And so we begin life anew. (Post-Apocalyptic Colony RP)(O/A)

All in favor of a timeskip until we all get to New York say "Aye."

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"The whole world knew it was coming, the end. But no one knew how it would end. I still don't know how it really went down, myself, but I sure as hell know how we're going to start again."

-Clint Lawson, leader of Colony Manhattan

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Welcome to what's left of Earth.
Economic, political, and social turmoil has lead to warfare on a nearly incomprehensible scale, the aftermath of which changed the shape of the world forever. Nuclear attacks on the world's most populous areas had completely flattened the landscape, the lives of billions gone in the blink of an eye, and those unlucky enough to not be caught in the blast either died of nuke-related disease or were driven into the wilderness to start life anew.

It is rare that people receive a second chance at life.
Even rarer to find that people ARE the second chance.

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So here's the setting:
The world's gone and blown itself up. A few people (you) have run to areas that aren't exactly suited for population, such as the Canadian tundra or the Sahara Desert, to avoid being bombed and killed. You're all that's left, as far as you know, and you've got to survive. Maybe even try to rebuild the human race.

OoC thread:
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Story So Far:
Nov. 13: First contact between Green Mountain and Colony Manhattan while fighting off raiders in supply missions to Saratoga Springs.

Nov. 14: First contact between New Montreal and Colony Manhattan via an escaped prisoner of Montreal's, claiming the leader there has committed atrocities to his own people. The leader later arrived claiming the prisoner was insane and a menace to society. Manhattan refused to give the man up. Montreal started preparing for war.

Nov. 21: New Montreal, having trained a team of elite soldiers, attacks Colony Manhattan. Casualties include Guard Captain Joe Haddington of Manhattan, along with several of Manhattan's residents, Leader Clint Lawson being injured, and 3 of Montreal's elite fighting team also dying. Lawson announces plan to move to New York as Manhattan lays the dead to rest.

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Rules:
I generally don't take much very seriously. Apart from ToS and s**t like that, it really doesn't matter.

I guess if I had to make rules, they'd be...
1. Don't be a d**k.
2. A little bit of effort into your roleplaying. I don't care about literacy/illiteracy, but you've got to make us care about your character for it to be fun.
3. Invincibility and unlimited strength aren't cool, and they sort of break rule #1.
4. I sort of have an idea where I'd like to go with this, so don't go running off and make your own little world for yourself. Actually, go ahead. But keep in mind the rules above.
5. Pm me your profiles.

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Profile skeleton:

[b]username here[/b]
[i]Name:[/i] Name here
[i]Age:[/i] Old/young enough to be relevant to the story. 14-50.
[i]Gender:[/i] Gotta be one or the other. Don't think I've ever heard of a mid-op, and hermaphrodites have trouble reproducing. I think.
[i]City of Origin:[/i] So... uh... Where ya from?
[i]Bio:[/i] It's your story, make it what you want it to be. So long as it's a story, not "Nothing happened and then I'm here."
[i]Appearance:[/i] Whatever fits your character. I don't care if it's a description, anime, cartoon, real life, or fake life.


Colony: I left this separate so I can delete it and it won't be redundant when I post it to the profile post.

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Colonies:
For the sake of inter-colony interaction, these are all in New England and surrounding areas.
If you want to start a colony, feel free to ask.

Colony Manhattan- Mid-state New York
Leader:
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Name: Clint Lawson
Age: 32
Gender: Male
City of Origin: New York City
Bio: Clint's never been one for the city, but he stayed out of necessity, since his job as an agent in the mayoral secret service wouldn't let him move. But this love/hate relationship has formed a sort of bond between him and the city. He's pretty damn sad to see it go. But now he has a new home to tend to.
Appearance:



