A Halloween Cannibal Experience

[Tatanko 5591]

(In an effort to make sure my gallery posts on the forum get the "full experience," I'm attempting to figure out a good format for posts like this so that you don't need to click through to another site. Feedback would be appreciated :))

 

 

Setting: Main Street, Elektrozavodsk

 

 

We didn't set out to be cannibals, but we did choose Elektrozavodsk. We thought we were determining our own adventure, but what we didn't realize was that Elektro had already chosen for us.

 

 

Starring: Skyren, Jukebox Guy, and Tatanko

 

 

The madam on the left, the musical wonder on the right, and yours truly as photographer.

 

 

You Can Hear the Wind

 

 

The evening begins innocently enough. We get the usual grief from bandits looking to take our weaponry, but that's standard procedure by now if we spend time here. It comes with the territory.

 

 

Stick to the Middle

 

 

We decide to do some looting, and we keep it to the boulevard to avoid losing sight of each other.

 

 

Elektro Police Force

 

 

After rummaging through the police station, we decide to spend the rest of the evening as the authority in Elektro. Surprisingly, many people obeyed our orders and chaos would not arrive for quite some time.

 

 

We Make a Friend

 

 

I don't believe he ever gave us his name, but this fellow would be the beginning of our undoing. He very generously gave me a vest that would later help save my life, but he would be the one to introduce us to cannibalism.

 

Jukebox Guy, as he commonly does, disappeared for a little a while at this point.

 

 

Raw Meat With Two Legs

 

 

This poor fellow would be our first victim. Without even so much as hinting that we wanted to eat him, he went down on his knees and submitted to us. From there, he refused to say a word. It's like he wanted  to be eaten...

 

 

Make it Quick

 

 

...so we obliged. Skyren put the blade of her fire axe square into the silent stranger's skull.

 

 

Cook 'Em Up

 

 

One thing Sky and I wouldn't do was eat the meat raw. We felt it necessary to at least cook the meat first. Our new friend had quite the appetite, saying he couldn't wait that long -- downing two raw steaks immediately.

 

 

Time to Consider

 

 

We could have ended it there. That could have been our taste of human flesh, and we could have moved on to do something else.

 

 

A Stranger Approaches

 

 

Something about the human steaks made us even more paranoid than usual when it came to strangers. The next person to walk along made us very uneasy, and Jukebox Guy appeared from the shadows to protect us because he too could sense that something wasn't right.

 

After making him feel uncomfortable, the second stranger lashed out at us and forced our hand to end him.

 

 

The Chameleon

 

 

Following our second kill, this quiet fellow joined our group. We didn't know it at the time, but he would come back to annoy us at several key times later on. He pretended to assimilate himself into the group as a cannibal, waiting until we would drop our guard.

 

 

Losing It

 

 

By this point, the brain prion disease was setting in for me. We had already been through trauma repeatedly to boot, and the worst was yet to come.

 

 

Fill the Barrel

 

 

Someone brought a barrel out into the street to join our campfire. The person who had introduced us to cannibalism (now wearing a mask in this picture) decided that our goal would be to fill the barrel with human steaks.

 

At this point, yet another person approached the group and was conscripted to be a sacrifice to our cannibalism.

 

 

Betrayal

 

 

The silent stranger who I referred to earlier as the Chameleon makes his move, striking at Skyren with his fists and knocking her unconscious while he sits at the campfire with her back to him. This began a struggle that would leave the street filled with bodies.

 

 

Now We're Talking

 

 

The son of a bitch triggered a series of deaths that ended with me finally striking him down and avenging everyone else who had gathered. It was a minor setback, and ultimately served to assist in filling our barrel with meat.

 

 

Cleaning Up the Mess

 

 

Skyren and the original cannibal make their way back to the scene eventually, and we begin the task of carving up all of the bodies festering in the street.

 

 

Strange Barbecue

 

 

As quickly as the group had been slaughtered, our numbers swelled right back up. Many curious bypassers joined in on the fun, including one fellow who would turn out to be genuinely innocent.

 

 

Cook Time: 20 Minutes

 

 

We spent quite a while cooking up steaks.

 

 

More Approach

 

 

Additional people kept stumbling upon our illicit activity. They seemed okay with it, so we continued to let people join in.

 

 

Cruel Intentions

 

 

The man face down on the ground with rope around his wrists was the result of our boredom. We had gotten so used to the action that as soon as there was a lull, I snuck behind the fellow slipped the rope on him. This caused quite a ruckus, but everyone went after him... not me.

