Roleplaying A Zombie Apocalypse (OOC)

[ikarirain]

Alright, I'm starting up an idea for a roleplaying thread (this isn't the thread itself) in which each person can have up to two characters for roleplaying. You need to post in here what characters you have, and wait for my confirmation before beginning to roleplay in the other thread.

The main thread can be found here.

Basic Rules:

1) Keep your In-Character (IC) posts clean, readable, and generally understandable. This means no huge blocks of text, anything 'said' by your characters are in quotes, and maintain a decent rate of punctuation and grammar.

2) No God-Modding. God-Modding is essentially you deciding what another person does or what damage they take, essentially taking from them the decision over what happens to their characters.

3) All Out-Of-Character (OOC) posts must either be made here in this thread, or in parenthesis () in the other thread. Example: (OOC: I think I'll have Bob go to the gun shop next guys, if you want to meet him there.)

4) The roleplaying experience will be in a Modern/Post-Modern setting. This means you can come up with fictional weapons, fictional nations, fictional environments based on a Post-Modern setting. To explain Post-Modern, I'd need to compare with other settings, such as Medieval, Modern, and Future settings. Medieval deals with axes, swords, bows, etc. Modern deals with AK-47's, M4A1's, Uzi's, etc. Post-Modern deals with stronger metals, advanced technology, etc. Future deals with extremely advanced technology including Hyperspace, Warp Drives, Ion engines, Space Travel, etc. With that said, I'd like this roleplaying to be set roughly around roughly 2020. You can create weapons based on this concept.

5) Maximum of 2 characters per person. This means that you can hold conversations between your two characters so that your posts aren't immensely short.

6) Apply with characters in this format:

Name:
Age:
Location:
Skills:
Starting weapons:
Preferences:
Background:

Additional Info

You may edit your posts here as often as you like to add additional information concerning your characters.

Also, as the story progresses, I'll be adding additional info into the roleplay to explain further the causes (through news reports or those random "MEANWHILE...In this city over here..." explanations to help give an idea of how fast the infections spread.

[ikarirain]

This will be my first character. The second will come later. I'm making my second one a scientist who will help further the storyline later on.

Name: Kimberly Orrel
Age: 27
Location: The Sea (travels on a large private yacht)
Skills: Navy experience (in navigation), Military training in the use of firearms, Highly computer proficient, experienced deep-sea fishing.
Starting weapons: Harpoon guns, Large harpoon guns (mounted on yacht), multiple registered firearms stored on a lower deck (in the event of modern-day pirates).
Preferences: Seafood, general music, the ocean.
Background: Kim started her early teens with a fascination for the sea, and a highly innate proficiency with computers, which she used to her advantage in looking online for information regarding navigation methods and sea charts. Following this desire for the sea, she enlisted at legal age into the United States Navy and began working her way into Navigation related positions, learning with an amazing speed. Upon completion of her time in the Navy, Kim spent two years in the service of the Coast Guard before she left to purchase her own private yacht.

With her knowledge of computers, and her experience with the sea, she made modifications to the computer systems and the ships structure, and then began taking up deep-sea fishing in order to keep a supply of food on board during extended travels. Currently she is docked at Rockport, Massachusetts, only a few hours after the first outbreak of zombies.

Yacht Information:

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Name: Samantha Fong
Age: 39
Location: Rockford (Vacationing to family during July 4th)
Skills: Scientific Majors in nearly every scientific category, incredible learning speed, creative use of science.
Starting weapons: None
Preferences: Science, learning, experimenting.
Background: Samantha grew up being quite adept at learning the workings of scientific methods and processes. With a desire to test the limits of reality, she took on the daunting task of Majoring in every scientific course within her reach. She passed with flying colors and was quickly recruited into EnviroTech, where she became the leading scientist within a matter of months. Since then, many have claimed her to be a rare genius among science, and many of her discoveries have benefited the world, though in reality she lays no claim to the discoveries, often crediting her fellow scientists instead.

Among the discoveries accredited to her name are Frictionless Brakes, Advanced Solar Panels that convert more of the sun's radiation into energy, and most recently the newest isotope that other scientists developed into the energy plants that had exploded (despite her warnings that the technology to stabilize the isotope was not yet perfected).

[Guest]

Name: John (Twig) Smith
Age: 32
Location: Miami
Skills: Military (Classified)
Starting weapons: Desert eagle x2, M3 (shotgun), M96A ( Scoped sniper rifle in case), Katana, Serrated Knife, 3 Hand grenades
Preferences: Shooting, Chess, Working out, Flying.
Background: Has been working overseas on "Business". Currently owns his own company (TPI, Twig Protection Inc). Does alot of high level secruity and protection. Was recruited from MTI by the government at age 19 for exceptional skills in computer skills. Arrest at age 12 for hacking into the educational database and changing students grades for money. Was banned from electronics of all forms to age 15. Highly intelligent and stubborn. From age of 19 has no record except for starting and owning a company formed last year.
Has a Bullmastiff named "Cupcake".
Currently living in Miami in a secluded area near the swamps. Not much is known about the location or his history. The property itself was custom built 5 years ago by a foreign company (STJ). Little is known about STJ except they seem to be a military research company with the main HQ based in germany and 6 other labs around the world (Germany, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Australia, South America and the last one in Miami) TPI seems to do security for all the Labs.

[ikarirain]

Approved. Join on in the main RP.

Name: John (Twig) Smith
Age: 32
Location: Miami
Skills: Military (Classified)
Starting weapons: Desert eagle x2, M3 (shotgun), M96A ( Scoped sniper rifle in case), Katana, Serrated Knife, 3 Hand grenades
Preferences: Shooting, Chess, Working out, Flying.
Background: Has been working overseas on "Business". Currently owns his own company (TPI, Twig Protection Inc). Does alot of high level secruity and protection. Was recruited from MTI by the government at age 19 for exceptional skills in computer skills. Arrest at age 12 for hacking into the educational database and changing students grades for money. Was banned from electronics of all forms to age 15. Highly intelligent and stubborn. From age of 19 has no record except for starting and owning a company formed last year.
Has a Bullmastiff named "Cupcake".
Currently living in Miami in a secluded area near the swamps. Not much is known about the location or his history. The property itself was custom built 5 years ago by a foreign company (STJ). Little is known about STJ except they seem to be a military research company with the main HQ based in germany and 6 other labs around the world (Germany, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Australia, South America and the last one in Miami) TPI seems to do security for all the Labs.

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