MASSACRE AT MULETON

A Politically Incorrect B-Movie/Suburban Wasteland Deadworld
By Mr. & Mrs. TexasZombie, original (non-Eden) concepts © 2003 WDR

History
Muleton City is a small and decrepit burg deep in the heart of (choose one):

• the Redneck-infested High Plains of Texas (recommended),
• the Corn-infested Cornfields of Iowa,
• the Sasquatch-infested forests of the Pacific Northwest, or
• the Jersey Boy-infested Pine Barrens of New Jersey).

Many years ago Muleton had great plans that the copper mines would enhance the local economy enough to attract big business and manufacturing plants. The copper mines played out in the 1950s and Muleton has been floundering since. The population has declined from a high in 1952 of 54,931 to the current population of just over 9,000. The city itself is surrounded by a ring of abandoned and condemned houses and buildings, then further surrounded by a ring of modern gated communities and exclusive housing additions.

Population: 9377
Growth Rate: - 0.05% per annum (give it another hundred years and there wouldn't have been anyone left even without the impending Zombie Massacre at Muleton)

• Clarkie's Cookiebars (658 employees) - west side of Downtown
• Magnalux Mercury Switches (783 employees) - north side of Downtown
• Tagliner's Topbelly Jellies and Metallic Paints (330 employees) - east side of the Bad Side of Town
• Muleworld Amusement Park (28 employees) - West of the highway across from Happen Haven Public Housing
• The University of Muleton (89 employees) - Downtown
• Girth Buster Healthy Foods (Home of the Warriors of the Waistband!) (134 employees) - north side of Downtown
• Ormel P. Humpingford Minimum Security Prison (239 employees, 693 inmates) - just north of the Municipal Tire Dump and Landfill*
• Rollingoakfieldplace Mall (173 employees, 29 open stores, 85 closed stores) - on the west side of the highway between Utopia City and Bunnyrun Junction.
• Big Ol' Hole Gravel Quarry (583 employees) - east side of Bumper Hill

Other businesses and enterprises employee roughly 1400 people. Of these, about 150 are city and county employees. Another 20 or so are state and national government employees. Around 600 more people commute to work in other nearby cities and towns. Around 1600 people are unemployed, homemakers, independently wealthy, or retired.

*The Ormel P. Humingford Minimum Security Prison is not described in this Deadworld. Since a minimum security prision offers so many horrible possibilities during a Zombie Attack, each Zombie Master is encouraged to develop this facility on his or her own terms and tastes.

Educational Institutions
The University of Muleton (573 students, staff and faculty) - Downtown
Humpingford Preparatory School (134 students, staff and faculty) - Utopia City

Immediate Surrounding Area
Vacca Gigante Dude Ranch (averages 18 employees and 38 guests) - south of the Bad Side of Town just across the highway
Eustice M. Fritzwater State Wilderness Area (20 employees) - west side of map
Lydon Bane Johnston Country Club and Golf Spa Resort (140 employees) - just north of the Wilderness Area and southeast of the Choppin' Field

Notable Geographic and Ethnographic Features AND Zombie Hotspots (see Map near the end of this tragic tale)

• Lake Muleton - depth 1 - 182 feet. Each day a cast member is on the lake shore or in a boat on the lake, there is a 2% chance they'll see Muley the Lake Monster or the giant catfish. If so, they have only one chance to escape before being eaten (see below, Outlying Areas, Additions, and Gated Communities).
• Bumper Hill - elevation 400 feet.
• Mount Pallydoggie - elevation 1800 feet; named for Eustice M. Fritzwater's favorite mule.
• Lookout Point - popular scenic overlook; every tree and bolder is covered in obscene graffiti and every inch of ground is covered in trash, broken beer bottles, and discarded underwear.
• Lovers' Lane - popular with the students from area schools; it looks like Lookout Point, but there's less glass on the ground to blow out tires on the cars of visitors.
• The Eustice M. Fritzwater State Wilderness Area - several thousand square miles of featureless pasture and tangled low growth brush. Unknown to the inhabitants of Muleton, small settlements of Mutant Cows and Mutant Coyotes are hidden deep in the Wilderness Area. The Mutants migrated here from the area around the abandoned Parasol Corporation Factory. The Mutant Cows are currently experimenting with making Crop Circles in hopes of attracting Space Cows to take them to a better place. Old Man Gormley and the other Flat Earthers can see the Crop Circles from the top of the Joyfield Retirement Community highrise tower, and thinks the Alien Grays are going to land any day now.
• The Muleton Mineworks and Smelter - the mines have been abandoned since the 1950s and are potentially unsafe, but since the tunnels were bored through solid bedrock, cave-ins aren't as likely as methane explosions or drowning in pools of accumulated rainwater. BUT, unknown to anyone in Muleton, Dr. Vormer Heimlich, mad scientist extraordinaire, has a secret laboratory hidden deep in the mines from which a bunch of Zombies have recently escaped! Unfortunately, they ate Dr. Heimlich who was trying to stop them. He had a secret anti-zombie formula, but it was lost when one of the zombies thought the lab notebook tasted like Vormer and ate it too. Alas and woe!
• The Choppin' Field - a field with hundreds of tree stumps where irresponsible logging took place to build the lodge at the Lydon Bane Johnston Country Club and Golf Spa Resort. Two professors at the University of Muleton have recently discovered a Native American burial ground is here and has been inadvertently desecrated and the dead are rising as Zombies to avenge the desecration of their burial ground!  Wild Bill Hitchcock and Wanda Smarts have figured this out too and are currently stocking up on supplies to survive an impending supernatural assault.
• Dead Wood (used to be a pleasant grove along a bubbling brook until runoff from the copper mines poisoned the soil; now it's a forest of dead trees that look like twisted bodies writing in agony at their untimely death at the hands of industry.
• Yeller Creek - used to be the bubbling brook that ran through the woods mentioned above
• That Creepy Old Abandoned Factory Way Out On The Bad Side Of Town - looks like acres and acres of rusty warehoouses, filling lines, storage tanks, a rail head, etc. and was thoroughly polluted during the 1960s before it finally went out of business in 1973; just downhill from the factory is a forgotten cemetery where the original European settlers were buried; the town historian and Wanda Smarts believe that the Flair Witch was buried there after being killed by buffalo hunters in 1875 who thought she was a big fat hairy cow.
• That Creepy Old House Way Out In The Woods - on the bank of Yeller Creek deep in Dead Wood; rumor has it that a mass murderer used to live there but was killed by the revenant of the Flair Witch in a domestic dispute over where to bury the bodies of his victims; rumor also has it that a secret cult of Satanic Drug-using Communist Ecoterrorists carry out their gruesome and mysterious rites here when no one is watching.

Outlying Areas, Additions, and Gated Communities

• Bunnyrun Junction (where all the wannabe rich folks live) - there is a security gate, but it has never been manned by a security guard.
• Happy Acres Estates (full of lawyers and real estate agents) - there is a security gate, but it is mannedd by three octogenarian security guards (who each work an eight-hour shift) who are asleep and unaware of their surroundings 90% of the time.
• Joyfield Retirement Community - chock full of old timers, one of which is Thad Gormley, local historian and conspiracy theorist, and President of the local chapter of the Flat Earth Society.
• Happy Haven Public Housing - mostly vacant - wasn't really needed, and no one wants to move there now as it looks like a Soviet Army Barracks and is suffering from maintenance neglect by the evil owner, Eustice S. Fritzwater.
• Utopia City - The Future Is Here, Today! Mostly vacant lots or half-finished homes. Only 1 in 4 lots is actually occupied by a cutting-edge high-tech wired and wireless digital home.
• Lake Muleton - a stream (Yeller Creek) was dammed to fill up a valley just east of Muleton; it would be great for water skiing if they'd've cut down the trees first; on the other hand, the fishing is great! There are periodic reports of man-eating giant catfish and lake monsters (including the locally famous Muley Monster), but other than a few blurry photographs, there is no physical evidence of their existence. This is because they do exist and have killed and eaten everyone who has ever gotten a good photograph of them.
• Pleasanton Beach - tons and tons of coastal beach sand were hauled in to create a beach on the east side of Lake Muleton.
• Vista Del Viejo - gated community (where all the real rich folks live) - there is a security post manned at all times by highly energetic and over-zealous minimum wage Rent-A-Cops who want nothing more desperately than to have a real emergency and use their safety whistles to warn the residents.
• Happy Valley Estates - so far, 143 houses are in varying stages of completion - most will never be completed due to the current economic slump; only 16 are currently occupied, so it's a very quiet, stark and barren place with 16 yards having saplings planted in parched soil; the streetlights work, at least they usually do. There are dozens of pieces of heavy construction equipment parked randomly around this community in various vacant lots.

