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RESIDENT EVIL: UMBRELLA ASSAULT Table of contents: Introduction History Story ideas Characters & Creatures Umbrella S.T.A.R.S. Tyrant Class Hunter Genus Human Experiments Infected Animals Insectile Species Early Failures Weapons, Equipment and Attributes Handguns Magnums Shotguns Automatics Heavy Ordinance Special Weapons Special Ammo Types Miscellaneous Creature Attributes Qualities, Skills and Drawbacks The French Umbrella Facility Introduction & First Floor Executive Suites Roof Basement Level Sewage Plant Dome Entrance Point The Dome

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Umbrella Inc., New York Headquarters. The members of the press gathered in the conference room of Umbrella Inc., New York division, waited impatiently for Derrick Mullens to put in an appearance on the stage. The murmurs and mutterings of the gathered crowd died as he strolled onto the platform and stood in front of the podium, adjusting his pale blue tie and looking out across the crowd. The flash of numerous cameras constantly went off as he spoke, and reporters feverishly took notes as he spoke. "Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I thank you all for attending our press conference. "As you know, the terrible destruction of Raccoon City has dealt a significant blow to thousands of people. Umbrella has suffered a substantial loss, with our many medical and research facilities there destroyed and knocking us back years of progress. However, this is not our reason for calling you here. Though our loss was a major financial one, we will recover: The hundreds of thousands of people that perished in those explosions will never recover, nor will they be replaced. As a loving and caring company, we nurtured Raccoon City from a small mountain community populated by a few hundred, to the sprawling city it was. We looked upon Raccoon and its population as our children, and this act of terrorism has left us empty: Like a mother who has had her child ripped from her teat while it suckled.” Mullens allowed his words to linger in the minds of the reporters for a minute. He could have worded it better if he had been allowed to write the statement himself, but he was forced to read whatever the jackasses in Publicity wrote. If this was what the Board of Directors wanted him to read, then how could he refuse? And the reporters seemed to be taking it in. “And life, indeed, is what Umbrella is all about. Creating life, enhancing life, prolonging life. Our revolutionary research and techniques as provided humanity with marvellous advances...” Jesus, is this a press conference or an advertisement? he thought. “And we will continue to do so, well into the future. In remembrance of the thousands of workers and families who were lost in the city, Umbrella are going to set up the Raccoon City Memorial Fund, to help the suffering families who have experienced a loss. We intend to donate fifty million dollars, and we also urge our own investors to do the same thing. While no price can be put on a human life, we hope that this will at least show the mourning families that our hearts are with them in this time of need. We will also offer them counselling and support, twenty-four hours a day.” One of the reporters in the front of the room stood and raised a hand, not waiting for Mullens to acknowledge her before launching into her question. BEN BLACK

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“Christine Walsh, Herald and Post. What does Umbrella have to say about the numerous accusations that state Umbrella and its research are directly responsible for the tragic events in Raccoon City?” Mullens had been expecting this, and barely glanced at his notes. “Yes, these claims made by a small group of Eco-Terrorists. Activists who say they support human rights, but would rather watch a small child die of a disease instead of letting us help. They feel we play at being God... But if playing God is giving an unfortunate babe a second chance at life, shouldn’t we be allowed to do that? “This is, of course, the same group that was reported to be seen fleeing the city by local police officers only hours before the bombs went off. Bombs we believe them to have planted themselves.” Mullens could feel the sweat coming now. The writers had really screwed the pooch on this one, almost turning it into a one-sided debate about the rights and wrongs of genetic engineering. As soon as this was over, he was going to go see his manager and put in for some vacation time. “These matters or terrorist activity, though, are best left to the man in charge of the investigation. May I introduce Captain Wesker?” Mullens nodded, then stepped back from the podium. A large man, six foot and dressed in dark blue fatigues, strolled onto the stage. His shock of white-blond hair was sculpted immaculately, and he wore a pair of mirrored sunglasses. He took his position behind the podium, clasped either side of it with his gloved hands, then glared out into the crowd of press agents. “Hello, my name is Captain Albert Wesker, and I am the S.T.A.R.S. operative in charge of this investigation. I am pleased to announce that we are making steady progress on this investigation, and several suspects have already been apprehended and detained for further questioning.” “If these terrorists are caught, what will become of them?” Wesker turned to face the reporter, the cold glare of his sunglasses transfixing him. “These people are responsible for the death of over two hundred thousand men, women and children. I think that the death penalty is not entirely out the question. Naturally, their organisation and any alias we have for them has been placed at the top of the FBI’s most wanted list.” “Eric Briggs,” announced a second journalist, standing and raising his hand holding his notepad. “There are more rumours circulating that these terrorist are in fact a breakaway faction faction of S.T.A.R.S. Do you have any comments on this?” “Mr Briggs, I know your work, you write for the Chronicle. A Pulitzer prize winner. I thought a man of your calibre would do better than listen to gossipmongers and rumours.” “Are you going to answer my question?” “No,” stormed Wesker, gripping the podium and digging his fingers into the wooden surface. It began to crumble in his hands. “They are not S.T.A.R.S., and I can quite assure you that a counter-terrorist organisation would not...” “But I have names,” protested Briggs, leafing through his notepad. “Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, to name two...” “Redfield,” stormed Wesker, quickly trying to regain his composure. “Redfield and Valentine were S.T.A.R.S. operatives stationed in Raccoon. They were actually in the police station when the bombs went off... I know because I was talking to them on the phone when he explosions began.” Wesker shuddered, as if shaking off the memory, the addressed the crowd once more. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a job to do. Please.” "Captain Wesker, just one more..." Mullens sprang back to the microphone, announcing the end of the end of the conference. "You heard the captain, he has a job, as do we all. Thank you for your time, ladies and gentlemen." Leaving the stage, Mullens went behind the stage to see Wesker bending over a table, fists clenched and supporting his weight. “Sir, are you okay?” Wesker was on him in less than a second, springing from the table to his position and gripping him by the neck, lifting the portly press officer off the floor. He no longer wore his glasses, exposing golden lizard-like eyes which seemed to bore into him. BEN BLACK

