Radio Man 1.3

I am in my car with my family, [[heavy traffic on the freeway-> intro#2]]. I am recovering from a cold, the headache is killing me.

People are honking their horns. My wife is holding your crying baby, I cannot focus. Some people in front of me get out of their cars. They seem to be [[arguring and they start fighting-> hostile stranger]]. I can't focus.

"What is going on?" A stranger is outside the passenegr side of my car. He is yelling and hitting my window. "Get the fuck out." The yelling pulls me back to reality. My child is crying even louder, my wife is freaking out. "Do something!" [[Get out of car and confront stranger]] [[Stay in the car]]

(set: $OutCar to true) "This is bullshit." I mutter, and gets out of the car. "Hey get back!" my wife yells at you, but she's holding the baby, she can't do anything. "Stay in the car." i tell her. The enraged stranger walks around the car toward me. He points at me as he twitches. [[I walk up to him->You walk up to him.]]

(set: $OutCar to false) "Uhh... we should stay in the car." i say. (set: $UsePhone to false) [[Call the police]] [[Film it]] [[Do nothing->In car explo]]

"I'm calling the cops!" i yell at the stranger. i dial 911, the other end picks up. "911 what's your emergency?" i describe what's happening to the dispatcher. "Don't worry sir, we will send help." (set: $UsePhone to true) [[Continue->In car explo]]

"I'm filming this shit!" i take out your phone, yells at the stranger and starts filming. He becomes exceedingly more infuriated, screames and twitches at the same time. (set: $UsePhone to true) [[Continue->In car explo]]

i notice a small crack appear on my window. i am sweating, holding my wife's hand, surrounded by screams and car horns. [[You hear a huge explosion.]]

(if: $OutCar is false) [Something behind me just blew up, the car is shaken by the shockwave, i feel a ringing in your ears.] (if: $UsePhone is true) [my phone gets kocked out of my hand and falls between the car seats.] (if: $OutCar is false) [i see the stranger outside gets knocked away from the shockwave.] (if: $OutCar is true) [A truck a few dozen feet behind my car just blew up, i feel a ringing in your ears.] (if: $OutCar is true) [The man i was just fighting flew into the SUV in front of me and snapped his neck, he's dead now. ] (if: $OutCar is true) [[My wife gets out of the car with the baby->Your wife gets out of the car with the baby]] (if: $OutCar is false) [[I recover from the shock and check on the family->You recover from the shock and checks on your family]]

The man tries to grab me, i avoid him punches him in the face. He doesn't seem to be bothered by the punch at all, he laughs as his nose bleeds into his mouth. [[He charges at me again.->You two get into a fight.]]

i exchange a few punches. The stranger quickly gains the upper hand, and punches me in the stomach. i cover my stomach in pain. He pushes me to the ground. "Now I'm going to kill you." [[All of a sudden, the man gets knocked out of the way by a shockwave->You hear a huge explosion.]]

"Oh my god are you ok!?" [[I get up and tell her I am fine->You get up and tell her you are fine.]]

my wife is as shocked as me. The traffic is not moving, i see more people fighting each other. "We should get out and leave now." i say to her. (if: $UsePhone is true) [i try to reach your phone in between the seats.] (if: $UsePhone is true) [i hear another explosion far away.] (if: $UsePhone is true) ["Forget the phone, let's go!" my wife says.] [[We get out of the car->You all get out of the car.]]

The traffic is not moving, i see more people fighting each other. (if: $OutCar is false) [i see the man who was previously attacking my car, he is lying on the ground a few feet away from my car, a shrapnel is stuck on his head, he is twitching, mumbling words.] [["Let's move on foot." i tell my wife.->You all get out of the car.]]

i see a few fighter jets fly over my head. Very loud. Explosions in the distance. i smell something burned, screaming, etc. my wife looks at me, expecting me the say something. [["The next exit is about a mile from here, we should get off the freeway there and than head east, my brother's house is nearby."]]

