Death cultist

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Death cultist is a slang term for survivors who work for zombie causes, and don't care if they become a zombie. They are similar to zombie spies, but often gain skills as both survivor and zombie. Their actions may include healing zombies (as an aid to the zombies more so than XP-farming purposes) and allowing zombies to attack them (so that the zombes may gain XP, not out of incompetence or apathy.) Some also act as zombie spies, spending time gathering useful information for whatever group or horde they may be associated with.

Often they gain cross-class skills (like Body Building and Ankle Grab) and cross-class items (such as flak jackets). Note, however, that the presence of both zombie and survivor skills in a character does not necessarily indicate a death cultist. Characters that fight against zombies as a survivor, but choose to fight against survivors when killed, are not death cultists, instead being categorized as dual natured.

A common trick used by cultists is to gain XP as a survivor and then commit suicide or let their horde eat them, using the XP gathered easily as a high-level human to purchase vital zombie skills so they do not have to play as a weak, low-level zombie. (This method is also used by non-death cultists who have bought all survivor skills and wish to spend excess XP.) This also means that if they are revived - a usual tactic against powerful zombies - they can either continue the attack as a human, or infiltrate the safehouse in order to relay important information to the other zombies outside (see: Metagaming).

For short, Death Cultist are the antithesis of Life Cultist, who are zombie helping human.

[edit] Known Active and Non-Active Groups

brainROT RUM is technically a death-cultist group as per their play style; however they do not PK to help zombies primarily. They are a small group of survivors with brain rot, who like to give other people the opportunity to buy brain rot themselves. It's just so sad you can't do that while alive...

The Dark Order of Armageddon is a "true" death cult, in that it encourages members to PK and zombie spy. The group argues that "death cultists" are within the greater zombie genre; they rely on the combined use of alive and undead members in their operations.

The Church of the Resurrection can also be considered a death cult. They encourage members to spy, gain needed human items and skills such as the crowbar and Body Building respectively, and otherwise further the goals of the Church. However, they are expressly forbidden to kill while human because it makes members "unclean." There is however, a loophole in their scriptures that allows members to injure humans while alive, and PKing one's own reviver, especially in a combat situation, is generally accepted as a punishment enacted by Sweet Zombie Jesus for trying to lure away a member of the congregation.

The Gore Corps is a strike team of The Ridleybank Resistance Front. Their policy is "to bring barhah to all residents of Malton... by any means necessary." As deadly as humans, and as pantsless as zombies, the Gore Corps is a formidable, exclusive team that blows in on a gale of destruction, leaving terror in its wake.

The Unknown Armies are using the tactics of the death cultists to aid zombie groups, mainly the Eastonwood Ferals, in their fight against survivors.

The Church of the Present Resurrection (distinguished from the above noted Church of the Resurrection) is considered by some to be a death cult, although its adherents claim that it is instead a "life cult" that only encourages human sacrifice as a way of reveling in the miracle of resurrection.

The Williamsville Horde of Organized Zombies is a group which employs all the terrifying acts of zombie-dom and cruelty of inhumanity to end human lives in the most gruesome ways possible. Noted preferences include throwing zombie hamsters and mirror-ball-bludgeoning.

The Harbingers of Peace can be identified as a death cult, as much of their work is done while alive. This is in large part so that they can "preach" the joys of death as they PK. Their goal being merely to bring death to all humans (and with it, they feel, peace) no amount of PKing GKing or RKing is frowned upon.