Re: Interest Check: Post-Apocalypse/Zombie/The Walking Dead[closed[

[Jecht]

The idea deals with Zombies. I would like to have 5-6 people in a RP that would have almost anything. Build shelter for a night but after an attack they have to leave. I would want it to be like The Walking Dead TV show or if you want to get nasty, the comic.

So far there are 3 (that's including me) so hopefully we can get at least one or two more.

[TheHangedOne]

I'm always interested in stuff involving zombies. Some additional details would be nice, though. Is this exactly like The Walking Dead, or just inspired by?

[Wolfy]

*Jumps up and down, waving severed zombie arm* Me, Me, Me!

[kingmaster1]

Zombies!!! I want in!!!

[MzHyde]

I'm down for seeing where this goes. Also, I love Wolfy's avatar.

[OldSchoolGamer]

I could be interested in something like this.  I'd love to play it out from when the first hints of the zombie outbreak came onto the radio/Internet.  The collapse of civil order, the raping and pillaging...

[Le Immortelle]

Count me in! :D I also have a character ready for that! xD

[elmist]

Me me me me me! I'm soooo in....especially for the zombies >.>

[elfguy]

I'm also interested in zombie RPs.

[chanellelynn]

I would love to get in on this, I already have a zombie RP started in the non-adult section called Reckford Cannibalism if people want to keep it pg-13. Let me know where this will be at!

[Damnedangel]

I want in! Been looking for a good zombie rp for ages! *giggling like a little schoolgirl* I need my zombie fix :P

[Jecht]

Holy crap I forgot to check this and there were a ton of posts. Awesome. If people are still interested I will come up with a character sheet.
I was thinking it wouldn't be exactly like The Walking Dead but as closely as we all agree upon. The comics are pretty sick in terms of blood and sex so we can all talk about it. (by the way the series pilot is going to be on AMC in a few if anyone is interested. it's going to be in Black and White to resemble the comics)

Alright I will come up with a sheet. Expect it sometime tomorrow depending on a few things.

[kingmaster1]

I'm totally still interested, I always love zombie stories and love the walking dead too :D

[Jecht]

So here it is. I’m hoping this will be sort of gritty like the comic or TV show. It doesn’t necessarily have to be as brutal but it can have the same sort of stuff. I haven’t decided on a location yet, so I’m open to suggestions. If you haven’t seen the show or read the comics, don’t worry it’s pretty straight forward; group of survivors trying to stay alive in a zombie apocalypse. It will have plenty of zombie killing but what makes the show/comic different is it also shows how people deal with each other. If anyone has any questions post them here. Also, send me your sheets and I’ll give you a thumbs up.
Like I said, I’m open to ideas on general setting and everything.
Name:
Age:
Occupation before outbreak:
Description of character: (Either post a picture or describe what your character looks like. If you use a picture please don’t use cartoon/anime pictures)
Background

Name: Zachery Hale
Age: 24
Occupation before outbreak: Police officer
Description of character:

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Background: Natural born athelete, Zach tried out for a professional football team but was injured before he could played. He was attending the police academy when the outbreak started to spread. He traveled from Lexington, Kentucky heading to whatever was away from the “walkers”. Proficient in shooting, he is a natural born leader.

[kingmaster1]

Sent mine in...

I forgot to label it though but it's from me :P

[Damnedangel]

Still interested and have sent mine in :D

[Jecht]

I've responded to those that sent their profiles. Feel free ask any questions. So far 3 have sent their profiles and I will stop 7.

[kingmaster1]

Here's mine :-)

Name: Marcus Lerron

Age: 25

Occupation before outbreak: Chef

Description of character:

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Background: Marcus was taught all of his skills from his father who was an ex green berret and cook himself. He taught Marcus how to cook and how to handle weaponry (though he isn't very good with guns but excels at hand to hand combat). He was even forced to make sure he could use his skills when his father abandoned him in the woods for a week. He didn't die so that counts as a pass. He can build shelter, get food, and even prepare diseased food so that it won't kill or hurt anyone. Though not one to take up the leader position he definitely will in the time of need. He prides himself on making hard decisions and someone who will dedicate himself to the group goal.

