Greetings. I've seen a fair amount of these things going around certain places on this site and thought I'd try my hand at one.

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The Pelanoi Accounts

Pelanoi?

Yeah I can tell you all about that place. I came from there after all, but then you already knew that, else you'd be talking to someone else about it.

The outbreak huh? Hrm. Not really territory I'd like to revisit to be –

Wait a sec, you're…

Haaah… shit. Well if you're with them then maybe if I tell you what it was like you can make sure something like that never happens again.

Alright. Good.

So then, what exactly do you want to know?

Tell you about my home? Well, I guess easing into it's the best way to go.

Imagine an island, sitting pretty just above the equator. Lush… warm… beautiful. Beaches that shine like Bondi all year round, clear blue skies you can lose yourself in, and a gentle breeze that just… eases you. They'll tell you it's an island but it's easily the size of a small country. Was it? Hell I don't know; I wasn't really into politics. When I lived there I just lived for the next day, living it up as best I could.

I lived in Elspeth city; that's the one by the airport, or twenty miles or so from it at any rate. You ever been to Melbourne? Or Sydney? What did you think of the place? Yeah. That's what I thought too. Sleek, new architecture, barely a single brick in sight; feels like another goddamn world compared to places like New York or London.

Anyway, imagine three places like that. Three. One slap bang in the centre – by the airport as I said – the rest sitting pretty on the coastline, with the two major ports. New Rynns city to the south, and Faraquay in the… where was it? Ummm… ah! The north-east! That's it. Plenty of other places around the island too, towns, villages and the like, but those three places were where the action was. You wanted anything – and I mean anything – you went to one of the Big Three.

Sorry, had to take a gulp. Digging into my memories like this – stuff I'd rather forget – going to need some alcohol. You want – no? Suit yourself.

Anyway, the cities were magnificent to see; truly, truly magnificent, but for those who were more naturally-inclined there were places in the north-west which lay in the tropical rainforest. Roads set up ensured that travel was easy, and while I say the people living there were crazy – what with the bugs and all – some people seemed to love it. At least they did until the logging company set up shop in the south-western quadrant – people were moving in and we didn't have nearly enough homes for them all so people in power made plans to expand down thataways.

Heh. Now I think about it the outbreak probably scuppered that little plan real good.

Anyway, me and my family, we lived on that island – in Elspeth – for a good long time. Then… then…

I heard it was 'Grant and Glukhovsy' that were responsible… you know? Another pharmaceutical company; just another one that rode the wave of Umbrella's collapse more than a decade ago. I read that they got their hands on some Umbrella specimens. Goddamn parasites. You'd think people would learn from Raccoon City but no, someone thinks there's some fucking money in that shit and they never fucking think how looking at… at shit like that will affect the world around it…

You're goddamn right it was! My mother? I watched her throat get opened up by some fucking skinless, long-tongued freak of nature! My father? I didn't see what happened to him, buried under all those fucking cannibals but I sure am thankful I couldn't… the way he… the way he screamed… oh Jesus…

Elinor; the love of my life… she was… no. No she wasn't goddamnit! She was killed but it wasn't one of the cannibals, or the tongue fuckers, the zombified animals, or even the fucking gorilla things they dropped in the cities and towns to silence us! No! It was… it was some fucking ghoul! Some fucker dressed all in black! Gas-masked asshole and his unit equipped for a goddamn warzone! All we were trying to do was get to the boats and they goddamn shot her… they executed her like…

I'm sorry. I'm sorry but I can't… I just… can't anymore.

/end of Audio Log