Dusk over a quiet rural highway in Greene County, Virginia, 1993.

RESTRICTED // SURVIVOR ISSUE // JULY 1993

FIELD MANUALRuckersville Zombie Survivor Network

This booklet was printed the week the radio went quiet. Keep it. The people who wrote it are already gone, or they are you.

Open the manual

RZSN · Greene County · July 1993FM 93-07

Do not discard

Table of Contents

A complete handbook for living inside the Network. Occupations, territory, the market, the air, the living, the work of your hands.

  1. 01The Signal — what this is
  2. 02Get On Frequency — install, join, play
  3. 03First Hours — surviving day one
  4. 04Occupations — twelve field guides
  5. 05Territory — settlements & ranks
  6. 06The Market — vendors & coin
  7. 07Airwaves — five event types
  8. 08Other Survivors — hire, fight, escort
  9. 09Workshops — six skills, 129 recipes
  10. 10Field Notes — Knox County, RZSN rules
A field manual, CB radio, county map and coffee on a kitchen table.
Plate I. — Issued kit, Greene County field office. Keep the radio on.

Why you are holding this

Knox Country taught the country how to die. Greene County, a few hours of bad road to the east, taught a smaller lesson: the people who last are the ones who claim a patch of dirt, put a stall in it, and talk to whoever is still walking.

The Ruckersville Zombie Survivor Network is that lesson, still on the air. You are not a tourist picking through a ruin. You are a person with a job, a reputation, and a radio that sometimes tells the truth.

This booklet would have shipped with the kit — occupations, territory, the market, the air, the living, the workshops — written so a new operator can sit down and become dangerous in an evening.

Read it front to back, or skip to the chapter that matches the life you intend to lead. Then get on frequency.