ZARP

The Zombie Apocalypse Roleplay questline. It ships in the jar as a datapack and is on whenever ZombieMod is installed. Built for CityWorld's apocalypse cities, ZombieMod and LegendQuest's Wasteland pack, and playable without any of them: every CityWorld lot has a vanilla stand-in, every genus a vanilla creature, and the race and class quests simply do not offer.

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content.zarp = auto | on | off - auto turns it on when ZombieMod is present, and a change applies on restart. Chronicler's sample fantasy prologue is a built-in pack too, and stays off while ZARP is on, so a ZARP world is not offered two kinds of log run.

The camp

Five people near spawn, on any seed.

They are dropped onto the surface the first time the server starts with the pack, and remembered so they stay put across restarts. The first quest, Wake Up, is given by the campfire in the middle, offered on approach and waiting in the journal from a player's first join.

Who	Gives
Dr Amara Okafor	The Camp, Before Dark, House Calls, Living Fire, Never Lived, Patient Zero, Triage
Sarge Kowalski	The Signal, Hold the Line (party), The Armoury, The Rig, Deep Cold
Wrench	Fence Power, Grease Monkey
Kit	Blood Ties - and she matters to the finale
Mags	The Board: Cull, Scrap Run, Medicine Run, Night Shift (repeatable)

The camp is not nailed down. A Storyteller running LegendQuest StoryTeller can walk any of the five anywhere, and no quest step depends on where a person stands - the marks and offers follow the NPC.

Sarge Kowalski in a helmet and chainmail with a crossbow, and the Wake Up offer in chat with Accept and Info buttons — Sarge Kowalski, and the camp's first offer arriving in chat with clickable buttons.

The main line

From the fence to the End, and back.

Kept light on purpose - the walkthrough, spoilers and all, is docs/ZARP.md on GitHub.

Chapter	The shape of it
Prologue: Wake Up	Come to, get a light, and help the camp hold its first night at the fence.
Act I: The Streets	Get a signal out, beat a deadline, and hold the line as a party against what the city sends.
Act II: The Hospital	The wards, the things that walk them, and something worth more than anyone should be offered for it - with a choice about who gets it.
Act III: Below	The Nether: a fortress, a rite built from blocks, and the thing it calls out.
Act IV: Beyond	The End, and a decision at the fence when you come home.
Finale: Patient Zero	A last rite, a last fight, and a price. Replayable, to find the other ending.

Three endings across the last two chapters. The finale chapter is replayable with /quest replay zarp:finale, which keeps the endings you have already found.

Survivors - the side chapter

Refusals have consequences.

The side chapter does not count toward progress, so nobody is held short of 100% by it. Several of its quests are only offered to the right people - which is what the LegendQuest race and class gates are for.

Quest	Offered to
Fence Power	Anyone - and saying no, or running out of time, has an answer waiting at the garage. Two endings.
Grease Monkey	The Mechanic race, or a Builder, Miner or Labourer.
Triage	The Paramedic race, or a Doc, Combat Medic or Chemist.
Blood Ties	The Immune race only.
The Armoury	Level 3, and an Ex-Military or Prepper, or an Enforcer, Sharpshooter, Veteran or Mercenary.
The Rig	Level 6.
Deep Cold	Level 8.

New undead

Six genera the pack adds to ZombieMod.

Every spawn in the pack names a genus and a vanilla stand-in, so the same files run on a server without ZombieMod - and the stand-ins wear leather caps, so a daytime fight is not won by the sun.

Genus	Where
Patient	Hospital lots and the hospital quests. A gown, a surgical mask, and weakness on touch.
Ashwalker	The Nether, once Act III begins. A burning husk that keeps walking.
Fortress Warden	A fortress, in Act III. Mini-boss.
The Cinder	Called by the rite in Act III. An infected blaze, with a boss bar.
Voidling	The End, once Act IV begins. Never alive, so it cannot be dead.
The Hollow Knight	An End city, in Act IV. Mini-boss.

Patients in gowns and surgical masks approaching the camp at dusk — Patients, at dusk, by the camp.

For server owners

Testing it quickly.

/quest accept zarp:wake_up
/chronicler item give <you> zarp:ember_heart       # skip a hunt
/chronicler item list
/chronicler flag set zarp_below_begun               # let Ashwalkers spawn
/quest replay zarp:finale                           # after an ending

To jump a requirement chain, /chronicler reset <player> clears a journal. There is no "complete by hand" command yet, so play the acts in order - or edit requires in a copy of the pack under config/chronicler/quests/.

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