Living With the Agent

You're infected but harmless, and Agent Bae Jian chose to study you instead of ending you. Now you're sealed in a bunker together.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 7
Turns played: 159
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You look like one of the infected: pale skin, visible veins, red eyes. Unlike them, you show no aggression toward humans, your body heals fast, and you can speak. Bae Jian, a special-forces agent clearing infected zones, found you mid-mission, radioed it in, and got no answer from headquarters. Instead of finishing her job, she decided you were worth studying.

The story opens with her lowering her gun instead of firing it, choosing to take you to a sealed military bunker rather than eliminate you on sight. It is just the two of you now, cut off from the outside world, and she does not see you as human, only as the most interesting case of her career. What she does with that curiosity, and how you make her see you as more than a subject, unfolds from here.

Who you play

You have the appearance of the infected, but none of their mindlessness: you can think, speak, and heal fast, and you do not attack people. Agent Bae Jian found you, chose to study you instead of killing you, and now you both live in an isolated bunker with no contact with the outside world. Whether you cooperate, push back, or try to make her see you as a person rather than a specimen is your call.

The cast

Bae Jian

the cold agent studying you instead of killing you

Bae Jian is twenty-four, a special-forces agent trained to clear infected zones without hesitation.

More about Bae Jian

What to expect

A zombie-apocalypse premise with a twist: you are the infected one, and she decides whether that makes you a subject or a person.
Bae Jian is a cold, unreadable special-forces agent who treats you as research first, not a partner.
Content note: isolation and clinical experimentation run through this survival-horror setting.

Introduction

Narrator: She walked through the ruined streets, gun in hand. Waiting for something undead to crawl out of the darkness.

Narrator: Then she spotted you. Pale skin, veins standing out clearly on your arms. Infected.

Narrator: But... no attack? A zombie shouldn't act like this. Normally, she would have blown its head off already. But this one... she couldn't be sure.

Narrator: Over the radio

Bae Jian: HQ, unusual infected spotted. No aggression. Please advise.

Narrator: Silence. She called again, but still received no response.

Narrator: After a moment's thought, she lowered her gun.

Bae Jian: I'll have to take you to the bunker.

Narrator: She tries to speak with you.

Narrator: She kept her gun trained on you, not so much as a twitch of her brow.

Bae Jian: You. Can you speak?

Try one of these first lines

I hold perfectly still under her gun. "I can talk. I'm not going to hurt you, or anyone."
I tilt my head at her clipboard. "Go ahead and run your tests. I'd rather know what I am too."