Noteice: entries in this journal today are part of BLITEOTW.



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Had a bit of a disturbed night. Not sure if it was the change in temperature, the Chavs making so much noise or what but I was tossing and turning all night. Maybe that Comet passing close to Earth was the cause? Maybe I’m allergic to comets?

I would have been tempted to go out and look but basically I was too tired.

Anyway, thanks to being so tired I was a little late getting up as I seem to have turned the radio alarm off in my sleep so had to rush out to work.

Thankfully the roads were quiet clear. Maybe being Friday 13th and the fuel delivery drivers strike were enough to keep people off work. I know I would have been tempted.

I missed the news on the radio too and all I got was music as I headed for work.

Been in just under an hour now and only three of us have arrived! We expected the management to be off, as they are all on a course. But no one from 2nd/3rd line is here either and that ‘technically’ means I’m in charge. Thankfully only a few calls so far. A lot quieter than usual but mostly lack of Internet problems. One pharmacist called wanting to know who to contact if a methadone patent was acting up. I advised as a tech support desk it definitely wasn’t us! But maybe he should call the police (It sounded quite violent.

Well things have kicked off quite dramatically here. I’ve spoken to Viv and she is safe at home and keeping me up to date on the situation there. Fortunately living in a quiet area means less chance of attack, as long as your careful. I've given her advise on keeping quiet and staying out of sight. She has my copy of the Zombie Survival Guide. Best few quid we ever spent it turns out. That and years of watching horror movies.

As for me, well I’m stuck here at work and having to make the most of it.

Most of the management for the whole company seems to have disappeared. Either they didn’t make it in, or maybe they knew something before the rest of us?

Anyway not long after my last post the Head of Security here (well, I say head, the nearest to a head that is here today) called me and said he had heard I had some MOD experience and if I had any idea what to do.

Why did I do it? I had one of those mad moments where I could hear the words coming out of my mouth but did not believe what I was hearing. I told him that under these circumstances, and with the lack of any outside contact I would have to take charge under MOD emergency protocols and everyone should ignore any usual orders and follow me.

What is more amazing that me saying that, is that they believed me!

Firstly I got Security to get as many people together on one place as possible but to make sure any injured or ‘suspicious acting people’ be placed in a separate secure area. I told them that people can leave if they want to but if they stay they have to follow my lead and stick together, following the basic rules.

In total we have 127 people. Three possibly effected by whatever this is and have been locked in separate rooms and being tended to by first aiders. We have no one else with medical knowledge. I’m waiting for a report.

I have Security and a few of the more active volunteers checking all the doors and windows and locking them. They are also looking for any other people stuck in offices or anything.

A second group I have collecting all the fire extinguishers and anything that could be used as a weapon.

We are gathering in the café area. Currently we still have power and we have a generator. I’m getting the tech guys to turn off any systems that are not needed to conserve what power we have, and to help avoid any fires if anything kicks off.

A lot of people (especially the telesales girls) are terrified and wanting to know what is going on and why. I made a little speech stating that whatever was happening and why were inconsequential at this time. I assured them that people far more qualified than us would be looking for solutions and our job was to stay alive.

I told them that although these effected people may look like humans they are not any more. They could not be reasoned with and want to kill us (I avoided the 'Z' word or the mention of their eating habits). It was a true kill or be killed situation and moral issues needed to be put to one side.

I told the crowd if anyone of them felt they could in no way use force to protect themselves that they needed to let me know and they would be given a role that hopefully would avoid contact wit the effected.

I was surprised how many people felt that when it came to it, bashing the brains out of someone would not be a problem.

However, those who were not ‘combat orientated’ were put to work collecting anything of use. Also we had several pans of boiling water put on. Not only for medical use, but for use as a weapon if needed.

I advised that from what I knew the effected do not feel pain and once they had seen you would not stop until you or they were dead or immobile. So if an attack did occur it was best to either aim for the head or legs, whichever was more likely to stop them. If one of the effected is immobilised it should then be dispatched as soon as possible by a strong blow to the head.

Any one who gets injured by one of the effected must be quarantined and would be treated well. I also added that if I found anyone hiding an injury, effect or not, I would personally ‘despatch’ them for putting the rest of us at risk.

I also told them that my main priority was to save as many people as possible for as long as possible. And everything else was secondary.

The First Aiders have arrived so I’m off to see the injured.

BLITEOTW.

Things are not going so good here. This may be my last report.

I sent a team over to Tescos to see what was happening there, and if anyone there knew more about what was going on.

The team had six people in it.

Only two came back.

I TOLD them not to leave the car! Just to see what was going on and report back. But apparently when they got across to the superstore they found very few affected people outside. But all the doors and windows had been covered or blocked with cars and lorries.

