by DARK TEMPLAR on 18 Apr 2011 14:09
Slightly altered the beginning and added a new part. Feel free to point out things that seem off, logic errors,wording, etc , will try to correct them.
*sigh*Home, sweet home. Others think I'm crazy for coming back here time and time again, they don't understand. This is my home, for better or for worse. The place where I left my childhood and all they joys it once held in the days long past, all the memories, good and bad alike. There is nothing for me back there…in civilization, this here is all I have left. Now the area is in ruins since nature took over.
Got to stop for the night, the weather here isn't very stable. One of these old gardening houses will do. It ain't much but at least it's still mostly intact. Not much else to do right now then to enjoy the sunset as long as it lasts. Odd really, you'd think that the fringes would be more hospitable. Oh well that’s the ZONE for ya, at least the wildlife is more or less normal round these parts. 11:45 , time to kill the light and get up to the attic. Argh fuck, damn spiders and their webs.
6a.m Looks like the night passed without big storm, a few bent trees and broken branches but otherwise quite fine. Have to check if the apples are still edible here. Mh, that’s odd, the chimney of the former chem-plant is smoking. This can't be good. Have to check it out.
It’s quite surreal walking on these streets, long abandoned half-broken panel houses on both sides, vegetation everywhere. A real ghost town. It wasn’t very lively back in the old days but now more then ever the pressing feeling of loneliness lurks the alleys. Nevertheless it still feel homier then what I left behind outside. I can’t however shake the feeling that something isn’t right here. The closer I get to the plant, the more unnerving it gets. The building headache doesn’t help either, damn I wish II had brought some painkillers.
Ah crap, dead people. Not longer then a day or two. Something is definitely wrong here. Probably should’ve brought a weapon with me. Right then, lets see if there’s something I can use, preferably lethal. These men seem to have been military or something of the sort, whoever killed them might still be near. What is this god-awful stench, like something is rotting. This is fubar, no man could do this to a body, looks like they’ve been mauled by some beast.
“Leave this place human if you value your life” Argh my head, what the hell was that. “Remove your presence human” WHATS HAPPENING!? WHO IS TALKING TO ME!? Got to get out of here. SHIT, where’s the exit. “We warned you human, now you must die” My head!…*thump*.
THE DEDICATED, CERTIFIED RESIDENT MADMAN
There is no such thing as innocence in the ZONE, only degrees of guilt.
CAN YOU FEEL THE TRANQUILLITY OF THE ZONE
Knowledge is power. Guard it well.
We are shaped by fate, just as we shape it
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
Akir man yamut malak al-mut