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Roftwood is a suburb of Malton and located in the east of the city center. It contains Hildebrand Mall as well a rich and abundant mix of Resource Buildings. It lies in the middle of the central section of the Survivor Security Zone and is a bustling and thriving suburb when it isn't being hassled by the zombies of Ridleybank.
Resource Buildings
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Fire Stations
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Hospitals
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NecroTech Facilities
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Police Departments
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Malls
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Bulletin Boards
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Revive Points
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Visitor's Guide
Welcome to Roftwood!
Greetings visitor, Roftwood has much to offer and we hope you enjoy your visit and hope you stay with us!
The bulk of the activity in Roftwood takes place at and around Hildebrand Mall, where you can find vital supplies such as firearms, ammunition, first-aid kits and generators and also hang out with fellow survivors with an ice-cold beer.
If you are injured, you are advised to go to either Eligius General Hospital or St. Ethelbert's Hospital, where you'll receive medical care from the doctors and surgeons there. Scientists will be able to manufacture revivification syringes, access the NecroTech database and find other useful NecroTech equipment inside both the Herbert Building and the Greenhow Building. Due to the large number of buildings in Roftwood, every resource building is accessible via a free-running lane.
Generators are best found at Hildebrand Mall's hardware store but there are also four factories in the Roftwood that can also be searched. Fuel and spray cans are more available at four Auto Repair shops, the main one of which is Maiden Auto Repair, located just one block northwest of the Herbert Building. Flak jackets and ammunition can be found at Rawlins Row Police Dept, adjacent to the southeast corner of the mall.
If you prefer somewhere quieter than the bustle of Hildebrand Mall and its surrounding complex then you should visit western Roftwood. Western Roftwood serves as Roftwood's defense line due to the three police departments located there, which are optimally spaced from each other. Western Roftwood also has The Greenhow Building (an NT facility) and has an easy access to Nichols Mall in the adjacent suburb of Stanbury Village. Note that the area is usually heavily barricaded and can only be accessed by free running and via specific safehouses and entryways such as Blunden Row School and the Whale Building.
Connecting west Roftwood to the Mall complex are the Summer Building, the Wrench Hotel and an abandoned factory. The Summer Building holds Roftwood's mobile phone mast and therefore is always kept heavily barricaded, however the factory serves as an entryway and should always be accessible by survivors. The Wrench Hotel is the only hotel in Roftwood. It is close to the major buildings in the suburb (only two steps away from Hildebrand Mall and Eligius General Hospital) but it is not a Tactical Resource Point, making it a low-priority target for zombies, and a safe and convenient place to spend the night in.
We hope you enjoy your stay!
Thing to do!
Meet the locals! - The community in Roftwood are incredibly friendly! They party on the streets all night long! So go on, literally lose your head!
Play barricades! - Build some barricades, and then let your zombie friends tear them down again! Hours of fun.
Eat the Hobos! - We offer you plenty of tasty treats! There is the basic 'Newbie burger', the exotic 'lone zombie ham' and the Sunday special 'survivor-recently-dragged-out-of-building-pie'! Enjoy!
Recent News
Please: recent news at the top (signed & NPOV). Old news can be archived.
