Team Fortress 4 Dead
The following is taken from a journal in the Medic’s handwriting, found in the long-abandoned Dust Bowl mine, six months after Infection Containment.
Battle of 2Fort, day 987
The Heavy came to me today, complaining about stomach pains. It seems he had found a sandwich while on guard duty and, thinking someone had brought him a snack, consumed it. He claims that it tasted “not so good.” I recommended he lie down for the rest of the day, but being the Heavy, he refused to miss today’s operation. He, along with the Scout and Spy, left for the BLU base 30 minutes ago.
Battle of 2Fort, day 990
The away team are still not back from BLU base, nor have any respawned. I am becoming increasingly concerned for their safety. Sniper has seen not a jot of activity across the bridge for 2 days. Very strange.
Battle of 2Fort, day 991
Something has affected the behaviour of our allies. They are coming for us. I no longer recognise them. They are as animals. From the state of their clothes, it seems they have slaughtered all the BLUs, which have joined their ranks. We remaining REDs are about to leave for the Dust Bowl and await further instructions. The Engineer has set up Sentry defences, but refuses to leave his beloved contraptions. He has not returned, and we are forced with heavy heart to leave without him.
2 Days after First Infection
We have arrived at the RED base, now four men down. The Soldier wants us to stand and fight, but I tell them we must hole up and wait for the Announcer to give us orders. No sign of the Infected. Although I am a man of science, I am completely dumbfounded by this phenomenon.
4 Days after First Infection
After two days of relative peace, the Sniper spotted first one, and then a whole horde of the Infected. How they are some many I cannot explain, nor how they have all assumed the likeness of our missing comrades.
It seems the Infected can easily be killed with fire or a shot to the head. Needless to say, the Sniper and the Pyro have taken it upon themselves to eradicate all of the monsters, even to the stage where they are in competition with one another. I, however, cannot share their high spirits.
5 Days after First Infection
We are down to four. Overcome and out of fuel, the Pyro was slain by a pack of the beasts. They ripped him to shreds. It is hard to think that these… things were once proud soldiers. Usually the Heavy is pleased to be coated in the blood of his enemies, but these days he will not stop eating them. Why can he not just be satisfied with his Sandvich any more?
One Week after First Infection
While exploring the mine buildings for supplies, we chanced upon a woman’s sobbing. Ever the gallant hero, the Soldier forced his way into the outbuilding to come to the poor wretch’s aid. It was the Announcer. She is smaller than I imagined, and with sharper claws. No sooner had we disturbed her sorrow, that she leapt upon the Soldier and struck him a mortal blow. We killed her, but too late. The Soldier’s condition is grave.
8 Days after First Infection
Attempts to heal the Soldier with my Medigun have proved futile. He is changing into one of them. I fear we may have to act before nature, as death no longer seems the barrier to our enemies it once was. The Sniper is still managing to hold them back with his rifle, and the Demoman’s sticky traps have proved successful so far. We may hold yet.
10 Days after First Infection
The Soldier is dead. I saw to it with my own weapon. I have never turned my syringes on a friend before, and I didn’t much care for it, however pleasing the sound of needle hitting flesh continues to be. Chances of getting out alive are remote. There are now too many Infected to even consider leaving our stronghold. The Demoman is running out of pipe bombs, and more importantly, liquor. I do not relish the idea of him being sober.
Two Weeks after First Infection
I fear this will be my last journal entry. We are running out of food and ammunition, and the Infected test our defenses almost ceaselessly. I can hear them as we speak, soullessly imitating the catchphrases of our allies. The Heavies (if they can be called such) have somehow learnt to kill with only their fingers. The Sniper has been hit by a brutal “Pow!”
I must put down my pen and assist the Demoman in holding the door shut. They are coming and I must
Zorgulon on November 18th 2008 in demoman, engineer, heavy weapons guy, medic, pyro, sniper, soldier, team fortress 2
Stumble it!
Himmelstoss responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 3:31 pm #
F1RST!
Another awesome post from Zorgulon! You’re probably one of the best writers here. This post is so epic, it’s EPIC.
Junior responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 4:10 pm #
Well done! Awesome post.
Nosedigger responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 4:18 pm #
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Nick responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 5:14 pm #
A tear shed for those lost…
Sypheros responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 5:39 pm #
Loved it. Loved it loved it loved it. Absolutely awesome.
Neuromante responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 6:31 pm #
Awesome post. It makes me wanna buy left 4 dead.
Fortunately I am inmune to the infection
Slipstream responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 6:42 pm #
Medic?
Medic!
MMMEEEDDDIIICCC!!!
Despite my personal belief that a Pyro would never be overrun since he is the best at “crowd-control”, that picture is bloody brilliant.