Historic Downtown Muleton

• The Giant Bronze Statue of Town Founder Eustice M. Fritzwater, Sr. in the town square; nearby is a bronze statue of Pallydoggie, Eustice's faithful mule.
• Beta Alpha Beta Epsilon Sigma Sorority House (University of Muleton).
• Delta Upsilon Delta Epsilon Sigma Fraternity House (University of Muleton).
• Muleton Municipal Auditorium - used mostly for elementary school pageants and high school graduation ceremonies; during the Watermelon Festival, the locally popular Country & Western band Big Jim and His Big Men perform here).
• Muleton Watermelon Festival and Pageant - occurs the first weekend in May; a Watermelon Queen is crowned to rule for one year; the current Watermelon Queen is former Soggydaisy cheerleader captain (class of '89) Maggie Stumpwater.
• First National Bank of Commerce and Savings - President is Eustice S. Fritzwater, great grandson of Muleton's founding father, Eustice M. Fritzwater.

And All the Rest

• Muleton Renaissance Festival (weekends and holidays, March through June, 48 acres, draws up to 10,000 visitors a day on good weekends; great place to get nasty sharp pointy things).
• The Mystery Peanut House (MPH) - world's largest collection of peanuts that look like famous celebrities.
• The Muleton Municipal Tire Dump and Landfill - a four hundred foot tall mountain of old tires towers majestically above the reeking city landfill providing ample homes for rats, sea gulls, chupacabras, Jersey-devils, and other varmints.

• Parasol Corporation - shadowy corporation who used to own That Creepy Old Abandoned Factory Way Out On The Bad Side Of Town; they send someone around every month or so to make sure the NO TRESPASSING signs are still intact on the cyclone fence surrounding the place; if squatters or nosey kids become a problem, they'll send a squad of security guys (well, 6 or so, actually) to run them off).
  A search of That Creepy Old Abandoned Factory Way Out On The Bad Side Of Town could turn up some sort of evidence that Dr. Heimlich used to work there and that some kind of odd medical research was going on.
• Big Bad Biker Mamas (BBBM, or B³M) - a females-only motorcycle club that is headquartered in the Bad Side of Muleton; there are 24 current full members and 8 pledges.
• The Flat Earth Society - who won't believe in Apollo moon landings, let alone Zombies; most of their members live at the Joyfield Retirement Community.
• Neo-Primitives 'R' Us - a nonprofit organization endorsing back-to-nature lifestyles; the 6 members live in a hut made from cow manure with a thatched roof on the north side of Lake Muleton.  They will gladly feed any visitors a plate of lentils and mung beans and a steaming mug of Bark-Brew^TM, their organic replacement for coffee. Any without Resistance (Poison) who drinks Bark-Brew^TM will spend at least two days sitting on the Porcelain Throne wishing they'd've drunk the creek water instead.
• Counter Intuitive Agency field team - shows up on week 2 of the Massacre.
• Local football teams - the Muleton Kickers, the Soggydaisy Fighting Mules.
• The Warriors of the Wasteland - evil bikers that won't show up until a couple of weeks after the Massacre begins; they tend towards studded leather and multicolored mohawks.
• The Warriors of the Waistband - nice weight watchers that enjoy the products of Girth Buster Healthy Foods^TM (A Proud Product of Clarke's Cookiebars!) and serve as their spokespersons; there are currently 18 Waistband Warriors -15 chub-, er, ah, full-figured women ranging in age from 16 to 85 and 3 tubby old geezers from the Joyfield Retirement Community that, amazingly enough, like their women with a lot of meat on their bones.

Mayor Bobby "Bubba" Hicks - a very rotund and happy guy with near-terminal levels of blood cholesterol and fatty liver nodules.

New Drawback
Overweight: This drawback comes in three levels. For 1 point, the character is very much out of shape and draws stares from both hungry zombies and the fitness crowd. For 2 points, the character actually has a hard time getting around (-2 speed). At 3 points, the character can only walk, and can only do that slowly at best. The character is very likely to be afflicted with additional health problems such as diabetes. The character's speed is reduced to 2. Dexterity checks requiring the entire body to move are made at -3 to the character's role.

Sheriff Maynard Boggs - Bubba Hicks' unholy twin - body by chicken fried steak. He's not really Bubba's twin, but they are identical except for certain moles in various unmentionable places that either are willing to show off at every opportunity.

Police Chief Ralphie Sowland - Ralphie wanted to be in Delta Force, but mustered out of the Army after eight years as a PFC with an M.O.S.* of "Cook"; but he forgot about that and regales anyone who'll listen with wild tales of dangerous missions; very unstable and very prone to violence if anyone questions his stories; he's like Berny Pfiffe on PCP)
*M.O.S. = Military Occupational Specialty

Wild Bill Hitchcock - 85 years old, going on 33; owner of the Old West Trading Post and Ironworks; a deadeye with a shootin' iron and pretty good with the forge too; Wild Bill knows about the desecration of the Indian burial ground and is currently fortifying his Old West Trading Post and stockpiling supplies, guns and ammunition. The Old West Trading Post and Ironworks is across the highway from Rollingoakfieldplace Mall.

Wanda Smarts - owner of the Forest of Crystal Mysteries new age shop

Justice of the Peace Veronica Wilterding-Dobbs - looks like a withered ol' Zombie already, and has the temperament of one too
City Slicker, Main skill area: Humanities (Law)

The Right Reverend Aaron Anvil - pastor of the Army of God Baptistiterian Church

Thadius Gormley, local historian and conspiracy theorist, and head of the local Flat Earth Society. Gormley's belief that something awesome is about to happen is because he can see numerous Crop Circles from the roof of the high-rise retirement home every morning. He thinks these are made during the night by aliens. They're actually being made by the ancestors of the Mutant Cows (see Seeds of the Future, below).

Eustice Stanley Fritzwater - Eustice is the big mover and shaker in Muleton. Generations of inherited wealth and a complete lack of morality, ethics or conscience make Eustice one of the wealthiest people in the country. He has one of just about everything. He is also the cause of the Massacre at Muleton and ends up in dire straits shortly after the Rise begins (see below).

Teacher Stats:
Cityslicker with Professional skill Instruction between 1 and 5. Most Muleton teachers could care less and tend to the low end of the skill level. A few stellar examples have Instruction 0 or even -1 (i.e. they can make kids dumber just by associating with 'em). In that case, replace their Professional skill with something that really counts, like Fine Arts (Pornography) or Humanities (History of Soccer).

New Drawbacks:

Teenager - 4 Point Drawback. No one understands you. No one trusts you. No one likes you. Life sucks!  You hate yourself! You hate everyone!  This Drawback reflects those wonderful years of hormonal confusion and chaos. Basically, adults think you're careless, sloppy, and have no direction in life. You are impatient and sure you can take on anything. This Drawback also allows the Quality Fast Reaction Time (2 points) and Drawback Reckless (-2). You can't buy/drink alcohol or vote (like, who cares about, like, politicians). All rolls to interact with adults are made at -2. Since you're still in school, you get -10 skill points and cannot purchase any skill at greater than level 3 unless allowed by your Zombie Master.

