After acclamating to life within the NARV you decide to devote yourself to teaching the children who are born into this harsh new world. \n\nYour goal is to teach them about how the world 'used' to be, in addition to imparting on them the values of strength and family and determination...\n\nAs time goes on, the miltary operatives are able to find more and more bits and peices of old books and literature which greatly assist you in your teachings.\n\nYou are able to help reconstruct the past so that it is never forgotten. \n\nYou become the conduit between the old ways and the new.\n\nYou are instrumental in forming the minds of this future society.\n\nTHE END

[[You wait one month]]\n[[You wait two months]]\n[[You wait three months]]\n

Something about that house rubbed you the wrong way. \nYour instincts take you to the east. \n\nYou are in dire need or food and water.\n\n[[Head East]]

You decide that you want to participate in rebuilding this new society from the ground up. \n\nYou roll up your sleeves and help build structures within the NARV. \n\nYou help build housing and schools and a hospital.\n\nIt is fulfilling work and you are happy...\n\nThat is until you learn some things that greatly disturb you.\n\nYou were under the impression that when the operatives go outside of the gates they do so to find supplies...and survivors.\n\nYou learn that they are killing innocents and stealing their possessions.\n\nYou learn that the Commander is warped and demented and that he has no intention on finding any survivors at all...\nTo the contrary, he sees them as a disease and a threat. \n\nThe rules and regulations are growing tighter and tighter.\n\nYou decide with your family that you are going to escape the NARV.\n\nOne day you do so.\n\nThis time fully equipped with weapons and supplies you walk out of the gates and back into the wasteland with your family.\n\nWho knows what challeneges you will face and what truth you will find.\n\nYou are hopeful.\n\nTHE END\n\n

Before you can react you are overcome by heat. \nYou look at your hands and you see your flesh melting away. \nYour mind flashes on your family as your body goes into shock. \nYou are dead within one minute. \n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour rash decision to go outside led to their demise. \n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

You persevere and against all hope you keep walking. \n\nEventually you see a small structure in the distance...a small hut.\n\n[[Approach the hut]]\n[[Keep walking]]

After waiting for just one month you go outside.\n\nBefore you can react you are overcome by heat. \nYou look at your hands and you see your flesh melting away. \nYour mind flashes on your family as your body goes into shock. \nYou are dead within one minute. \n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour rash decision to go outside led to their demise. \n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

It is a quiet evening. \nThe baby and the dog are asleep on the couch next to you. \nYour wife is finishing up some work emails. \nYou feel content. \nYou feel at peace.\n\nThere is a thunderous BOOM!!\n\nThe earth shake violently, your ears ring, there is a flash of bright light and intense heat. \n\nWHAT HAPPENED??\n\n\nYou look around...Your family is OK... \n\n[[What do you do???]]\n\n\n

These last days are EXCRUTIATING...but you make it!!\nThank god you did not eat your dog.\nYou are a horrible barbairan for even thinking about it you scold yourself...\n\nIt has been two months.\nIt is time to go outside.\n\nAre you ready??\n\n[[Search your home for useful items]]\n\n

Although you have no formal military training, the NARV puts you to work right away. \n\nYou are invigorated and hopeful.\n\nYou excel dramatically with each challenge they set before you.\n\nOver the years you develop a clear ability to lead other men. \n\nWhen your son comes of age he goes through his basic training and starts to serve under you. \n\nTogether you lead military excursions and explore the wasteland looking for supplies, answers and remnants of the past.\n\nYour son is even better than you...at everything.\n\nEventually your son takes over as Commander Officer of the NARV...The NARV's highest position.\n\nNot only is he a fierce tactical survivalist but he is so beloved by the civilian contingent that he is able to lift some of the harsh rules and regulations from this now blossoming society. \n\nHe ushers in a whole new age of humanity. \n\nYou go down in history as a legend...and a hero.\nYour son is worshipped as a God.\n\nTHE END\n

Three months is TOO LONG.\n\nYou have run out of food. You cannot bare to look at your emaciated family. \nThere is nothing you can do.\nEven if you wanted to venture out of the house, you lack the strength.\n\nYou huddle together in tears. \nYou slowly all die\n\nYou have failed.\n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

