Vxce
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- Posted: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 01:26:30 +0000
Welcome
Here is my answer to craving a quick, simplistic role play without forfeiting quality. This is a walk-in literate RP thread, which means if your posts are of little substance they will probably be ignored. I can not stress that enough. Don't post unless you're confident in your writing skills. Spelling/grammar errors are not a big deal, but one-liners and final fantasy character rip offs will be deleted. On that note, this thread will rely highly on your ability to improvise and go with the flow. When crazy scenarios are thrown at you, you will be expected to be able to cope, adapt, and survive.
Here are the guidelines to follow:
- • Your characters cannot have powers. Everyone is human in the midst of a terrible zombie outbreak.
• Your characters must be realistic. Military background is okay, but please, no Rambo characters who can slap a zombie with their d**k from a mile away...that's just not fun to read. I want to see character development, I want to see struggle, I want to see your characters be surprised and scared but overcome these obstacles...oh wait, you already know this BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL SEASONED WRITERS, RIGHT?!
• Minimal post formats please. I like character references, and pictures in your posts are okay, but small ones, we don't need all the frill and stretched pages. See my own posts for an example of what is acceptable.
• There will be a few types of zombie:
Note that survivors refer to zombies as the "undone". See the quoted section at the bottom of this post for an explanation.
1.) The normal infected, who are the slow moving, stupid, drooling kind that everyone's familiar with.
2.) The lurkers, who are thinner, stealthier and smarter due a mutation in the virus. They are as strong and fast as a typical athletic human. They can and will climb things to get to you, and also manipulate their environment to try to get to you. This includes things like making noise to attract hoards on purpose, setting primitive traps, and making primitive tools to use against you. Lurkers are rare loners and usually will not team up with one another.
3.) The berserkers, who are big, strong, and generally pissed off. These hulks will do anything for flesh, but they don't think much before they act. Utilize this.
4.) The spitters, who are a lot like lurkers except they spit some acidic phlegm that burns the flesh. They aim for the eyes. Eeew.
5.) The clickers (YUP, totally stole this from The Last Of Us, all credit goes to them, I just love the idea), who are blind but have extremely good hearing and make a creepy clicking sound used for echolocation, like bats. You can hold still up against a larger object in order to avoid detection, but if you're standing out in the open and they "click", they'll be able to distinguish what you are based on your shape. These zombies have to have been infected for at least 1 month before fully developing this ability.
6.) The screamers, who usually come before a hoard. They run ahead and scream when they see you, attracting more infected. These guys really suck.
7.) The impostors, who usually consist of women or children. These zombies are smart enough to realize that they can appeal to your good nature by crying or acting generally pathetic and helpless. If you fail to realize that they're zombies and attempt to help them, they will take advantage of your kindness and attack once they've lured you in. These zombies are also the only ones who can speak, but they can only say a few words like help, please, I'm lost, mommy, etc. No fully formed sentences though.
FEEL FREE TO RUN IDEAS FOR NEW TYPES OF ZOMBIES BY ME, I'D LOVE TO HEAR AND ADD THEM!.
- • I don't want profiles. I want to learn your character as we go, it's much more interesting that way!
• This story will start with everyone's characters in a fictional town called Dodger in the Northeastern part of America. It has an inner city that is a lot like NYC, but it's not very big, just outside it are the suburbs and then of course the country. I like this map because it offers writers with three types of setting to choose from. Remember, I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE BUILDING THIS STORY! Feel free to create or destroy the environment around you. I have been vague about the location and specifics of Dodger for a reason.
• The virus, depending on the strand you catch, has different effects as outlined above. It can be caught by fluid exchange only; so blood splashing in the eyes, the saliva in a zombies bite, making out with a zombie, etc.
• You will know that someone is infected when their eyes start turning yellow and their pupils become fully dilated. Once your character has been bit, they have 24 hours left before they're lost to the infection. Your character should become increasingly aggressive as the infection progresses. As of now there is no cure or vaccine, but perhaps as the story goes on we will discover ways to stunt the progress of the infection.
• All OOC should stay in the OOC thread!!!
• Please understand that I am a slow poster. Some days I'll be quicker than others -- I will respond whenever I can, but I promise I will try to make each post worth the wait!
• Liquid Lights and I are the mods of this thread. I really don't plan to be doing much policing here unless someone upsets someone or something.
"Day One" takes place the night of June 22nd, 2019
The outbreak has been in full swing for about 2 years.
Here is the state of things upon your characters entrance:
The outbreak has been in full swing for about 2 years.
Here is the state of things upon your characters entrance:
The Story Thus Far
The old world had fallen away to dust beneath the edge of the very weapons her countries had made to protect the people that lived in them. Man had fallen on his own sword. Nations had rained their atomic fire upon themselves and into the heart of every major city in the world. In vain hope that the mass outbreaks would be culled with the doomed populations of massed infected wiped out in a single, flashing moment of utter all-encompassing self-destruction... The Undoing came to be so named by the few that were left when the fallout swept into the air... What infected remained were The Undone -- more savage and horrifying than any that came before them. The people left alive became accustomed to starvation... The trees withered and died. The rain fell like acid and burned the crops and poisoned the water. Ash fell from every sky... And the sun refused to shine.
Those who survived were cursed with the misfortune of living in what remained of the world before.
Dodger gets very cold at night and never really raises above 70 degrees during the day.
If you have any questions feel free to ask in the OOC thread, others might be wondering the same thing. I encourage you to introduce yourself there upon entry!
If you have any questions feel free to ask in the OOC thread, others might be wondering the same thing. I encourage you to introduce yourself there upon entry!