Thread: ZOMBIEPOCALYPSE!

SETTING 23 Weeks After Initial Infection Class 3 - Class 4 Outbreak Washington, D.C. The infection spread like wildfire. Traces of the virus started popping up in Third-World countries and were given little attention, but once American troops were attacked, they were quarantined and brought state side for further study. Subject Zero, one of the first infected soldiers, was shipped to the nation's capital for cross examination. He expired on the way only to rise several hours later, attacking several government officials who were present at the autopsy. Though attempts to quarantine were made, the virus still managed to slip through the barricades as employees and soldiers fleeing to their families. Planes soon began to drop from the sky, spreading the infected contents over the country like a ripple in water. Some succumbed to the virus faster than others, while very few showed immunity. The Class 3 outbreak took a quick turn for the worse, spiraling toward Class 4, an undead world. Survivors grew thin as humanity had been violently shoved toward extinction. The capital has since then become an undead wasteland, deteriorating with every passing month. Those in power, along with their families and associates, hole up in bunkers and secure areas around the country. Secure in these shelters, originally build for the Cold War, they survive. Perhaps they continue the faade of a government command structure. Perhaps the technology is available to communicate with other agencies or even other protected world leaders. For all practical purposes, however, they are nothing more than a government-in-exile. With the total collapse of law and order, small bands of individuals emerged to assert their authority. Looters, bandits, and common thugs prey on the survivors, taking what they want and indulging in whatever pleasure they find. What police and military forces were left either served as protection for the government in hiding, deserted in an attempt to save their families, or degenerated into bandits themselves. A total collapse in communication and transportation swept the globe. Isolated cities became open battlegrounds, with scattered groups of citizens fighting to defend barricaded areas from both ghouls and human renegades. Neglected machines eventually broke down or, in some cases, blow up. Reactor meltdowns and other industrial accidents were common, polluting the landscape with toxic chemical by-products. Because of the radiation, the infected around such places mutated, adapting certain 'abilities' that allow them to become even more dangerous. This mutation also stalls the decomposition process, causing the infected to last longer as well as boosting strength and speed. It is the end of the world as we know it. INFECTION TIMELINE Hour 0 Infected Hour 1 Pain and discoloration brown-purple of the infected area. Immediate clotting of the wound provided the infection came from a wound. Hour 5 Fever 99-103 degrees F, chills, slight dementia, vomiting, acute pain in the joints. Hour 8 Numbing of extremities and infected area, increased fever 103-106 degrees F, increased dementia, loss of muscular coordination. Hour 11 Paralysis in the lower body, overall numbness, slowed heart rate. Hour 16 Coma. Hour 20 Heart stoppage. Zero brain activity. Hour 23 Reanimation. Fresh Corpse - Fast Zombie. Most infections occur in this timeframe, as the reanimated will be in hospitals, ambulances, and highly-populated areas. Hour 27 Rigor Mortis sets in. Zombie becomes slow and shambling. Zombie is vulnerable in this state - however panic prevents organized responses from forming. Hour 40 Muscles begin to loosen again. Zombies regain speed, however they will only degrade from this state. Day 20 Zombies continue to degrade at a slow rate. Over time, speed decreases and becomes more shambling as muscles decay. Month 3 Zombies are completely Romero-style now. New infections repeat the cycle. Source of infection keeps bodies from decaying away at a normal rate. Year 1 Older zombies have mostly decayed away. Most remain, although they are in bad shape. You can 'date' when a person was infected by the condition their body is in.listu RULES 1. Vampire Seduction and myself are GODS of this thread. Our word is Law. If you have any questions or problems you wish to bring to our attention, PM either of us. 2. To ensure your place in this roleplay, players are required to create a profile for the characters he or she wishes to bring into this RP. It doesn't have to be detailed, just enough to show that you are interested in making this a long term deal. 3. No godmoddery. Even though this is an apocalyptic scenario that deals with killing hordes of soulless meatsacks in a world that hardly has any rules or regulations whatsoever...this does not mean that you are the ultimate Zombie Slayer. You are merely a Survivor. Don't get cocky, you