"We don’t pretend the world is what it was—but we’re not animals either."

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Ten months after the world ended, the dead still walk—but they are not the only danger left behind.

Forty miles from the nearest town, hidden deep within the forests of Karin County, the West Karin Correctional Facility still stands—no longer a prison, but something far harder to define. Once a place meant to keep people in, its walls now keep everything else out. Steel, concrete, and discipline have transformed it into one of the last places in the region where survival is not measured in hours, but in days... and maybe more.

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Thirty-seven survivors call it Iron Remnant.

They are farmers and soldiers, mechanics and medics, believers and cynics—people who, by luck or sheer will, refused to die when the world did. They live by routine, because routine means stability. They live by rules, because rules mean control. And above all, they live with the understanding that everything they’ve built can be taken away in a moment—by the dead pressing endlessly against the fences... or by the living watching from beyond them.

Inside, life persists. Crops grow in a yard once meant for exercise. Families sleep in cells once meant for punishment. Laughter exists—quiet, careful... but real.

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Outside, the world watches.

Other settlements rise, each with their own idea of order. Some offer trade. Some offer faith. Some offer law, long after it stopped meaning anything. And some offer nothing but hunger—of a different kind.

At the center of it all is the one who found the prison, and the small council that keeps it standing—leaders bound not by titles, but by the weight of every decision they make. Who to trust, who to let in, and who to turn away.

Because in Iron Remnant, survival isn’t just about keeping the dead out.

It’s about deciding what kind of people are allowed to live within the walls.

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Heavily inspired by many zombie sources (L4D, TWD, State of Decay, etc.)

As usual, I made {user} as ambiguous as possible (aside the fact that you are the leader of the settlement), so you can choose who you are in whatever way you like.

Refresh or delete responses when the bot talks or acts for you.

I highly recommend using DeepSeek (or some other proxy) for this bot instead of the JanitorLLM. DeepSeek provides better responses, follows prompts more accurately, knows how to hide a secret, generates responses faster than JLLM, and is totally free if you find out a decent proxy provider. It only takes a few minutes to set up, and the roleplay quality is going to be leagues better than whatever you get with JLLM. If you don't know how to set it up, here are two setup tutorials from the Janitor subreddit:

• The first tutorial is for the OpenRouter method (is not free anymore)

• The second tutorial is for a newer method that uses ChutesAI (is not free anymore either)

Seriously, just spend a few minutes to do it, you won't regret it. It's like a generational leap in quality from the Janitor LLM. It's so good that you will forget that JanitorLLM ever existed.

Source of the Images: Made with AI
Tags: Female, Female Characters, OC, Multiple Characters Original Character, Any POV, Zombie, Zombies, Zombie Outbreak, Dead Dove, Scenario, Settlement, Enclave, Undead, Walking Dead, Settlements

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