Empire of the Dead......

Participated in a VSF Steampunk game of the Empire of the Dead last evening....

The city setting. This game being set up by Skrapwelder and is a work in progress to be played at a convention. So the peaceful evening in the city is interrupted rudely by Zombies breaking out of underground tunnels! Resisting the urge to grab a paint brush to aide in the finishing touches I instead grabbed up some of the unluckiest dice I have ever had chance to roll.....

Players order of play was determined by playing cards, with mine typically being 6 or less, almost without exception...... Murphy sat my shoulder the entire game.

A look down the main city street. Being the action was at night, vision extended to 18 inches. Though of course the players could "see" farther that just represented the ability to hear the moans and screams echoing down the street.

Scattered about the streets were civilians that were to be gathered up and escorted to 4 designated safe spots that the local police had set up. Of course the zombies decreased the number of civilians during the course of the action, adding to their own numbers....

My erstwhile couple, Mrs Carrigan and Mr Black, she was well armed and quite capable, he was duel armed with swords, neither of whom were aided much by the luck of the dice gods.  The one shot pepper box pistol was discharged with a mighty roar of flame smoke and shot..... which when directed at a rather large pack of zombies inflicted, yep, zero hits and zero damage.  I do believe I ended the night with the lowest score; 1 civilian and 3 zombies put down.............

Typical local zombie problem to be dealt with... Each turn saw more of the buggers climb out of the red gooey spots scattered about the board, though at one point an armored tour bus "smooshed" its way through a number of them .. heh.