June 13, 2007
Still Alive
(Please read this first.)
The first barricade went down about twenty minutes ago. It was accompanied by a horrible sound, sort of like a dozen sick cats being half crushed by boxes. It's hard to imagine the things were human once.
The barricade in front of the bunker door was mostly complete, but we left part of it open. It's built around the forklift from the loading dock and was meant to stay open as long as possible. Well, okay, we mostly just welded as much stuff to it as we could after wedging one of the gantries diagonally in the entry way in front of it. I was having flashbacks to the last session of SR. I've never been able to take survival horror seriously before now. It's so much worse than I could imagine.
They got Whitney and two other people when the barricade fell. I was already inside the bunker, but we could all hear the screaming even after they shifted the lift part of the forklift to close the gap.
The bunker is about 5 feet underground and the walls are all several feet of concrete. The entrance isn't quite so optimal. The corridor is about 5 feet long and 5 feet wide or so. At least it's turned at right angles to the rest of the room, so they can't just push the barricade in on us.
After it was clear that no one else was going to make it through we started stacking heavy boxes behind the forklift to reinforce it. The gantry in front of it weighs several thousand pounds, but if they get through the sheet metal we welded over both sides of the bore it's not going to help much.
Before they broke through Chris L. ran a cable from the external net connection over in the server room. None of us know how long that is going to last. They don't seem interested in it, but it might get trampled or disconnected if they start messing with the server room.
The sounds from behind the barricade are terrible. No talking, just inarticulate noises. Pain. Anger. They don't even squabble like I would expect animals to. I think there are at least 40 or 50 of them out there. Maybe more. It's hard to tell.
I'm not sure if I believe Marion about the military anymore. I think she's just trying to keep us from panicking. She won't look me in the eyes when I ask her questions anymore.
I don't know if I'll be able to write again. It depends on how long the connection holds. Anyone out there who can reach us. Help. Even with the barricade, I don't know how much longer we've got.
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