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After Harry Dresden died, the crime lord and freeholding Baron of Chicago, John Marcone, took steps to stabilize the city in after the loss of his influence. One of these steps was importing an entire castle from Europe, having it rebuilt brick by brick on the property that used to hold Harry's apartment before the building burned down.

After the Battle of Chicago Harry (who'd gotten better) demanded compensation for his defense of Marcone's territory. He asked for his lab back, which still existed in the subbasement of the castle, and he got the castle as part of the package. Using it to house those displaced by the violence, Harry soon learned that this castle had been originally built by Merlin himself, and had a variety of magical abilities that only a wizard could access.

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General Information

• After Harry Dresden’s apartment burned down, John Marcone built a castle on the lot as a personal fortress in the city
• Marcone had it disassembled and transported from Scotland to be rebuilt in Chicago
• Harry was gifted the Castle that John Marcone had built over his old boarding house
• Warden Ramirez calls the Castle "Merlin's fortress

Layout

• It has a tower in each corner
• Its constructed to withstand sieges and invasions, with staircases to each floor staggered around different sides of the structure to prevent invaders from having easy access to upper floors
• The castle has a threshold from the people living there, as well as an armory, jail and daycare
• It has a gunnery range, although when Marcone moved out he took its city permit with him 
• Harry upgraded his summoning circle in the subbasement, adding a ring of silver and using actual gold paint for sigils 

Spirit Interface

• Many of its defenses and systems require a spirit like Bob to run
• Bob can inhabit the Castle as easily as he can his Skull
• He can heat individual rooms and move freely throughout the structure of the Castle
• Bob can make the walls and the floors of the castle translucent, so that Harry can see through them
• Bob is able to contain the energy of an explosion to a single area, although this causes greater damage in that area 

Defenses

• Its magical defenses are comparable to the White Council headquarters in Edinburgh, and Ebenezer McCoy believes it was constructed by either Tylwyth Teg or the Tuatha Dé Danann
• It's magical defenses are nearly as potent as those of Demonreach and are similar to the work of the original Merlin
• While its defenses are initially only able to detect large-scale threats, after a gremlin attack Bob recalibrates them to work on a smaller scale as well
• It has a strong threshold as a result of Harry hosting families displaced by the Battle of Chicago there for an entire year 
• It has an energy shield that extends above its roof. The shield stops cold a fire blast from a Black Court Elder, although cannot stop physical attacks like bullets 
• The stone of the walls is too thick to breach without a large amount of heavy explosives 

Offenses

• The fortress is designed to channel magical power, and can draw in ley lines to itself to do so. When Harry does this he believes he’s strong enough to level all of Chicago and calls the power godlike 
  • He uses this to instantly conjure up a large thunderstorm, then with Bob’s help he shapes it into a huge face in front of the castle that he can speak through. He summons multiple bolts of lightning and torrential rain
• At Harry’s command he smashes the roof down to the floor of an entire hallway, crushing a group of Black Court vampires before they can react 
  • Afterward it takes a couple minutes to reset the hallway

Gargoyles

A group of seven gargoyles created by Etienne the Enchanter, the "father" of Bob the Skull. After observing Harry's actions in the year following the Battle of Chicago, they offer him their services in the castle.

• Gargoyles were made to protect the castle of a good wizard. After Harry acquired a castle they began scouting him, and can sense benevolence and malevolence 
• There are seven gargoyles in total 
• Gargoyles are spirits of earth
• Gargoyles “eat” stories, which acts as “maintenance” on their intellect
• Basil, the largest gargoyle, has a twenty-foot wingspan 
• They can merge with the walls and floors of the castle 
• They’re made of living stone 
• They turn the wooden doors of the castle to solid stone wall in preparation for an attack
• Basil is the strongest of them, and is only slowly overpowered by a Black Court vampire 
• Being smashed into pieces is only an injury for them, and they can repair each other with rubble and stone

Oh, America. I wish I could tell you that this was still America, but I've come to realize that you can't have a country without people. And there are no people here. No, my friends. This is now the United States of Zombieland.