[chanellelynn]

Yay, Im very excited to start this.

http://calmina-desirrp.tumblr.com/DTRP

Name: Desi Krist Tere

Age: 17

Occupation before outbreak: Homeless/student

Appearance: Link or

Personality/background: With a brash attitude and a sarcastic tone, Desi Tere pushes people away. She never wanted anyone to hold her up or to bring her down, and anyone as a partner would ruin her comfort zone. Still a teenager, she often gripes about others talking to her like shes young. You usually never see her laughing and giggling because theres no fun to be had in a constant travel from thieves or bandits. Once in a while you will catch Desi smiling, but only at the death of a vengeance. After the zombies started appearing Desi was living on the streets, faking her home address for school. She happened to come across one while pick pocketing another homeless man. For several months she dodged the following outbreak with ease but tried to keep contact with other humans as little as possible. Her parents were not around to teach her social skills and therefor her relationships with anyone shatters.

[Damnedangel]

I can't wait hehe :D

Name: Lilly Thorne

Age: 20

Occupation before outbreak: Student / Model (refuses to say it was porn she was modelling for)

Description of character: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4333/louisecliffe19.jpg

Background: Lilly was the nerdy girl, she loved comics, horror films and everything like it. From pre-school to middle school she was bullied, only after the first couple of years in high school did she start to mature. Her family was poor and couldn't afford her tuition for university so she found a modelling company, however it wasn't an ordinary modelling company it was a company that wanted her to do nude/sexy shots for their magazines.

She become embaressed by what she was doing but she continued for the money. She had just finished her first history class of the academic year when the outbreak started. Instead of hiding or fleeing to her room like many students did she risked her life by running off campus and heading as far away from civilisation as possible, knowing from many zombie films that the highways and towns would become death traps.

Lilly's a shy girl around people she doesn't know, will often be the one hiding at the back of the group trying to avoid the conflicts but if the situation calls for it she will step in even if it means getting hurt.

[kingmaster1]

As for setting, I was thinking we either be in a simple country town surrounded by wilderness or a coastal town near a bigger city (say Los Angeles or San Francisco) :P

[Ryan]

Is there still spaces on this? I'd like to be involved if there is. :3

[Jecht]

There is. I'm accepting a few more places. Send me your profile. It's first come first serve though

[OldSchoolGamer]

When does the storyline begin?  I'd like it to start just as the first reports of the outbreak air.  So things would still be normal, except for hearing something on TV or reading something on the Internet.  But then the outbreak would spread, reaching the area the characters are at...

[Damnedangel]

Or what about like the walking dead, a group of survivors just outside a big city? Sorry idea hit me when I was rewatching the first series =)

[chanellelynn]

Our characters will be quite scared if we start at the beginning, which will be a great start to our story line. A practical city choice will be good, where there are a lot of nooks and crannies to find each character.

[Jecht]

I was thinking right after due to the fact it might be more difficult to explain why a model, a student, a police officer and a sniper would be in a group together. If we did it right as the outbreak started, it might be easier if a few of our characters know each other in some way. Just an idea.

3 spots left by the way.
So far its
Jecht
Ryan
Kingmaster
Damnedangel
Chanellelynn

[Ryan]

Name: Lance Corporal Charlie ó Raghallaigh (O'Reilly)
Age: 24
Occupation before Outbreak: Scout Sniper in the United States Marine Corps

Picture

Background: Charlie wanted to be in the armed forces for as long as he could remember; it was back when he couldn't have been more than five years old and his 12 year old brother took him to a fair ground and led him to one of the old rifle games where you shoot tin cans and win prizes. His brother, Liam, handed over the carnie a few dollars and they sat side by side for hours, picking off tin cans - this was when Charlie's talent in marksmanship made itself known and he excitedly turned to his brother, another military nut, that he was going to be a soldier just like Liam was going to be when he grew up.