Chapter 1: I live in a bunker by myself. A few months ago me and a few other survivors found this bunker in a person's backyard, it had bunch of supplies, untouched. Dude was probably a doomsday prepper, unlucky that he never got to use all this stuff. We found each other a few weeks after the outbreak, which is two years ago. All of my friends slowly turned and I had to kill them one by one. It is just me now. There is a radio machine in the bunker, so all I do everyday is trying to talk to other survivors, sometimes a psycho would get on the line and the conversation is interesting. I would offer them some help like giving them directions and stuff, but of course I would not give them my location. I suspect the virus is airbone and stays dorment inside a person and activates randomly, this explains why people randomly turn into psychos. I get in touch with a soldier, he tells me about the resistance that happened when the apocalypse first happened, he gets attacked while I am trying to give him direction and gets cut off. I speak to a group of survivor, they tell me a rumor about the pandemic first started in a mental hospital in Illinois. I Never hear from them again. I speak to a woman, a lone survivor, who has the same name as my wife, who is dead. Turns out she is in the same area as me and is being hunted by a group of psychos. I contemplate whether to tell her where I am or not but decide not to. I hear someone trying to open the bunker's door, but fail to do so, so they just knock on it repeatedly. Could it be that woman? I sit with a shotgun in my hand until the knocking stops, I have no sense of time anymore, I don't know if it's day or night. I don't know how long has past. I see a shadow of a person walk past the hallway, I think I am hallucinating. I investigate it but find nothing. Chapter 2: Me and my family in the car on the highway. Start of the outbreak. We get out but my wife accidentally gets killed. We find a man, who thinks me and my child are one of those psychos and shoot us. My child dies, I kill the man. Time jumps foward, I am with a few other survivors. Someone in the group turns, we tie them to the tree and I have to kill him. A child turns and kills another member but his mother doesn't want to accept it, she also don't want us to kill him. So she holds him tight as he tries to bite him, walks into the woods. We have never seen them again. We find a bunker and move in, I wake up one day and see a member of the group holds a knife staring at me. I quickly react as he tries to kill me and kill him. I see two dead bodies on the ground, I go to another room and see a woman repeatedly stabbing the youngest person in the group. I kill her. He looks at him, intestines falling out of his wound, he slowly bleeds out and dies. I sit against the wall, with blood all over me, I can't believe what has happened. Chapter 3: I wake up and realize it's all a bad dream. I have been dreaming about the past for a while. I see a person in the cornor of the room with his intestines digged out, we talk. He questions me, if everyone in this world is insane but me, then that means I am the one that is insane and everyone else is normal. I get in touch with a man that claims to be a scientist, he tells me this is not a virus, in fact he cannot figure out what it is. He describes it as a global mental breakdown, people literally randomly turn insane, it does not spread from people to people, it just happens. He also mentions lobotomy can neutralize a psycho's hostility and he has tried it on a few already. You question him since they are still fully concious humans, he argues he makes no difference, it's the end of the world and it's not like they would consider us worthy of living. The dead person in the corner brings up that I am insane too since he's just my hallucination. I start to question whether I am one of those psychos too, and maybe I did not kill my friends out of self defense but my murderous rage. Someone on the radio tells me they want to detonate a bunch of nukes to end the world, there is no future anyways. I call them crazy. I get woken up in my sleep, I hear continuous explosion, loud boom, everything is shaking. Maybe they actually succeeded, but how am I still alive? It doesn't matter, what difference does it make?

A priest dies, he goes to hell. [[He meets Satan, the lord of the underworld.]]

"Oh you devil, all the suffering of the world is due to you!" [[The devil laughs helplessly.]]

"You stupid human, I sit here in the inferno everyday, punishing the evil for your Lord, where do I have time to create more evil in your world? How can you blame me for everything? Evil clearly comes from within you. Look at yourself, you are priest, but now you are trapped deep in hell, yet you want to condemn me. Ever wondered why you are here? This is ridiculous." [[The priest still tries to argue, ten thousand demons drag him into the abyss.]]