just might meet your end. 4. This is a group effort, so play nice.listu PROFILES Right, here is a quick skeleton I put together for you guys to start creating characters. Fill them out, then send them to me via PM. Please keep in mind that there will be limited 'supernatural' characters. If you wish to play a humanoid creature, make your profile and send it to both me and Vampire Seduction. Name Player Age Height Weight Appearance linkies or descriptions Weapons of Choice Bio Prior To Outbreak Bio After Outbreak Motivation To Survive listu SURVIVORS Name Eufemia Stratsner Player Misha Hiroki Age 19 Height 5'6 Weight 124 lbs Appearance x Weapons of Choice .45 Caliber short barrel revolver Bio Prior To Outbreak Prior to the outbreak, Eufemia was just a normal freshman college student working toward a liberal arts degree. Her home life wasn't anything special. She didn't fight with her parents overmuch and she begrudgingly missed her older sister who had moved to Pennsylvania to go to school. Not that it was that far out of the way, but apparently her sister liked to keep in as little contact as possible. Despite the sibling rivalry that went on between the two of them at times, she still worried about her. Bio After Outbreak After the outbreak, Eufemia became a shut in. Her parents had left to try and find and help survivors, but only ended up dieing shortly after, as far as she knew anyway since they stopped calling her after a few weeks. With her parents dead and her sister in another state, Eufemia kept her father's .45 close at hand while she stayed huddled in one corner of the basement. She made sure to conserve her rations of canned foods, but she would run out after not too long. Her only option now was to take a few essentials and risk running out into the suburbs of DC. Maybe if she was lucky she'd see her sister again. Motivation To Survive To reunite with her sister and find a new safe haven from the horde of infected zombies. ----------------------- Name Dante McPhadden Player BlisteredBlood Age 21 Height 5' 11 Weight 200 lbs. Appearance As seen here. Weapons of Choice Handmade .38 pistol and a .50 caliber revolver . Bio Prior To Outbreak Before the outbreak, he had been working for the local Maryland police force as a bounty hunter, bringing in the hardened criminals, the psychopaths and the bond jumpers of the worst order. The last known criminal he was supposed to have brought in alive was ironically associated with some of the most grisly and disturbingly brutal murders, but it wasn't known if he was among the suspects. Upon discovery of the said individual, the man was clearly unable to respond to the simplest of commands, even when he was found eating the remains of a young female. As a result, Dante and a small squad of bounty hunters were forced to kill the man in question when he lunged for Dante. Since then, Dante has refused to speak of the event. Bio After Outbreak Not long after the outbreak occurred, Dante has done everything in his power to scrounge up survivors, but has either found monsters and other hideous creatures tearing apart people purely at random. Motivation To Survive The events before the outbreak was his prior motivation, and it is with that fear for his life that has since stayed with him. ----------------------- Name Marcus Player vampire seduction Height 5'11 Weight 190 lbs. Appearance Long auburn hair and vibrant jade green eyes, a light shade of tan on his skin, and a humbly attractive appearance with his decently muscled build. Weapons Whatever he can get his hands on. Motivation To Survive To live. ----------------------- Name Xander Greene Player Kingschoolyou Age 28 Height 6'1 Weight 187 lbs. Appearance Xander Alister Weapons of Choice 50 cal. Tungsten shell, sniper. , and .44 Mag, Raging Bull revolver. Tungsten Shells Bio Prior To Outbreak Prior to infection outbreak, Xander was a counter clerk at a very well know gun shop. He had spent 10 years working there from age 18 on the weapons within the store, always having to clean them, repair them, and even test them. He had found a fondness for rifles, and pistols in the like. He found from his liking for rifles, that he learned to peg an 8 oz. water bottle from over 500 yards away. A skill he never found much use for....until now. Bio After Outbreak Bruised, battered, and narrowly escaping being bitten several times before. Xander holed up in his gun shop, locking the doors, and baring the windows with his buddy, Alister. Alister being his trusted Rotweiler weighing at 110 lbs. of angry guard dog muscle. Xander, was running low on supplies as he grabbed a back pack, and a fanny pack, Xander filled the the backpack with Food and water in the main pocket, and every other pocket with boxes of ammo. Filling the fanny pack just below with more of the same boxes of ammunition. Coming out with room for 10 boxes of sniper shells each with 20 