Rot and Ruin
It’s just a normal day; birds are chirping, cars are driving around, and the sun is shining. Suddenly, the nation feels like it’s coming to a standstill. News companies are frantically publishing headlines about a “zombie virus” that’s been spotted in Europe. Supposedly, it’s incredibly dangerous. For now, though it’s just rumors. Life continues as normal for a while, since there’s nothing anyone can do based on the vague speculations being reported. That all changes when two scientists from Britain release a public statement. The “zombie virus” is real, and it’s started spreading beyond their control and beyond their monitoring. Those afflicted with the virus stop caring about themselves, becoming agents of the virus and existing only for the purpose of spreading it. The zombies look fairly normal, for now, but act strangely. The scientists end their message with a harrowing warning. It could be anywhere, so do your best to keep yourself safe and do not come into contact with any zombies. The disease has already started affecting the scientists studying it and major cities will soon be overrun with zombies. It’s up to you to save yourselves and perhaps the rest of the world…
This RP will be hosted by myself and the amazing @fraud! Let’s welcome her into the fantastic world of RPing.
The RP will start the day before the announcement, but your characters will not have any knowledge of the upcoming apocalypse.
This RP will take place in a fictional version of the world. The initial city will be loosely based on London, although will probably be subjected to a lot of American influence and innaccurate. There will be three starting neighborhoods, Kensington, Northfield, and Hillesden. (details are still a work in progress)
Kensington
Kensington is a rich, urban area in London. It’s home to a lot of skyscrapers that are often office buildings, stores, and apartments. In the middle of all of the skyscrapers lies the famous Kensington University, which hosts a plethora of highly intelligent students. The 442 Baker Avenue Apartments are one of the tallest buildings in Kensington and host a large number of the residents who live in it. The skyscraper usually just called 519 hosts a large set of luxury stores, a few more reasonably priced stores, and is popular with both tourists and residents of the town. The Kensington Regional Airport is the major airport in the region and serves as a layover point for many passengers as well as bringing in tons of tourists to London.
Northfield
Northfield is a small suburb outside of London. It’s filled with a prominent middle class community who commute to their work in London or work more locally within Northfield. Northfield is perhaps best known for it’s Saint Mary’s Primary School, which, despite not being the top school in the country consistently performs very well, is incredibly popular for families with young children who have to work in London. The Northfield High School is the largest high school in Northfield and educates a large number of the teenagers in Northfield. The most popular shop is the local grocery store, Grains and Things, which sells a wide variety of foods and contains it’s own bakery inside.
Hillesden
Hillesden is a much more rural area and features a strange mixture of expensive estates, farms, and parks. It stretches over a large expanse of land that goes all the way to the sea. Hillesden residents tend to be religious and the Cathedral of Saint Joseph draws a large number of churchgoers through its doors every week. The Hillesden Club is a country club located near the sea that lets members hang out on their expansive property and store their boats at their harbor. The Harbor of Hillesden is used by less affluent Hillesden citizens and businesses to dock their boats. Tsunami National Park covers a large section of the land in Hillesden and is a popular location for people from London to visit for day trips. The park contains a small forest, some grasslands, a large lake, and a few kilometers of shoreline. There are a few campgrounds in the park, as well.
Your characters will be able to die or become zombies. Characters’ actions will be monitored and we will use polls in order to track what your characters are doing.
There will also be a (slightly negotiable) two character minimum for the roleplay to make sure that we have enough zombie fodder characters to let the group have more options and capabilities, as well as making it harder for a lone zombie to decimate the group. There will be a list of jobs, and we will ask everyone to reserve an unclaimed job for their first character, but your second character will be allowed to have any job.
Jobs List (in progress)
- Doctor
- Scientist
- Nurse
- Pilot
- Sailor
- Forest Ranger
- Teacher
- Athlete
- Definitely interested!
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The title is a work in progress inspired by something that I’ve read, but the RP will not be based on that.
A few tags?
@Mouschi ~ likes tags
@idiot.exe ~ no longer a secret project