RobbieRand
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"The Dead Don't Swim"
A tabletop style game
of survival
following the Zombie Plague.
CLOSED
A tabletop style game
of survival
following the Zombie Plague.
CLOSED
For more than 100 years, the Rand Family Summer Reunion had taken place on Goose Island in the middle of the Willamette River, midway between Corvallis and Salem. The get-together had been scheduled for the 3rd weekend of August to allow one last family event before the children returned to school and the adults dove into the harvest of the family's 2,000 acres of field crops, fruit trees, and nut groves.
The Rand Family patriarch, Robert, had suddenly moved this year's get-together to the middle of July, though, after what the Press had dubbed The Zombie Plague reached America's shores. The virus was like nothing humankind had ever imagined outside of some very bad Hollywood movies or television shows. The hemorrhagic fever-like disease ate through the human body, pushing it to the brink of death, before suddenly causing the victim to come back to full animation as an animalistic, cannibalistic flesh eating zombie.
For three days now, family members had been arriving from around town, around the state, and around the country to immediately use Robert's motor boat to cross from the farm to island. Goose Island was a football shaped island surrounded by 150 yards of river on each side. It included just under 8 acres of wild growing forest that surrounded a 2 acre, groomed park-like recreation area.
When the last of the expected arrived, there were exactly 100 people in all: 46 from the Rand bloodline and another 54 spouses and other guests. Between what the individuals and nuclear families brought with them and what a fore-thinking Robert had had delivered over the previous days by several big box stores, they had enough food to get through maybe six months with just a bit of rationing.
Robert was sure the Government and medical professionals would develop a vaccine by then and immunize the citizenry against contracting the virus that would soon be killing millions, then tens of millions of people every day.
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