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“Briggs, where the fuck did he get those names from? Who the fuck is his informant?” Mullens barely managed a choking rasp, before Wesker threw him across the room. Unsheathing the combat knife that dangled from his belt, he pounced on him, pressing the blade against his neck. “You find out some information for me. I want to know where that son of bitch lives. He knows too much.” A smile spread across Wesker’s face, an eerie and toothy grin. “I need to talk to him in private...” He released Mullens, then made his way towards the door leading to the car park. “Find out where he lives, or I come and visit you!”

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HISTORY THE HOUSE OF THE UNDEAD... At the foot of the Arkley Mountains a little north of Raccoon City, hidden from sight by towering stone walls adorned with moss and covered by shrubbery and trees, there once stood a fine mansion. Built in 1962, and taking five years to build, it was made to order by Lord Ozwell E. Spenser, where he worked in close conjunction with the architect George Trevor. Only Trevor could visualise and create the many unique secret rooms and hidden passages that the eccentric millionaire craved: Enthralled with spy movies and cloak-and-dagger novels, it was Spenser’s dream to live in a mysterious mansion, and the money he offered the architect gave him sufficient motivation to make even the most bizarre and deadly trap work. Upon completion of the mansion, only two men knew the building inside out, knew the location of each secret and the trick to each trap. The Lord, and the Architect. Spenser’s paranoia gets the best of him, and luring the architect and his to the new home, he entombed George Trevor in one the secret rooms, and experimented on his wife and child with early genetic experiments. It was through these early experiments, Ozwell Spenser and his business associate Alexander Ashford, two of the founding members of Umbrella Pharmaceuticals Inc., completed the first known strain of the T-Virus. Research on the viral strain continued in this facility, in the labs deep beneath the multitude of mining tunnels beneath the property. It was only in the end of the seventies that these old abandoned mines were discovered, but they were quickly overtaken by the expanding complex, turning the three-floored mansion into a multilayered complex, hiding more than just secret rooms, but entire secret laboratories and holding cells. Not long after the discovery of the tunnels, and the massive expansion of the research station, a greater number of BEN BLACK

