The Diary of Doctor Martin Schneider (//in roleplay)

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Short Characteristic:

 

Name: Martin Schneider
Profession: Doctor (medicine) for the Organisation "Doctors without Borders"
 

Home Country: Germany
Age: 34
Languages spoken: German (fluent), English (fluent)

 

Current Objectives:

• Find his team (MIA)
• Find medical gear
• Help those who need help
• Find a lab to test my own blood for antibodies
• Send a message for help
• Get out of this horror alive

Speciality:

• Talkative (//oorp: will always talk first)
• Pacifist (//oorp: won't use a weapon when there is another choice)
• Hate for guns (//oorp: can't and doesn't want to use rifles)
• Hipocratean Oath (//oorp: will try to help everybody)

 

 

 

Diary

 

The date is unknown. I haven't yet found a person who could tell me the exact date. Assuming that the strain of flu I was struck down with was a nasty one, I assume I must have been unconscious for several days. Perhaps weeks. Long enough for the team to leave me in that house in Pusta. I assume it is March, but I can be wrong. Therefore I'll go with "T+" as long as I cannot figure out the date.  

 

 

T+2: Unknown

 

I feel strong enough to walk. There is no sign of life around in this tiny village without a name I can read. The last thing I can remember is my team, trying to help me to drink something. I still have the infusion in my arm when I wake up. I need to get out, find out what happened. Get something to eat, I am starving.

 

 

T+5: Unknown, likely NW of Elektrozavodsk

 

I have been walking around in the wilderness, searching small villages for useful things. I have not met a human that was not a Z. I found a splitting axe that has served me well in defending my life against infected. In a police car, I also found an M4 rifle, however no ammunition. I took it, to trade it for something useful.

 

 

T+6: Elektrozavodsk

 

I made it to Elektrozavodsk. Now I remember that there was a Zombie Apocalypse when I saw the first standing near the rails. I went around them. Slowly things are coming back again. We had concluded that the infected were humans depraved of higher brain activity, reduced to animalistic instinct driven patterns of behaviour. 

 

In Electro I ran into a survivor twice. He scared the hell out of me, but pointed me to the ruined hospital where I hoped to fill up my supplies of medical gear. I should have kept him around, but I wanted to move on fast and he was taking his time. And you can't trust people much.

 

The hospital had what I needed. I even managed to get a defibrilator to work. Equipped with pretty much all I need for urgent first aid, I feel comfortable to travel on north.

 

I searched the town to prepare for the journey, but after hearing sniper shots from the hills, I decided to leave in a hurry.

You cannot explain to a sniper that you are a doctor. Or at least I am not prepared to try. They might be also infested with the Z-virus, in the beginning stages of de-humanization.

 

I met some suriviors near Kamyshovo and questioned them about the infection and where I was. We decided to try to push for Berenzino, to the North. I managed to help them with my food and drinks, there were only minor injuries that did not need treatment.

 

Some infected survivor ran up to my mate, punching him over, grabbing the M4 that I had given him. Luckily, there was no ammo. He also tried to hit me, but did not dare to come close when I pulled the axe. I did not want to hit him, as I have sworn an oath to help and not to hurt. My mate managed to knock him over, after the madman chased towards me. I kept him from punching the man to death, then we fled.

 

 

T+7: Solnichny

 

We arrived in Solnichny after a long walk to what I guess is Nort-West. At the beginning of the village, we saw a man running from 4 Zeds. We decided against confronting them. I hope he is well, but we could not do anything to help him. 

 

I managed to gather more medical supplies.

 

North of Solnichny, on a factory compound, we were ambushed by a group of infected survivors. They clearly had lost most parts of their human nature, as they were sadistic and simply insane. I tried to reason with them, but to no result. I pleaded for my life, after they handcuffed me and wanted to execute me, but I think they were intent on killing me. I assume this must be a beginning stage of de-humanisation, likely early stages of infection that decreases higher brain activity and increases instincts like bestiality, aggression and irrational behaviour. 

 

 

I miraculously (//oorp: server restart) managed to get away with my life, they took everything else though. Even my yellow raincoat. Fuckers.

 

I woke up almost naked, but alive after a hit to the head with a buttstock, I assume. Might have been a baseball bat. They likely assumed I was dead. 

 

I was joined by some other survivors who helped me up and I found clothes and equipment together with them.

 

I miss my compass. And my medical gear. But it can be replaced. So, I will just have to make do with what I have.

 

 

 

T+8: Berenzino

 

We travelled as a team of three to Berenzino to find myself some new medical equipment.

 

In Berenzino's medical facility, we suddenly were shot at. I managed to bandage my wounded comrade, but then things went chaotic. An insane, blood-crazed human ran into the medical building and slaughtered one of my travel mates with a garden tool. Last I saw of the man I had bandaged was that he was hunting the crazy infected.

 

I have not seen him again, but I met the crazed one again who was hunting me.

I ran, after trying to reason with him. I likely could have killed him. I should have. But I swore the Hippocratic Oath. He is a patient, and my axe is not the cure as long as he is a human. Still, I hope my mate made it out. I could not search any longer with that infected after me.

 

Looking back, I saw a lot of infested running into the center. I somehow hope they tear the asshole to bits, another part of me hopes he survives and manages. Anyway, I made it out. I'll remember Berenzino for that incredible sprint with that insane infected on me.

 

 

 

I made it to Khelm, where I supplied myself with food and water, also with some better clothing. I can travel in the rain now again, but first I am drying my things. I also need some rest. I miss my yellow raincoat though. I'll need to find one again. 

 

Tomorrow I will make my way to Krasnostav, I guess, hoping to find out what happened to my team.

 

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//to be edited and continued ;)

 

Kudos to all players I interacted today!

Edited April 15, 2014 by cuddly_rabbit