Little Kid - 4 Point Drawback. Life is cool!  You get away with anything. All you have to do is cry and mommy and daddy will believe anything you say about your older brother or sister. Unfortunately, you're not fully finished. Your Strength and Willpower Attributes are limited to 1. You cannot purchase any skill above level 2 without Zombie Master permission. You get -20 skill points, but also receive the Quality Fast Reaction Time and Contacts (Adults) at level 3 (because most adults will help little kids in danger).

The Army of God Baptistiterian Church - this bunch of Bible-thumping fundamentalist are almost as well armed as the Poison Arrow Frog Legion survivalists. (Note: no offense intended to any Bible-thumping fundamentalist or Poison Arrow Frog Legion Survivalists that may be reading this!). The Baptistiterian Church is between Downtown and the Tire Dump.
Average Congregation Member: Redneck/Hick, Norm

Muleton Primitive Baptist Church - fundamentalist Christians, but mostly a peaceable lot. The Primitive Baptist Church is just east of the Joyfield Retirement Community.
Average Congregation Member: Redneck or Hillbilly, Norm

First Methodology Church of Muleton - moderate Christians; largest congregation in Muleton. The Methodology Church is just west of the highway from Vista del Viejo.
Average Congregation Member: Cityslicker, Norm

Mission de Jose y Maria (a very small Catholic church on the west side of Muleton; Father Bartolome Juan Vazquez y Santos is the padre, and is truly a man of peace and compassion)
Average Congregation Member: City Slicker, Norm

Father Bartolome
Inspired (use the Inspired Priest Archetype from the AFMBE rulebook)

Once the Massacre at Muleton begins, Father Bartolome will begin a battle for the lives and souls of the living inhabitants of Muleton.  He will organize food distribution, anti-Zombie patrols, open the doors of his church to people in need of shelter, and/or anything else possible. He will also be willing and able to drive off the Flair Witch and the Ghost of the Mass Murderer when they approach his church and the innocent souls sheltering within.

The Muleton Chronicle, Published without Fear or Favor Since 1884
The Cheap Sheets - classified and "adult" personal ads
Both of these are just north of Downtown.

The Utopia Times - available via email only; they have evolved beyond mere paper in Utopia City!

Super Bullseye Megasavings Megastore (groceries to housewares to autoparts and a greenhouse, Bullseye's Got It All!). There are five of these outfits scattered across Muleton. If anyone ever plots them on a map, they'll make a perfect inverted pentacle. This is, however, a coincidence.

Rollingoakfieldplace Mall (29 open stores, 85 closed stores) - on the west side of the highway between Uttopia City and Bunnyrun Junction.

Wiggly Piggly Grocery Store - there are two of these.  One in Bunnyrun Junction, one on the south side of the highway just south of Downtown.

Country Corner Convenience Store - or any variety of other names. There are dozens of these small stop-and-rob stores scattered across Muleton. Some are nice and some are places that even the Zombies might want to avoid.

Deathworld Emporium Gun Shop - caters to the seasonal deer hunting crowd; guns, ammo, camping and survival gear, Army/Navy surplus. Downtown.

Ray's Motel, Liquor and Gun Shop - caters to just about anyone that pays cash. Ray's place is on the Bad Side of town. Most of the guns are used and in bad to barely average condition.
Ray Coffeesmoke, Norm (essentially the same as Nathaniel Horrgarrsonn, owner of the Deathworld Emporium.

Bagpipes and Old Bones ™ - Curiosities for a Curious World. Combination antique store, historical reenacting supplier, suttlery, and museum. "Doc" Duncan, the eccentric owner, hangs out with Wild Bill Hitchcock. They can often be found together drinking Downtown or at either's establishment, or at the public shooting range at the Eustice M. Fritzwater State Wilderness Area. "Doc" is also known to cause an occasional public nuisance by playing his bagpipes in the middle of the night after an evening of drinking with Wild Bill. Bagpipes and Old Bones is across the highway from the Rollingoakfieldplace Mall. It is a ramshackle accumulation of trailer houses and sheds linked together by rickety hallways made of old fences. The basement, however, is a nice bunker, and where "Doc" keeps his weapons and armor.

Bongwater Headshop - bongs and hookas, nitrous oxide cylinders (NO₂) like they put inside whipped cream dispensers; funky greeting cards, compressed helium tanks, CDs, New Age supplies and books. Owned by "Doc" Duncan's wife. Next door to Bagpipes and Old Bones, connected by an underground tunnel (hand dug by "Doc" and lined with 4"X4" timbers"). Isabelle Duncan, owner.

The Robot's Dungeon Comics and Game Shop (Roleplaying games, overpriced collectors' comics and collectibles, free weekend gaming room that smells like an armpit rolled in a dirty sock). Located next door to Rollingoakfieldplace Mall.
Owner: Wilfred Wimple, Sub-Norm (Born Victim, Armchair Historian)

Happy Valley Tattoo and Piercing Salon - run by the chapter Presidentrix of the Big Bad Biker Mamas. Located beside the Robot's Dungeon.

Old West Trading Post and Ironworks - the owner, Wild Bill Hitchcock, knows about the Indian burial ground and is currently fortifying his Old West Trading Post and stockpiling supplies, guns and ammunition. Located across the highway from Rollingoakfieldplace Mall next to Bagpipes and Old Bones and Bongwater.

The Forest of Crystal Mysteries new age shop, Wanda Smarts, owner and operator (supplies, aura readings, mystical advice, walk-ins welcome!) - the owner, Wanda Smarts, knows somethinng terrible is about to happen and is currently fortifying her apartment above the shop with Clarkies's Dwinkies Cookiebars, crystals, aromatherapy supplies, and thousands of holy symbols from hundreds of different religions. Located across the street from the Joyfield Retirement Community.

Bob and Frank's Taxidermy - You Plug 'Em, We Stuff 'Em! Located on the highway just south of the Bad Side of Town. They share a rundown house behind the taxidermy shop (the house was originally two trailers, but they eventually roofed over their "drinkin' spot" between the two; it still has a dirt floor). Bob and Frank are heavily armed and prone to violence, especially since the disappearance three days ago of their buddy Cranston Meyerston. When the Zombies show up, Bob and Frank will grab their guns, round up a posse of Rednecks and Hillbillies, and head off in a convoy of jeeps and pickup trucks for some Zombie huntin'.

• Muleton Farm and Feed Supply - across the highway from the Joyfield Retirement Community.
• Edgerton Tractor Sales - Same location as above.
• Jolly Roger's Bass Boats - Same location as above.
• Muleton Lumber Yard and Building Supply Warehouse - across the highway from Muleton Farm and Feed Supply.
• Country Corner Craft and Antique Mall - this should be called the Country Corner Crap and Junk Mall; rusty bathtubs and old hubcaps outside; cutesy 2-dimension carved cows and flowers and cowboys inside; wheel wells and brake drums converted into flowerpots, nothing of any real value unless you're quite insane or just plain stupid.
• Billy Bob's Gentleman's Club and (Lap) Dance Hall - located on the Bad Side of Town, obviously.
• Veterans of Foreign Conflicts Post 2843 - 14 members (Average Veteran - Survivor, with Drawback Old and Feeble, and possibly others). Located right across the street from the Joyfield Retirement Community.
• The Moose Lodge - Bunnyrun Junction, but in the process of relocating to a new building on the site of the Lydon Bane Johnston Country Club.
  New Quality: Pillar of the Community! Possessed by all members of the Moose Lodge. 2 point Quality. A Pillar of the Community must always act on behalf of at least some members of the community and do at least one month of community service per year. In response, they can call on other members of the community for assistance in time of need.

