Left 4 Dead story

[SOLANUM]

I've been up all night typing away at this story I've been pulling together. Its focusing on the backstory to Left 4 Dead, not the survivors but the history of the virus and the outbreak it's self. Having fun with it atm, heres the prologue:


No one actually knows how the outbreak in Fairfield started. The surviving people had stopped watching the news, every report told the same story and gave the same instructions: stay inside, lock the windows and doors, and wait it out. Deep down, the people who listened to the instructions knew that it was likely no one was going to search for them. They felt abandoned. Left for dead.
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I'll go into the story following the survivors after I'm done with this part of it.



EDIT: Put this in off topic maybe?

[SOLANUM]

Allright, first chapter.
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Steven Harris looked out the window of his shack, out at the the wind and the rain. Dr. Steven Harris was called here, to a small shanty village in Cambodia and was told basically to pack his things, buy a ticket for a flight and that it was extremly urgent. Nothing had happened since he had arrived. When he did arrive he was told that a "specimen" had been captured and bound to a hospital bed.

"Specimen?" Specimen of....what?"Dr. Harris had said earlier that evening said as they walked across the village of shanties to the "hospital" The hospital was little more than a two floor bungallow made mostly of sheet metal and held together with mud. Dr. Harris had expected it to collapse any second as the rain softened the mud which bound together the structure.

The 2nd floor creaked and sagged under the men's weight. Dr Harris was led by a local doctor and several guards armed with M4 assault rifles. He was still unsure as to what the specimen was and why these precautions were needed but he was too intimidaded by the men's large form to ask.

When they reached the room the "specimen" was held in, they found it unlit. The oil lamp that had lit the room had been somhow knocked to floor, it was remarkable the entire hospital didn't burn to the ground. The men lit 4 urnes, one on each wall and the room was lit in a dim shimmering light.

They saw the hospital room a terrible mess. The sheets and pillows that once lay on the bed were in pieces and strewn across the room. The glass of water that sat on the nightstand had been apparantly thrown the wall and the nightstand it's self layed on the side near the door. The leather straps that had bound the specimen were tore with apparant teath marks in the. They even found a tooth on the ground, the thing had bit the straps so hard its teeth had fallen out.One of the large windows that overlooked the jungle had been smashed, allowing the rain to pour in and the specimen to escape. The local doctor in company of Dr. Harris cursed under his breath, whispared something to one of his gaurds, and Dr. Harris was escorted from the room, back to his shack without any answers as to why he was there or just what the "specimen" was.

Now, he simply stared out the window and watched the rain hit the narrow dirt road that ran the leangth of the village, wondering what had been released into the forrest earlier that evening and why he was even here. His thoughts were interupted by what he thought was the sound of soft crying. "I must be going insane" he thougt. He heard it again, definetly this time. It was the sound of a woman crying, just barely audiable over the sound of the rain. Steven slowly got up and opened the door. "Hello?" he softly called out. "Hello!?" more loudly this time. No response but the soft crying of a woman somewhere out in the rain. Close.

He crept outside. As he walked onto the road the crying grew louder, he realised it was coming from across the road, maybe 10 feet into the forest. He brushed past a tree, and into the jungle. "....Hel-" He hesitated, wondering if he should just go back to his shack and forget he heard anything.

It sounded as if he was directly on top the source of the crying. He began to feel uneasy, he was hearing rustling in the greenery that surrounded him. "Oh christ, which way was the road?" He heard a low growl to his right and swung around in time to see a darkly clothed figure leap out of the vegitation and into a nearby tree. Everything went still. He heard no wind, no wildlife, only the soft patter of rain drops on the thick leaves of the jungle.

He began sprinting away, he didn't know if he was going in the right direction and he didn't much care. He knew he wanted to get away from that spot as quickly as he could. In his haste he found himself only more lost. He slowed to a stop, spun around, trying to gain his bearings. He heard a loud, seemingly inhuman scream from behind him. Before he could turn around, something slammed into his back from above. He felt clawing at his back and felt punches and kicks slam into his body. Gunshots rang out from somewhere to his left. He felt something wet and warm wrap around his waist and forcefully pull him away. More blows to the body, more shots rang out and more inhuman roars and screams.

