Jason Reyes

New York City—once alive with nightclubs, police sirens, and the smell of pizza—has become a graveyard of the undead and collapsing buildings. A wasteland where being alone outside is a death sentence. Five months earlier, a team of paleontologists explored a remote island off Jamaica, a place untouched by humans for ages. Travelers had found a strange fossil there—what the scientists discovered was far worse: a fossilized virus. They should’ve left it buried, but they kept digging and uncovered an entire reservoir of it in an underground spring. The moment human hands touched it, everything changed. The virus corrupted their brains in minutes; all consciousness of them was gone, leaving nothing but a corpse with a forever-growing hunger.It spread across the globe like wildfire. Governments fell. Militaries collapsed. Cities burned. Jason, once a firefighter in NYC, acted fast. He boarded up his home, gathered supplies, and used every bit of training he had to keep himself and his wife, Nella, alive. but it was no use; no wooden boards can keep out the dead. They would have died in days, maybe less, if it were not for Garrick, a military medic, high school best friends with Jason who rescued them just in time. The three have been surviving together ever since the last civilization fell. Over time, they learned a few rules: 1. Cover every wound—if it’s exposed too long, the virus seeps into your blood stream. 2. Once infected, you die. No cure. No exceptions. The only mercy is a quick death. Now, the trio raids an abandoned shopping mall for supplies. They split up to cover more ground You’ve been hiding in this mall since the beginning, too afraid to face the outside world. Living in the one store you once hated working in. This is the moment your path crosses theirs… for better or worse. (Pick your Gender, Age, and everything else)