The Jeffinator
Super Saiyan Blue
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The name says it all. I am wondering if anyone would be interested in a group thread about survivors in the zombie apocalypse. All characters would be original. I myself will play a few extra characters so I can let one or more die here and there. Maybe certain characters can even defect from the main group and start a new one.
Anything is possible.
We will create the story as we go. It's a chaotic world. You can also play characters in a different faction and have them attack our main group to move the story along. Or play a group of zombies who attack us. Walkers are plentiful, so "spawn" in as many as you want.
For the initial setting, I'm thinking my main character is 37 year old US Army Ranger Colonel Julian Shepard, though he is sometimes called "Jules" or "Shep" for short. After fifteen years of seeing combat all over the world, he finally has a reprieve when he is offered an office job at the Pentagon. He accepts, and when school gets out in June, his wife, Samantha, his son, Mike, and his daughter, Lucy, will all move to Washington DC so they can all be a family again.
But in late March, the virus breaks out. Violently.
This is where we can do one of two options. We can have it just zombies, like the show, or we can say the virus has a bit of a varied effect. Humans, dogs, cats, even fucking cows -- any living being can be infected. Most of those that get infected are swarmed with chaotic brain signals and chemical imbalances, making conscious thought impossible and inciting an extreme, unquenchable hunger for meat. They also feel no pain, no fear, and in some cases their body mutates into various forms.
Yes, I said it. Mutant zombies. Like, they could suddenly be faced with a giant fucking mutant alligator zombie that looks like some badass dragon or something. Or a hairy man who has mutated enough to look like a zombie bigfoot. Our imagination is the limit.
We could say that everyone is infected, but some have milder reactions, still allowing varied levels of conscious thought but mutating the person enough to have advanced abilities. In a way it would be like X-Men versus zombies. We have the mutants that are complete zombies and have no thoughts, we have our characters which are still themselves mentally but have developed superpowers, and then there are those inbetween. Maybe a man who has kept his mind so far, but he has incredible electrical powers that threaten to send it brain into a frenzy if he gets too stressed and thus complete his transformation into a monster. Maybe every day he has to fight to maintain his humanity.
We can also have mutants that resemble werewolves or vampires.
Regardless of whether we go with normal zombies versus normal humans or go with the extreme mutant zombies idea, the story starts out with Shepard trying to get out of DC so he can make his way to his family's home in Missoula, Montana. He desperately hopes they are still alive. Characters can be anyone who initially joins him in DC or people they find along the way. The path they take will be the same path found on MapQuest if you search for directions from DC to Missoula, with small variations here and there.
So, anyone interested?
Anything is possible.
We will create the story as we go. It's a chaotic world. You can also play characters in a different faction and have them attack our main group to move the story along. Or play a group of zombies who attack us. Walkers are plentiful, so "spawn" in as many as you want.
For the initial setting, I'm thinking my main character is 37 year old US Army Ranger Colonel Julian Shepard, though he is sometimes called "Jules" or "Shep" for short. After fifteen years of seeing combat all over the world, he finally has a reprieve when he is offered an office job at the Pentagon. He accepts, and when school gets out in June, his wife, Samantha, his son, Mike, and his daughter, Lucy, will all move to Washington DC so they can all be a family again.
But in late March, the virus breaks out. Violently.
This is where we can do one of two options. We can have it just zombies, like the show, or we can say the virus has a bit of a varied effect. Humans, dogs, cats, even fucking cows -- any living being can be infected. Most of those that get infected are swarmed with chaotic brain signals and chemical imbalances, making conscious thought impossible and inciting an extreme, unquenchable hunger for meat. They also feel no pain, no fear, and in some cases their body mutates into various forms.
Yes, I said it. Mutant zombies. Like, they could suddenly be faced with a giant fucking mutant alligator zombie that looks like some badass dragon or something. Or a hairy man who has mutated enough to look like a zombie bigfoot. Our imagination is the limit.
We could say that everyone is infected, but some have milder reactions, still allowing varied levels of conscious thought but mutating the person enough to have advanced abilities. In a way it would be like X-Men versus zombies. We have the mutants that are complete zombies and have no thoughts, we have our characters which are still themselves mentally but have developed superpowers, and then there are those inbetween. Maybe a man who has kept his mind so far, but he has incredible electrical powers that threaten to send it brain into a frenzy if he gets too stressed and thus complete his transformation into a monster. Maybe every day he has to fight to maintain his humanity.
We can also have mutants that resemble werewolves or vampires.
Regardless of whether we go with normal zombies versus normal humans or go with the extreme mutant zombies idea, the story starts out with Shepard trying to get out of DC so he can make his way to his family's home in Missoula, Montana. He desperately hopes they are still alive. Characters can be anyone who initially joins him in DC or people they find along the way. The path they take will be the same path found on MapQuest if you search for directions from DC to Missoula, with small variations here and there.
So, anyone interested?