AN: This is what happens when I get inspired. Hello Blight.
For those of you who are wondering, this is set in modern-day New Zealand. Explanations to follow much later as the story progresses.
Disclaimer:
I own nothing you recognise. This is all completely un-beta'd and totally fresh off the top of my brain!
It began in the Waitomo.
First it was a deep-cave expedition, funded to research the unique ecosystem within the caverns that no light touches, realising their brand new and terribly expensive equipment has stopped functioning. Then it was cavers reporting their phones and cameras were breaking during their travels through the system.
Then spelunkers started going missing.
The caves were shut down after the third person in two weeks. Shortly after that, the town went dark.
The poison quickly spread to Otorohanga in the north and Te Kuiti in the south, rampaged through Pirongia Forest Park and devoured Hamilton whole.
There were no survivors. Just towns, then cities, going dark. People fled the advancing tide of darkness, heralded by the sudden death of anything with a spark of electricity. Cars shuddered to a stop on highways, chips burnt out. Many continued on on foot, fleeing any populated area, moving steadily away from the expanding devastation.
We were that glorious mix of smart and stupid, holing ourselves up on a farm just south of Auckland. Just off the beaten track enough to miss the encroaching wave of desperate city slickers and far enough away to avoid those who have half an idea of how to survive an apocalyptic event.
But we were stupid. We'd holed ourselves up.
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