Scenarios

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Scenarios are selected prior to determining a character's stats, any modify the game in various ways. In addition to restricting the available professions or starting locations, they can add additional unique challenges.

The default scenario is "Evacuee", which gives access to all the normal professions and start locations.

List of scenarios

Name Pts Professions Locations Special Description
Evacuee 0
  • All normal professions
"You have survived the initial wave of panic, and have achieved (relative) safety in one of the many government evac shelters."
Missed 0
  • All normal professions
"Whether due to stubbornness, ignorance, or just plain bad luck, you missed the evacuation, and are stuck in a city full of the risen dead."
Infected -4
  • Most normal professions
  • Start off with an infected wound.
"In the chaos and panic of evacuation, you got bitten by something! You didn't get proper medical care, and now the wound has started turning green."
Burning Building -2
  • Most normal professions
  • Starting building starts off on fire.
"The building you had chosen to reside in has suddenly caught fire! You might want to leave."
Challenge-Really Bad Day -10
  • Shower Victim
  • Tweaker
  • Start off infected, ill, stupidly drunk, and missing your default outfit.
  • Starting building starts off on fire.
"You start drunk to the point of incapacitation, depressed, infected, surrounded by fire, naked, and sick with the flu. This day went downhill really fast."
Challenge-Lab -8
  • Survivor
  • Unwilling mutant
  • Volunteer mutant
  • Stuck deep inside the lab.
  • Various mutations available for selection as traits.
"You've been locked in a lab with no way out! Survive as long as you can! Brag about it on the forums! (Pics or it didn't happen)"
Ambush 0
  • Survivor
  • Winter Survivor
  • Winter Survivor
  • Start off in winter instead of normal starting season.
  • Start off surrounded by hostiles.
"It is the winter after zero hour, cold and weary you ducked into a small cabin for the night. The next morning, you awoke to the sound of lots of movement in the woods."
Sheltered -3
  • Survivor
  • Sheltered Survivor
  • Start off in winter instead of normal starting season.
"When the apocalypse broke out, you were funnelled into a nearby shelter. Here you have lived, never leaving, lest the unknowns of the outside world hurt you. Supplies are running low, and for the first time since the cataclysm, you will be forced to face the outside world."
Challenge-Abandoned -8
  • Survivor
  • Patient
  • Bionic patient
  • Not allowed to take the Tough or Disease Resistant traits.
  • Forced to take the Frail trait.
"Sickly and frail, you have spent most of your life in the patient's ward of the hospital. When yours was evacuated, you were left behind because you were a lost cause. You awaken to the sound of movement around the hospital."
Experiment 2
  • Survivor
  • Unwilling mutant
  • Volunteer mutant
"Since birth, your sole purpose in life has been the advancement of genetic science, willingly or not. Once the cataclysm struck, you left the lab, and wandered aimlessly, ending up in a forest."
Mall Cop -2
  • Mall Security
  • Mall loading area
  • Mall food court
"You've survived for as long as you could inside of the mall you worked at as a security guard. Find a way out and try your best to survive."
The Last Firefighter 0
  • Firefighter
  • Bionic firefighter
  • Fire station
  • Start off surrounded by hostiles.
"Against all odds, you managed to make it back to the station house in one piece. Now the reanimated husks of your former comrades want to make sure you never leave it again."
Assault on Precinct Z 0
  • Cop
  • Bionic cop
  • Detective
  • Start off surrounded by hostiles.
"You knew the day was going to be bad when it started with your partner getting eaten by a perp before you even had coffee. The scene back at the station house looks bad, real bad. This is going to be an all-nighter."
Winderness 0
  • Survivor
  • Survivalist
  • Naturalist
  • Bow hunter
  • Lumberjack
"You find yourself amongst trees. The screaming and the moaning is fainter this far from civilization, but you'd better know what you're doing out here."