UDWiki:Projects/The History Of Monroeville
Introduction
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)
History
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).
The question of zombies
Amongst all this survivor activity, zombies were hard to find. Many players realised that if they wanted crossover skills they had to start as a survivor. In addition to this the large number of survivors for every zombie meant that in the early days most zombies on the streets were shot every day. Feral hording was impossible because no standing zombies could be spotted.
Organised zombie behaviour was also impeded by the lack of lurching gait and the lack of any mapping.
Several of the larger malton zombie groups created new hordes in monroeville. The Cornfed Undead (Feral Undead), the Malton Resistant Front (RRF) and Walk the Earth (Second Big Bash) all created sizable hordes.
Independant of these traditional groups, Monroeville also spawned its own Independent horde, the Monroeville Many (No relation to the historical group The Many. These "Big 4" zombie groups dwarfed the several smaller hordes within Monroeville.
It should also be noted that some survivor groups in Malton created zombie groups in Monroeville. These include Pitmans Minions, made up from a number of Fortress members.
