Chapter 1: All the Way to the End
The day the first DLC—Eternal Night—went live, the dead across the entire world opened their eyes once more. Walking corpses descended on the living in hungry swarms, catching the scent of warm flesh and hunting it down to deliver a slow, rotting death.
People ran. They hid. They fought. And somewhere in the chaos, a few of them gained power of their own. But the difficulty never went down.
As time passed, more and more expansion packs kept downloading into the world, and each time one did, monsters that made the zombies look tame began to appear. The world's difficulty climbed, and climbed, and never stopped.
The survivors, teetering on the knife's edge between life and death, began to wonder... whether dying might actually be the right choice after all.
"Die, my ass. Life's never been better."
Of course, some people have no intention of dying at all.
"I'm going all the way. Fuck. All the way to the end..."
For instance, the rare breed of bastard who just had to see this godforsaken world's ending.
"Heh heh... E-every... everyone's deeead..."
Or the madmen who found an annihilated world a far more comfortable place to live.
This is the story of one such madman.