Zombie Fever

Here we go again. When posting my previous post, titled Sicko!, I was referring to my first moments of playing Vavle’s Left 4 Dead. But I didn’t expect it to become worse.

I bought Left 4 Dead last year via Steam during the 30%-Off! days. The download took frickin’ ages thanks to the trickling internet-connection here on campus and so I started on the last day of 2008 to really play it. A lot. Hardcore in fact. I only made a pause for fifteen minutes around midnight when I went to the highest point of the campus building and observed in perfect loneliness the fireworks before getting back to the game. I solely play it online and there were a lot of people in my time zone who didn’t give a rat’s ass about the new year, because they wanted to play the game — NOW!

So after about 12 hours of zombie slaying I felt odd and decided to go to bed. That was the last time I felt splendid this year. I woke up on the next day (in fact, the same day) with terrible pains in my tonsils and a fever. It was hard to tell being awake from being in delirium and thanks to my L4D gaming the days before I had the worst fever-trip ever. I guess I got a free glimpse of what Vietnam veterans mean, when something “really takes them back”. All the time zombies were coming for me when I closed my eyes, and even when I kept them open. I groaned and rolled from side to side but it was no good. This bad trip lasted for about seven hours.

I think I have nailed down how fever-dreams work. They single out a few little moments of a normal dream and repeat them again and again and again. The only way out, as far as I’ve discovered, is to bring some new images in, by, say, watching TV.

I don’t recall my awake/asleep phases exactly, the only thing stable was the fever, the chill and the zombies. Today I felt a little better, not so many zombies in my mind anymore but still the same pain in my tonsils though. I got a lot of phone calls I couldn’t answer, a lot of text messages about my missed calls and it took me half a day to overcome my dizziness and get up to look at the phone.

While I was feeling a little better today I noticed that I am slowly running out of food and drugs and didn’t yet feel in the condition to get up and get some. So hopefully today I’ll get myself together to do buy the most urgent necessities.

What I have learned in the last days

• That playing horror-games hardcore go terribly with fever!
• That watching TV all the time has some appeal.
• That stocking up on packet soup, instant noodles and that likes should be done regularly.
• That Podravka-brand soup doens’t taste too well two years after expiry date (Hint: Don’t eat anything from a packaging with a company’s old logo on it!)
• That my first machinima fun video has over 70.000 views on Rock Star Social Club. It’s crazy!

Here we go again. When posting my previous post, titled Sicko!, I was referring to my first moments of playing Vavle's Left 4 Dead. But I didn't expect it to become worse. I bought Left 4 Dead last year via Steam during the 30%-Off! days. The download took frickin' ages thanks to the trickling ...

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