Rage virus: Part 1 - A Police Story

An on-off affair, started with All Things Zombie rules, abandoned when these proved to be incomprehensible, and revived by Fear and Faith.  Lately there has been a series of games set in Barberton City and involving Mr D- W- and Mr C- H-.

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This is the account of a series of games played over three sessions. The characters & combat were from Fear and Faith by Ganesha Games, and the events generated co-operatively by the players (Mr D- W-, Mr C- H- and Mr M- H-) using the remarkable Mythic GM Emulator -
http://www.mythic.wordpr.com/page14/page9/page9.html This meant that things turned out very differently from what we'd expected. We'd gone into the first session expecting some fights against Romero-type zombies. We ended up not seeing a single opponent in the first evening, instead spending the first couple of game-days driving civilians about in a van then guarding a power station with only failing communications and gunfire on the distant freeway to make us think something was wrong. The next session we at least saw what was causing the problems - not insurgents, as we'd been told, but 28 Days Later ragers who attacked our van on the way to reinforce a besieged police station. The third evening was all scrapping, as the ragers made an Assault on Precinct 13 attack on the station.  The characters were a disparate bunch, taken from office jobs, given shotguns and rushed into the front line.  There was North, a veteran of the first Gulf War with either PTSD or Gulf War syndrome or both; Werbowski, a young recruit just out of training, wet behind the ears and a bit overawed by it all; and Driscoll, an admin type who'd entered the force with liberal ideals and now only looked forward to retirement.

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