Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 E01

Jason Ong
Jul 7, 2018
1 min read

"A disposable boardgame!" - Amanda S.

Have you played Pandemic before? It's a series of games that involve curing virus. There were a few different versions, including Cthulhu and dice varients.

In this version, the game is played as a campaign over a series of sessions. Each session will take the result of the previous game and the objectives changes every in-game month.

I started in the office as usual, this time being assigned to a task force to work with international agents of various skill sets. I'm Samson, a combat medic with nearly a decade in the Marines. Alongside me are Musk, our project leader, Mariah, our HQ dispatcher and Shuri, genetic scientist. We had a worldwide outbreak of TNBB (Testicular Nuclear Bomb Bacteria) and COdA-403a. Our task force took a grilling two months and yet there was no way to treat COdA. It had mutated into a different strain that was giving Shuri so much trouble, that her previous unit had assigned her co-worker Rachel, a viral researcher to our team to assist in development of a cure. The outbreak was overwhelming in certain cities, causing rioting in parts of East Asia and central Europe...