Halloween Rp ~ Zombie Strike! ~~OPEN

[dragontamer363]

Zombie Strike




Welcome - even if you've never roleplayed before, why not check this out. It's simple as pie ^_~


Rp news
Update: Open now to get everyone in the halloween move! biggrin

Opens Oct 25th



Story

It has been two years since the virus began. And the world is infested with the Living Dead.

In North America research was being undertaken into boosting the immune systems of soldiers while inhibiting their pain receptors, thus hoping to create a higher survival and success rate for the army. However, in animal testing one of the creatures escaped carrying what is now referred to as 'the zombie virus'. The virus manifested itself in encouraging rabid cannibalism in the animal as it sought to supplement its own immune system by devouring the systems of others. Gradually it became clear that this virus was passed onto teh creature's later kills, whereby the immune system had so evolved that it acted like a proper virus and spread, creating 'zombie' animals.
As the immune system ecylpsed the brain functions, the need to eat overtook and the virus took over, using the body as it's transportation system and thus creating the 'brainless' undead.
The violent undead animals began to attac humans, who in turn were zombified.
Now, the virus spread out of control across the globe as humans turned on one anotehr as teh zombies sought flesh.

There are only a few survivors left. Will you surive the zombie 'apocolypse'? Can you find the cure to the zombie virus?


About the Zombies

In this rp Zombies as dead humans or animals that have been infected with the potent 'zombie virus' and as such appear that they are the living dead, despite the fact that they are braindead.
The virus in the bodies acts on instincts - it seeks to reproduce by assimilating other humans. The body is motored by the virus interacting with the human immune system. the body decomposes, but teh rate in which it decomposes is subject to how strong the zombie's immune system is. If it's eaten a lot of human flesh, it wont; decompose as easily. The latest generation of zombies have even been found to gradually heal themselves.
The need for immune systems created the 'BRAAAINS' style hunger for flesh.
The brain is dead, so most zombies are completely mindless.
The body decomposes, but is still fully functional unless very very very badly decomposed, or badly injured (eg damage to joints etc). Thus Zombies can run at the speed of a human and have the strength of a human.
their main weakness is in their stupidity as they operate entirely on instinct.

It has been theorised that the earliest generations of zombies may still retain some brain function. But this has not been proven.


Zombies are everywhere and there are only a few human left. Out of a population of 6 billion worldwide, it had been estimated that 3-4 billion are already zombies.

Zombies can be killed by destroying the head - as this is the core area the virus collects and uses electric signals to motor the body through the immune system. Also completely draining a zombie of blood apparently has teh same effect.
Zombies decompose at varying rates. A zombie cannot move without muscles or exist without blood, so skeletol zombies are impossible. Thus it is posisble for a zombie to eventually die of 'old age'.  

[dragontamer363]

Character Sheets

Feel free to make multiple characters - the more the merrier biggrin
Also, killing characters is allowed, but ask permission first.
In some situations, how injured your character gets or howsuccessful an action is may be dictated by a dice roll.


Gaianame:
Name:
Age:
Date Killed: (if zombie)
Previous (or current) occupation:
1st Experience of zombies:
Appearance: (picture or description)
Personality:
Motivation: (why do they keep fighting?)
Bio:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Other:







