OOC/Casting Call: Resident Evil (yes, again)

[Quiet_Cool]

Yes, again. This has been attempted at least twice in my time here, and I was in both those occasions, and it's never taken off. I think the idea is good, but the storyline needs some sort of control point. I'll attempt that part if you guys want to give it another go.
The basic idea is the same as the games, but if it works better, we can follow the 9first) movie (as the second has not been released).
Basic concept:

Umbrella Corporation, one of the major world suppliers of multiple products, including bio-weaponry, has lost control of it's secret base in and beneath Raccoon City. The effects of various biological technologies, most not ready for release and responsible for notably "drastic" side-effects, have been unleashed on the city's population. At first, only those located within the mansion were affected, but then, those around it began to feel the effects. It seemed this new "virus" wasn't airborne but transmitted otherwise.
It wasn't long before nearly all of Raccoon cuty's residents had fallen victim to the corporation's mistake. The citizens who once lived in ignorance were now the walking dead. The dogs that once guarded the mansion from any trespassers had become vicious undead stalkers. Several police and military units were dispatched into the city in attempts to evacuate the survivors and reclaim the city, including a S.T.A.R.S. unit which was sent to liberate the mansion, but those attempts failed to control the problem. Now raccoon City is overrun, and the survivors inside it are losing hope of survival. Zombies inhabit most of the city and several other creatures, some mindless hunters, others more intelligent beings, roam the city in search of prey. Worse still, the problem threatens to overtake the boundaries set up to contain the problem and expand beyond the city limits into the world outside. And Raccoon City isn't the only place that Umbrella Corp. has set up secret bases of operation. Reports are beginning to surface of similar side-effects becoming apparent in other cities as well.

This is the basic premise, for those of you who haven't payed the game or seen the movie. We can make it more oriented in either, depending, so long as we're all on the same page, and we can also start at any point, from the beginning on to where they're overrun, or even start in a new city.

Any takers?

 

[AmandaAce]

I'd be interested, if you could tell me more about it.

 

[Drake19]

sounds cool, i'd be interested in participating

 

[rippit]

yeah, sign me up for that, sounds good

 

[Drake19]

how many?

how many do u plan on having for this rp?

 

[Strolling Gecko]

I was in a Resident Evil thread way back in 2001 when I posted under a different guise. I'm totally in for this.

 

[The GrandMage]

...It depends,...can my character be insane?

The crazy vs. the undead. Ha-ha.

I'm in. But seriously,...insane?

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Apologies...

...for not being on for a few days, but I'm here now. As for all of you here, yes, everyone's welcome. But before we start the thread, we need to post character bios and whatnot. Also, I wouldn't mind input on where and when you guys want to start this. In the beginning, in place of the original game; after the enemy has overtaken Raccoon City; in another city where the same thing is happening?
I'll lead by example.

My character, or one of them (i've made it a habit of over-populating my threads, just so you know):

Name: Jacob Mathias
Age: 26

Description: Jacob is about 5-11, one-hundred and eighty pounds (average build; neither heavy in fat or muscle, but fairly well-balanced between the two), with unruly brown hair that has grown out to his shoulders and brown eyes to match. Noticable, but not overly striking, he's the quiet type, who isn't all that used to attention, and doesn't often speak when he feels it just BS that's being discussed anyway.

Bio: Raised in a normal family environment, Jacob is used to the basics in life.

I'll add to his bio when we figure out where we're going to start this.

Oh, and Amanda, the basics are that there are zombies that have (or will) overrun the city, as well as various other creatures of similar horror background, like these dogs that are moe or less zombie dogs but aren't as weak as the zombies, and giant spiders and undead bats of some sort, as well as several other creatures that we can fill you in on as we go. Basically, the Umbrella corp. is behind the problem, so the thread may need to take place in, or our characters may need to find, a large mansion that in and below, the research had taken place in.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

...And GM can be insane....

