Runner 5

Chapter One is officially live HERE! 🩵

In this chapter, you’ll:

Meet Ambrósio

Moon an entire street

Fight for a taxi (and your life)

Meet the cast and dive into their history with Guppy

Unlock deeper customization for your MC

Arrive at Costa Sul

As always, please drop your thoughts, bugs, and favorite moments in the ask box. Happy playing! 🐟

Ramblings down below

I’m mildly annoyed my outfit today was covered by the dorky ice-filled vest I have to wear if it’s over 70 F because I’m heat sensitive like a lizard, so I want to draw what it would’ve looked like otherwise, on a character

If it matters, it’s a little whimsical, mostly neutral gender presentation but there is some jewelry involved

Warnings for stylized blood and implied death

Pretty happy with this one, I showed it to 3 people irl and 2 of them audibly gasped at points lol

The song is Big Bad Yard by Kyle Stibbs

@iamrunner5

Thanks for the request!

This is about the maximum amount of romance vibes I ever draw, but I was scrolling through couple stock photos for pose inspiration and thought the forehead touch thing was just so cute

Here's your chance!

Zombies, Run! Is an interactive fitness app where you-- Runner Five-- are a runner for a township in the midst of the zombie apocalypse. You'll have to navigate mad scientists, fascist dictators and, of course, hordes of the undead in order to save your friends, your town, and the world!

Never run before? Not very fast? That's okay! You can customize the app to fit your movement style-- you can walk, bike, or even hop on a treadmill. There's also a couch-to-5k program that you can use to slowly build up to being the best Runner 5 you can be.

The base app is free, and until June 30 premium memberships are 50% off- so this is the perfect time to get up and running!

This takes place the day after Runner Five arrives at Abel

You haven’t been anywhere so simultaneously green and safe since the world ended. The inside of Mullins base was all concrete, dirt paths, and dying grass. You see nature all the time on your runs, but you’ve forgotten how to enjoy it; always sharply focused on your goal and the surrounding undead. 

Abel has a park. The trees are sparse and there are some tarps laid out- you’re not sure why, maybe to prevent mud in problem areas? But it’s within the walls and it’s sprawling. You hear birds overhead, feel the dappled sun filtering through the tree you pass beneath, onto your skin. The fresh earthy scent of leaves fills your lungs, and it brings back memories of the time you used to spend out in forests or by lakes.

Back when you would run for fun, this is what it was all about. 

And the world is still here. You’ve lost so much and yet this piece of nature still exists, as if plucked from the past. The sorrow of what you’ve lost and hope for what you can still build, don’t battle and instead intertwine. They form some new emotion, potent and bittersweet, it’s overflowing in your chest.  

You’re not surprised Mullins isn’t coming for you. They can’t risk more personnel to retrieve one operative. At first you were frustrated, resigned to this reality, but by no means happy about it. But now, walking through a lovely park on a pleasantly cool day, you think maybe you could learn to settle in here. You never really had friends at Mullins anyway. Not that you intend to make them here either. 

That radio operator, Sam, he invited you to come and talk with him any time; and, from what little you know of him, you do like him. But you lost everyone when the apocalypse started, you’re not eager to find new people to care about. 

Still, you probably can expect a comfortable and easy working relationship with him, which you do appreciate. And he did save your life.