"Traffic Report: 0

This may be a reason for you to rejoice yet, but that means there's big plans. Travel together, keep 'em close, and your guns closer. Die with your mask on if you've got to.

*static is heard, by a followed butchered urgent*

Zone *static again, and a soft said fuck* -lled with Dra- *static again*"

— Traffic Report, Jet Star, Fun Ghoul and Syanide Gift's radio.


"Oh man, oh man.

Where do I start telling this?

I guess, the beginning would be a good place.

But first, let me give you background information.

On them.

Them is BL/ind. apparently, the BL is an acronym for Better Living, and ind. stands for industries. But I don't believe that. They're called Blind, because they make people to blind to what's happening around them. They shut down your emotions — load you with shitty-ass heroin or any other drug that, a couple years ago, would have been illegal.

I guess it is to be expected from a capitalist country like America though.

A summary of what happened would be a business got too big for the government to squash, so it squashed the government.

The main city is — was — California. I only say was because, now it's not called that. It's called Battery City, and it's run by BL/ind. To 'apparently' produce batteries. But I know they produce more than that. My brother, Gerard, used to help them make bombs there. Him and this kid, who he called Korse. That was when I was ten, and Gerard was fourteen. He was underage, and what happened shouldn't have."

— From the Diary of Michael Way


"Ghoul! Wake up!"

"Ngh?"

"They're bombing the fucking Zone!"

"Which?!"

"Zone one!"

"WHAT?"

"I'm serious! The traffic report just came in, with the urgent music and they dropped the bombshell faster than BL!"

"There's kids in there!"

"I know.."

"We have to go save them, or else BL will get them, and you know what'll happen if they do!"

"Two minutes away from the car, Syanide heard that?"

"Heard, roger that!"

"Heard!"

— A conversation during the BL bombing, that took place between Jet Star, Syanide Gift and Fun Ghoul.