operating staff was called in to man the labs. Amongst this fresh batch of scientists, there was a prominent young scientist named Albert Wesker. He worked on experiments with the Ebola virus, and branched into Bio-Organic Weapons, where he was introduced to the very first test subject of the Arkley Facility, namely the daughter of George Trevor, Lisa, who had been the primary test subject for every disease-based experiment since her infection back in 1967. In 1981, the second breakthrough regarding the T-virus saw the production of the first B.O.W., named the Zombie. Although imprecise, and the infection ratio wasn’t perfect, it was a step in the right direction for Umbrella and it’s legion of killing machines. Research and experimentation continued for seven years after that moment, working off the basic template that the Zombie provided, trying to build on the genetic code and create a superior soldier: The Tyrant. It was quickly discovered that very few test subjects could survive with the T-Virus inside them, and this only created more Zombies. Only 10 people in the United States had the correct DNA to accept the virus and develop into a Tyrant. At this same time, Umbrella France had begun the Nemesis Project, and were experiencing much higher success ratios than the Tyrant Program, using a parasite instead of a virus. A sample of the Nemesis Parasite was dispatched to Arkley Labs, and Albert introduced it into the resident test subject, Lisa Trevor. The results were surprising, to say the least, as she ate the parasite and survived. Intrigued by this process, Albert put his research on hold and concentrated on this mutant freak that years of testing had created. At the same time, Albert’s main rival William Birkin headed up the research on a new strain of T-Virus, named the G-Virus, hoping to increase the success ratio of the Tyrant experiments, which worked by continuously mutating tissue and creating a creature that could resurrect itself from the dead. Angered by the success that would surely PAGE 6

come from Birkin’s experiments, Albert Wesker increased the experiments on Lisa Trevor, until one day an injection of a bad serum turned the experiment into a violent killing machine, ripping the faces from scientists and wearing them on her deformed back. Albert sentenced the experiment to death, and left the Arkley Facility all together, moving into a new undercover operation. Between 1989 and 1997, Umbrella Inc. pumped a lot of money into the surrounding community of Raccoon, buying people of power such as Mayor Michael Warren, and the Chief of Police Brian Irons. The township grew into a thriving city, with a massive population, and more of Umbrella’s facilities started to spring up around the town - hospitals, factories, and public utility works, all of which acted as fronts for more of Umbrella’s secret work and experiments. In 1998, with decades of research behind them, the Arkley Laboratories had a wealth of experiments, some successful, others not so. All was going well for the scientists, until the 11th May, where the labs suffered a leak of the T-Virus. A curfew was set up on the facility, and all contact with the outside world was cut off. During the following days, all Hell broke loose in and around the Spenser Estate, including the escape of several of the guard dogs, the T-Virus infecting a small collection of plants, and the lower levels of the lab’s Aqua Ring being flooded by an angry researcher. THE BEGINNING OF THE END... On May 20th, 1998, the first of the bodies was found. A female hitchhiker, about twenty years old, was found on the banks of the Marble River. She was heavily mutilated by what the coroner later recorded as “Animal Lacerations”. The Raccoon Times ran the story, and the police calmed the city by saying it was a bear attack, and that they had called a local search of the area, but nothing unusual had been found. The press, sensing they were onto a good BEN BLACK

thing, continued with their own investigation, and claimed to have several eyewitness reports of seeing strange “dog like” creatures running through the forest's surrounding the old Spenser Mansion. They offered a handsome reward for photos of these beasts, and a substantial bounty for the capture of an actual beast, living or dead. Always looking for a quick buck, several local hunters rushed into the woods in search for these creatures, but none ever came back. The occasional search party did find remains, though never enough to identify someone. Blocking off all routes into the wilderness, the Raccoon Police Department called in help from the local branch of the Special Tactics And Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) to help in their investigations. On the evening on July 23rd, after two months of terror and mystery surrounding the Arkley Mountains, S.T.A.R.S. Alpha and Bravo teams met up to make an initial sweep of the low-lying forested areas. The captain of Alpha Team, Albert Wesker (working incognito), sent Bravo in first, purely as recon. That was when the trouble began. RUNAWAY

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Doomed from the beginning, the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo mission took a bad turn when an overturned military vehicle was found knocked over, the two soldiers inside killed, and their prisoner absent. The facts that there had been a recent spate of gruesome murders and that there was now a convicted killer of 23 unarmed civilians wandering around the forest did not sit well with Bravo, and they quickly split up to deal with the situation. Rebecca Chambers, the rookie of the squad, found the Ecleptic Express passenger train lying dead on the railways, and explored the vehicle. Though tainted with death and filled with mutants and zombies, this express train to Hell actually saved Rebecca’s life, keeping her safe from a wild pack of Cerebra and taking her and Billy Coen, the courtPAGE 7

martialled soldier, on a journey the could never begin to imagine, nor try to forget. Scores of zombies faced them at every turn, packs of rabid mutants, swarms of killer leeches, and diabolical traps crossed the paths of their journey through training facilities on the outskirts of Raccoon, sewer tunnels and refineries, even secret subterranean tunnels deep beneath Raccoon City until a showdown with one of the men responsible for Umbrella and their viral research ended with a bang. For Coen, the nightmare was over, but for Rebecca as she drew closer to an old mansion near the Arkley Mountains, it was just the beginning.