The base calls itself the NARV.\nThe 'New American Revival Venture'.\n\nThere are rules...many rules. \nEverything is controlled by the Commanding Officer. \n\nEveryone must have a job and must do their job well or be exiled. \n\nThis society operates like a well oiled machine.\n\nYou have a choice of what job you want to do.\n\n[[Military]]\n[[Teacher]]\n[[Worker]]

The awkward silence is too much to handle...\n\nYou ask how they survived...no response.\nYou ask if they know what happened...no response.\nYou ask if there are other survivors...no response.\n\nYou tell her that your baby is going to be 1 year old soon...and she lights up!\n\nShe starts talking and asking questions about your family. \n\nShe tells you that the heat increases the farther north you go...she suggests going in a different direction...\n\nShe says to go EAST.\n\nAfter the meal you politely excuse yourselves.\n\nYou walk out her front door and pick up the pace as you move farther and farther away from her house...\n\nYou feel a wave of relief rush over you.\n\n\n[[Head East]]

You start moving North. \nAs you walk, you see the true degree of destruction.\n\nWHAT HAPPENED HERE?\nIS IT LIKE THIS EVERYWHERE??\n\nYou are desperate to find food and water. \nYou march forward with your family for many hours until you find a barn. \nSomehow it is still standing. \nIt looks like there is a flickering candle light inside...\n\nARE THERE PEOPLE??\n\n[[You knock on the front door]]\n[[You tell your family to stay back so you can investigate]]\n[[You have a eerie feeling and walk right by]]\n\n

The woman says, 'You know boi...food is hard to come by these days...'\nYou notice a facial tick of hers acting up...\nShe looks at your baby and your dog and again your baby...\n\nShe abruptly stands up...\n\n'GET EM BOIS!!!'\n\nBefore you can even react gunshots ring out. \nYou feel the lead striking your body. \n\nYou are bleeding to death.\nBefore you black out completely, you hear the same shrill voice say 'Bois, this one looks tasty.'\n\nYou die and they eat your body.\n\nDid they eat your family?\nNo one will ever know... \n\n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS\n

You kick embers from the fire into the man's face as you reach for your Machete. \nYou grip it tightly as you hack, in a downward motion at the mans right hand...\nYou slice his hand clean off and his gun drops to the ground. \n\nYou do not hesitate. \nYou hack into his skull as blood sprays into your eyes...\nYou hack again, and yet again for good measure. \n\nYou grab his gun...\nYou run and grab as many supplies as you can.\n\nWater, first aid and military food rations. \n\nYou hear another yell from a tent as you turn and run.\n\nYou hear gunshots as you instruct your family to 'RUNNN!!!!'\n\nThey are in pursuit as you run in a westerly direction. \n\nThey are shooting at you but missing in the dark. \n\nThey are gaining on you. \n\nThey will catch you. \n\nYour dog stops running. \nYou beg for him to run but he does not...\nNO!!\nHe turns towards your pursuers. \n\nHe growls and froths at his mouth. \nAfter one last look towards your family he charges full speed towards them. \nTears stream down your face as he launches himself at the first man and rips at his neck...\nHe turns and bites another's leg. \nYou hear a gunshot. \nYou are far away now. \nHe keeps fighing. \nTwo more gunshots.\nHe fought bravely. \nHe bought you time. \nYou escape.\nHe saved your lives.\n\n[[Head West]]\n

You think you can overpower him and take his provisions...\nYou reach for your machete.\n\nBefore you even get your hand on it the man makes a lightning fast move.\n\nYou feel something hit your neck...\nA KNIFE??\nA DART??\n\nYour hands are clutching your neck as blood spurts out.\n\nYou bleed out in front of your family.\n\nThe man lets your family go.\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour decision to attack the man led to their demise.\n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

You walk and walk and walk to the East.\nYou have been able to find scraps of food for your family but you, yourself, have not eaten or drank anything in many days.\n\nFinally you see a fire in the distance... a camp fire.\n\nARE YOU DREAMING??\n\nYou tell your family to stay back as you cautiously sneak closer.\n\nIt looks like a military encampment.\n\nIt is abandoned but the fire is still burning and whoever is staying there will be back soon.\n\n[[Investigate the campsite]]\n[[Avoid the campsite]]

There is nothing besides the black screen.\nNo power.\nYou check the phone...it is dead too. \n\nYou look around the room. \nYou scan the faces of your family. \n\nThere is only silence, darkness and heat...from outside.\n\n[[What do you do???]]