Muleworld Amusement Park - 'cuz It's a Mule's World, After All; several dozen rusty and decrepit rides that probably should be preserved in a museum; owner is Fred Duggins, a shady obese redneck in a stained checkered shirt and bib overalls.

The Majesticky Theatre - ONE whole screen surrounded by scarlet faux crushed velvet; the floor is sticky with unmentionable stuff and the whole place smells like the inside of an ashtray and burned popcorn; shows movies that are at least six months to six years out of date; a left over from a bygone era.  The theatre is Downtown.

The Trail Drive In Movie Theatre - which is now used as an automobile wrecking yard; the screen makes a good target for shootin' practice, though. And there are always a few kids running around the place looking for buried treasure and stuff. The Drive In is just east of the Tire Dump and Landfill (the stench of which was a major reason for the demise of the Drive In).

Muleton Auto Sales - 38 vehicles in various states of disrepair. Downtown.

Leroy McDonald's Automobiles - 15 good trucks, 2 good cars, 42 junkers. Just west of Vista Del Viejo on the east side of the highway. Huge dogs patrol inside the chainlink fence (as Coyotes, below, but with Str and Con 4).

• Dewy, Chie, Tom, and Howe, Ltd.
• Shaft, Tedd, Agin & Associates, Inc.

Lawyer, Survivor Attributes Str: 2 Dex: 2 Con: 2 Int: 4 Per: 5 Wil: 5 Qualities: Nerves of Steel, Contacts (Lawyers) 2, Resources 3, Photographic Memory (2) Situational Awareness (2) Drawbacks: Pariah, Honorable 1, Cruel 1, Covetous (Wealth) 1 Skills: Humanities (Law) 5, Bureaucracy 5, Research/Investigation 4, Storytelling 4, Notice 3, Humanities (Law Enforcement Techniques) 3, Surveillance 3, Computer 1, Streetwise 2, Smoothtalking 3 Gear: Expensive suit, briefcase, cellphone, paralegal assistant (sub-norm, Born Victim) Personality: "Of course we'll win. I guarantee you at least $100,000 for your pain and suffering. Just sign this contract, please." Quote: "You, my friend, are in a VERY actionable position, so back off!"

New Drawback:  
Pariah - 2 Point Drawback. You are the unaccepted. When you enter the room people stop telling their jokes about you. You are considered the scum of the earth by most decent folks. Forget about getting help. You'll be lucky not to get bashed over the head and left for dead.

• Muleton Memorial Hospital (200 beds, emergency room for 8)
• Vista del Viejo Medical Center (no beds - outpatient only)
• Charletonelli Animal Hospital (no beds, but some very nice kennels)
• The Joyfield Retirement Community and Mental Hospital

Muleton Municipal Bus Terminal - one of the last occupied buildings on the east side of Downtown near the old copper mines.

Dr. (Alphonso Alfrederick Alvito) Hackula's Funeral Home - it's very neat, very cold, and very creepy; this is Dr. Heimlich's cover for his research into prolonging life and achieving immortality - see the description of the abandoned copper mines. The good doctor has been waiting until the funerals were over for the last thirty years or so and removing the bodies to his laboratory in the copper mines to serve as subjects for his Weird and Creepy Research.
The funeral home is closed at the moment. Dr. Hackula hasn't been seen in several days. He was eaten by his own Zombies. Only his eyeglasses are left.

Muleton's Rest Funeral Parlor - run by the gaunt, pale, very tall, and very quiet Mr. Dobbs - yes, he used to be married to the Justice of the Peace, but he survived and is doing quite well, thank you!

Golden Valley Cemetery - Just south of Bunnyrun Junction. Well kept. 8 Gravediggers on staff.

Peaceful Rest Cemetery - Just east of Downtown. Run down and creepy. 2 Gravediggers on staff.

Both cemeteries have reported a recent rash of grave robberies and vandalism. What they haven't said it that they're all certain the graves were opened from the inside out. All 10 hang out together at a bar Downtown called "Doug's Crypt". Despite the name, the bar is brightly lit and colorful, with a sunflower motif and great home cooked food.

Unknown - Indian burial grounds under the Choppin' Field.

Unknown - Settler cemetery downstream from the abandoned Parasol Corp factory.

Unknown - dozens of shallow graves left by the deceased mass murderer that used to live in That Creepy Old House Way Out In The Woods.

EconoStay Motel - by the highway; nice, if very shabby and run down

Budgetary Inn - rooms by the hour, night, or week
Requires Resist Disease roll to avoid coming down with lice if sleeping here

Heritage House Inn - like paying to sleep at your grandmother's house, musty smell and all.
Mizz Daisy Tobkins
Norm, Member of the Flat Earth Society

Happy Valley Motel - a mobile home/RV park/campground on the northwest side of Lake Muleton on Pleasanton Beach.
RV Owner, Cityslicker or Sub-Norm (Born Victim), about 70% have Drawback Old and Feeble.

Lydon Bane Johnston Country Club and Golf Spa Resort - if you can afford it (minimum Resources 2 just to get in, let alone spend time) and meet the dress code, it's quite a nice stay.

Muleton County Courthouse
4 story native stone with simple detail, pediment entrances, bas-relief cornices, and a parapet wall above that. The Muleton Police Station and City Jail are in the basement areas with the city fallout shelter. The bell tower doesn't have a bell anymore, but chimes the change of the hour and emergency sirens thanks to a high-powered sound system and some huge speakers. There is a huge bomb shelter beneath the building, which also houses the 20 member City Council (either Rich Folks or Lawyers) and their staff members (another 30 or so Born Victims). The shelter is stocked with five years of preserved food, water, and survival gear (such as gas masks and geiger counters). The police armory is also in the shelter.

Muleton Municipal Airport
No control tower
Unattended
Open to the public
Lights come on automatically at dusk
Parking: tiedowns, hangers
Other services: flight instruction, crop dusting, sky writing, looking for Crop Circles
Aircraft based on the field: 18
Aircraft operations: average 46/week
Fuel: Available, but have to call the Constable's office first to get someone out to unlock and power up the pumps (usually ~1200 gallons on site at any given time in four separate subsurface tanks).

THE GOOD STUFF

Dr. Heimlich's Hidden Laboratory
Hidden deep within the tunnels of the abandoned Muleton Mineworks is the hidden secret laboratory of the Evil Doctor Heimlich. He has been conducting his own research in the mines ever since being laid off by the Parasol Corporation back in 1973.

Using his cover as the kindly undertaker, Dr. Alphonso Alfrederick Alvito Hackula, Dr. Heimlich has been swiping the bodies he was supposed to bury and taking them to the hidden laboratory. He has funded his research by high priced funerals and abandoning things like embalming fluids and coffins. The hidden laboratory is really just a bunch of strange equipment (i.e. B-movie grade stuff) in the tunnels. HOWEVER, he has succeeded in his efforts to some degree. Caged in the mines were hundred and hundreds of Zombies. About a week ago, rust and metal fatigue conspired to unleash the horde of Zombies and they've been wandering around the mines ever since eating Dr. Hackula and escaping. And now they've begun to filter into Muleton.

Meanwhile, back at the Choppin' Field, the spirits are angry. And if the spirits ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. About a week ago the angry spirits began to possess the bodies of the dead in the surrounding area in order to demonstrate their disappointment at the loss of their trees. Since they started in an Indian burial ground, most of the Zombies filtering in from the Choppin' Field are mummified Indians armed with stone tomahawks and rusty trade knives. All of these Zombies are Tough Guy Zombies.