Citizens:
nefret2011
Name: Charlotte "Charlie" Evans
Age: 24
Gender: female
City of Origin: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Bio: Charlie grew up as the tough loner. She was an only child of a workaholic father and a mother who's main goal was to be the next June Cleaver. She was happy to leave home to attend NYU. She changed her majors several times, not really landing on a career she liked. She finally decided she wanted to be an author... and then the world exploded. Since then she's made it her duty to make sure people know what happened. She has a journal and writes in it constantly, keeping it safe in her pack. When she found out about new colonies, she joined one out of necessity more than a want to socialize. She keeps to herself and her writings. When she does speak it's almost always sarcastic, but intelligent. She's ready to help the world rebuild itself, she just doesn't do much with grief.
Appearance:




Green Mountain Colony- Green Mountain National Park, Vermont
Leader:
sean113
Name: Otoniel "Toni" Velez
Age: 27
Gender: Male
City of Origin: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bio: Toni was an only child at the time of war, a relative peace compared to how things were now. He was away on a hiking trip when his family was taken from him in mere seconds. Everyone in the city he once loved was gone in a blink and a flash. Since then he has grown stronger and has realized he held strong leadership traits. He's been gathering up people that hadn't gone insane and figured they could rebuild society for all it was worth.
Appearance:

Citizens:

KyaKonami
Name: Sally Field
Age: 26
Gender: Female
City of Origin: Raleigh, North Carolina
Bio: Sally was born to an average family in North Carolina. She had one little brother, and her parents. She was on her way to New York to try her hand at acting school when everything went to hell. She never found her family, and has been doing whatever since then to survive.
Appearance:

xXSexyAssassinXx
Name: Ariane Grace Shader
Age: 25
Gender: Female
City of Origin: Akron, Ohio or D.C. depending on how you see it.
Bio: Born and raised in Ohio, Ari was a young art student just beginning her career in Washington when it was finally destroyed. She barely escaped with her life and decieded to flee to the north, finding her way to a small colony where she settled down hoping for safety.
Appearance:


Mendokuse92
Name: John McAleese
Age: 20
Gender: Male
City of Origin: London, England / Seattle, WA
Bio: A young man with very little remarkable going for him, he moved from his home country to the United States a little while before the world went to hell, so that he could be with a woman whom he fell in love with. During the events of the apocolypse he was seperated from his lover, and while he knows in his head that she is probably no longer alive, his heart hopes that one day they will be reunited.
Appearance:
Headshot

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New Montreal- On Lake Ontario in NY State
Leader:
melikesmorepie
Name: Brian Steele
Age: 27
Gender: Male
City of Origin: Brighton, Ontario
Bio: Brian came from a family of drugs and alcohol. His daily routine when he got home was to see his mother abused and yelled at, so he was taught to treat women like this. When drugs and alcohol were apart of his life, of course weapons were as well. He learned how to shoot a gun at the age of 9. Of course his weapon of choice is a .45 colt revolver. His father also wanted him to know how to use a blade, so oddly enough he signed him up for fencing classes from ages 10-17. In other words, he knew how to swing a sword. When he was 24, the bombs hit and everything went to hell. He and his family found safety in his paranoid fathers bomb shelter, which actually came in handy. Emerging a year later to the hell hole that Canada had become he knew to go to one place, Lake Ontario. There he could have water hopefully with no radiation. And if there were any animals surviving that lake would most likely be a hot spot for them. After setting up a colony which took well over a year, his father thought he rightfully owned the place. Brian thought otherwise and murdered his father. Now the leader of New Montreal for a year, he is hoping for new people to help it prosper.
Appearance: (Couldn't find a cool looking anime pic) Standing at 6'4, he towers over most people. Well defined muscles and a few scars on his arms. Light brown hair, with grey green eyes. He always has a serious face and he is almost never happy looking.

Citizens:

melikesmorepie
Name: Isiah Deven
Age: 20
Gender: Male.
City of Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Bio: Isiah's father was a well distinguished lawyer, and was offered a high paying job in New York when Isiah was 8 years old. Being an old fashioned man, Isiah was in Private School all his life, earning himself a higher education than most college grads for his long studies at home. While on vacation from college, the bombs dropped and everything went to hell like any body else's story. Unfortunately he didn't know much about survival and just scrounged for a year until he had heard news of a Colony called "New Montreal". This being the first one he had heard of, he immediately went there in search of food and water.

