DRW Mistertrouble189/The Willamette Incident

NOTE The following is a report submitted by the Department of Homeland Security on the incident at Willamette, a mid-sized town located in Colorado in the United States.

A Survivor's Account
Frank West is a journalist who survived the ordeal at Willamette, Colorado. He arrived by helicopter and was dropped off on the roof of the town's landmark mall. This is his story...

''I arrived in Willamette thanks to a pilot and we saw some sort of riot in the streets with people attacking each other...Then I came upon some weird guy on the roof of the Willamette Parkview Mall. After talking to him, I made my way down to the Entrance Plaza and saw a bunch of people, who told me that zombies had taken over the town. Pretty crazy. When I was talking to some old man, the zombies broke in and pretty much killed everyone...I was lucky enough to get out of there. I made it back into the security room where there were two government agetns and a janitor holed up. With the door I just came from welded shut, the only way back into the mall is the air vent, which is how one of the agents gets back in. I follow him and find some elderly couple on the roof. After bringing them back, Otis, the janitor, tells me a bunch of people are trapped in the mall and that I should save them...Ha. But I'd go after them anyway. While making me way through the store room, the blonde agent almost shoots me and gets hurt in the process. Oops. Making up for her injury, I go out into the zombie-infestested mall and rendezvous with Brad. From there on, I learn that the weird guy I met on the roof is responsible for the whole zombie mess and that we need to stop him from unleashing his grand finale. After covering the DHS agent's back from the Carlito guy, Otis informs me of a bunch of survivors holed up in stores and I go out to save a bunch, including a girl being terrorized by escaped convicts and a couple of people from the Al Fresca Plaza. Along with the stranded folks, there are psychopaths too... I had to deal with a crazed gun store owner and a homicidal clown which was not cool. Later during the first night, an injured man, a couple of Japanese tourists and a mall employee all owe me their asses as I bring them to safety in the security room. The next day the old guy comes back into play: we had to rescue him, who turns out to be a professor who's involved with the zombie deal..it gets complicated. With Dr. Barnaby injured, I have to go to the food market to get some medicine from the pharmacy, but not without dealing with a bunch of zombies and the crazed manager of the market...and to top it all off, the female hostage that the food manager held just runs away from me, aggressively. Hmph. On my way back from the medicine run, I fight yet another psycho - a Vietnam veteran who turns the hardware store into a bloodbath. After putting him down, I find and free three "Prisoner of Wars" and bring them to the security office. Once again, more survivors need my help so I save a pair of hot twins, a couple, a fat guy and a coward throughout the mall. And to make things worse, there's some cult that's holding a woman hostage. I flat out kill the thirty cult members to save this one lady, but at least she was sane. Later that afternoon, I find two people stuck in the Wonderland Plaza so I drag them along, that's when I come across yet another crazy. There was an obese cop sexually torturing four women. So I had to put down the fat lady to save her captives. With six people trudging behind me, we kill dozens of zombies before reaching "home". After that, I come across the female hostage I freed earlier and exchange some gunfire before I own her hostile ass. After that, some more fun, killing a family of crazed snipers, getting to save two young women, a fatty, and an old dude. Later that night, Isabela meets with me, agreeing to talk. But as always, shit happens and she's hurt so I have carry her back to the office, but not without this black guy in a tuxedo armed with a shotgun...Upon arriving at the office, Jessie is bitten by a zombified Barnaby right after Isabela explain all about the zombies and her brother Carlito. The third day is full of drama so here's the breakdown: a drunkard, a pyromaniac, and two women are saved. Plus, I kill the mysterious cult leader along with the rest of his posse to save five people from sacrafice. After that fun, me and Brad do this plan to stop the bombs under the mall and we're successful...but Brad dies. After that mission, an old woman, a sick man, a bitten teen girl, three gun-totin' rednecks, and a fellow photographer's hostage are all saved by me. Hoorah. Finally, the serious stuff goes down. Isabela and I head out to stop Carlito and we do...kinda. This demented butcher kills him before we can do anything, but we're able to free up the phonelines. Jessica calls headquarters and rescue is coming! Except they won't take us...which sucked! However, Jessica turned into a zombie and eats two Special Forces soldiers, prompting Otis to hijack a SF helicopter and hightail out of Willamette with the some 50 survivors I've rescued. Me and Isabela are left behind to deal with the army of undead and now the Special Forces. We make it to the helipad in time to watch my pilot get killed and crash in the park...which led to an underground tunnel leading out of the mall. We make our way, with this homemade zombie repellant and we have a showdown with Brock Mason, the Special Forces commander. After I beat the shit out of him, for trying to kill innocents, we finally escape the living hell...''

List of Survivors
''Several people survived the inital outbreak, though many were psychopaths or were killed later on. The following is a list of survivors complied from survivor accounts, radio transmissions, photographs, and video feeds from the mall and traffic cams. Green indicates the individual escaped with his or her life. Red indicates the survivor was killed.''