The Devil Sits Still. [[Prologue]]

March 1, 2020, [[Los Angeles->Story#2 intro]].

i and my family sneeks to the exit on the side of the freeway, everyone is too occupied fighting each other and no one noticed us. You get off the highway. You keep hearing gun shots. (if: $UsePhone is false) [[My brother calls me->Your brother calls you.]] (if: $UsePhone is true) [[We head east->You head east.]]

i tell your brother that im near his house, he says to meet at the mall. His community is overrun. i ask where to go after meeting up, he says he don't know, maybe the family farm, but it's far. [[We head to the mall->You head to the mall]]

i see bunch of abandoned cars crashed into one another, some are on fire, a few dead bodies here and there. i walk pass a car, i see a [[woman lying on the ground, pointing her fingers at me.]]

i and my family walk down the street that leads to the mall. i see a bunch of empty cars, some crashed into one another, smokes coming out of them. [[I see a group of people in front of us->You see a group of people in front of you]], some of them are weilding guns and chanting.

A man gets out of his truck and starts running, the group see him and start chasing after him. i keep going, using the cars as covers. [[i see a child in the truck's rear seats->You see a child in the car the man just got out of]], he's about eight.

The child is horrified as the man that just got out of the truck gets torn apart by the mob. [[Move on.]] [[Help the child.]]

I keep moving, I hear a scream from the truck with the child in it. [[Check on it.]] [[Keep moving.]]

i try to open the door, but it is locked. i knocked on the window and asks the child to open it. [[He looks at me with, scared and confused->He looks at you with fear in his eyes.]]

He starts twitching, and then the fear on his face is no more, the child starts screaming and bangs his head on the car window. He continues to bang his head on the window. I look at my wife. She is shocked, [[holds the child in her arms even tighter.]]

She says we should keep moving before the screaming draws more of those psychopaths. [[I agree.->Keep moving.]]

The child is twitching and when he sees me he tries to get out of the truck,but the door is locked, so he starts banging his head on the car window and yalls at me. I look to my wife, and my own child. She holds the child in her arms even tighter. [["We should keep going before that kid draws more of those psychopaths." She says.->Keep moving.]]

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She is disembowed, it's surprising that she is still alive. She does not seem to be in any pain at all, her eyes are blacked out and she's smiling. Blood all over her. "You're fucking next." She says. i and my wife look at each other. "WTF?" [["Let's keep moving."]]

I keep moving, a group of people coming from the east see us and start chasing us. They don't seem friendly. we start running and see a truck. we can probably hide under it. [[Keep running.]] [[Hide under the truck.]]

i hear gun shots and bullets flying past me. i hear a thud behind you, i turn around and my wife is on the ground. [[I check on her->You check on her.]]

The group pass you, someone you got away with it. You get out from under the truck, and realize there is a [[child->Check on it.]] in the rear seats.

She got shot in head. She is dead now. I can't believe what just happened. [[I take the kid and run->Take your kid and run.]]

The gun shots from behind intensifies, but they are not directed towards us. i turn around and see those people who just killed my wife got distracted by another group of people. my wife just died. I try to hold back my disbelief and grief. [[I should turn around and go back to

Chapter 1 [[CONTINUE->Chapter 1]]

I sit [[alone]] in this cold and gloomy [[bunker.->bunker]] (set: $Alone to false)

A single light bulb is suspended from the ceiling by a wire,the dull and yellow light illuminates the [[room.->room]] (if: $Alone is false) [Me and others found the bunker, but I'm the only one left.]

There isn't a lot of things here. There is a set of old radio equipment on a table, and a few notebooks. In one corner is a small bed. A [[hallway]] that leads to a few other rooms.

A room where I keep all the supplies, one I use as the toilet, and another that is empty. Most of the time, I just mess with the radio machine, [[I'm broadcasting.->broadcast to the world]]

We found a body sitting against a wall, holding a shortened double barrel shot gun, brain tissues and blood spilled all over the wall behind it and the ceiling. We [[moved in.->moved into]]

There's plenty of supplies, enough to last us a long time. We wouldn't have to go out anymore. The bunker is [[much safer.->much safer]]

But it's [[just me now.->bunker]] Everyone else died.

I'm not really trying to do anything, just figured someone might respond and I would have a person to [[talk to.->talk to]] I babble about whatever that comes to mind. Sometimes I would say something encouraging, or preach about how the world is coming to an end, if it hasn't already ended.

