Zombie experience

> "One comes at you, shoot it in the brain. It's that simple. Any questions?"
>
> Scott Ward, Army of the Dead

**Zombie experience** referred to a person's experience with engaging zombies in some form, be it observation, combat, or otherwise. Zombies were not considered to have this skill because their knowledge, even of themselves, was animalistic. Note that experience of zombies and killing zombies are two different skills, the latter typically involving marksmanship or hand-to-hand combat.

## Skill users

### High experience

**Vanderohe** arguably had the most experience with zombies, not only being one of the few people who definitively knew of the existence of alphas prior to the Götterdämmerung heist, but having also known of the original zombie, Zeus, prior to the Götterdämmerung heist. He was one of the original zombie survivors who founded Las Vengeance to save Las Vegas residents during the outbreak, and he fought zombies both during the zombie wars and the Götterdämmerung heist.

**Lilly** had a significant amount of experience with zombies after Las Vegas was walled off from the world, being the one person to continue entering the city on repeated occasions. She learned of the alpha kingdom that had developed after the quarantine before anyone else and was very familiar with the differences between alphas and shamblers. She also theorized of the existence of Zeus before ever seeing him.

**Scott Ward** was one of the founding members of Las Vengeance, as well as its primary leader. The group was established for the sake of saving residents of Las Vegas from the hordes of zombies that haunted its streets, and became so successful that even the military deferred to the group.

**Vera** led multiple missions into Las Vegas as part of Las Vengeance Search & Rescue, including encountering Zeus and his alphas on at least one occasion.

**Jack** drove multiple missions for Vera in zombie-run Vegas, including encountering alphas on at least one occasion.

**Las Vengeance recruits** attended a single mission with Las Vengeance Search & Rescue, but in that short time they encountered many zombies, including hundreds of alphas.

**Maria Cruz** was another founding member of Las Vengeance, and so spent a great deal of her efforts saving people from zombies. Her experience was more limited than some of the other members' due to her role becoming that of an external coordinator, separated from the zombie hordes. She was notably unaware of the existence of alphas prior to the Götterdämmerung heist.

**Soccer Mom** had a great deal of experience dealing with shamblers in Las Vegas during her time with Las Vengeance Search & Rescue. As a direct part of the rescue efforts her experience was beyond that of those in ther periphery of the wars, such as Guzman and his crew.

**Dagliesh**, like the soccer mom, had a great deal of experience dealing with shamblers in Las Vegas during his time with Las Vengeance Search & Rescue.

**Mikey Guzman** had a great deal of experience dealing with shamblers in Las Vegas during the zombie wars for the sake of his YouTube channel. He remained separate from the wars themselves, and so didn't get close to any alphas prior to the Götterdämmerung heist. It was this experience that earned him not just a slot on the Las Vengeance heist team, but the highest pay outside of the returning members.

**Carlos** spent a lot of time helping Guzman with his YouTube channel, sometimes killing more zombies than Guzman while Guzman toyed with the more interesting methods of killing. As a result, he was a seasoned zombie killer.

**Marianne Peters** was another early member of Las Vengeance - a survivor of the initial outbreak who stuck around to help others get out of the city. The extent of her work with the rescue efforts is unknown, but as their pilot she was likely not as directly involved with zombies as her companions were.

**Kate Ward** was a survivor of the Las Vegas outbreak who later went on to return to the city to rescue Geeta during the Götterdämmerung heist, where she encountered alphas.

**Ludwig Dieter** didn't encounter zombies until the Götterdämmerung heist, but he received a large amount of experience with shamblers and alphas in a very short time, including so much as encountering Zeus directly.

### Low experience

The following people have come face to face with zombies in some form, but their experience granted them little more than what the average person could be expected to know of zombies. This includes people who may have fought zombies or seen the inner workings of the zombie kingdom, but didn't survive their first encounter, such as Chambers and Burt Cummings.

Burt CummingsChambersGeetaKellyBissellDaisyForrest GriffinGil PedrettiDavid

## References

Shay Hatten, Zack Snyder, Joby Harold (writers) & Zack Snyder (director) (May 14, 2021). *Army of the Dead*.
Netflix, Pure Imagination Studios, & The Stone Quarry (Fall 2021). *Army of the Dead: Viva Las Vengeance*.