lost.

- Jack's Diary

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September 9th - Caught a "Dog"

We caught a guy which who was involved in the attack. Me, Lexi, and Victor went to investigate the guy. We asked him many questions such as who are you, how many people in his group, why did they attack our camp and all that. Of course, he didn't answer any of those questions therefore we decided to lock him up in a cage in the middle of a forest full of cutters and craze. "Man he's goin' to shit his pant." says Lexi, we headed back to our camp and thinking what we should do next but for sure we are going to fortified our camp and we will have many more people patrolling at night, just to make sure everyone is safe. This is frustrating, though we sure will go back to check on that dog in the cage and we WILL make sure that he talks tomorrow, if not well who knows what is going to happen.

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Day 21, July 18th 2013 - We're Strong in Numbers

We heard a cough, he's woken up from his sleep. He didn't recognize me at first so he was panicked. I held him down and looked them in the eyes, then he calmed down "Mike? Holy shit man." He said, "ye. Where's Victor?" I said, "Hunting, let's go to the main base." He responded. We walked and I introduced Lexi, Greg and Jess. When we arrived, their base was blessed with all kind goods, weapons, food, clothes, and other stuff. I saw Victor and ran directly at him, "holy shit you're alive, not in the best shape but you're alive." He said to me. I said where my brother is and he said that he joined the rebels. I was shocked, I asked him where the rebel's base is and he said that he doesn't know what the area or city called but he knows where it is. I told Jess, Greg, and Lexi to stay at my cousin's base because it is the safest place to be at right now. But of course "I am not fucking staying here Mike, I'm going with you." Lexi said "Whoa who's this kid Mike?" My cousin said, "Just some kid I found" I said, "some kid?" Lexi said, she looked upset now but she still insisted to go with me. So there are only going to be 3 people who are going after my brother, my cousin, Lexi, and I. My cousin said we should take what we need for the journey and he said we're going to be on foot because cars or horses ain't gonna cut it. We decided to go the next day so in the meanwhile, we had to clear the roads. They're full of craze stuck in the sharpened bamboos so we had to kill them and threw them. We also went to some store to loot, there were shitload of craze but we managed we were strong in numbers. We were too exhausted that day so we decided to gather the scavenged items and sorted them out. We got food, weapons, and meds. It was awesome, such an easy day, I wish everyone would go after my brother with me because we're unbreakable together. We were to tired so we decided to take a rest at my cousin's base for another night. 

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Day 10, July 6th 2013 - Secret to Disaster.

12:06 AM

I woke up from my sleep this morning, it was the best sleep I've ever had in a long time man. I sat down, and then Lexi walked up to me with a bowl of hot deer soup.  "Better, not taste like shit." I said, "haha. Fuck you." She said. I ate the soup, man this soup was pretty darm good I must say, but I didn't say it. "Where'd Dion go?", "Oh, he's going to loot some more stuff somewhere." She said, "So he just left you alone? Fucking guy." I said. We sat there and talked, then we heard gunshots. Lexi and I ran there and saw Dion lying down on the floor. I sat there, Lexi went towards his body. "Holy shit, he was bitten." She said. "No. Nono.". I walked up to his body and saw the mark. I had a mental breakdown. I just sat there and think, I guess he didn't want to turn to one of those things. He wrote a note, "I'm sorry I'm letting you down guys, I didn't wanna tell you about this because I'm scared that one of you are gonna do it which will be a tough decision. So I decided to do it myself. Mike, get Lexi to a better place, take care of her. I know it's hard for you to be reminded of your little sister but you gotta do this man. For her, for all of us. I'm sorry I couldn't go any further with you. You've been a great, the greatest cousin. Thanks for everything man, there are some weapons, food, and water I found. Good luck my friend." I took the note and didn't show it to Lexi, then we decided to walked away from the army base. I didn't talk for the whole day, Lexi was in shock, she apologized about my cousin but it didn't matter. He's down. We burried him beside the building. "I'm sorr..", "Do not EVER bring that up again, and second, you stay close to me and don't do anything unless I told you to." I said, "sure." We walked and found a great place to camp for the night close to a lake in the forest. I managed to kill 3 craze, not a big deal anymore. Choked the one behind the tree, the the other one's head and I told Lexi to distract the other one and boom, I broke it's leg. We decided to chain it to a tree as our watchdog from other raiders, even though I'm risking our safety, but it seemed like it didn't bother her at all. Well she asked why with concern but I explained it to her so yeah. Today is really shitty. "Let's go kiddo, help me build this thing." I said. We built a camp and I let her asleep. I don't want her to know anything about the note, especially about my little sister. Yeah, she was dead because she was bitten by a fucking craze. Put a bullet through her head. We'll see how thing goes tomorrow, but I'll make sure to keep Lexi safe.