And out behind That Creepy Old Abandoned Factory Way Out On The Bad Side Of Town, yep, you guessed it! About a week ago during a thunderstorm, swamp gas energized by the planet Venus interacted with all the chemical waste when a lightning bolt hit the old settler's cemetery. And sure enough, the moldy ol' settlers along with various government inspectors and troublesome employees started to get up and wander around looking for someone to eat. And it turns out that the Flair Witch really was buried here after all. And she's pissed. So she wandered over to, yup…

That Creepy Old House Way Out In The Woods near the headwaters of Yeller Creek. And then she made up with the ghost of the Mass Murderer and they convinced all the dozens of bodies buried around the Creepy Old House to get up and cause some trouble because the Flair Witch is still hacked off about that buffalo hunter shooting thing.

All in all, it's been a bad week for Muleton. By the time the game starts on Day 1, 48 people have gone missing, but only 29 have been reported. They've fallen victim to one or more of the Zombie factions and added to the mix. There are approximately 300 Zombies in Muleton on Day 1.

On average, 1D6 hundred people will be transformed into new Zombies each day starting on Day 2.

How to Become a Zombie
That's easy! Git bit! If a live folk is bit by a dead folk, the live folk is headed for serious trouble. Use the same wasting disease rule from "Rise of the Walking Dead", p. 168 of the AFMBE rulebook.

Zombies are initially reanimated as Regular Joe Zombies regardless of the type of Zombie that killed them. If the formerly live person possessed the Quality: Hard to Kill before death, they will reanimate as a Tough Guy Zombie. Either type of Zombie will become a Stinky Zombie in 3D6 days due to decomposition and poor hygiene. Additionally, Tough Guy Zombies can become Mushy Zombies once they've been sufficiently battered, squashed, steamrollered, or otherwise made less intact structurally. Then there are Dr. Hackula's Zombies. They're, well, wimpy. And so are new Zombies they create. Settler Cemetery Zombies are literally falling apart at the seams, so there may yet be hope for the living.

*Special Encounter (described below)

Heroic Potential - Roll 1D6:
1 Chance to pull off something so cool that folks'll talk about it for years to come. like saving a bus full of blind orphans and crippled nuns from a horde of flesh-eating Zombies. Maybe someone will reward the characters by sending them on another Heroic Mission.
2 Big Score! They're looting the Gun Emporium! The National Guard abandoned their tanks! Or something like that. It's not very heroic at first glance, but maybe the characters can do heroic things with their haul from the Big Score… Hey! It could happen. Maybe. If the stars and planets are in the proper alignment. And hell freezes over.
3 Save the Sorority Babes/Fraternity Hunks! The characters can earn the, ah, admiration and adoration and subsequent affections of the grateful rescued, ah, persons. At least one or two of the rescued persons will have a Valuable Skill that is very useful to the cast members. The Sorority Babes/Fraternity Hunks are being attacked by the Satanic Drug-using Communist Ecoterrorists for sacrifice in a Flair Witch worship service and prayer meeting.
4 Save the Potentially-Valuable-Person-to-Know! Rescue the injured biker and he/she'll introduce you to his/her friends and maybe you can join the pack…IF you survive sponsorship and initiation (after all, there have to be standards, even AFTER the fall of civilization). OR! OR! OR! Rescue the besieged governor from his crashed luxury limousine and keep him from being eaten by the Zombies! Maybe he'll feel obliged to tell the characters where the stashes of military supplies are and share the codes needed to get in. Or maybe not. If not, the characters can always beat the crap outta the governor and MAKE him hand over the information.
5 Rescue someone from the local folklore thingie! Rescue the innocent folks from imminent death by Chupacabras or confused Sasquatches or something. There will be at least 1D6 X 1D6 witnessed to verify the bravery of the cast members and sing their praises for years to come. The carcass of the Local Folklore Thingie can be traded for one "good" item for each cast member either at Deathworld Emporium, Bob & Frank's Taxidermy, or Bagpipes and Old Bones^TM. Alternatively, the cast members run across the Flair Witch and/or the Mass Murderer's Ghost.
6 Make up something outrageous that involves something like hanging by one hand from the bottom of the bomber that's about to sterilize Muleton with a nuclear weapon and then disarming the bomb, and making it safety back to earth… Or maybe even something totally bizarre and unrealistic.

THE DRAWBACK TO HEROIC POTENTIAL: There's no such thing as a free lunch. The characters will have to battle at least a few dozen/hundred Zombies and Looters or maybe an Enraged Redneck Mob (meaner than usual) to succeed at their chance for Heroic Potential.

Zombies - 6D6 Zombies are loitering in the area waiting for someone to have for lunch. There's not much chance of surprising the Zombies - they can smell Lifenol, the mysterious chemical given off by tasty living mammals. However, Zombies tend to lurch forward VERY slowly and are not able to avoid attacks. There is a 1 in 6 chance of at least 1D6 Tough Guy Zombies being included in a group of Regular Joe Zombies.
Roll to determine what kind of Zombies are present:
1 - Dr. Hackula Zombies
2 - Regular Joe Zombies
3 - Settler Cemetery Zombies
4 - Tough Guy Zombies from the Desecrated Indian Burial Ground
5 - Roll twice.
6 - Roll three times.

Zombies with Mushy Zombie - as above, but a Mushy Zombie is lurking nearby waiting to flop over and git somebody.

Zombie Horde (1D100) - Just a big ol' bunch of Regular Joe Zombies wanderin' around waitin' to meet some folks they can rip apart and devour. They might be from a single source, like an entire Zombified Marching Band that has managed to stay together after being killed the first time. There is a 1 in 6 chance of at least 2D6 Tough Guy Zombies and 1D3 Mushy Zombies being included in this horde.

Zombie Horde (2D100) - Just a bigger horde. Maybe they all came in on the same train.
143 Zombified Delegates to the Baptistiterian Convention is a scary thought.
OR! OR! Imagine the look on the characters' faces when they're faced with 128 Zombies in leiderhosen from the Oktoberfest Zombie Massacre. Some of the Zombies might still have their polka-playin' accordions. Some might even remember the Chicken Dance…
There is a 1 in 6 chance of at least 3D6 Tough Guy Zombies and 1D10 Mushy Zombies being included in this horde.

Zombie Army (1D100X1D100) - It's like New Year's Eve at Times Square, except the Regular Joe Zombies are more focused than the drunks. There is a 2 in 6 chance of at least 3D6 Tough Guy Zombies and 1D10 Mushy Zombies being included in this horde.

Stinky Zombies - these dead folks have been out in the sun WAY too long and are getting pretty gamy. They're turnin' green and are covered in maggots, horseflies, and other little bugglies.

Coyote pack vs. Zombies - 6D6 coyotes and wild dogs (like escaped Collies and Pomeranians) are nipping away at a group of 6D6 Zombies that are doing their best to fight back. The Zombies aren't quick enough to catch the coyotes, so they're pretty much dead meat (hah! Get it?!).
Of course, coyotes aren't very big, so it may take them a week or so to finish off the Zombies. When the coyotes get tired they'll break off and have a nap somewhere and make some puppies or something, then they'll come back to pick up where they left off.
There's a 3 in 6 chance for each Coyote vs. Zombie encounter that 1D6 useful items have been dropped by the Zombies as they were being chewed into coyote chow.

Coyote nation vs. Zombies - There must be a Canine Internet, because dozens of packs of coyotes have formed a megapack of 1D100 coyotes and wild dogs that are raising hell with the local Zombies.
There's a real danger of getting caught in the middle of this one, as wild dogs aren't afraid of humans like coyotes are, and a lot of the pesky lil' critters may be carrying rabies or something like that.
As above, there's a 5 in 6 chance that 2D6 useful items have been dropped by the Zombies as they were being nibbled down to nubbins.

Looters - Well, the economy is shot and the dead are rising from the grave, so you might as well get that big screen TV you've always wanted and stock up on ammo, groceries, hooch and cigarettes while you're at it. Armed with guns, clubs, and cans of Spam™.

