"Its a long story - the short version is that there was a war between different factions of people with different types of rings. There's seven independent corps of ring-wielders now. One of them took me over - I still wanted to fix this place up, like I'd been doing for years, but because of the orange ring's influence, did it in a much more authoritarian ways. On the upside - any of the rings by themselves, like most things, wouldn't keep the zombies dead. Tons of reports on their tendency to get back up no matter how much they were shot and all... but anyway, two rings in combination would. So if I hadn't of had it, the neighborhood might have still been standing, but nothing would have been left alive... instead of the other way around."