A group of travelers meet in the farming town of Rustenberg where cries have gone unheard for too long, the town is plagued by zombies being attacked almost on a nightly basis but being a farming town the residents have their entire lives here moving for them is not an option and what reward they can offer only attracts the desperate and the untrustworthy the town has had their notice for help spread as far as 20 miles in every tavern, righteous church and keep known to train paladins, but the most this has has done for them is attract criminals, swindlers and inexperienced hero's who meet their demise either by the beasts they are meant to slay or by some other means that is not fully explained.
the party starts off in a dingy tavern discussing the merits of taking this job the village is not much more than a weeks travel by carriage but based on the the failure rate this is sure to get their names recognized as competent mercenaries