You get within 10 feet of the crudely made hut and a man comes out. \n\nHOW DID HE KNOW YOU WERE THERE??\nWHO IS HE??\n\nA wanderer, a vagabond, a lost soul.\n\nThe man says...'How old is your son??'\n\nYou reply, 'about one'\nYou are dizzy with starvation.\nYou can see that he has food and water in his hut.\n\n[[Attack the man]]\n[[Keep talking]]

The meat is surprisingly tender and if you close your eyes hard enough you can pretend that it is pork. \nThe urine-colored water cannot be urine (you tell yourself). \nYour thirst and hunger have been satisfied. \n\nThere is an awkward silence at dinner as the woman and her deranged looking sons stare at your baby...\n\n[[You stay quiet]]\n[[You strike up a conversation]]

You trek west with your family. \nYour supplies quickly diminish. \nYou try to ration the food carefully. \n\nYou know that the ocean lies to the west. \n \nMAYBE THERE ARE ANSWERS...\nMAYBE THERE IS A BOAT...\nMAYBE THERE ARE OTHER SURVIVORS...\n\nYou walk for many days and nights.\nYou do not see anything besides the scorched wasteland. \nNo people. \nNo food.\n\nYou see the ocean...or what used to be the ocean.\n\n[[Approach the Ocean]]

You are able to stop his crying...\n\nYou wonder what he will remember of this terrible event.\nHow will this all effect the person he will become???\n\n[[What do you do???]]

The ocean is dead. \nIt is murky and thick and dark and gray. \nIt looks like ashes. \nA vast sea of dead ashes.\n\nThere are no answers here. \nOnly despair. \nThe world is dead.\n\n[[Give up]]\n[[Continue walking along the coast]]

You grab your Machete. \nIt feels solid and comfortable in your hand. \nYou do not need any ammo for this weapon. \nYou feel a small sense of hope flow through you.\n\n[[You go back to your family]]

[[You peak through the blinds]]\n[[You open the front door and walk outside]]\n

You cannot take anymore. \nYou cannot handle the looks on their faces. \nYou believe in your heart that it is over...that there is no point. \n\nYou give up.\n\nYou start to cry as you take your machete out of its sheath. \n\nYou apologize and wail in agony as you kill your family. \nYou know that it is the best for all of you. \n\n\nYou have failed.\n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

[[Shotgun]]\n[[Revolver]]\n[[Assault Rifle]]\n[[Machete]]

You have decided to go outside. \nYou look at your family and try to make them feel secure.\n\nYou take a deep breath and open the front door. \n\nIt is hot outside but not dangerously so. \nYou can breathe. \nYou gesture for your family to come out as well. \n\nYou cannot help but well up with tears as you survey the devastation. \n\nHOW DID YOUR HOUSE WITHSTAND THIS?\nWHY ARE YOU ALIVE??\n...YOUR MIND RACES...\n\nWhat will you do now?\n\n[[Head North]] \n\n\n

These two months are unbelievably difficult.\nYou have eaten all of the stores of food and consumed all of the water. \nAfter about 55 days you do not know how you will make it the full two months.\n\nWhat are you going to do??\n\n[[You eat your dog]]\n[[Tough in out 5 more days]]

As soon as you set foot inside the home, you hear a woman call out with a shrill voice... 'INTRUDER!!!' 'GET HIM BOIS!!!'....then she yells...\n'WAIT!!! HE'S GOT A BABY!!!...and a doggy!!'\n\nThe woman's tone changes drastically.\nShe beckons for you and your family to come into her home.\n\nTheir home reeks of rot and death. \nYou are terrified yet have no choice but to bring your family inside.\n\nHer two demented looking sons stare at you blankly.\n\nShe sets the table and offers you meat and water.\nThe meat looks an off-pinkish color...\nYou cannot bear to think of who or what it is...\nThe water looks more of urine than water...\n\n[[You eat and drink]]\n[[You politely refuse]]\n\n