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Day 8, July 4th 2013 - That Negotiation Went Well

10:12 PM

I woke up early this morning, you know wanna give them some breakfast surprise. Grabbed everything I needed, my shotgun, and my baseball bat. I walked pretty far, but I left some marks so I could go back to our camp. It was quite and peaceful in the morning, some craze are still around but I don't really give a shit at that moment. I walked a bit further then I saw a lake, not only that there was also a deer. A fucking deer dude, it's like 6 days meals. I thought, I gotta get this deer but how? I didn't know how to kill it. If I shoot it, the loud bang is gonna wake the craze and I'll ended up getting my ass beat. I sneaked up on the deer but when I was this close and I was about to swing my baseball bat, that animal ran. I followed the track, not too far from where I was then I saw the deer, this time it's lying down under the shades. Still didn't know  how to get it, I thought if I shoot this thing really close, I might be able to reduce the noise of the gun. So I sneaked up on it and I stuck my barrel to it's chest and boom. Not a damn noise came out, I was so happy. Now we all can feast. I tied the horn to a vine and pulled it along the way. I got to our campsite and saw everything was a mess. Those fuckers holding Lexi and my cousin as hostiles. Both of them were armed with vest and a machete and revolver on the other. I thought this was the end of it, I decided to negotiate with those guys. Walked slowly to them, we talked and talked and talked. I didn't wanna give the deer either, then luck was on my side this time. A craze walked towards him while I distracted is ass with stupid negotiations. The craze bit him and sank it's teeth in his neck and I quickly grabbed my shot gun and shot the other raider. Then lastly, bashed the walker with my baseball bat. Man I didn't know what was gonna happen to my cousin and Lexi if I wasn't there on time. I was terrified. We looted them, couple shots to the heads just to make sure they're dead, then we threw the bodies into a ditch and we enjoyed our deer, freshly cooked. Again we feasted, joked around and just got to know each other a little more. After that, we decided to leave the forest, through some more horde of craze but we didn't wanna deal with it so we just sneaked behind them. Finally after a full day of walk we got out of that forest. We are still far away from Quebec, but we'll get there eventually. We found a car, that is not locked luckily, some fuel, and my cousin hot wired it. It worked, and he drove us until the fuel ran out and we stuck in the middle of this highway. I'm too tired, and since there are cars in the highway that we are on right now we might be able to suck the fuel in them and use it. I was about to give up but then I saw this red haired, blue eyed, little girl who is so cheery and sweary and all that, that's what motivated me. That what keeps me going, Lexi and my brother is the reason why I try this hard.Well no matter what happened, we all always have things that we want to fight for.

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Day 1 - How it started

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Day 7, July 3rd 2013 - Her Name is Lexi.

9:36 PM

We didn't know where to go, the highway turned out to be a dead end. We couldn't find a way to get pass it. We decided to go down through the forest, perhaps there is a lake that we could cross through to get to the other side. We decided to make a camp in the jungle, when suddenly we got ambushed by other group of survivors. There were 5 of them, they were trying to raid us. Gun shots everywhere, and since we didn't have any guns, we backed away and left our camp. Not too far though because I wanted to know who they were,  my cousin, the girl, and I stuck around for a while. When 3 of them left, there were 2 guys stayed at our camp, so we decided to take our stuff back. The girl said she could distract them while me and my cousin try to sneak up on them, so we did. She did a pretty good job, we just simply choked the two guys and that was that. They had guns on them so we took it, a revolver and a shotgun. Enough for the three of us. I gave the girl my crowbar so I could take shotgun and my cousin took the revolver. We packed everything and loot everything we could from them. We made sure we didn't leave any tracks behind when we leave. Along the way, we talked. She told us her name, Lexi. Her parents were dead I believe and she knew it. She told us about her parents were stuck in the subway station and all that. Then I figured, the letter was about her, I showed it to her, and she kept it. She doesn't seem to mind everything that has been going on. We talked more, walked, and threw some corny jokes at each other. Life was good for a moment, we got tired so we decided to make a camp under a bridge which was full with craze, but we managed to clear them out one by one, quietly. I wouldn't risk any loud noise at this moment. Baseball bats and crowbar is the way to go to not make that much noise. We sat there and do our usual shift. I'm up first the other two are asleep, my cousin keeps talking in his dream, and Lexi? She doesn't seem scared at all. She's like my little sister now, a badass one I know, knowing that there's no one who will be able to take care of her now. I feel sorry for you kiddo, we'll got something to eat tomorrow. I promise.

