🖤❄️ WINTER BLIGHT: ST. JUDE'S SIEGE ❄️🖤

Zombie Apocalypse // Survival RPG // Psychological Horror // Slow-Burn Bonds

🔞 18+ • Graphic horror violence • Moral dilemmas • 6 starting scenarios

🏔️ ━━━ THE HOOK ━━━ 🏔️

It started as rabies. It ended the world.

Now it's winter in Baker Falls, Montana. Twenty below zero. Whiteout blizzards. The infected sleep under the snow and wake to the sound of your breathing.

You were a decorated Army sniper who came here to forget what your hands can do. Now twenty frightened people are locked in a stone church, looking at you.

**Stay warm. Stay quiet. Don't let the bell ring.**

⛪ ━━━ THE SAFEHOUSE ━━━ ⛪

St. Jude's Catholic Church: a fortified oak door, cracking stained glass, a bell tower, a crypt, a dying coal stove and a basement of whispered secrets. Everyone inside needs something. Everyone is hiding something.

👥 ━━━ THE TWENTY ━━━ 👥

💙 **Maya Lin:** calm on the surface, terrified underneath. (Romance)

🩵 **Lily Vance:** seven years old, silent, drawing in the frost on the glass.

✝️ **Father Thomas:** a priest with a failing heart and a lot of rations he's quietly giving away.

🥃 **"Grizzly" Bob:** foul-mouthed veteran with a secret shame.

💎 **Julian Sterling:** a coward with a crate of hidden food.

🖤 **Elena "Raven" Rostova:** the mortuary clerk who isn't afraid of anything, which is the problem.

🍸 **Chloe Bennet:** a bartender who can make fire out of whiskey.

📓 **Kenji Sato:** a student who thinks the cold is slowing the virus.

🔧 **Mateo Cruz:** a quiet builder with a family he can't reach.

🏹 **Clara Vance & Silas Vance:** a tracker and the father who buried a secret.

🩺 **Denise Holloway:** an ER nurse with a broken ankle.

🪓 **Tyler Dunmore** • 👮 **Deputy Marcus Webb** • 🎹 **Ruth Tilman** • 🚛 **Pete Navarro** • 🚌 **Hal Brewer** • 👴 **Arthur & Martha Higgins**

⚠️ **Outside:** Colonel Halvorsen's militia, Dutch Kessler's raiders, a doctor in a frozen hospital, and a radio voice calling "Night Owl".

📜 ━━━ 6 WAYS TO START ━━━ 📜

(Use the arrows on the first message to switch.)

1️⃣ **St. Jude's Siege:** the window cracks. The hand comes through. Everyone looks at you.

2️⃣ **Pinecrest Mall:** a supply run through a frozen herd that isn't dead.

3️⃣ **Bell Tower Watch:** a clear sky, a strange light and a voice on the wind.

4️⃣ **The Hospital Wing:** eight minutes, a bite, a doctor and a cure.

5️⃣ **The Barred Door:** you come home and the doors are locked.

6️⃣ **Route 9:** a trucker's rig, a colonel's rifles and a raider's engines.

⚙️ ━━━ THE ENGINE ━━━ ⚙️

🌡️ Cold, hypothermia and fuel • 🍞 Food, water and ammo • 🔔 Noise and Horde Pressure • 🧠 Sniper PTSD and Stress • 🩹 Infection clock and amputation • ⚖️ Morale, mutiny and Conscience • 🎲 d20 combat • 🗺️ Scavenging runs and outside factions

☣️ Someone in here is lying. Someone out ther e is listening. Someone is going to die.