You talk to this man and find out that he is ex-military.\nHe does not know what happened...why the world burned...\n\nHe is amazed that you have been able to survive this long with your family. \n\nHe is amazed at your fortitude. \n\nHe offers to help. \n\nHe offers to give you his supplies. \n\nHe says he can scavenge more but you both you that he cannot.\n\nHe insists that you take what he has. \n\nHe tells you that there is a military base. \nA huge base, far to the south. \n\nHe does not know exactly what is happening there but he says 'That if there is anyone out there who can help you they will be at that base.'\n\nHe goes on to tell you about the PHOENIX...the mythical bird. The bird that dies and rises again from its own ashes. \nHe compares your family to the story. \n\nHe tells you that if you remember the PHOENIX you might survive...\n\nWHY IS HE TELLING YOU THIS??\n\nHe begs you to remember the PHOENIX.\n\n[[You take his supplies and head South]]\n[[You refuse his supplies and head South]]\n\n

You grab your reliable revolver. \nYou look around yet you have no ammo for this gun. \nYou place it in it's holster on your belt and look to your other options.\n\n[[You grab a weapon]]

You grab your old trusty shotgun. \nYou look around yet you have no ammo for this gun. \nYou sling it over your shoulder and you examine your other options. \n\n\n[[You grab a weapon]]\n

You hear the mechanism on the huge doors engage and they start to open. \n\nA small vehicle speeds out and heads directly towards you.\nThe soldiers inside the vehicle tell you to get in. \n\nThey drive you back into the confines of the huge base.\n\nThey drive you straight to the Commanding Officer.\n\nThey give you food and water.\n\nYou have survived, with your family, in the harsh dead wilderness.\nYou have shown courage and fortitude. \n\nYou are finally safe. \n\n[[YOU SUCCEEDED!!!]]\n\n

You walk South for weeks on end but there is nothing...nothing at all. \n\nYou grow weaker. \nYour organs cease to function.\n\nYou go into cardiac arrest in front of your family and you drop dead.\n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour decision to refuse the man's supplies led to their demise. \n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

[[You look outside]]\n[[You pick up your baby]]\n[[You turn on the tv]]\n[[You grab a weapon]]\n

You avoid the hut and decide to keep walking. \nYou have no idea what or who is in there and you do not have the strength to find out. \n\nYou continue towards along the coast with hopes of finding something but there is nothing...nothing at all. \n\nYou grow weaker. \nYour organs cease to function.\n\nYou go into cardiac arrest in front of your family and you drop dead.\n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour decision to avoid the hut led to their demise. \n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

You remember your jewelry box. \nYou have a golden medallion that is a family heirloom.\n\nYou secure it around your neck.\n\nMAYBE THIS WILL COME IN HANDY??\n\nNow you are ready.\n\n[[You go outside]]

You decide that it would be safer to avoid the campsite even though you are dying of thirst and hunger...\n\nYou continue towards the east with hopes of finding something but there is nothing...nothing at all. \n\nYou grow weaker. \nYour organs cease to function.\n\nYou go into cardiac arrest in front of your family and you drop dead.\n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour decision to avoid the encampment led to their demise. \n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

You stay quiet throughout the terrifying meal.\nYou say your thank yous and usher your family out the door. \n\nAs you walk away you cant help but feel that you are being followed...\nARE YOU??\n\nYou are surprised the deranged woman let you go.\n\nYou will not be able to shake that feeling for a very long time...\n\nMaybe forever...\n\n\n[[Head East]]

You start creeping around the outskirts of the barn. \nYou try to peep through windows to see whats inside.\n\nYou step on something and hear a snapping noise...\nThen an alarm goes off... A TRAP!!\n\nYou hear a shrill voice scream, \n\n'GET HIM BOIS!!!'\n\nBefore you can even react gunshots ring out. \nYou feel the lead striking your body. \n\nYou are bleeding to death.\nBefore you black out completely, you hear the same shrill voice say 'Bois, this one looks tasty.'\n\nYou die and they eat your body. \n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour decision to sneak around led to their demise. \n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

As soon as you set foot inside the home, you hear a woman call out with a shrill voice... 'INTRUDER!!!' 'GET HIM BOIS!!'\n\nBefore you can even react gunshots ring out. \nYou feel the lead striking your body. \n\nYou are bleeding to death.\nBefore you black out completely, you hear the same shrill voice say 'Bois, this one looks tasty.'\n\nYou die and they eat your body. \n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour rash decision to go inside alone led to their demise. \n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

