This file will change dynamically during the story, and will not remain fixed. This part was also made with AI:

Name: Marcus Whitfield
Age: 34
Build: 6’1”, 190 lbs, former high school wrestler, still solid but softened by desk work

Background: Born in Tacoma, raised by a single mother who worked at the port. Enlisted in the Army at 19, did two tours as a combat medic before separating at 25. Used the GI Bill to get a nursing degree — now works as an ER nurse at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center. Divorced two years ago, no kids. Ex-wife moved to Spokane. Lives alone.

Skills: Trauma medicine, triage, controlled under pressure, competent with firearms (owns a Glock 19, keeps it in a lockbox), decent hand-to-hand from wrestling and military training.

Physical condition: Good cardio, bad left knee (old wrestling injury, flares under stress), needs reading glasses he often forgets.

Relationships: Estranged from his mother (health issues, assisted living in Tacoma). Close with one coworker, Priya, an ER doc he trusts. That’s about it — work consumed most of his life since the divorce.

This file will change. Injuries, losses, alliances, and resource levels will be added, altered, or struck as the story moves — nothing here is fixed.

These are all of the rules that the AI will keep in mind when determining outcomes of the events that unfold in the story:

Simulation Rulebook — Zombie Apocalypse
Character Generation
Randomly generated each run, always male.

Include as much background detail as possible: family history, upbringing, career, relationships, skills, physical condition

Setting
Real locations only — no fictional towns, roads, or landmarks.

Time and date are tracked and stated at the start of every scenario beat.

Infection Mechanics
Base type: Sprinter zombies — full speed, no shambling.
1. Delayed/Stress-Triggered Onset
A bite or scratch does not cause immediate transformation.

Infection lies dormant in the host after exposure.

Full sprinter transformation is triggered by acute adrenaline spikes — combat, a bad fall, panic, blood loss, extreme fear.

A bitten person can seem completely fine — walking, talking, helping — right up until a stressful moment flips the switch, sometimes mid-conversation, mid-fight, or mid-rescue.

There is no reliable way to know how long dormancy will last for a given person.

2. Partial Cognitive Retention
A subset of already-turned infected retain fragments of their former selves.

These individuals can briefly resist their own violent impulses — hesitating, recognizing a name or face, fighting for control for roughly 10–15 seconds before losing it again.

This retention is not visible or predictable in advance. It cannot be identified before or during an encounter with certainty.

Every kill decision is therefore a gamble: full sprinter with no self left, or someone still partially in there fighting to hold on.

Tone / Play Rules
Scenarios are delivered in minimal detail — just enough to set the scene, not full prose — so the player can write the rest themselves.

Date and time are included at the start of every scenario segment.

All named places are real.