- a stack of photo albums
- a broken lamp
- a crate of VHS tapes your mother didn't remember And way more stuff
- PLAY
- PAUSE
- REWIND
- FAST‑FORWARD
EJECT - SLOW‑MOTION
- FRAME‑ADVANCE
- MUTE
- VOLUME
- CHANNEL SELECT
- INPUT SWITCH
- POWER ON/OFF
- CHANGE WEATHER
- Driftwood Beach
- The zomba House
- Rewind Rentals
- Static Pier
- Old Harbor High School
- Seaglass Medical Center
- The Loop Café
- Harbor Repair & Electronics
- The Lighthouse
- The Static Woods
- The Boardwalk Market
- The Neon Motel
- The Echo Theater
- The Magnetic Museum
- Downtown Static Shores
How Zaria Became a Zombie She was a rising fitness star in the 1980s Zaria wasn’t always undead. She was a real aerobics instructor filming what was supposed to be her breakout workout series — bright lights, neon leotards, big hair, the whole era in full force. The studio used a “special” camera it captured her soul and made it the property of the VHS tape.
After she died:
Her body collapsed on the floor of her set but her presence — her movement, her voice, her energy — had been absorbed into the magnetic strip. The tape needed a “host,” so it rebuilt her
She became:undead and permanently bound to the routine
She was a VHS‑powered revenant. She loops the routine forever — until someone presses PLAY For decades, she was stuck in silence. Just the same workout, looping endlessly in the dark.
You were cleaning your mother’s attic
Nothing dramatic.
Just a normal day, helping her sort old boxes.
Dusty holiday decorations.
Old clothes.
papers from before you were born.
The kind of stuff no one touches for years. A box was pushed behind everything else You didn’t notice it at first.
It was wedged behind:
But this one box was different.
No label.
No dust on the top.
Like it had been moved recently… even though no one had been up there since my mom was 23
Zaria’s Awareness Zaria is the only one who can truly “see” the viewer.
The veeiwer you can:
The locations are