BrainBread: Source mod for Half-Life 2

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Storyline
Nobody knows how it started, nobody really knows where, everyone has their own idea of course, some think it was a government experiment in population control gone horribly wrong, others think a mutant Ebola virus is responsible, still others think that the evil powers of Voodoo are the cause and then there are all the religious fanatics who swear blind that this is a curse placed on us by which ever mystical man in sky they favor for our sinful transgressions. Fuck ´em, they don't know shit, not a one of them, nobody does! It just seemed to be everywhere all at once, there was no warning, no explanation, nothing. We all swap conflicting stories and bizarre theories over cups of tea or coffee whenever we get back to camp, but there are always less of us to swap stories with, each time we get back. The truth is simple enough.

Somewhere between midnight and 5am (depending on who you talk to), on the 30th of January, the dead and recently deceased started to rise from their graves and devour the living! From every city, from every country, from every dark corner of the world they came by the thousands and by 12pm just over three quarters of the world population had join them. Needless to say nobody was prepared for it, the police were overrun in the early hours of the morning, by what the media dubbed 'rioting citizens', in a matter of hours and the army and National Guard were drafted in to help try and secure the major cities. Civilians were evacuated from the population centers that were still in some kind of order (Washington, Florida, London, Paris, Helsinki were all overrun in the early hours of the morning) and 'quarantined'. I was quarantined with about five thousand other people and stuck in a holding pen built to hold half that number, we were packed in like sardines. The quarantine was a joke, an excuse for the government to exterminate anyone with a fucking cold, I saw people being taken out and shot by the dozen just because they were exhausted and couldn't stand up any longer. When they started to get up or when the army grunts in charge didn't get the bodies out of the pens we were in fast enough ... it ended up in a slaughter.

How some of the rest of us got out I’ll never know, I don't remember a lot about those early days, lots of running, lots of fear, seeping out of the walls, the stink coming off everybody said 'we are fucked'! Anyway. We got picked up at some point I guess, the army had fallen back from all the major population centers and formed little outputs or Safe Zones, all the fuel, ammo, food and supplies they had were being divided up at these bases and they were bringing anyone who could walk AND talk to them. That´s why you're here by the way.

What´s left of the government hasn't got the faintest clue what is going on or how to fix it, most of their best people are dead or worse, not so dead. So that just leaves us. We are basically what´s left of the world and we aren't doing so well. I hear it told that
four Safe Zones went silent last night, we haven´t had word from them in hours, another one didn't check in this morning so we're flying over there now to check it out before we write it off. Cya around kid.