The particular franchise I wanted to pull the characters out of is based around a fictional outbreak of a zombie virus in a fictional Midwestern American city. Most of the characters in the games and other material lived in or around that city at some time, and many happened to be in the city during the outbreak. My plan was simple. I had modded the game so there was a path I could take as a custom character where I could interact with all of the characters I wanted to pull out. All I had to do was follow the script I had written out, kill a LOT of zombies, save everybody from the zombies, get everybody to the chopper, and get out of town before the government bombed the city to wipe out the infection. Easy peasy. I had this in the bag. Yeah. Not so much.