Raccoon City was a town under the thumb of Umbrella. The virus washed over the city like a tidal wave and its wake left a living hell filled with ungodly creatures. Umbrella, under the guise of helping the hapless citizens, sent in their private mil...
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23 of July of 1998. Arklay Mountains, Raccoon City, United States. Middle of the Night.
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Bizarre murder cases with people being found dead, their bodies half-eaten, were being reported in the areas near Raccoon City.
The city's elite special forces unit, S.T.A.R.S., sent their Bravo Team to the scene. However, due to a mysterious engine failure, Bravo Team's helicopter crash-landed in the forest.
Bravo Team narrowly escaped with their lives and stumbles onto a heavily damaged prison convoy and the brutally dismembered corpses of the Marines in charge. Enrico Marini, Bravo Team's commander, ordered that a search be made for Billy Coen, a former Marine who escaped from the convoy.
The newest member of Bravo Team, Rebecca Chambers, discovered a train stopped in the woods and went inside to investigate. Apparently the train had met with some kind of accident as she found all of the passengers dead. One of the supposedly dead passengers came to life and attacked Rebecca.
Completely surrounded and facing certain death, the prisoner Billy Coen was responsible for her rescue. Rebecca was still suspicious of Billy but realized that they needed to work together if they wanted to survive the nightmare.
Shortly after, the train suddenly started to move. It accelerated and was rapidly approaching dangerous speeds.
To prevent the imminent derailment, the pair engaged the brake. However, it was too late and the train rolled on its side. The two barely managed to escape the wreck.
Waiting near them was Umbrella's Management Training Facility.
Rebecca's Diary
July 23, 1998, 10:25pm
I'm so excited. It's my first mission as field medic on the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team! I certainly hope my comrades can benefit from my assistance. But our mission is disturbing... Murderers roam the forests? Perhaps we can finally answer that question and solve this case for the benefit of the community. Still, I wonder if it was a good idea for Captain Marini to split us up after we discovered that wrecked MP vehicle and those dead soldiers. If there really is an escaped military convict in these woods, we might be unable to assist him individually.
Wait, what is that object beyond the trees? Is that a train? Why is it parked out here in the middle of the woods? If we are to get to the bottom of this case, I have to be brave and investigate...