6 years later and Liam enrolled into the Marines as part of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal team and quickly rose up the ranks to become a Staff Sergeant. He did 2 tours of Iraq before coming home, telling his younger brother all of his stories and experiences in the Corps that only made Charlie more enthused to be a soldier. Liam then shipped out again to do a year long tour in Afghanistan and a week before he was due to come home, the ó Raghallaigh family received a letter of condolence, announcing that Liam had been killed in a roadside bombing in an attempt to diffuse a bomb strapped to an innocent man's chest. The entire family was devastated, perhaps none more so than Charlie. But the tragedy did nothing to put him off joining the forces, if anything, it only made him want to enrol more so.

Which is exactly what he did on the day of his 18th birthday and rose to Lance Corporal with ease, sending mutterings throughout the higher ups on his expert marksmanship and extreme determination.

Charlie was on leave when the outbreak struck; he was living on base when the zombies attacked but luckily, the base faired well given that it was full of weaponry, ammunition and men and women expertly trained to kill. After the base was once again secure, the base was given orders like all other bases within the country to gear up and fight against the threat like they had been trained to.

Sometime after leaving the base and travelling where they could in the armoured convoy, the relatively small team of Marines were attacked in the dead of night by a hoard of the creatures that overwhelmed them despite their efforts and despite their mass of ammunition. It was a bloodbath that continued for hours and when dawn broke, there were only 3 men left - Charlie, a Private who had managed to climb a tree just as Charlie had and one man on the ground, sobbing and moaning in agony, whimpering and calling for his mother. Charlie and the Private picked off the last of the lingering zombies from the trees and cautiously climbed down to the man on the floor. As they had seen through the days of infection, the man was slowly turning into one of the creatures; frantic and distraught, he grabbed Charlie's fatigues with a bloody hand and tearfully begged for death. The man nodded and carefully took off the soldier's dog tags, slipping them into his pocket before he shot the man in the head before he could turn.

Charlie and the Private - Benjamin - then collected as many dog tags as they could retrieve, as much supplies and ammunition as they could carry and set off on foot, knowing the vehicles weren't salvageable. It was mere days before horror struck again - in the midst of searching a Walmart for food, Benjamin was jumped by a zombie, knocking him to the ground and pinning him to the floor. He yelled and Charlie acted as fast as his could but it was too late, after kicking the twice-dead corpse off the young Private, it was there, clear as day on his left cheek - the bite mark that condemned him to death.

Charlie sat with the Private for a long while; they talked as his healthy slowly started to decline, talked about why they joined the Corps, what they'd seen, who'd they'd left behind, who they'd lost. It was only when the sunset that Benjamin passed away and Charlie finally got up, slipped Benjamin's dog tags off his neck and put them safely away then lodged a bullet in his brain before walking away to find shelter for the night.


(Here's mine! :D Good point, Jecht. We could all work on some background stuff together?)

[kingmaster1]

I think it would be good for some of us to know each other a bit...since we have a girl who is homeless I was thinking Marcus gave her food every day...just a thought  ::)

[Damnedangel]

Since Lillys a 'model' could be possible one of the men or women recognise her from photos?

[Jecht]

Zach would never look at those kinds of pictures  ;)

Kidding, he would totally look at those pictures.

[Damnedangel]

Hehe, looks like we have one character who knows mine ;)

I think she'd be interested in a man in uniform, since they're her weakness :P

[kingmaster1]

I would think Marcus has a couple pictures of her...probably a folder on his pc...

[OldSchoolGamer]

Okay, I'm definitely interested.  Give me a few hours to cobble together a character...work just totally swamped me today.

[kingmaster1]

So, how many more people we need?

[Jecht]

So far we have 5. I thought we would have more jump on. We can start whenever if people don't want to wait. We can always add them later

[kingmaster1]

I'm fine starting whenever, now or later is fine by me  :-)

[Damnedangel]

Same as King =)

I don't mind starting now or later.

[kingmaster1]

come on interest! I'm excited for this!

[Haibane]

Is another cop okay? I was basing the character on someone who has been surviving the zombie outbreak already for a week or two, but if you wanted to set the timing of the story to earlier in the outbreak I can make some edits.

Having recently got into playing the Dayz mod for ARMA II I think a more rural setting could be interesting, with the group of survivors being on the road and moving from place to place (small town America) scavenging, adding members to their group and seeking a good defensible location.

Anyway, happy to change Claire around as needed.



