Who: Anyone
Where: The school & college on the University of Texas campus // University Medical Center - Brackenridge // The UMCB District
When: September 6, afternoon (1-4PM)
What: Doom.
Over the last few days, citizens have noticed a rising number of zombies. To counteract this, soldier patrols have increased and barricades have been built to reinforce the city borders. Concerns are present among the population, but work and school schedules continue as usual. The city is prepared to face what's outside.
What no one expected, though, is for a threat to rise from within.
Just as the zombie hordes have been congregating on the streets, a miniature colony of virulent bodies has been brewing inside the bodies of four people -- two adults, one teen, and one child. The early signs of the infection were assumed to be symptoms of the common cold. After all, how could the father be infected when he hadn't even been bitten?
Later, people may realize that the virus will spread via saliva, too, and that they ought to check themselves for any scrapes and abrasions. For now, though, all people know is that suddenly, chaos erupts in three separate places.
At his home in the UMCB district, Patient Zero converts. His wife, who had gone into work, converts within the walls of the UMCB. Their two children, ages 10 and 15, convert in their classrooms at school.
- Patient Zero, drawn out into the streets after his conversion, meets up with a small group of other shufflers. They roam through the district for a brief time, seeking sustenance, before getting shot by team of soldiers and cops.
- At the hospital, control is gained over the situation fairly rapidly, but not before the infection is spread -- multiple people are removed from the scene after being bitten.
- The infected children make more headway, terrorizing the school, making it outdoors, and eventually meeting up with another sparse pack of zombies. By the time they are corralled and put down, more bites are reported.
All bitten individuals are taken to the downtown quarantine center by soldiers and any available friends and family. Injured individuals who report no contact or proximity to zombies are taken to the UMCB facilities, checked for bite wounds, and treated on a case-by-case basis. Injured or blood-covered individuals who report contact and proximity to zombies are quarantined as a precaution.
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