Dark Don Test Facility

> «Once the Allies march in here, they'll mop up your little *pigsty* and you'll be **swingin' on a rope** soon after that!*»* - Vinnie voicing his distaste of the base and his prediction of its fate.
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The **Dark Don Test Facility** is a high-tech facility in the Dark Don's secret base in a mountain located in the Bavarian Alps. While seemingly experimenting primarily with new *Wunderwaffen*, housed deeper within the complex, hidden behind cavernous tunnels, endless conveyor belts, bizarre pyrotechnic machinery and rows after rows of soldiers, dark and sinister human experiments are conducted with a highly toxic chemical, all under the command of the enigmatic Dark Don. A perfect location for evil masterminds indeed.

## Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2

The Dark Don Test Facility was likely built when the mountain base was constructed and later renamed or added when Frankie took control of it.

After joining his new Axis friends in Europe, Frankie, now a high-ranking member working for the Nazi government thanks to their trade connections, decided that he didn't want to just aid them in forming their Third Reich, instead intending to first betray and seize control of their newly established regime and later take over the entire world with the help of their resources. Frankie later took over a secret mountain base in the mountain range of Bavaria. How he knew of their existence is never delved into, nor is why such a facility was even build in the mountains, though it can be assumed that he was had access to classified information, documents and locations due to his position and was able to either infiltrate the base with his own men, persuaded the stationed personell into working for him or took the facility by force, which could explain the infected Nazis found inside the base, them possibly being Nazis that were defiant and too loyal to the party, acted insubordinate or simply found to be incompetent by Frankie.

Inside the mountain, insidious practices and heavy defense can be found. Detained civilians, POWs (prisoner of war), and even some Nazi soldiers were made subject of inhumane tests and research and were turned into zombies by the glowing green liquid that Frankie had brought into the base. Most of these unfortunate specimen are kept locked in containment, but it appears that there was a breach sometime before Vinnie's arrival, with some zombies somehow having managed to wind up outside the base, of whom some now hide in The Forest, sometimes sprawling around in trees, ranging from escaped human test subjects from concentration camps and former Nazi soldiers and guards to wild zombified rats, and attacking passing soldiers, who are seemingly also responsible for an incident with a free-roaming Nazi Giant Zombie and at least two trucks carrying zombie specimen that infected their guards and the drivers. Many are still escaping, either by digging their way into the underground caverns with their bare hands or crawling through ventilation shafts. The test sites of the experiments appear to have been poorly insulated, leading to leaks that the rats living underneath the ground drank and caused them to become larger in size and more aggressive in nature. This was, of course, not all the work of a single man, as Frankie had previously built up his own army in secret. They were later ordered to set up defenses along the forest path and patrol the inside of the facility. He also equipped the base with heavy weaponry, some experimental as well. While his own private battalion would have done the job well enough, Frankie also recruited some of his gangsters from the States, that now guard the inner storage for the barrels of poison and the pods that hold the subjects with the desired attributes.

Frankie's end goal wasn't to just create simple zombies, for he needed an unstoppable army to conquer the planet and its nations. After all the regular methods of infection failed to provide new results, he started to dip people into entire vats of the poison (as an experiment probably), and eventually the poison turned these victims into monstrosities. These beefed up beasts were extremely enduring, could run exceptionally fast, but most importantly, were deadly at any range. Frankie wasn't satisfied enough with these qualities though, so he replaced the body parts of a number of them with the newest technology German engineering had to offer, turning them into nearly unstoppable killing machines!

Vinnie was intended to be killed and processed for his blood in the Harvesttower for to his apparent immunity to the poison, but Frankie ended up biting of more than he could chew, with Vinnie decimating the defenses, human, zombie, turrets or other, and put a halt to the operation completely after entering the mountain. While all the Nazis, most of the zombies and the Dark Don himself were now all dead, the facility and the poison, along with some of the hibernating mutants remain in the mountain intact, the future looks uncertain now...

## Trivia

* Among the tubes with the Giant Zombies is a particular tube in which a strangely familiarly dressed figure can seen inside wearing a heavy gear diving helmet and scuba tanks.