Name: Claire Louise Anderson
Age: 45
Personality: Claire is an honest woman and a good cop. She is/was a deputy of Tremaine County, a rural area of the state well out in the boonies. Her life has always been one of wanting to be a cop, and then, when she made the grade, being the best cop she could be. She is quiet and unassuming; placid and caring for the elderly and confused; firm and fair to the lawless. She is, however a straight thinking, straight talking logical woman with an analytical mind and boundaries set firmly within what is possible by physics and allowed by the law. She is therefore somewhat out of her depth in these hazardous and confusing times.
Bio: As a young girl growing up in a small rural community Claire was always taught to obey the Lawman. Fortunately for her, childhood happened in the still-golden years of the late 70s and early 80s when lawmen really were good and fair and helpful members of their community, looked up to by all and feared by the bad guy. Incorruptible and tough, the lawman always had a smile for the lost child and a supportive attitude to those unfortunate enough to face their official side. Young Claire doted on deputy Lawrence Simms who was the best cop she ever knew. When he retired she detected (at the age of seventeen) a change in the wind, a new style of policing was coming in with cops more distant from the community and more likely to shoot rather than ask. Claire determined to do her best to make this change as slow as she could.

Claire graduated from the police academy third in her class aged 21 and the next ten years saw her endure the system that was still chronically misogynist but she bore her slow career development with good grace and refused to sink to the level of the fat bad cops above her who abused their power.

You cannot keep a good girl down and when a post as Deputy Marshal came up in Tremaine County, where Claire was born, she jumped at the chance. Her bosses, embarrassed by the smiling efficient politically-clean woman, were only too happy to farm her out of their sight from the city to a place they could forget about her. In the rural communities of Tremaine County Claire blossomed and found her place, working diligently to restore what she knew cops should be to the people they served.
Skills: Claire is capable with a gun but no marksman. She is trained in their use but rarely uses one. Her driving though is excellent and she has taken three advanced driving courses with the police specifically covering off-roading skills, adverse weather and "high speed and safe." Clair is a fair cook and seamstress but her hunter-gatherer skills extend no further than the freezer cabinets of Walmart.
Belongings: 4x4 Police Cruiser, snub nosed .38 police-issue revolver and two cartons of bullets (48 rounds). Her cruiser's tank is half empty (good for 300 miles) and she hauls an ex-army single axle trailer that carries a self-sealing military fuel bladder with currently another 30 gallons of fuel in it. There is a hose and hand-pump filler nozzle she has used to draw gas from underground tanks at deserted gas stations.

She has some basic tools such as a wrench (for opening said gas station tank access caps) as well as a basic car repair and servicing kit with jack, etc (standard police issue). She's gathered a few cooking utensils and a couple of pans as well as a gas bottle and basic stove but mostly lets others she meets do the cooking – her side of the sharing of any group she bumps into is the transport. Her food supply consists of plenty of canned goods, such as soups, stews, curries and the like, and a few bags of rice and noodles, a few candy bars and some bags of potato chips.

She has a couple of gas cigarette lighters picked up from various half-looted stores.

She also found at a roadside hardware store a nail gun and she has a box of four inch nails for it. She's lashed together a basic shoulder stock for the thing out of scrap timber and can shoot it with tolerable accuracy at a head-sized target at around 10 yards. If she encounters zombies, Claire prefers to simply move on and not fight them, but if she has to, she prefers the nail gun to the .38 as she thinks ammunition for it will be easier to come by.

[Jecht]

You're good to go. We now have 6 is everyone Ok with that? It seems we have a good group.

[Acid Lips]

Are you still looking or are I too late?

[Damnedangel]

I'm fine with 6 or 7 if Acid Lips joins

[kingmaster1]

I'm fine with 6 or 7 too :D

[Acid Lips]

waiting on the bosses post so I can start the character or not. I was thinking perhaps the younger sister of a already made character?

[kingmaster1]

I'd be fine with Marcus having a younger sister, it would give him someone to protect, like Clementine in the walking dead game.

