13th of August 202x
The net’s been spotty, and when it’s available all you can find are reports of strange lights and even stranger creatures. I don’t know if it is some kind of elaborate prank, if the world is going even crazier or I just slept into some kind of coma and living in a strange dream, but if all of this is true and things collapse it’s better not to be in a densely populated area, grocery stores out of stock and a bunch of hungry people are not a good combination, probably more dangerous that whatever may lurk out there.
My uncle has a cabin in the woods, far in the mountains.
My laptop’s packed, that router with satellite connection me and my friends bought for that trip is in my bag, I have a nice emergency generator with solar panels in my car. Just gotta finish download some games and get out of here.
Great thing I have a DRM free library, if it’s the apocalypse and the net dies I can at least get some gaming to distract myself, if I can find shelter.
It may seems like my priorities aren’t in order, but what am I supposed to do if I find food and shelter? Spend whatever downtime I might get just worrying about everything instead of getting at least some distractions?
15th of August 202x
Finally at the cabin, there have been more and more reports of monsters, hope my friends and family are able to get here, uncle is already here with his hunting rifles, between some trips back and forth from the nearest town and some hunting we shouldn’t have food problems.
22nd of August 202x
Everyone managed to get here. Authorities confirmed that there are actual monster roaming everywhere but they are getting things under control.
All communications went offline and we don’t know what to expect, but at least, between the games I downloaded and various board-games my friends brought, we can keep our minds off of all this mess as much as possible.
No internet? Nothing to stop a good old LAN party to take place as long as we don’t have DRM in the way. Too bad I can’t really translate all of this gaming experience into real life monster slaying, that would have been handy, though I have ideas for some trap making and with my uncle hunting experience we started trying to secure the place.