Once there, because of his superior intellect, Brian made him his adviser possibly in the first hour he was there. Isiah gladly took this job because he knew he would be valuable to Brian. So far he hasn't killed him, so that is a good sign.
Appearance:

Bandits:

Leader and Supreme Authority:
xXSexyAssassinXx
Name: Katelyn Rose Sanders
Age: 21
Gender: Female
City of Origin: Atlanta Georgia
Bio: She was a loner all her life, no family to love her, no friends to care. Kate grew up in foster homes, being relocated often due to her attitude and rebelliousness. By the time she was seventeen she'd run away and was living on her own, far from most other people. When the bombings happened she was one of the few survivors. She quickly decided that the typical colony life was not for her and she began traveling alone as a loner and a thief. Slowly she gathered a few followers and now she leads a small group of raiders up and down the east coast, taking what she wants and needs from anyone who has it.
Appearance:



Currently Unaffiliated With Any Colonies

Satsu Renkai
Name: Ray Mira
Age: 24
Gender: Male
City of Origin: Huntsville, AL
Bio: Ray Mira had a simple, honest life before everything went to hell. He had a wife and kid. Ray and his family were on the road heading north for vacation when all hell broke loose. The last thing Ray remembered was that he was talking to his wife as their child slept in the back seat. Then suddenly there was a flash and everything after that was a blank. When Ray finally came to the car was far off the road, and him even further than that. He had slowly crawl back to the car just to find his family dead. The shock of seeing his family dead and the confusion about what had just happen left Ray dazed. Knowing that he had to survive for the sake of his late wife and child he began to walk down the road not knowing where he was going to go.
Appearance: Ray



BrimstoneXD
Name: Krystian "Dracos" Fendrake
Age: 17
Gender: Male
City of Origin: Toronto
Bio: Krystian is a scavenger. He finds s**t in places that no one thinks of looking, as as everyone knows, the places that no one looks is the place all the good stuff are at. He is a lone wanderer but his biggest fear is dying alone, so he stays with company as long as they will have him around.
Appearance: Krystian


Sir Firespread
Name: Vladimir Black
Age: 27
Gender: Male
City of Origin: St. Petersburg (Russia)
Bio: Vladimir was born to a mid-upper class Russian family in St. Petersburg. His family was built off the Soviet Union, and when he was six, the Soviet Union collapsed, forcing Vladimir and his Family to flee to America, seeking a better life than what it was in the collapsing Eastern Europe. Since then, Vladimir has worked mainly as a underground mercenary for the most part. He's had experience with being in positions of power and killing in various ways, giving him experience with such things. He's an ectothermic (cold) killer, and doesn't feel when he kills.
Appearance: Looks much the same as my avatar. He's tall, but lean.


KurasaiMato
Name: Takezo Ridgeford
Age: 23
Gender:Male
City of Origin:Fort Buckner, Okinawa, Japan
Bio: Takezo Ridgeford grew up in Okinawa on Fort Buckner with his Father. His Mother died giving birth to him and his Father was his only family due to his other relatives Racial tensions to both parents. His Father was an American Army Captain and his Mother a Japanese Native.
During their time in Japan, Takezo did meet his Grandfather on his moms side. His Grandfather, Toshirō Mifune, who lived in Akaishi Mountains. He Learned the way of the sword from his Grandfather and spent most of his time working for his Grandfather in a Tea shop he owned in Okinawa. He and his Dad started to drift further and further apart. And eventually They stopped talking all together. When Takezo turned 18, he moved to the United States after hearing word of his fathers death. He Moved to New York, where his Father was born to attend the Funeral. His Father had left him everything.
He sold his Dads house and bought a small place around 20 miles from the Lake. 5 years later the Bombs dropped. Takezo's House was just outside the range of the attack. A good 16 miles to be exact. After things settled, he got on his Kawasaki, grabbed his Katana and his Father's Personal 9mm and headed out. He made his way to New Montreal, and decided to Live there. He doesn't talk much to anyone. But he does have a thing for a girl by the name of Mai-lee Ling Matthews.

