Lexicon:Death Cults

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Following is a partial transcript of the contents of a digital voice recorder, retrieved from the Quarantine Zone by means classified. The Ministry has been able to confirm that the voice on the DVR is that of Dr. John Atticus, prior to the outbreak a second-year resident in emergency medicine at Maria General Hospital in the suburb of Havercroft.

The following entry is time-stamped 1646 GMT, April 7, 2006:

For weeks we've been hearing rumors that the zeds have human allies. I've written these off as paranoia, or the delusional ravings of people forced to endure unimaginable horrors.

Until last night.

Just before midnight, the barricades went down again -- nothing new, but it happened so fast that we lost half a dozen wounded before we could react. There were at least twenty zeds outside; some of them stayed to feed on the wounded men that had been dragged outside, but at least as many ignored the easy prey and began climbing inside.

Through the remains of the barricades, we could see the horrifying scene outside. I heard a soldier shout next to me, "Doc, there's a human out there!" I followed his pointing finger and saw a man struggling through the press of zeds toward the barricades. In the dim light bleeding out through the ER doors, I could not make out any details, but it was clear by the way he moved that he was not a zed. I yelled to the soldier to help him.

We fired more rounds into the zeds clawing their way inside, and when we had made a temporary hole, the soldier -- his name was Evans, he was just a kid -- dropped his weapon and reached through to help pull the man inside. As he rose to his feet, I remember registering that none of the zeds had touched him, even as he shoved them aside on his way to the front. I saw him smile, exposing blackened teeth, and then he fired a pistol point-blank into Evans' face.

For a long moment, we were all too stunned to react. And then the zeds came again behind him, scrambling over the ruined barricades, parting around him like water around a jut of rock as they lurched toward us. That seemed to break our paralysis, and we fired into the horde again and again, until our weapons clicked on empty chambers. I'm certain I saw the human go down, a shotgun blast tearing off that smile; I don't know if the shot came from me or from another defender.

Several seconds of silence.

The zeds let him through without a scratch.

And we helped him inside.


Atticus Rex mfu pif Δ 22:13, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

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