Terrified Rednecks - They'd never admit it, but they're scared poopless. These folks will shoot at anything that moves and most things that won't with large and small caliber guns. Eventually they'll pick on each other enough about who's chicken and who's not and become an enraged…

Redneck Mob - that is looking to prove they're not afraid of anything. These folks will STILL shoot at anything that moves and most that don't with large and small caliber guns.

Terrified rich folks - are hiding from both Zombies and an enraged Redneck Mob. They'll shoot at just about anything that moves and most things that don't with really nice large and small caliber guns with expensive scopes and laser sights (+2 to succeed on all Firearms rolls).

Refugees from outta town - are just passin' through on the way to anywhere else. They'll be driving fast and will likely try to run over anyone/thing that gets in the way. Weapons are mostly small caliber guns and clubs. Sometimes the Refugees from outta town will go to ground and become…

Squatters - who think that wherever they've ended up is better than where they were. They'll likely fight to keep whatever they're holed up in, and won't take kindly to local folks wanting their houses and businesses back. Weapons are small caliber guns and clubs.

Renaissance Fairies - Refugees from the Muleton Renaissance Festival, complete in their princely robes and sumptuous bodices. About half of the group will be wearing chainmail or platemail armor, and all are armed with knives, daggers, swords, maces, axes, bows and crossbows.

Rich survivors fleeing - are a potential source of loot to unscrupulous characters and Badguys after having to flee their homes when the Squatters turned up and turned them out into the cold, cruel world. Weapons can be just about anything that money can buy unless it got left behind. Cars tend to be either minivans or way cool sports cars or gigantic sedans and luxury cars. These folks might be willing to share some of their stuff if the characters help them get it back from the Squatters.

Highway Patrol - A group of patrol cars filled with State Troopers have driven through the quarantine roadblock to investigate the situation in Muleton. These are square-jawed no-neck guys with severe haircuts and giant biceps wearing flak jackets and armed with large caliber pistols and large caliber shotguns. They won't write any tickets due to the state of martial law. They have a supply of hangman's nooses in the trunks of their patrol cars.

National Guard patrol - An armored personnel carrier, 2 deuce-and-a-half trucks carrying troops and supplies, and four Hum-Vees have crossed the quarantine roadblock to scout out the area. These guys are armed to the teeth with machineguns, grenades, rocket launchers, flame-throwers, etc. Anyone stupid enough to attack them deserves what they get, which will just about always be death. Unless they get captured alive, in which case they'll be hanged as looters or Communists or something.

National Guard deserters - 1d6 X 1d6 guys have decided that $1.65 an hour isn't enough to get eaten by Zombies or shot by local hillbillies, so they've decided to light out for the hills and try to either (a) get home, or (b) find a nice resort full of exotic babes to start a colony of their own. They'll be heavily armed (machine guns, grenades, night vision, flak jackets, etc. and will most likely have a sturdy ride (Deuce and a half truck, Hum-Vee, Armored Personnel Carrier, or Tank or maybe even a troop helicopter (Blackhawk or Sea King or something like that). They aren't necessarily hostile, but they are desperate and won't take kindly to local yokels asking a lot of personal questions. They will assist on 1-3 on 1D6 if the situation is desperate. Hey, they may be deserters, but they're not the kind of folks that sit around eating MREs while Zombies chow down on a bus full of paraplegic babies and their deaf nursemaids.

Army Sterilization Squad - as above, but heavy on the flame-throwers. The Sterilization Squad is out to scrub some Zombies and looters and Communists and so on.

Army deserters - just like National Guard deserters, except that all groups of Army deserters have one guy named Tex, one guy from Chicago named Winowski, and a gawky young soldier from the cornfields of Nebraska who stutters a lot and gets crazy after his best buddy (the guy from Chicago) gets killed and then gets killed himself. This should be a good indication to the characters that things are getting out of control outside of Muleton in the real world.

Counter Intuitive Agency Field Team - Agents Moldy and Sculler are out and about to investigate the cause of the Zombie Massacre. They bluffed their way through the quarantine roadblock and are currently driving around in a nondescript unmarked navy blue sedan with US GOVT. EXEMPT license plates. They'll grill anyone they can to see who knows what.

Agent Moldy is much friendlier than Sculler and likes to eat apple pies. Agent Sculler is VERY professional and doesn't believe in the Zombies that just attacked their sedan and ate her cell phone. She thinks there has to be a very logical explanation for this that involves mass hysteria, the planet Venus, and swamp gas.

*Agents Moldy and Sculler can be encountered multiple times unless the Zombies eat them. In that case, the characters will find two Zombies in very expensive bulletproof trench coats trying to discover why living humans are so tasty. Zombie Sculler won't really believe that humans can be very tasty, but eventually realizes that the Truth Is Out There hiding in a fortified farmhouse and that the Truth tastes like porkchops.

The Agents, will of course, Reanimate as Super Intelligent Tough Guy Zombies (add all Intelligence Zombie Features from the AFMBE rulebook, at the highest levels, and adjust Power accordingly) if the Zombies get 'em.

Warriors of the Wasteland - The WoW Motorcycle Club spent entirely too much time watching post-Apocalyptic antipodean epics in the days of their fragile youth. Now they tend to scream and yell a lot and ride around looking for "that fat tank of gas." No, they're not talking about the Warriors of the Waistband, but the two groups could learn a lot from each other. The WoW are armed with a variety of knives and clubs and wrist crossbows (treat as thrown knife).

Big Bad Biker Mama raid - Yes, it's that time of the lunar month and the Big Bad Biker Mamas are making a raid-er, I mean, a supply run. They are armed with small caliber rifles, large caliber pistols, and Lorena Bobbit Limited Edition Cutlery Sets (real titanium steel - will slice through a lead pipe just like a pen-er, um, pencil!) Just be polite and understanding, and stay outta the way if you don't want to loose your pencil.

Biker Army - Onlookers will think the entire Sturgis Rally crowd just moved into town en masse. The roar of their bikes can be heard for at least a mile. There are hundreds of these nice folks, although they're scattered out so that no more than a mere 1D100 will be encountered at any one time. They'll be willing to let any suitably bad ass characters join up unless they're driving a minivan or a moped. Bikers are armed with a various of large and small caliber guns, clubs, chainsaws, sledge hammers, machetes, and blood pressure machines.
At least one group will loot the Rollingoakfieldplace Mall...

Zombie Rights Activists - People for the Ethical Treatment of Zombies (PETZ); this group is composed mostly of very angry and confused students from the University of Muleton who haven't been subjected to too many Zombie attacks…yet. Even then, they'll die trying to understand the obvious mistreatment that has made the Zombies so antisocial and out of touch with their feelings. And even then, they'll fight to the last megaphone shouted indignant rant to protect the rights of their undead charges.

Flat Earth Society and Friends - Ol' Gormley's got his buddies all stirred up and they're out to hassle anyone who believes in Zombies, that the Earth is round, that people landed on the moon, and/or that UFOs are not real. Members of the Flat Earth Society do NOT believe in Zombies. Strangely enough, the Zombies don't seem to believe in the Flat Earthers and their buddies from the hospital either, so they ignore them completely.

Satanic Drug-using Communist Ecoterrorists - This secretive cult meets on nights of the new moon deep in the Dead Wood, to worship the Flair Witch, venerate the Mass Murderer's Ghost, discuss the good of the collective over the good of the individual, and to, of course, do heavy drugs and worship Satan (or Stan, maybe - they're pretty messed up on various recreational chemicals, so it's hard to understand what they say).

All characters in this scenario should be Norms. Survivors and/or Inspired could, of course, be allowed at the Zombie Master's discretion. Sadistic Zombie Masters could inflict Sub-norm status on cast members, but that'd be just plain mean.

