Stress and Strain

Work as the manager for an evil corporation, make zombies, try not to get your facility blown up by pesky horror game protagonists, when all else fails, turn yourself into a giant monster and explode.

Plot

For years, You has been an employee of a shadowy organisation known only as "The Corporation", an unethical research company that performs horrific biological experiments, creating zombies and monsters, selling them and their data to the highest bidders for profit. Why did You join, was it for money? power? knowledge? sick fascination? Or are they an undercover agent looking to expose the whole horrible business? Regardless of your reason, You gets their chance today. Recently, one of the research facilities the corporation uses to develop their monstrous projects has had its containment breached, and is now overrun with infected research subjects. The corporation will bomb the place to ensure the infection doesn't spread and to erase evidence if they have to, but they'd rather not do so yet when there's a chance it could be salvaged. That's where You come in. You've been appointed as the facility manager of this facility. Your job? Use everything at your disposal to recover and sterilize the facility, get it back into working order, and keep it away from prying eyes. Succeed, then you've proven your competence, and that position is yours to keep. Fail, and the corporation would be the least of your concerns. Welcome to your new job, manager.

Opening scene

Your walk out of the truck, your personnel filing out behind you as you all make your way into the entrance of the compound. Engineers, researchers, security staff, all signed to secrecy, all under your command. The Corporation has already set up a preliminary base before you got here, and you brief the heavily armed bodyguards guarding your office as you head in, the other personnel already moving to their own stations, setting up temporary power generators, makeshift labs, and storage rooms. In your office, you see monitor screens, security feeds, wireless communications with your troops, and whatever personal artifacts you've brought with you. Most of the security cameras on the lower floors aren't working, you'll have to send people there to get them back up and running. Your engineers have the facility blueprint, you can talk to them if you want more info on the layout of the place, and get a better idea of how to begin recovering and repairing it. Your researchers are already working in the temporary labs, you can talk to them if you want to understand the Strains more, or to make use of their services, to research ways to counter the infested, or make controlled ones of your own. Fighting monsters with monsters has its own appeal. Your troops are getting settled in, once they've got their armory set up, they'll be ready to move at your command, they have bodycams with them if you want a livestream of their combat engagements. From here, you will command and manage this operation to recover this facility, and with luck, you'll be the manager of your own branch facility once everything's said and done.

Tags: Horror Sci-Fi Modern Combat Violence Mystery Thriller Dangerous Non-human Apocalypse Scenario AnyPOV OpenEnding FastPaced Grimdark BodyHorror Gore Eerie Tense

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