The Walking Dead is an enemy book for Hunter: The Reckoning.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Behold a Pale Horse...
- Graves yawn wide. Spirits haunt the living. Corpses pursue perverse agendas from beyond the grave. The gates to the next world swing wide. Is it the end of the world? Not if hunters can help it. Theirs is the power to put the dead to rest — once and for all.
- ...and His Name That Sat on Him was Death
- Hunter: The Walking Dead explores and explains the proliferation of ghosts and zombies in the lands of the living. These monsters are hunters' greatest enemies - they're everywhere and are clearly abominations against everything right and natural. And yet, why do hunters' emergence and the rise of spirits seem to coincide? What is the hidden connection between the imbued and the restless dead?
Contents[]
Prologue: Dead Men Walking[]
John O'Malley, aka Cop90, takes on what will be his last monster.
Introduction[]
- Source Materials
- Movies
- Cemetery Man
- Dead Alive
- The Frighteners
- The Serpent and the Rainbow
- The Sixth Sense
- Fallen
- The Believers, Predator 2, Fright Night, Demon Knight, Split Second, any of the Mr. Vampire films and The Hidden.
- Television
- Poltergeist: The Legacy
- Friday the 13th: The Series
- Millennium
- Brimstone
- Literature
- The Complete John Silence Stories, by Algernon Blackwood
- Carrion Comfort and Children of the Night, by Dan Simmons
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, by H. P. Lovecraft (Film: The Resurrected)
- Mindhunter, John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
- "The Last Illusion," by Clive Barker
- Movies
Chapter One: The Enemy Within[]
The monster Ichmail appears on hunter-net.org and gives details on The Orphic Circle, with the hunters questioning how he got in.
Chapter Two: The Enemy of my Enemy[]
The new user Carpenter169 appears on hunter-net to give more information on the walking dead. But Witness1 and Cabbie22 find out something shocking about their new guest.
Chapter Three: Stranger in a Dead Land[]
Shaka74 goes to Haiti to study the restless dead there, and finds more than he bargained for.
Chapter Four: Speaking Ill of the Dead[]
Carpenter returns to give the hunters information on Vampires, but can he be trusted?
Chapter Five: Descent into Death[]
Oracle171 goes to verify Ichmail's information on the Orphic Circle, and almost succumbs to the dangers there.
Chapter Six: Ties to the Dead[]
Ichmail and Carpenter have an argument, as Carpenter's time on Earth runs out.
Chapter Seven: Rules & Storytelling[]
New rules for portraying the Walking Dead.
- Angry Ghost Profile - Stats
- Medium's Abilities
- Behold the Dead
- Reveal Tormentors
- The Looming Presence
- Willing Host
- Powers of the Blessed (Ghost Cultists)
- Aura of Death
- Hell's Fire
- Powers From Beyond
- Prophet's Charm
- Visions of Death
- The Arsenal of the Dead
- Africa: Death of Innocence
- Africa: Form of the Beast
- Asia: Ancestor's Blessing
- The Caribbean: The Gift of Secrets
- Ghostly Speed
- Common Tricks
- Distant Whispers
- Fooled You
- Grave Gardener
- Inspired Dreams
- Mark of Corruption
- Reinforce
- Scripture
- Shadow Senses
- Summon Angry Ghosts
- Tell Me What Happened
- Temptation's Whisper
- Uncommon Tricks
- Armed and Dangerous
- Dark Pet
- Dead Men Tell Tales
- Killer Toys
- Look At Me
- Mirror Monster
- Once More, With Feeling
- Pack Attack
- Rare and Deadly Tricks
- Change of Heart
- Cloak of Dreams
- Dark Twin
- Detective's Denouement
- Death Storm
- Emotional Overload
- Imposter
- Sleepwalk
Background Information[]
- This book was part of the Year of Revelations.
- Playtesters are credited in the book: Thérèse Gaughan, Matt Honeyball, Martyn Meeks and John Shockley.
- Chapter Three: Stranger in a Dead Land, Earl Deams thinks he is talking to a Mummy, but he probably encountered a Samedi (Who he nicknames as Dr. Phibes).
Memorable Quotes[]
"You're the fucking janitor - or more appropriately his mop, bucket and broom!" - Carpenter169
Characters[]
- Prologue: Dead Men Walking
- Chapter One: The Enemy Within
- Witness1 - Founder of Hunter-net and Visionary.
- Alleyman222 - Aka Peleus, racist wayward.
- Mojo20 - Imbued
- Hideo Masaka, "Ichmail" - Kuei-jin and former member of the Orphic Circle.
- God45
- Doctor119
- Cabbie22 - Cab Driver and Defender.
- Potter116 - New Age Redeemer.
- Caspar Bratovitch
- Antonio
- Ada Pavon
- Jane Profitt, "Susan Sarvarian"
- Alfredo Carcassione - Arms Dealer, Deceased
- Pilot56 - NSA agent.
- Shaka74
- Oracle171 - Innocent seemingly host to Something.
- Soldier91
- Memphis68
- Chapter Two: The Enemy of my Enemy
- Dennis "The Carpenter" Maxwell, Carpenter169 - Former gangster turned Risen.
- Aidan Loviglio, "Gardener67" - Hunter killed by ghosts.
- Hunter9 - Imbued
- Bookworm55 - Founder of Vitalis and Innocent.
- Freezer182 - Imbued
- Murray Bassett - Endron CEO, Died
- Howitzer114 - Imbued
- Healer115
- Rigger111
- Shogun213
- Azrael256
- Boca177 - Imbued
- Descent88 - Imbued
- Shepherd274 - Imbued
- "Purple" - Mage
- Marjorie Campion - Police Spokeswoman
- Monica Hirsch - Senior Student
- Coach41 - Imbued
- Samuel Fox - Ghost
- Chapter Three: Stranger in a Dead Land
- Traveler
- Celia - Loa
- Gédé - Loa
- Jager - Imbued
- Chapter Four: Speaking Ill of the Dead
- Ms. Annabelle Sforza
- Chapter Six: Ties to the Dead
- Liu
- Chapter Seven: Rules & Storytelling
Terminology[]
Africa, Anchor, Asia, Auras, Boston, Brooklyn, Canada, Caribbean, Chandler Park, Chicago, Cottage Grove, Ebon Beach, Endron, Europe, Ghosts, Ghost Cult, Greece, Haiti, Jenkintown High School, Kalambaka, Loas, Mediums, Montreal, New Dijon, New Orleans, New York, Oklahoma, Orphic Circle, Pathos, Philadelphia, Port-au-Prince, Rot, Spirit, Taenarus, Thessaly, Tricks, Tulsa, Underworld, United States, Vodou, Walkers, Washington D.C., Zombies,
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