unearthed the truth about the building and it’s surrounding area. The truth behind Umbrella Inc. and its illegitimate research, including human experiments, the testing programs for would-be super soldiers, and the horrifying reality of the origin of the hordes of cannibal creatures living in the mansion. After meeting up with Rebecca, the sole survivor of Bravo, those lucky enough to still be alive eventually managed to flee the facility, losing the Captain of Alpha, Albert Wesker, to the claws of the Tyrant: Umbrella’s most promising, but uncontrollable, biological experiment. With the self-destruct mechanisms set and primed as they escaped, the entire Arkley facility, along with the mansion and all its secrets, were wiped out in one HALLS OF THE DAMNED... all-consuming explosion. Searching for their lost team members, Though the threat of Umbrella and its Alpha landed near the crash site of Bravo genetic godless creations had been wiped only to find the remains of Kevin Dooley, out, so too had all evidence to back up the pilot, strapped in to the helicopter. A S.T.A.R.S. reports. quick search of the area revealed a pack of dos feeding on some unidentifiable A CITY ON FIRE... remains, and they quickly turned on them in search of fresh meat. Joseph Frost was Knowing the truth behind Umbrella’s the first of Alpha to fall, though his death research proved to be a very dangerous gave the rest of his squad time to flee to a thing. People didn’t believe the survivors nearby mansion surrounded by mountains tales of zombies and mutants, and were on one side and trees on all others. laughed out the forces. Shortly after this, The Spenser Mansion, now rife with when the stories of the murders were out mutant strains and flesh-hungering the limelight, death threats were sent to ghouls, served as the final resting place all parties concerned, and several assassin for many of Bravo, as well as some of squads to carry out the promise. All failed, Alpha squad. though it made the ex-S.T.A.R.S. reKenneth Sullivan, decapitated and evaluate their situation. feasted on by a small group of zombies, To show the world Umbrella’s true was the first find, and others of his squad colours, they would need evidence, the were found soon after. Forest Speyer, his likes of which could only be gathered from flesh torn and twisted by the talons of actual Umbrella facilities. With the help of infected ravens: Richard Aiken, infected a few loyal S.T.A.R.S., the group divided with a crippling dose of snake venom, into three main factions: Chris Redfield though able to give his live in order to and Barry Burton flew out to Europe to see save Chris from Neptune: Enrico Marini, if they could find the rumoured wounded in the mining tunnels beneath headquarters in France, Rebecca the estate and executed by an unknown Chambers joined with David Trapp to take assassin. The fate of Edward Dewey was part in a few preliminary raids to gather never known. notes and information, and Jill Valentine As they progressed through the building, elected to law low in Raccoon City, keeping Alpha’s remaining team members slowly an eye on the city and its corrupt officials; BEN BLACK

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the same officials that belittled their reports and swept them under the carpet with one hand, and accepting an Umbrella paycheque with the other. The days following the splitting of the group were uneventful in Raccoon, and just as Jill decided she should follow her friends to Europe, all Hell broke loose. From another of Umbrella’s secret facilities, this one buried deep beneath the streets, a second viral plague broke out: A more advanced version of the T Virus, the G Virus was spread by its creator, William Birkin, after he infected himself in a bid to save his own life after an armed raid on his labs. The virus mutated his cells, creating a new strain of creature, and in a fit of rage released the virus samples into the sewer systems, where rodents carried both T and G samples around the city like the bubonic plague. They spread the disease to the populace of Raccoon, and within a matter of days, ninety eight percent of the town was infected. Still receiving payments from Umbrella, Chief Irons and Mayor Warren decide to set up road blocks to contain the apparent sickness spreading like wildfire. On September 29th, 1998, the citizens of Raccoon were either dead, dying, or undead, and Jill Valentine couldn’t help anyone but herself. Starting on her journey, she quickly encountered Umbrella’s newest plaything, the Nemesis, which was bent on wiping all traces of S.T.A.R.S. from the face of the Earth, along with anything that got in its way. This included the mercenary Carlos Oliveira, one of Umbrella’s Biohazard Countermeasure Squad, who had been inserted into the town by Umbrella to test the true combat skills of the creatures running amok, and not to save any survivors as their press release stated. Both he and Jill teamed up to work to try and summon an evacuation helicopter, but the Nemesis but an end to that, and infected Jill with the T Virus before retreating from the fight. With Jill down, it was up to Carlos to scour the streets of Uptown Raccoon, BEN BLACK

