Howdy players! We hope everyone is having a good Labor Day weekend as we get into our first regularly-scheduled newsletter for the 2026-27 school year! We've got our mission lineup, as well as Subofficer sign-ups!

This Monday, 9/7 we will not be playing, as Labor Day is a federal holiday! Zombie union rules forbid eating brains on a holiday.

This Thursday, 9/10 we will be playing Miku vs Miko in Physics 101 at 7PM. Look forward to some vocaloid action!

For any club members who've been with us for a while, Subofficer Applications open today! Subofficers are trusted players who can help moderate missions and settle disputes. If you've been a member for a while and can make it to missions semi-regularly, please fill out the application form here.

Thank you all so much and we hope you have a fun time eating brains this week!

Community Meeting Notes

Hello everyone, and welcome to a very special edition of the UMBC HvZ Club Newsletter!   We'd like to welcome all of the new people who saw us at InvolvementFest and signed up for the newsletter to the club. As a reminder, we meet Mondays and Thursdays at 7:00 PM. This semester our regular meetings will be in Physics 101.

If you haven't already, feel free to join our club Discord server, where you can chat with other club members and get live mission updates.

This Thursday 9/3 we will be playing Welcome to UMBC at 7:00 PM in Physics 101. We hope everyone has a great semester, zombie apocalypse or no!

Greetings everyone! We hope those who came out to Grugapalooza over the weekend had a blast, because we certainly did! Either way, as the semester draws to a close, we have one final mission for everyone to play!

On Monday, 5/11, we will be playing The Women and Children Go First at 7pm in Sondheim 109. Be ready to get a bit wet, as we rescue innocent babies from the dastardly dragon's terror! This is our final mission of the semester, and it's a fun one, so we hope everyone will come out to have fun!

Again, there is NO game on Thursday! Good luck with your finals everyone!

For everyone who was at Grugapalooza, we would love to hear any feedback you have for the game and how we did. You can send in anything you have to say about the game, good or bad, using our dedicated Invitational Feedback Form which we will put together into a full set of post Invitational patch notes down the road for everyone to look over. Thank you again to everyone who came out over the weekend!

The semester may be ending, but we would still really appreciate it if people could please fill out our HvZ Testimonial Form! All the testimonials we can get are important, and we appreciate every one a ton.

And lastly, here are the notes from our most recent community meeting.

Hello everyone! The semester is starting to wrap up, hopefully everyone is finishing strong!

As a club, we certainly will be, with our Invitational Game, Grugapalooza, this upcoming weekend on May 9th! We hope to see everyone there, so don't forget to register!

As for this week: On Monday, 5/4, we will be playing Invitational Missions Need to be Written at 7pm in Sondheim 109. Let's help make sure that we get the Invitational team across that final stretch in finishing writing things!

On Thursday, 5/7, we will be playing a Mystery Invitational Mission at 7pm in Sondheim 109. You'll just need to show up and find out what it is, while getting a sneak peek of some of the Invitational experience at the same time!

In other news, our elections have concluded! Our new officer board has been selected (and even wrote this very newsletter). The new and now current board is as follows: President: Patrick O'Brien III Vice President: Kevin Tankersley Treasurer: Syncere Mason Secretary: Eli Kramer-Smyth PR/Recruitment: Riley Heath

We would still love for everyone to please fill out our HvZ Testimonial Form! Each and every testimonial we get is important, and we appreciate them all greatly.

And lastly, here are the notes from our most recent community meeting.

The elections for the 2026-2027 officer board have concluded, and we would like to welcome our new officer board!

President: Patrick O'Brien III

Vice President: Kevin Tankersley

Treasurer: Syncere Mason

Secretary: Eli Kramer-Smyth

PR/Recruitment: Riley Heath

Thank you to everyone who voted, and let's look forward to another great year of HvZ!