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The Passage of Time

Given the difficulty of managing time in a forum based game, I will attempt to keep track of time in this specific slot, as well as update as we go along when events occur or when events are completed. Weather is one of many challenges that change depending on your location and the day. It will force you to consume more food or fuel to compensate for your lack of speed.

Example: It is now Day 27. Evening. Heavy fog rolls in, you must drive more slowly.


The Current Time is:

Day 2 Morning. Raining. (Visibility and Speed Reduced)

Class Information

There are several classes to choose from, some grant permanent passive bonuses and others are one time boosts. A good team is formed with a mix but any group can be successful. Let me be perfectly clear however: There are no PRO ZOMBIE HUNTER classes, meaning that you don't start off as an armed to the teeth mercenary who was born to kill. These are normal people with normal talents that have to band together to survive.

Athlete - Faster than other survivors, able to perform certain missions more effectively.

Meiser - Brings 300$ to the group upon joining.

Mechanic - More effective at repairing the vehicle, has a 20% chance not to use up resources when repairing.

Caretaker - Brings 3 Medkits to the group upon joining.

Salesman - Reduces the cost of merchandise and upgrades when visiting a town by 10%.

Doctor - Reduces damage taken from illness or injury by 10%.

Priest/Pastor - Increases chance of beneficial events.

Seductress/Gigolo - Gives the option to sweet talk in a situation

Hoarder - Brings 100 Food, 4 Fuel and 50 Ammo to the group upon joining.

How is Death Handled?

Death... is a strange thing.

During this role play, there will inevitably be a loss of life due to any number of challenges that will be faced on the road to safety. As a result, I will break this down into a few categories.

DEATH FOR NPC's:

NPC's will die frequently but their consequences will vary. What I mean by this is that the death of a random bandit of course has less of an impact than "Earl the Mechanic" whom you met in D.C. and has managed to survive all the way to Vegas to set up his new shop. So to put it simply, the more a NPC has been developed, the greater the backlash you will feel for losing them, whether it be intentional or unavoidable.

DEATH FOR PLAYERS:

If your health reaches 0% OR if you are bitten and your teammates decide to put you out of your misery, then you WILL DIE. Your character is completely irreversibly DEAD. You may create a new character if you like, and if there is nobody on the waiting list ahead of you, you may wind up joining the group later on at a later town or landmark.

Active Profiles

Controller: EmpyreanFlight
Survivor Name: Michael Marcel
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Class: Mechanic

Appearance: Michael is 6' 1" and has a muscular build. At the time of the outbreak, he was working in his garage, and is still dressed in his mechanic coveralls, wearing a green t-shirt underneath with gloves and work boots. He has short brown hair and green eyes.

Personality: Michael is generally casual and talkative, but when situations begin to get tense, he tends not to speak much. However, if under a lot of pressure, Michael is prone to snapping at people. Michael likes to get things done, so unsurprisingly, he dislikes when people are indecisive.

Biography: Born in Washington and raised by a single father, Michael was often taken to his father's garage, learning the ins-and-outs of maintaining and repair cars, and eventually going to college for it. Once he started working, the other employees treated him the same way they treated his father: with friendly heckling and and wisecracking. One day, Michael came down with a cold, but had to work anyways due to another person not being able to take his place to work on a particularly important customer's car. Sick and stressed, he was in no mood for anything besides getting the car repaired so he could go home. When the other mechanics started cracking jokes about how he was dragging his feet, he lashed out angrily and told them exactly where he'd put his feet if they didn't quiet down and went back to work.

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Controller: Watervoir
Survivor Name: Liona Hayman
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Class: Seductress

Appearance: 5'8". Her hair is straight and of a chocolate brown that reaches her shoulder blades, while her eyes are the colour of a deep morning fog. She left the house today wearing a burgundy sleeveless top and a beaded necklace underneath a brown leather jacket. Her cream cargo pants and padded leather boots would let her move easily while on the job as well.

