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Days Gone Bye OOC; Modern Zombie RP
Topic Started: Jan 30 2013, 08:53 AM (4,833 Views)
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So, I'm kind of a zombie addict, even before it became such a huge thing like it has these past couple of years (I guess things like The Walking Dead are to blame/praise for that).

Anyhow, are people interested in some RP set in a zombie/undead infested world?

I do a lot tabletop roleplaying (well, GMing) and I've run a handful of games set with this kind of backdrop - I find the best types are those that are realistic, character focused stories where the issues of the undead and survival play a role, but ultimately sit in the background (i.e. I won't have you guys counting your cans of beans and always shooting zombies in the head, it'll be about the characters.)

I'll run the game forward if we have 3+ people interested, me acting as Narrator and playing out some of the less 'important' NPCs in the game.


The Pitch:

The year is 2012 (no wait, we're in 2013 now, right?) and the world is basically playing out around us much as it is now. At least, it was. The game will take place in fictional locations (beginning in the wilderness and likely progressing into a large city, depending on what the group decides to do. The setting is fictional mostly so that players can picture it as they please and we don't have continuity problems - chances are you guys would know popular US or European cities in more detail than I.

It's been a full 2 months since unknown pathogens were discovered across the globe, spreading like wildfire and slowly decimating the human race. Days after the first deaths, a fortnight or so into the pandemic, those infected by the unknown virus began to reanimate from the dead. Initial reports of these incidents were not disclosed to the public and handled poorly - because of this, the spread was nearly uncontrollable by the time the general population learned of just what was happening.

Two months later, with some basic understanding of what has happened, a small group of survivors have linked together and are currently hiding out in the wilderness. The time has come for them to make a move, however, as winter is closing in around them and the food rationing they had in place is dwindling. The current methods of survival were simply to stay hidden and hope for some kind of indication that the situation would soon become under control. Now, things looking far more dire than expected, this small group of survivors need to form a plan.

The 'zombies', or living dead (or animated, walkers, etc.) are the slow, meandering kind. They don't necessarily crave flesh for consumption, but simply are creatures of the hunt - they roam around in the hopes of coming across something with warm flesh. This is not limited to humans.

Much like more traditional undead concepts, trauma to the brain is the only way to ensure these creatures lose their basic motor skills and re-die.

The creatures seem to obtain some intelligence from their former lives, depending on how long they've been dead, and some have been known to manage basic tasks like opening doors, climbing ladders, or even wielding objects as weapons (though they definitely lack to skills to use tools effectively).


Current Cast List
- Daniel Perdue, Ex-Coastguard
- Wendy Sullivan, Nursing Assistant
- Gabriel Knight, Writer
- Kobiyoko 'Kobi' Hazuki, Constable

(Click names for character sheets.)


The Characters:

The characters are open to all - basically, any individual person who might exist in the world right now can be written up and played. I personally prefer the Average Joe kind of characters - not boring, but just average folk from day to day life, as opposed to survival experts and soldiers who are trained for the situations thrown at them.

If you're interested, post up a character sheet in this topic, using the following:

Name:
Profession: (just generic titles, make up your own - doctor, cop, farmer, teacher, student, etc.)

Appearance:
Personality:
Personal Gear: (specific items your character holds dear - no limits here, just be reasonable/logical in choosing)

History:

Skills:
Weaknesses:
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Yush, my zombie fix before the 10th. =D

Name:Daniel Perdue
Profession: Ex Coast Guard in a rough spot in his life.

Appearance: 5'11' brown shoulder length wavy hair. Olive colored eyes and pale skin. Thin as a beanpole but pure muscle.
Personality: A hot head at times, but he can be really reasonable. Slow to trust though, he's been stabbed in the back so many times that He just can't afford to take anyone at face value.
Personal Gear: His grandfather's Sheffield Steel Machete from Vietnam. Everything else is your basic survival gear (spare clothing, SOCKS are a staple. Salvaged MRE's , First aid kit, etc...)

History: Born in El Paso in 1988 he basically lived all over the US. His father a soldier with a very promising carreer. His mother, a worthless waste of space. He had a fairly normal life, well besides the fact he was always moving. Hence his inability to make friends. He went to the Job Corps in Roswell in 2007. Hoping to learn a trade, but alas it was a dead end. So he decided to enlist in the military. He went to the Dallas MEPS for his screening before getting shipped off to Cape May NJ. Basic to him was a piece of cake, where others broke to the pressure and melded to the ideal soldiers, he kept music alive in his head. He was a crack shot and a whiz at hand to hand, but alas that didn't prepare him for Barain. On a mission to detain he was shot and in a moment he lost it all. Feeling the burn in the lower right part of his belly he fired upon the 3 he was supposed to detain emptying his clip into the three men before succumbing to the black. Next thing he realizes, he's back state-side. Given a code 4 and stripped of everything he was released from duty Honorably a year later. He decided to try his hand up north with a couple of odd jobs. That's when the outbreak happened.

