[Matt]

The bottom floor of MST was a mess. What looked like at least a dozen zombies were milling around down there, coming from the left. You could also smell electricity and smoke wafting from that direction. [i]This must have been close to where the explosion occurred. It knocked out the power, and also allowed the zombies to enter.[/i] You stab your spear into the stomach of the recently killed zombie and draw your two knives. With that many zombies, you'd lack the room to swing your spear effectively. With a slight bit of trepidation, you clang your knife on the banister, drawing the attention of the zombies below. Hopefully no zombies come from above. If they did, you'd be trapped on the stairs, a rather grim prospect. Still, you had confidence in your handiwork and strength. You shouldn't have anything to fear as long as you deal with the zombies swiftly and methodically.

Three zombies start up the staircase, one of them tripping as it mounts the steps. Two more follow behind, but are impeded by the fallen and now flailing zombie. You plant your foot on the closest zombie's sternum and push, but it leans back against the zombie behind it and stops. Their figures revealed by the better lighting on the staircase, Matt realizes that these zombies were mostly adults, not students. You plunge the knife downwards and through the skull of the zombie under your foot before kicking backwards. The corpse is pushed aside by the zombie below and you prepare yourself for the next threat. Lunging, you thrust your blade forward and into the zombie's eye socket. The blade catches and you lose your grip on the hilt as the body falls to the side. Two more zombies traipse up the stairs and approach you at once. Swapping your remaining knife to your right hand, you grab the leftmost zombie around the throat and use it to balance yourself on one leg as you kick away the second zombie. You're hit by some wild swings, but your armor shrugs off the blows, allowing you to drive your knife into the zombie's temple. You repeat the process with the second zombie as it gets up, then push away its corpse with as much force as you can muster. The cadaver entangles the next few zombies long enough for you to retrieve your knife and gain some distance. [i]I shouldn't have done this on my own afterall.[/i]

Five more zombies fall to a frenzy of slashes before you stumble back up the stairs, gasping for breath, covered in blood that wasn't your own.