Personality: Liona has a dry sense of humour, is quick to take action and stays positive, although she is not the type to stay until the bitter end. While she does value those who are close to her, she also has a strong sense of self-preservation and self-interest, and it's not always clear which one of them would win out in the end.

Biography: She has been studying theatre for the past four years at a college in Washington and only this year did she receive the opportunity of an internship with a local theatre house. It's been earning her her month's rent, but even before she got this job, she has modelled on a number of occasions. She's made no small effort to cut ties with her family after their disapproval of her going into her field of study, and only once two years ago did she her resolve ever weaken and she made a phone call with a hidden caller ID to her father. The conversation did not end well, and needless to say, she doesn't talk about her family much and has no problem finding reason not to enter discussions on that topic.

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Current Car/Auto Repair and Supply Status/Information

This is where the vehicles condition will be updated, along with the current amount of supplies for the group as well as explanations as to what each type of supply does and why they are important.



Resource Explanation:

Food: Self-Explanatory. Food is what you will consume and how you will survive this long and perilous journey. You run out, you will slowly starve to death. The amount you consume each day will depend on how many people are in your group and the pace you are traveling at. Go scavenging, trade or purchase more from towns or travelers to restore your stocks.

Fuel: Also pretty Self-Explanatory. Fuel is what keeps your mobile command center moving. The amount you consume each day will depend on the pace you are traveling at and the weather. If you run out, your car will be forced to stop and you will have to wait for someone willing to trade... If you can find anyone...

Money: Surprisingly enough, some people still value money in this new chaotic world. You don't need it to survive, but it sure as hell helps. Purchase anything from supplies to upgrades to training with it. You can earn or scavenge more during missions.

Ammo: Straight up good ol' fashioned killing. While you may not need a ton, it is still a necessity for survival, if you run out and can't get anymore in town... Well, nice knowing ya.

Scrap: There's only two ways of fixing your station wagon if it breaks down, find a repair shop in town who will charge you a fair chunk of cash, or manually repair it with scrap. You can either buy scrap in town, or find it while scavenging.

The more scrap you use, the more likely you will repair the car. The amount repaired will always be 15% unless specified otherwise.

So, when creating a repair post. include: "Using X scrap to attempt to REPAIR"


Medkit: Not a necessity, but definitely a godsend if a member of your party becomes incapacitated due to injury. Incapacitated teammates will die within 1-2 days if they do not receive a medkit.

Battery: Your car's battery is only so reliable. At some point, it may die, and if you can't replace it, you better hope you can find someone who has a spare on the road or buy one in town.

Tire: Spare tires are just as much a necessity as the rest of the parts of your car. If one goes flat, you are stranded until you replace it. Either purchase it or trade for it, but make sure you fix it quickly.

Muffler: Of all the car parts that could go wrong, this would probably be the least critical... except for the noise. You lose a muffler and your car will attract unbelievable amounts of unwanted attention. Trade or purchase a new one to fix it.

Tombstones...


Controller: Yl-Th
Survivor Name: Ambrose Intess
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Class: Doctor

Appearance: Ambrose has dark brown hair that falls down to just below his shoulders, though he normally keeps it pulled back into a very severe and controlled ponytail. His facial hair is a very severe and controlled goatee, and he keeps himself extremely neatly trimmed. He stands at about five feet, seven inches, and is of an extremely average build, though a history of exercise keeps him in generally good shape. He tends toward nice-looking clothing, and at the time of the outbreak, he was in a casual suit with a tie and reasonably new dress boots.

Personality: Ambrose is very grating and difficult to get along with; he can be very stubborn and pushy. He is very much a control freak, and likes to keep everything around him in a very strict order. He has no patience for messes, bad habits, or grating social interactions. As such, he has never had many friends, preferring to keep to his work at the hospital, and dealing with people not in a professional setting is very difficult for him.

