Disclaimer I know next to nothing about DD . I ' ve never played it before . Two weeks ago today , on November 10 th , the power to the entire city or , rather , town of Fallon , MO shut down . Nobody knows how it happened , and nobody knows how to fix it . All anyone knows is that you can ' t leave . You can call it whatever you want superstition , a lie , a hoax , whatever . But you can ' t leave . People have tried , obviously . They ' ve walked , rode their bikes or motorcycles , driven , ran . But as soon as they step over the border , they ' re dead . I ' ve seen it happen freak accidents that are extremely improbable in real life . A bird flew into someone and hit an artery with it ' s beak . A bear , which isn ' t supposed to live anywhere near here , attacked . A giraffe escaped from the zoo and trampled someone . Many have gotten into a car crash . I sinkhole opened up under someone . One person spontaneously combusted . As soon as everyone figured this out after a week of frantically trying to escape , people freaked out . Living in a small town where no one can go in and out and where the phones and the internet don ' t work means a few thousand people and very limited resources . You ' d be surprised what the threat of death to one person and towards that person ' s family will do to them . So , my friends and I decided to take charge . Others had tried , no one had succeeded . We all knew that . But dammit if we weren ' t going to try . The best way to pull this off , we decided , was to become modern day superheroes . We had a pretty solid foundation already . Linda and Chris had taken various martial arts from a very young age , and they were confident they could teach the rest of us . Aurora ' s parents were pretty big gun and weapon enthusiasts and collectors we ' re talking the entire two roomed , concrete , secure basement decked out with an arsenal of swords , knives , guns , ammo , nunchucks , javelins , everything . And , since the accident , her parents couldn ' t really object to us using it as our liar . It was perfect . Jesse was pretty much useless , but he had a truck , some battery powered walkytalkies , and lots of sleeping bags and blankets and cots . Plus he ' s cool to hang out with most of the time . I was obviously the leader , the smart one with all the ideas and cool plans . I hadn ' t brought anything of material value , but I was invaluable as the team leader . Then , all we needed was names and costumes . We decided to use our DD characters it was perfect . They represented our personalities , they were cool , they went with each other to make the perfect team . But mostly , we already had the costumes . I ' ll try and finish it later when I can think of a way to end it .