Sometimes people do respond, that's how I know [[not everyone is insane->sane people]], at least not yet. Once or twice even one of those [[psychopaths->psycho]] would accidentally connect to my channel.

A man who calls himself Lee tells me on the radio, that he has plans to retrieve the nuclear codes. The world is already doomed and he wants to destroy it completely. "No more suffering." Good luck with that. Sometimes people would ask me for [[help.->help]]

But all they would say is some bullshit about how they are going to kill all of us. It was fun at first, because when I was on the surface I never had a chance to talk to one of them. They can't be reasoned with and all they care about is murdering those who have not turned yet, attempting to communicate with them would no doubt be suicide. But I mean, aren't we all a little [[crazy->sane people]] already?

(set: $Woman to false) The most I would do is helping them with directions with the maps I found. Sometimes people would ask [[where I am]], I never tell them, [[I'm not stupid.->I'm not stupid]]

(set: $Woman to true) A woman on the radio asks me about my location, she figures out I'm hiding somewhere safe. She tells me that she has a baby, and a group of psychos is after them. I refuse to tell her. "You killed us! We're fucking dead because of you!" I listen to her accusation in silence, [[what else am I supposed to do?->I'm not stupid]]

It is safer to stay alone. I have seen people turn without coming into contact with the infected. Everyone is a timebomb that can go off any time. It is the safest to stay alone. My only [[connection with the world outside]] is the radio. I can't tell night from day anymore, [[my concept of time is getting blurry.->my concept of time is getting blurry]] (set: $Soldier to false)

(Set: $Soldier to true) A soldier tells me, "when the outbreak first started, my squad was assigned to help evacuate a group of survivors. But some of the soldiers started shooting at the civilians for no reason, the civilians had guns so they fired back. It was a mess. I escaped in the midst the chaos and have never seen any of them ever again." He says he plans to travel to Illinois, he has been on the road for months. He heard of a rumor that the pandemic started there. He says it is now his mission to find out. I make fun of his obsession, [["What's the point of all this?"->I make fun of his obsession, question its meaning.]]

I carve numbers on the wall to keep track of time, but sometimes I forget if I have done it already. I don't know how long I sleep, every time I wake up I ask myself, "how long has it been? a few hours? a few days?" I hear someone [[knocking the door.->knocking on the door]]

"What else am I supposed to do? Put a bullet in my head and end it all?" He argues. "Maybe that's the only thing left to do that would still [[make any sense."->my concept of time is getting blurry]]

It's locked. They are trying to open it. (if: $Woman is true) [ Could it be that woman with the baby? Have they finally found where I am hiding? ] I sit facing the door, holding a shotgun. The knocking lasts a long time. Eventually it stops, whoever they are, they have finally [[given up.->given up]]

Are they trying to kill me? Or are they looking for help? I am still not sure if it actually happened. This could all be a [[dream.->dream]]

In a daze, I see a figure in the hallway, a shadow, it disapears in the blink of an eye. [[Am I awake?]]

[[...->...1]]

"What the hell is this traffic?" I complain to Shirley, who is sitting in the passenger seat. We have been stuck in traffic on the freeway for hours, drivers are honking their horns, the news on the radio is reporting a riot in the capital. Distractedly, I [[switch the channel.->switch the channel]]

"...a massacre on Wall Street earlier today, approximately twenty dead, the suspects have been killed..." [[Switch channel.->channel2]]

"...Dr.Lake, what's your take on the recent spate of violence across the country?" [[Switch channel.->channel3]]

"...announce state of emergency soon..." [[Turn off the radio.]]

"What's with all this shit, these people are fucking nuts." I comment, "and I am stuck in this damn traffic." "Hey don't worry." [[Shirley->your brother's place]] says, she holds my hand, "we'll be at your brother's place soon, it's just a few more miles." [["Can we put on some music?"]]

Shirley is my girlfriend. We met in college. We had a literature class together. We're on our way to visit my brother, Jimmy for the weekend. But it's not so much of a visit if we are stuck in this damn traffic all day. [["Can we put on some music?"]]

