The Road to DayZ (part 1): An Interview with a Gun Smuggler

[applejaxc 2500]

Before you read, please read the last paragraphs of http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/131805-2-years-to-dayz/ to get a better understanding on who/what the First Socialist Party is, a central theme to my stories. (This won't make any sense without some kind of background knowledge on the FSP)

Jackson Pride was just the American name for a global cancer. ANyone that didn't know his name was lucky, and there were few individuals so blessed. Officially, he was the design head for the KAC, but he owned companies in Havana and Kieve producing everything from pipe bombs to artillery shells.

The worst part was that no one cared.

WHen Vladimir wrote "Unification through Stratification," more commonly known as the "Handbook to fucking up the world," the proud Jackson Pride was scrambling to throw money at east Europe. I don't think he could have cleaned his wallet faster.

Again, no one cared.

Then the unificationists named themselves the "First Socialist Party-" of their respective country, like the "Russian Socialist Party" or the "First Socialist Party of Yugoslavia." What followed was an IRA-style bloodbath, and still no one cared.

<Surely, Europe had some attention?>

Everyone was too busy, covering up domestic outbreaks and stopping the FSP from running in their own parts of the world. In fact, I don't think anyone cared until it was too late. But at least they tried to help.

<Explain>

After Yugoslavia fell to the FSP anarchists, and Moscow had its first outbreak, AMerican soldiers were suddenly on every street corner, in every alley, searching every car.

<Did this make your job difficult?>

No. All they cared about was disease they didn't mind a van full of guns crossing the border. Especially not after bribing the right people.

<Tell me about Moscow. Were you there?>

I was. And I'd never been so batshit scared before then in my life. I was in line at a checkpoint, waiting to get out of the city. A few cars ahead of me, a black van was stopped. There was some yelling, then the driver accelerated, right through the barricades. The soldiers opened fire. The van swerved and hit a tree. And can you believe this?: A SMAW rocket hit the van! Like BOOM! Loud and bright. What the hell was so scary about an "Asian Bird Flu" that the damn US military needed a rocket launcher to stop it?

<Why was that so scary?>

It wasn't. I didn't care about it. I just wanted to go. What scared me is what happened after.

<Which was?>

So there's the van, flipped over and on fire, rabin crushed by a tree, right? Someone gets out, coated in oil and missing an arm. He must have been shredded with shrapnel, absolutely puckered. The MPs panicked and fired. He still didn't go down. More people crawled out of the van, following him, horribly disfigured. A HMVV pulls around and bathes them in fifty BMG until there is nothing left. The checkpoint continued without anymore hiccups.

<Was that your first encounter?>

No. Well, I guess. But I'd heard about how the "Asian Flu" wasn't before.

<How?>

My contacts in Asia told me about something they called "Siafu."

<Like the ant?>

That was the nickname, and nothing killed it. Not a Norinco, not a Kalashnikov, not a Berreta. I told them they were crazy, too much Yakuza opium. They told me I was naive. And... I don't know. I had like, this itch, at the back of my head. LIke my SPidey Sense or something. And I knew what they said was true.

<Tell me more about Jackson Pride>

Crazy megalomaniac and charmer. Imagine Adolf, but rich times a thousand. When America realized what he was doing, he terminated citizenship and delegated shares between some lackeys, so he could still make money.

<What was he doing?>

What wasn't he doing? Making, selling, and smuggling guns to the FSP, globally. Why do you think there were so many M4s in Russia?

<Left overs from American soldiers?>

America didn't send half as many guns or ammo as the FSP had. No matter how many soldiers they threw at the FSP, ex-soviets and Asians swelled the FSP ranks.

<But the Americans didn't stop?>

They did, but it wasn't European FSPs that stopped them.

<Explain, please>

Kim Jong whatever wasn't too happy when the FSP set up in the big NK. SO he had to scare his people back into worshipping him.

<Do you think that lead to the Asian conflict?>

aBSOLUTELY. KJ sent a N-U-K-E out of the NK to show the FSP who hand the longest D-I-C-K.

<Yes, and how did this affect business?>

What, the nuke? No more Yakuza, our second largest customer. The FSP kept buying, so I didn't mind. THe US of A took a step out of RUssia. China went crazy. Iran primed its nukes. Europe had to swallow another shovel of shit.

<How did this affect the outbreak?>

I started noticing more sick people. Less checkpoints. A week after Iran's stations all went critical, Yugoslavia was really lost to the FSP. Supreme DickFace Jackson Pride set up a puppet government and went on a Czech Republic massacre.

<No one helped?>

It was WOrld War II all over again, except the Czechs were the Pollocks and there was no one to stop the FSP.

<What about the Ukraine?>

THe Topple of Seaboards and Sevastopol.

<Excuse me?>

The FSP started riots in Seattle, Boston, New York, LA, Sevastopol, London, and Toulon on the same day. This triggered some revolt in Kiev. I don't know if it was connected or not. Kiev saw its biggest, and last, outbreak.

<Last?>

Kiev burned. And then it was eaten. Same thing in Sevastopol, France, and America.

<How did the FSP affect America?>

Not as well as I had predicted, in the long run. America was caught with its pants down; the military was so busy fighting in the middle east west Europe, and Asia, there was no one home when every drug dealer, smuggler, and con artist suddenly had guns, or when the Crypts and the BLoods stopped killing each other. Every criminal out of jail, armed with military ordinance, suddenly took to the streets. mass anarchy. Overwhelmed police. Looted stores. Burning houses.

<And you sold them these guns?>

And you're an American reporter. You're calling me evil?

Thank you for reading. Sorry this story didn't have too many zombies.

[colekern 1364]

Nice, but the zombies in DayZ are infected people, not the living dead.

[applejaxc 2500]

Nice, but the zombies in DayZ are infected people, not the living dead.

You think that a gun smuggler that's been running all over LDCs is going to know that much about science? :) (like I said, part 1. There's a lot of details for 2, 3, et cetera)

He's being interviewed post-apocalypse; society in general hasn't recovered enough for science to tell him otherwise.

[applejaxc 2500]

<How did the FSP affect America?>

Not as well as I had predicted, in the long run. America was caught with its pants down; the military was so busy fighting in the middle east west Europe, and Asia, there was no one home when every drug dealer, smuggler, and con artist suddenly had guns, or when the Crypts and the BLoods stopped killing each other. Every criminal out of jail, armed with military ordinance, suddenly took to the streets. mass anarchy. Overwhelmed police. Looted stores. Burning houses.

<And you sold them these guns?>

And you're an American reporter. You're calling me evil?

Did that make anyone else laugh?

[Horny goldfish (DayZ) 10]

It sounds like Australia missed out on all this

[applejaxc 2500]

It sounds like Australia missed out on all this

I didn't want anyone to cry when all the Kangaroos and Drop Bears got nuked to smithereens. :) (That is a good point though)