Prologue
It wasn't until that fateful, autumn night in Raccoon that everything fell to pieces. Reports of the cannibal murders had continued to surface, and one by one citizens of Raccoon City began dying. Bodies were found mutilated, badly devoured, and the perpetrators were apparently human. This had been going on for quite some time, some accounts dating back into late May of 1998.
The very first attack had been on a female hiker in the Arklay Mountains. She was found, in part, in the Arklay River. The authorities weren't ever to recover the rest of her body...
That was only the beginning, as one by one the townspeople began hearing reports of the cannibal murders becoming more frequent, more primal, and worst of all they were getting closer and closer to the suburbs of Raccoon. People were dying, and the Raccoon Police Department took steps into discovering what was really going on.
Be it that the police department was owned and operated under the direct supervision of one of Umbrella's more heinous employees, Brian Irons, the staged efforts were sabotaged and nothing was ever accomplished.
Until July.
The Special Tactics and Rescue Squad was deployed in hopes of putting an end to the cannibal menace, but they failed. They did, however, succeed in destroying one of the laboratories that the famous pharmaceutical company Umbrella Inc. had been using to develop the cannibal disease, also known as the T Virus.
However, the townspeople were unsatisfied as the surviving STARS disappeared soon after July. The reports of the cannibal murders continued, and all evidence that STARS had been able to uncover was soon dispatched and never to be heard of again. They're cries of evidence fell onto deaf ears.
Until the murders reached the city.
September 26th, 1998
In one brutal onslaught, the townspeople of Raccoon City were transformed into the blood thirsty beasts society has come to call 'zombies'. The T Virus reanimated the dead, bringing them back to life with the most basic of functions and needs, but dominating those needs is that of which to feed.
The wheels of fate began to turn, and the fates of the damned souls in Raccoon City were sealed. Nothing could stop what had already begun. It was too late. The entire population of Raccoon City had been decimated, except for a few sole survivors of the first attacks.
Raccoon City has melted away into a sweating pool of death and decay. There are only a few people left in this once bustling metropolis. With the will power they sustain, is it enough to over come the T Virus and leave the city in time? They have only a few days before the government will send a missile into Raccoon as a fail safe to cover up their tracks.
…but not everyone is who they seem to be…
…and your best friend may turn out to be your worst foe…
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