Obituary · CHERNARUS BUREAU · 3 months ago
Filed by The Desk · A life of xSgt Hartman · Life 1 · Chernarus
Chernarus had never heard the name xSgt Hartman before this week, and after eight minutes across two sessions, it will not hear it again. The record shows no kills, one brush with the infected that drew blood twice, and a finish delivered by the survivor's own hand while in good health.
“Two bites, no blood loss to speak of, and then nothing we could chart. We don't ask why. We just close the file.”
There was no ambush, no marksman, no infected horde to blame. Hartman took two hits from something already dead, walked away from it upright, and closed the file anyway, a debut with no opposing name to put beside it. The paper's ledger has a column for cause of death and a column for who benefited; this one leaves the second column blank.
Eight minutes is not a career. It is barely a rumor. But it is the only eight minutes Hartman will ever have on this map, and the record does not editorialize on why a man in good health decided that was enough.
ObituariesChernarusSelf-InflictedDebuts
Died — Suicide (in good health)
Energy 240 · Water 471 · bleeding ×1
Session 2 began
Logged in.
Life qualified
Five minutes survived. The grace period ends; from here, death counts.
Infected — 2 blows
HP down to 92
Washed ashore — life begins
Session 1. Grace period active.