The long march to the south...
July 10
The commander aboard the HMS. Queen elizabeth stood in the planning room when a junior officer rushed in.
- Captain! You ought to see this, you won´t believe your eyes!
- What is it?
- Come, quick!
The two men rushed to the bridge, in front of them was the clear waters of the mediterranian, north of alexandria.
In front of them a shadow appeared in the water, then broke the surface.
- A reef, the captain said quietly.
- Yes sir! The officer said, but there shouldn´t be any reefs here, we´ve sailed this area for years!
- Stop the ship! Full enginepower backwards, turn port, NOW!
It was to late, the ship, and the rest of its flottila slammed into the reef, sinking within minutes.
The radio operator managed to send a S.O.S call before the ship went down.
Two swordfish torpedobombers were dispatched to search for the flotilla and the reef, the couldn´t find anything.
The story was repeated over and over again, the british couldn´t find an explanation.
But, of course Hitler had the explanation, he had focused every drop of energy inside him at the mediterranian, creating reefs to sink the british ships.
With the british naval superiority in the mediterranian broken, operation schnellpfeil was re-started on july 14 8th corps landed in aleppo, the city was undefended but the germans began a massacre of french citizens.
Jaques ran through the streets of aleppo, the sun-baked houses made out of mudbricks were beutiful, but he hadn´t time to stop.
He was beeing followed by the germans, he was about 15 and quite fast but the germans were getting closer.
The clatter of the german boots were ominous, he didn´t know were he ran, he just ran, through one street, another, he tried everything, but he couldn´t shake off the germans.
Finally, he found himself in a dead end, he turned his head and saw thick clouds of black smoke drifting up into the sky, the germans burned something, however, he didn´t know what, he guessed that they burnt houses.
So, finally the germans stood in front of him, there eyes empty, their faces not expressing everything.
In fact, Jaques felt sorry for them, they had once cheered, laughed, loved and cried.
But now, they were empty shell, shadows of their former selfs.
Finally, he saw who stood in front of him.
His cousin Pierre, Pierre had been living in Paris and had probably been force drafted into the german army.
-Monsters he cried, MONSTERS, those were his last words as the germans pushed their bayonets deep into him, again and again, he fell and still they chopped at him, once they left, the person that once was Jaques was a mess, a unrecognicable mass of meat, guts and blood.
He was carried away and dumped.
Towards the night, the fires had burned out, aleppo consisted of burnt-out ruins.
This story was repeated on the 19th when beirut was attcked, falling a day later, july 23rd it was repeted in the fall of damascus.
Diary of Wilhelm von Saalwildt
August 3
Oh! I say, this is a glorious day, the brits have been expelled from jerusalem.
Finally we can begin our dig at the dome of the rock.
August 6
Arrived in Jerusalem, dangerous transfer, we were twice attacked by UK naval bombers stationed at cyprus, at least this dig will be a lot easier than Graz, not as moist...
August 10
BARBARIANS! Those soldiers have no respect for culture! They simply blew the dome of the rock into neat sized bits with 100 kilos of dynamite, at least we can begin the dig...
As for the war, it has been exiting, we have pushed into El Arish and Rawah.
August 15
Beeing under the command of the SS isn´t easy, Himmler is sending angry telegrams by the day, demanding results, he doesn´t know that archeology is a careful science, and those soldiers makes me nervous, at least it has been a good time, military speaking, we are as far south as port said and as far east as Mosul.
August 20
Finally! We have discovered an untouched chamber using ground radar. Himmler will be pleased, for the moment, soon he will be sending angry telegrams demanding that we enter the chamber, fool, that chamber contains things that mankind wasn´t ment to meddle with, or even know about, for that matter...
At least, alexandria, cairo and suez has fallen...
August 21
Told you he´d be sending angry telegrams again!
August 25
We have begun the opening procedures and Himmler is sending telegrams wanting it to go faster, is that man never pleased?
Sidi barrani and al Quisiyah has fallen.
August 27
Disaster! The french has recaptured Rawah, threatening us, also, a crack has appeared in the seal, it is hell broken loose!
September 1
Damn! Those... Undead creatures are everywhere, Hanna has dissapeared and I fear I´ll never see her again...
The soldiers are battling it out agains the... things but they are only barely holding their ground, marsa el-alam has been captured, I should be happy, but I am not, how can anyone be happy when you can be killed every minute?
September 5
Rawah has been recaptured and the undead attacks have been reducing, I think we are winning, thank heavens!
September 10
Bur sudan and Baghdad has fallen today, among the victims from baghdad was a two year old boy, called Sallam or something like that...
September 17
Kirkuk has fallen and this is a day to remember, last undead has died and we can finally enter the chamber, there is also bad news, we found Hanna, dead, she had been ripped apart and the undeads had eatyen from her corpse, I turned away and vomited...
September 25
Finally, we have got it! The ark is ours, it is beeing shipped to Berlin for evaluation as we spea... ummm as I write...
October 17
Evaluation complete, looks like the Führer has used the ark to take control over Iraq, a puppet regime is installed...
Just for your information: The ark didn´t affect the game, and there were no undeads roaming jerusalem, however, that was a interesting sub-story