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"Deals to Die For."


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When the sky burned and the ground turned to ash, the Wal protected us from the crash.
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When God abandoned us and left us for damnation, the Great Sam brought us salvation.
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When leaders became incompetent, the Great Sam only ascended unto omnipotence.
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When our old lives were purged, the great Wal’s populatoin surged.
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When the World fell, the Wal rose.



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Have you ever gone into a Walmart or a mall and say “imagine what this place would be like as a post apocalyptic base”? Welcome to the world of Walmart Apocalypse (WalApoc), where Walmart just kept growing and absorbing until they became the WalWorld Corporation and their stores now covers unimaginable tracts of land on a scale equivalent of some US states or smaller European nations. Everyone inside doesn’t know how large it truly is beyond that they know they will never see even a building wall.

This is entire setting is based upon the "Walmart Apocoylpyse" setting, created by /tg/ over the course a few years some time ago. Its quite the read and I won't bother trying to abbriviating it here but here's the short list I will provide:

  • Walmart took over the world's industries, becoming the WalWorld Corporation which replaced major world governments built absurdly massive superstores that to this day no one has ever found a way out. They are seemingly infinitely large and absurdly high and are restocked by robots with goods from places unknown, not that anyone really cares.
  • Calling this place a "super store" does not do it justice as it is more of an internal nation, not even just a city.
  • Many biomes have been created with people and cultures forming, each as absurd or unsettling as the next, misunderstanding things we would find to be common knowledge. "Departments" have become a catch all term for factions and subfactions which have sprung up out of the departments they inhabit.
  • The robots who act as restocking units and security are lethal; if they do not kill you outright with machine gun blasts, they will lobotomize you and turn you into a mindless Greeters, forever left smiling as they greet and spout advertisement and act as additional mindless drones for the robots.
  • Sam Walton, aka the Great Sam, is the basically the new God. While local flavors and other deities may exist, no one doubts the divinity and power of the Great Sam, bringer of great deals and life. Everyone worships him to some extent.
  • Just read the damn thing, its really cool. Its kinda like fallout/mad max/walking dead/I robot/etc all mashed together put into a nightmarish WalNation.


As to the RP itself, the primary focus will be Bloody Friday, the bastardized version of Black Friday which the Stockerbots line the shelves will all the goodies and things that all the Department wants. Players would be a group of Bargain Hunters and try to scout out and loot and explore whatever they can. Might be lead by a GM character, might not be and the whole thing plays out like a DnD group. Explore stuff, try not to die horribly

The "lore" will hopefully be built upon by the players and GM although I will be bending/altering currently "established" lore. CSs will be given the "mob democracy" review in which everyone gets to review and critique each other's character but I as GM will have final say. That said, come into this RP knowing that I can be a hardass GM at times and that there will still be limits as to what your characters will be like (ie having guns is something that will be heavily looked into) as well as being able to write at a high casual level and remain level headed and accept that things will not always make scientific sense.

Now, any questions on the lore or how I'll do this?
If not, I pray to the Great Sam that this will go somewhere and not die horribly at the hands of the nutjobs of the Pharmacy Department.




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Interested.
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yo this is dank

is there any lore on people outside walmarts? i imagine there has to be a few people, since logically the people in walmart had to come from somewhere at some point
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@Mercenary LordThere is no lore on the outside since its not important. The way I'm seeing it is that there's been at least one or two generations who have grown up within the confines but given how culture develops its more likely that its been many, many generations. People don't think there's anything beyond the walmart since many have never even seen the actual walls of the building itself much less doors. Plus when your live is reduced to just survival, you tend not to think of where things come from but care about the fact that you can get your hands on it.

Even the Roof people don't know it; some might be able to say they have been to the edge of the roof, beyond the urban maze of machinery, generators, solar panels, AC units and other bits and boos on the roof, but they have only ever spoken of an "endless grey plain with white lines that stretches for miles". History within the walls its isn't well kept so there is no info on what the world was like beyond since most just think that all that has existed was the Wal (although some stories of the time before do exist but have been corrupted and twisted). The only real history that people concern themselves with is who where great leaders/warriors and who recently raided them.

Do you have a character idea though?
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I have several and its bad because I'm supposed to be working on a lab report right now

I've always had this issue where I'll ask about the least developed section of lore in an RP and then want to make something of it.

One of the ideas was someone who found their way into The Wal. There are a few issues with this idea, namely that there's no precedent for what would happen, they probably wouldn't get past the greeters, and the parking lot for a Walmart this size would have to be astronomically large.