April 2009
March 2009
March 29th
NecroWatch reported in from the ruined Herbert Building. A recent scan revealed that there were 109 zombies within scanning range of the facility. Of these numbers, 14 zombies were at Swansborough Park Revivication Point, 11 zombies were at Quartly Library (even if it is probably closed on sundays), 9 zombies were at Hildebrand Mall, 6 zombies were at Chinnock Auto Repair, 5 zombies were at the Copeland Building, and 4 zombies each were at Chalderwood Road Railway Station and the Kirkland Arms. The remaining zombies were scattered across the area in groups of 3 or fewer. -- -Alka Selzer- [ Talk - Map - Stuff ] 10:19, 29 March 2009 (BST)
March 22nd
Scouted south & central Roftwood: the mall is ruined, many other buildings ruined, large number of zombies with small groups sleeping outside many buildings. Very few buildings with power. Changing to Dangerous. -- Grogh 19:56, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
- Update: NecroWatch reported in from The Greenhow Building. A recent scan had revealed that there were 141 zombies within scanning range of the facility. Of these numbers, 9 zombies were at both Guilford Avenue Fire Station and Vere Cinema, 8 zombies were at the neutral Quartly Library, 7 zombies were at St. Ethelbert's Hospital, and 6 zombies were at the Whale Building. Meanwhile over in Stanbury Village, there were 45 zombies at Nichols Mall, 19 zombies at the Went Building, and 6 zombies at both Guell Bank and the Spring Building (in Ridleybank). The remaining zombies, which were in small groups of 4 or fewer in number, were scattered across the area, with higher concentrations south of the facility. --Mobius
March 12th
Hildebrand Mall is in a delicate situation, roughly 20 survivors huddle in its mostly darkened shops, Herbert NT is shuttered and also without power and many strategic buildings including Rawlins Row PD and Guilford Avenue FD lay in ruins, corpse's rotting in there doorways, Quite an interesting 'burb for those willing to get there hands dirty and who don't mind a little risk --Alf 07:06, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
March 6th
Maynard King reported in from Dempsey Grove Police Department, "10 zombies are sighted outside the Eligius General Hospital. 13 zombies are sighted inside of it. Some buildings have been ruined. Zombies' number is increasing at Roftwood.".
March 2nd
NecroWatch reported in from the Greenhow and Herbert Buildings today. Recent scans had revealed that there were 154 zombies within scanning range of the two facilities. Of these numbers, 16 zombies were at the northeast corner of Hildebrand Mall, 13 zombies were at the Swansborough Park revive point, 11 zombies were at the Herbert facility itself, 7 zombies were at the Gregors Building, 6 zombies were at Rawlins Row PD, 6 more zombies were at Forward Cinema, 5 zombies were at Philpotts Towers, and 3 zombies were at Eligius General Hospital. The remaining detected zombies were either fewer in number than these mobs or located in adjacent suburbs. --Mobius 14:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
February 2009
February 24th
25.96 MHz: "... can see about sixty on the streets of Roftwood ... a horde of thirty or so outside Hildebrand Mall ... power's on across most of the area ... infrastructure looks intact too ... some survivor activity in the Greenhow Building ..." --AxisKiller 22:31, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
February 19th
NecroWatch reported in from the Herbert Building. A recent scan revealed that there were now 77 zombies within scanning range of the facility. Of these numbers, 30 zombies were at the northeast corner of Hildebrand Mall, 14 zombies were at the very neutral Quartly Library, and 8 zombies were at Chalderwood Road Railway Station. The remaining zombies, who numbered in the 1's and 2's, were scattered across the area and posed no significant threat, in and of themselves. --Mobius 15:45, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
February 18th
NecroWatch reported in from the Herbert Building today. A recent scan revealed that there were 88 zombies within scanning range of the facility. Of these numbers, 18 zombies were at Chalderwood Road Railway Station, 17 zombies were at the illustrious Quartly Library, 13 zombies were at Rawlins Row PD, 5 zombies were at the northeast corner of Hildebrand Mall, 4 zombies were at Vivian Cinema, and 3 zombies were at the Nicks Arms. The remaining zombies were fewer in number than these mobs and scattered across the area, with fewer zombies farther north. --Mobius 14:04, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
February 12th
NecroWatch reported in from the Herbert Building today. A recent scan revealed that there were 98 zombies within scanning range of the facility. Of these numbers, 44 zombies were at the northeast corner of Hildebrand Mall, 16 zombies were at Quartly Library, 10 zombies were at the Swansborough Park revive point, 6 zombies were at Rawlins Row PD, 5 zombies were at Eligius General Hospital, and 4 zombies were at the Somerton Building in Edgecombe. The remaining zombies were in small mobs than these and scattered across the area. --Mobius 13:22, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
February 8th
Remarkably, Hildebrand Mall has already reopened for business after the Mall Tour's depradations. Western Roftwood still looks like postwar Coventry, however.--Mallrat 18:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
February 4th
Mall Tour 09 has rolled on out of Roftwood, leaving most of the burb a smoking ruin, with zed stragglers stumbling off their brainz hangovers with a little hair of the dog as survivors struggle to clean up after the party. -- Marcusfilby 10:01, 4 February 2009 (EST)
Barricade Plan & Discussion
Due to the large population of Roftwood, the barricade plan has been changed a number of times and is mostly agreed upon. Under the latest agreement there are 33 VSB buildings (entry points) and 21 EHB buildings (safehouses). The plan can be seen in the suburb map at the bottom of this page.
