Rebuild

=== January 17, 2023 ===
My name is William Afton, and I might be the last man alive. I’ve been on the move for so long (since 2009) from those creatures, the ones that used to be humans. They were bakers, programmers, housewives, teachers, mothers, and fellow neighbors. Now they sniff the air like wolves and their dead eyes watch endlessly for the movement of their prey. Me.
I’m down to a few supplies and my trusty cowboy hat. I’m so tired but I have to get to the city before nightfall.
=== January 21, 2023 ===
I’m not alone. I finally made it to Kayden, California, and I was so excited to find other people that I almost got myself killed on their way to the fort. The walled-off four blocks of this small city, but no one knows what is next. I’ve decided to join up with them, lead them, put my feet down here, and stop running.
Taking back this city is going to be pretty easy as it’s a small California suburb with hills, some schools, a bunch of suburbia-styled homes, and the list goes on. We’re just going to take this city, in the name of the human race.
Today…… We begin to rebuild.
=== January 22, 2023 ===
Nothing happened today. This place has seen better days, outside the walls, the city has lost ANY charm. I beg God for this to end.
=== January 23, 2023 ===
Truck and a few of his buddies came at our base tonight, all bloodied up, they were proud they saw those zeds die. According to Nguyen, Truck went all-out Sylvester Stallone on the guys. Kudos to him.
=== January 24, 2023 ===
We were completely caught off guard last night, the zeds couldn’t make it. Using Truck’s old, bloody machete, I diced them to pieces. We fended them off for another day.
=== January 25, 2023 ===
A bunch of teenage kids had a movie night in their crib. They invited me over, as they wanted to get to know me. I and the kids had fun watching Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift.
=== January 26, 2023 ===
A strange guy arrived at the fort today. God bless how he found us. Kayden, California is in the middle of nowhere. He is scared, alone, and talks very less, he just wanted to be one of us.
=== January 27, 2023 ===
It happened again. None of them made it thanks to the Claymores and Mines we put. During the early hours of Dawn, we cleaned up the bar and fortified it against the zombies.
=== January 28, 2023 ===
It appears Capitalism is still alive and well. A merchant with an annoying French accent called Carl came by with a heavily armored RV. We traded some broken pagers and tape recorders for a couple of bags of canned spaghetti.
=== January 29, 2023 ===
Zeds couldn’t make it to the barrier. All of them just dropped in a few seconds. As Truck was doing his Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nguyen, Ellie, and Cappelli convinced an Afro-American couple to join us. For days, they had been stuck at a Walmart, the moment we gave them some canned foods, they devoured them in a blink of an eye. Seems they haven’t eaten in days.
=== January 30, 2023 ===
We met some sort of biker gang dressed as Priests called The Final Judgment Gang, when they came at the ports, they were yelling something about the disease being an “act of god”. Really in times of uncertainty, people will do sickening things to stay alive. We also found some food, a Nintendo 3DS, and a Sledgehammer, alongside a copy of Yo-kai Watch 3 for the 3DS. The kids will enjoy it of course.
=== February 1, 2023 ===
I killed them all this time. None of the zeds made it. The kids were just really spooked. Everyone is shaken up, but alive. And now someone is spreading some bullshit version of the bible called “The Zombie Condition”. The author says the virus is the second coming of Jesus and calls humans “verminous scums”, this has unsettled some people, and we either don’t ban this bullshit, or we let it go.
=== February 2, 2023 ===
We’re letting it go. More people are getting the book and are making handwritten copies. Some girls just read the book; we never saw them again.
=== February 3, 2023 ===
I say we went to that Walmart, and just hit them all. I saw Truck use his machete once again and maul zed to pieces. Now we can take that Walmart back from those zeds.
=== February 4, 2023 ===
That Carl guy came with a convoy of minibusses filled with teenage girls and mistresses, what he calls a love caravan. All we need is to hire these guys for 6 food and he will have some women to celebrate. Should we?
=== February 5, 2023 ===
I’m sorry if I traded 6 food rations for an intimate moment, God might have found me guilty of being an asshole. I’m just sorry.
=== February 6, 2023 ===
We fortified that Walmart and made it part of our fortress. Looks like that could use some defenses.
=== February 7, 2023 ===
As we went to a nearby supermarket, we found a kitty. She was, I don’t know, 3 months. She’s a calico cat. She can keep the rats at bay, and try will amuse the kids while at it.
=== February 8, 2023 ===
We met a group of teenagers outside that supermarket. It looks like they mistook us for zeds. I took a good peek at their driver’s license, appears they come from Texas. For this, can’t imagine what they went through back home.
=== February 9, 2023 ===
We finally got 20 rations of food; I think we have been blessed by God. We thought we could die.
