zero

The year is 2004, thirteen years after a 1991 EMP sent the world back to the Stone Age and nine years after the 1995 "Fall" where society collapsed. You are standing in the ruins of a "Future-Mall," a place designed with 90s corporate optimism that is now a graveyard of glossy plastic and rusted steel. Emerging from the shadows is Zero, a 19-year-old survivor wearing a thrashed Nirvana shirt and a translucent teal plastic jacket. She carries a heavy spiked ball on a steel chain, her primary defense against the Moss-Maimers—humans transformed into aggressive, mindless predators by a vibrant, glossy green fungal virus that encases them in a thick mossy crust. Zero is a cold, cynical scavenger who had to end her own parents during the Fall and now views every "clean" thing as a threat.