Please try and rectify any breeches in the barricade plan you encounter (raising and lowering barricades appropriately). If you are stuck outside and this is not possible (because of equipment, skills or AP), you can search for another entry point using the suburb map at the bottom of the page and with 33 such designated entry points, the nearest one should be only a few AP away.
Please add comments to the Roftwood Barricade Plan discussion page if you feel there needs to be further refinements to the barricade plan. Thank you. --RAF Lt.G Deathnut RAF
Revive Points
Roftwood has two NecroTech facilities:
Roftwood doesn't actually have any cemeteries, however there are three main revive points in Roftwood:
- Turpin Road (61, 51), which is one block west of the Greenhow Building NT in north west Roftwood
- Cake Walk (62, 55), two blocks west of the Summer Building in west Roftwood
- Swansborough Park (68, 53), one block north of the Herbert Building NT in east Roftwood
The Sacred Ground policy is in force for these three revive points, please follow and respect it whether you are either zombie or harman.
Note: A discussion is under way to move the revive points to indoor locations in accordance with the RESCUE policy. More information on this will follow soon.
Radio and Cell Phone
The local radio frequency for communication in Roftwood is 26.17 MHz, this is the frequency for the Survivor Security Zone. Please keep radio transmitters in buildings tuned to this frequency for important news and information about events and happenings in the local area.
The transmitter for the Maltel cell-phone network is located in the Summer Building, and so this building is kept powered and at EHB at all times. Access is via the factory one block west, which is a designated entry point, kept at VSB+2.
Notable Events
The Last Stand at St. Ethelbert's Hospital
- January 10th 2008 - January 31st 2008
The Last stand of Roftwood was a battle between the Malton Medical Staff (MMS), Upper Left Corner (ULC) and remaining survivors of Roftwood against the RRF and ferals. After systematically levelling the suburb building by building, the final building left was St. Ethelbert's Hospital, which came to be known as "That damn Hospital that just wont fall". Though the battle was small, the conversation and comedy of the MMS and ULC was what made the event memorable.
Zombie Lectures
- November 15th 2006 - Mar 19th 2007
In the spacious Quartly Library zombies and survivors debated things like zombie spies, strike teams and even love. After months of discussion, the zambahz had taught the harmanz about barhah, and fought for their safehouse like any survivor should.
Ricky Martin Concert
- January 21st 2006
The first ever Ricky Martin concert in Malton took place. The concert began on January 21st at Floyd Stadium in Barrville, according to several fliers and advertisements sprayed on various buildings.
Community Notice Board
This section is for discussion, plans and news about Roftwood that will affect the whole suburb
Move of Revive Points for RESCUE
A new way of having revive points is to have them indoors, in ruined buildings next to or close to the NT facilities. It reduces AP used in travelling for the revivifiers and is also easier for the newly revived to get inside. Please see RESCUE for more information.
The policy recommends using non-resource buildings such as a church or junkyard and so the potential candidates for the new indoor revive points are:
- Blunden Row School for the Greenhow Building
- The Wotton Building for Herbert NT (this has been chosen over Vivian Cinema as is does not interrupt the free-running lane into south east Roftwood)
Please discuss this below:
Additional Notable Locations
- Turpin Road (61, 51) - RAF revive point.
- Grimshaw Road Police Department - (62,52) - The RAF's HQ.
- The Summer Building (64, 55) - Contains a Mobile Phone Mast.
- Moon Way (Edgecombe) (70, 53) - Revive point bordering Roftwood.
- Swansborough Park (68,53) - revive point.
- Cake Walk (62,55) - revive point.
Suburb Map
Template:RoftwoodBarricadePlan
Key
- EP: Entry Point
- RP: Revive Point
- NT: NecroTech Facility
- EHB: Extrememly Heavily Barricaded building, accessible via free-running only
- VSB: Very Strongly Barricaded building, a designated free-running entry point
