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JANUARY TEST DRIVE MEME
You awaken to godawful static overlaying a female voice that's too monotone to be anything but a recording. The static makes it difficult to understand the warning, but it's clearly a warning if your surroundings tell you anything...
You're buckled into a sturdy seat bolted to the wall behind you. Around you, there are dozens of others like you, some awake and others still unconscious, but it seems most of the seats lining the walls are occupied. The lights are dim, likely auxiliary lighting, leaving you mostly in the dark. You smell smoke and hear the sizzling crackle of electrical systems popping and shorting out. Some of the seats were jarred off the wall, leaving the occupants either wounded or dead. Count yourself lucky all you have is a headache and various aches accounted to whiplash.
You appear to be in a drop ship or an escape vessel of some form but the pilot is dead and the hull bears a massive gash where it buckled under the impact and sheered off. Through the door-sized opening, you can see vegetation. The air that wafts in is heavy with a humid heat, but it's obviously breathable.
Once you make your way outside, you'll see greenery: Trees, grass, and shrubs tangled with vines that grow wildly and suffocate the trees they climb. In the distance, behind the ship, you can make out a sandy desert that seems to stretch on endlessly. Forward through the trees, however, you may see a crumbling wall, but more importantly, you'll see signs of civilisation. Buildings and other structures seem contained within those decrepit walls. Maybe the natives can fill you in on what's going on, because the last thing you remember isn't being in an escape shuttle. As a matter of fact, you don't remember much about your arrival or where you are. But it's going to be a bit of a hike, better get moving. Though you might want to grab the backpack of supplies under your seat before you go.
With that, the power dies, leaving the drop ship in the dark, crackling and groaning as the hull cools from its catastrophic re-entry.
ANIMALS, FOREST, RUINS, CIVILIZATION, INFECTED ACCESSABLE, NPC, PLANT LIFE.
1: Yes, there are normal earth animals, what typically shows up in lush forests - deer, squirrels, rodents, rabbits, etc.
2: The ruins are a days walk from the dropship. Off in the distance of the desert there are also remains of buildings and cars drowned in dirt and worn to the bone by sand.
2a: Shops, items in said shops, there's an old Wal-Mart super center that has just about everything despite being ravaged by panic and age. There are also clothes shops, a cellular shop, and various other shops in the same state of decay and disarray. So yes, plenty of stuff from previous civilization, it looks like the typical abandoned city, cars on the side of the roads, some crashed, possibly rusted bikes, etc.
2b: Yes, but they wouldn't be able to place where exactly they were. Just that it looks like a city that existed in 2016.
2c: No, there's one living person in the city but he'll be introduced at a later date, upon game opening. There are infected both dormant and active throughout the forest hunting the animals, and soon the new arrivals.
2d: It's been 100 years since the Earth was abandoned, so "hella." It would look like a mixture of natural erosion and panic induced damage (cars crashing into things, looting, and so on.)
3: The plant life is Earth plant life, therefore, the right plants are edible, but there are also poisonous plants.
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