Arcane Addiction

Initialize Sequence: Alpha 2, Beta 6.

Analyzing Wave Patterns: Plasma 4, Zeta 12

Activation Sequence Rendering… 100%

Bio-Scan: Contamination Detected!

-Contamination Report: Traces of Uranium, Plutonium, Carbon, Arsenic, Radium from preliminary reports. Re-test subject or material under code 530-61-24187 for detailed analysis.

Subject Identity: Classified.

Material Identity: Soil.

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Initializing: 160704_MemphisTN_Log_04.AVI

Video Stream: Fail.

Audio Stream: Success.

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Unidentified Male: If you’re watching this video and haven’t died or lost any major cities across the world, then you’re about to see what is going on here in North America. I’m broadcasting this message live from Memphis and allowing the satellite to record it. We haven’t seen anyone come through here in over 4 years. All the buildings that used to be here are completely destroyed. We’re salvaging what little we can to makeshift a central station for people to come to and live in until the help we need arrives. I’ve pulled together a few people along the way here who are slowly becoming ill and need medicines.

Unidentified Female: They fucking did this to us!

Unidentified Male: As you can see their appearances are proving there is an illness happening, and we don’t know what it is. We need any kind of help we can get. If you happen to get this, we are located in Memphis currently and will stay here to build a shelter for several months. There are many other people here as well. Our exact location of broadcast, which is within a few miles of where we’re building our shelter is 35-09-15-90 north by 90-01-17-38 West. A street name on the post nearby says North Waldran Blvd. and North Parkway. A burnt sign nearby says Interstate 40. If anyone gets this, please help us find other people and rebuild! We are desperate!

Unidentified Female: I feel like I’m fucking dying here!

Unidentified Male 2: Hang on, we’re going to get some help!

Unidentified Female 2: What the hell is going on?

Unidentified Male: You see what we’re going through? Please, anyone who gets this, help us!

Unidentified Female: Fucking help m—

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I only could listen to the horrors we faced. Like the words of the believers said themselves, we were slowly going to die. It’s only a matter of time. Everyone who has survived have set up shelters using burned materials and anything that was salvageable from the destruction’s aftermath in what used to be major cities. Los Angeles and New York are the two largest cities in this country over 10 years ago. Today, they’re still the largest. They have more survivors showing up every single day. We’ve had reports from Miami and Dallas a few months ago when someone figured out how to get into the satellite connection since it was tighter than Area 51 just a few days before the destruction hit. Subsequently, other cities started to come in. We’ve had reports from Fargo, Chicago, Cheyenne, Denver, Kansas City, Portland, and Seattle so far. Other people who have tried to get in contact with us have found ways to contact the other cities and report. We’re still waiting for another couple of weeks until we declare that the remainder may be lost.

I decided on coming down here to Los Angeles, knowing there would be people here. We’ve set up over a dozen shelters to help those who are weak or due to die. A couple were also set up north and south of what used to be Los Angeles itself. We use them to attract whomever we can who’s lost and wandering aimlessly. We use Interstate 5 to travel between both sides of town, and we get off at the Artesia freeway, which we take to Paramount where we set up the bulk of shelters. Lucky some vehicles still work and we can still get some gasoline from the pumps, while we rely on the electric cars that became popular the same year as when this all happened. It would take a miracle to recover from this, and I hope what people do survive here have the strength to carry on on their own when I leave for Memphis to answer this call in a week.

And by the way, before I go, if you get this message somehow, please do not celebrate Independence Day. We are crippled and no longer can be a country for a long time. This land became free poisoned territory 4 years ago, and there is nothing to be proud of anymore. All you can do is carry your heritage and pride on your shoulders and let your heart beat with hope. If we survive this, I plan to celebrate with everyone possible. If I happen to die before it’s safe, I want everyone to know that was my last wish. Now I need to get some rest. We have a few pregnancies due tomorrow.

=PW=