[Acid Lips]

I was thinking she is young perhaps 16 so everybody would protect her sort of

[kingmaster1]

sounds good, there is always a young kid in zombie movies, like Carl in the walking dead :P

[Haibane]

Jecht, did you decide on a starting time (before/during/just after the outbreak) and a location (city/suburban/small town/rural) yet?

We also need to get our characters to link up. I have been in zombie outbreak games that folded even before the party all met up because people got bored writing posts of them doing stuff on their own. My vote would be that the game begins a couple of weeks after the outbreak and our group just happens together while scavenging. Or they simply are together already and we don't explain it at all (we can work out how they connected later on and reveal these backstories as extra character depth but I have thrown some really brief ideas around below).

It makes sense that the two cops could know each other and might even have worked in the same precinct (I can modify Claire's backstory to suit if needed).

I agree it also makes sense that the cops might know Desi but her bio implies she's been travelling a lot and cops don't do that, they are fixed in place. So Desi might be found later.

O'Reilly may have been seconded to a police unit during the chaos of the outbreak and they met up that way.

Lilly could have run into a police station for protection soon after the poop hit the fan and met up with Zach, Claire and Charlie that way (I have visions in my mind of an Assault on Precinct 13 scene in my head after which this group staged a breakout).

This group could finally have met up with Marcus on the road, Marcus being a lone scavenger.

Those are just ideas - others may have better ones.

While Claire has no outstanding skills to bring to the group (there are better shooters and better cooks present) she will bring a clear logical mind, wisdom from her age which I think should be deeper than others, and her transport. She's not a person to lead in a group if a more assertive leader shouts louder but she certainly can do so, though her style will be quieter and more reasoned.

You can fit six or seven into her cruiser if we consider it a people-carrier sized vehicle but beyond that I think we'd need a second vehicle. That might or might not be a good idea. One car keeps everyone together for conversation purposes, two cars gives the group more flexibility, especially if we can find a set of walkie talkies and a supply of batteries or 12v car accessory connectors ;)

Two cars limits the group dynamics a little while travelling, but could speed up posting rates if we had, say, 2 groups of 3/4 instead of one of 7. Even so, while on the road, slow posters could just be "asleep", or "gazing out the window" so it can stil work quite well.

Jecht - did you plan on GMing things in terms of what the group comes across and what supplies might be found in what places? I've had some bad zombie games where the group became better kitted out than a Special Forces team within a few hours because they just happened to run into an "abandoned army convoy," etc, etc. If you can limit the hardware the group has, or make it break/need servicing that can help add tension.

[kingmaster1]

I like those ideas, but I think acid lips is making a character that (I think) is going to be Marcus's little sister. So they would find them both.

[Haibane]

That still works, if Marcus' sister is with him, they could bump into them together. Or they could have met Desi first as Desi also seems to be wandering alone.

[kingmaster1]

I think that would work, it sounds good at least, strength in numbers and all that :D

[Bloody Rose]

are you still looking or not?

[kingmaster1]

hopefully jecht comes back soon enough so we can get things answered and other things started :P

[Frank Reshman]

Is this thing still open to participants?  I freaking love zombies!

[Haibane]

We're waiting for the GM to post and say. I think he wanted about 6 or 7 characters and we have those now, so, not sure. There's a kind of logical limit to a party size for a group of survivors in that it makes it so much harder to feed them all if there gets beyond a certain number. Personally I think 6 or 7 is already a large group but its up to the GM and whether he's concerned with things like that!

If we do have more characters I think some ordinary Joes would be good. We have enough people able to handle firearms and more Special Forces types or super-characters would unbalance the game.

That's just my view though. I'm a fan of ordinary Joes in such situations more than soldiers, etc. because the situation they find themselves in demands more inventive RPing.

[Jecht]

Sorry everyone, I haven't been on alot. Stuff has been happening lately.

I was thinking 6 or 7 would be the best number. I'm sorry to those that have been coming in without an answer. We can always make it a bigger group if needed but sometimes those fail pretty quickly.

I wasn't going to GM what we run into as I want imput from everyone but I don't want to make it super easy or super hard on everyone neither. If someone says we come across a army depot, perhaps it is surrounded by a fence or there's a hundred zombies near it which makes it a tougher place to get to. Honestly as long as we communicate well, it will turn out well.

