[HEADING=3]The Death of RBMidknight[/HEADING]
*Ahem*
Alright. Here goes.
It was a dark and stormy night and-
...no no no, wait...I think that's been done before. Um...
I was playing a game in my dorm room. On a Thursday. I looked up at the clock. All of a sudden
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaa[color=#B80000 ]aaa[/color]
Dangit..no no...too psycho. I mean...
On a bright, cheerful day just as the sun began to rise...
Hrmm...too light and fluffy. I'd expect rainbows and unicorns next.
*sigh* Okay, here's what really happened.
Really.
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I built this safe-house, you see. This really awesome tricked out totally high-tech safehouse. With a pool and a garage. The best Monopoly money could buy. I'd been building it for quite awhile. New additions, new drink options. A couple of windows. All sorts of stuff. Oh and a trebuchet. Just 'cause.
So yeah. Around this awesome house I built two giant
Colorful Shield Walls of Defense . And I meant giant. Not like your standard pitiful iron-wrought fences or chain link. These things were fifteen feet tall, could stop bullets, fire, explosions...they were designed to withstand anything and everything. I know. I designed them.
Well, somewhere along the line the defenses failed. But I have this theory, see. About what happened. I think that the Killer didn't even bother with the walls. Maybe they dropped in from the sky or...something. Because my walls? Can't be taken down. Well, they were that one time but it was totally a CWoD v.1.0 issue. These version 2.0 walls were upgraded and over
9,000 10,000! times better. So clearly the Killer found a way to bypass them...rather then destroy them...which...I probably should have thought of earlier.
Belated note to self...add sky cover.
Anyways, so somehow the Killer got past my walls. And through the reinforced door. And past the guard dogs (well, I couldn't actually afford guard dogs so it was just the sound of guard dogs), up the stairs, and into my room.
I know all of this because I watched them on the cameras I've got setup. I wasn't in my room at the time. I was at my desk, in the basement. My very hidden very inaccessible basement.
That only had a small design flaw.
When the floor of my living room was blown up and hardwood suddenly became so much kindling...the secret door wasn't so secret anymore. How was I supposed to know the Killer was well versed in Demolitions?
Belated note to self...make explosion proof floors and doors.
But when the floor was no longer a floor but a giant entrance way to my basement. I didn't panic.
Nope, not one bit. No panic at all.
Because my basement had another exit. A really
really secret exit. A tunnel, really. That lead all the way outside.
With a small design flaw.
I neglected to factor in that when things get blown up...the ground sometimes shifts. Being one part clay and two parts sand and all. So...my tunnel was blocked.
Belated note to self...make a third exit option.
So there I was, trapped in my own basement, facing the Killer with nothing but a unbreakable bat and a mouse. The wired kind of mouse not the grey fuzzy live kind.
As it turns out, bat does not beat gun. Not even really colorful bats.
The first shot hit me in the leg. I guess it was meant to cripple me or something. Well, it worked. If by cripple they meant me sprawled on the floor howling in pain.
I guess the Killer didn't like me being loud. The second shot hit my chest. And...it hurt. Really, really bad. Worse then getting a baseball thrown to you and missing the catch. And then...things just sort of....stopped hurting. And...it got cold.
I think the Killer left then...I...I'm not really sure.
It's funny. You'd think your life flashes before your eyes when you die. All the birthdays, special moments, all-nighter study sessions...tournament trophies. The good stuff.
Me? All I could think about were the upgrades I *should* have done...that I could have done. Things that could have kept me alive.
Alone in my basement, with my internet cut off, phone lines cut off, and only a single incandescent light bulb for company, I lay dying. Bleeding out. Unable to get help. It was...pathetic. Sad, really. Not a cool death at all.
...I did have one final thought though. One that was non-upgrade related.
...I thought that I should have bought a dog.
...At least then I would have had someone to leave the house to.