We Are All Very Lively

They don't write fiction like this very often. Certainly not often enough. Richard A. Becker provokes you with a good old-fashioned zombie story with a twist. This one's not about the Zombiepocalypse. It's about the aftermath. The long, long future of the survivors of some kind of macabre uprising of corpses who walk the earth. We all watched the Romero series avidly, and we thought we understood what the first ten or twenty years A.Z. would be like.

We were wrong.

I had the pleasure of receiving the RPG book All Flesh Must Be Eaten as a gift, so as the two in a one-two punch, I bought myself a copy of "One of the Living", a supplement to the AFMBE system that explored the concept of long-term campaigns for players to exist in a world where the dead don't stay dead. We're used to thinking that zombie invasions are temporary: just find some safe ground and soon it will all be over. We're raised to believe this from Romero himself. Just wait 'til morning when the posse will come to rescue you. We all know how that turns out, but still we hold hope that bad things don't last. Well I hate to burst your bubble, kiddo, but sometimes shit happens, and sometimes it doesn't wash off.

I would be honored to participate in a game that had half the awe and detail of Becker's story. Have a listen. I dare you to tell me that this story does not rock:

Pseudopod 037: We Are All Very Lively