Map Name: Gold Rush
Gametype: Infection
Player count: 6-16

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I've been meaning to post this map for a few months now but I just never got around to it.

Gold rush was inspired by the wild west, after some research, I found some interesting things while looking back into history; in the process finding really interesting locations for actual towns and mines that could be used for some really dynamic layouts and that's where Gold Rush was born.

While the concept of a mine has been done countless of times in both new and old Halo games, I can assure you this map is different. This map blends in the wild west astetic with tight corridors and some interesting outside engagements as well, all incorporated with a beautiful backdrop of the canyon the map is set in.

The wider picture for Gold rush is it's an old mine, a gold mine from the 1800s if you will, the main problem was that all the gold was a myth, it was just a way to promote people to go to the west, many miners and families moved west together as a group and begun their own towns built around mines and sometimes would settle in a canyon or quarry to begin digging and focus on theiir settlement later. A group of 10 miners decided to settle in a canyon, they all pitched in to build a small shack with 4 beds and a table to put there findings from the mine on, the miners would trade off sleeping outside and sleeping on the beds every 2 nights. The miners began to dig, and they found nothing, they continued to dig, and dig, and dig, they began to get frustrated they were mining for 12 days straight and no gold or any other valuble item was found, then on the 13th day during their excavation a deadly pathogen was released after uncovering a new cave system, this pathogen turned all the miners against each other and began to make them delerious.
The miners did their best to survive in the cold mineshaft, finding all the nooks and crannies to hide from their fellow miners, but to no avail, eventually there were only two who survived, one prospector named Pete and one of his remaining close friends John, Pete played dead to avoid conflict with the others until there was only one miner left, but by doing this he subjected himself to standing by and having to hear the screams from his other close friends, about 3 days after the pathogen was relased, after Pete knew it was only him and John he waited until night and killed John in his sleep. The next morning he packed a bag of meat, took the remaining water and the last cow the miners brought with them for spare food & milk. The lone prospecter was never seen again. Some say they can still here the screams from within the mine.

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[COLOR=#bfbfbf]Play dead! That's what I did... played dead. They took the live ones... OH, GOD, I CAN STILL HERE THEM!!![/COLOR]

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