A former mining town, Middletown has grown leaps and bounds since then, but many spirits haunt the city as the lands had once been occupied by a Native population who had come into conflict with the mining operations. Eventually peace had come and the region was split between the two groups. Many descendants of that original Native population still exist in the mountains. All in all the city sees little change as businesses come and go: locals often resisting change.

After a big storm hits the city: the river floods, causing it to shut down the bridge out of the city and closing down as emergency services struggle to reach those in need.

Overnight the city streets are flooded. Searching for a friend, Jon comes across violent rioters. Spirits haunt the isolated city, sometimes helping, sometimes not. These zombie are not the mindless corpses of popular media.

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Leslie had pulled open the window behind her to allow her to talk to the others over the sound of the radio playing the news. By now panic had spread. The Cross River Hospital had quarantined after a number of patients became violent, forcing the Outertown and Middletown police departments to step in. This left the small precincts split as they had to manage the fights that broke out on the bridge between MTPD and the Red Deer Construction Company who, with the help of the owner's son, overtook officers, so reports say. The news would also mention that the other side of the bridge was completely barricaded by the military, preventing anyone from the city from crossing the river, of which boats with armed Military Police currently patrol. 


Jon was concerned. "So they shut down the river?" His mom worked across the river in the larger Redwood city. "Do you think it's safe on the other side?" He'd worry. 


Trouble from All Sides