rounds in it, and 30 boxes of shells for his revolver, each with 50 shells in a box. His hopes for survival are dim at that, but not extinguished. His plan now is to travel from gun shop to gun shop, taking his booklet of known branches of his gun company with him. The last thing he grabbed being the body armor kept behind the counter for purposes of idiots with guns trying to rob the place. He figured the closest one to him now was Washington DC's branch. The headquarters. Surely they had more ammunition and supplies for him and Alister...... Motivation To Survive In hopes of finding more survivors, and possibly a cure to the infection. ----------------------- Name Seth Set Bradley Player Midnight Age 25 Height 5' 10 Weight 190 Appearance Weapons of Choice Winchester Model 70 Sniper Rifle Bolt-action, scoped .308 M21 sniper rifle Semi-automatic, scoped, 7.62MM NATO, re-chambered to fire .308 ammo, easier to come by M9 Semi Automatic-pistol Silenced, semi, 9MM Machete Black blade, sturdy make Bio Prior To Outbreak Seth lived what some would believe a strict life, though to him, it was easy, his father was an important political adviser to the president himself. His mother died shortly after he was born so Set pretty much raised himself, taught by his dad how to shoot at the age of five and raised with a strict rule of discipline. Seth learned how to shoot early, and got pretty damn good at it, going on frequent hunting trips with his father when he had spare time. Set's favorite hobby is hunting, venturing out into the wilderness by himself or with a dog and tracking, trapping, or shooting was his passion. Seth was very skilled with wilderness survival, having gotten himself lost way out in the forest several times on his hunting trips. Through hunting Seth learned skills that would be invaluable later on in his life, how to avoid animals, how to track, how to be sneaky, and how to hit tiny objects from hundreds of yards away. Bio After Outbreak After the outbreak, Seth was forced from his home, his dad was with the president at the time, so chances were, he was safe, Seth was all alone in his home, so he did his best, taking his trusty sniper rifle, his father's rifle, and his father's pistol and climbing out a window with supplies, Seth cleared off as many as he could and retreated, taking off into the wilderness with a couple survivors from the neighborhood. In this scary time Set resurfaced. The young man did quite well in this new hostile territory, using the training he received from dear old dad, and the skills he learned from all his years of hunting, Seth did very well for himself, by himself, never taking the undead head on but instead striking from the shadows with silenced weapons or melee weapons and avoiding the other hunters as well as possible. Shooting at human-shaped targets is hard for the hunter, but Seth Bradley is one hunter who refuses to become prey. Human looters and undead hunters Alike, if he has to kill he will. Motivation To Survive To prove to the world that he is the hunter, not the hunted. To find his father, and to survive of course. ----------------------- Name Abby Ray Player MyApocalypsePony Age 27 Height 5'7 Weight 153 lbs Appearance Abby Molly Weapons of Choice .40 cal two of them for everyday use .357 aka last resort Bio Prior To Outbreak Growing up in Oklahoma, Abby always wanted to be a ballerina, her father spoiled her, giving her everything her heart desired in exchange for her body. At age 16 she was excepted to Julliard and her hope of getting out of the house and away from her father. One day while practicing, something snapped and her knee broke. Even after surgery she was unable to dance again. A few months later her mother committed suicide and the sexual abuse got worse. With out ballet to rescue her Abby decided to run away. Getting as far as Tennessee she tried doing a few odd jobs, but found herself back in the arms of dancing. Only this time is wasn't ballet, in just a few short months she was the best dancer that Cherry's Exotic Dancers had. For the next few years Abby made a living dancing for dirty truckers, eventually she moved on and bounced from club to club. Hearing that Cherry's was up for sale she took everything she had saved and bought the place. She only owned the strip club for a year before the virus hit, but it was the best year of Abby's life. Bio After Outbreak She has mostly traveled alone, trying to make her way to DC, not really knowing the reason. Along the way she picked up a stray dog she calls Molly. Molly comes and goes as she pleases but is never too far away. Abby tends to say away from larger cities avoiding the infected as much as possible. Motivation To Survive To survive the infection. ----------------------- Name Arch Cole Player DarkTimes Age 25 Height 5ft 11 Weight 80kgs Appearance Click Weapons of Choice Arctic Warfare Rifle, and a Colt .45 with