 

[The GrandMage]

Sweet. Insanity kicks ass!
Well, it was either that or an anti-zombie zombie. I know very little about this, but that struck me as a "Umm,....no." kind of thing. Ha-ha. Umbrella Corp.

I don't care. Racoon City, another smallwoods hick town. Any place where I can run around like a maniac talking to a book or other inanimate object and hacking down zombies and survivors alike.

"You broke Allen! Die, zombie scum!"
*powerdrills their heads*
"Ha-ha! Allen is avenged! Come, Mini-Allens!"

 

[hybirdx]

Sounds fun, count me in.

 

[AmandaAce]

Yeah. Zombies. Fuckin awesome. I'm down.

 

[Strolling Gecko]

Cotton Archer

Here's my character's bio:

Name: Cotton Archer

Ht: 6'3"

Wt: 234lbs

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue

Age: 24

Build: Muscular

Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Background: Cotton is originally from New Orleans, La. He was a normal kid growing up, both his parents were in the picture. Joined the marines following high school, then entered into SEAL training before injuring his right knee and getting a honorable discharge. He is proficent with many types of firearms and some basic hand to hand combat.


I don't care where the setting is either. But I would like to point out that Racoon City got blown to hell at the end of RE 2 and RE 3 in an attempt to stop the virus fom spreading. Anyway, I'm looking forward to this.

 

[rippit]

Here's my character bio:

Name: Stuart

Age: unknown (early 20's)

Height: 6ft2

Weight: 190lb

Hair: Short black

Eyes: Black

Stuart was one of Umbrella Corporation's latter projects, not fully completed before the outbreak of the T-virus. The intention behind Stuart was to create a drug that could be given intravenously to modern-day soldiers that would allow them to use organic matter from others to repair and optimize themselves - put simply, using the blood and flesh of the dead to regenerate themselves and function at levels considered extreme. The organic matter, once absorbed, would allow their genetically-engineered muscles to function in the higher levels they were designed for. As a result, the units are able to move and respond far faster than other life-forms. Reaction time is massively reduced as a result of variable focus vision - the brain is subsequently able to process visual information faster, effectively providing slow-motion vision.

The major drawback of this is the massively-reduced lifespan due to higher stresses on the brain, bone and muscle structure. Stuart is only likely to live for another two years at the most. He is also vulnerable to periods without feeding - in order to function at his most powerful, Stuart needs to consume at least ten pints of blood per 24hr period, roughly the amount held by an adult male. To allow the units to function regardless of the condition of biological matter, Stuart is able to consume flesh tainted with the T-virus without consequences.

11 of these experiments were conducted in Raccoon City's Hive facility, nicknamed vampires for obvious reasons. One of the main ideas behind the HRP (Human Regenerative Program) was to make the units a psychological weapon as well as physical, playing upon their physical qualities. As a result, the units were given elongated canine teeth, to fit their vampire image, as well as eyes without an iris - as a result their eyes are entirely black.
Once the project came to light, it was officially scrapped due to the high controversy of biologically altered soldiers feeding on the dead. It was also believed that these soldiers would suffer serious psychological instability as a result of the feeding process. Each test subject was due to be destroyed, but before this could happen the T-virus was released. The ensuing security measures released the vampires from their cells. Stuart was one of nine who made it to the surface.

Stuart has no recollection of his life prior to experimentation, but is still of human temperament and personality. He named himself, taken from the title of his experiment - STR 004. As he has no past, and is likely to have no future, Stuart's main objective is currently survival, and ultimately a cure to his alterations. Stuart holds a great hatred for the Umbrella Corporation, and is willing to work with other survivors to destroy the corporation.

 

[The GrandMage]

Hmmm. Insane. But able to survive...Hmmmm,....

I can't think anymore. Give me a while. I'll try to have a character by the time it starts up...

 

[AmandaAce]

Name: Mia Bane
Age: 23
Height: 5'9"
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown


Yeah. I'll post the rest when I figure it out

 

[Drake19]

Rippit, your character sounds incredibly powerful :-\

Anyway, here's a brief look at what i've got going for my character, this is just the basics, i'll develop more later.