Biography: Ambrose knew from high school that he was going to be a doctor. His parents warned him that it wouldn't make him happy, but he saw something better: a chance to help people without having to really deal with them. He worked damned hard to become the best student in his class, then the best doctor in the area, and finally the best trauma surgeon in all of DC. With an extremely impressive success rate and only a couple of malpractice suits (exceedingly few, given his position), he was highly respected by his peers and coworkers in a professional setting. He didn't really get on with them personally, however. He has a tendency to snap when something is left out of place or things don't go according to his schedule. He is extremely particular about how he grooms, eats, and exercises to keep himself in good health, and has no qualms nitpicking the lifestyles of others that he finds sub-par. He adored his job, and spent as much time working as his employers would allow. He didn't really have any hobbies to occupy his free time. He had worked too much over the past two months, and was so set on mandatory vacation for two weeks. This is the only reason he wasn't in the hospital when the outbreak started, and likely the only reason he is still alive.



Controller: Angelical Heart Dragon
Survivor Name: Polly Berry
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Class: Hoarder

Appearance: Polly is 5'4" with shoulder length jet black hair that's always tied in a pony tail and brown eyes. Today she chose to wear her favorite jeans,a blue t-shirt and a light jacket with her new tennis shoes. She's also carrying her favorite black backpack.

Personality: Polly gets curious very easily and loves finding out the answer to everything. Polly likes taking care of other people, but doesn't know when to take care of herself. She keeps everything to herself but loves giving other people advice .

Biography: Born and raised in California, Polly has never left the state until now. Just graduated from high school, Polly's parents let her go with her friends on a trip to Washington with her friends. Besides her parents, Polly has one younger brother. Her parents are both doctors and never time to take care of them, so she had to take care of her brother. Polly's taking this time to finally have some of her own time. Polly inherited her parents enthusiasm towards taking care of people, but she swore to herself that she was never going to be a doctor because she did not want to neglect those that she loved.



Controller: Ivaylo_Sai
Survivor Name: Father Matthew Malone
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Class: Priest
Appearance: Young but a bit haggard, even before the world went down around him, Father Malone is a very average man. He is of average height, average build, and average weight. His hair is an unexceptional mousy brown and his eyes nearly the same color. His has an average complexion for his ethnicity which was average for where he grew up though perhaps a little pale and freckled for DC. The most outstanding features about Father Malone are likely his clothes (the black garb of a Catholic priest complete with white collar) and the dark circles under his often haunted eyes.

Personality: Devout, reserved, withdrawn, and more than a little overwhelmed, Father Malone was not particularly good at handling the everyday stresses of modern life. The hedonism and empty greed idolized by modern culture ate him up inside as he watched the whole world slip farther from God each year. Now he is strangely at peace with how it all ended and ready to accept his fate as God wills it. . . or that could just be the shock.

Biography: Matty Malone was the seventh of eight children in a Brooklyn Irish Catholic family. He was raised in the Church, attended Catholic schools, and went on to seminary largely because that was the education his family could afford. As a young man Matt entertained quiet dreams of making the world a better place through various means from teaching to politics. It was the latter that took him to DC. Though he knew he wasn't likely to go far in government (for several reasons) he felt a calling to give council to others that could. It turned out a much harder task than he had bargained for and the five years he worked in a DC church exposed him to more evils than he ever thought existed. By the time the apocalypse came Matthew was almost glad of it.

Controller: Bonnie_Blu23
Survivor Name: Emma
Age: 25
Gender: F
Class: Caretaker
Appearance: Emma is of a light complexion, short at about 4'5 and 92 lbs. She commonly has her blonde hair pulled back into a braid and wears blue jeans and t-shirts.
Personality: She tends to be very quiet, but also very determined and calculating. She is very warm hearted and attempts to see the good in everybody.

Biography: Before the apocalypse, Emma was a very hard worker. She was in nursing school and can treat minor scrapes and bruises, give stitches, and administer vaccinations as well as splint and set broken bones. She has learned since she was a child that it is much easier to learn and get all the details when she is not talking and possibly blocking out important sounds with a lot of jabber. She was very close to her parents and they supported her in all that she did. She has learned that survival is often in the details, especially when it comes to caretaking.