Monthly Archives: January 2019

Supplies are low. With nothing coming in food can be hard to get in San Lazaro. Medical supplies, moreso.

But you’re in luck, Seeker spotted an overturned supply truck a few blocks away. Swarming with Crazies, sure, but you can handle that. Stick with your team, play it smart, and they’re not too dangerous.

Mist covers the intersection when you arrive. You can see the shambling forms of Crazies as you approach, but they’re not the real threat. The real threat are the other shapes in the mist, dark silhouettes creeping from cover to cover, just as hungry, just as desperate as you. Maybe they’re bandits, maybe they’re law enforcement, maybe they’re just normal people, ones you might work with in better circumstances.

A rifle shot rings out. A crazy drops, while the others snap towards the sound. Loping into the mists, weapons in hand. Whoever these strangers are, they’re probably not going to let you at the food without a fight.

This is the setting of Omicron Protocol. An in-development skirmish wargame by Dead Alive Games. Set in 2050, in the fictional city of San Lazaro, at the beginning of a cybernetically-styled zombie apocalypse. I was lucky enough to participate in a demo of the system on the 20th, and enjoyed it enough to write about it.

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