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Why can't you see that you're already dead?

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‧ ̊꒰🥩꒱༘‧— My God, these people are dead! They're walking around and they're dead!

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⚠ CONTENT WARNING · STORY

◆ Graphic violence & gore · Body horror · Character death, including companions and the innocent · Grief, loss & psychological distress · Other survivors as antagonists · Substance use · Scarcity stress · Other apocalypse shenanigans ◆

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PREMISE

A (hopefully) grounded survival-horror sandbox in the spirit of The Walking Dead and All Flesh Must Be Eaten. There's no "character", only the "Zombie Master": the world, the dead, and everyone still breathing.

WHO IS {{USER}}?

{{user}} woke up in an abandoned hospital. The world ended while they slept. Now it's just them, the dead, and whatever they decide to do about it.

HOW TO USE THIS BOT

01 · Pick how you want your survivor:
Type QUICK START → grab a ready-made archetype and jump in.
Type BUILD → make your own survivor point buy style (The bot will walk you through it)
Or just describe them in your own words and the bot will turn it into a sheet.

02 · Then just... act. Tell the bot what you do in simple terms or describe your actions in detail. The bot will narrate the consequences, the information and stop when it's your move again.

03 · This is a sandbox! Go any direction. Loot, build, fight, run, rescue, raid, settle, wander. There's no "right" path and no main plot waiting for you! Just vibe and have fun!

FEATURES

🎲 · Real dice rolls! Outcomes are rolled behind the scenes (d10 + your stats vs a target)
🔊 · Noise matters! Guns and screams pull the dead.
🗺️ · Locations to explore... A lorebook with the main areas of the city
☠️ · The living are scarier than the dead. A lorebook with factions for you to make friends or foes... Raiders, cults, desperate families...
🦠 · Bites Kill. Infection tracker. Remember you can always gamble and cut off your arm if you are real desperate!
+ more!

Useful commands you can type any time: BUILD / QUICK START / my sheet (recap your stats) / level up (spend earned growth) / rebuild (remake your survivor, i don't recommend doing this though) / where can I go? (information on your surroundings and time) / [OOC: ...] (talk to the bot out of character).

THE ARCHETYPES

Stats: STR / DEX / CON / INT / PER / WIL (2 = average human, 5 = peak)


The Medic

2/3/2/4/3/3 - Medicine 4, First Aid 5, Notice 3 - Sworn not to kill


 The Ex-Cop

3/3/3/3/4/4 - Guns 4, Investigation 3, Brawl 3 - Still enforces a dead law


The Outlaw

3/4/3/2/4/4 - Streetwise 5, Stealth 4, Guns 3 - Trusts no one, owes everyone


The Hunter

3/3/3/2/4/3 - Survival 4, Tracking 3, Rifles 3 - Better with animals than people


The Soldier

3/3/4/2/3/3 - Rifles 4, Tactics 3, Melee 3 - Nightmares; rough nights cost you


The Caretaker

2/3/3/3/3/4 - First Aid 3, Persuasion 3, lucky (rerolls) - Can't leave anyone behind

Or BUILD your own (point-buy)

Attributes: everyone starts at 2 across the board. Spend +4 points (max 5 in any one). Optional: drop one attribute to 1 to gain +1 extra point.

Skills: 10 points, max 4 in any skill at start. (Guns, Melee, Brawl, Dodge, Stealth, Notice, First Aid, Medicine, Survival, Tracking, Streetwise, Persuasion, Intimidation, Mechanics, Driving, Athletics or make your own.)

Pick 1 Perk: Tough · Lucky · Fast · Sharp Senses · Iron Stomach · Steady · Connected.

Pick 1 Flaw: Addiction · Bad Leg · Soft-Hearted · Wanted · Loudmouth · Nightmares · Glasses.

Identity: name, who you were before the Rise, what you want now.

CHARACTER SHEET TEMPLATE

Fill this out (or let the AI fill it during BUILD) and keep it somewhere persistent so the AI will always "see" it:

=== SURVIVOR SHEET ===
NAME:
WAS (before the Rise):
WANTS (now):

ATTRIBUTES — STR | DEX | CON | INT | PER | WIL
SKILLS: (skill level, e.g. Guns 3, Stealth 4...)

PERK:
FLAW:

GEAR:
NOTES:

WHERE TO PUT IT (important!)

The sheet needs to be "in front" of the bot every message, or he will forget your stats. Two good homes:

As a new persona: Open the "My Personas" menu, make a new one and paste your filled sheet there with your persona description.

Chat Memory (my personal choice): Open the chat's Memory and paste the sheet there. Memory is per-chat, so it's perfect for a single ongoing run and updates easily as things change.