Name: Charles "Chuck" Rodriguez
Age:20
Height:5'11"
Weight: 235
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown

Occupation: Lock Smith

Chuck had gotten out of college just two years ago, and is working his way through by helping his uncle in his locksmithing business. He is a creative, clever thinker, backed up with some muscle, as he currently boxes at his college.

He has no real formal training with firearms, explosive, or any of the like. Because of his background in boxing, he is a strong and agile hand-to-hand fighter. He also has some skill in picking locks and even hot-wiring cars, should the need arise.



Personally, I'd prefer it if it took place in the same state at the beginning of the recent game, Outbreak. Forcing the characters to work together, and getting us right toward some action.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Okay.

First off, I like the characters so far, and I understand why so many of us are waiting to see where we start, as I did too. I'll update my character either before I get offline or tomorrow when I'm on again. Take your time, and come up with something you like, especially you, GM. You manage to get some original content in nearly every character you Rp with.

As for the starting point, I'm unfamiliar with Outbreak, and guessing it's for PS2 and X-Box, neither of which I have yet (though these games are making it hard not to get the PS2--lol), so I can't really know where things begin in that particular game. If you want to explain some, we can try that, or we can always make thing similar than that in one part of the city, while the outbreak isn't so bad in another part. In at least on of the other threads, we had a new city we called Desperation, a name chosen after the Stephen King novel of course. If you want to work there again, it's cool with me, given the freedom we have to design the city from scratch.

We can also start before Raccoon City is blown up, maybe in the final days. Or in the beginning, making the characters somehow interact with another STARS team sent to the mansion. The possibilities are endless.

rippit, Drake has a good point. If you're going to use Stuart, we'll need to know you'll adhere fairly to the limitations of your character, meaning that you'll find ways of making him equal to everyone else in terms of his strength. Maybe make the rule that the flesh he consumes must be so fresh to be effective, and make that fresh of flesh harder to find. I'm not saying he won't work, or even that you have to change him at all. I can see ways of working him into a "human" character (meaning mortal enough to fit in with the others), I'm just making clear that he has to have fair weaknesses. I don't want to risk an all-powerful character. If you tell me you'll keep him in check, I'll believe you though...

Tomorrow. ANd keep posting ideas. We can get this thing up and started this weekend if we work fast enough and agree.

Q_C

 

[hybirdx]

Okay, here's mine.

Name: Chase Bandit
Age: 20
Height: 5'11
Hair: Short brown
eyes: Green

Occupation: Auto customization and repair.

Bio: Chase was oringinally in training to be a S.T.A.R.S opperative. But after a disonorable discharge due to false accusations about him stealing top secret Umbrela information and atempting to sell them to terrorist (which made no sense because he didn't know about umbrela at the time), he left refusing to come even after he was cleared of the charges and offered to return to training. Now Chase works at his brothers auto shop, mainly working on Motorcycles.

Due to his training with S.T.A.R.S, Chase is skilled with fire arms and other weponary, as well as small knowledge of kickboxing. But probaly whats going to make him the most dangerous is his memorys of the torture they put him through before he was discharged. All those whipings and beatings can affect the mentality of a person a little...

 

[The GrandMage]

Name: Taranis "The Storm Dragon" Dragenson
Age: 37
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Occupation: Former Umbrella Corp. Security Guard

Status: Completely insane.

Bio:

Taranis spent a better part of his life working for the Umbrella Corporation. Eventually, though, his devotion to the company got him in trouble. He accidentally stumbled across a budget cutting procedure that put workers in a great deal of danger. In order to keep things under control, they inacted an underused part of his contract and forced him into the testing procedures for a product.

It was a neurotoxin designed to incapacitate those it was used against, turning them into vegetables. An antidote was being developed along with it, for use in solving any 'accidents'. However, the neurotoxin itself didn't work. Instead, it turned Taranis completely mad, and his training turned him into a killing machine.

