The DEAD Files 5 - Life* In West Point - Project Zomboid Tales

the world is a big place and the hypothetical aerosolized death Cloud well perhaps it's even bigger so it's time we moved our research away from Sleepy MRA and shifted our view North to the town of West Point our real civilization here is a place where people are friendly educated organized well stocked with everything they would need to overcome disaster only kidding there is no place like that in all the world apparently really such considerations hardly enter into things because where there are more people there are more monsters along with more survival supplies so you'll have to pay close attention and make your own decisions about what sort of place you want to be caught in when the invisible disease rolls in on the Wind oh by the way we've said before that this is a zombie virus no actually scientists say it's a bacteria how about that such things matter not to today's Deads so let's go and see how they got on in West Point dead seven Desmond schroer Desmond was a promising Survivor was he was going to be a rags to Rich's Story I mean he didn't turn into a zombie on the decreasingly alleged increasingly confirmed night of the decreasingly alleged increasingly contained incident he lived in a small one-bed Bungalow slap bang in the middle of a busy suburb a suburb where everyone seemed to have made the healthy life decision to walk to work that morning combined with the less healthy decision to be sporting gaping wounds bleeding eyes and a hunger for uncooked human flesh this time we can't pass this off as mere mold dra Madness it was clear to Desmond that something had gone very wrong he decided he would go outside and ask what the problem was I know all of you will not be as ludicrously stupid as Desmond and I hope you're kicking yourself for thinking that rural mold draw was the sort of place where silly people like him were confined to no everyone's quite stupid when it comes down to it which is why The Dead Files needs to exist congratulations you are about to learn why asking zombies if they're just having a bad morning isn't going to win you friends but it will win you and entertained audience so I suppose we'll give his fate a brief rundown first he was scared back inside by the rather violent reaction of the commuting masses then those masses massed ever further at his doors and windows then the glass began to smash and very likely Desmond was beginning to realize something was wrong he decided to call the police no no no no I needn't tell you how much of a waste of precious seconds that is and on the cusp of Oblivion like this you really won't have seconds to waste Desmond panicked he needed something to fend off this home invasion but he didn't have anything he didn't have anything you you see the disease of minimalism had already swept through his modest home making it so bloody modest that you'd struggle to find half a pencil to write your own suicide note lucky we're capturing the whole thing for you then eh not that we're whatever look Desmond you don't even have a rolling pin a bat a decent can of beans to lob no apparently not again I dare say that even the worst of you will do better than Desmond in this department assuming that you live in an abode equipped with any household items whatsoever the best No Mess Dez could achieve was to take the garbage bag from his empty trash bucket and wielded it as the world's least intimidating whip by the time this disappointing arming up Montage was done the zombies were all throughout the house so Desmond ran outside still calling at the zombies to explain their UNC Behavior this evolved into General screaming as he ran from house to house confirmed that yes everyone was really zombified you're supposed to be the exception Desmond and you're doing a terrible job of keeping it that way Desmond died in short order he leapt a fence to escape one horde and tumbled into another in which he promptly disappeared shall we say I would summarize the lessons to be learned from Desmond but her old one-word refresher works well enough here don't if you must be a dead don't be a Desmond Desmond's score for the record was a solid 111 minutes from outbreak to breakdown are worse yet West Point hasn't impressed so far but there are plenty of other survivors having AO at it so let's check in on our next Contender dead 8 Steward odm this person was not Desmond already granting them a huge Advantage they even had possessions and were quick to grab a huge kitchen knife when the morning of mornings came about Stuart lived at the end of a quiet cyac on the west end of town he his yard open to the natural vegetation that clung to the sides of the huge Ohio River West Point's principal geographical anchor I should note for those unaware that this wasn't the famous West Point of the East Coast but good old West Point Kentucky whose claim to fame could be summarized in the phrase at least it's not moldraw but humble as it may be it surely had a few bright Sparks with enough sense to not let invading bacteria take over their brains does Stewart fit the bill it depends on