Rampage

In Tenderville, Oregon, 23-year-old Bill Williamson lives with his parents and works as a mechanic while feeling bombarded by the world's problems broadcast on TV and radio. He has one friend, Evan Drince, whose outspoken views amplify his sense of alienation. The summary frames his growing dissatisfaction as the seed of a drastic plan to come.

Bill prints counterfeit money at home and builds an AR-500 steel armor suit, including a ballistic helmet and a paintball mask. He arms himself with two submachine guns, two pistols, and two knives, assembling gear for a violent confrontation. This marks the shift from malaise to concrete preparation.

He deploys a remote-controlled bomb to devastate the police headquarters, incapacitating the responders inside. He then walks through the center of town, firing at random people and taunting a coffee shop owner as chaos erupts. The assault marks the start of a broad rampage.

Bill enters a salon filled with hiding women, removes his helmet to take a drink, thereby revealing his identity to the occupants. Realizing this, he returns and kills everyone in the salon in a cold, methodical sequence. The incident underscores the scale and fear he imposes.

He enters a local bingo parlor, orders a sandwich, and harasses the host. He ultimately leaves without shooting anyone, convinced the elderly patrons are already near death and beyond his target relevance.

Bill storms a town bank, kills the security guard, and shoots several employees and customers as he robs the safe. Outside, he swaps the stolen money with fake currency and burns the bag in a trash can, declaring that money is worthless and fuels societal ills.

After the bank heist, Bill phones Evan, who is nearby in the forest, and suggests a mano-a-mano paintball-style confrontation. The call sets the stage for the next phase of pursuit and confrontation. Evan prepares for the meeting implied by Bill's threat.

Bill flees into the forest with Sheriff Melvoy and pursuing officers in close pursuit. He uses explosives to kill many of the officers and escapes deeper into the woods, taking advantage of the terrain to prolong the chase.

In the forest, Bill ambushes Sheriff Melvoy, stabbing him and leaving him to die. He then tracks down Evan, who is hiding nearby, escalating the pursuit into a personal showdown.

Bill immobilizes Evan with a stun gun and places one of Evan's pistols in Evan's hand, shooting him to create the illusion of suicide. He uses Evan's corpse, along with his armor and weapons, to misdirect investigators before fleeing the forest.

Bill returns to his parents' home just as horror stories flood the TV news. Reports identify the killer as Evan and tally the number of dead, underscoring the scale of the town's catastrophe. The home environment contrasts with the sensational news outside.

News reveals that Evan's Vietnam-era activist father has been arrested, reporting he is claiming his son's innocence while suggesting Bill's guilt. Bill begins packing the stolen money and preparing to leave Tenderville behind.

Bill records a home video announcing his departure on a personal quest to reduce the world's population, indicating that he intends to remove himself from the equation of global problems. The video marks his intentional disappearance from Tenderville.

The text indicates that Bill's departure became the last known point in his story, and that a personal video recording resurfaced on the Internet two years later, confirming the fiction's long-tail legacy. His precise whereabouts remain unknown to the public.