Thread: Search and Rescue.....Or Not. x3

In a Word that's Ended. Excerpt from a diary found in the middle of a pool of dried blood in a deserted road that had been the center of a town August 17th, 2012 .....They're everywhere now, God I can't stand this anymore! I watched a little girl get torn to shreds this morning from my neighbours yard, she was the last one left on our street besides me and I just....I can't take it anymore. If anyone finds this, anyone who still lives, please God just don't go into the cities.... It's been six months since the first outbreak. Six months that shouldn't have happened. It started as a simple outbreak of the flu, just a simple one that doctors treated, as always, with medications and shots that apparently did nothing. Everything went so fast though, once the person went into cardiac arrest for no reason. At first it was just a few people, maybe a dozen, who came into the emergency wards one day or afternoon. According to a television broadcast, the symptoms started as just flu-like symptoms stuffed up nose, bloodshot eyes, headaches and nausea that lasted for days on end. It quickly went downhill after the fourth day, when black fluid began to form within the lungs and lymph nodes on the body, making breathing difficult, and joints began to swell until mobitility was impossible for the victims and they became bedridden and in agony, not even morphine helped as blackened sores began to spread over their bodies, similar the news reports said, to the Black Death. 24 hours after the fluid began forming, the sores appeared and fever reached it's peak the patient was effectively brain dead and all organs stopped. They never awakened again as humans. It took less than four hours after all of the bodies' organs stopped, before the zombie rose. The swelling was horrendous by then, whatever virus or disease it was that caused this....Zombiefication, just kept on regenerating inside the corpses, causing tissue decay that was only slightly lessened than if it had been a regular corpse that didn't move...and didn't kill anything it could get it's cramped hands and gnawing mouths on. It took less than three weeks before the cities were no longer safe. The government was stupid in herding people there, one scratch from an Infected was all it took to transmit the disease, though the THINGS seemed to prefer trying to eat people rather than just nick them. And it was only a month before those who survived figured out that the only way to survive was to lock themselves away, 'kill' the things that used to be friends and family members....and to find food and safe waters to drink in order to live. Or move, and keep on moving, migrating continually in a world gone completely insane. It's been six months now since the cities and the surrounding lands became unsafe. People with RV's, with horses or motorcycles or trucks, those who have survived, have started to find each other. Have started to band together and protect each other. Each one has a story. Each one has a will to live that burns bright.....and each one, even the children who are able to, have taken down the things that hunt them whenever it was needed. There's one person though who knows the cause of the disease. She worked for the plant that had created it, and had studied it for longer than her other, now dead coworkers, and had discovered what it was that had caused the pandemic worldwide. She's the only one that does know....and now she's looking for help. She needs people to help her get into one of the worst infested places in the world in order to get the equipment needed to create the vaccine that will effectively kill the flesh eating horrors that exist now when they shouldn't be any more than an imagination gone wild. She needs to get into a hospital. Within one of the cities. I was aiming for six months, in that it would be difficult to find supplies, so one would need to go closer to the cities unless they discover a way to growcanmake their own, but wouldn't be impossible to find fuel and ammunition and such for those who prefer guns over closer-combat weapons. This can be with any gender of person, I could turn 'her' into a 'him' so MM, FM or FF is fine and welcomed!