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I’m going to start posting a chronicle from the World of Darkness game I’m playing in on Friday nights at the Sandbaggers Game Club. I think our Storyteller Ben has done a pretty good job of melding the World of Darkness with World War Z by Max Brooks. The chronicle is from the werewolf Tears-of-the-Northern-Star's point of view, since that is the character which I am playing.
The Fellowship of Fang and Fur
March 6th 20XX, Fargo, ND: Fargo is an armed encampment, a pocket of Midwest resistance against a tide of zombies which have overrun America from the East coast to the Rocky Mountains.
The blessed winter has given survivors a reprieve from the zombie onslaught and has given humanity a chance to fortify positions such as Fargo within the lines of the Wyrm’s assault on Gaia’s creatures.
Dances-in-the-Rain a Black Fury and leader of the Concordia Sept has tasked the ape, Shad Altsoba, and the lupus, Tears-of-the-Northern-Star, to accompany and guide four vampires to the scab-city of Minneapolis.
Kevin Wilson, Treblin, Johnny Walker, and Andres are the four vampires sent on this task by their Prince. A shaky truce if not quite an alliance has been stuck between the clans of the vampires and the tribes of the werewolves until this zombie crisis can be resolved.
The vampires have not divulged their purpose for going to Minneapolis to their werewolf guides and daylight protectors. The werewolves for their part are assessing the cooperation of the vampires and scouting the eastern routes from Fargo for zombie activity and answers both physical and spiritual for this zombie conflagration. Shad Altsoba is trying to identify scientific explanations and the mystic, Tears-of-the-Northern-Star, is assessing the damage to the spirits and the umbral realms.
The first night out has supplied few answers, although the group seems to get along together, Tears-of-the-Northern-Star has had no experience with the blood-suckers before this winter, but he recognizes their great power and has formed a tepid friendship with Andres. Andres seems to be a very animalistic form of vampire and has the most in common with the werewolves.
The group found survivors in Lake Park, MN. There is a powerful benevolent spirit protecting the people there. This is info that Dances-in-the-Rain would probably like to have investigated later. But the primary mission is to get the vampires to Minneapolis.
In another hamlet the vampires put a hospital to the torch because of zombie activity. Kevin Wilson seems to be a very timid vampire compared to his fellows. Treblin seems immature and reckless, but is a crack driver. Johnny Walker is strong and is a brawler he must have the aspect of the Ahroun Moon upon him. Tears-of-the-Northern-Star found the spirits of humanity chained to their zombie bodies, when the chain was severed the zombies lost the spark which motorized them. The human spirits, ghosts, were afraid and had no control over the zombie bodies. They longed for the peace of death.
The fellowship found a farm to hold up in for the day. The farmer here killed his family then committed suicide to avoid the hell of becoming zombies. Tears and Andres caught a few large rats for the vampire to refresh himself with. Tears learns that the vampires must feed everyday or they begin to weaken. Blood is their source of power.