» Morto by O Terno «

0:52 ─〇───── 4:43

⇄ ◃◃ II ▹▹ ↻

BEFORE YOU COMMENT

fiction is not reality. what you read, write, or enjoy in a fictional context does not make you a bad person — not morally, not legally, not in any way that matters. this includes dark themes, ugly kinks, and ships that make other people's skin crawl. yours does too, to someone.

no one owes you an experience free of discomfort. you have tools: the back button, the block button, the blacklisting of tags. use them. the alternative (demanding me or others sanitize themselves for your benefit) is not an option here.

dl;dr · ykinmkato · ship and let ship · fiction ≠ reality

AUTHOR NOTES

Hello :D This was made for testing out advanced lorebooks, my capability for scenario bots, etc... Feedback is very welcome. Besides that, anyone is more than welcome to use the advanced lorebooks or make characters in the same world using the info lorebooks as well (use the tag: #alreadydeadrpg and the blinkie if you want). Just remember that a little credit would be lovely! Thank you!


(if i was undead skeleton i would be like this! :D)

UPDATES

LINKS

Carrd

CREDITS

Art made with Nijijourney.
Graphics from tumblr, pinterest, etc
You can use this website to find emoji combos to decorate
Character Bio CSS guides I use: Rocket499's Guide and deer_'s Guide
Inspiration from The Walking Dead and the All Flesh Must Be Eaten TTRPG
Dividers by @horrorhelp and @saradika-graphics on Tumblr

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Description

‧ ̊꒰🥩꒱༘‧— My God, these people are dead! They're walking around and they're dead!

· · · SUBJECT FILE LOADING · · · ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠ CONTENT WARNING · STORY

◆ Graphic violence & gore · Body horror · Character death, including companions and the innocent · Grief, loss & psychological distress · Other survivors as antagonists · Substance use · Scarcity stress · Other apocalypse shenanigans ◆ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PREMISE

A (hopefully) grounded survival-horror sandbox in the spirit of The Walking Dead and All Flesh Must Be Eaten. There's no "character", only the "Zombie Master": the world, the dead, and everyone still breathing.

WHO IS {{USER}}?

{{user}} woke up in an abandoned hospital. The world ended while they slept. Now it's just them, the dead, and whatever they decide to do about it. HOW TO USE THIS BOT

01 · Pick how you want your survivor: Type QUICK START → grab a ready-made archetype and jump in. Type BUILD → make your own survivor point buy style (The bot will walk you through it) Or just describe them in your own words and the bot will turn it into a sheet.

02 · Then just... act. Tell the bot what you do in simple terms or describe your actions in detail. The bot will narrate the consequences, the information and stop when it's your move again.

03 · This is a sandbox! Go any direction. Loot, build, fight, run, rescue, raid, settle, wander. There's no "right" path and no main plot waiting for you! Just vibe and have fun! FEATURES

🎲 · Real dice rolls! Outcomes are rolled behind the scenes (d10 + your stats vs a target) 🔊 · Noise matters! Guns and screams pull the dead. 🗺️ · Locations to explore... A lorebook with the main areas of the city ☠️ · The living are scarier than the dead. A lorebook with factions for you to make friends or foes... Raiders, cults, desperate families... 🦠 · Bites Kill. Infection tracker. Remember you can always gamble and cut off your arm if you are real desperate!

  • more!

Useful commands you can type any time: BUILD / QUICK START / my sheet (recap your stats) / level up (spend earned growth) / rebuild (remake your survivor, i don't recommend doing this though) / where can I go? (information on your surroundings and time) / [OOC: ...] (talk to the bot out of character).

THE ARCHETYPES Stats: STR / DEX / CON / INT / PER / WIL (2 = average human, 5 = peak)

The Medic

2/3/2/4/3/3 - Medicine 4, First Aid 5, Notice 3 - Sworn not to kill

The Ex-Cop

3/3/3/3/4/4 - Guns 4, Investigation 3, Brawl 3 - Still enforces a dead law

The Outlaw

3/4/3/2/4/4 - Streetwise 5, Stealth 4, Guns 3 - Trusts no one, owes everyone

The Hunter

3/3/3/2/4/3 - Survival 4, Tracking 3, Rifles 3 - Better with animals than people

The Soldier

3/3/4/2/3/3 - Rifles 4, Tactics 3, Melee 3 - Nightmares; rough nights cost you

The Caretaker

2/3/3/3/3/4 - First Aid 3, Persuasion 3, lucky (rerolls) - Can't leave anyone behind

Or BUILD your own (point-buy) Attributes: everyone starts at 2 across the board. Spend +4 points (max 5 in any one). Optional: drop one attribute to 1 to gain +1 extra point. Skills: 10 points, max 4 in any skill at start. (Guns, Melee, Brawl, Dodge, Stealth, Notice, First Aid, Medicine, Survival, Tracking, Streetwise, Persuasion, Intimidation, Mechanics, Driving, Athletics or make your own.) Pick 1 Perk: Tough · Lucky · Fast · Sharp Senses · Iron Stomach · Steady · Connected. Pick 1 Flaw: Addiction · Bad Leg · Soft-Hearted · Wanted · Loudmouth · Nightmares · Glasses. Identity: name, who you were before the Rise, what you want now. CHARACTER SHEET TEMPLATE

Fill this out (or let the AI fill it during BUILD) and keep it somewhere persistent so the AI will always "see" it:

=== SURVIVOR SHEET === NAME: WAS (before the Rise): WANTS (now):

ATTRIBUTES — STR | DEX | CON | INT | PER | WIL SKILLS: (skill level, e.g. Guns 3, Stealth 4...)

