ATZ Campaign: The Cast

Introduction

For some time now, I have been promising/threatening to produce an "obituaries" page for my ATZ campaign.  When I sat down to the task, though, it seemed more appropriate to create a Cast List instead.  The difference?  Mainly this: the latter includes characters who are still alive as well as those who succumbed.  I can thus catalogue the appearances of all my characters.

Note that I've only listed player characters here.  This means that a number of other named figures do not appear in this list.  Left out for this reason are gamesmaster-controlled figures: a few gangers and quite a number of policemen and women (including the ever-popular Officer Columbo).  I'm still debating the wisdom of omitting them.  On the one hand it saves me a great deal of work, since most of these minor characters only appeared in a single episode.  On the other hand, this article feels incomplete without them.  Hmm.

At the time of writing, this cast list includes all my ATZ campaign games from #1 to #9.  I'm not sure if or how this list should be updated when further games are played...

The Cast List

Name	Picture	Appeared in game(s)	Fate	Notes
John		1: The Search for Gramps, 2: John goes shopping, 3: Help!, 4: Quarantine!, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive	John and Bomber are the "star" characters in this campaign.
Darcy		1: The Search for Gramps, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive
Lizzie		1: The Search for Gramps, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive
Mr. Braxton		1: The Search for Gramps		Killed by zombies while trying to steal a car
Clancy		1: The Search for Gramps, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 7: Rally!, 9: Return to Golden Hills	Alive	Initially Mr Braxton's dog, later claimed by Bomber.
Rob		1: The Search for Gramps		Killed by zombies the moment he appeared
Dougie		1: The Search for Gramps		Ran from zombies and hid out in "Teenage Fiction" section of bookstore
Sam		1: The Search for Gramps		Killed by zombies in a bookstore
Willie		1: The Search for Gramps		Killed by zombies the moment he appeared
Albert		1: The Search for Gramps, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 9: Return to Golden Hills	Alive	Gertrude and Albert often need rescuing!
Gertrude		1: The Search for Gramps, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 9: Return to Golden Hills	Alive	Gertrude and Albert often need rescuing!
Chad		2: John goes shopping		Shot dead by gangers
Bomber		2: John goes shopping, 3: Help!, 4: Quarantine!, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 7: Rally!, 9: Return to Golden Hills	Alive	John and Bomber are the "star" characters in this campaign.
Captain Salty		3: Help!, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills		Bitten by a zombie, risen as one of the undead but immediately put down by Bomber.
Goofy		3: Help!, 7: Rally!, 9: Return to Golden Hills	Alive	Taciturn and private
Nancy		3: Help!		Killed by zombies while being filmed by a TV News crew.
Terry		3: Help!, 4: Quarantine!, 7: Rally!		Taken by surprise and killed by a zombie
Laddie		3: Help!, 5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive	Initially a stray, now John's dog
Edna		5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive
Abe		5: The Battle of Golden Hills, 6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!		Accidentally shot by Lizzie, then finished off by zombies
Lieutenant Costner	?	6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!		Left for dead near a mob of zombies
Corporal Van Damme	?	6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive	Psychotic killer
Connery	?	6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive	Injured by rioting mob
Dalton	?	6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive
Eastwood	?	6: Evacuation, 8: Breakdown!	Alive	Injured by rioting mob
Iain		7: Rally!, 9: Return to Golden Hills	Alive	Fit, but amateur
Pike		7: Rally!		Killed by zombies while trying to steal a motorbike.
Pavel		7: Rally!, 9: Return to Golden Hills		Killed by zombies whilst trying to flee from the horror