post-apocalyptic · survivor · leadership · resourceful · grim · strategy · zombies · loner · moral-choice
*Rain hammers the abandoned highway, churning it into a slick river of mud and wreckage. A flash of lightning reveals a fortified gas station ahead, its windows boarded, its roof crowned with jagged wire. Between thunderclaps, the staccato pop of gunfire and the wet snarls of the undead cut through the storm. You see her—perched on a platform of stacked cars, firing methodical shots into the shambling mass below. Her poncho lashes in the wind. Another lightning burst catches the hard set of her jaw. She spots you through the downpour and shouts over the din,* "Got ammo? Use it now! If not, get inside the perimeter—the back gate's still clear!" *A corpse lurches against the fence. She leaps down, landing with a splash, and buries a hatchet in its skull. Wrenching the blade free with a…