In an attempt to use the antidote, they found that it only seemed to boost his physical abilities beyond their limits, turning him into a more primal killer and lessening his ability to register pain. This effect was found to be temporary, and the project was scrapped shortly after the testing. Which was good, because most of the scientists working on the project were dead anyway.

Taranis was removed to a mental facility, and quickly forgotten by most. Until about a year ago, when he escaped. Since then, he's become one of the most wanted serial killers in the country.

Taranis has three major forms of insanity: The first is he thinks the antidote to the drug gave him the ability to talk to 'Spirits' inhabiting inanimate objects. Although they are rare, he can usually find one within throwing distance. Some of these are his firends, and he talks to and protects them. Other anger him, sending him into fits of rage.

The second is his belief thatin order to keep the people he kills from haunting him, he has to make sure their brains are destroyed so they can't "think about the world of the living anymore".

The third, and final part of his insanity comes in his choice of victims. They seem to be mostly random slayings, sometimes killing one person and leaving three or four people aroudn to identify them, and not so much as aknowledging them. Other times he'll slay entire groups without breaking a sweat.

He is highly trained and considered dangerous.

He is easilly identified by a tattoo of a Chinese dragon circling his torso, it's head going up the right side of his face. It rises from a fierce thunderstorm, an is the source of his knickname, "The Storm Dragon". That, and the fact his first name means lightning and his last name sounds like dragon. You know, whatever works.

Good? Bad? Ugly?

And how do you kill zombies in the Evil? Go for the brain?

 

[AmandaAce]

Okay.

Mia Bane
Age: 23

Occupation: Actress

Daughter of U.C. scientist Jonathan Bane, Mia lived a normal life and had no knowledge of the basic workings of the Umbrella Corporation. She trained for a while to be a ballet dancer.
Mia has next to no fighting experience.


Don't be fooled, guys. Mia is hard shit.

 

[rippit]

yeah, don't worry about stuart, he's not a vampire in the way Blade is, he's more like Lestat in the end of Interview With, quite fast and hard to kill but definitely flawed. He's not invincible either, a good close-range shotgun ought to keep him down for a day at least. Also, if you see him looking real agitated and sweating a lot, maybe staring at others for long periods, you might want to keep a weapon on him - it means he's getting hungry, and when he gets hungry he gets desperate. Without blood he ends up pretty much useless, even less dangerous than a normal person. So yeah, I can keep a leash on stuart. He's not an invincible lone wolf type, he's more than willing to work with others. Thanks to his prolonged exposure to the T-virus, he can usually tell where the undead are pretty accurately by the pheromones of the virus (although this won't work on other creatures, such as any living tissue contaminated with the virus - lickers, the nemesis, and others)


(oh yeah, garlic, crosses and sunlight do not apply, that's just silly)

 

[rippit]

I seriously recommend some one like Gecko filling the role of keeping one eye on Stuart, as a bounty hunter it should be quite easy for him. He'll be very useful, but don't make friends with him - you're character is likely to have to put him down at some point when his hunger takes over.

 

[The GrandMage]

Don't worry, if your character gets frisky, mine will either help him slaughter the rest, or he'll scoop out Stuart's brain to make an ice cream for himself.

"Mmmm. Vampire. Delicious."

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Geeze. With so many "active" characters, I may need to bring in something more concrete, more physical than Jacob, at least along with him, lol. Maybe Ray will come back from the last one, reborn and new to the whole RE experience. He was a bounty hunter too, but maybe I'll make him a cop this time, to keep from overdueing the whole BH deal.
Anyway, let's get our ideas pooled on the when and where so we can get things moving.
Any other ideas concerning what we can do. remember to keep the majors under wraps unless I give the okay, meaning things like lickers and Nemesis and Tyrant, and that type thing. Even if they aren't things that are active monsters but info about this virus or that, even if they pretain to your own characters.

Thanx,

Q_C