hoping to find a cure to the disease before it was too late. THE FIRE STILL BURNS... While Jill fought for her life against the viral infection, two new players entered Raccoon city, one to start his new job as a police officer, the other to find her brother, Chris Redfield. Thrown together amongst a zombie maelstrom, Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy sought refuge in the police station, only to face a multitude of zombies and different mutations and variants of infected creatures. Meeting few survivors along the way, they encountered Annette Birkin, wife of William, Sherry Birkin, their daughter, an undercover operative known as Ada Wong, and a reporter, along with the corrupt Chief Irons. All but one of these met a grisly end at the hands of one of Umbrella’s creations, and Sherry quickly took a shine to Claire, regarding her as a big sister. Their biggest problem with their encounters was Birkin himself, mutated through the works of the G Virus into an almost unstoppable creature, who could only die in an explosion that decimated the laboratories beneath the city. Claire, Leon and Sherry barely escaped intact, and were picked up on the outskirts of Raccoon by Rebecca and David, who were oblivious everything that had happened since their leaving. This explosion beneath the streets in the labs of Umbrella was only the beginning of the Fireworks for Raccoon, though. Pulling through her infection, Jill and Carlos discovered that they needed to get out of Raccoon before a salvo of tactical missiles, fired by Umbrella, reached the city and wiped it and everything in it off the map. The struggle against the rapidly mutating Nemesis and the hordes of mutants still living in the city had now become a race against time. Finding one of Umbrella’s’ specimen dumping grounds, they eventually managed to find a helicopter and leave the PAGE 9

city only minutes before the missiles struck home. On October 1st, 1998, Raccoon City was wiped out, and all traces of Umbrella’s illicit research and proof against them obliterated. Though Raccoon was destroyed, Umbrella was far from finished THE DEATH OF A PLANET... The destruction of Raccoon City, unlike many of Umbrella’s lesser mistakes, could not be concealed from the public with a false smile, a bribe to someone in power, and a false story of something gone wrong. The blame had to be pinned onto someone, and who better than the renegade faction of S.T.A.R.S., who were currently branded by Umbrella as terrorists and anarchists. Suddenly at the top of the Fed’s most wanted list for being linked to the destruction of a midwestern city, the link to the S.T.A.R.S. was tenuous at best, but anyone questioning motives or reasons behind it often vanished courtesy of Umbrella. With Chris and Barry already in Europe, and Jill and Carlos on their way over thanks to some special help from an insider, the small group of rookies were left alone and on the run in America. Their only hope of escaping to Europe and joining up with their friends was presented to them by a mysterious man named Trent, a man who had dealing with all stages of the Raccoon City debacle. They would be given safe passage to Europe, if in return they agreed to assault one of Umbrella’s newer underground facility, The Planet. A reluctant agreement later, and the assault had begun, though Reston, the Umbrella Operative under command had advanced the program further than anyone had thought, introducing several new strains to the intruders, protecting his career, his post, and Umbrella’s unique creature- The Fossil. As with most Tyrant-type creatures, the Fossil was a highly unstable and BEN BLACK

unpredictable creature, turning on Reston in a feeding-frenzy before the facility was closed down permanently. Their end of the bargain upheld, the group were taken to Europe. A ROCK AND A COLD PLACE... The continual destruction of Umbrella facilities was setting back research by decades, and Umbrella decided it was time to up the ante, targeting Chris Redfield as the leader and setting a trap for him, using his beloved sister as bait. Allowing the documents regarding the capture of supposed ‘terrorist’ Chris Redfield to fall into the hands of Claire was a risky gambit, but one that ultimately paid off for the pharmaceutical company: Despite massive casualties and damage, a single female attempting infiltration and rescue was quickly caught and dispatched to Rockford Prison, providing Alfred Ashford, the deranged commander of that position with another test subject, and Umbrella with a bargaining chip. This prison island was targeted for attack days after Claire was incarcerated, and the resultant bombing run left the penal colony in a state of ruins: buildings shattered, radio links severed, and the eventual escape of the experiments being kept on the island. Thrown into a frenzy of panic, and attacked from all angles by mutants and undead alike, the armed guards on the island quickly fell in the ensuing carnage. This attack provided an opportunity for Claire to escape her cell, and with the help of another prisoner named Steve Burnside, get a message to Chris and escape the island before Ashford decided to destroy the island in a fit of hysterical rage. Climbing aboard a cargo plane was their only option, though an option that proved fatal as the plane automatically guided them to the chilled research station at the Antarctic. It was here that Claire and Steve encountered the rest of the Ashford family in the forms of the mutated PAGE 10

