The zombie virus showed itself to the world almost two hundred years ago. People went crazy and the world as everyone had known it began to fall. The virus had been contained for a little, but it didn't last long. Something as monumental as the dead coming back to life couldn't be held at bay for long. People formed groups and tried to fight it off and survive, but everyone knew it would be hard to continue to survive like this. So the Towns were created. Tall steel gates were put up to form small little camps that soon grew into towns. Only small gated pathways connected these towns, but even those, as time passed, grew too dangerous to travel. People heard of these camps and quickly flocked to them. Even with the camps some still preferred to wander out in the forests. Many of those gated camps had fallen to the undead that constantly stalked outside there steel walls, either by a breech or somehow someone infected had entered. However the dead might not be the only reason camps have fallen. Cults and newly formed religions sweep across the world and their ways are gruesome and might even be worse than dying by the teeth of the undead. The years now are counted by the days since the virus outbreak. They call it After Z Day. It's 200 AZ and only 10% of earths population isn't infected...

This is based in the U.S. and there are hundreds of camps scattered around the country. The role play starts in the central regions of the U.S. in the wooded territory either in a camp or as a wanderer in the woods. Buildings from before Z Day now crumble or are succumbed to the earth.

The Forest:
They are large and are scattered all over the U.S. They can be as small as a town and as large as a dozen cities. The forests contain zombies that have been pushed their during AZ1. They have formed into hoards. The forests are filled with villages, nomads, cults, and zombies. It might be the most dangerous place to be. The only way you could survive out in those woods is if you learn to live off the land and protect yourself from zombies... if you don't know either? Well... your as good as dead.



The Dark City:
It is on a land once called New York City, and many people have come to stay here at the thought of protection promised to them by the Protectorate and enforced by the Recruiters. The recruiters are the protectorates own little army, but they have become corrupt. They are rebelling against the Protectorate and are hungry for power. If they do succeed with their rebellion, it's every man for himself. The wall will eventually crumble and the rules that have kept the Dark City from crumbling will fail. Make shift bridges connect the buildings together in the Dark City as the streets become more dangerous to travel on. The subways are heard to be filled will the dead and are even more unsafe to travel. Now as hoards form of the un dead in the forests and make there way across the country in search of food, no place will seem safe. The walls and fences that protect villagers and the city won't crumble to a few zombies, but they are as flimsy as paper up against millions.




((sorry if this overview sucks, was having trouble writing it, but if you read the Forest of Hands and teeth you might get the picture))


Zombies:
1. They can run if they were freshly turned, but as the years pass and their bodies begin to deteriorate and decay they grow slower.
2. They can only be killed by destroying the brain or when their brains are fully destroyed by deterioration.
3. A zombie bite, infected zombie scratch, or the virus entering the bloodstream can turn you into a zombie.
4. They are run by instinct and won't hesitate to kill you. Nothing of who they used to be is left.