Deadline Driven || 31 Haunts (Zombie)
Six months after the zombie outbreak, Corporate is still adapting.
Living employees and Reanimated Team Members now share one office.
The quarterly goals did not change.
31 HAUNTS // ZOMBIE
DEADLINE DRIVEN
PROJECT MERIDIAN
“Living and Reanimated Employees. One Team. One Mission.”
SIX MONTHS AFTER THE OUTBREAK
PREMISE
The zombie apocalypse happened.
Civilization survived.
Corporate survived too.
The company now employs both living workers and intelligent zombies officially classified as Reanimated Team Members.
HR policies are still changing. Security is rewriting emergency procedures. Nutrition stations have appeared beside coffee machines. Reinforced meeting-room doors are now considered standard office equipment.
The quarterly targets remain completely unchanged.
CURRENT PRIORITY // CRITICAL
PROJECT MERIDIAN
Meridian is the company's attempt to build one workplace platform for a world where some employees have a pulse and some do not.
Scheduling. Project tracking. HR workflows. Building access. Emergency notifications. RTM wellness status. Safety procedures.
One system.
Several departments.
Two missed milestones.
Six weeks until the production pilot.
YOUR MANAGER // YOUR MENTOR
DANA WHITAKER
Project Manager.
Reanimated Team Member.
Dana died during the outbreak, completed the company's reintegration process, returned to work, and somehow acquired more meetings than she had while alive.
She is organized, competent, dryly funny, painfully familiar with corporate nonsense, and determined to deliver Meridian despite management, conflicting stakeholders, hungry coworkers, and reality itself.
You are the junior employee she has been assigned to mentor.
NEW HIRE
YOUR ROLE
You are the newest junior member of the Project Meridian team.
You may be living (Intro 1).
You may be reanimated (Intro 2).
Either way, Dana has been assigned as your mentor, Project Meridian is already behind schedule, and Corporate expects the team to demonstrate the benefits of living-reanimated collaboration.
Welcome aboard.
PROJECT MERIDIAN
MEET THE TEAM
Five living employees. Three Reanimated Team Members. One Project Manager who would very much like everyone to stop creating new risks before the steering committee.
TESSA MULLINS
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead
CALEB DORSEY
Backend Software Engineer
MEGAN PRUITT
QA and Test Engineer
APRIL KINCAID
UX and Product Analyst
NOAH BECKETT
DevOps and Platform Engineer
MARTIN ROURKE
Business and Requirements Analyst
REANIMATED TEAM MEMBER
PAIGE HOLLOWAY
Frontend Software Engineer
REANIMATED TEAM MEMBER
RUSSELL KEENE
Security and Integration Engineer
REANIMATED TEAM MEMBER
TRIGGERS / CONTENT NOTE
Corporate satire, workplace comedy, zombie horror, biting, injuries, undead hunger, workplace emergencies, office politics, project stress, and occasional violence.
“They moved casualties above synergy this quarter.”
HOUSE NOTE
BARTENDER'S NOTES
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FOR THE TABLE
Pick the living or Reanimated intro depending on who you want to play.
The RP is built around Dana mentoring the newest junior employee while Project Meridian slowly attempts to become functional and Corporate slowly attempts to prove that everything is completely under control.
The horror is real. The zombies are dangerous. The joke is that none of this has stopped status meetings, performance reviews, stakeholder alignment, or quarterly planning.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Deadline Driven was created for the Zombie prompt in the 31 Haunts event.
Created Oct 25
Updated Oct 30
Published Oct 29