As for time, I agree a week after would be good. I'm trying to think how The Walking Dead started. Since a few of us know each other or established something, I will just have everyone meet in a random apartment building. They can hold out there for a bit before we decide where to go with it.

As of now, I have
Myself
Haibane
Ryan
kingmaster1
Damnedangel
Chanellelynn
Acid Lips (send me your profile before you post it)

I think 7 is a good amount. I will make the OoC thread in a day or so then the starter not long after.

Sound good to everyone?

[kingmaster1]

I think the walking dead started a good month after things started, seeing as how everyone was already hiding and hordes had moved in. Rick just kind of stumbled upon things :P

As for meeting I suppose it makes sense they'd met up after so much time passed. Some people could even be fighting but an apartment building wouldn't really be the safest place...depending on what floor they're on...I kind of like the idea of Haibane's character having the car and trailer and they are all trying to get to a possibly safe destination, something like Alcatraz in San Francisco or something...(off the top of my head :P ) Also book of Eli

also, 7 is a good amount to me  :-)

[Damnedangel]

I don't mind where my character starts or who shes with, I'm not picky =) But I think we should atleast start a month after, you know atleast then we can literally say the world has gone to s**t for good because communications would be down apart from emergency broadcasting so people won't know others are alive unless they come into physical contact with another group.

[Jecht]

A month after sounds good to me. The reason why I said an apartment building is the series We're Alive...it's a podcast/audio book that is pretty neat how they do it. They pretty much get started in a apartment building that they fortify. It doesn't last long when a group of people show up plus the undead but it's a neat place to start. Tall apartment building (maybe 7 floors) That we can just get together at. We can discuss from there.

Just an idea.

[Frank Reshman]

So, I missed the due date.  Sad face.  However, having been in a few RP's around here, if anyone happens to drop out, please send me a PM.  I would be more than happy to be a new addition.  Hopefully, nothing like that happens, but it's always best to have back ups.

All the best,

Frank

[Haibane]

Given the concentration of zombies in a city it always makes sense to me in such situations to get out of population centres and go rural, find somewhere easily defensible out in the boonies. Out there clean water and animals to hunt would be more plentiful too. Of course if you're going to have zombie bears, wolves and stags that may not be such a hot idea ;)

Sure, we can begin in an apartment block but I really don't see the logic of it. Such a building is a potential trap and if you are seeking somewhere easy to defend, a smaller simpler structure away from a population centre would do just as good. Rather than being influenced by movies or video games, why not think about a storyline for yourself? I prefer Claire to have her cruiser and trailer and have parked it in the basement. Did she arrive alone though, or meet the others, or at least some of them, before?

Is anybody okay with the 'how-we-met' ideas I put out? I think it'll help the characters if we do all agree some past events so that it makes the storytelling consistent.

[Damnedangel]

I'm fine with the apartment idea and I like your idea of Lilly running to the police station when the shit hit the fan =) Since she obviously has no idea on how to look after herself etc etc so I say (if its ok with you) that Lilly met up and arrived at the apartments with Claire?

[kingmaster1]

I like the "how-they-met" ideas that haibane put out, I think they make sense

[Haibane]

LOL, our group of survivors is disagreeing before they've got IC.  XD

I guess its the GMs final call, though. He is the GM after all!

I'll go with the apartment block start if needed, but my char will suggest they get out asap!

[Jecht]

It doesn't matter. I'm just thinking of something interesting to start with rather than something easy like in country. Besides, not everyone is going to just head to the country right away. Like most zombie/survival stories, people like to stick to city limits to wait for the government to save them. Especially with 2 police officers and military people that would expect that to happen.

[Damnedangel]

I don't know if this is like an idea or something but I'm reading a series of zombie books on the kindle written in blog form and the main character was a huge geek who loved zombie movies etc, so when the dead started to walk he turned his neighbourhood into a fortress and stored enough food etc to keep the neighbourhood and others alive.

[kingmaster1]

 Sounds cool, but I don't think any of our characters had that idea, seeing as how they are held up in an apartment...or something...I dont really know right now :P

[Acid Lips]

So am I still allowed to be in this?