your point of view so let us examine Stuart's strategy with a critical eye first he went outside and REM murdered any zombies near his house doing so with an absolute lack of hesitation that tells us all we need to know about the community spirit in his neighborhood risky play but it keeps them from breaking your windows so let's give that a thumbs up then he looked back at his house saw all the other zombies Milling about down the street and he had a simple idea no nope see you he walked off towards the river now is that a good idea we've already covered how walking away from your problems isn't really going to be an option but as you may know there are actually places where the zombie virus sorry bacteria hasn't taken hold the area around our studio is mostly good for example mostly so perhaps you can and should flee to greener pastures and Stuart had another thing going for him the aforementioned Ohio River wide and deep to stand on its Shores is to have a full 180° from which you can't be attacked by monsters that are mostly land dwelling mostly one might argue you also can't escape in that direction when you inevitably are attacked from the landu side but whoever the proverbial one was it wasn't steuart odm he wanted out and was sure that walking along the Riverside was the way I think I'll get there's no way out printed on some shirts and hand them out to the soon to be infected zones just to make our official message on that quite clear despite taking no luggage he actually managed to walk a fair distance down river the Riverside was strangely dense with the monsters but always he slipped past them thinking that surely they would thin out as he left town no but we'll get to that he passed the furthest outskirts of West Point where occasional Riverside houses might have provided well supplied hideouts for enterprising survivors If Only They Weren't also well supplied with people having this idea who promptly got turned into zombies by those who came before them and the cycle carries on such that most great spots like this are actually utter death traps so don't you go having any bright ideas Stuart was content to Walk On By however soon evening was approaching and his Panic may have died down to the point when fleeing all semblance of civilization was seemingly less and less helpful you'll miss toilets if you leave them all behind you know hence Stuart cleaved up a few residents of a nice little place he spotted from the Riverside that evening and settled in for the night now here's where things get difficult and it's the Blasted River to blame again I shall explain that in a moment first let us cut Stewart's Grand Ambitions of Exodus short when he got up to leave the next morning his new house was surrounded by foes and he got tangled up in them trying to push back to the river leading to his fruitless death well perhaps not fruitless if it provides a learning opportunity for us why were so many zombies apparently following him down river science time Advanced Research into the zombie bacteria some of which was somehow done before the outbreak despite that being literally impossible since the bacteria was unknown to science beforehand tells us a few things about how zombies migrate yes migrate I know people keep saying they don't migrate or form hordes or have the ability to detect your general location by inhaling the infinitesimal residue trails in the air from your breath but between us Dead Files fans let's say that they do just out of scientific curiosity of course great flows of water like the Ohio tend to carry a certain amount of the original bacteria Rich aerosol that may or may not have started all this and also all the panicked exhalations of whole Riverside towns hence zombies are naturally attracted to this flow of stimulants and are very often found congregating near La Open Spaces such as Rivers highways beaches tunnels hallways anywhere someone might have been breathing really I'm sure your home doesn't meet this Criterion so worry not but this may be a working hypothesis for why escaping along bodies of water like poor Stewart is a real amateur mistake one that now you won't have to make but it wasn't only Stuart trying this method out let's confirm our findings today with one more dead from West Point whose Antics only Hammer home our deadly dreadly message dead nine Louisa Ashley Louisa was a very hardworking woman in life scrubbing and slaving at a small hotel in the heart of town so much so that on the night of the disasterous accident that was no one's fault she was just coming off an all nighter preparing the bedrooms and Conference space for a meeting of the local political party the West Point Supremacy Alliance their main point was that because their West Point was further West than the other one they should get um well there was some debate on what reward this circumstance merited but damn it if they weren't owed something it was time to put West Point on the map again and in bigger text they got their wish didn't they because here they are at the center of a huge experimental government program slash unpredictable catastrophe slash please