UDWiki:Projects/The History Of Monroeville
A shocking truth
Monroeville is over. Lets all face it.
So. Lets chronicle its history, from crazy suprise opening, to dull ruined husk.
Formatting thoughts
If we start by just throwing up random experiences and the like, hopefully we can create an account of a year in the life of our brave second city. But anyway. We've got a talk page. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 22:11, 1 May 2009 (BST)
The Birth Of Monroeville
On the 25 February 2008 Urban Dead's Second City was opened.
As Kevan Wrote
To celebrate the launch of George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, we've opened a temporary second map in the city of Monroeville. Create a new character there and you can loot a video camera to edit together your own video diary of the zombie apocalypse, with Romero box-set prizes available for UK players.
Even before the official announcement players were sigining up, having apparently discovered the sign in page through the use of google.
This first day was suitably manic. With no mapping avaliable, no groups formed and the revelation that there was no necrotech confusion was the way forward.
Amongst other issues discovered on this first day were the abilities of video cameras, and the fact that once searched all Fire Departments and Police Departments contained their own radio transmitters.
Early Rumour and Chaos
Over the first few days comfusion continued to reigh. Giant suburbs, in some cases 4 times the size of Malton's made finding other players very difficult. The seemingly helpful names of suburbs ( West Monroeville Etc.), turned out to be misleading as neither a North or East Monroeville were present.
Within a few weeks over 60 separate survivior groups were created.
A number of new building types were discovered. Large farm complexes were spread throughout the countryside, and some buildings were larger than anything previously seen in Malton. The largest of these was , Monroeville Mall.
Video Cameras and the skills race
With the realisation that death was permanent, many survivors chose to stay indoors, Punch-FAK-ing their friends till they were able to barricade buildings. They were trying to do so at haste, as the newly risen zombies of Monroeville were also in a race; to gain Memories of Life before the survivors barricaded their safehouses.
The zombies were at first at an advantage, as the huge influx of new members meant that there was an abundance of street candy, for the new zombies to kill and gain much-needed experience, however, once the survivors became more organized, many zombies turned on their undead brethren, severly slowing their rate of progress.
Whilst this was happening, those survivors with a large amount of bravado [Read: Stupidity] flocked to Malls, to gain a Video Camera, to compete in the competition (See Above).