[kingmaster1]

Yep, you're in this already  ;D

[Damnedangel]

Nah I meant from the idea was like what if I don't know later on in the roleplay we run into a place like it. A fortified haven yet theres nobody inside it *shrugs*

[kingmaster1]

That sounds cool but it seems like that would be an end game find. if it was well fortified and supplied a plenty they would be set :P

[Haibane]

Only until a bigger, stronger survivor group turns up...

[kingmaster1]

*dramatic sting*

[Damnedangel]

Mhm in the book they were all normal people in the fortified neighbourhood until a guy infiltrated the group, gave up the group the big attackers who happened to be the army who had begun to fight for themselves after they realised the world was screwed.

[Acid Lips]

I think I am going to have to pass, my mind is not really in this rp right now sorry ppl

[kingmaster1]

that means we can start looking for another person or just go with the people we have...

[Jecht]

I hate to do this but I don't think I can start this anytime soon. Someone else can take it over. I might join up eventually if it's still going on but I've been too busy the last week to even sit down and plan it out. I apologize. Someone can start it and get this thing going.

[kingmaster1]

I can take the reigns if you'd like  :-)

[Haibane]

We possibly don't need any one person to, as a group we can run it. It just needs someone to set up the opening thread and we need to decide how the group met/will meet.

[kingmaster1]

okay.

[BellaVita]

Are you guys still looking for more? I know it says closed, but I'm really interested :)

[Ryan]

I don't about the others but I'm happy to have another member of the group. :3

[Damnedangel]

I'm fine with people joining =)

[BellaVita]

If everyone is okay with it, that would be great. Who would I send my Character Sheet to?

[kingmaster1]

well...since Jecht is more or less out as GM, you can send it to me  :-)

[BellaVita]

Ok! I'll write it up and send it your way :)

[kingmaster1]

okay, and with that I suppose I'll start the OOC and IC, assuming everyone is still on board  :-)

Everyone who is still in please say so, so I can be sure!

[Damnedangel]

I'm still in!

[Haibane]

Yes.

I'm assuming Jecht won't have time to play either, so we actually have 2 character slots open.

[BellaVita]

Name: Olivia Turow

Age: 22

Occupation before outbreak: Nurse

Description of character:

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

Background: 

Olivia always had a big heart, and wanting to help others led her to becoming a nurse. Everything was going great, she was even looking into going to med school, but then the outbreak happened.

She was working when an influx of patients came in, and the hospital was swamped. No one knew what to do and it seemed hopeless. Eventually, the 'walkers' took over the hospital, but not before she stole some supplies. She made it back home with her friend, another nurse named Marie, filling her duffle bag with what she could and took off.

Olivia and Marie made it close to the outskirts of the city, but they were ambushed after their car broke down and her friend didn't make it. She did all she could for Marie, fighting off the group of walkers and getting away with Marie's body, but she couldn't save her friend. It took a while for her to move on, she didn't want to leave Marie's body laying in the street. Eventually, she continued on, her instincts to survive overriding everything else. Now, all by herself, she looks for others, armed with a machete she found.

Skills: Learned how to shoot a BB gun at camp when she was younger, does that count?  She is a more than capable nurse, and has a steady hand. This makes her good with knives, because she knows where to cut that will do the most damage. She is no hunter, but she and her mother tended a garden and she knows how to grow plants and which plants are safe to eat, and there are even some that can help with injuries or illnesses. Her father taught her how to fish some, but that is about as far as her food gathering skills go.

Belongings: Dark purple duffle bag. In it are various medical supplies, tools, and medicine. She also has an extra change of clothes, a small blanket, and a few comforts of home, like a toothbrush, toothpaste and a hairbrush. Her machete is the only weapon she has that she knows how to use, but she also found a Glock and some ammo that she is holding onto.


(Of course I can edit the last bit of the biography if we are already, or even mostly, grouped up.)

[kingmaster1]

okay, I'm going to make an OOC, everyone move over there please  :-)

we will still be looking for another person if we must but I think we should start soon, and settle what the plot is in the OOC  ;D

[kingmaster1]

here we are, I will post the IC there  :-)

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