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Now it's time to make a decision. Emma is a smart and capable young woman, but it's your job to watch over her. You can head out and look for a phone, or just leave the building and find her in the city below. On the other hand, it may be best to learn more about the virus, and you could watch the news or search the Internet while the power is on.

You head into the hallway. Someone will let you use their phone to call Emma. There have to be others still in the building, behind locked doors. Finding your sister is your only priority.

The lights flicker and cast an eerie glow all around. Power fluctuates off and on. It's silent again—way too silent.

You head to apartment…

As you step toward the apartment, sounds resonate through the door: a loud male voice, repeated clicking noises, a constant electrical hum. You knock on the door. All goes silent.

Moments pass. You listen and hear the rattling of locks and chains at the door, which springs open. A tall man in his early twenties answers the door wearing a tie-dye t-shirt and faded blue jeans with dark brown sandals and a full, bushy blond beard. A blue wool knit cap is pulled tightly over his head. He leans out of the door, looks left to right, and then pulls you into the apartment.

Inside is a geek's wonderland: half-a-dozen laptops blinking and buzzing in a row, a large plasma television with eight different news channels tiled on the screen, wires and cables on the walls, hanging from the ceiling and criss-crossing every inch of walking space, dozens of open cans of Red Bull spread across various surfaces, comic books and graphic novels strewn about, Lord of the Rings memorabilia set in a shrine near an open kitchen, and dozens of movie posters covering sci-fi over the past thirty years.

"Hey, I'm Jason... have a seat," he states through a raspy, cigarette-soaked voice and sits in a rolling chair positioned in front of the row of laptops. He taps away at a PC and yells at a screen:

"People are just rising from the dead all over the world. It's global zombie chaos. This is undead Armageddon!"

"Hey, Jason. I'm Victor zombie. I really need a phone, do you have one I can use for a quick call?"

"Not sure what you're trying to prove asking me that?" Jason says, shaking his head.