forum Zombie Apocalypse RP (Still technically open if anyone wants to join)
Started by @Becfromthedead group
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Background (you don’t need to read this right away, just keep it in mind for plot and to shape character creation if you want):
It is November of 2029. A month and a half has passed since the first people came down with a mysterious plague- one that seemed like it could only happen in fiction. The zombie outbreak has been brutal, and well over 70% of the U.S. population has been lost to the disease, and even more to other fates related to the plague and other causes.
How the plague works:

  • It is spread through blood, saliva, and other bodily fluids
  • Asymptomatic carriers are still contagious
  • It takes anywhere from 5 days to two weeks for the transformation to occur. There are warning signs and other disease symptoms ahead of it. Symptoms take at least a day or two to appear, and they stack as time goes on. Transformation can also occur if the victim is killed, but their brain is intact. However, this isn't always the case; the disease has to have progressed far enough to finish the transformation quickly.

Stage 1: Fever, fatigue, muscle aches, chills, swollen lymph nodes
Stage 2: Coughing blood, vomiting, open sores, high fever, intense headaches, limb weakness
Stage 3: Seizures, dizziness, necrosis, inability to walk, changes in personality
Stage 4: Full transformation; victim will appear to die, then come back as basically a shell of the person

How to kill a zombie: Zombies don't die as easily as normal humans. Zombies' hearts no longer pump blood. They don't bleed, and a shot to the heart will not kill them. Zombies do not feel pain because of how the brain is rewired during transformation, so you could shoot them in the chest five times, and they would feel nothing. However, they can't function without a brain, so usually shots to the head or decapitation are the way to go.

How to flee from zombies: Zombies move a little slower than normal humans, but not by much. They are easy to outrun in short sprints, but they don't tire out, and if they stay on your trail for extended periods of time, you're doomed. They're pretty dumb and can't put together visual clues such as footprints, but they can track sound. They also have a heightened sense of smell, and can smell the presence of humans. This does not extend to following scent trails unless the human leaves behind traces such as blood.

Is it possible to come in contact with the virus but not become infected?
Yes, but it's unlikely. A wound that has come in contact with infected fluids, for example, can be cleaned out with disinfectants. If the virus has not entered the bloodstream yet, the victim may get through unscathed. Another very rare case is immunity. No one really knows why some people are immune to it, but these people can't be affected by the virus at all. However, they can act as hosts and pass it to others. (If anyone wants their character to have immunity, I will allow one person in the party to have it. Ask me first, and just know that this might make things more complicated. If they have the plague, then they can spread it.)

What's our party's goal? Depends. I have some ideas, but they're subject to change.

  • Survive, obviously…
  • Get to the CDC in Atlanta and hopefully be able to be there when they have discovered a vaccine, or maybe help make this vaccine (which will definitely work if we have someone with immunity)
  • Anything else you guys can think of. We just need a main goal though. (I just want a plot so we have a direction to take this RP)

Rules:
andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer)'s rules apply
Swearing allowed
LGBT+ characters welcome
Use the template to make your characters, no Mary Sues/Gary Stus/OP characters are allowed
Romance is okay but 1. don't make it too much of the focus and 2. nothing smutty is allowed
Make posts that other people can actually respond to (no one-liners, good grammar to the best of your ability)
Be nice to other RPers
Ask me (in the thread or in PM) if you want to do any plot twists
I may allow multiple characters once we have started (no more than 2 at a time per person). Just ask. Characters can die in this RP, and in fact I think it would make for interesting plot, so you are welcome to, at any time, kill one of your characters and make a new one.

Template:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Sexuality:
Appearance:
Personality:
Inventory (including weapons, tools, etc.):
Background (occupation, backstory, etc):
Other (optional):

@Euric_Knight

Name: Logan Indigo
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Pan
Appearance: About 5'9, slightly overweight, above the shoulder choppy (dyed) firey red and orange hair, freckles, brown eyes that normally are warm, but sometimes turn to the most shiver-inducing ice cold, freckles, tons of tiny circular scars all over her body from mosquito bites that she constantly scratched, and a very large and obvious scar on her right thumb from an incident when she was five. She wears a red tank top with a black bomber jacket, black jeans, red Gucci sneakers her brother got her once, a black smartwatch, a few bracelets
Personality: She tries to keep the mood light whenever she's having a conversation and rarely opens up, even to people she's very close to. She often just sits back to watch what happens and see if she has anything to add, often figuring out people's personalities before talking to them for the first time. She truly believes you will always have another option in every situation. She always is trying to make the best decisions, but she fails sometimes, and normally those are the times when she needs to be choosing the best option. Her calculating and always creating new options makes her very indecisive.
Inventory: Her phone, probably a ton of protein bars, a wicked looking knife, maybe some string
Background: She had a pretty normal life, lots of ups and downs, but that's how it goes, until her brother Web got 'mugged' one night, then got sick soon after. His heart had stopped, and Logan had sat there, sobbing at his bedside, before he sat up groggily and turned to face her. She had jumped with joy before she saw his face, cold and lifeless. He started moving towards her, his jaw snapping up and down like he was about to bite her. She had stumbled back, calling for a doctor, who rushed in but stopped and just stared at Logan's brother when she saw the condition he was in. The doctor scrambled for a cabinet, retrieving a scalpel, which she drove into Web forehead so deep Logan was sure it stuck out the other side of his head. Afterward, the doctor explained how there had been a few cases like Web's, where the patient died before coming back violent. Multiple people had died at the hands of these zombie patients, and the doctor explained how they could only be killed if their brain was no longer intact. It all happened a couple of days before the massive outbreak.

@Becfromthedead group

Age: 22
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
Appearance: 5'11, heavy muscular build, dark brown wavy hair that is long on one side and pretty short on the other, terracotta (brown with orange tint) eyes, light brown skin, black tattoos on arms and chest, several ear piercings, a single nose piercing on the right side and a lip ring on the left
Personality: An extrovert with a few introvert qualities, Caring (which might be the only thing he really feels with intensity), Cool and confident, Calm, even in crisis, Logical, thinks everything out, Usually has a plan, but doesn't mind spontaneity, as long as it's not stupid, Tends to get caught up in details of plans, A little blunt, Relatively stoic and sometimes accidentally insensitive
Inventory (including weapons, tools, etc.): His phone, stolen lab equipment, a first aid kit, an inhaler, a revolver and knives, a water bottle and iodine
Background (occupation, backstory, etc): Pollux was a senior in college, a public health major with a chemistry minor, and he was about to apply for medical school when the plague broke out. The plague was horrifying; he was living in an apartment off-campus with his boyfriend when it happened, luckily. Had he been in the confined space of the dormitories, he likely would have caught the plague, like 90%+ of the students living there. When the plague-carriers started turning, he prepared to leave town by stealing some lab equipment he thought he could use to protect himself. Once he left, he realized that things were worse than he’d been told. He called his mother and she said she was fine, but since then, he hasn’t been able to find or contact her. His boyfriend at the time started falling ill while they were traveling, so Pollux killed him around stage 3 of the plague, knowing there was nothing either of them could do. Since then, he has been searching for his mother and also been trying to think about how a cure or vaccine could be created.
Other (optional): Has asthma, skilled at healing others, lives with a single mother when he’s not at school

@Becfromthedead group

If those who have posted their characters or will soon want to get started tonight, we can and have any other characters meet up with the rest of the group later.