《The hitchhiker’s guide to Checkpoint》 The Collision: a faction So first off, it¡¯s not a typo, this group is actually called the collision. Yes, like things hitting each other. Because hitting stuff is exactly what members of the collision do. the collision is a melee centric gang of bruisers. They love finding excuses to rob and hit things. With this common goal, the collision seeks to take over the other groups in the land to establish a empire where they can indulge their barbaric ways. anybody who stands in the way of the collision, gets treated to the name via homemade or industrial bludgeons and wedges. Always looking for something to hit, being labeled as an enemy is easy oppose their beliefs: you get a smacking fight: gladlyStolen story; please report. live in their territory without permission: talk to the shovel stare at them for too long: ¡°oi I think this one wanna foight¡± be smart and use ranged weapons: heresy so on: so forth the reason why the Collision hasn¡¯t been taken out by a redneck with an ar15 is from sheer numbers and influence. Using swarm methods, and a you can¡¯t stop all of us mentality, collision members can easily overwhelm most. but the real reason why they are so prominent is their leader. As stashed in checkpoint some people who survived the happenings (weird magic waves) got power beyond science. The leader is one of those fellows who got such powers. it seems the powers given are specific to the user, as the leader¡¯s power is to be completely immune to any flying objects, only harmable by melee attacks. Which bad because he¡¯s an ex-boxing champion, known to be a nightmare in hand to hand combat. tl:dr The collision, yes that¡¯s spelled right, are basically raiders with ork mentality about combat and a explicit use of melee weapons. It¡¯s easy to get on their bad side, and wish to conquer. Leapfroggers: because no apocalypse is complete without zombies WHAT ARE THEY: although zombie-like, they are not actually zombies. Instead they are similar to a puppet, in which the victim¡¯s body moves against their will, as they are trapped in their thoughts, forced to harm others, the only plus is that they can¡¯t feel pain. While the victim¡¯s consciousness is unable to do anything, the infected creates a subconscious that carries an ant-like mentality. There are theories that they are a hive mind, but they have not been proven. The infection spreads by getting into contact with the victim¡¯s blood stream, and the change happens as soon as they lose consciousness. NAMES: leapfroggers: the common term used by the people of earth. They coined the name for bounding over each other while they run in groups. The Depraved: the official name of the infected by universe standard after the creation of act 022-B. The name is because those infected by this infection are depraved of all emotions, but hate. PUBLIC OPINIONS: to the people of earth, they are a threat, and due to their similarities to zombies, many believe that once they turn the person dies, in reality that is not the case, but who¡¯s to tell them they¡¯re wrong. And since they are viewed as zombies, people are callous to kill them. APPEARANCE: physically: the infected look like they were when infected. Although many have new injuries from survivors. A large identifier is that their mouths froth like a rabid animal, and their eyes are constantly wide open. posture: their posture is very similar to the jockeys and hunters of Left 4 dead, a very slouched body, that crawls and jumps on its hands and feet. This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. NOISES: these guys can be quiet, they just choose not to. Instead making strange noises simular to the zombies from black ops one zombies and the headcrab zombies from half-life 2. It appears they can communicate to each other, but the language is indecipherable. They are unable to speak anything but their weird noises. they usually make a ruckus when they move, but don¡¯t have to, possibly they just enjoy being loud. BEHAVIOR: They hate and attack anything that isn¡¯t infected, and will savagely attack at such. when not enraged try kinda just wander around aimlessly, doing nothing but trudging around like a lobotomite. like the infected from many zombie games like last of us, and dying light, the infected have terrible vision, but are sensitive to noise. Loud noises creates a tunnel vision to the source. They similarly have tunnel vision when it comes to attacking something. They also can sneak, but they don¡¯t usually, due to being dumb as a brick. WEAKNESSES: they are as easy to kill as a normal human, no headshots needed. This plus not feeling pain gives them a huge weakness. Despite not feeling pain allowing them to keep moving after they are shot, or lose a limb, they can still bleed out. This combination of the previous weaknesses plus another make them even more weak. This other weaknesses is that they are very unaware of their surroundings, and can bleed out without noticing or fall into traps. they can be cured with procces967-05A, but killing them is way faster and easier. Those who are cured often suffer mental damage. WHY HAVEN¡¯T WE JUST NUKED EM YET: we haven¡¯t because of these events the nuclear war of 2037 not only razed the earth, but led to the nuclear disarmament act of 2039 the economy is in shambles from the war and rebuilding in 2057 the world ran out of natural fuel (if you¡¯re curious while cars still exist and work is: electric cars baby!) the economy is so bad that they cannot afford the alternatives strong enough to power a jet or plane. the happenings destroyed many cities and military bases. the lack of fuel means we are also land locked plot infected with powers keep them. (If the collision leader gets turned, we¡¯re doomed lol) what about the nearby survivors and probably more than that TL:DR ha ha zombie leapfroggers go reeeee! Mal: the character (chapters 1-7) Mallory George Hendrickson, or Mal for short, is the main character of checkpoint and a lunatic. There is absolutely no way to say that mal is healthy in the mental department. Here is the breath breakdown of Mal. Name: Mallory George Hendrickson goes by: Mal sex: male gender: non-binary age: 41 birthdate: may 7, 2032 Height: 5¡¯ 11¡± weight: 150lbs eye color: brown hair color: dark brown defining features: burn scars on neck and above one eye desciption: lanky, with long hair, wears a orange winter jacket with a patch of a cat with a flower on one sleeve, steel tipped boots, a police belt, and jeans.