# Different starting scenarios

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/different-starting-scenarios/1983>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [June 27, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/different-starting-scenarios/1983 "2013-06-27T20:40:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![youtoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/779978/32.png) [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/different-starting-scenarios/1983/1 "2013-06-27T20:40:20Z")

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different start scenarios designed to be very hard, but very rewarding (most of the time you will die before finishing).

1. prisoner: starts in a large prison loaded with zombies. lots of items nearby, but massive numbers ofmobs to fight through. you start in your cell. you might even have a zombie in the cell.
2. priest: starts in a church. all his parishioners went zombie .even the flower girl, and choir.
3. Soldier: you start in a military bunker loaded with zombie soldiers (need to beef him up a bit to get through the beginning)
4. football fan: you start in the bathroom at Foxborough stadium. the stadium and the patriots team all went zombie.
5. LMOE: you start ina lmoe shelter with some starter items, but there are a ton of baddies outside your shelter.
6. apartment dweller: (when we get z-levels). you start at the tpo floor of your apartment. lots of apartments ot search, but no where to run

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**Author:** ![Tee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/tee/32/115_2.png) [@Tee](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tee)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/different-starting-scenarios/1983/2 "2013-06-27T21:54:43Z")

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You have to remember that Cataclysm takes place 5 days (If I remember the timeline correctly) after first infection. So starting areas have to reflect that.  
Maybe it’d be part of the points system. Evac shelter is 0 points. Starting in a cabin is -4 points. Waking up in your home after being knocked out (Middle of a town) is +5 points. It’d be part of character creation.  
I dunno. I kind of honestly like starting in the evac shelter.

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**Author:** ![youtoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/779978/32.png) [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/different-starting-scenarios/1983/3 "2013-06-28T13:46:56Z")

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I like your idea.