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Day 6, July 2nd 2013 - Found Her

9:32 PM

I'm exhausted, sad, and I don't even know what's going through my mind. I woke my cousin up, we're running low on food and water. We were too exhausted to even continue our journey, but we gotta keep moving. We destroyed our shelter and repacked everything, and after 3 hours of walk, we finally got to a small lake. We refilled our water bottles, and continued with our journey again. We walked and walked and walked then we found a high way. This high way is abandoned, and cars everywhere. I told my cousin to try to at least hot wire them. We broke the window and then, the alarm goes off. We're fucked I thought, craze are everywhere coming towards the car. We didn't know where to go so we decided to go under cars, and prayed so that they won't find us. We sneaked from cars to cars, and when we got away a little bit more, we decided to blow the cars up. That way, we can at least try to go on foot through the highway. Boom, huge explosions, fun, kinda. It's been along time that me and my cousin barely laugh or even smile. After a while and seeing no craze, we decided to walk on foot, when suddenly we heard something from the bush. We crouched, and all of the sudden, a little girl showed up. My cousin and I backed up and asked her if she was bitten. Turned out that she was fine, only some scrapes and blood, but no bite marks. We gave her water and some gauze to fix her. Fuck, that girl scared the fuck out of me. She looked like she has been surviving alone all this time, only her and her backpack. But how? She's pretty badass I must say, she swears a lot though. I asked her how old she is and she said she was only 13. Okay, so we got another member after we lost Boomer the other day, but I haven't talked much with her since we were too busy trying to walk on the highway without getting noticed by craze. We got to this place, I don't know, some sorta abandoned electric panel. There was no one nor craze so we decided to take a rest there. We made a little shelter, now she guards us and so on, the shift continues. She doesn't look scared at all, I don't know why or how. She had a radio with her and we were listening to it. The government, finally. They said that the military made a base in Quebec, but in order to go in there, we must be checked for bite marks or any signs that show that we're the rebels. Rebels ? I thought, what does it mean? No one knows until now who and what the rebels are, what they do and how many are there. All we want to do know is just to survive another day without losing any of our member(s) again. It's been along week for me. For all of us, and tomorrow we gotta start to hit our way into the city again to loot some food, and weapons and all the necessary needs for all of us. And this girl, we gotta keep her safe. She kinda reminds me with my cousin which I don't know where she is now. Dead? Hopefully not. I still need to find my brother too, hope he survives this hell.

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Day 4, june 30th 2013

 2:18 PM

We continued our journey, we decided  to go take a look at the sports store. We were walking man, it was calm until this frickin dog barked. Though I saw a figure running away from us, he/she was about 5'5 we were about to run after him/her but the craze man. They followed us so we had to rush into the store and locked ourselves in. Now there are 3 craze and I took the first one out easy, put some choke. The next two, we had to co-operate with each other. I took the left and Dion took the right one out. We thought we were clear for a sec there, we looted some stuff, more damn weapons, and cash, thought it's pretty useless in an apocalypse like this. I'm hearing noises now from the safe room inside the building and we decided to check it out.

11:55 PM

Figured. One of the cutter was trapped inside, It took us hours to do so though. After hours and hours trying to figure out what to do, finally we found a way to kill this damn thing. We found an alcohol, put some fuse in it, burn it and set that fucking thing on fire. It worked, it fucking worked.  I'm exhausted, I think I'm going to delay the journey till tomorrow and thinking of making more molovs in case if we encounter one of the cutters again. I'm too exhausted, my cousin and the dog are too. We looted some stuff though, knives, baseball bats, some clothes, a tent, sleeping bags some junk. I'm wondering wether that figure is still alive or not. Maybe, it was the girl that the letter was talking about. Hopefully she's still alive. I'm really thinking of taking a rest for a bit and let Boomer keep the guard up. We have a shift now, 3 hours sleep for me, Boomer, and Dion, then we have to change shift on who's watching what. Boomer truly is a gift.

