Zombie Apocalypse Roleplay [IC][OOC][WIP]

Welcome forumgoers, you are entering a dark world where you must fight for your very survival for you are surrounded by the living dead! Do you forge alliances or make enemies? Do you work together or go it on your own? You decide!

This thread is the main thread, please use [IC] and [OOC] tags to distinguish posts!



Welcome to Haven, a sleepy little town of no more than 3000 people. Heavily industrialised by local mining operations and with the recent addition of a local edge of town mall steadily growing. It has it's own national guard armoury, police department and local hospital. It's highschool football team is the "Haven Ravens".

Haven is surrounded by heavily forested hills and is tucked along the edge of a river. There is a small highway that runs past the town but tourist traffic is minimal. The local populace is supplied by independent power and water supplies at the Havenheight Hydroelectric Dam which threatens local logging industry by holding back the yearly flooding caused by the rain. The plant is mostly automatic, requiring only minor review by an engineer.

Monday, 21st of May, 2012. You awake in your room to the sound of a low flying plane followed by an explosion. You get up to find out what the problem is but soon decide to investigate it in the morning after peering out of your window and seeing nothing.

You open the mornings paper, apparently a cargo plane crashed on the edge of town. Losing interest you get on with your day.

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Saturday, 26th of May. You read another article in the paper talking about odd sightings, the third this week. As you travel about the town you notice the presence of the military barring several streets and loading several trucks. You pause to enquire but are quickly dismissed.

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Sunday, 27th of May. 7:00am. You awake to screaming and chaos outside, looking out the window you see neighbours running across the street being chased. You flick on your TV, a news report is on.

"bzzzt.. The town of Haven is currently under military quarantine following alleged reports of a "Zombie Outbreak"..bzzt" The newscaster airquotes as he says it, the TV suddenly cutting to the emergency broadcast channel.

You grab some of your things. What are you going to do now?



The rules are reasonably simple.

1. This is your journal/diary/logbook/actions, not a 20 page story. Keep it reasonable.

For example:

Quote :

Journal of Samuel Barber

May 27/2012:
Today I awoke to a zombie apocalypse, I know right?

Grabbed my bug-out bag and bolted for Jennifers house. God I hope she's okay. Keeping this journal in case I don't make it, and to keep me going. Scribbling this in old man McPhearson's shed.

I've got enough food, I think we'll make a run for the highway. Not sure what to do about the military though, they seem as much in chaos as everyone else.

Alternatively write a longer post better describing your actions. A mix of emotion, action and detail is good, especially is different people/characters are using different styles.

2. This town is fairly small, you may know other peoples characters, you may not. You're welcome to team up with them or relate to things in their posts. If one person shoots a zombie, you're welcome to reference hearing a gunshot.

3. You're not fucking GI Joe, Action Man or Wonderwoman. Police Officer? EMT? Punk Skater? Are fine, just keep it simple and act fitting for your character. You can have multiple characters but be sure to seperate them. Preferably stick to one.

4. Try not to metagame or powerplay. You're not invincible, a zombie will chew your face off if you don't either A) Run the fuck away or B) Kill it. Just remember that if you kill it, it'll make noise, you might get hurt or bitten, you might just attract a mob of zombies.

5. These are you classic "Bite kills you, then you're one of them" Zombies. It takes 48 hours for the infection to kill you. There is no cure, you are not immune. It isn't airborne. They shamble unless provoked then they'll run after you. If they've recently fed they are somewhat docile so long as you don't provoke them or any near them.

EVENTS?

Events will be periodically introduced by me. These could include anything from a building catching fire, to the power plant shutting down to military airdrops. They will never directly affect a character, but may or may not provide them benefits or hinderances.


FINALLY, THIS ISN'T DND TYPE BULLSHIT