=== February 10, 2023 ===
It appears some of the stuff at that supermarket had the words “DO NOT BUY” that have been written with a pencil mark. This has led to Truck believing these spreads via edible food. We need to start putting that supermarket into good use.
=== February 11, 2023 ===
It appears dogs and foxes are not safe from this. I just saw a red fox having a seizure. When I touched his head, it looked like his hair was falling, alongside turning heavily aggressive. Only if we had a laboratory.
=== February 12, 2023 ===
A zombie horde is approaching today. I can say 78 – 99 zombies are in that horde. We got to prepare.
=== February 13, 2023 ===
The zombies attacked this night. I’ve never been this scared. We were completely caught off guard. That might not be the last of them
=== February 14, 2023 ===
After a few days of scouting, we’ve been able to find a heliport. We don’t have the necessary resources to start a new journey somewhere else. First, of things, we need to expand, then we find the City Hall, then take The Last Judgement down. Only then can we find another city.
=== February 15, 2023 ===
We have been able to reclaim a laboratory with all sorts of creepy shit. We found zombies on treadmills, on MRI Machines, or chained to the wall with their organs ripped out. And we found some sort of diary, saying how this was an act of God.
=== February 16, 2023 ===
Armin just fell ill tonight. Had a fever, couldn’t eat, and his shit went out like rainwater. He should stop eating expired foods. But who to blame? He just adores eating.
=== February 17, 2023 ===
We’ve researched ways how to send signals to the living without attacking the dead. Written signals, flashlight morse codes, opening fire into the air, heck even smoke signals, and using loudspeakers can communicate “we are here and waiting” to survivors without getting those zed a-holes after our back.
=== February 18, 2023 ===
Some weird asshole came at our door. He calls himself a scientist, yet he stinks, is constantly shaking, and always stuttering. He looks off, as such, he isn’t getting in.
=== February 19, 2023 ===
We have finally reclaimed Leon Slayton General Hospital. Finally, we can get treatment for that stupid common cold. Imagine life without that hospital.
=== February 25, 2023 ===
I’m sorry I haven’t written at all for the last 6 days; we’ve been busy with our problems. We’ve found out that Kayden has a subway system. After some exploration, we’ve found another part of town. No zed-heads crawl the subway stations, just rodents.
=== February 26, 2023 ===
We got the defenses up and ready. Used materials from the “Home Repair” aisle and some parked cars. Kayden just adores 1964 Chevrolet Impalas, and ’68 Mustangs, we even found Christine in this mess, poor girl, I wonder what she’s doing in this bullshit.
=== February 27, 2023 ===
Our only part to get to other places in town has just exploded. I don’t know who the hell set fire to that fuel 18-wheeler, but we will need the right parts, tools, and expertise to repair that whirlybird.
=== February 28, 2023 ===
The people of Kayden just went postal and killed Dr. Mercer. They accused the nerdy guy of blowing up that 18-wheeler. I’ll miss that old guy a lot.
=== March 3, 2023 ===
Again, I haven’t written in a few days. Sorry about that. We just took a big-ass graveyard. There are a lot of tombstones in there, looks like half of the population didn’t make it. I’ll bury Dr. Mercer here, best of luck in heaven, man.
=== March 4, 2023 ===
We’ve been able to reclaim a parking lot. Completely useless. A lot of cars, 12 when I counted. All of the cars are just useless lemons; years without any sort of maintenance. Wonder what can we use that lot for.
=== March 5, 2023 ===
We held a party tonight at the police station. Loud music, hard liquor, and fast food. I think my ears are still ringing from Lil’Nas X’s Old Town Road being blasting with such high sound and bass. Think the zeds are going to hear it.
=== March 6, 2023 ===
We found out how to kill zombies quickly. Their weak spot is the brain, as we tried it on a specimen. Should we start aiming for the head, they will drop quickly
=== March 7, 2023 ===
You won’t believe this. The mall these guys have has a “Helicopter Part” aisle. A helicopter part aisle! They thought of the future. We just picked up a replacement swashplate.
=== March 9, 2023 ===
Thanks to our research into zombie vitals, we could take out some of the nearby zeds tonight. We put the poison in horsemeat that made their heads explode. Gooey.
=== March 10, 2023 ===
Wow, the new mall we just reclaimed is huge. We have a food court, a GameStop, an arcade, and a rollercoaster. Ugh, reminds me of that game Dead Rising. I Miss playing it on my Xbox 360.
=== March 11, 2023 ===
We put up some of the arcade cabinets, chairs, and parked cars as defenses, then we laid mines and claymores into the entrance if the zeds break the shield.
=== March 12, 2023 ===
We found a tunnel in the city hills. Course zeds have surrounded it. We’ll need guns and frags to clear it out.
