This is the Enemy...

The infected. The world has made a turn for the worse and all we can do is hide. No matter where we turn there's infected there... worse. The living, you'd think we'd all be trying to live and work together but amidst all the chaos, people have taken advantage. The military cracking down hard on anyone who opposes them, anyone whose infected. There's really only one way to live in this world and that is doing whatever it takes to get ration cards. Even if that means to smuggle legal or illegal goods in and out of safe zones.

That is our Job to smuggle goods in and out of the safe zones. We'll be dodging fire from the Military, Infection from the Infected, and defending ourselves against bandits or worse. Anyone interested?

Character Sheets look like this!

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Skills: (Firearms, sneak, hearing, etc.)
Inventory: (Limit Two things plus a Gas Mask)
Other:

Now I am looking for this to be a cooperative RP so we will already know each other. Ammunition will be sparse so if you want to start off with a weapon you will already have very limited ammo, make your shots count. There isn't any armor and a Gas Mask is already yours. After discussion we can decide if we want to transfer a person to another safe zone...

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I guess to further this along, any requests of things you want to see IC? Fireflies... Cannibals... Hunters...? Any specific weapons?

I'd be interested in this.

OOC: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/1735/posts/ooc?page=1#post-15537

So... anyone who gets infected long enough turns into a mushroom....?

In the Last of Us the infected are just infested by a parasitic fungus known as Cordyceps, which is a real fungus with the ability to take over the body of an insect or spider and other critters like that. They force them to walk to their colony and then break stems through their bodies to release spores to infect the rest of the colony with the parasite. In The Last of Us it evolved to affect humans. So basically once you get infected you turn into a Runner, you look like a human but you just have no control over your body though you can still see, feel, and think. Over time the stems start to break through your skin and over a few years it will completely take you over, you will die, and it will just control your body. Once they "turn into a mushroom" like you said, they begin using echolocation to see hence the name "Clicker".

Runner - Still alive, no control over their body
Stalker - Still alive, no control over their body, but the fungus starts to be able to use tactics to find its foes
Clicker - Dead, uses echolocation to see
Bloater - Dead, uses echolocation to see, is very hard to kill as the fungus has grown across its whole body to form plates that act as armor.

Hope this helps you to understand why they look so odd.

Don't forget to post in the OOC ^.^ anyone can join. It'll mainly be 4-5 man groups so if we get more we can have two seperated IC threads open.

I <3 this game. Actually, I am IN love with this game! Could I join please?!