a suppressor. Bio Prior To Outbreak Cole was an only child, but that did not mean the attention he needed was given to him, his father had never been there for either him or his mother. So his mother spent all of her time at work, until he left school, but he got mixed up with some of the wrong people and ended up in front of a judge. He was given a choice, prison or the military, he picked the military and quickly proved himself as a sharpshooter. He was waiting to be shipped out when the outbreak was fully recognized. Bio After Outbreak He deserted as soon as he got the choice, executed his CO in order to do it. Ever since then he worked against the military, trying to save those in cities said to be lost to the scourge. Motivation To Survive To prove to whoever is left that those thrown aside by society are the ones who must save it. ----------------------- Name Xavier Cruise Player 8Evolution8 Age 36 Height 5'9 Weight 193 lbs Appearance Picture Weapons of Choice Machete, Combat ShotgunLimited Shells Bio Prior To Outbreak Xavier's life was fine until he joined a local gang in his mid-teens. He devoted himself to that style of living like it was his born right. Fighting, selling drugs, stealing, it was all he knew and enjoyed along with the partying. Four years and a daughter and you think he'd die like that from how much it meant to him. One punch from an old man with a cane changed all of that. Xavier had become drawn to this man and soon left his old life behind to start boxing where the old hermit was his coach. It seemed his joy of fighting paid off well, with him even gaining a state title for his hard work. Money, success, and family became his new thing and especially so with two extra kids joining his daughter. Xavier soon went to challenge the world and soared up in the rankings until he had a world title fight. The fight went the full rounds only for him to lose in a decision. Keeping the promise he had with his kids and girlfriend at the time, he put boxing behind him at the age of twenty-five. However a year later he would find himself in jail after a brutal fist fight at a local club. Bio After Outbreak To Xavier, the outbreak was just some news report on tv. It didn't matter to him since he was living hell with a prison sentence that continued to go up. Everyone wanted to challenge the former boxer on the inside and then there were some who knew the gang tattoo on his arm. After beatings and accidental deaths, he found himself on death row where he knew he'd never see his kids again. The outbreak to him was a blessing, giving him the chance he needed to break out of jail and find a life that didn't have an expiration date written on a piece of paper. Motivation To Survive The fact he can and to find his children. ----------------------- Name Molly Brandimarte Player The Broken Lunatic Age 23 Height 5'7 Weight 125 Lbs. Appearance Molly Weapons of Choice M9 pistol three 15 round magazines , Hatchet Bio Prior To Outbreak Molly was always sensitive, not emotionally but spiritually. At 3 years she was able to sense the intentions, thoughts, and emotions from everyone around her. When Molly was 7, she foresaw her mother??s death which she desperately tried to stop. Her attempts failed. At 15, she became friends with a girl named Ellie who was also sensitive. They became close friends and because of Molly's abilities, Ellie and her mother Roz introduced the religion of Wicca to Molly. Because of Molly's choice to accept the religion and forsake Christianity, her father a VERY religious man cast her out onto the streets where Ellie and Roz were waiting for her. For years, Molly had honed her abilities, even focusing them to specific people and places until one day, she tried divination. What the future held shocked Molly. She convinced Ellie and Roz of her premonition, but the rest of the coven would not listen. Eventually, she took matters into her own hands and planned a safe house in an old church nearby. The walls were reinforced, the doors were replaced, bars and locks were installed on the windows...they even stocked up on supplies, that is, what they could legally get their hands on in such short notice. Bio After Outbreak Roz had disappeared, leaving Molly and Ellie alone in their fortress. Molly stationed herself in the bell tower, watching in horror as the outbreak consumed everyone. Ellie went on for days on end casting protection spells, barriers and location spells until the food source started to take a turn for the worse. With barely any food, Ellie made the suggestion of going out to scavenge for resources. She also talked about rumors of a bunker in a hotel located a few hundred miles north of their location. 'The Greenbrier' she called it. Though it took several tries, Molly finally agreed to go out and find the rumored bunker. Motivation To Survive To find Ellie and safely return to their fortress. listu