=== March 13, 2023 ===
Some of the kids have set up a radio, playing music. I just woke up tonight to Gary Numan’s Cars. Who loves that synthwave tune?
=== March 14, 2023 ===
A lot of survivors came to our doorstep today. Looks like they heard the kids broadcast. Hope they aren’t infected.
=== March 15, 2023 ===
My hands are shaking as I write this, turns out Cole McGrath, a friend of mine, had been hiding a zombie bite from us. When we checked on him this night, he had turned. We were too late to notice that.
=== March 16, 2023 ===
We reclaimed a church today. Looks like there was a wedding before the zeds broke it. Those bodies smell, rotting for 14 years. We decided to burn them down before they change their minds.
=== March 17, 2023 ===
We have found a way to preserve food before it rots. Now that we know the best ways to keep food from rotting, our scavengers can collect more food. Pickled beets and beef jerky, anyone?
=== March 18, 2023 ===
I just woke up to screeches and groans. The truck thinks the virus has mutated. We were able to take one of the mutated zombies and we found out this is a parasitic virus. We decided to name it NDXV-09.
=== March 19, 2023 ===
The knowledge says that this virus can infect animals and turn them cannibalistic. This scary discovery has made people think it’s over.
=== March 20, 2023 ===
Some papers we found at the lab had the “Confidential” watermark that says that the virus first originated in Ghana in September of 2008. They knew of this mystery disease could mutate and worsen, but they kept it hidden from the public until January 2009. Scary, and I thought it only existed in movies or something.
=== March 21, 2023 ===
We decided to clear that tunnel, but we had to make a quick stop and get some gunners. Turns out there is no lightning, so we had to get flashlights. We’ve made it to another city, the welcome sign says Bartonville, and its population is either 13,000 or “YOU’, according to some graffiti there.
=== March 22, 2023 ===
Truck is seriously talented in the art of homicide; he can just kill zeds with a kick in their stomach. He just recently showed us a new move; he calls it “Wrench to the Windpipe”
=== March 23, 2023 ===
I just dated Nguyen tonight, Thai females are lowkey beautiful.
=== March 24, 2023 ===
The farms have been doing well these days because of the rain. Even more collards than usual, well it's way fucking bad that I hate collards.
=== March 25, 2023 ===
These well-armed guys called the Turtle Bay Katanas rolled through some stolen Humvees and killed zeds ‘round the fort. It was just to help us out, no payments.
=== March 26, 2023 ===
Jason Samson and Vito Leone had been holed up in that high school for months, afraid to leave even to get supplies, they’re grateful they got to us.
=== March 28, 2023 ===
We watched over the walls as the Turtle Bay Katanas killed zombies all around. I saw one killing 4 zombies with a shotgun. A motherfucking shotgun. And we watched like fucking Zen, but we should have gone in and nuked them all.
=== April 1, 2023 ===
April Fools, anyone? Funny how people don’t even know about April Fools. Anyways, zeds just adore fireworks, I’ve seen it in The Walking Dead it works, to our surprise; the fucks are so mesmerized they’ll stand gaping at the sky, and then, boy they are easy to shoot
=== April 2, 2023 ===
It's just too hot, man...But room temperature? Please, the beer should be ice cold! The Turtle Bay Katanas just mauled all those chumps with their katanas…. For once, man, for once!
=== April 3, 2023 ===
Fun fact: Leave some rotten meat near zeds and they will walk to it like fucking flies. Tricks like these will let our scavengers and soldiers move more safely
=== April 4, 2023 ===
Private’s going to start running nightly card and dice games out of the bar. A few members of the Turtle Bay Katanas even said they’d come to play.
=== April 5, 2023 ===
We can’t cure it completely, but this antivenom for NDVX-09 should give us something against the zed’s bites so bites are no longer 100% fatal
=== April 6, 2023 ===
John M. Cragsman stepped on a rusty piece of steel and his left foot turned all sorts of colors, Nguyen diagnosed Cragsman with Pitted Keratolysis, and we had to amputate his left foot. Cragsman said he wanted to live with it.
=== April 7, 2023 ===
According to the Turtle Bay Katanas, the Last Judgement Gang’s been quiet, they think that they are planning something huge. That guy, Kiro, says it’s best to act first then wait
=== April 10, 2023 ===
We’ve fucking done it, I repeat, we fucking did it! On April 10, 2023, the Last Judgment biker gang is finally gone…. Now, we can sleep without worry.
=== April 11, 2023 ===
Lights, toasters, and air conditioning are all back online! Lives just got better for everybody now with electricity.
=== April 12, 2023 ===
The old Grocery Store isn’t keeping store hours anymore. The store’s been looted clean: there’s completely nothing. I could use a Budweiser.