 

 

Eye of the Storm

 

 

Here we are seeing a rare moment of calm in the middle of a cloud of chaos all over this part of Elektro. While seemingly everyone else struggled against each other, a few of us sat and ate by the fire.

 

 

Getting Crowded

 

 

This doesn't quite convey the peak number of people at the feast, but this is about the time it started to go downhill completely.

 

 

Watching Carefully

 

 

In the battles that followed the crowd expanding in size, very few survived. I escaped to relative safety on the roof of a nearby office building and kept an eye on the campfire.

 

 

Can't Keep Going

 

 

Skyren and I decide that we've had enough for one night. Surveying the ruined remains of the poor souls that perished here this evening, we can say it was worth the fun.

[pilgrim* 3514]

Nice

perhaps pics 'could' be a little larger but the layout an storyline both good, probably optimum. looks great.

 

Good tale! beenz and beerz (human beenz)

 

xx

Edited November 1, 2015 by pilgrim

[Tatanko 5591]

perhaps pics 'could' be a little larger but the layout an storyline both good, probably optimum. looks great.

I *think* what you're seeing is the forum software auto-shrinking them. It does that for me, so I assume it does for anyone else as well. They are full-size (1440p) if you click on them, but they are automatically squeezed down so that they don't take up a huge chunk of your screen. The auto-size seems a bit small in the age of 1080p being the standard, but you do what you can ;) Thanks for the feedback, I wish it was something I could control :p

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Nice job, T!

 

 

It's been so long since I wrote out one of my experiential posts in the build threads....

 

Thanks for sharing!

[pilgrim* 3514]

I use tinypic.com - I size the pic before I upload it, then it comes out as I want it on the forum. If it's too big or too small, I resize the pic by x percent on my pc, send it up as a new pic, change the link on the forum and the pic shows x% larger or smaller as I want. This gives good control. Also it's rapid and easy through tinypic.com. I guess there are limits if the pic is "too large", but this method works if you want to fill say between 20% - 80%  of the standard page width. I indent the link 4 or 5 spaces to center the image better (kind of) .. I guess image size is limited in the forum-frame to save upload time and avoid sliders on smaller screens?

 

xx

 

Still - good work and looks good as it is. Nice layout, and also if the images are not "too large" you don't loose the storyline. 0r try editing one pic to 1000 or 900 (about 70%?) see what happens.

 

[edit: I've got 1920 resolution here, but I see the same thing as you - and same happens to me -  so I assume it is a set forum parameter, - ie  the forum has a fixed width; If you mess around with resizing you can "fill the screen" ]

Edited November 1, 2015 by pilgrim

[Tatanko 5591]

It's been so long since I wrote out one of my experiential posts in the build threads....

Soon, my friend! ;)

 

 

I use tinypic.com - I size the pic before I upload it, then it comes out as I want it on the forum. If it's too big or too small, I resize the pic by x percent on my pc, send it up as a new pic, change the link on the forum and the pic shows x% larger or smaller as I want. This gives good control. I guess there are limits if the pic is "too large", but this method works if you want to fill say between 20% - 80%  of the standard page width. I indent the link 4 or 5 spaces to center the image better (kind of) .. I guess image size is limited in the forum-frame to save upload time and avoid sliders on smaller screens?

 

xx

 

Still - good work and looks good as it is. Nice layout, and also if the images are not "too large" you don't loose the storyline. 0r try editing one pic to 1000 or 900 (about 70%?) see what happens.

I'll play around with it. Thanks for the tip!

[GaryWalnuts 1680]

Another good adventure story with great pics, well done.  :thumbsup:

I do like the format, it's easy to scroll through and to follow the story.

I wouldn't mind if upon clicking a pic that it auto-resized to full screen in my browser window, as opposed to rendering it in it's natural resolution (where I get the scroll & sliders)

but I know that's the forum software/invision and not under your control.  For now I right-click and open image in a new tab, it's easy enough.

BeanZ!

[Tatanko 5591]

Another good adventure story with great pics, well done.  :thumbsup:

I do like the format, it's easy to scroll through and to follow the story.

I wouldn't mind if upon clicking a pic that it auto-resized to full screen in my browser window, as opposed to rendering it in it's natural resolution (where I get the scroll & sliders)

but I know that's the forum software/invision and not under your control.  For now I right-click and open image in a new tab, it's easy enough.

BeanZ!

Thanks, Gary! I do wish I had more direct control over the image behavior, but alas...