Appearance:

Arctic Winds
Name: Demetri Vladimer
Age: 24
Gender: Male
City of Origin: Belgium
Bio: Demetri had worked in the Belgium military doing covert operations. He had failed to compleat a mission due to moral standards he had been put on the "Hot List" which meant he was going to be sent to death. Demetri ran from his faith and escaped to North America. He had fallen into the wrong crowds here as well and became tied up in gangs and hitmen. When the world went to s**t his previous survival instincts came back to him and he dawned his old uniform.
Appearance:

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A closer look at the Colonies:

Colony Manhattan
Population: 47
Dutiful Pacifist, the colony prefers not to fight, though it will fight to win when all else has failed, and is a Communist society out of necessity.
Consists of two wooden cabins that are de facto communal bedrooms, along with several individual housing structures, a medium-sized garden that grows carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, and other veggies, a large commons area that holds the grill and entrance to underground food storage. A 10 foot high log wall surrounds and protects from mild animals, but not much else. Soon to have solar electricity with the help of Da Vinci.

New Montreal
Population: 86
Led like a communism, the members have basic rights to food and and water and other necessary items. The leader is quite hostile and almost always angry. The colony consists of 5 cabins with 7 neighboring bunk houses. A small farm for crops, and a pig pen with 12 pigs in it, which are only to be used when needed. The wall surrounding the 12 acre colony is mostly made of scrap metal with some spots of lumber thrown in, The leader ( Brian Steele ) felt it necessary to protect from people who might want to invade. The colony is also in the middle of training 7 elite soldiers, who once done training, will be feared all across the wasteland.

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Reserved

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Open and accepting!

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"Well, s**t." Clint sighed as he arrived at the trap he had set up to catch some game to add to the stock. It appeared to have been messed up by a feral boar. Or something of equal strength/bat-s**t craziness. He untied the homemade rope, now ruined, and cut where the animal had ripped it to try and save what was left. At least they had gotten enough crop from the gardens to survive about a week more. Maybe a trap will actually work by then. He turned and started to head back to the colony, cussing to himself as he went.

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We eke out a life here. No longer living, we're merely surviving, putting one foot in front of the other. I know it sounds depressing, but we've pulled together admirably. Clint keeps everyone in line. As for me, I'm happy to pull back and watch everything happen. It's a job I'm glad to do.

Charlie put the pen down, flexing her fingers. She looked up from her perch on the boulder. The clearing was filled with tall wild grass and bugs. But it was open and empty. Fresh air and no people. She knew someone would find her eventually and call her to do some task or other, but for the moment she was alone.

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((No worries, you saw how pretty the original posts were. Lol.))
Clint was wrapping the hemp rope around his arm and shoulder as he walked through a clearing, seeing a familiar face sitting on a boulder. "There's our historian." He joked, nodding to her. "How're you getting along out here?" He took the wrapped rope off of his shoulder and put it on his belt, smiling at Charlie.

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Charlie gave a small smile. "Our historian is beginning to run out of supplies again." In truth, she hadn't expected them to last even this long. If Clint hadn't taken her writing seriously, she never would have got so much paper and ink. "I probably should figure out a new way to write." She noticed the rope at his belt. She frowned. "Hunting didn't go so well?" She asked.

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Clint laughed slightly. "Well, on the bright side, there's something out there with a bunch of meat." He shrugged, glancing into the woodland surrounding them. "And as for your supplies, we can see if we find anything when we go exploring. Hopefully the towns haven't been looted to shreds. Or exist, at any rate." He scratched the back of his head and held his cheerful smile.

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"So I can cross cannibalism off of my my to-do list." Charlie said with a nod. She hopped down off the boulder, holding the journal to her chest. "There's probably remains somewhere." She said with another shrug. She weaved her way through the tall grass to his side. "I heard rumors there were other colonies. Is that true?"