Burn baby burn.

Ok then. The A. Dying Men have started actively attacking back and are now targeting us specifically. I guess that means they're evolving intelligence? Huh I thought The Plague Doctor was responsible for this not EAT. Ah ha ha I hope I'm joking.

Anyways yes this just became too dangerous for caution. We're going to burn the entire city down to the ground.

If you live in or near Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. You're probably already infected. If not get out. Or try we probably won't actually let you leave :D

Brink of Disaster

So we've been killing Dying Men for about a day now and their numbers are still increasing. A couple of proxies have joined the fight and still they're increasing. Turns out headshots don't kill them. Or at least the bodies continue moving. Which considering they are also still capable of infecting means we still have no viable way to destroy these things. Their numbers keep moving up and we have only managed to kill what 2 of them? Harold says yes we killed two. Both of which were killed via incredibly difficult and impractical means. IE: We shot them until they couldn't get back up and then slowly dissolved them in acid. I doubt this will be effective on what is it about 100 or so. Harold says 200. Great.

Stemming The Tide

Death is a funny thing.  Dying is not.

These aren't as smart as The Normal Dying Man they work purely on instinct. Which means the invulnerability That The Liar told me about is not in affect here. If they touch me they will try to transfer and that will kill us both. So as much as I hate it. range is a necessity here. As such I've called in a little favor.

It's nice to have allies.

I'm watching one of the A. Dying Men right now. Wait for it... Wait for it... Boom headshot! And of course he's beside me now.

So as you probably guessed Harold is back to help me deal with these things.

Hmm considering that the other Harold is back as well I should probably distinguish between the two somehow. Doll!Harold and Harold? No Harold and Smokey! There you go. I really should deal with him soon but I'm busy with this at the moment. Besides it seems like he's not going to be too much of a problem for a while. Off hunting his master he's not even on this continent anymore.

Absofuckinglutely correct.

Well Proxie called it. I am now pissed.

Apparently The Oathbreakers and their master have been trying to create an artificial form of The Dying Man. He's essentially a disease already so I guess they just figured they should have control over him or something like him. That's just fucking great. Obviously their attempt was defective. Also they're all dead. So that's the end of it right? Nope of course not.

That would be too god damn easy!

Apparently all the oathbreakers have been working on it including other hospitals and labs throughout the god damn country!

Oh and one of them succeeded. Fuck you. They set him loose and he is now quite rapidly making his way through the population. Time to go Dying Man hunting again boys and girls. This time with a dying man that apparently can't be harmed or killed. Yeah apparently the bodies are autonomous or something. Killing them will require complete destruction of the body or the removal of the Artificial!Dying Man.

Quick question becomes what exactly is the oathbreakers real plan with this. They just set it loose? That's not really controlling it. That's sort of out of style for them isn't it. Wouldn't they want to be able to control the spread of their new super disease. Target it accurately and stuff?

Fuck ok. Vadim is going to go "talk" to The Oathbreakers responsible while I go try and stem The A. Dying Man flow.

Interrogation

We found a still living doctor and luckily for us he was in fact an oathbreaker.

How did we find out... I'll leave that to your imagination.

Anyways so we interrogated him which mostly involved having the birds peck his face moving closer and closer to his eyeballs with each peck. Pain plus the fear of impending eye pain is a surprisingly good motivator. Sadly he only got out two words before he started gagging and choked to death on his own bile. Searching the body we found that he had apparently injected himself with something during the interrogation. Crafty bastard.

Oh and those two words...
Artifical die/dye.

Not sure what that means.

Looks like we've hit a dead end for now.

Observations and explanations.

Ok so we went to the morgue to find the body. We found it. Although body is the wrong word. The word... Sludge would be more accurate. We found him but all that was left was rotted skin. No bones nothing but rotted skin in a pile. Upon finding this we decided to go over what we know and try to figure something out.

So here's what we know.

My friend here, his name is Vadim, apparently hired these two thugs to rough me up a bit. He also informed me that he was rather enjoying our little game. I'm only (Extremely) annoyed by this admission. Regardless, he hired these two thugs who had in fact contacted him earlier about his dealings with the fears and advertising themselves as runner mercenaries. One stayed with him while the other went out to handle the remainder of his plans. Shortly after and coinciding with the time when I managed to beat up the other thug the second one stated randomly that he was defective and being recalled. He then disappeared but Vadim traced him back to this hospital at which time he found out that he had mysteriously died. Obviously these two are something not human and both were killed by The Oathbreakers apparently because they were defective?

Strange. We should probably find a living Oathbreaker to interrogate. Hope we left one alive.

Of course...

So guess that didn't matter. I headed back into the hospital. This time with a bit more of a kill everything attitude or at least everything that managed to see me which, since I'm rather horrible at stealth, was a vast majority of the hospital. Also since I'm working for the birds again they're letting me use them again. It was glorious. I slaughtered tons. Like god damn everyone in that hospital except one person who got the drop on me. I was looking around a corner when I felt the gun press against the back of my skull.

"I manage to sneak up on you again huh?"

My first thought: Harold. Moments later though I realized it was a heavily accented voice. It was The God damn Runner Slendy wanted me to kill. It wasn't that surprising since he was what led to this but what happened next was.

He put the gun away.

"You the one who put the thug in the hospital?"

I told him I was.

"So you're investigating as well?"

I was confused but I nodded.

"Ok, then. Temporary truce?"

 First thought: fuck no.

Second much smarter thought. Why the hell not?

So I have a new friend... for now.