Doomsday: My Fortress levels up when I bond with heroines

just rise; it bl

swell and darken until it hung over the dead suburb like an open wound. A deep crimson light washed over ev

his watch

een m

first time. Midnight, on the dot. It was

red meters down the road, a streetlamp flickered once and died. Somewhere in the distance, a do

imals know,

Blood Moon even

ing. Recommended: Seal all respirat

er's supply shelf-a cheap piece of military surplus with a cra

himself. Soon, the Aet

nothin

t, the sky

rst, then building into a tearing roar that blew the windows out of every house on the street.

ed snow be

it touched the ground, the dead grass shivered and turned black. Where

rm. It gave him a tingling sting,

Exposure

ology: An

ion probability for

ial Aether Resistance granted

ax muttered

ard the fi

, filled with terror. A door slammed. Something heavy hit the floor. Th

idn't

d have kicked in the door, fought whatever was inside, and carr

those survivors h

toni

t wall and let the screaming happen. I

street was no

jacket-but their skin had gone gray and slick, their limbs bent at wrong angles, and their mouths hung op

al Eye: S

er | Rank: F | HP: 120 |

Low (individual)

ree of them within si

sn't fear, but a heat, a pulse spreading outw

quence: 40%...

t, every muscle in his body fe

ning co

nk: F (Aw

None (Pend

12 | Agility 10 | Perce

said quietly

ed a final line, an

ll advance rapidly t

Secure first Aether C

ts. Not much, bu

away. It had been a woman once, wearing a blue nightgown, her hair

her mouth a

and put a round

like a thunderclap. The Shambler dropp

on the street tu

h

r, and came out the far side with a Shambler already on his hee

. T

broken sidewalk. A second creature lunged from a doorway-a man in a security guard's unifo

re

two blocks east had a loading dock with a steel roll-up door. Narrow

l them one by on

r

hickened. His lungs burned through the res

lted the railing, and spun aroun

r hit the dock th

o

e third lunged, and Jax stepped aside and dro

on count was dropping. Forty

ill th

't just fi

g above. A fire escape ran up the back wall, rusted but inta

rted c

ankle. Cold. Wet.

leg, felt something crunch, and hauled himself onto the

ird floor. Fou

ack for three breaths, staring up at the re

omach, raised the rifle, a

et below was litt

ent shell casings. The red snow had stopped. A weak, gray light crawled ac

corpses. H

o the creature's chest with a sickening wet sound, and he pried out a

re (F-Rank)

sorb

es

t, into his skull. For one dizzying moment

Core ab

. Agility +1.

ary Poin

he process fo

lbows and his body was trembling with exhaustio

ank: F (

ity: 22 | Perception:

ry Points

usand two

Enough, maybe, to start preparing for

nd looked east, toward the

get: Elena

e: 6.3 ki

ttack. Survival p

widened, sl

n per

across his back a

said to the dead street

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