A car ahead of us suddenly accelerates and hits a truck. "Hey look." Shirley joking says, "somebody is even more impatient." [["What an idiot, I hope they're ok."]]

A man jumps out of the truck and seems to get into an argument with the person that just hit him. "Oh He's pissed." They start to push each other, and one suddenly lunges at the other and bites him on the face. [["What the hell are they doing?"->What the fuck are they doing?"]]

"We should call the cops." Shirley says, and dials 9-1-1 on her phone. She describes to the operator what is happening. "Ma'am, help will be there soon, please stay in your car and do not try to interfere." After she hangs up, more people gets out of their car, [[fighting, killing each other->fight with each other]].

Oh my god. Are the doors locked? They are, good. I hear a gun shot, followed by an explosion. The car is shaken by the shockwave, I feel a [[ringing in my ears.->ringing in my ears]]

After a while, the ringings are gone. What just happened? "Shirley are you ok?" "Yeah." She is fine, just a bit shocked. The explosion was from behind us, I turn around and see a fuel truck burning, [["a truck just exploded."->"a fuel truck just exploded."]]

"What!? What do we do now?" Shit, shit, shit. [[My phone rings]], it's my brother.

"Where are you?" [["Uh, almost at Pasadena, but we're still stuck on 210."]]

"There are riots going on all over LA right now, some people broke into my house." [["Are you okay!!??"]]

"Ye, I got out. A lot of people are just fighting on the street." [["What a bunch of psychos."]]

"What about the car?" [["We'll figure it out later, but we need to get to somewhere safe first."->"We'll figure it out later, but we have to get to somewhere safe."]]

We get out of the car. "Ew." Not far from the car, an arm that had just been blown off by the explosion is stuck to the ground. [["Gross."->"Jesus that gross."]]

We try to move using the cars as covers. Luckily no one [[notices us.->noticed us]]

We are at the exit. There is a disembowed woman, somehow she's still alive, intestines scattered all over the place. She is muttering something, until she sees us. She raises one hand and points at us, shouting, "You're next!" [["Ignore her."->"Let's go."]] We keep walking.

"Ho-how is she not dead yet?" [["I don't know, we need to find my brother first."->"We can worry about that later, let's get to Jimmy first."]] [["It's probably all that adrenaline."->"I don't know, andrenaline?"]]

[[...]]

"Yeah. What even is happening?" [["I have no idea."->"I don't know, this doesn't look like a riot."]]

We arrive at the [[auto shop]]. A group was chasing us earlier, but they got distracted by another group, we managed to get away.

"Imagine having your face biten off." [["Hahaha, you know what this could be?"->"Could be. But do you know what this remidns me of?"]]

"What?" [["Zombies, except they can talk."->"Shutup"]]

The door is closed, there is no sign of my brother, nor his truck. "Jimmy's not here yet." [["Maybe he's inside."->no sign of Jimmy]]

I push open the door and [[walk in.->walk in]]

(set: $Crow to false) We [[walk through rows of shelves of car parts.->walk through rows of shelves storing car parts]] I [[pick up a crowbar]] from one of the shelves.

"Jimmy!" I shout. [[No response.->No answer]]

"Jimmy!" I shout. [[No response.->No answer]] (set: $Crow to true)

"What the hell are you doing? Quiet." Shirley stops me, "What if someone else is here?" [[We walk past the last shelf.]]

"Stop." A middle-aged man steps out from behind the shelves, and points his revolver at my head. "What are you doing here!?" [["We came to--"->"We came to..."]]

"Shut up! You guys are crazy too huh? I saw it myself, and I heard it on the news! You're here to kill me aren't you?!" [["No--"->"No..."]]

"You want to kill me? You're here to kill me?!" The stranger gets more and more agitated. (if: $Crow is false) [["Listen! We're here to find my brother, he works here."]](if: $Crow is true) [["Listen! We are not here to kill you. I don't even know who you are."->"Listen! We are not here to kill you. I don't even know who are you."]]

"Your brother? Who's your brother?" [["Jimmy. I mean James, James Callahan."]]

