Chernarus Introduced Itself to GreenHammer12 Nine Times Before Making It Stick

The newcomer weathered eight separate maulings with the calm of a man assuming the count would eventually go down rather than up, then met a ninth that took fifteen hits to finish the argument. The paper's ledger records the health total reaching absolute zero, a condition from which the infected of this continent rarely grant a rebuttal. No shots were fired in anger across the whole life; the zero in the kill column stands as lonely and undisturbed as the zero everywhere else on the sheet.

By the account of anyone who has run a first lap here, the ending read less like misfortune than paperwork, arriving on schedule and collecting exactly what it was owed.