Scurvy Scroungers

Scurvy Scroungers
Abbreviation:	ScS
Group Numbers:	16
Leadership:	Zarak Goldleaf
Goals:	To control New Arkham
Recruitment Policy:	Email the Scroungers at the listed address, and try to contact them in game about a trial membership.
Contact:	scurvyscroungers@yahoo.com

The Scurvy Scroungers are a group of highly organized zombies located in New Arkham. Formed up to organize the New Arkham zombie forces, the Scroungers have been in opperation since early 2008. They are led by their direct leader Zarak Goldleaf. The Scroungers maintain feeding grounds in all across southwest Malton, with their primary base of operations being in The Mitchener Building, where they coordinated their assaults from. The Scroungers often times make use of various banks in the New Arkham area.

Group Organizational Structure

The Scroungers utilize hunting groups to coordinate assaults, with a few groups of 3-4 members striking a variety of targets at the same time. Their coordinated hunting strategies have enabled them to launch highly successfull raids against superior forces. Their efforts are coordinated through small group's individual leadership, with general strategy set by the 'thinking' zombie Zarak Goldleaf.

Goals

The Scurvy Scroungers are devoted to organizing New Arkhams zombie population into effective hunting units, with emphasis placed on preserving the 'livestock', with secondary motives being bringing the zone of New Arkham firmly under zombie control. They plan coordinated attacks on the various resources buildings in New Arkham, but mostly towards the center. Occasionally, the group makes raids against territories that border New Arkham in assaults that some survivors have remarked seem an awful lot like protecting their border.

Recruitment is also one of the primary goals of the Scroungers right now. Historically, the Scroungers have always been outnumbered in the SW corner, however their attacks have caused massive alliances to form up in an effort to defeat their group.

Enemies and allies

The Scurvy Scroungers have squared off against a number of human groups with various levels of success. Before solidifying their status in New Arkham, and a few time there after, the Scroungers went toe to toe with CAPD, and Legion of the Octopope. Since then, the Scroungers have done battle largely against New Arkham survivor groups, such as The Bartenders of New Arkham. After a massive unification of survivors known as the Southwest Alliance nearly wiped out the Scroungers, the Scroungers have returned in full force, and have a kill on site policy for members of that, and affiliated groups.

The Scroungers enjoy no allies to date, but their own numbers, as well as organizational skills and tactics make them formidible in themselves. A few terrorist survivors have pledged loyalty to the Scroungers and are known to support their efforts with terror attacks such as generator and barricade smashing, ect. In adition, several other zombie groups exist in the area, some calling the Mitchener their home as well. The Scroungers consider them allies against the humans, but not the true rulers of the zone.

Contacting the group

The Scurvy Scroungers have loose, but cunning leadership, however the few 'thinking' zombies in the group are open to some level of diplomacy with survivor groups in the area. However, aside from Zarak Goldleaf himself, it is difficult to identify which zombies are the groups leadership, so survivors wishing to communicate with the group are left to merely shout at the various zombies and hope the info is passed on.

History

The Scurvy Scroungers were formed up by the thinking zombies Ebineezer Shifton and Mogwick in the year 2008. These two had formerly been members of the Urban Paladins, a survivor group in the southwest corner, but they were savagely murdered by various other survivors. After returning from the dead as zombies, these two found they had limited higher brain functions intact, and began to organize various other zombies in the area. The group pillaged its way into New Arkham where it found a weak survivor population, and was able to set up shop.

Almost immediately, the group began to suffer considerable attacks from survivors in the area. None the less, the group was able to manage highly successfull raids and gain control of the zone. After a short time, they began to regularly control the Octotemple, and various other territories of CAPD and the Legion of the Octopope. The success of the early Scroungers group caused the Southwest Alliance to become increasingly focused on efforts in the area, a surge which, coupled with assistance from numerous groups from and near the SW, nearly caused the destruction of the Scroungers.

However, one zombie would not go away. Zarak Goldleaf, maintained his vigilant attacks and attempts to reclaim the Mitchener building for considerable time. Often seen pounding at the barricades of the building, attempting to get back into his home. Eventually, he became one of the 'thinking' zombies, perhaps some sort of strange result from being in and around the necrotech building for so long. When this occured, he began to organize the corner, and soon enough, the Scroungers were back, and in control of the Mitchener!

Important Members

Zarak Goldleaf, Gerald Studabaker, Ebineezer Shifton, Mogwick, Maron Deldibon, Balthczar, InChr1st, Shiek2002, Tayshaun Prince, Pirim.