HALF WAY!
It's just over halfway through the year! Exciting, isn't it? Well, maybe for really sad people...
This is a perfect chance to revisit what this whole apocalypse is about... So new readers won't have to go right back to DAY #1!
How can I describe the terror? Where to begin?
Alright, so... In 1991, a patent was filed for a new drug known as Fosinopril. It was used to treat patients suffering from hypertension.
Now, this drug first showed negative side effects on November 2nd. Pretty serious negative side effects...
Kirke University discovered that patients subjected to the compound would be completely fine while they were alive...
Somehow, the drug managed to bond to living cells, and was completely dormant while the host was still breathing...
Fosinopril brought the dead back to life.
OK, I think it's like this; The compound makes cells work without need for oxygen, and with the only fuel being human tissue.
Reanimated corpses would be running on flesh... Using themselves as their own energy source. See, that's not the problem.
Ressurectees would run out of cells to burn eventually, and since they were basically eating themselves, these 'zombies' were in pain...
Each patient would still have enough brain power to recognise pain, and somehow they worked out that they could stop it by... by...
Attacking and eating humans.
Don't ask me how they knew, but they just figured out that the human cells they needed didn't have to be their own.
It's weird. Not only did this create a couple of thousand cannibal undead, but it had another effect too...
Nobody could have predicted that the mixture of stale saliva and Fosinopril would create a highly infectious poison...
Getting any of this zombie slobber in your eyes, mouth or bloodstream would infect you too. You would join 'them'.
Every time an infected took a bite, it created another. And then that ghoul would go on to bite one more.
Very soon, the whole country was infected. After that, the whole of Europe. Then the world.
Exponential growth. It's unstoppable. The police, the army... Nobody could do anything. It all happened so fast...
Right now, it is estimated that 90% of the world is a mindless, flesh eating horde. Probably 9% of the survivors are dead.
Yeah... Life is now survival.
But I'm still here. Writing this. I'm not a zombie. I don't know if anyone is even reading this... Are you?
Oh, as you may have guessed, if you're reading this, my main piece of advice is to REMAIN THE FUCK INDOORS.
Don't go outside. That's where they are. You WILL die. Stay inside, where it is safe(r). Don't draw attention. Keep quiet...
Yeah, I should probably write up some proper rules, but... For now, just remain indoors. Oh... And happy half-way through 2011!
REMAIN INDOORS