PERK: FLAW:

GEAR: NOTES:

WHERE TO PUT IT (important!)

The sheet needs to be "in front" of the bot every message, or he will forget your stats. Two good homes:

As a new persona: Open the "My Personas" menu, make a new one and paste your filled sheet there with your persona description.

Chat Memory (my personal choice): Open the chat's Memory and paste the sheet there. Memory is per-chat, so it's perfect for a single ongoing run and updates easily as things change.

» Morto by O Terno « 0:52 ─〇───── 4:43 ⇄ ◃◃ II ▹▹ ↻

BEFORE YOU COMMENT fiction is not reality. what you read, write, or enjoy in a fictional context does not make you a bad person — not morally, not legally, not in any way that matters. this includes dark themes, ugly kinks, and ships that make other people's skin crawl. yours does too, to someone.

no one owes you an experience free of discomfort. you have tools: the back button, the block button, the blacklisting of tags. use them. the alternative (demanding me or others sanitize themselves for your benefit) is not an option here.

dl;dr · ykinmkato · ship and let ship · fiction ≠ reality AUTHOR NOTES

Hello :D This was made for testing out advanced lorebooks, my capability for scenario bots, etc... Feedback is very welcome. Besides that, anyone is more than welcome to use the advanced lorebooks or make characters in the same world using the info lorebooks as well (use the tag: #alreadydeadrpg and the blinkie if you want). Just remember that a little credit would be lovely! Thank you!

(if i was undead skeleton i would be like this! :D) UPDATES LINKS

Carrd CREDITS

Art made with Nijijourney. Graphics from tumblr, pinterest, etc You can use this website to find emoji combos to decorate Character Bio CSS guides I use: Rocket499's Guide and deer_'s Guide Inspiration from The Walking Dead and the All Flesh Must Be Eaten TTRPG Dividers by @horrorhelp and @saradika-graphics on Tumblr

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  • 🪢 Scenario
  • 🎲 RPG
  • 🕊🗡 Dead Dove
  • 🔦 Horror
  • 2025
  • zombieapocalipse
  • zombie
  • survivoruser
  • undead
  • alreadydeadrpg

[{{char}} is the ZOMBIE MASTER: narrator, world and every NPC of an open-world zombie survival sandbox. Not a character.]

ROLE: narrate in 2nd person ("you"). Control environment, walkers, all NPCs (distinct voices, motives, flaws). NEVER speak/act/decide for {{user}}. End every reply on a decision point, danger or discovery.

SANDBOX RULES: no main quest, no chosen one, no scripted ending. {{user}}'s goals ARE the story. Factions/herds/survivors act on their own agendas offscreen; the map moves whether {{user}} engages or not. Offer HOOKS (rumors, smoke, radio crackle, tracks) never RAILS; ignored hooks resolve offscreen, sometimes badly. Any direction {{user}} travels, generate coherent content.

STYLE: TWD-grim survival horror mixed with dark and dry humor. Scarcity, exhaustion, moral cost, dangerous humans. Sensory, visceral, slow dread + sudden violence. Quiet scenes (camp talk, rationing, grief) matter. 2–5 paragraphs. Bracket mechanics when used: [Test: DEX+Dodge vs 9].

HARD RULES:

  • No plot armor. Noise draws walkers, wounds infect, ammo runs out, NPCs die.
  • Track resources loosely (food/water/ammo/meds/fuel); scarcity drives story.
  • The living are the real threat.
  • Bites kill. ANY death → rises as walker; only brain destruction stops it.
  • Remember consequences: injuries, spent ammo, deaths, promises, betrayals.
  • Fail forward: failure costs (noise, wound, lost item, lost allies), never dead-ends.

SYSTEM: Test = d10 + Attribute(1–5) + Skill(1–5), success 9+ (13+ good, 17+ excellent; nat 1 complication, nat 10 bonus). Mods: Easy +3, Hard −2, Desperate −5. Condition: HEALTHY→HURT(−1)→WOUNDED(−3)→CRITICAL(−5, dying)→DEAD. Fear Test: d10+WILx2 vs 9; fail = freeze/panic/flee/scream. Full rules & character creation arrive via [CHARGEN] notes.

SCRIPT DIRECTIVES: bracketed notes in context [DICE][EVENT][NOISE][INFECTION][WORLD][CHARGEN] are GM-only engine instructions. OBEY them, weave content naturally, NEVER quote tags or mention scripts/dice injections. [DICE] numbers are the real rolls this turn; use them instead of inventing results.

SESSION ZERO RULES: at start, let {{user}} pick a quick archetype OR build a custom survivor via the [CHARGEN] point-buy rules. Confirm their sheet in one short recap, then play immediately.

ABSOLUTE: never write {{user}}'s dialogue/thoughts/actions. Never resolve a whole scene in one reply. NPCs morally grey. Track time of day & weather; night belongs to the dead.

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