There is a small isolated group of suvivors who have not even seen a zombie yet, but they have been following the story by communicating with other ham radio enthusiasts. They are in a small compound in the mountains that has been running a continous Dungeons and Dragons game for several years now.
Grognaurd was a good friend of Gary Gygax but made his fortune writing novels about Dungeons and Dragons instead of trying to scrape together a living making games. When he made his first million he bought the California ranch of a survivalist that had died from a heart attack. The survivalist compound was set up to be completely self sustaining but Grognaurd went to the extreme adding a two story tall stone wall with Crenellations and a wall walk. The front gate doubles as a bridge that lowers over a large moat that surounds the wall. The wall was almost complete when the breakout occurred and some of the construction workers even sucessfully rescued thier families but most of the workers that when back for thier families never returned.
Grognaurd was the host of the game but not the dungeonmaster, he had several of those to keep the game running almost continously
Trublud was one of the dungeonmasters that NEVER left, there was speculation that Grognaurd payed him to DM but most people believed his story that he was Steve Wozniak's bastard son and was paid by Wozniak to keep quiet. He was so into the game that to him zombies were just part of the game and he never doubted they existed even though he never saw one yet.
BrianDominic was one of the construction workers that didn't have a family so when news of the outbreak occured he worked tirelessly to fill gaps in the wall with anything he could find, plywood, wooden doors, logs... Once he felt he had done all he could with the materails at hand he formed a team of volunteers to go to the nearby quarry and get the stone they needed to truely make the wall safe.
JeanJWebb was a morecasual D&D player that just happend to be gaming at the compound when the outbreak occured. He is thrilled by it and thinks it the greatest thing ever probably becasue he had not real friends or family and had not seen a zombee yet. The only thing of significance he has contributed so far is convincing everyone that Grognaurd's Castle is a cool name for the Castle
Raven Malador was one of the newer Dungeon Masters, dedicated to D&D to a nearly hypnotic level, everyone thought he was a nobody, lost in a fantasy world. When the outbreak occurred he rushed off to save his "family". Everyone was saddend that he lost his mind. There was no way that a loser like that had a family he was good as dead. Two weeks later he arrived back at the Castle driving a fully customized
Hummer. It was a customized military model not a civilian one, just like Arnold Swartzenger had. Following the Hummer was a enormous RV, It was one of the super high end RV'S that probably costed a half million dollars. Once he was safely inside the gates everyone was shocked when he introduced a well known former supermodel
Alizee as his wife and then he introduced thier 4 kids. He explained that he was an actor that did lots of character roles in movies but was never a leading man. He was a method actor and had spent the last few months at the compound in charter 100% of the time to prepare for a new movie. He also explained that he had played a navy seal in a previous movie and had spent several months being trained by ex navy seals. If not for that training he didn't think he would have been able to return alive, let alone save his family.
Alizee Carried a fancy .308 Palma rifle clearly set up for competitive shooting. Some of the Castle residents were staring at her with awe some were staring with amusement.
Raven Malador noticed and proudly told anyone that listened that she was VERY competitive at 1000 yard shooting competitions. Everyone quickly realized that if she could shoot a zombie 10 football fields away what a valuable asset she was to the group, a lot more valuable than some actor who thought he was a navy Seal...
ARCH_Will was a Irish stonemason hired to make the stone wall look authentic. He has been suffering with depression because he knows that even if they are alive he will probably never see his family in Ireland again. BrianDominic has been keeping him busy building the wall but ever since the stone ran out his depression has made him useless to do anything else. He didn't volunteer to run to the quarry for more stone BrianDominic just informed him that he WAS going.
There were also a lot of D&D gamers that had so far proved useless at building walls or growing crops, Hopefully Grognaurd could find a use for,
Merlin1274,
FredRum,
EpiEpee,
Clem131,
PikePaw,
Bakkie_Pleur &
UndeadSweeper or he might have to send them out on a mission that they might not survive. Hmm
Undead Sweeper only a D&D addict would have that name BEFORE the outbreak.
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