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Gaianame: Dragontamer363
Name: Dr. Andrew Winters
Age: 30
Date Killed: Two years ago - 1st wave of infections
Previous occupation: One of the scientists working on the Zombie Virus
1st Experience of zombies: he worked closely with the test animals for the zombie virus. as the animal escaped he was bitten by it. is first experience of a human zombie came later whereby he was bitten by it and killed.
Appearance: see the guy pictured here? That's him. Tall, long dark hair, relatively fit build. Since it's been 2 years he's decomposed a bit but not at a very fast rate due to regularily feeding off the scraps form otehr zombies. His face is pale and greyish, mottled with various dark veins and patches of decomposition which is all over his skin. The inside of his mouth and his tongue are black and his eyes have a clouded over milky quality to them.
Personality: Before he was turned, Andrew was a creative, intelligent but genrally quiet guy with a slightly odd and private sense of humor and virtually no friends outside of work. he always preferred his own company or that of animals, and wanted to make the world a better place. he loved his parents above everyone else and deeply respected his father. Since he turned inrto a zombie he became even more introveted and drifted about by himself after the orror of relaising he had to eat people. Recently he got it together and made a decision to try and find the cure, but fighting through the zombies alone was almost impossible. lonely and determined, he's now seeking out humans.
Motivation: He has a terrible guilt for what he helped unleash on the world, and feels out of place sicne he seems to have retained his thinking ability yet is already dead. he desperately wants to find a cure for the virus, and will do anything to get it.
Bio: Andrew grew up in a military family, so was always espected to follow in his father's footsteps as a soldier. however he preferred science, and so got his degree and moved into teh reasearch quarter of the military. There his natural talent helped him suggest and aid the constructin of the virus that was supposed to genertically modify soldiers so they have better immune systems, healing and pain thresholds. However when it reache dteh animal testing stage, things went horribly wrong. The animal escaped, biting him in teh process as he tried to grab it. he exhibited some strange symptoms, but nothing he was worried about, assuming it was a fluke. as teh virus spread and mutated, he went to try and stop it and ended up being killed by a cannibalistic zombie human. He died and came back as a zombie, but because he had already been bitten by teh 1st generation virus, he retained his brain function. However to stop from decomposing very fast he needs to eat human flesh frequently like any other zombie. He feels no pain like other zombies.
Strengths: still has sentience and his brianpower as if he was alive, feels no pain, has no need to eat, can only be killed like other zombies can. Very inteligent, knows how to use a gun. Otehr zombies don't try to eat him.
Weaknesses: Feels no pain, so can do bad damage to himself without noticing (which can in turn hinder his movement). Looks like a zombie, so humans tend to freak out. The cateracts on his eyes can occasionally cause him to go blind for short periods. he needs to eat human flesh to survive.
Other: he's tryingt o find humans to give them the information he nows and try to get back to teh research lab to find a cure  

[dragontamer363]

Open for Sign Ups and ooc Chat


This is a special halloween-party rp, so won't start until october 25h. However feel free to make characters and chat ^_~  

[dragontamer363]

[ok, Imma going to start cos i'm impatient xd ]

The day was miserable by any person's standards - clouds had gathere dinto a heavy cloak and rain splattered down around the streets, dying down the few fires that had sprung around the deserted city. In many ways it was quiet - normal activity had ground to a halt for people nowadays - but there was always teh groaning hum as the zombies collected together.
It always intrigued Andrew as to why teh zombies grouped together like this. Perhaps there was some humanity left - that even in the instinctual mode they were in they didn't wnat to be alone, they lived in a pack. Perhaps it was simply more efficient. He doubted the latter - a swarm of thrity zombies killing only a few humans wasn't efficient - they couldn't all get enough food.
Perhaps the virus created a hive consciousness, like it was interlinked.

He sighed and looked over the asphalt wasteland, sat on the roof of a burntout car. He didn't have to fear the zombies: he was one of them. The only real difference was that he could think as he used to. His guts twisted forever in guilt.
Sometimes he wished his brain was a dead as theirs. At leats tehre woudl be some escape.

He scratched a finger against his cheek, barely feeling it. His feeling had numbed upon being assimilated into a zombie - he didn't feel pain and barely felt anything else. he looked down blankly as parts of his skin flaked off in his hands.

"Another day..."  

[0Moon_Maiden0]

((lol-yay for lack of patience))

The the soft squeak of boots echoed down the hallway of a hospital that was now in disarray. Old dried up blood splatters painted the walls. Shattered glass, turned over wheel chairs, broken doors.....chaos had taken this place without mercy.

A flashlight darted about and rested on a room that was once a lab. "I think this is it," a young male voice said.

"I still think this is unwise for you to come along on these errands," a woman's voice replied coolly.

The young man wondered over the refrigeration unit. "Damn...." he muttered. The units were busted and inoperatable. The meds samples and meds inside wouldn't be of any use.

A moan came from the background....

"Time to retreat," the woman commanded draw her guns.

"But, R.J.......there's still-" the young man pleaded.

"Negative," R.J. replied. "Prince, it is better to retreat now while there's time." Before the man could responded, R.J. was dragging him along. Pausing occasionally to check and make sure the coast was clear they hurried outside back to their armor car parked down the street.