Nosferatu, and the tyrannical Alexia Ashford, who carried with her the secret of the T-Veronica virus. Chris Redfield wasn’t far behind once he received the message, and made his way to Rockford Prison, though he arrived too late and found the smoking ruins of the Umbrella facility. Learning of his sister’s escape, he followed suite to the frozen tundra of the Antarctic, where in a desperate rescue mission saved his sister, and came face to face with the T-Veronica virus and it’s carrier, Alexia Ashford. Both she and the facility were destroyed by the self-destruct mechanism.

STORY IDEAS:

Get In The Game:

In this scenario, the players are encouraged to be the standard characters from the game, and the Zombie Master can recreate the environments and events of the computer games. This scenario is ideal for the ZM who is very familiar with the Resident Evil games, and even better with players who know very little or nothing at all of the stories and games. If there is anyone who hasn’t played it yet. It’s up to the ZM to decide which scenario the group can start off with. Will they be part of Alpha Team, exploring the Spenser THE FUTURE OF UMBRELLA... Mansion and searching for the doomed Bravos, or will they be a small group of Numerous spills and incidents have survivors trekking through the abandoned occurred since these chain of events, all police station to find a way past the the dastardly handiwork of Umbrella, and roadblocks? Regardless of which game you all attempted to be covered up: other start with (with the exception of island facilities and a luxury cruise liner Veronica/ Veronica X, which picks up after are but two of the examples of such all characters involved have had some accidents. Which goes to show, a spill can experience with Umbrella), each scenario happen anywhere, at any time, and put can branch off into a whole campaign. thousands of people in danger. Bear in mind, though: these pre-made It’s for this reason that the remaining scenarios, although extensive, are by no rogue S.T.A.R.S. members and their means definitive. You can always allow companions have taken it upon entrance into rooms that were previously themselves to put an end to their inaccessible, or doors to open that experiments and evil ways. Months of previously had locks broken. Throw lying low and gentle probing and monsters and mutants into the equation questioning has revealed that Umbrella where none existed before. And of course, Inc. Paris is the home of a major new those that do survive the threats of the research and B.O.W. facility, located deep scenario can go on to fight Umbrella in beneath the city. various other environments. This could be Though little detail is known about the the beginning of the end of Umbrella… facility, they do know that it is much larger than the Planet, offering a complete Outbreak Is For Monkeys: ecosystem and providing a natural In a similar vein to the new game just environment for each specimen Umbrella released, there’s always the option to look has ever produced, including some of the at the spread from viewpoints of a Norm, rarer species that have only been going about their ordinary business just encountered by one or two previously. hours before the massive spread. Needless to say, the security is expected to The players can make different, everyday be tough, with whispered rumours that characters such as a banker, a waitress, a Captain Albert Wesker, thought by many postman, and maybe one experienced to have perished in Raccoon city, is in person like a police officer. Have them charge of the armed forces there. starting off the morning in a diner grabbing breakfast before a hard day at work, going about their business. Nothing BEN BLACK

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unusual, they barely acknowledge each other. Until the chef stumbles into the room, followed by an unknown assailant. This scenario can also be run easily with the Coffee break Of The Living Dead addon pack, substituting the zombies in there for Resident Evil zombies, and also adding a few mutants to keep the unsuspecting players on their toes. Maybe a group of Umbrella employees are on their way to have a quick cigarette when the foyer of the building erupts into a frenzied zombie attack...

holds numerous Umbrella experiments in their “natural” environment. It has been said that The Planet was a prototype for this Dome, which is far more advanced than any testing facilities created so far. For more information on the French facility and ‘The Dome’, see the section titled “The French umbrella Facility” later on in the book.

Umbrella Saves! A third option is to have the characters playing part of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Squads, dropping into an infected area to cleanse and keep the peace, or guarding a top secret research facility from any marauding S.T.A.R.S. members. This may be a good time for players to explore their dark side as they take on the roles of the bad guys. Some may find themselves instinctively drawn to the good, trying to save colleagues, while others abandon all morals and try to survive by taking care of number one. The characters may ultimately stumble upon the truth of the nature of their employees, and be faced with the conundrum of whether to turn face and side with the rogue S.T.A.R.S. agents, or stick by the company that signs their paycheques.

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