A jolly good nuclear winter

A jolly good nuclear winter chapter follows directly after the prologue during that chapters opening sequence displaying the survivors in the affected nuclear holocaust zone. It is featured in episode two of the series.

Story
August 11th, 2014, Staff Sergeant Daniel Callahan and the rest of the survivor’s journey through the state of Oklahoma in the wastelands of North America. Their long journey from Florida has been rigorous and testing. Almost half of the survivors have perished due to starvation, dehydration, and from the harsh affects of the new unforgiving environment.

 Callahan takes responsibility of the group and leads them through some harsh areas safe from the infected, which are still lingering around the area. Their destination is the Green Zone, Rocky Mountains, where they have learned that the government is rebuilding there and thousands of survivors reside in the mountains.

Nuclear-Winter in North America The unforgiving barrage of tactical nuclear warheads has rendered almost half of the United States uninhabitable. The blue sky has become blotted with the blackening ash, smoke, and dust from the aftermath of the warhead barrage on the landscape.

 Heavy radiation still lingers on the surface and travels through the air. Although since the nuclear devices used were only small tactical devices, fortunately for the survivors, the radiation is non-threatening to those who keep their distance from the ground zero areas of the blasts.

 In this particular chapter set in Oklahoma, the nuclear winter zones have blotted half the state. The survivors are passing just underneath the border of the blotting clouds of smoke and dust. They are far from the actual blast zones themselves in Oklahoma and suffer little to no radiation poisoning.

Snowy valley ambush
Unbeknown to the survivors, they are being watched by another enemy from the hilltop. Renegade ex-Shadowstone paramilitary forces have been following the survivors since they left the state of Florida after the battle of Oceanside city.

 An ex-Shadowstone soldier on the top of the hilltop overlooking the valley spots the survivors of Oceanside city. Eventually picking his targets, he opens fire on the survivors. However, not before radioing to the rest of Shadowstone soldiers to move up and prepare an ambush.

 A U.S. Army marksman estimates the position of the Shadowstone sniper and takes him out with one shot. Moments later, the rest of the Shadowstone soldiers mounted on snowboards slide down the hill and ambush the survivors in a near point blank shoot out at the bottom of the hill.

 Moments later the battle is over. Several survivors and soldiers of the U.S. Army are killed in the engagement. Callahan and several combat medics treat the wounded and eventually the survivors recover and move on to their destination to the Rocky Mountains.