Then blackness.

[Mammal]

Very good :001_smile:

Write more! :laugh:

[Henrik]

nice i wanna hear more :D

[whysopro]

tl;dr LOL j/k Bro, nice story, keep writing!!

[Lichen]

nice, epic story so far

[SOLANUM]

I'll write more soon, got bored with it for a while. Maybe tonight I'll post another part.

[PotshotPolka]

Submit that on your ISAT writing portion.

[Toxin]

I could help you out with that story if you want to. I love writing that kind of stories
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[StrykerSwat]

me 2
i would love to help u solumen with the story
i love writing these kinds of things ^^

if u want to PM on my profile :D

[XeNo]

MAYBE THERE CAN BE A LARGE GIANT KILLING ROBOT BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW.

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I already wrote the prequel to L4D. Reintroducing....L4B!!!

(quoted from earlier post waay back when)



Did you guys ever play the prequel to it? Yeah, it’s called Left 4 Bread (L4B), and it’s all about the life of the main character whom is a baker. You control him as he makes his way around his town gathering items and ingredients. His name is Greg Jones and as you go through the game you get to learn a whole lot about his personal life and his family history. His father was a dentist and his mother was a secretary at a highly regarded law firm in the city. Since the father worked in their small town and the mother worked in the city, they rarely got to have family time together or have family meals. This drove Greg to want to be a baker so that he could provide delicious bread and treats to many families who spend time together. Greg is near sighted and wears a set of pretty hip glasses, which are usually juxtaposed to his very neat and crisp chefs shirt and pants. On one mission you get to go to the shoe store to buy him a new pair of shoes. The problem with this choice is that there are many types of shoes to choose from! You can pick anything from shoes that have really good grip on the floor of the kitchen so Greg doesn’t get injured (good choice since Greg doesn’t get insurance until his bakery really takes off and does well so in the beginning its good that he doesn’t get hurt) or flashy stylish shoes which are also good because Greg gets more compliments and it makes him happy (which makes his work better, but he can get injured! Uh-oh!) Choices, Choices! It’s pretty neat. I won’t spoil the ending for you, but let me say just this – it’s delicious!

[Joe*]

Nice Imagery and very intense

[Mammal]

I already wrote the prequel to L4D. Reintroducing....L4B!!!

(quoted from earlier post waay back when)



Did you guys ever play the prequel to it? Yeah, it’s called Left 4 Bread (L4B), and it’s all about the life of the main character whom is a baker. You control him as he makes his way around his town gathering items and ingredients. His name is Greg Jones and as you go through the game you get to learn a whole lot about his personal life and his family history. His father was a dentist and his mother was a secretary at a highly regarded law firm in the city. Since the father worked in their small town and the mother worked in the city, they rarely got to have family time together or have family meals. This drove Greg to want to be a baker so that he could provide delicious bread and treats to many families who spend time together. Greg is near sighted and wears a set of pretty hip glasses, which are usually juxtaposed to his very neat and crisp chefs shirt and pants. On one mission you get to go to the shoe store to buy him a new pair of shoes. The problem with this choice is that there are many types of shoes to choose from! You can pick anything from shoes that have really good grip on the floor of the kitchen so Greg doesn’t get injured (good choice since Greg doesn’t get insurance until his bakery really takes off and does well so in the beginning its good that he doesn’t get hurt) or flashy stylish shoes which are also good because Greg gets more compliments and it makes him happy (which makes his work better, but he can get injured! Uh-oh!) Choices, Choices! It’s pretty neat. I won’t spoil the ending for you, but let me say just this – it’s delicious!

That is actually pretty epic, I'm already planning my route to the shoe store and which shoes I shall choose.

[SOLANUM]

You guys can wright whatever you like. PM me it and I'll edit it to fit the story.

[Repeat]

Those...those look delicious....


thats what she said!