Notes

Notes are little pieces of exposition as to provide backstory and information on what has happened during the apocalypse, considering that there's little to none remains of who wrote them, it can be safe to assume that the ones who have written these notes had been eliminated afterwards.

Winrock Notes
There are three notes players can find while in Winrock and the surrounding area, these include a note from a shopkeeper who had watched the military and anime cultists fighting outside, worried that he wont be able to defend their store for long, a soldier from a small military base in the town centre complaining about the residents showing little to no respect towards him and a note from a survivor in the abandoned outpost not too far from Winrock.


 * 1) "I just watched the military and cultists have a gunfight right in front of the store. I only have a shotgun to defend from robbers, there's no way I could hold off that many of them." - Shopkeeper's note
 * 2) "We've been called to this city to defend it. While I'm happy to keep citizens safe, I would at least like some respect. It seems that the residence of this area don't have the slightest bit of respect towards anyone." - Soldier's note
 * 3) "Its been a week since this whole ordeal started. So far we aren't having too many problems. One of the guys here has a suppressed shotgun so we send him to hunt and whatnot." - Outpost Survivor's note (Going into the next shack allows players to pick up the REM-11-87)

Abandoned Farm Notes
There are two notes located in the Abandoned farm that players can enter, located in between Crater and Winrock, players can also find shotgun shells and a Machete to use. Both of the notes are written by a farmer who has been apparently stalked by what could be nekos.


 * 1) "Just made myself some dinner, I think I see someone trampling on my crops. I'll write a note after i dealt with what's happening."
 * 2) "I just saw the strangest thing today. I was out ready to start harvesting my wheat when out in the distance i saw someone. I'm not really used to this since an old man like me doesn't get any visitors. I didn't think they saw me so i went to get my binoculars to see if they were trying to take my crops. Something was off about them, they seemed to have cat ears and a tail. Is this what youngsters call fashion nowadays."

Crater (town) Notes
Crater has only two notes that can be found, one note is written by a gun store owner being concerned of the safety of a weapon supply and that he's running low on stocks while another note is of a worried individual who notices that the nearby town is completely deserted.


 * 1) "Just heard the news, because of this we've been having a recent soar in sales of guns. Hope we have enough to go around. Just make sure the shipment gets here safely." - Gunshop Owner's note
 * 2) "Went to the grocery store in town and came back to find no one here. I know that John just got a job in the city but I have no idea where everyone else went. It's likely just a strange coincidence but something feels wrong." - Trailer Park note

Keithmman Notes
Keithmman has 4 notes players can find with two of these notes being found in the mall, written by one disgruntled survivor complaining about being unable to leave the mall to find food while the other note explains about how Soviet/Russian aircraft have been spotted, one in the nearby hardware store explains that they didn't expect to be defending the store from an outside threat and one in the nearby electrical plant where a worker is outraged that the military have shut off the power and that they were on their own without any help.


 * 1) "I hate it here. We can't even go outside to get food. One of the guys brought a flare gun just so we could hopefully get some sort of supplies airdropped to us. I don't think it's occurred to them that shooting one of those things will alert a whole bunch of these things out there." - Disgruntled Survivor's note (Similar to the outpost note, this note tells players of a useable item : the Flaregun)
 * 2) "I don't know if this is true or not but I've been hearing that the Soviet Union has gotten involved with this incident. The first sighting someone here saw was what seemed to be a MIG-31" - Survivor note 1
 * 3) "Never thought that I would have to defend a home improvement store. Thankfully I wasn't alone when this whole thing happened. My co-workers and I were able to barricade the entrance, it should hold them for a whole but what are we gonna do if it breaks?" - HI Store employee's note.
 * 4) "We were told by the military that they will be talking control of the power until further notice. They took the key used for emergency shutdowns. We asked if we would get any protection and they said that we're on out own. Can't believe they would just abandon use like this" - Powerplant worker's note (similar to the Flare-gun and the REM-11-87, there is an item players can acquire, the electrical key in the military base)

Military Base Note
There's only a single note found in the military place, written by another soldier who seems infuriated over the fact no one knows what is happening with the mess Syntec has made despite that they didn't even specialize in genetic modification on humans at the time. The note itself is located one of the bunkers across the small shack where the player can get the M4 SOPMOD and the M60.


 * 1) "This is a stupid situation. No one knows what the heck is happening. To find out who started this mess, an investigation was launched. The one company with the most evidence stacked up against them was Syntec, but the only evidence they have of them being responsible is that they specialize in this kind of thing. They didn't even have plans for modification like this. So that begs the questions, who really is responsible for this?" - Military Base Note

Western Safezone's Notes
The Western Safezone has two notes players can find, these notes were written by the residents of the zone with one being able to get a radio working however a little peeved that it can only play one song on loop, another note is written by John, a character alluded in the trailer park note who had been evacuated to the Safezone from the nearby city.


 * 1) "Got the radio to work, sure it only plays one song but that's better than nothing i guess" - Radio Note
 * 2) "After leaving my crappy little trailer house I moved into an apartment. A couple days later I had to get out of the city to stay alive. Sorta weird how things worked out, but hey, better than being ripped apart by those things." - John's note, beside the note there is a med-bag players can pick up.

Olympia Underground Lab Notes
The Underground lab has three notes players can find in the area with two notes being written by the employees, one note explains how these syntecs have been never been seen attacking the cultists, dismissing it originally as a rumor while another note from another employee explains that in-depth research reveals that these syntecs are essentially mostly human but have been altered in ways that give them advantages over normal humans, pointing out that there has been an issue with how the company has blown its entire funding on the project. The final note is a presentation from what could be Olympia's higher ups explaining that with Syntec's help, they could possibly deal with the ordeal.


 * 1) "Turns out that the people outside are getting attacked by Cultist s of some sort? These are all just rumors but this just sounds dumb. The person who told us about this said that the cultists aren't even being attacked by these weird people." - Olympia Employee note 1
 * 2) "Research shows that these "creatures" are indeed mostly human, with some exceptions. I don't know what we expected when we spent all of our funding on this one project. Did the higher-ups expect us to be able to take resources from them without some sort of conflict?"  -  Olympia Employee note 2
 * 3) "With Syntec's help, we could possibly end this whole ordeal quickly. We have already imported weapons from the other side and reverse engineered them for a better understanding as to how they are made. With our technology and Syntec's bio-engineering, we could possibly create super soldier. We have already created a prototype armor suit to protect the wearer but its size creates complications for the wearer" - Presentation's note.

Trivia



 * One of the mall notes stated that Soviet Aircraft had been spotted in the skies at the time however this is conflicting."The AK-103 being inside of an airdrop is one example as the rifle was adopted in 2001 with its family, the AK-100 series being adopted in 1994, 3 years after the dissolution of the USSR."