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Day 3, June 29th 2013 - We Saw a Cutter

12:19 PM

It was really bright outside, hot, so we decided to test our luck at night. We found and went into some sorta tunnel, led us underground. We didn't know what it was, but when we got inside, hey who would've thought? It was a subway station. We had to keep our head low and loot everything we could, so we decided to spread out and go back in 10 minutes. This subway station was huge. Off my cousin went, and I did my own damn business. While I was trying to loot, I saw this huge craze, his head was disoriented, and there were parasites all over it's body, and scissors at then end of each hand, fucking nasty. I think that's what's gonna happen if you got infected for a long time. I looted everything I could and didn't take a chance to even get close to it. I got a crowbar and a letter that says "Keep her safe". So I took it with me just in case if "she" is still alive. I figured my 10 minutes was up and I went back to meet up with my cousin. I was about to tell him about the huge craze, when suddenly we heard the most inhumane scream. We kept our head low and stayed focus, we walked slowly towards the big craze, my cousin got his eyes locked on a craze and took it down. After we were hiding for a while and couldn't figure out a way to take the big craze down, we decided to leave it be. We left the subway station and went back to our camp. We were too exhausted so we decided to get some rest and prepare the stuff that we might need for our next journey and later figured what we wanted to call this nasty thing, the "Cutter".

4:39 PM

We were preparing our needs for our journey when we heard something by the back door. Took us hours to figured that it was only a brown-ish beige labrador dog. Checked him, he looked friendly and there was no bite marks on him, so we decided to let him in. Gave him food and all that stuff, not bad to keep us company for our journey. Named him Boomer.

5:59 PM

I got woken up from my nap, and ate a can of food. I was looking for my cousin and Boomer, didn't have a clue where they went, then I heard the backdoor opened. Holy shit, I saw a rabbit on Boomer's back with my cousin walking by him. Well I guess we're gonna have a rabbit meat tonight.

9:30 PM

Long fucking day, we are going to start our journey in 30 minutes I guess, wish us the best luck. Man I'm so nervous, especially now that Boomer is with us now, he could bark at all time and alert the craze. Hopefully he won't do that. My cousin looks scared, I'm terrified. I only got my baseball bat that I got from 2 days ago at the supermarket and my cousin only got the crowbar I found at the subway station. I keep the letter and stick it on my backpack. We won't bring anything heavy, just in case that we might find something else that is more valuable and the rest of the junk that we found. I got 25 minutes now, hopefully we got another day to live, or even longer. Re-checking the list, and I left a note "Drawer for some food", just in case if there are any survivors left who aren't as lucky as our asses. I'm gonna embrace myself now, and I'm fine other than shitting my own pants right now. We'll try to find more survivors.

11:11 PM

That was tough. An hour of walking, thank god Boomer didn't cause any problems, we walked and walked and walked, took some craze out quitely and scavenged for water. We were exhausted and found this little tunnel. We decided to camp there and ate the rabbit that my cousin got this evening. Man these screams can't stop. These fuckers are everywhere, I gotta work something out, make some sort of traps or something just to make us save from craze, especially cutters. We chatted and planned some more things, there is a sport store up ahead, hopefully we can loot some stuff from there tomorrow, but now I'm too exhausted, boomer and Dion too, so. I still wonder who that girl on the letter was. Was she dead? I have not a damn clue. But for sure I'm gonna sleep now, I'm so fucking done for today, almost got bit. Dion saved my sorry ass. Man God bless us.

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Day 2, June 28th 2013, 11:37PM - Family Reunion

Damn it, that was hell of a day. I survived this shit one more time, that's 1 day more to my life already. I woke up, scavenged for some more stuff since I haven't got the chance to scavenge it last night.  Some canned food, not bad, backpack, tape, scissors, well those are pretty handy I guess. I went out the house slowly, and yeah fucking craze everywhere. I had to keep my head low and watch my fucking six all the time. Man this stuff is making me sick already. Alrite, focus I told myself, I chose my path into the suburbs hoping that there are some more stuff or even a survivor. I heard something, it's inside a house, sneaked in there and when I open the door, "You motherfucker." I said to my cousin, "I thought you were dead, who's left?", "Only me", he said. "We gotta have to lay low". Thank god at least someone can get my six now. We went out, scavenged for some more lottables and of course, encountered with some more craze. My cousin and I better get our shit together if we want to survive. We traveled for about 30 mins outside the city, Quebec we thought, my cousin heard the military evacuated all the people there. But ditched his ass, not sure why. We were too tired to continue the journey, and we made a camp for the night in one of the building. Hopefully it'll hold. "You know how I said I wanted this stuff to happen? Well this is not what I've expected man.", "Told you so.", my cousin replied. Let's get some rest, then we'll think of something tomorrow. "God bless us man.".

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