I scrolled through the files that are connected to ARS 29’s case and open up the oldest one to date.

A green haired college student appears on the screen. Her eyes are red and puff as if she has been crying nonstop, and their are deep dark pits underneath her eyes indicating a lack of sleep. Her clothes are dirt and look disheveled. Her hair is ruffled and she is dressed in a simple brown blouse and jeans, though that is assuming that the dirt is not hiding the true color. The video begins to play.

A mans voice plays over the computer, and the data indicates that his name is Ryan Haggard and the young student is Megan Rothford.

“Megan I know you have been through a very difficult experience but I need you to take a deep breath and tell me everything from the beginning”. The girl takes a deep breath her shoulders shudder a few times as she calms herself. “Alright let me start from the beginning, it was the Friday before graduation. Me and my friends Cami, Amy and Heather we going to go out and celebrate that we had gotten through all of our exams and will soon be granted our degrees. Cami forgot her wallet so I went back to with her to the apartment where we ran into Lucas our neighbor and got talking. All of a sudden there was a screeching sound as if the whole building was coming down. We looked around and began to panic because we did not know where it had come from. We decided to run to the window….

“What floor did you live on?” The gentlemen interrupted

“We lived on the third floor. I jammed my key into the door and ripped it open. Me, Lucas and Cami sprinted to the window and, and aaaannndddd….. “ Megan trails off as she begins to weep her story cut off by tears. The interview lays a comforting hand on her should and gives her a minute. He retrieves a tissue box and a glass of water. Megan thanks him softly before blowing her noise and talking a sip of water.

“And….” The interviewer prompts.

“And I watched as Amy and Heather we torn limb from limb by the undead” Megan says her voice shaking, as well has her body. She breaks down in tears again. The video recording cuts out. Megan’s face is instead replaced by a young man looking in his early 20’s with a buzz cut. There are bandaids around his face and his left arm is in a sling. His eyes are brown and he looks to be from pan Asia.

“Lucas was it” the interviewer asks.

“Yes, is Megan alright?” He asks hastily.

“She is fine we are just asking her a few questions, and speaking of questions do you mind answer a few of mine?”

“Sure dude, I mean sir” Lucas quickly correcting himself.

“So we heard that your dorm building was attack by ‘walking corpses’ is that right?” The interview asks, the skepticism evident in his voice.

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“I mean you could call them that you could also call them walkers, zombies the living dead and so on and so forth” Lucas responds, eyes beginning to look hollow.

“So they attacked your dorm building could you describe to me what happen?” Lucas snaps out of his revelry.

“Um sure, I just ran into Megan and Cami coming back for Cami’s keys I think, she is always forgetting something but I was chatting it up with Megan when the whole building shook, it felt like the walls were coming down, and then I heard a scream coming from outside. I pushed into the girls dorm room and looked out the window to see well a swarm of zombies. Me and the girls rushed to the floors door way just to see a swarm of the undead barreling up the stairs. I quickly shut and locked the door. That’s when we saw Liam and Wayne running up from the other side. They are cool dudes real smart helped me with some math homework a couple times. Anyway they asked what was going on. One look out the window told them all they needed to understand what was going on. Liam was babbling on about some science jumbo mumbo and Wayne was nibbling something about midgets I think, not sure what that was about. Back on topic we tried to call campo but got no response hell, we had no internet. We couldn’t contact anyone, I was panicking I won’t lie. Anyway Liam and Wayne came up with a extremely stupid plan of luring the zombies to one side of the building with a juke box and then blinding them with bleach. I don’t know how but it worked. We then sprinted to the science building where the two chemists got to work on weaponizing chemicals. Together we were able to fight our way through the horde to a friends car, that’s when things get fuzzy. I think I was exposed to chloroform and I passed out. Next thing I remember is waking up here with a broken arm. Do you guys have a connection I want to tell my followers what happened”. The video cuts out and switches to a new face. The young man with shaggy brown hair is wearing glasses and has a bandage over his left eye, however his other brown eye is flitting around the room taking everything in.

“Liam was it, could you describe what you saw again?” The interviewer asks.

“No problem. At first glance they did look like the undead as they had a very pungent order similar to rotting flesh however there only seemed to be rotting dead. My roommate Wayne also pointed out that their were non-human shapes in the groups. Some of the ‘zombies’ we much larger then the average man while others were much smaller. Some also had pointed ears and noses, almost cartoonish. However he did note that such observations could be result of panic, as when the mind is provided with an impossibility it will try and preserve itself by attempting to rationalize what you are seeing, and…..

“So what did you do after you had reconvened with your friends?”

Liam looking a little annoyed at being interrupted like a teacher stopped during a lecture. He quickly remembers his place and continues.

“Yes well we decided to hunker down for the time being and get in contact with the police. However we couldn’t, the Wi-Fi and internet was down, though our phones and computers still functioned but we couldn’t connect to anything else. Wayne and I then came up with an experiment we wanted to see how sound effected the zombies. Using speaker we found that zombies were attracted to noise. Using a small Bluetooth speaker that we flung out the second story window to lure the zombies away from the entrance and we’re able to make a break for it. Our goal was to make it to a friends car on the other side of campus but we only made it halfway to the science hall before zombies forced us back inside of a building. Me and Wayne were able to create some improvised flash bombs and explosives to distract and incapacitate enough zombies so that we could make it to our friends car. With a lot of luck we managed to distract the zombies away from the parking lot and make it into Jim’s pick up truck. Since the truck was only a two seater, Jim drove with the two girls jammed in there with him. Wayne and I hoped in the bed of the truck and Jim tore off away from the town heading northwards. For two hours we drove with nothing of note happening until the troll appeared.