=== April 13, 2023 ===
We traced our crop failures to microscopic pests. To solve it once and for all, we introduced them to the sparrows and the tarantula hawks and they all died by noon. Maybe now we can see some peace….
=== April 14, 2023 ===
Now, here is a relic from the past: Kayden’s good old city hall. It’s surrounded by zeds, but that is no problem. Once that shit’s ours, that is going to turn into a center of the government!
=== April 15, 2023 ===
Back in the day, without oil, we would go mad, but it appears since the shit in 2009, that isn’t the case anymore. All the pumps are completely dried out. I wish we could build something nice in there…
=== April 23, 2023 ===
We’ve been arguing for days & nights about how could the new government work, but we narrowed it down to capitalist democracy. I can tell you what, Social Democracy is much better than Western one. Western Democracies are full of people with colored hair who use sexual harassment and fat-shaming as a way to gain an unfair advantage. That’s how America used to work.
=== May 2, 2023 ===
We got rid of those bikers and set up a constitution, all into the year. We did it. It’s just like old America. Why did had to go? That’s what we get for having a bunch of white “patriots” in D.C
=== May 3, 2023 ===
I’m getting closer to Anton Juarez. Today he told me his story. He had a bet with some guys in Las Vegas, just as the town was about to fall to the zeds in 2 Weeks. This guy from Mexico, can’t wait to get to Reno and meet his family.  I had to break it to him, last time I heard about Reno, I heard about it having been eradicated. It’s likely nobody lives there anymore…
=== May 4, 2023 ===
We’re headed for Bartonville, CA! Me, Nguyen, Truck, Samson, Cappelli, and Private are all fortified in a Volvo XC90. We're currently on Interstate 5, all prepped for a Zombie ambush! We plan on stopping by the city of Los Banos for rest and refuel, and some time for dinner.
=== May 5, 2023 ===
Yo, I got them bars from Mars man! They are so rare even mah crewmates gonna kill me 4 them! Sorry for the rapper dialogue. Turns out – we don’t have enough. Just some 5 or 7 loaves of whole-grain bread. There is some sort of civilization in here, but It isn’t welcoming – it’s a bunch ‘o hippies who think society would be better off without Government. No G.M.O, No Big Government, No G.O.P, No Conservatives or Libertarians, No MSM, No Society. They immediately went postal once we asked them for food, accusing us of trying to destroy “Mother Nature and her Offspring”. They are led by a nasty piece of a whore called Lindsay “Leaf” Jefferson. She’s a bigger whore than Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. We made contact with a group of guys called the “The Engineered Militia” led by Professor Laura Valdez. We’re going to liberate that town!
=== May 14, 2023 ===
Whoops, sorry for not writing. We just freed Los Banos from those environmentalist pricks. As we waved The Engineered Militia goodbye, Prof. Valdez said that if we had trouble, we could just tell ‘em and they’d hose everybody down. As we got far away from Los Banos, a message came from Kayden, the same spot we (and my journey) began. It was Juarez, he told me that the rest of the guys were going to take care of the City of Kayden.
=== May 23, 2023 ===
Bartonville, the Californian version of Sin City. There are 2 factions here and were the third. In the West, we have the Sons of Patriots, an army of crazy fascists, national socialists, white nationalists, and above all, a group of old men who do the most racist things ever to anybody who does not agree with them… In the East, are the “Worker’s Free Army”.  They are a North Korean-funded military. Juche rebels here in the States? What a surprise. Anyways, we rule over Bartonville no matter what.
=== May 27, 2023 ===
I had a dash of chat with Mary Anne, that girl from the Sons of Patriots. She was working as a doctor in Corpus Christi, that’s when the virus started popping up here back in June of 2010. We all thought it was a mutation of the Swine Flu, but it wasn’t… She now wants everyone but us dead, including her comrades.
=== June 4, 2023 ===
I thought it was only a goddamned dream, though I got the reality. Sons of Patriot's got a used nuclear control rod. Now we’re on an S&D Mission, I & Truck got to get that nuclear control rod before the SOL does something funky with it...
=== June 8, 2023 ===
After 4 days of searching, we found the package... Sons of Patriots were by any chance, not willing to give it up. I & Truck had to ram the entrance with a heavily armed Toyota Hilux. If you have watched that episode of Top Gear, you know the Hilux is versatile. We found their leaders after 9 floors, but he had already fled, in a chopper. So, I shot the chopper with an R.P.G. Heh, the chopper just blew the pieces.
=== June 11, 2023 ===
Somebody just sneaked right under our noses at night when everyone was asleep, took our fuel, and vandalized our Refueling Station. When I was waking up, Nguyen ran to me and told me all about it. They had the time to also graffiti the wall with this crazy sort of shit: "This is for the Commander!" it read.
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