RECOMMENDED ARCHETYPES
AFMBE Archetypes

• Reporter
• Scientist (modification - State Agricultural Commission Field Inspector)
• Video Store Clerk
• Beautician (AFMBE website)
• Alcoholic Party Clown (AFMBE website)

Ordog Effect Archetypes

• Regular Joe/Jane
• Redneck
• Soccer Mom
• Barfly/Lounge Lizard
• Rural Deputy Sheriff

Massacre at Muleton Archetypes

• City Slicker
• Redneck/Hick
• Manual Laborer
• Hillbilly
• Historical Re-enactor
• Law Dog
• Teenager
• Kid

There are a bazillion other NORM archetypes out there on the web and on AFMBE official sites and in official AFMBE demo packs. Any archetypes that reflect daily life in small town America should be appropriate.

1. Teenage Slumber Party Zombie Massacre

Ah, the end of the school year and the beginning of SUMMER BREAKS!!! WOOHOO!!!!
This year's unofficial Soggy Daisy High School End of the Year Party takes place in a vacant lot in Happy Valley Estates next door to the Devers family home (mainly because Mr. and Mrs. Devers are foolishly on vacation in Haiti), the night lit only by the illegal fires of the party goers,

Setup
The players should determine who plays which victim-er, I mean teen. Either Kellie Devers (this year's Prom Queen) and/or Tommy Flint (this year's Prom Queen) is the hapless extra that will need to be rescued from the living dead. The cast members should use the Teen Archetypes from this Deadworld, not the Survivor/Inspired jocks, cheerleaders, and Goths from the AFMBE rulebook.

Scattered around the beach are the following NPCs and available characters: Jocks - 14 (2 available as cast members), Cheerleaders - 10 (2 available as cast members), Cool Kids - 43 (as many cast members as needed), Nerds/Gaming Geeks - 8 (4 available as cast members*), Punk Rockers - 10 (2 available as cast members), Goth Girls - 5 (2 available as cast members), Goody-Two-Shoes - 7 (as many cast members as needed).

*If anyone picks a Nerd/Gaming Geek character, one player will actually get the Loner named Phillip Frobes, a real basket case, and the only teen with a gun (but don't tell the player this until/unless they select a Nerd/Gaming Geek cast member)

There should be a core of at least 4-6 cast members, with the remaining extras to provide gut-wrenching, horrific canon fodder. Note that none of these cast members have any real combat training, and any attempts to pull the entire group of partygoers together will fail the first time someone gets seriously injured or killed by being ripped to shreds.

Setting
The barren Happy Valley Estates on the northern outskirts of Muleton. The only structure within two miles of vacant lots is the Devers family home. It is currently a wreck of split bags of chips, spilled soft drinks, and half-eaten pizzas. If one were to focus on the 1950's "B" movie aspect, that'd be it. If one were to focus on modern "B" movie concepts, there would probably be alcohol (which could be used for making improvised firebombs) and other "bad things" around. If the ZM is going for more of the harsh reality of the here and now, at least one other cast member probably has a gun available at least in their car.

Scenes
Party in full swing; punkers dancing around their bonfire while the goths look on in total detached boredom, headbangers banging their hangs and playing air guitars, skate rats running riot in the empty streets. Beach volleyball (using construction sand in a lot across the street), frisbi, and touch football being played by the jocks, cheerleaders, and cool kids. The nerds are in the Devers' basement playing Caves and Cavaliers. The Goody-Two-Shoes are trying to clean up the mess in and around the Devers residence.

Screams of alarm from down the street, followed quickly by a flood of panicked teenagers fleeing from the zombies approaching down the middle of the road. Unknown to anyone else, there are more zombies approaching from just about everyone else as well. These are a mixture of Dr. Hackula Zombies and Regular Joe Zombies that are just moving in the same direction because each group dimly thinks the other knows where it is going.

Possible Goals

• Escape into town on foot- it's five miles to the nearest sign of civilization - a gas and convenience store that has alreaady been overrun by the zombies. The cars at the Devers placed have either been smashed and overturned by the Zombies, or have a 1D3 Zombies lurking around each car. Two miles past that is Venice Beach Island Estates, itself quickly becoming a war zone between the living and the dead. · Save the Prom Queen and/or King.
• Kill the 37 or so zombies in the immediate area and any new ones that have been created.
• Try to reach another home. hopefully one with a functioning car and/or weapons, and escape. I'd suggest putting the nearest working vehicle no closer than two or three miles. Most of the homes are vacant this weekend. Occupied homes are all under siege by groups of mixed Dr. Hackula and Regular Joe Zombies.
• Head for town and try to flag down a passing car (the driver of which might or might now think the cast member is a zombie).

Complications

• It'll be at least three or four days until a military unit rolls through the area. They'll be more interested in a little unauthorized inventory and requisition (i.e. looting) than taking care of a bunch of snot-nosed kids. Only the Prom Queen, the cheerleaders and maybe the goth or headbanger chicks have a chance of getting a ride. If any male cast members crack down and cry like little sissy girly boys, the soldiers will shoot a few zombies out of pity and guilt, then drive away with everything they can carry off.
• Barricading a house or basement just results in delaying the inevitable. After a few days at most, any survivors will be running out of food and getting desperate.
• Someone (a male cast member) manages to flag down a car only to find it contains lonely looney Mrs. Hicks, the mayor's wife. She's half drunk, mad at Mayor Hicks for keepin' time with his administrative assistant, and looking to score. She won't believe in Zombies until one actually attacks her, at which point she'll panic completely, then start shooting at anything that moves until or unless she is disarmed by one or more cast members.

2. Just Passin' Through - The cast members start at the Bus Station at 11:33 a.m. on Day 1. Any sort of character is suitable, though most cast members should have a reason for having to take a bus and make a transfer out in the middle of BFE*. The bus pulls in late, driven by an abnormally intelligent Regular Joe Zombie. A horde of moaning Regular Joe Zombies flood out of the bus. Outside, of course, are dozens of Dr. Hackula Zombies lurching around the deserted streets.

*If you don't know what, or rather, where BFE is, you really should get out more often...

3. Red Neck Heaven, Red Neck Hell - The cast members should all be Rednecks out for a typical Saturday night of boot-scootin' and honkietonkin'. Just when Big Jim and His Big Men are getting into high gear with a rousing rendition of "She Broke My Heart, So I Broke Her Face", a horde of Tough Guy Indian Zombies from the desecrated Indian Cemetery burst through the doors and windows to play Cowboys and Indians again.

4. HOLD THE LINE! - The cast members are either local law dogs or civilians who have been "drafted" into the ad-hoc Muleton Municipal Militia. They must hold the hospital at all costs. If any of the cast members bother to check inside the hospital, they'll find out they're fighting a delaying action against various Zombies while the City Council loots the pharmacy for medical supplies and drugs before fleeing town. The only thing going for the cast members is that they have each been issued an M-16 assault rifle, 60 rounds of 5.56mm NATO ammo (three 20-round clips), and a cool white armband to distinguish them from mere mortals.

5. Last Stand at the OkieDokie Corral with Wild Bill Hitchcock - the cast members find themselves trapped wwith Wild Bill and Doc Duncan at their places of business just as Zombies overrun the Rollingoakfieldplace Shopping Mall. Most of these Zombies will be Tough Guy Indian Zombies who have just finished wiping out just about everyone at the Country Club. As their victims resurrect, a horde of Regular Joe Zombies will flood south out of the Country Club and head for Downtown. It'll take them until Week 3 to reach Downtown and eat the PETZ protesters. In the meanwhile, Wild Bill and Doc Duncan will try to arm and organize anyone still alive into a posse to head out and kill some Zombies in the immediate area and to secure vehicles, food, water, fuel, supplies, ammo, weapons, etc. Any cast member without a firearm will be provided one by Doc or Wild Bill (either a single-action Cowboy-style revolver, .44 or .45 caliber; or a .30-30 lever action repeating rifle; 50 bullets for a pistol, 20 bullets for a rifle).

