The Grackle said:
Ohh, a Zombie Apocalypse... That's a whole other creature.
Is it the same group of characters? Are the PCs going to be skilled combatants, or normal people trying to survive in a world gone zombie?
It's the same group of characters... kind of
. We ran our first session yesterday, picking up where the last session had left off. We had just completed a successful raid on an Umbrella facility, having procured a copy of the T-Virus and blown the factory up behind us. We were over the ocean heading back to our HQ in France when the entire world went black (here's where it becomes sadistic).
Our characters woke in a white laboratory room, with a group of ragtag men with alien-looking weapons in their hands. We were strapped to metal beds with wires and equipment attached to us. The men freed us and began explaining the setting.
Just a few moments before, it had been 2004 in our character's minds. Now, the men explained that the year was at least 3000 AD. After interrogating a scientist (whom my character nearly killed by slamming into a nearby wall, he was much stronger then normal now) we found out that our entire lives had been training programs for Umbrella. We were to become super-soldiers for the corporation that had endured over the ages.
After earning the trust of the men, their leader explained that hundreds of years in the past, a massive war was fought between two sides in North America. The first used superior technology and 'monsters' (I'm guessing that this is Umbrella) and the other was more numerous but less equipped (the rest of mankind). The first side almost won, but the second side played an Ender's Game by detonating massive nuclear weapons to destroy the first's armies. North America was wiped off the face of the planet. The fallout from the weapons devestated both sides and the rest of the world equally, and civilization nearly collapsed.
Today (1000 years in the future, that is), Umbrella is a great force in the world, making up for what they lack in numbers for access to PL 7-8 technology preserved and developed in secret enclaves all over the remains of the world (specifically Europe). The rest of humankind is divided between the Rebels and the Marauders, along with a few other factions. The Rebels are just that, humans who try to eke a living out amongst the Wasteland of the world and fight against Umbrella.
The men who freed us were Rebels, who had raided the Umbrella facility that we were found in for supplies. The session ended with us and the band of rebels fighting off a gang of Dwellers (a subterranean offshoot of man mutated by the radioactive fallout), escaping from a hostile mecha (One of the remaining factions is a group of mecha left over from the War who achieved sentience. Very cool shades of The Matrix-like), and finally arriving at the Rebel's underground base.
Awsome session, I have to say. I hope that I can add more to it with what you guys have posted here. Thanks again!
). I don't know much as of yet, but the coming 'Apocalypse' will have something to do with Umbrella and the T-Virus, in case that helps you.
