☣Intro☣
The date is January 8th, 2014. For the past two years, this hell-hole of a planet, Earth, has been slowly dying in the wake of humanities greatest achievement, and worst nightmare. We found life on another planet. Not intelligent life, or so we thought. They were microscopic organisms on Mars' surface. Multiple test's were run on the organisms, and they were found to be capable of great things. Things that could save millions of lives. They were working on a way to utilize their abilities for humans, but then one test subject, a lab rat, went missing. Then, the next day, one of the scientist reporting feeling weird, so he was put into a holding cell for further analysis. The first ten minutes went fine, he answered any questions and acted relatively normal. But after that ten minute mark he began to have breathing problems, and was visibly sweating. The medical machine he was hooked up to showed him with a fever quickly escalating. After twelve minutes from first contact, he was hallucinating, losing memory, and advanced motor skills. After just fifteen minutes, he was dead. His brain was slowly dying from the outside to the core, wiping all memory and emotion, leaving just basic body functions. Right before the center of the brain was killed off, he showed signs of being alive. Which was, until this discovery, impossible. He made inhuman moans, growls, and occasionally screams. Others went in to detain him, asking him what was wrong and then promptly injecting him with a sedative. The first dose didn't do anything, so they tried double. That failed as well. They ended up giving him more than ten times the amount that was supposed to kill him, before the man broke the restraints and attacked the others. He bit, spit, and scratched many of them before a guard stepped in and shot the man. One shot did nothing. Another. Another. Until finally he shot in the head. Everyone kept it a secret. But eventually they found that everyone that had come in contact with the man, was doing the same things. They turned the whole building into a shambling mess of mindless zombies, eventually spreading out towards the outskirts of a city. That city was Las Angeles, California.
This was all more than two years ago, but now it has spread globally through food shipments. This alien virus spreads to any living mammal and turns them in mere minutes. We, the survivors, have found that they are smarter in groups, sharing a sort of hive-mind like ability to think in groups of those infected. So three to four of them are easily taken down, but much larger groups are a real threat. Also, the only way to kill them is by severing the spinal cord. And remember, city water supplies are out of the question to use, unless you want to risk infection. So far, the only way of purifying water is by boiling it for at least an hour, and water bottles are an invaluable resource to come across. Most stores have been ransacked or burned down and even more are abandoned to the undead, but there are some that still have many supplies. The military has crumbled to nothing more than small, well armed, groups of vigilantes. There are many more threats than zombies in this world since supplies are so scarce. Many people will go out of their way to kill others for nothing more than a water bottle. Be careful out there!
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: January 8th, 2014