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>Isn't it a little too quiet?
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There's a tinge of sweet decay in the air, like a butcher's shop at noon or a mass grave whenever.
Under an alleyway with an arch like teeth, you can see a small pale figure as it scuttles down the opening, trusting to the shadows and the assumptions of most people to keep it concealed. It's not doing a very good job staying hidden.
Then it turns to face you. You realize it was a child once. Empty leering sockets drip with an oily black substance. Teeth are bared back, grinding back and forth in a lipless rictus grin. The blood corpse watches you watch it watching you too.
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Then the creature slinks back into the shadows of the alley, back into the chaos of the City, just out of sight.
You stay, listen, look, then march on. You just remembered why it's so darn empty around here: the curfew.
There's still a standing curfew order at this time of day and it seems you and you alone had forgotten about it. It's somewhat understandable. Zombie Pest Control gives daily updates on the news channels and there's a few bounty hunters from H Company who come around and knock every so often, but you had simply filtered it all out into background noise. One block cleared, two blocks lost, another rescue, another loss. It was just such a long time ago that the infestation had hit your District. You got used to it.
Well now. You're certainly not safe here. And you're not an idiot. How did you come prepared for your leaving your house this morning?
>P Company Service PISTOL. A bit generic, but serviceable.
>Riot baton. Old Reliable. Veteran of a hundred kneecap crunches.
>M60 machine gun. Heavy weapons handling is a freakishly common skill in the City.
>Sharpened rebar spear. You have pretty good hand-eye coordination, like when you ******* furiously in the dark or spear someone's hand from yards away.
>Actually, you are an idiot. But you're not entirely unprepared. Let's call this option... an investment in your future. (WRITE IN a non-combat skill now. Gain Goodwill later during communion with a higher power, like the Alphabet Companies, City Hall, or a Person of Interest.)
>WRITE IN.