And so is this post. Kudos.
minespatch responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 7:43 pm #
Has anyone seen that video that was recently posted on Halolz.com?
Here’s a link:http://www.halolz.com/2008/11/17/video-left4dead-in-dustbowl/
Shnitzel responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 9:24 pm #
I peed a little bit when I read this, it was that exciting.
Shrake 12 responded on 18 Nov 2008 at 11:42 pm #
That was the best crossover from anything to TF2. I applaud you, sir.
I still hold on to the hope of the 3 RED team members coming out alive. And somehow meeting up with the group from Left 4 Dead
hain responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 12:04 am #
This was very nicely done. I am joyed.
This is not my real name responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 12:29 am #
HAHA Left 4 Dead+TF2=UBER WIN!
Toxoplasma responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 2:47 am #
Very, very nice.
Also, typo in 4 days after infection, “Some many” instead of so many.
Killa-Ewok responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 2:59 am #
But WAIT! Where’s the spy?
This tastes like a delicious continuable story. The spy, disguised as a zombie, backstabbing them over and over again.
This is no tmy real name responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 3:13 am #
Yeah, the zombies aren’t clever enough to discover a spy even if he walks in front of them with their name..
Overlord Laharl responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 3:28 am #
I had the same Idea, but I did completly forget it %)
“The Demoman is running out of pipe bombs, and more importantly, liquor. I do not relish the idea of him being sober.”
Awesome, man. Couldn’t do better!
SAC responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 3:31 am #
Omg Overlord Laharl! Heheheh, just found your name on this PC, which indicates that you go to the same university as me. :O
Also, yeah, “…more importantly, liquor.” Best line ever!
Valkyr responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 3:35 am #
I like it that finally someone ignored the medics origin and wrote an awesome story. I kept reading till I finished, I think it was one of the best posts on this blog besides this http://www.ubercharged.net/2008/09/17/gone/ one.
Congratulations, Zorgulon.
Lolz responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 4:15 am #
Add me on steam everyone! (Tanki54 under the name of darc shadow) that was the best article i’ve seen for ages dude awesome, Lolz gives you a big thumbs up.
Simon_Says responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 4:31 am #
I knew that hosting ZF maps on the ubercharged.net server would lead to disaster…
BathrobeAssassin responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 7:14 am #
Nice build up. I might even get L4D after this–
Nah.
Zorgulon responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 7:52 am #
Thanks for all the positive comments, guys.
That Pyro picture’s probably the most fun I’ve had posing in GMod- I love how his expressionless mask fits any situation you put him in and somehow manages to convey sheer panic.
You never know, they could have survived…
If you look carefully, you can see a cloaked RED Spy crossing the bridge with the zombies…
edinbugger responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 8:58 am #
Really?
…
Hey… he’s right! WOO! RED lives!
Capp'n Giggleblood responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 2:44 pm #
Wow. That was the most incredible article i’ve read EVER! Great buildup, extremely epic, and otherwise gripping down to the end. I still feel bad about poor Pyro, though… “sniffle”… “sob”…
Tayta responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 5:31 pm #
Awesome article, but I was thinking today and I discovered one thing:
Why did the Medic never use his Ubercharge?
Scutum responded on 19 Nov 2008 at 7:17 pm #
Good point, maybe he could charge up an ubercharge, and stickyjump with the Demoman (I assume Friendly Fire is on, because the Medic killed the Soldier) out of this mess.
Train god responded on 20 Nov 2008 at 6:22 am #
Braaaaaaaa- OH SHIT GO AWAY AArrrghlalrgha
Lolz responded on 20 Nov 2008 at 7:03 am #
Lifelessly imatating catchfrases, lol! You can imagine… Ugh…POW AHA…ugh…SO MUCH BLOOD!…ugh…etc etc
samps responded on 20 Nov 2008 at 7:40 am #
It’s nice to see people everywhere getting excited about zombie fiction, thanks to Left 4 dead. I however refuse to buy it because as a big fan of zombies, I have tried countless zombie-games, all of which have been extremely bad. So yeah, I am more than skeptical about it, even though my friends try to convince me.
And about the post: That was a really good short story, especially considering that it was written by a random blog writer
SirMax responded on 20 Nov 2008 at 9:47 am #
Spy lives, stays disguised as a zombie, meets another RED spy who’s female, they get married by a spy priest, new generation of humanity who spent entire lives disguised as zombies, evolution > zombie apocolypse
Eran responded on 21 Nov 2008 at 9:49 am #
The witch-announcer thing is epic. Really.
Nick responded on 09 Sep 2009 at 12:29 pm #
Awesome. I feel bad for the poor Pyro, but he’ll respawn soon anyway.