So there’s a lot of Roleplays about Zombies or the apocalypse out there, but almost every single one that I have seen is about random groups of survivors that are more OP and knowledgeable about weapons and killing than any group of normal people should be. But that can be addressed. The other problem that almost every single Apocalypse movie, book, Roleplay, or well anything really. The government shuts down, military gets scattered, the people give up, and everything goes to hell. Well, there’s always a little bit of hope for everyone, Right? I personally think that at least for the first year or two there would be some semblance of a military. That’s what we’re going to have during this.

Basic Idea: Operation Phoenix Down is the US military’s last attempts at keeping/returning what semblance of civilization we have. At least for the first little bit, or unless we need to let other people join, characters will be part of a taskforce that was created when the first outbreaks began. Characters will have come from all branches of the Military, the best of the best. Current base of operations is a series of oil rigs off the coast of the Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey area. The Oil rigs were locations predetermined by The Taskforce, the organization that the government created years before to deal with any possible global biological threats and part of that preparation included the possibility of a biological based weapon that causes the phenomenon that is “Zombies.” The bases are well equipped with weapons, food, supplies, the oil that is brought up keeps the generators running. It has been 1 year and three months since the initial outbreak. Contact with other countries was lost in the first three months. The major cities in the US were destroyed by the Military while it was still effective. They were under specific orders not to, but The Taskforce wasn’t taken seriously by the other military officials. Within months the major military bases were overrun. The capital was lost between the bombings and the “zombies” The government lost its power, all semblance of society was destroyed. America’s fighting chance went to shit, everything but the oil rigs and whatever resistance that the citizens could put up. The CDC’s operations all across the Americas shut down as they were overrun. Again, everything but the oil rigs. The scientists on the rig Codenamed Phoenix are the last working on finding out what happened and on how to stop or cure it. 

-Zombies: 
Origin of Infection: Unknown
Means of Contamination: Bites, blood to blood contact, spore inhalation, consumption of infected meat. (ideas are welcome)
Types: No one knows how each infected is different, what causes the different types to become what they are.
Walker- The common undead. Hunt in packs, slow but effective. Exactly what it sounds like.
Runner- Fast, agile, slightly rare. Normally a few in a pack. 
Screamers- Like runners except their vocal cords have a greater capacity. They scream when endangered or when hunting , extremely rare.
Spores- Possibly a second type of Zombie, normally created from the inhalation of spores from a like creation. As time progress growths appear until they pop. Spores flood the area entire buildings and towns can become saturated, without the proper protection inhalation will cause spore growth and normal zombie-esq behavior. 
(ideas are welcome)-

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