You walk for what feels like months. \nThis is the closest you have been to death.\nYou are your family trudge ahead alongside the ocean of dead ashes.\n\nOne foot in front of the other, one foot in front of the other one foot in front of the other...A death march.\n\nUntil you see it...\n\nThe high steel walls of the military base. A huge base. \n\nIt is here!!\n\nYou walk closer and multiple huge spotlights turn to shine upon you.\n\nYou hear through a loudspeaker...\n\n'WHAT IS THE WORD???'\n\n[[You yell 'MY FAMILY!!!']]\n[[You yell 'PHOENIX!!!']]

You are desperate for food and water.\nYou know that danger might await you inside this barn but you knock on the front door.\n\nYou approach the door alone...\n\nYou knock once...No answer\nYou knock again, and louder...No answer\nYou knock AGAIN...loudly...someone knocks back loudly...\n\nThe door creaks barely open...\n\n[[You go inside alone]]\n[[You go get your family and go inside together]]\n[[You run away]]

You swoop up your family and run...\nBefore you know it you have travelled atleast 5 miles to the east in an all out sprint...\nNow thoroughly exhasuted and dying of thirst you have but one choice.\n\n[[Head East]] \n

You have a heavy heart because you know this man will die. \nYou are thankful for this man. \n\nHe is your guardian. \n\nHe saved you family...atleast for a while.\n\n[[You head South]]

The man yells for you to put your 'hands up' and you comply. \nHe cocks back the hammer on his gun and clearly plans to kill you. \n\nYou quickly yell 'WAIT!!'\n \nYou explain that you are desperate and starving and you needed to steal supplies for you family but he does not care at all about you or your family.\n\nYou tell him that if he lets you go you will make it worth his while. \n\nYOUR MEDALLION!!\n\nYou tell the man that you will give him your precious golden medallion in exchange for some supplies...and your freedom.\n\nHe takes your deal. \n\nYou, along with your family, walk to the west.\n\n[[Head West]]

Oh god the humanity. \nYou killed your beloved dog...your dear friend.\nYou ate him. \nYou fed him to your wife and son. \nYou will NEVER forgive yourself. \nMaybe it would have been better to starve, you say to yourself.\n\nYou are overcome with grief and remorse. \nYou are sickened by your actions...\n\nYou go in another room and with your machete you slit your throat.\n\nWithout your help your family eventually dies. \nYour despicable decision to eat your dog leads to their demise.\n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

The destruction is absolute. \nIt is devastating and final...\nThere is nothing where you neighbors homes once stood...\n\nHOW ARE YOU ALIVE?\nWHAT HAPPENED HERE?\nHOW IS YOUR HOUSE STANDING?\n\n...Your mind races...\n\nYou feel an immense heat radiating through the windows and walls.\n\n[[You open the front door and walk outside]]\n[[What do you do???]]\n

There has been a catastrophic event. \nFrom the looks of things there are no survivors.\n\nHOW???\n\nWhat will you do next??\n\n[[You open the front door and walk outside]]\n[[Stay inside and try to wait it out]]

Hexfu

You are dying of thirst and starvation. \nYou have no choice but to investigate the campsite.\n\nYour machete is secured to your thigh, in it's sheath, as you creep towards the fire.\n\nYou see food and water.\n\nYou see medical supplies. \n\nYou must get in and out before you are spotted. \nMilitants could be sleeping in the tents...\n\nThe life of your family depends on this!\n\nYou hear a man's voice!...'STOP, PUT YOUR HANDS UP!!'\n\nYou slowly turn and put up your hands as the man comes closer.\n\n[[You decide to fight!!]]\n[[You decide to try to talk your way out of this]]\n\n

A barrage of gunshots ring out from atop the huge wall.\nThe bullets rip through you and your family. \n\nYou all die almost instantly.\n\nYou have failed. \n\nBOOM!!\n\nRESTART AND MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

You grab your brand new assault rifle. \nYou look around yet you have no ammo for this gun. \nYou set it to the side and you examine your other options. \n\n[[You grab a weapon]]