6. Bob and Frank Strike Back - Join the Redneck Mob!  YEEEEHAWWWW!  The cast members are either local Rednecks or have just been swept up in the horde of yipping and yowling locals who are out to kill Zombies and other varmints. A little looting isn't out of the question either. A caravan of pickup trucks, jeeps, tow trucks, and various scratch-built off-road vehicles begins the attack on the Zombies outside Bob and Frank's Taxidermy shop on the highway, then head east toward the lake, skirting Downtown. Then they'll turn north to loot Bunnyrun Junction. Anyone participating in the mob will be expected to get liquored up and at just about everything, dead or alive. Failure to do so will result in either 1) the cast member(s) is thrown out or chased away; or 2) shot for obviously being a sissy or, worse, a Commie infiltrator.

7. Bob and Frank Strike Back II - Gormley's Revenge - Old Man Gormley has had enough of the screaming Rednecks disturbing his rantings and ravings. He gathers up a mob of old folks and escaped mental patients and sets out after the Redneck Horde to get his revenge on the "Round Earthers". Characters can include aged Survivors from the veteran's post across the street from the Joyfield Retirement Community. Remember that since Flat Earthers don't believe in Zombies, the Zombies don't believe in the Flat Earthers, and the two groups ignore each other.

8. This Flat Earth - late Post-Rise - Gormley leads his aging mob and their mentally-challenged friends on a neo-Luddite rampage to destroy any technology in Muleton after the nuclear strike by the Air Farce on Day 60 (the Flat Earthers and their friends begin hiding in the Abandoned Copper Mines around Day 50 and thus survive the nuclear explosion). The Zombies are mostly rotted away and most other folks have long since either died or fled. Mutant Cows are openly making Crop Circles in the fields outside of town (see below) and Mutant Coyotes are beginning to learn to play poker (they learned from their Mutant Dog packmates). Eventually Gormley's horde will meet with the ultimate Back-to-the-Paster, the Flair Witch. Under her dreadful and evil care, the Flat Earthers will move into the Abandoned Copper Mines (see below).

9. Parasol Strike Force Charlie Foxtrot - If the Zombie Master wants a little more firepower, the cast members could be members of Parasol Corporation Special Operations (i.e. Survivor Archetypes). Strike Force Charlie Foxtrot* are parachuted into Muleton sometime during week one to secure the Abandoned Factory. Their briefing won't say anything about Zombies. The team will be expecting a training mission (this really is due to a mistake made by a completely incompetent administrative assistant whose primary qualifications consist of a large pair of boo-,er, ah, assets).

The twist: some of the cast members' magazines are loaded with live ammunition, others with blanks. No one knows until they start firing. Note: if multiple cast members are firing on full auto at the same target, they may be unaware that some of them are firing blanks. These are special training blanks and are completely identical to live ammunition (Simunitions). Each time a cast member loads a clip, they have a 50/50 chance of the clip being loaded with blanks. Each cast member is also carrying 6 "high explosive" grenades, but these are mislabeled (Parasol Corp. didn't start loosing money because of their high standards of quality). The grenades are actually CS (tear gas) grenades. The cast members' gas masks are actually dust/paint fume filter respirators and won't work to filter the gas.  Oh, and the radios' batteries all bleed out and wreck the devices on the second day of the mission. There is no evac planned, as there were no orders or instructions provided to the flight crew. They're at home watching television. Something about rioting in Muleton. Everyone in the Parasol offices will be busy at the big company picnic, so there won't be anyone around to answer the phone if the cast members try to call in using Ma Belle.

If by some chance the cast members have managed to hold the factory long enough, they'll be caught in the artillery barrage on Day 13.

*If you don't know what a mission is when it becomes classified as a Charlie Foxtrot, ask a member of the U.S. armed forces. This mission is definitely a Charlie Foxtrot.

10. All Scientists and Brainiacs, Attack! - The cast members are employees of Muleton University and the Agricultural Commissioner's Office. They are holed up in the labs on the Muleton University Campus trying to find a cure for the Zombie wasting sickness and/or develop Anti-Zombie Weapon Systems. For the first 20 days or so, the cast members must secure their buildings and labs, fight off Zombies and rampaging college kids, and try in their spare time to get food and water and actually get some work done. Then, during the third week when the big PETZ takes place, the PETZ protesters attack the laboratories with their placards!  It's up to the scientists to improvise weapons and defend their research and Zombie specimens from the protesters!  Just when the things seem hopeless, bazillions of Zombies pour onto the campus to attack the protesters. Now all the cast members have to do is survive their Zombie saviors.

After the Zombies are rotted away, the mutant critters and Mole People will inherit the Earth. A truly cruel Zombie Master could have a cast member or cast members get caught in a refrigerator and freeze solid or fall into a hole and hit their head and wake up centuries later in the post-apocalyptic future.

The Mutant Cows will regard the mystical and mythological HooOOOoooman(s) as saviors who will teach them to fight the Mole People. The Mutant Coyotes will constantly pester the ManPeople(s) to come and play.

At some point, the cast member(s) will be confronted by the partially exposed Giant Bronze Statues of Town Founder Eustice M. Fritzwater, Sr. and Pallydoggie, Eustice's faithful mule. Both are on the edge of a lake protruding from the muddy shoreline (but not very far, as the Fritzwater Statue is only about twenty feet tall). The first cast member who drops to his or her knees and pounds the mud and cries out "You maniacs! You blew it all up! God damn you! God damn you all to Helllllllllll!" (or whatever C. Heston cried out in "Planet of the Apes") will be struck by a bolt of green lightning from the sky (it is the Alien Cow-oids arriving at last) and be transformed into a Superhuman Being of Incredible Abilities in order to battle the Mole People and the Flair Witch. Any other cast member(s) will be transformed into Almost-As-Powerful Sidekicks for the Mutant Cows' HeeeeEEEEEeeero.

Together, the HoooOOOOoooomans, Mutant Cows, and Mutant Coyotes must battle the Mole People and the Flair Witch for possession of the Pasturezone on the edge of the Wastelands.

Mutant Coyotes

Mutant Cows

Mole People Flat Earther Flair Witch Worshippers

Map Use: If any Cast Members try to run off of the map, they'll hit a quarantine blockade sooner or later. If they're not shot and killed outright, they'll be taken into protective custody and shipped off to a secret human-Alien Grey laboratory in Area 51 where they'll be probed and vivisected to find out why they weren't dead when they were picked up and why they're dead after the vivisection (assuming [no pun intended] that the aggressive Alien anal probing didn't kill them first).

Specific Street and Place Names: If you're at a loss on what to name a place or street, use the following table. Roll once on each column and string the words together as a phrase:

So, rolling 3D6 you get 2, 5, and 3:  Bunny Acres Lane.

For buildings, stores, apartments, etc. just add the appropriate suffix to the phrase. Rolling 3D6 for an apartment complex you get 1, 3, and 4: Fox Path Place Apartments. Rolling 3D6 for a bank branch you get 5, 2 and 5, so Happy Trot Street National Bank.

WDR, 2003, eviloverlord668@yahoo.com

Yes. yes, I know there are scary ideas and foul language in this GAME setting. If this bothers you, just repeat to yourself "this is not real, this is not real", then stop reading it and go read something that would give you more enjoyment and self-actualization. Remember, Survival Horror is creepy-scary-cool and isn't suitable for Nicey Happy Super Family Fun Time. That's what Twister and tetherball and cake and pie are for. Oh, and spending time with your children to teach them to take responsibility for their own actions and to tell right from wrong. Otherwise, they'll end up like me. BWHAHAHAH!!! Sincerely, the Evil Overlord, 668 the Neighbor of the Beast, alias Wild Bill the Mad Bagpiper (no relation to Wild Bill Hitchcock).

Historical note: Wild Bill Hitchcock IS based, however, on a longtime and very good friend of mine, J. Glover, Cherokee Medicine Man and owner of the Old West Trading Post near my home town in North-central Texas.

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