(if: $Crow is false) ["Oh, Jimmy." [[The man calms down a bit.]]]

"You know my brother?" "Yeah he works for me." The stranger cotinues, "I'm Bob. He's not here. Listen, it's crazy out there, your brother probably didn't make it- uh!" He suddenly twitches as he speaks. "What the- are you ok?" Shirley asks. Something is wrong with him. [["Step back." I say to Shirley.]]

"Then why do you have that!?" Stranger points his gun at my crowbar, "You're here to kill me!?" [["What? No! You need to relax."]]

"Don't even think about it!" He raises his gun and prepares to fire. [[No no no no no.]]

[[Shirley->I rush to check on her.]] is lying on the ground.

The one shot that missed me, hit her in the head. Half of her face is gone, blown all over the floor and the shelves. Her other eye remains open, but there isn't any expression, grey and [[dead.->responding]]

[[You fucking idiot.->You're fucking idiot, look at the shit you brought her into.]]

[[You're such an idiot.]]

[[Fuck you.]]

[[Fuck you.->f2]]

(if: $Crow is false) [[[...->...2]]] (if: $Crow is true) ["Hahahahaha," the man laughs in a playful, evil tone, "you pig, you're all going to hell little piggy." Did everything actually just happen? [[I pick up his gun.->I pick up the gun.]]]

[["You did this."]]

I wake up in my chair, turns out I have [[fallen alseep.->movein]]

[[Chapter 3]] [[CONTINUE->Chapter 3]] [[REPLAY LAST CHAPTER->Chapter 2]] [[RESTART THE GAME->Menu]]

Chapter 2 [[CONTINUE->Chapter 2]] [[REPLAY LAST CHAPTER->Chapter 1]] [[RESTART THE GAME->Menu]]

"Couldn't be better." Bob starts laughing, "You're all going to die." He raises his gun and [[pulls the trigger.->pulls the trigger on me.]]

I duck to the side, the bullet grazes my shoulder. Hurts like hell. Bob tries to fire again, but the gun jams. I lunge at him and [[push him over->pushes him over.]]

He fires another shot as he falls, but it misses me. He hits the back of his head on the edge of the shelf, and [[falls to the ground.]]

He's stopped breathing. I just killed someone. How do you even die that easy? "What's wrong with him?" I cover my shoulder and [[turn to Shirley]], "he's like those people on the highway-"

[[Shirley]] is lying on the ground.

She is shot in the stomach. Blood gushes out at she tries to cover it with her hands. She looks at me in disbelief, not saying a word. Her body limpens, the warmth slowly slips away. [["Shirley?"]]

[[You fucking idiot.->You're fucking idiot, look at the shit you brought her into.]]

"Sure." Shirley turns on the bluetooth. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' [[There Is A Kingdom.->......]]

[["Hey!?"]]

[[Oh no.]]

[["I'm so sorry."]]

''Radio Man'' by Yifan Zheng [[START->Start]] [[ABOUT]] WARNING: This game contains suicide reference, gore and heavy use of profanity, if you feel like you need help, or need to talk to someone, this link contains suicide hotlines of multiple countries: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines

Radio Man is an interactive fiction set in a world destroyed by a global pandemic in the form of a mental disease (confusing, I know, just play the game). A man spends the rest of his life inside a bunker, hidden from the surface world, his only connection with it is through a set of old radio equipment. [[RETURN->Menu]]

Jimmy is standing in front of me, holding a knife, grinning errily. [["What are you doing?"->"Jimmy what are you doing?"]]

"You're awake," he says, "I was waiting for you to wake up so I could [[kill you slowly->come]], hee hee hee. "

Perhaps it is my survival instinct, I dodge before the knife reaches me and [[take it from him.->took it from him.]]

"James what the fuck are you doing?" [[Don't make me do this.->cut]]

Finally, I thrust the knife through his jaw and into his head, [[his body falls to the ground.->his whole body falls to the ground]]

How is this happening? Is Jimmy infected too? We've been staying underground for weeks, [[how did he get infected?]]

I realize that Nick, another member of our group, is sitting in the corner while [[Emma]] is shoving a knife into him over and over again, and making piercing screeches.