Skills: Seamanship. Celestial Nav, Survivalism, proficiency with the Sig Sauer P226.
Weaknesses:  His inability to trust
Kenji Akechi 19Feb06-09Jul06, Darien Dayshadow 27Jan06-01May06Flame 27Feb2006 - 23Apr2006,Daniel Perdue 06Feb2006 – 21Apr2006
Sail the Sky~With all my fears, and sorrows close. I'm hanging on, just hanging on.~~I wish that you were with me, to sail the sky Serenity.~~Then take me high, or take me low, then to the end where I may go.~~If I can stand then I shall pass. Pass beyond this night of black, pass beyond this night of black.~
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Name: Wendy Sullivan
Profession: nursing assistant
Appearance: 5'5" blonde blue eyes, busty. Wears hair in pony tail. Slim hips. Wears jeans and cowboy shirts
Personality: friendly, intelligent, nature oriented. Loves animals of all kinds.
Personal Gear: backpack with first aid kit, sleeping bag, camping axe/tool kit, extra gauss, large bandages. Antiseptics. 5' walking staff. Bottles of water. Jerky. Crackers.

History: Wendy was raised in the wilderness of Minnesota, spending most of her early life at the lake, and around the Native Americans where her dad was the local trade store proprietor. She fell in love with the connection to nature and her easy going personality kept her open to making friends with many people of all races. She also loved spending time with animals and thought she might go into veterinary science. During her studies, she shifted over to nursing assistant and was practicing at a local clinic when things went crazy with so many weird occurrences of dead people coming back to life.

Skills: first aid. Nature lore.
Weaknesses: not a combat type.
But my heart is not weary, it's light and it's free I've got nothing but affection for all those who sailed with me
Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow. Things should start to get interestin' right about now

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Excellent. Who else is keen? Updating the first post with a list of characters.
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Yush just need one more =3
Well at least I mean.
Edited by Ahroro_Deltori, Jan 30 2013, 02:06 PM.
Kenji Akechi 19Feb06-09Jul06, Darien Dayshadow 27Jan06-01May06Flame 27Feb2006 - 23Apr2006,Daniel Perdue 06Feb2006 – 21Apr2006
Sail the Sky~With all my fears, and sorrows close. I'm hanging on, just hanging on.~~I wish that you were with me, to sail the sky Serenity.~~Then take me high, or take me low, then to the end where I may go.~~If I can stand then I shall pass. Pass beyond this night of black, pass beyond this night of black.~
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Normally I'd be ALL over this like omg, but I feel I /need/ dicerolls for a zombie RP; I need that real sense of chaos from those little geometric bastards ruining your day...

Will definitely keep an eye on it though.
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Name: Gabriel Knight
Profession: Writer
Appearance: 6 Feet, 180 pounds with an athletic build. Has curly shoulder length blonde hair that he usually keeps in a pony tail. He looks to be in his late thirties. He generally wears a white muscle t-shirt and jeans, black boots and a black trench coat. A lot of people would consider him easy on the eyes.
Personality: Witty, contemplative and charming. He is more concerned about helping other people then those that aren't part of the group. He is not one to look for trouble but will defend himself if necessary. He would rather avoid Walkers then go after them. He has a way with words and can negotiate or talk his way out of almost anything. He has a slight cajun accent that stems from his roots in New Orleans.
Personal Gear: Hunting Knife, .38 Special Revolver, Journal.

History: Born and raised in New Orleans, Lousiana. He lived a simple life and went to college for writing. He was relatively unknown until he published a series of fictional books that became #1 on the NY Times best seller list. His stories about an investigator who solved supernatural mysteries ranging from vampires to the occult made him an instant celebrity. In order to be inspired for his latest book, he went out on his own to a cabin in the woods and attempted to take on the role of the investigator. Little did he know that the nightmares his character encountered, would soon become a reality.

Skills: Has the gift of the silver tongue. Can negotiate and talk his way out of almost anything. He also is a talented writer and has a vast knowlege of anything supernatural.
Weaknesses: Pride. Can't admit he is wrong and has a hard time asking for help. Is selfish to the point of caring about himself more than others that are not a part of the "group."
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So that's three so far. Anyone else interested?
Kenji Akechi 19Feb06-09Jul06, Darien Dayshadow 27Jan06-01May06Flame 27Feb2006 - 23Apr2006,Daniel Perdue 06Feb2006 – 21Apr2006
Sail the Sky~With all my fears, and sorrows close. I'm hanging on, just hanging on.~~I wish that you were with me, to sail the sky Serenity.~~Then take me high, or take me low, then to the end where I may go.~~If I can stand then I shall pass. Pass beyond this night of black, pass beyond this night of black.~
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I'll give it a day or so to see who is interested.
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Name: Kobiyoko 'Kobi' Hazuki

Profession: Constable

Apperance: 5'6" with a lean build carefully crafted through her police foundations training, practice of yoga, ballet and pilates as well as her black belt in Judo and extensive kickboxing training. She has long black hair and while she's born Canadian is of Japanese descent. She has electric blue eyes and her only notable discerning mark is a scar on both the front and back of her left shoulder where a bullet passed through.

