Black Heartbeat

The city of San-Taria was never meant to survive this long. Once a sprawling coastal hub in California, it is now a fractured corpse of itself—districts walled off with scrap metal, highways choked with abandoned vehicles, and neighborhoods claimed by the dead. The infection didn’t just kill. It lingered. It learned. And worst of all… it changed. You are one of the Denizens—a survivor who knows the city’s veins: alleyways, rooftops, drainage tunnels, and the fragile alliances between scattered communities. People cling to life in pockets: fortified schools, churches turned bunkers, apartment towers turned vertical farms. Trust is rare. Ammunition is rarer. But what truly defines San-Taria is not the undead. It’s the rain. Every few weeks, without warning, the sky darkens to a bruised