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. personality: weird, has trouble talking to people, apathetic, doesn¡¯t trust plants (they¡¯re plotting something, I swear), if it doesn¡¯t affect them, they don¡¯t care, will do anything to reach a goal, brutal in fights, talks to themself/narrates what they are doing, forgetful, pretty fucking dumb, sporadic, and casual about death and illegal stuff. bio: they were born on May 7, 2032, in truthsdale, Kentucky. Their father committed suicide when they were 3, and their mother was an alcoholic, with no father figure or supportive mom, mal was a problem child, they got in Trouble at school for not knowing boundaries many times. When they graduated high school, at age 19, they dropped off the grid. 2.5 years later, they reappeared being arrested for (its a secret for now ;) ) and sentenced for life at Richard Mackerson state prison. 16 years later, they were being moved to Miller Shade State penitentiary for behavior. On the bus ride there, the happening, well, happened, and they escaped. Author notes: mal is a mix of a little bit of me, a teensy bit psycho clown, a sociopath, and a majority of action movie villain. The me part is from the poor memory and the self narration. the psycho clown is from their batshit crazy fighting style. The sociopath comes from their apathy, and their willingness to do anything to get what they want. The action movie villain comes from their knowledge of crime, and appreciation for theatrics. mal is a hard character because it is hard to like them, they just kind of do stuff, but that is also what makes them so fun to write. Their sporadic and guiltless nature allows me to take the story anywhere I want. Mal is Mal, (ooga booga mal see thing, mal do thing) the reader can basically watch mal do something, and change what¡¯s happening around them to see how mal reacts. Mal is definitely the weirdest of the draft characters, but the most fun. We¡¯ll get into the previous drafts next chapter. The happening: an event that happened In 2064, a strange occurrence shook the earth, this occurrence was named the happening. An event so devastating that a planet that had been torn apart from nuclear, was shocked to witness. The event lasted the course 30 minutes in 5 stages. These stages were called the warning, the precursor, the attack, the revelation, and the message. Each went as follows: the warning lasted only 3 minutes, so people weren¡¯t very shaken by it. During these 3 minutes all signals were lost world wide, including internet, (ok, the gamers were very shaken about it, but gamer¡¯s opinions don¡¯t count) a low hum could be heard that transitioned to a high pitch ring over the 3 minutes. People thought it was a cyber attack, but most lived through nuclear annihilation, and hence, weren¡¯t impressed, until the precursor began. The precursor happened 7 times within 17 minutes, all equally 3 minutes and 24 seconds apart with the first strike happening at the end of warning. It was a sight to behold, the annoying ring was ended and replaced by 19,695 pillars of purple light forming in random spots around the world, with an area of 10 by 10 feet (like 3 by 3 meters) and and an silent explosion at the base of these pillars. Everything within these pillars were destroyed. So put that in perspective, thats 196,950 square feet obliterated. ( or 59,920.632 square meters of devastation). The event occurred 5 more times, each time with the pillars in a different spot (mal didn¡¯t notice because the beams were silent and plot armor stopped the beams from striking near the prison bus.) to quote phil swift, that¡¯s a lot of damage. the last occurrence was different though, only 1,969 beams apeared that time, but instead of purple, they were blue, they were the start of the third stage, the attack. the began when the blue beams were expected to explode, but instead of exploding, the beams released a shockwave that traveled for 355 square miles or 919.446 square kilometers, the shock waves were like a slow moving blast wave of an nuclear blast, without the fire and radiation, toppling buildings and throwing busses off overpasses (cough). the waves gradually lost force as they traveled and eventually faded away. The time of the attack lasted 10 minutes. Simultaneously to the wave, the revelation or fourth stage occurred. The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. the revelation caused powers, unexplainable by science or logic to form in 0.01% of the survivors of the wave (1 in every 10,000 people) some were immediately apparent, others discovered later. The event placed a metaphorical bomb on the pillars holding society together, and if the revelation was the bomb, the message was the detonator. the message appeared before everyone¡¯s eyes reading: PUBLIC MESSAGE FROM 000-A TO All the time has come, the collapse starts today. UNLESS SOMEONE IS TO BREAK THE GATE WITHIN 17 YEARS, ALL OF HUMANITY WILL DIE. Time time begins with this message, travel forward, followers of the path, and perceiver through the trials to come. Be weary that all lidiemos aren¡¯t created equally, a lesson that will soon be learned. Venture onward, the end of every path leads to the gate, we will watching you. And we shall wait. the message remained indefinitely, until the viewer acknowledged it. Where it then disappeared. This message was all it took for the world to fall to anarchy, not everyone fell to anarchy, but enough to throw the world off balance. (why, you may ask, because people are fucking stupid like that, there is greed, lust, power, big egos, you name it, the world got it, and people with those traits, always seize the opportunity when it arises) the anomaly was titled the happening because it, well, happened. Quotes like ¡°What¡¯s happening¡±, ¡°the thing that just happened¡±, ¡°that happened to be a shit storm¡±, ¡°well that just happened¡±, ¡°I can¡¯t believe that this is happening¡±, ¡°it happens to be a government ploy¡±, does anyone happen to know what the fuck that was?¡± And others, all condensed down to The Happening, which became the new name for the event. the happening isn¡¯t over, the events that kicked it off were just the beginning, and more is to come from it like the leapfroggers/depraved/zombies and the following has been censored by department of 80-08/13-S for spoiler reasons, (hey what the heck I¡¯m the author, you can¡¯t do this) session id number P-15/S has deposited a message. Loading 27%, loading 99%, loaded, displaying message ¡°get bent, idiot¡± ( alright mr. 817-CH of 5M/411-8=D or what ever it was, I¡¯m ending the chapter right no¡ª