The first outbreak was one of the first guys to get to the door. We didn't notice anything different of him at first, he was nice and joking about knocking on the door one minute, and then tearing into the throat of someone else the next. Whatever he had spread fast. The camp went from twenty live men, to three (me dumphree and a skittish little guy named Trembles I shit you not). We were actually on top of the command tent, as the people who got killed had come back as flesh craving whatevers. I burned the first couple that had turned, but that didn't seem to kill them just turned them into crispy crunchy biting things. Stupidly I didn't have any weapon with me because I figured it was a treasure vault how bad could it be?
"I told you it was aliens."
"Dumphree I swear to the gods if you don't shut up I'll just toss you down there and run off." Dumphree looked at me with his usual crazy eyed look but he'd already seen me try and kill them with magic so he kept his stupid mouth shut.
"Do you think it was what was in the vault Mr. Lorentino?" Trembles had a shaky way of talking exactly as you'd expect from a guy who was barely taller than a shorty and weighed less than most peoples small children. He apparently was useful for getting into dark small places, part of the reason he was so afraid all the time.
"Probably, or it could have been a curse on the vault itself, have to say never seen living dead like this exactly and not one that can spread the disease to someone else." I mean I've fought undead armies, but not ones that didn't have some ultimate thing driving them, this one seemed content to just spread itself, which was weird. There was also the whole fire didn't solve the situation that bothered me.
"We have to keep digging." Dumphree broke his silence and tremble had to hold me back from throwing him down there to his men.
"Yeah sure unearthing the door only got your men turned into an undead horde, we totally should open it and like wipe out the whole world you idiot!" Dumphree went to speak again and I raised my fist up in fire and he quieted down.
And so it went three idiots on top of a canvas tent hoping the stupid thing didn't give way and spill us into a bunch of carnivorous monsters down below. Wasn't the first time I'd ended up like that, wouldn't be the last. But at least this stay was brief because Dumphree did something idiotic and me and Trembles ended up having to deal with him sooner rather than later. But that's tomorrow I've written enough today and my wrist hurts, type writers are nice to alleviate the penmenship issue, but man alive they are garbage on my wrists!
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