I pull his former lover aside and finish her off. [["Nick?"->my friends]]

Nick is still breathing, slowly. His face is pale as he sits limp. He looks at me, full of regret: "Why?" [["I'm sorry."->How did this even happen?]]

[[This is not how it's supposed to end.->Damnqq]]

I wake up in my chair, turns out I fell asleep with my head on the [[shotgun.]]

How funny would it be if the gun accidentally goes off and kills me [[in my sleep?->in my sleep]] I laugh.

Damn dreams, they just don't stop these days. I turn on my radio, there is a man, he claims to be a [[doctor.->doctor]]

"It's not a virus." [["What do you mean?"->"What?"]]

"After the outbreak-if it even counts as one-I hid in the hospital where I worked, and I managed to capture some of those crazy people, it's pretty hard, they're smart, son of a bitch bit my finger off, it's not like they are zombies-" [["Get to the point."->"Stop, get to the The point."]]

"-so I would catch some infected from time to time and take their blood samples, I did a bunch of testings, and guess what, compared to a regular person, there's no difference." [["They're not sick?"->"That means they're not sick?"]]

"Not necessarily, but I couldn't find any pathogen, no germ, no fungus, completely normal." [["So are they really just plain crazy?"]] Somehow this actually makes a lot more sense than a virus.

"And evil. I thought of any idea." [["Oh?"]]

(set: $ACC to false) "How do mental hospitals used to deal with the insanes? Yes, lobotomy." The Doctor starts talking to himself, "So I tried to lobotomize a few of them, and it worked. They're no longer aggressive." [["So, they are just regular psychopaths?"]] [["How can you do this?"]]

"Yeah, isn't that interesting?" [["But if they are just regular psychopaths, how is this a global pandemic?"]]

(set: $ACC to true) "You got a problem?" [["You said they're just normal people, and you just lobotomize them?"]]

"Who knows. Maybe the nature is releasing a pheromone that controls our minds, it's cleansing us." [["Or it could be the aliens, trying to wipe us out with some kind of brain wave."->conversation]] "We will probably never find out." He says, saddened.

"Tehnically." The doctor argues, "but I doubt if they give a shit whether we are, well, normal people. Besides, to survive this long, you must have killed a lot of them already, why do you care?" [["..."->"Uh..."]]

Our [[conversation]] ends on an unpleasant note, what a lunatic. Is he even a real doctor?

I remember those who I met on the radio. (if: $Soldier is true) [Has the soldier finished his mission? Maybe it's the same hospital where the doctor hides? ] (if: $Woman is true) [What about the woman? Is she still alive? She must hates me. ] [[I try to contact the doctor again.->I am still trying to get in contact with the doctor.]]

He's been quiet since the last time we spoke. (if: $ACC is false) [[[Is he gone?->Nick]]](if: $ACC is true) [Is he gone? [[Or maybe he just doesn't want to talk to me.->Nick]]]

(if: $ACC is false) ["He's probably dead. People like him, curious, usually die. It's a miracle he has made this long." Says Nick, sitting in his corner] (if: $ACC is true) ["He's probably dead. People like him, curious, usually die. It's a miracle he has made this long. You're a funny man, we are on the edge of extinction, and yet you still worry about your ridicilous morals." Says Nick, sitting in his corner](if: $Woman is false) [.](if: $Woman is true) [(if: $Acc is true) [, "if you are such a saint, why didn't you help that woman?"]] [["Shut up."]]

"Have you ever througt that, if everyone else in the world is insane but you, maybe you're actually the crazy one." [["Say one more word and I will kill you."]]

"Yes!" Nick ignores my warning, "I'm sure you would like that. Like you did Emma, and Jimmy? How many more people have you killed? Must have liked all of it." [["I didn't like it at all."]]

"But you killed them, didn't you?" [["I did what I had to."->"It was out of mercy."]]

"Oh, you had to. Like you had to kill me?" [["What are you talking about? I didn't kill you. Emma did, she went insane-"]]

"You killed me, Jonathan," Nick interrupts me, " You tied me to a tree." [["What?"->what2]]

"You and your brother thought I was insane, like one of them, so you tied me to a tree and executed me." [["No, no, no. I didn't. Your wife killed you, we were in the bunker."]]

