Soviet Union

The day the nukes fell the world was set aflame. Days after the impact the electricity was still gone, the Internet was unavailable, communication barely functioning.

Then the virus came. It was a horrible sickness. A pandemic that killed off half of the population within the first week. Right and order were abolished and anarchy ruled. The corpses began moving again in the second week of the pandemic. Zombie like creatures wandering around, their flesh cold and devoid of life.

Some of them mutated to beings barely human anymore. They grew new limbs and made terrifying sounds, groaning as their decomposing bodies fell apart.

While some of these mutants died for a final not long after they came back to life, other seemed to gain immortality. Their wounds knitting themselves back together, bleeding stopping within minutes at most. Not even fire helped to keep these things dead. The uninfected would call those creatures "royal". There would be one or two of these royal specimen per mutant species. They stood above their conspecifics. The probability that an infected one would turn into a royal mutant was way higher with countryhumans than with regular humans.

Mutants:

• Snappers: These are spiky turtles that can become up to three meters big and will everything within their reach. They can break your bones. They are very slow. Moss tends to grow on their shell as they grow older. They are most commonly found in marshes and other muddy areas. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_snapping_turtle)

• Clickers: There's little knowledge about these mutants but they got their name from the sound they make when crawling on the walls of the caves. It's assumed that their bones make the clicking noise that also gave them their name.

• Shirks: These are a weird mix between zombie and fish. Their colour and seize varies depending on the kind of fish they mutated with. (Clown fish --> orange scales/round fish tail/poision resistant/small. Great white shark --> big/grey or white scales/pointy fish tail/good smell.). Most of these creatures were once divers or lost travellers that died in a swamp. Some still wear scraps of their old clothing or diving equipment. They are aggressive if threatened.

• Slimes: They overall harmless. They are just big blobs of slime jumping around in the bogs. Some are acidic though. They often have random objects floating inside themselves as they dissolve them very slowly.

• Zombie: just a regular Zombie like from the movies. Wandering around without a real purpose. They can be encountered pretty much everywhere.

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