The following entry is chonicled in a different format, due to the content and nature of the entry and the events within. Names will be labeled for each speaker, to the extent we have been able to identify who they were within the audio stream. For those casual readers, please note this entry contains some choice language. Thank you. [Wrain] I decided to switch things up today. It's been pretty quiet the last two days so I thought I'd just do a walking update and try to get some extra time in walking. I'm still headed down old Highway 280 right now, past some random little town called Campbell. According to the map, I'm supposed to hitch up to Highway 17 pretty soon and then jump over to Highway 85. This town looks like pretty much all the other places I've passed walking down here. Lots of old strip malls and big box stores and what seems like millions of apartment buildings. We've got all those in Nova Marina, but I've noticed up here that these entire areas seem to be almost completely absent of real houses. Sprawl, it sounds like people weren't kidding when they called it that. I'm a little more nervous, as you can porbably tell from my voice. I'm walking through what is essentially a corridor between the buildings on either side of the highway. A lot of the walls along the highway have holes in them, probably from all the cars that crashed during the First Rising. On the other hand, I haven't seen a zombie in at least a day. It's kind of strange, being alone. Or at least feeling alone. I'm worried, too. I should have seen some people coming from down south, wouldn't they try to get up and see what things are like up here? No, no, they wouldn't. My father's a practical man, he'd know to stay away from the old ruins, get out to the country, if Nova Marina fell. The weather's nice now, it seems like the rain passed south. Hopefully it helps anyone at home. Hopefully anyone is still at home. The wind is refreshing and smells, smells... like smoke? Smoke? There, I can see it, it's off the highway. Maybe there are survivors, maybe they sent people north to look for us. The following few minutes are unintelligible mumbling and heavy breathing, we presume to be Wrain running off the highway towards the source of the smoke. The rest of the transcriptions starts again roughly five minutes after the break. I... can... ugh, I can see them. There's a group of them. I hope the recorder is picking up my whispers. There're are about six guys standing around and a couple people on the ground I can' really see. The guys have guns, they look pretty tough and I don't recognize them. Oh no, no, no, these guys are Rovers. They move from place to place, taking and raiding and robbing decent people, basically just bandits. Not exactly Robin Hood types though, if you catch my meaning. I can't quite see what's going on... Hold on, they're picking someone up. The female captive screams. Oh my God, it's Shasta! Oh my God, what are they, no, no, no, no, NO! HEY YOU DIRTY MOTHERFUCKERS, DON'T LAY A HAND ON HER OR I'LL KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU! [Shasta] Wrain?! Wrain! Help! Help me! [Rover Leader] Get him before he draws any shamblers! Kill him now, we can't afford to be held up any longer on delivering the our guest! [Wrain] Oh no! Shit! Shit, shit, shit, shit... what am I gonna do, what am I gonna do, thank Wrain. No, no, don't think, just act. Ok, ok, just stay here for, let them come to you, just like Dad showed me. [Rover] ... saw him head this way. Don't waste the ammunition on this little piece of sh-aaaggghh CRACK! [Wrain] Oh my God, he's dead. I hit him and he's dead. Shit, shit, shit. [Rover] Yo Damien, you get him? [Wrain] Your buddy Damien's brains are leaking all over the pavement, assholes! Leave Shasta and the others and get the hell out of here. [Rover] Oh shit, that fool dropped Damien. Fuck that man, I'm not dying from some chick, not worth it. [Rover Leader] Where the hell are you going? There're four of you and one of him, and he's just a kid. [Rover] Nah, Charlie, I didn't sign up for this. Snatch and grab, that was the deal. I'm not fighting, not if this fool split Damien's face on the ground. Keep my share of the pay, I'm out. [Other Rovers] Yeah, screw this. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! ..... [Shasta] Wrain? Wrain? Are you there? Wrain, please! [Wrain] Oh man, oh man, they're all dead. Shasta, Shasta! I'm coming, stay down! Everybody... keep your... heads down. I'm here, Shasta, I'm here. Everything's going to be fine. [Shasta] Oh my God, Wrain, I never thought I'd see you again. I ran into the ruins, and these guys surprised me and they... they.... [Wrain] Shh-sh-sh don't talk about it now, we need to get out of here. The gunfire is going to draw the zombies and I have no idea how many there are. Can you walk? [Shasta] Yeah, but we need to help these people, we need a place to - BAM! [Wrain] Arrrrghhh! [Rover Leader] Hahaha.. got you... you little... son of bit-...ugh... [Shasta] Wrain! Wrain! No, no, no, no, don't die on me, not after I just found you again. Stay with me Wrain. Wrain! Wrain!