Columbus was an average nerdy college student the night the world went to shit. He was several hours deep into World of Warcraft when he answered a knock on his door from his dorm room neighbor. He invited her in before she crashed and woke up as a homicidal, flesh-eating zombie. Realizing that the apocalypse was upon him, Columbus put his neuroticism to good use and began making a list of ways to survive the end of human civilization.

He'd meet up with several other survivors like the gun-toting Tallahassee and the sisters Wichita and Little Rock, hoping to last long enough to reach his parents in Ohio. But upon finding out that Columbus was destroyed in its entirety and his family was either dead or undead, he'd learn to see his allies as a new kind of family and redefine what "home" means in an apocalypse.

Feats are marked 1 for Zombieland and 2 for Zombieland: Double Tap. Here’s the respect thread for “T-800” zombies, a tougher and faster mutation of undead that developed ten years into the apocalypse.

Strength

• Breaks his zombified neighbor’s ankle by slamming it in a door repeatedly¹
• Clubs his zombified neighbor with a toilet tank cover, then kills her with another strike¹
• Uses a high striker mallet to floor a zombie clown with a gut strike before smashing its head apart¹
• Smacks a T-800 with a broken piece of wood²
• Holds a T-800 up so Reno can shoot him²

Endurance

• Staggered by a “45% power” punch to the arm from Tallahassee¹
• Tallahassee accidentally breaks a bottle against his face, but he keeps running²
• A T-800 tackles Columbus through a set of shelves, but Columbus is able to hold off the zombie from the ground²
• Tallahassee accidentally hits Columbus in the face with a guitar, but he keeps holding off a T-800²

Speed

• Flees from two zombies, keeping ahead of them until he can make it to his car¹
• Flees from his zombified neighbor in his apartment¹
• Runs down an aisle and slides on his knees so Tallahassee can club a zombie chasing him¹
• Ducks under a charging zombie, causing it to fall off the RV he’s standing on²

Skill

Marksmanship

• Shoots a zombie through a car windshield, then double taps the writhing body¹
• Shoots a zombie running at him¹
• Shoots Bill Murray¹
• While running through an amusement park, he shoots two zombies, reloads, then shoots another one caught in an animatronic monster’s mouth¹
• Gets tackled from behind by a zombie, but manages to turn, kick it off and shoot it twice¹
• Along with his allies, he shoots several zombies when storming the White House, blowing one’s head off²
• Stands on top of an RV and points out approaching zombies to his allies. During this, he shoots two zombies on his own using a shotgun.²
• Using a pistol, he headshots a zombie trying to bite Madison’s ankle²

Close Quarters Combat

• Wraps his zombified neighbor’s head in a shower curtain before spraying insect killer into her mouth¹
• Slips behind a T-800 and guides him away from Wichita²
• Wraps a T-800’s head in a curtain²
• Slips on a pool table, then holds off a T-800 until he can stuff a pool ball into its mouth²
• Along with his allies, he defends an elevated platform from a massive crowd of T-800s using a shovel²

Equipment

• Carries an IGA Coach 12 gauge shotgun¹
  • Ten years later, he carries the Mossberg 500AT instead²
• Carries a Colt Python as a sidearm¹

Zombie Scaling

• Zombies can shuffle around on a broken ankle¹
• A zombie smashes through a glass pane with its elbow¹
• One zombie, which had climbed up to the top of a tall amusement park drop ride, takes several stomps and hits from the butt of Wichita’s rifle before falling off¹
• Zombies are occasionally able to survive headshots²

Miscellaneous

• Has IBS and numerous phobias, most notably clowns¹
• When a zombie pops up in the backseat of the car he’s driving, he crashes into a wall, launching it out the windshield¹
• Falls off a motorcycle shortly after starting it¹
• Runs past a swinging amusement park ride, leading three zombies into the path of the moving seats¹
• Has made a list of 73 personal rules for surviving the apocalypse²

Oh, God. Look at this fucking clown. Of course… it had to be a clown! No, wait. It had to be a clown. And it had to be Wichita up there to make me realize that some rules are meant to be broken. Time to nut up or shut up.