...confusion is setting in. It seems to be that only around half of the poor souls within this office are becoming infected by this blight; but there's little or no apparent logic or reason behind this flip of destiny's damned coin - like the strings of our fates are in the hands of a burbling madman.
However, those who appear to be initially unaffected are also showing curious physical symptoms. There is an almost inperceptible tightening of the cheek muscles, and a squinting of the eyes; making them look, for all the world, like they are grinning...smugly.
Maybe these symptoms are indicative only of a different strain of the virus, maybe the Sllennoc canker has worse in store for these wretches, further down the road. If I'm right in my initial assessment of the situation, those of us who have been first hit might just be the lucky ones.
...and this causes me great concern. I've not shared this with the others yet, but I've been feeling a tightening about my jaw of late; and I've noticed the mirror squinting back at me in the morning...
And I'm afraid that I may not be over this as quickly as I'd hoped.
10 September, 2005
... unsophisticated humour
... unsophisticated humour helps me through the dark hours; i trust you'll forgive me this one conceit, dear reader, and maybe derive a little pleasure from my crude scribbles.
09 September, 2005
... and so it begins
...and so it begins; an uneasy calm has settled across the office, after the initial bombshell impact of Wednesday morning. I think that we're only now truly grasping the full impact of the Sllenoc effect.
People that I'm used to seeing every day are falling under the infection. It's happening as I type !
We're seeing usually rational people unable to think clearly; usually placid people prone to fits of rage and unusual savagery. Things simply aren't as they should be here.
There is something rotten eating at the heart of this office.
And we fear that worse is to come.
I've heard rumours that the next that we can expect in this zombification process is the doppleganger effect. A seat that was occupied by an ordinarily useful and productive individual one day, will be occupied by a kind of 'non-person' the next. They'll try and fulfil that person's duties as they should. They'll exist under the same job title and role hierarchy as they always have done. They'll even volunteer to get the drinks from the coffee machine every once in a while.
But they won't be that person. Not the person that they once were...
...and it's going to happen soon.
People that I'm used to seeing every day are falling under the infection. It's happening as I type !
We're seeing usually rational people unable to think clearly; usually placid people prone to fits of rage and unusual savagery. Things simply aren't as they should be here.
There is something rotten eating at the heart of this office.
And we fear that worse is to come.
I've heard rumours that the next that we can expect in this zombification process is the doppleganger effect. A seat that was occupied by an ordinarily useful and productive individual one day, will be occupied by a kind of 'non-person' the next. They'll try and fulfil that person's duties as they should. They'll exist under the same job title and role hierarchy as they always have done. They'll even volunteer to get the drinks from the coffee machine every once in a while.
But they won't be that person. Not the person that they once were...
...and it's going to happen soon.
++WARNING+++WARNING+++ WARNING++
... it was the latter days of the 2005th year that the scourge of the Sllenoc effect was truly felt in the Northern regions. Apparently irrational, ill thought-through actions of those in power being the first tell-tale sign of the plague, followed quickly by feelings of isolation and paranoia within the general populus: the result always being the same tragic, painfully drawn-out death knell.
It is hoped that these pages will serve as a warning for all of those at risk.
You may feel secure in your cosy office, hunched over your well worn keyboard, bathed in the dull carcinogenic glow of your monitor; we did too... and now we have become....
the Office of the Dead !!
It is hoped that these pages will serve as a warning for all of those at risk.
You may feel secure in your cosy office, hunched over your well worn keyboard, bathed in the dull carcinogenic glow of your monitor; we did too... and now we have become....
the Office of the Dead !!
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