"Whatever you say," Nick signs, "what difference does it make?" [["..."]]

[["You're such a piece of shit, you should just shoot yourself."]]

[["You killed everyone, what makes you any better than them?"]]

[[Maybe you are insane too.]]

[[Maybe it's just you.->Maybe you're the only one who's insane.]]

[[...->...c3]]

The bunker is trying to communicate with me. [[It is calling me.]]

In front of me is an abyss made of concrete and lead, it says to me, [["Come, Come."]]

[[Maybe this is where I belong, the bunker has sheltered me, and I shall join it.->Maybe this is where I belong, the bunker has sheltered me, and I will become the bunker.]] [[I have to do something I should have done a long time ago.->I look at the shotgun sitting in the corner, I have to do something I should have done a long time ago.]] (if: $Woman is true) [[I have to get out of here.->I have to get out of here. ]]

I pick up the shotgun and [[shoot the radio.]]

The bunker is calling me. But I refuse. [[I'm not insane.]]

I open the door and climb [[out]] of a well. The fresh surface air greets me.

There is the sound of [[thunder]] in the distance, is it going to rain?

Yet the rain does not come. The thundering continues, roaring and booming, it gets [[closer and closer.]]

I feel a [[wave of heat]], it lifts me up, I am floating.

[[Three suns rise in the sky]], I open my arms and shout with all my might and excitement.

[[A huge mushroom cloud appears.]]

[[I am gradually disintegrated, reduced to dust.->END]]

[[Fuck the world.]]

It's done. [[I lay down on my bed]], so cozy.

I hear a [[loud roar]] from the surface, the entire room shakes with it.

[[What's happening? ]] The man that wanted to destroy the world. Did he finally suceed?

[[It doesn't matter.->END]]

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[[I can't be.->I can't be insane.]]

[[Let's end it all.->Then let's end it all.]] I shove the barrel of the shotgun into my mouth.

[[I pull the trigger.]]

It [[misfires.]]

That was the [[last round.->ohno]]

I hold the gun, curl up on the floor, [[snob silently.]]

The sound of my sobbing echoes [[throughout the underground.->END]]

[[No.->last round]]

A few months ago, me and a few other survivors [[found this place]], burried in someone's backyard. (set: $Alone to true)

[[...->traffic]]

"Yeah I don't know why. Listen, take the nearest exit, we'll meet at the auto shop I work at, it's close. You've been there, You know how to get there." [["Ok be safe."]]

I hang up the phone, it runs out of battery. How did I forget to charge it. "It's gonna be fine." I say to Shirley, "let's get out of the car, the exit is just ahead, [[we can walk."->we can walk]]

"Shut up." [["..."->...freeway]]

"You think we're gonna get out of this?" [["We will."->"We can worry about that later, let's get to Jimmy first."]] [["I don't know."->"We can worry about that later, let's get to Jimmy first."]]

I swing the crowbar toward his head, he falls to the ground, a shot is fired, but it misses me. "Oh my god." I gasp and kick the gun away from the him, "what the fuck?" I turn around to Shirley, [["are you oka-"->"are you ok?"]]

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I shoot him. The bullet pierces his forehead, leaving a tiny puncture as the back of his head explodes onto the floor. The smile still remains on his face. [[...->...2]]

A few weeks ago, Jimmy and I, and two other people, a couple, found this bunker. Finally somewhere safe, I can [[hide->fallen alseep.]] forever.

"Bro stop!" He [[comes at me->kill you slowly]] with his knife.

[[The knife cuts his body]], but it doesn't slow him down, he feels no pain.

[[...->Damn.]]

It wants to eat me alive. [[I have to get out.->I have to get out of here. It wants to eat me alive. I have to get out. Maybe I will see that woman again. Maybe I will meet those people from the radio. Maybe they can forgive me. I have to get out of here.]] Maybe I will see that woman again. Maybe I will meet those people from the radio. Maybe they can forgive me. I have to get out of here.