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WAKING UP

You wake up in a studio in an apartment building that's got windows all boarded up. You remember being sick, you remember dying, and you probably can't believe this is the afterlife. If you head out into the hall you'll see that others are heading out too, looking just as confused as you are. All of you died, most of you of the same thing. If you head down to the front office, you'll meet a native resident who will explain in brief that you're in Aqora, a settlement living among the undead and that people like you show up every so often. You'll be given an informational pamphlet, a shitty cell phone, and a walkie. Then you'll be expected to figure it out. No one has time to hold your hand.

EXPLORING

Miscellaneous things here: shops and restaurants turned into places to live, apartments full of people living day to day, the main focus (the library) being the hub where people come to learn and children go to school. Because school never ends, even in the apocalypse. Feel free to buddy up with other newcomers to figure out what the hell is going on.

OR, say you've been here a while. It's time to figure out how to get more supplies! Let's go on a supply run. You'll just be heading out past the barricades to start, and you'll have to dig through buildings to try and find things. If you're lucky, maybe you'll hit a cache. If you're unlucky, you'll find too many undead to fight. No one goes out alone though, so hopefully your partner can help.

"NETWORK"

Someone has set up a rudimentary network using the nearest cell towers. You can communicate with others in the area but only via voice and text. Anything further out is voice only via walkies. You can have a username or leave it blank.

Have fun, campers.

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Should check to see where they've already looked. They probably got some maps for that. If there's a block or two that ain't far, we can go.

[Daryl didn't know the city well enough to feel comfortable just heading out at random or for more than a mile or two from the walls. Not without a map and not with someone he hadn't even properly met.]

Morna has the maps, the one she gave me for my last run had a lot of stuff marked off as picked clean already. It'd help if a local was able to point out the entertainment district, I bet -- news vans usually have solar panels.

[ Yeah, he's already planning this and is willing to go as far as he needs to, to be useful. But Steve makes questionable decisions. ]

Entertainment district ain't gonna have news vans around here. This is where movies are made. Check the library for a phone book if you're close. Start looking up news networks and write their addresses down. We can check those against the maps.

Movies, huh? I wonder if studios would have anything useful.

Good idea about the phone book. I'll head to the library for one to see what's listed... hey, maybe I'll find you that music store. What do you listen to?

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It don't matter. Meet you at the library in half an hour or so. Gotta check on something.

Sure. I'll be the redhead in fatigues set up at that big table in the back.

[ And with that he switches off his phone and gets moving, picking up a run map from supply and then heading to the library -- he does indeed find a phone book and set up at the back, the marked up map spread out beneath a tourism guide with its own maps in it, which he's comparing with great focus. From where his finger is currently pressed to the page, it looks like the networks he's found are farther out than the supply runs they've done before. ]

[Daryl found the kid just about thirty minutes later, a tourist's map of the Financial District, South Park, and Bunker Hill. There weren't anynews stations anywhere near there, but it would give him an idea of where other buildings were. Familiarize himself with it and all.

He came up opposite the kid and leaned over the table to get a look at the maps.]

Find anything?

Yeah. Nothing you'll like if you wanted to stay close, but that means nobody's looted them yet. And they probably have rigs.
[ He turns the map around so Daryl can get a better look. ] This area's been cleared out and we'd need to make it farther west.

I also found a couple hardware stores and a camping supply. Other groups might have looted them already but it's worth a look if we're down there.

Assumin' no other groups are around and got the same idea as us.

[Daryl studied the map, frowning, fingers tracing the streets to the destination.]

This'll take us a couple days to get to on foot once we get outta the the area that's already cleared. And if we're hitting up a news station for panels on the trucks, we'll have to head into one of them underground parking lots. We'll need more than two people for it. Ain't no way we're clearing a lot out by ourselves.

[He had to assume any underground lots would be crawling with the dead. Couldn't count on luck helping them out with that. On the bright side they could probably drive any trucks they found back and siphon whatever gas they found in the other vehicles.]

Might have to wait for this 'til after the next supply run. Make sure we got the people and those in charge are up for letting us take that many weapons out.

A couple of days, really? [ Steve peers at the legend, trying to figure out the distance. The city can't be that big, surely... except. It looks like it is. He rakes his bangs out of his eyes and frowns. ]

Shit. We'll need weapons and tools, and more people willing to go that far out. None of that's gonna be easy to get.

[ Maybe it's a reckless undertaking. He still wants to do it. He wants to be doing something useful. What else is the point in winding up here, if he can't help? ]

I've been out on two runs so far, and they were both pretty quiet, maybe we can get away with four or five people...? You've done this kinda thing before Aqora, right? Too many seems like asking for trouble.

It ain't just the distance. It's what'll be in our way. We ain't cleared through that area. We don't know where the pile-ups are gonna be, the work arounds for any we can't clear, where herds are gathered or trapped or can be trapped to make 'em less a threat to us. We could walk there in six hours or so if there weren't nothin' in the way. Cain't assume there ain't.

[Daryl traced his finger down one of the paths before turning the map back to face the kid.]

Run like this, Five to seven people. All of 'em better know what they're doin' too. You wouldn't be one of the one's I'd pull for it. Use the time we're gonna need to plan this to get more experience in the quieter zones.

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