Undead

Elijah Hassan was the stereotypical battle scarred veteran. Beginning his service in the IDF when he was just in his teens, Hassan had served as a ranger and tracker for nearly thirty years. A member of the elite Hammer of Heaven corps, there were few things Hassan hadn't seen and fewer he hadn't killed. Covered in countless scars from countless battles, Sergeant Hassan was a legend among the IDF, even refusing promotion so that he could continue to focus solely on killing the creatures that threatened the IDF. Knowing the Israeli countryside like the back of his hand, Hassan was renowned for hunting down, rooting out, and killing more hostiles than any other IDF member. But everything was about to change for Hassan.

Encryption Level: CLASSIFIED
File Series: LOC_BAS_B2A91
Debrief Class: Alpha-2-Tango
Requesting Individual: ō

Location: The Bastion is a North American Union (NAU) frontier base deep within the Swamps of Lanta surrounded by fens, grasping cypress, and boggy uplands. The one access point to the isolated citadel is an ancient asphalt track rising, pitted and decayed, from the swamps, twisting among the ruins of buildings toppled and sundered from the apoc destruction.

Encryption Level: CLASSIFIED
File Series: LOC_O'TLAND_01
Debrief Class: Alpha-4-Echo
Requesting Individual: §

Recording... Sgt. Kale Edge speaking; Project Horizon Line Field Report #1, Begin.

Rumors have recently arose of large and obscenely muscled undead with root-like tissue protruding from their stumped arms, entwined around slabs of stone or other large inorganic objects. These large, undead wrecking balls have so far proved a harder nightmare to overcome for the NAU, as these fusions of flesh and stone appear stronger than their purely carnal cousins. With the arrival of such brutal and stalwart aggressors, the NAU finds the former solace of the dormant graveyards quickly fading into nothingness.

Why the graveyards have become breeding grounds for the undead after generations of seemingly inactivity, and their surprisingly enhanced strength, has sparked heated debates among the NAU scientists, with little consensus. The resolute strength and rigor of these undead shatters armor, splits flesh and snaps bone like dry sticks, hence the collective name given to these novel terrors: Bone Snapper.

What exactly causes the Undead of Apoc Earth to rise from their graves and reign down fear and terror on the living remains uncertain. However, they rise nonetheless, countless thousands, each unique and different and dangerous. There are some Undead, however, that are far more fearsome and terrifying than the others.

What exactly occurs to make a corpse into a Flesh Ripper is unclear. As with other Undead, countless legends describe the process. While the details may vary according to tribe, society, and culture, there are a few consistent facts within each. Almost all of the legends agree that it takes a soul of a person who was outstandingly cruel. This soul, in life, must have caused great physical pain to those around him.

The nights had grown slightly cooler, and very much darker. The swamp had grown silent and still, as if the life of the swamp itself had gone into some kind of hibernation with the onset of winter. In the deepest recesses of night, where acid rain once fell, now acid snow drifted in silent, white clouds; the nightmares of a sickly disease dreamed by a dying world.

Shadow stood upon a dead tree, surveying the surrounding landscape, his senses open to everything, taking in the essence of the swamp itself, the essence of life and death lingering in the air itself. Shadow's eyes wandered out along the horizon and came to stop on the ruined, domed temple. A thin, green colored smoke drifted out of the giant opening in the roof. A sickly, green light radiated from within; and the moaning sounds of countless undead offered a greeting chorus to all those who came close to the temple. Shadow's eyes then drifted upwards to the sky, as he gazed not for the first time at the alien stars above. He wondered not for the first time if he often gazed at the stars of Ai. Then he took a deep breath.

Card List

Powers 
Dogpile
Feed on the Dead (2 cards) 
Grapple Attack (2 cards)
Grayfly Swarm 
Greater Regeneration 
Horrible Scream 
Horrible Scream 3 

Powers 
Mob Assault 
Plague Bearer 
Putrescent (2 cards) 
Quick Response 
Technology Bane
Undead Infection (2 cards) 

Key:   = What is a Power Card?   = What is a Double-Card?

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