Personality: A very straight forward type of person she speaks her mind, though she is not outspoken just very direct when she does choose to speak. Not overly friendly but has a strong moral pride which counters her prickly demeanor. Relatively fearless she is always ready to do what needs to be done.

Personal Gear: Two police issue sidearms and a standard police shotgun as well as a pair of tonfa's. A white tank top, Kevlar chest armor and a standard issue police uniform. Two pairs of handcuffs.

History: Born to Japanese parents in Canada she spent much of her childhood there before the family moved. As a youth she studied under her father a Judo instructor and her mother a professional dancer. She came from a strong family and they instilled in her the importance of doing the right thing which led to her becoming a cop. After finishing at the academy she was assigned to a partner in one of the nastier districts of the city which led to her being shot on her second day on the job. She recovered relatively fast due to her health-obsessed lifestyle and from then on proved herself many times.

When the outbreak occurred she and her partner were called out to a farm strangely far outside their district over a domestic disturbance since the dispatcher couldn't reach any closer units. They found the farmhouse burning when they arrived. They were unexpectedly ambushed by the family they thought they were here to help and her partner was killed in front of her. She had no choice but to open fire and kill the family and after trying to reach dispatch to no avail gathered up her partner's body and headed back for the city. On the way however a transport truck jackknifed in front of her causing her to swerve off the road, her car tumbling down a steep ridge into some brush some sixty feet below. She passed from consciousness for some time but awoke to find herself relatively unharmed other than some bruising and scrapes. It was then she took her partners gear and headed out into the wilderness.

Skills: Combat specialist.
Weaknesses: Social convention.
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Welcome to the team Scoro. Glad to have you ^~^
Kenji Akechi 19Feb06-09Jul06, Darien Dayshadow 27Jan06-01May06Flame 27Feb2006 - 23Apr2006,Daniel Perdue 06Feb2006 – 21Apr2006
Sail the Sky~With all my fears, and sorrows close. I'm hanging on, just hanging on.~~I wish that you were with me, to sail the sky Serenity.~~Then take me high, or take me low, then to the end where I may go.~~If I can stand then I shall pass. Pass beyond this night of black, pass beyond this night of black.~
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Thanks. Should be fun.
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Woo! Almost ready to start then, I'd say.
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I'm just wondering how many more people may be interested. Though it's likely we'd bump into other survivors.
Kenji Akechi 19Feb06-09Jul06, Darien Dayshadow 27Jan06-01May06Flame 27Feb2006 - 23Apr2006,Daniel Perdue 06Feb2006 – 21Apr2006
Sail the Sky~With all my fears, and sorrows close. I'm hanging on, just hanging on.~~I wish that you were with me, to sail the sky Serenity.~~Then take me high, or take me low, then to the end where I may go.~~If I can stand then I shall pass. Pass beyond this night of black, pass beyond this night of black.~
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Yeah, I figured it will be quite easy to drop new people in - either as new survivors or previously quiet members of the current group. Will give it until tomorrow then get something going... If I can wait that long.
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It sounds fun. It'll help me shake some dust off as well.
Kenji Akechi 19Feb06-09Jul06, Darien Dayshadow 27Jan06-01May06Flame 27Feb2006 - 23Apr2006,Daniel Perdue 06Feb2006 – 21Apr2006
Sail the Sky~With all my fears, and sorrows close. I'm hanging on, just hanging on.~~I wish that you were with me, to sail the sky Serenity.~~Then take me high, or take me low, then to the end where I may go.~~If I can stand then I shall pass. Pass beyond this night of black, pass beyond this night of black.~
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Alright folks, I'll start something today. It's still morning for me, but the day looks to be a busy one, so no holding your breaths! Something will be posted, though. I swear on my scarlet admin top hat (yes, we have those).
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=D If it's hectic take your time.
Kenji Akechi 19Feb06-09Jul06, Darien Dayshadow 27Jan06-01May06Flame 27Feb2006 - 23Apr2006,Daniel Perdue 06Feb2006 – 21Apr2006
Sail the Sky~With all my fears, and sorrows close. I'm hanging on, just hanging on.~~I wish that you were with me, to sail the sky Serenity.~~Then take me high, or take me low, then to the end where I may go.~~If I can stand then I shall pass. Pass beyond this night of black, pass beyond this night of black.~
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Alrighty, I've started the game. I decided against my original idea and have set the scene with just the Player Characters. No big group of survivors. NPCs and other players will all be introduced along the way. Any questions on the setting etc. just post them here and we'll compile info as needed.
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Uh, what's a CBD?

But my heart is not weary, it's light and it's free I've got nothing but affection for all those who sailed with me
Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow. Things should start to get interestin' right about now

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