Are You Hungry?

Good afternoon bloggers! Are you all hungry? I hope so, because today we have soup! And yes, it may just seem like a bowl of soup to you but to the passengers aboard the ship, it may have been their last meal.

Imagine this: You are sailing away on a beautiful and luxurious cruise ship on your way to a new world. You are quietly enjoying your lunch of soup and maybe a salad. Then suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you spot one of the droids standing with a knife. You think nothing of it. After all, you are sure that he must just be cutting bread for someone. But then you look again. He is getting closer to you. He also seems to be holding the knife at an odd angle for someone concerned with safety. You turn to your lunch partner with the intent to tell him that you think the droid may be broken. Maybe you should find a maintenance guy? But before you can say anything at all, you see another server droid has come up behind your friend and grabbed him around the throat holding the sharp edge of the knife into his flesh. You see a small trail of blood dripping from his neck.

You lunge to grab him, but suddenly you can’t move. The droid you spotted earlier has grabbed you around the neck. Your heart is racing, your palms are sweating. Your muscles are ready for the fight! You try to pull away fighting the droid, but then you feel the sharp prick. The sharp prick of the knife being driven into your neck. Your hand instinctively goes to your throat. It feels wet, but not too wet. Suddenly, the droid grabs you tighter around your neck, holding you stiff to its cold metal body. You try to struggle away, but you can’t. The machine is too strong. Still you fight as his arm gets tighter and tighter around you. You start to feel sleepy. You want to fight, but you are losing the power. With one last kick of your foot, you’re vision turns to black, and you can’t feel anything but the coolness of the only thing holding you up.

Suddenly, you awake to a blinding light. You barely open your eyes before you notice the warmth around you. What is that? As you grope, you land on what may be a human leg. You try to grab it try to open your eyes. You take a deep breath, and suddenly can’t breathe at all. Something is in the air. Something thick, and sweet, and heavy. And then your vision suddenly goes blue. Your eyes can open, but you can’t see anything through the haze. Everything has a strange glow. And then you see figures dancing in the smoke. Is it the servers trying to help? You call out, but there is no answer. As you’re watching the servers their eyes glow red. That’s strange isn’t?

As you try to awaken, you become aware of another sensation. Your stomach is growling. Weren’t you just eating lunch? Yes, you were. And you were rather enjoying that soup. But now, you are looking for something a bit more filling. You are hungry for flesh. And the leg right underneath your hand seems like quite a tasty option.

This bloggers is what many of the passengers who become gassers aboard the ship will likely go through. They were once just simple people enjoying lunch with a friend, taking a stroll with a loved one, or even playing a game with their child. And then the robots attacked. And then they were poisoned and became something else.

If you needed any more incentive to conserve those bullets and sneak around to avoid detection by the gassers, here it is. In this game, you are but a gas mask away from being just like them.

Signing off, Keri Irace PR Manager