It is 2031.
there is great uncertainty as to the origin of the "Sleeper-Plague" -- with speculation of it being a man-made bio-weapon that slipped it's safeguards, A super-virus that fell to earth in a cluster of small meteors and spread rapidly all over the earth, To some swearing that it was an alien terror-weapon...
What is known (and to varying degrees believed) is that when the virus struck first, it was both air and waterborne, spread around the world in a matter of days, and quickly rendered comatose almost everything exposed, particularly humans. The greatest minds to survive the first days of the progressing end of civilization put their heads together and inoculated the remaining populations of the world as best they could -- first with needles, then with chemical artillery and air-based gas barrages, and finally with what some of the final coherent news broadcasts spoke of as "Atmospheric Tincture" -- they could not stop the virus, but they could "vaccinate" human bodies to respond differently to it, and also it had secondary effects to change the way the virus itself interacted with the human body. Far too late in execution to save the bulk of humanity, and perhaps even civilization -- some people professed themselves immune, or at least resistant enough to survive in the presence of the virus. The virus became far less able to infect innoculated organisms, and when it did, it effected them differently. Rather than a sweeping wave of coma and death, the second ghastly embodiment of the virus presented itself. Many people thought Corpses infected with the "lethal" strain of virus began to emerge from death-like-hibernation horribly changed -- and individuals infected by the new strain while not dropped outright began to turn into twisted cannibalistic slaves of the virus they bore -- simpler strains simply attacking people mindlessly to propagate itself, while other strains creating "Walkers" seeking to spread the infection any way they can, ambushing survivors and exhibiting greater guile, speed, and cunning. In the panicked times before most all radios "went white" some spoke of intelligent zombies -- Zombies that began to organize and lead growing groups of zombies under them -- in an effort to eliminate the remaining pockets of human resistance...
That's where YOU, The PLAYER, come in!
Every player will start as a special upgraded form of zombie, (a "Cunning") with a short list of zombie types potentially under your command. You spend points making a starting band or mob of zombies and take on challenges and scenarios to destroy and infect humans and hopefully grow your horde.
Players can work together or compete to be the first or most efficient infectors and eliminators of survivors, safehouses, and strongholds.
Can you propagate the virus? Can you become a true horde or will your numbers be whittled away to nothing? Will your horde evolve and mutate? Will you work with or against the other cunning in a rise to supremacy?
All this and more will be yours to decide and experience if you join this game campaign!
Feel free to ask questions or just state your interest, I'll be happy to discuss mechanics and horde creation if people are interested!
I am hoping the game lived both on forum (play by post) and in Discord (so people can plan, chat and maybe even play in real time.)-- but will go with what more people are more comfortable with.
there is great uncertainty as to the origin of the "Sleeper-Plague" -- with speculation of it being a man-made bio-weapon that slipped it's safeguards, A super-virus that fell to earth in a cluster of small meteors and spread rapidly all over the earth, To some swearing that it was an alien terror-weapon...
What is known (and to varying degrees believed) is that when the virus struck first, it was both air and waterborne, spread around the world in a matter of days, and quickly rendered comatose almost everything exposed, particularly humans. The greatest minds to survive the first days of the progressing end of civilization put their heads together and inoculated the remaining populations of the world as best they could -- first with needles, then with chemical artillery and air-based gas barrages, and finally with what some of the final coherent news broadcasts spoke of as "Atmospheric Tincture" -- they could not stop the virus, but they could "vaccinate" human bodies to respond differently to it, and also it had secondary effects to change the way the virus itself interacted with the human body. Far too late in execution to save the bulk of humanity, and perhaps even civilization -- some people professed themselves immune, or at least resistant enough to survive in the presence of the virus. The virus became far less able to infect innoculated organisms, and when it did, it effected them differently. Rather than a sweeping wave of coma and death, the second ghastly embodiment of the virus presented itself. Many people thought Corpses infected with the "lethal" strain of virus began to emerge from death-like-hibernation horribly changed -- and individuals infected by the new strain while not dropped outright began to turn into twisted cannibalistic slaves of the virus they bore -- simpler strains simply attacking people mindlessly to propagate itself, while other strains creating "Walkers" seeking to spread the infection any way they can, ambushing survivors and exhibiting greater guile, speed, and cunning. In the panicked times before most all radios "went white" some spoke of intelligent zombies -- Zombies that began to organize and lead growing groups of zombies under them -- in an effort to eliminate the remaining pockets of human resistance...
That's where YOU, The PLAYER, come in!
Every player will start as a special upgraded form of zombie, (a "Cunning") with a short list of zombie types potentially under your command. You spend points making a starting band or mob of zombies and take on challenges and scenarios to destroy and infect humans and hopefully grow your horde.
Players can work together or compete to be the first or most efficient infectors and eliminators of survivors, safehouses, and strongholds.
Can you propagate the virus? Can you become a true horde or will your numbers be whittled away to nothing? Will your horde evolve and mutate? Will you work with or against the other cunning in a rise to supremacy?
All this and more will be yours to decide and experience if you join this game campaign!
Feel free to ask questions or just state your interest, I'll be happy to discuss mechanics and horde creation if people are interested!
I am hoping the game lived both on forum (play by post) and in Discord (so people can plan, chat and maybe even play in real time.)-- but will go with what more people are more comfortable with.