Then they made their mistake that cost them their lives. They assumed that people must be inside and decided to clear one of the doors to look.

It took five of them to move the blockade. They didn’t have a chance.

I guess someone inside must had been infected. The two survivors said that as soon as the blockade was down the dead just flooded out. Dozens of them. The four were swarmed on and had no chance.

All hell broke loose after this news. Everyone was panicking and demanding to be in charge or demanding to be told what to do. I tried as hard as I could to make myself heard over to commotion but they were already splitting into other groups.

One group decided to take a lorry and get away as far from the city as they could. Another guy somehow persuaded about a dozen people to ‘tool up’ and go ‘zombie hunting’

A third group decided to head out, on foot. I think they have the least chance of all.

A number of people just wandered off and may be somewhere in the building but I cannot find them.

Then four infected somehow got into the building and I saw at least ten people ripped apart. It would have been much more but it seems humans naturally take the ‘shark attack’ approach when it comes to the infected. If one is attacked just be thankful it’s not you and run like hell.

There is nothing more I can do here.

I’m going to try and head home to join Viv.

Wish me luck.

BLITEOTW & bliteotw.

I made it home.

And the journey was surprisingly easy. All along the main road I saw cars and lorries that seemed to have been smashed out of the way by some massive force. My guess is the Military has been along and used one of their tanks or something to clear a path to the barracks.

Sadly one of the smashed lorries I passed was the one from work. I guess they didn't make it very far.

Viv had done a great job of blacking out all the windows and doors. I heard quite a lot of banging from other houses. I think a lot of the people around here have barricaded themselves in. But I have a feeling a lot already have infected members and so we now have a street full of zombies locked in houses. Will need a bit of cleaning up once this is over.

After many hugs with Viv and the cats I went about making sure all our preparations were done. The generator was fully fuelled and tested in case the power went off. So far it hasn't. Plenty of stored water and food and of course I now have my trusty katana sword with me. I felt much safer now.

Most of the TV is off, but we are still getting intermittent Internet connection, and strangely the one feed that seems to be working fine is the one to the Big Brother house! I guess they have extra bandwidth reserved for the eviction tonight, which I am assuming will not be going ahead.

So now it is just a matter of sitting it out for the next three or four days if need be. That should be enough time for whatever is happening to have settled to a level where we can start to look further into the future. Assuming the human race has one that is.

With all that is going on you would think we would have more important things to do rather than just sitting in front of the TV (sound down, of course) and watching Big Brother but how could we resist. Life has to go on!

There was definite evidence that the show had been affected. It seems not long after midnight last night Kat (The Cookie Monster) was briefly taken out of the house as she had banged her knee on something while jumping up and down and had to go to the hospital for an X-Ray. She returned a few hours later.

I guess that was when she got infected.

They were all in the garden when she attacked. The housemates were playing around the pool when suddenly Kat leaped onto Rex's back and started to eat his neck! It was of course a major panic and the rest of the housemates ran into the house (There is a glass front between the garden and house.)

For over an hour they argued among themselves at to whether this was a TASK or not. Big Brother was of course not answering any calls. I guess they have either left or been infected and the housemates had no other contact with the outside world.

Kat continued to chow down on Rex while they argued. Alex was the most annoying she had ever been shouting and saying how she 'knew it was a task' and how bad the special effects were (this from a woman who was so sure an engagement ring was a cheap fake, even though the diamond was really almost a caret and really worth £2000!) Eventually Mario snapped and shouted at her that if she was so sure she should go and speak with Kat. Another age of arguing broke out and finally, and a little reluctantly Alex went outside.

And was quickly dispatched not only by Kat but the now reanimated Rex!!

The housemates watched her being eaten for about half an hour before they started to talk (a bit more civilly now) about what they should do.

It seems they have decided that, if they hear nothing from Big Brother by Midnight they are going to use one of the emergency exits to leave. I'm sure they will have changed their mind by then. Or been eaten.

As for us well we seem to be okay for now. Robin has already done his bit by coming in with a bird! I think he is helping with the food stock. :)

I'm not expecting a good night's sleep tonight if at all. Viv has been monitoring the situation via bliteotw but I am determined we won't just tire ourselves out. The house is locked down. I will, as always, be sleeping with my katana by my side, and tomorrow I may see if I can get any more information about what the hell is going on! So far all we have heard is a Army truck going down the road with a loud speaker telling everyone to stay inside and to put a sheet over the door so they will know who is alive and a sheet with a cross on the door if you have anyone injured or infected inside.

Anyway, hopefully the power will stay on and the Internet stay up.