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Old 01-22-2016, 04:27 PM   #1
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Default A suitable timeline for a Zombie Apocalypse

I built this for a long-term zombie game. It assumes the disease spreads through air and has a multi-day incubation period. Feel free to replace "San Fransisco" and "President" with suitable terms for your locale. With minor change, this setting can be used for a conventional disease disaster, and it works well with GURPS Zombies.

Zombie Schedule

Day -60:
. Patient 0 infected.
. A natural mutation occurs to an Indonesian disease. The new strain has a very long incubation period, an extremely high transmission rate, attacks the immune system directly, and spreads virulently. A very, very small proportion of those exposed to the disease react immediately and severely. It will eventually be designated VN08.

Day -56:
. P0 becomes contagious.

Day -52:
. P0 starts feeling ill.
. 8 other villagers are infected.

Day -51:
. P0 dies and reanimates. The zombie attacks caretakers and is trapped in a room. . It escapes and disappears into the wilderness while caretakers search for assistance.

Day -48:
. P55 infected.
. P2, P3, P4 all start feeling ill and enter into fever and coma by nightfall.

Day -47:
. P49, a Buddhist monk, rapidly falls ill. Refuses medical treatment, consumes only green tea. By nightfall becomes intensely feverish and comatose; meditates while concious.
. P2, P3, P4 die.

Day -46:
. P2-P4's remains reanimate, attack villagers, and are destroyed.
. P6, P7 start to fall ill.
. P49 is unconscious. Other villagers consider killing him, believing him to be soon to die and reanimate. They decide not to kill a holy man in cold blood.

Day -45:
. P6, P7 die and reanimate.
. Village begins to see strife. Buddhist villagers protect ailing, unconscious P49. Others wish to kill him and other ailing villagers.

Day -44:
. P49 awakes, is very weak. Buddhist villagers tell him of the events of the past days.

Day -43:
. No new villagers fall ill, though two who were already sick die and reanimate in the morning.
. P49, now strong enough to walk with assistance, visits grieving families.
. Villagers believe that the sickness or madness has passed.

Day -42:
. Four villagers fall ill. P49 and a small number of followers bless ailing villagers (Most likely P47 and P48), while others that fall ill later in the day are bound.

Day -41:
. All four previously ill villagers die and reanimate.
. P49 retreats to a shrine to meditate.
. One bound zombie breaks free and is destroyed; the other is locked in a trunk.
. The village calls for help.

Day -37:
. Over 1000 individuals have been infected.
. Some villagers visit the shrine while fleeing; sickness has taken a dozen people a night from the village for the past three days. Each morning, more villagers suffer from madness or demonic possession.

Day -35:
. Almost 2400 individuals have been infected.
. Approximately 90 zombies are active in the village region.
. 50 villagers, most of them travelling or caring for others, enter feverish comas, die, and reanimate.

Day -34:
. Soldiers responding to reports of sickness, insanity, and banditry approach the village, finding it abandoned.
. 70 zombies approach the caravan in small groups.
. Only one soldier is killed, though six are wounded approaching a small group early on in the day.
. They find P49 and the zombie stored in the trunk; it is still as active as it was initially.
. The soldiers retreat.

Day -33:
. 4000 individuals have been infected, and of them only 500 have shown size of disease.
. P49 relates the history of the past month.
* Indonesian authorities cover up the event as a volcanic gas release.


Day -31:
. 8000 individuals have been infected, a large number of them in Budapest.
. Infected American technician P25-1 flies back to the united states. Becomes contagious en route. Similar situations occur with hundreds of others.

Day -26:
. P25-1 reanimates, having died overnight. Zombie is destroyed by a neighbour later in the day.
. 40,000 individuals infected, many scattered throughout the world.
. By this time, the second individual to have an immediate response to the disease most likely has occurred somewhere in Indonesia, but that person is unknown.

Day -19:
* Budapest releases news that they are experiencing a major civil uprising. Martial law is declared, and transport in and out of the country is banned.
. In private talks with the UN and specific international groups, Indonesia explains its situation with the absolute minimum use of the word "zombie". This information sticks to the highest level of secrecy.

Day -18:
* Russia announces it is restricting travel into and out of the country due to "serious allegations of western espionage."
* Rumours begin to circulate that some kind of nuclear disaster has occurred in Indonesia, or possibly a coup.
. It is believed that approximately 200 individuals have been infected and have survived.
. 623,000 people have been infected with VN08.

Day -10:
. 30,000 individuals scattered throughout the united states enter the disabled stage of VN08 infection. In even the largest city, this is no more than a few hundred, widely scattered.
* North Korea closes all foreign contact entirely, leading to public discussion of potential sabre-rattling.

Day -9:
& The Conspiracy period begins. This is marked by widespread rumours and misinformation as the disease rapidly spreads but is not yet symptomatic.
During the Conspiracy period, there are eventually hints of unrest, but the world is outwardly normal over the vast majority of the world.
* CDC and other infectious disease organizations, working with homeland security and others, attempt to contain the infectious and disabled before they die and reanimate. This is done under the guise of a new flu.

Day -5:
* Rumours begin to emerge of black ops gone wrong, or some kind of massive cover-up, possibly involving US forces within the US.
* Paranoid types have already begun stockpiling by this point, and even the occasional "sane" person might quietly gather extra food.
* No clear rumours exist, but between East Asian concerns and other apocalyptic grumbling, there is a general feeling of unease.

Day -4:
* The President boards Air Force One following an "undisclosed terrorist threat".
* Rumours abound that a nuclear meltdown in the southwest pacific is being kept under wraps.
* News reports state that a new drug has entered the market which is similar to "bath salts" or PCP (often confused with LSD, cocaine, and marijuana by newscasters), and that the use of this is on the rise and causes violent episodes.

Day -3:
. 57 days after the first infection, approximately ten million people have been infected, mostly in Indonesia.
. In US, transit workers, the homeless, and migrant workers begin being rounded up, tested, and often quarantined.
. Air Force One refuels at a remote Canadian facility.
. Major news story regarding what is possibly a domestic terrorism act in LA.
. Paranoid individuals state that New World Order has genetically engineered a new black death.

Day -2:
. Globally, over six million zombies are active. Only a few hundred of these are in San Francisco, and almost all of them in extremely secluded government hospitals.
. Rumours begin to circulate of deaths related to the new "flu".
. By the end of the day, more than a thousand individuals enter San Francisco hospitals.
. Air Force One makes a dangerous water landing to securely transfer president to a waiting nuclear submarine; crew aboard left afloat in life raft.

Day -1:
. Hospitals see influx of new patients. Many of these early-symptomatic patients are destined to be survivors, because immediate immune system response is key to immunity. Later, this will feed rumours of survivability.
* National guard mobilized to assist in disease-fighting efforts; a secret team of approximately ten thousand elite soldiers is mobilized. This group works with hospitals and disposes of new zombies.

Day 0:
# PCs become infected.
. In the US, 20,00,000 individuals enter the disabled stage.
* Rumours abound of government troops seizing hospitals and executing cancer patients.

Last edited by PTTG; 01-24-2016 at 12:18 PM.
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