forget the first thing I said the result of this wasted effort was that Louisa was the only one in the hotel when the special time came about leaving her peeking out of various bedroom windows at all the sickly shamblers spilling out into the streets all around she quickly closed all the curtains locked all the doors and tried to compose herself in the face of sudden and quasi certain Doom you should all practice this at home by the way it helps to get your initial panicking done as efficiently as possible then to business first Louisa had to deal with a zombie that was pouring at a glass door she hung a sheet across it to block the sight but the glass was was already starting to crack she was forced to smash a wine bottle across the mini bar in The Breakfast Hall open the door and stab the visitor through the chest Louisa was on the weedy side and her blow didn't have much oomph her wild feral kicks and claing did though a match for any zombie indeed she beat the Beast until it was still then withdrew Victorious only bleeding from a single gaping wound on her stomach well done really I'm not being sarcastic our first Dead head was infected already by this point so you're doing better than Dora and a heck of a lot better than Desmond Louisa tied a bed sheet around her waist in a vague attempt to stay alive then decided to take a more proactive course she decided to flee to the river away from the town full of monsters she must have thought and perhaps take the Riverside trails to a safer place like Louisville City up the river some of you are dying of laughter as the mention of that place we'll take a peek up there soon enough Louisa dreaming impossible dreams decided to sneak out of the back door and make a break for Freedom ah how our Deads like to make breaks for Freedom until they are broken all over and even the sweet release of death remains devoid of Freedom thanks to our pesky bacterial Pals somehow the end of the world managed to be worse than everything just ending great noting that the whole town was full of evil beasts and that no other human survivors were around Louisa must have felt even more determined to make some kind of Escape was it her ancient ancestral memories calling her to the river a place where our progenitors found the vital resources to weather the daily struggle of existence in the wild or was it even the case that those immune to the zombie bacteria's sweet Whispers instead enter some kind of symbiosis with the miniature beings that drives the host to seek out more mystery aerosol contagions to feed their new internal colonies a Preposterous hypothesis that no military scientific bodies would ever expect seek or investigate either way soon both Louisa and plenty of the local zombies were enjoying a Riverside stroll Louisa stuck to the stringy copses of trees at the heights of the banks where the zombies were sparer and her presence was less obvious noting that the crowds of river wers were larger up River she opted for a Down River Course following in the footsteps of paor Stewart and they might even have met up if they weren't both concealed from view by the zombies gradually closing in around them at all all times here we are only really concerned with hammering home the lesson that large bodies of running water are hubs of infectious activity and they are hence very dangerous to use for sustenance navigation Solace hope or any other hard to come by Essentials of daily life so we say leave them alone to remind yourself recite these simple lines running water stunning Slaughter I'm alive I'm high and dry I can hear you already complaining that you need water to live do you the zombies seem to get by okay maybe maybe there really is some way to oh you'll find something it rains sometimes doesn't it the sky Gods May favor you yet so to conclude Louis's death was a classic that many learned the hard way you can't run and you can't hide I think all our Deads are starting to piece this puzzle together for us aren't they she simply got tired and found that all the zombies who has noticed her hadn't and so when she tried to return to town to find a hiding place she did so with a cloud of monsters shadowing her every move battling this way and that with no weapons or training she was an archetypal victim whose demise should be pied no more than it should be emulated she made it about 8 hours in West Point a dismal score but hardly different to the others at the end of the day it's true that surviving in denser urban areas will be difficult you're probably asking your television screen sure there are mon everywhere and I can't possibly Escape I've learned that much from your helpful program but what can I do well we'll get back to you on that in the meantime just make sure to never be caught dead acting like a dead those cities even if one in a thousand was immune that's so many people trapped so many desperate moments but what if one in a thousand of them were more than immune symbiosis with the bacteria is that what this was all for it's certainly all we can pray for

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Published: Sat Dec 16 2023