Character creation and first session

This is a simple blog to track my running of the Savage Worlds game War of the Dead.

PCs:
Bob: A smooth talking dentist on holidays
Petra: A Russian athlete with a secret
Saul: An old guy who "works for the government"
Derek: An ex-army medic from New Zealand
Debbie: A young woman who works in marketing, from Arizona
Courtney: A wealthy New York business man

NPCs of note:
Mr Forthington: Owner of the Pinacle
Captain Romero: Captain
Billy Haynes: Texas oil millionaire
Mitzi Haynes: Briefly deceased wife of Billy
Naomi: Hugely attractive best friend of Debbie

The PCs meet for dinner on their first night aboard the Pinnacle. It is the Pinnacles maiden voyage and a huge party is going on. The PCs also meet Billy Hayes and introductions are made all round. Derek notices that Billy is ill and keeps an eye on him. Naomi proves to be hugely popular and Bob, Derek and Courtney compete for her attention. Bob scores early points by being first to ask her to dance. Courtney leaves in search better company.
Billy's health continues to decline and Derek is the first to react when he slumps to the floor. He commences CPR while Saul and Petra go for help. They run into the kitchen area. Petra gets one of the wait staff to call the medical emergency number and Saul heads off to the infirmary. Wanting to keep a low profile, Petra heads to her room and stays there.
Saul meets the crash team and leads them to the table where Derek is still performing CPR. The crash team take over, placing Billy on a stretcher and taking him away. Derek accompanies the team to the infirmary, filling them in as they go. Once they arrive, however, he is politely ushered out of the infirmary.
Billy's wife arrives at the table, wondering where her husband is, Debbie and Saul inform her of what happened and she runs for the infirmary. Captain Romero arrives at the table and apologises to Debbie and Saul for their discomfort and provides them with a number of hampers of food and free champagne. Derek arrives back just as the champagne starts flowing and the party continues.
Later, the PCs are heading back to their cabins. Just outside the elevator they find Mrs Hayes stumbling along the corridor bleeding heavily from a wound on her arm and incoherent. She begs the PCs to take her to her room and mutters about Billy being very angry. When she arrives at her room she immediately collapses on the bed. Derek attempts to ascertain the cause of the wound on her arm but either because of the amount of blood or the amount of booze fails to do so. Saul wraps a towel around her arm. Minutes later another crash team arrives and goes to work. A couple of minutes after that Mrs Hayes dies, completely unexpectedly, according to the crash team's reactions.
Everyone mills around for a minute and are completely taken by surprise a minute later when Mrs Hayes appears to come back from the dead. The crash team react immediately, attempting to comfort her. Mrs Hayes acts erratically, appearing to try to bite one of the crash team. Saul manages to hold her down but she soon breaks free, again attempting to bite the crash team. At this point, Mrs Hayes emits of low, terrifying moan and one of the crash team flees the room. Mrs Hayes then manages to bite the two remaining crash team members while Saul attempts to again hold her down. Moved to action Debbie attempts to knock Mrs Hayes out with a lamp, with little result.
The crash team doctors announce that everyone is to leave the room and they all flee. The crash team locks the door with a special pass card and everyone breathes a sigh of relief.