As we rejoin our intrepid hero, he appears to be in a sticky situation. A zombie wielding its axe, and a gorges girl are both running towards him. Its the first time he has ever seen a zombie, and the first time a girl has run TOWARDS him, what will he do? Read on and find out!

I looked around and grabbed a stick on the ground and decided to make an attack on the zombie, hey what have I got to lose I thought as I started running towards it. Then I realized. I have my life to loose that’s what! No turning back, my decision was made. As I ran at the zombie the woman dived out of the way. The zombie stooped and looked at me. I stared back giving it my evil eye. I tried to let out a blood curdling warrior style cry, but it was more like a girly someone just stood on my foot sort of cry. I closed my eyes, and started to randomly poke the stick in the direction of the zombie. I felt a few blows hit him, they must have hit him, IM sure they hit him, I think they hit him, ok they probably missed him. I opened my eyes, and saw the zombie still standing there. He looked confused, very confused. He shrugged it off and lifted his axe high in the air to bring down a killing blow upon me. It was too late to run, this is going to be the end I thought, I closed my eyes, and then all I heard was a swish. There was blackness all around me, it was dark, so this is what death is like. Then I realized. IM not in pain, and my eyes are still closed. As I opened them, I saw on the ground that same zombie, lying on the ground, but without its head. I looked up to see that woman I saw earlier running from it, standing over the now very dead zombie. She taped on the computer thing.

“Yes” she said with glee “IM up to necro”. In her hand she carried a rather sharp looking sword with bit of zombie blood on it. She looked up and smiled at me. “Thanks stranger” she said “but may I suggest actually hitting it next time rather then trying to poke a whole in it with a stick. I’ve not seen you around before, what’s your name.” I thought back to what that man in the tea room had told me, how my name was now Rocko, so I thought what the hell, why not. “Rocko” I said “IM new round here, and it’s kind of a weird story, you’ll never believe it” “Well IM Cora” she said, “and I’ve got all the time in this reset to here this”. I puzzled over what she ment by reset at first, and told her how I got here. She looked shocked. “I told you you’d never believe it” I said. “You Flattened Antman, and lived!” was her reply. “Ok I understand about the tea room” she continued “and coming in to mud, but you arrived in a house!” “Yes” I said “and now all I want is to become what you people call a wizard, and get home.” She chuckled to herself. “you and everyone else in this land wants to become a wizz. Only a handful have ever succeeded, and when they do they become, well more detached from us.”

“Well ok” I said “I don’t suppose you could teach me anything about this land”. “The best way to learn, is to experience it for yourself”she said. Very helpful I thought, I can’t wait to learn about getting killed, which from what I have seen, is going to be the first thing I learn about around here. “Come on, I’ll introduce you to some friends of....” but before she could carry on, she was distracted by the entrance of yet another zombie, stumbling badly. “Ok then, you want to survive you might as well start somewhere, kill him”. With that she handed me a dagger. “But I don’t know how to kill, IM not that sort of person I just can’t kill things for the sake of it” “It’s either him or your” she said. “Well if you put it that way” I replied, and with that I charged at the zombie. It was very badly injured, that was plane to see, so it should be easy enough, hit it with my dagger, it dies. I ran and jumped at it, wielding my dagger in the air. The zombie span around, and with ease on its behave, simply kicked me in the chest, and sent me flying back where I came from. I landed hard on the ground. “This is not going quite to plan” I muttered. I stood back up again and decided that if at first you don’t succeed, try try again. Another run, another kick, another encounter with the ground, and IM starting to think that this isn’t the best strategy after all. I stood up and turned to Cora. “Look IM just can’t do it” I said, and with that I through the dagger away behind me. Just after I did, I heard a squelch, followed by a groan, then a thud. I span around to see another dead zombie on the floor, with my dagger sticking through its chest. I just stood there, gobsmacked. “Woohoo” Cora shouted, “nice shot, and I was just about to think you were giving up”. “Give up, me give up, ha yer right, I had him right where I wanted him” I lied. “Well come on” she said “I’ll introduce you to some of my friends, if you want to become a wizard, you have allot of.........”. I was just about to turn around to see why she had stooped talking, when the world around me went dark. My head started spinning, and some colours entered my vision, but all blurred. What is happening to me I thought, as I suddenly lost conciseness.

What has happened to our man Rocko? Who are these friends Cora spoke of? How did he pull off that amazing shot with the dagger? If this place is called mud, why has no mud been mentioned yet? What is a necro? All these hopefully answered in the next, bone chilling, episode of ROCKO’S (not so modern) MUD LIFE!