The Sanctum

Here is a map of campus: http://www.mst.edu/images/map.jpg (numbers indicate location on map.)

Saturday, November 14, Michelle came to rolla for a visit. At one point I decided to give her a tour of the S&T campus. We tried to walk as quietly as possible, as was standard protocol now-a-days, but of course I managed to stumble upon some dry twigs and snap a few. This was clearly enough to alert the horde, and within moments we had zombies chasing us down. My first instinct was to run for the physics building, as it is quite the defensive position. On our way there, zombies cut us off, coming from behind the Civil Engineering building (2).

We quickly doubled back into EE (5) and took the long winding path through it. We circled around the zombies and were able to continue forward on our journey. As we were passing Civil Engineering (2), even more zombies came out from behind it. Luckily we were close enough that this time we were able to bail inside the building. We took off our coats and used the sleeves to tie the doors shut and keep the zombies out for a while. I walked to the back of Civil Engineering and grabbed the mounted shovels, which are there for this very situation.

We untied our coats from the doors in unison, and bashed our way through the zombies with our newfound weapons. We considered rushing through the physics building, but decided against it when we saw several zombies wandering through the halls. We ran our way towards McNutt to try to hit the more open and defended roads. We ran it to several small bands of zombies that were easily dispersed. When we got to McNutt (11), we were pinned down by a human sniper. Apparently the government decided that Rolla was too infested and had to be cut off from the rest of the world, and the sniper was there to make sure it happened.

We turned around and headed back, but turned off towards another end of campus before getting back to EE (5) and Civil Engineering (2). This edge of campus lead into town, and would probably have less guards. Near the end of our campus journey, we ran into a vampire. She caused a little strife for us, but in the end we were able to best her.

The vampire had been an armed human before turning, and we were able to loot a small firearm for each of us. We headed into town, which was far less infested with zombies, but had more hiding places for any vampires or stray zombies to spring on us. We were lucky and did not run into any vampires or zombies during the worst part of the trip, but we did have to fend off a few surprise Tarmogoyf attacks.

As we neared the back exit to Rolla, I smelled a very familiar smell. It was the smell of fire… dragon fire. I was excited to see dragons, as I haven’t really seen them in person before. But I was frightened that it might see and attack us. We heard the cry of vampires, and ducked behind buildings to evade detection. We slinked along the sides of buildings for a while, remaining completely undetected, but then we had to cross an open plain. As soon as we tried to cross, we were swarmed by vampires, goblins and a few zombies.

We thought all hope was lost, when suddenly the bear cavalry erupted from the forest to our aid. They smashed vampires like twigs, and most of the zombies died due to indirect blows. Michelle and I took care of the goblins with the remainder of our ammo and shovels to the face. The bear cavalry was also trying to escape Rolla, so we followed them through some abandoned buildings and under a bridge.

I rounded the corner from under the bridge, and saw the most terrifying thing I have ever seen in my life. There were three slain dragons, and a vampire zombie dragon hovering over them. The bear cavalry bravely charged the dragon, and we were ordered to head back. We obeyed and headed immediately back to the dorms, encountering one or two zombies on the way back.

After we got to the dorms, we barred the doors and went back to my room to sleep. We used my sniper to snipe random zombies for about four hours or so, and we had far more fun than we should have. Around then we got tired and went to bed.

The next morning we learned that the bear cavalry teamed up with Canada’s ninja army to clean out the whole area. We checked around anyways, just to make sure. After we felt safe, Michelle got in her car and drove back to Mizzou.

-eronћ