Synopsis
After waking up after what seemed to be a nuclear explosion in the distance to the south of you, you are promptly informed of "they" by two people whose heads promptly explode. Waking up again later, you search for the little girl who was with them. She tells you her name is Nicole, and then goes mute for a bit. Something doesn't seem quite right with her.
You find a man in a car who looked like he killed himself. Nearby was a strange note talking about how "they" get in your head. In begins to dawn on you that your missing eye might be more of a bad sign than you previously thought. Taking the man's car, you encounter your first Faceless on the road: An infested humanoid. You manage to escape, after discovering that their "weak point" seems to be the chest, rather than the head.
You visit the crater in the center of your hometown. Inside is a bunch of worms with a bunch of Faceless bringing them meat. Seeing nothing of any value here and no way to stop this, you leave and head for the vet north of town.
Along the way, you stop at a gas station to get supplies, where you meet Benny. You decide to leave together, and Benny attempts to steal your car at gunpoint. You disarm him and kick him to the curb. Nicole continues to act strangely. You reach the vet.
After a bit of a scuffle, you introduce yourself to David and Jacob. David is a nervous blonde, distraught over the recent death of his wife. Jacob is an older guy, and a doctor. David seems insistent that Nicole is an infected. When you attempt to ask him why, he gets angry and there's a bit of gunplay. He winds up shooting Nicole on accident.
Though you don't want to leave Nicole alone, you decide that the best course of action is to go back to the gas station where you left Benny and pick up the generator you saw there earlier, so you can get X-rayed at the Vets and learn if you're infected or not.
On the way there, you see a disturbing poem on a billboard, and on the back, a message straight from your subconscious: "hows your mother?" with a smiley face. Deciding to ignore this strange find, you continue to the gas station.
Once there, you discover Benny has changed into a faceless. However, he seems contained for the moment, so you investigate a nearby parked semi, and, after a bit of logical deduction, open the combination lock and get the shotgun. :D Just in time, too, because Benny-Less has managed to open that door and has snuck up on you. You blow him away with your new toy. (oh, if only he had stayed dead.)
Searching the rest of the store, you get the generator and also find Benny's final thoughts written in a notebook, despite not being a member of S.T.A.R.S. It lends further evidence to the fact that you're not far from becoming a faceless yourself.
On the way back, the billboard has a new message written under the mom thing: "How's the little girl?" and also "Billboard Man" is standing on the ledge, pointing at you. A No-Faced man with a strange business suit, G-Man's first sighting is sadly not the last. You get out and try to talk to him, which does not go so well, since it causes you to have really bad pain and voices in your head.
The two of you share a sort of strange dialog, before you black out and awaken later to find Faceless closing in and No-Face nowhere to be found. You quickly escape in your car and head back to the vet.
Around this time, "sssssssssssssssss" options begin to appear, randomly but worse when your infection spikes.
Making it back to the vet, you get X-rayed to find that yes, you are infected. You go to see Nicole, only to have the infection spike up and No-Face to reappear. He causes a nearby dead bird to turn into a "crawler" and you flee to find David and Jacob. You note that Nicole can see No-Face.
Heading back into the room, you are ambushed by the crawler which has attached itself to the ceiling. David shoots it, probably saving your life.
You explain your situation to Jacob, and then decide to try getting really drunk, based off clues from earlier. It turns out that the worms don't like alcohol.
That night you have an odd dream, where Benny (having both eyes) tells you to choose:
Death, The Worms, Or Him. Not liking any of these choices, you look behind you to see Nicole. Despite Benny's warnings that "she is worse than choosing death" you embrace her, and she sticks a worm into your ear from her mouth, and tells you she has a "present" for you.
You wake up to find you have regrown your missing eye, somehow. Benny shows up, now missing his eye, and claims to "not be the same Benny" from your dream. You're not sure if he's a figment of your imagination, a hallucination, or what, but he sure is gross and annoying.
You find David and he apologizes to you for losing it and shooting Nicole, and also takes you into his confidence, confessing his belief that there is more than one "breed" of these worms and that since you're infected with type 1, you can't be this other type, and are therefore the only one he can trust. You agree to keep quiet, for now, until you can talk more later.
You discuss your condition with Jacob again, and you agree that you should X-ray everyone. However, someone has sabotages the generator out back. Whether it was the Faceless who showed up (and you killed)or one of the people with you in unknown.
You decide to head farther north, to the next town, in search of a hospital. Along the way, Nicole plays a guessing game, spying something "brown" and you discover that it is your new eye, which is odd, because you have hazel eyes. The brown is the same brown as Benny's eyes.
You decide to stop at a house with smoke coming from the chimney, but your adventures with George and Annabelle, the couple who live there, are cut short when Nicole freaks them out by spouting stuff about their kids. You take your leave.
However, you decide to change course, based on George information that the north town was overrun with Faceless. Instead, to head into the hills. Once there, you look back into the valley to see helicopters firing on targets below.
Heading deeper into the hills, you find a man laying in the center of the road. Stopping to investigate, the man stands and begs for you to kill him. You give the command and David headshots him.
Jacob doesn't like this one bit, since you had the cure for his infection sitting in your trunk. He storms off. You follow him to a house, only to find him broken down, crying. Just then, your very own Cavine breaks into the house, and you are forced to fight a running battle back to the car.
Just as you're about to make your escape, Jacob runs off firing his pistol, and gets ambushed around a corner. You charge after to save him, but are also eaten alive.
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