UNLESS so many generations have passed that the outside parking has simply broken down due to the amount of time passed. Hell maybe there's small gatherings of people living around this massive monolith structure, and entering is expressly forbidden because people don't come out ever. Or maybe they just have never found an entrance. THIS IS SUCH A COOL WORLD

A tangent idea to that is one of the Roof people lives near the edge of the roof (just by the logic that SOMEONE has to, unless the entire world is covered in Walmart like Coruscant, but then where do all the products come from? does The Wal have a secret production section or something? so many things). anyway, they spend their days watching the horizon, miles away and miles below them. I think tat would be cool as well

I'm still reading through the lore, but a lot of what I'm getting is that the lore is sort of softly created, meaning that there's room for us to push it around a little bit. That's really exciting too.

I don't know if I have time for this, per say, but if you put up an OOC, I'll definitely make a character.

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@Mercenary Lord Honestly I would stray away from having the "outsider" role namely because I'm not all to comfortable pushing the lid that far. Plus, given the sheer size of the Wals being anywhere between that of a small state to a small nation, you can imagine the size of the fucking parking lot and how you aren't going to see anything.

As for where things come from, thats all part of the mystery that no one has time to really look into, not even the Roofers. Its said that they spend their entire time acting as tribal nomads, always on the hunt for drinkable water. Hell, a Roofer might not be the best fit even the fact that both the Roofers and the rest of the Departments see the other as myths because of such little interaction. I'm sure you could make it work though, but it would have to be a pretty special case.

In my head, its that robots managed to take over all the jobs/missing jobs well enough to feed and supply everything with the Stockerbots restocking shelves and stuff. And yes, I think that many, many generations has passed. You don't have normal people suddenly turn into tree worshippers or the FabGlams of Makeup Department in even two generations, that shit takes a long ass time. Culture don't develop instantaneously and give the permeates and the strength of said cultures, I takes its been a really long time.

Glad you're enjoying the setting though!
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Yeah of course, I understand. Plus, after a bit more thought, any sort of outsider role seems like more of a "protagonist" role, if anything. Just by merit of being a roofer or an outsider, it would place the plot under a lot of pressure to treat them as some magical character to all the other, less out-there types.

Since I don't have a ton of time to read the megapost of lore right now, would you be able to give me a quick rundown of where Bargain Hunters might be likely to come from? I got as far as the "Meat" section of Grocery before I had to stop and get back to work, but that seemed like a pretty good background to come from.

Furthermore, do you have any idea where the most "sane" people might come from? I think the TopDwellers (is that what they're called) would be the most pragmatic/not in line with the world, but it seemed like the Meat people were pretty chill, and I read a cool little story about a sage who spent his entire life charting as much of The Wal as he could, etc.

Where would be a good place for non-crazy characters to come from? Sorry about all these long posts, I'm way interested lol
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If ma boi @Neurovoid is in then I'm in.

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Ayy, three peeps. One more and I'll put making an OOC and a CS on my to do list.

Bro, why u gotta do this to me.


I'm sorry Waders what did I do wrong? ;-;
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I'm sorry Waders what did I do wrong? ;-;


I am unable to access the city of Dead Stock's chat channel, as it resides within the realm of the Guild Discord, of which I am exiled from.

keep up
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Because wade sucks of previously forgotten circumstances, we are using a different channel now. Derp
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wade sucks


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@Wade Wilson@Mercenary Lord@Neurovoid @People who have lurked on to here before

Here's a CS Guide as well as an example character who might become IC group leader depending on things.





Expect OOC to go up hopefully this weekend.
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@Wade Wilson@Mercenary Lord@Neurovoid

Poking y'all to say that starting on the 8th, I will be out on vacation for a week so if you have any CSs you want to have looked at, I highly suggest you submit them before Friday. Otherwise it will likely be a while. Looking to get a proper OOC when I get back and starting IC soon after provided CSs have come in.

Thankies
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Unfortunately my school life is ramping up to high hell, but I'll start working on someone asap
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Definitely interested, but I have a question. You mentioned that since the stores are so large, the different different departments only see eachother as myths and have little to no interaction. Does that mean that the RP will be confined to one department? When I was reading over the backstory, my first impressions was that the departments had different relationships with each other such as trade, like the "roofers" you mentioned trading the drinkable water they are so proficient at acquiring to the pharmacy department for medical supplies and such. It's just a suggestion anyways, If you're still accepting I'll make a CS.
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Definitely interested, but I have a question. You mentioned that since the stores are so large, the different different departments only see eachother as myths and have little to no interaction. Does that mean that the RP will be confined to one department? When I was reading over the backstory, my first impressions was that the departments had different relationships with each other such as trade, like the "roofers" you mentioned trading the drinkable water they are so proficient at acquiring to the pharmacy department for medical supplies and such. It's just a suggestion anyways, If you're still accepting I'll make a CS.


I'm planning for this to go over several different areas and departments although some might just be traveling through (read: timeskips) as to opposed to exploring.

And yes, we are still accepting :>
What's your idea?
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@Vonghese we need to get in on this

I am totally down
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