Here lies Korey Flaherty.
Died: Spring, Day 21
Cause of death: Exceptionally poor judgement
Korey fancied himself a “killer for hire.” We greeted each other politely the first couple of times we bumped into each other in my starting town. He seemed kind of surly, and my buddy Ash was already getting on my nerves, so I didn’t try to recruit him.
On Spring 21, Ash and I had packed some supplies into a shopping cart and were setting out to the next town, since this one didn’t have much in the way of long-term survival prospects. Korey started following us at the edge of town, then stole some supplies right out of the cart I was pulling.
When I looked in the cart, he’d actually only taken 8 metal arrows. I was kind of annoyed, but seeing has how it was the apocalypse and humanity was now an endangered species, I wasn’t going to kill him over a few arrows. I did, however, threaten him and tell him to GTFO. Korey turned hostile and started fleeing. I was going to let him escape, but then he stopped running, came back started punching Ash, who was kind of a melee combat beast, armed with a fire axe and wearing an armored jacket. Despite calling himself a “killer for hire,” Korey was apparently unarmed, and even though he eventually landed a couple blows on Ash, he was completely unable to hurt him.
Anyway, after a while Ash had had enough, and hacked him mightily with his axe a few times. After grievously wounding one of the few living humans in a massively unfair fight, I think Ash started feeling sorry for him, because he eventually stopped hitting Korey and just stood there dodging punches. I tried to leave again, but Korey kept following Ash and punching him ineffectually, so eventually I decided to end the fight more…permanently.
RIP Korey. I have no idea how you survived as long as you did.
