[OOC] Dying Light - Humanity's Last Stand

[Cath]

I'll get to work on elaborating. I had to post it before i went to the pub!

[Komo]

Hi guys,

I am interested to join as well!
I will post a CS as soon as I can :)

That is, if it is still open for more.

[Sven the Silent]

@Leon5431 You are accepted, feel free to post him in the character tab.

@Symphoni I am still accepting, yes.

[Sven the Silent]

My internet is being really slow for some reason, it won't let me load pages I didn't have opened already. I had this open on my laptop for example, I can navigate the forum but if I try to go any other site it won't load. (Never had this before, trying to fix this at the moment.)

[Sven the Silent]

Pfft, this took a long time to fix. Restarted my laptop a dozen times, messed with the routers. Now it's working again, I don't have a clue how or why. But it seems as though I can finally start working on a starting post. Apologies for the delay.

[ViolentViolet]

Wow, that. . . that really sucks.

[Sven the Silent]

And the first post has been made, no thanks to my internet troubles. A random event for everyone has been added below my post, the parachute will come lose eventually. Once it does, I will determine through dice whether it will crash and be destroyed or float down to an area below where it can be inspected.

The smaller personal events in the forms of things you've seen or noticed will be send to you after you have made your first post.

Also, i'm a little rusty in terms of roleplay. My posts should improve as we go on. :)

Edit: Talking colours for everyone might be a good idea? Yes or no? Get back to me on that folks.

[Komo]

@Sven the Silent

Hi, I finally got my CS up. Let me know if anything needs to be changed.

Olivia Colburn

Appearance:
Shoulder-length honey gold hair and blue-grey eyes adorn a distinctive yet somehow delicate face. A slight feminine chin curves softly. Her skin is smooth and lightly tanned with a hint of blush on her cheeks. Small pale lips rests on her face, and when she smiles, they are accompanied by a set of dimples. Her face is youthful yet bubbly. She possess a quirky sense of humour, smiling whenever the situation requires it or when she feels like it. Her chin is pointed and her sunny and pleasant disposition emits a warm and healthy glow around that radiates throughout her entire person.
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Size: Olivia stands tall at 170cm (5 feet 6 inches) and weighs around 65kg (143 pounds).
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Physical Shape: A keen sportswoman, she has been involved in physical sports since a young age. She has played tennis competitively since she was in school. Her body is toned and athletic from all the physical training she had undergone through the various periods in her life. Although possessing her fair share of muscle, she still retains a fair sense of womanly curves. Her climbing skills are still somewhat weak, but she is slowly improving them as she practice her skills daily through parkour and other forms of climbing activities.
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Name: Olivia Colburn
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Age: 22
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Personality: A generally quiet and lonely individual, she is also strong and determined. She is spunky, with just the right amount of attitude. Although she had grown up in a well-to-do family, she is by no means a stranger to hard work. Rather headstrong and stubborn at times, but gain her trust and respect, and you've gotten yourself a valuable friend and ally. She tends to get over-emotional, which can impair her actions and judgement. Very passionate about what she believes in, she will do whatever it takes to achieve her goal.

Olivia is also no stranger to fun, and also always believes in having a good time whenever one can. Despite being a quiet person in the beginning, once she starts talking about her interests, she can go on and on, babbling away without a care in the world.
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Occupation: Professional Tennis Player
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Equipment: Olivia is wearing the very same pair of tennis attire that she wore when she left home. The white tennis dress is no longer the pristine one she had set out with and is now worn and dirtied with use. She wears a black wind-breaker jacket on the outside, which has also seen considerable wear and tear over time. Around her waist, a black utility belt is worn, scavenged from one of the many deceased police officers in the city. On her back, she carries a brown haversack with a sleeping bag secured tightly to the bottom of the backpack.

The utility belt holds a torchlight and her house keys for now. A couple of empty spaces still remain, to be filled in the future.
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Inventory: 4 medium sized bottles of water, a couple of canned food, a packet of preserved ham, flint and steel, a bottle of deodorant, a set of toothbrush and toothpaste, one notebook, a couple of ballpoint pens, two sets of new underwear and socks and a history book on the World Wars.
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Weapons: Her main weapon of choice is a machete. She also has a Sig Sauer P229 pistol with just that one magazine.
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Background: Olivia’s life growing up was nothing special. Invested into sports from a young age, she eventually decided to focus on tennis, and had involved in that ever since. She was born in a well to do family in the richer parts of Atlanta, Georgia. Being more of a quiet character, she did not have much friends, as people tended to take the quietness as a form of aloofness and arrogance. But, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Once they got to know her, they would know that she is actually a rather passionate and friendly character.

Apart from sports, she also had a deep fascination and interest in history, particularly military history. Her favourite subject lies in the World Wars, and she could frequently be seen reading books about them, and watching movies and other similar television documentaries about them. She had her first taste for intimate relationships in the later parts of her college life. They had done everything up to kissing, but had never proceeded past that. Olivia lost contact with her only boyfriend after he moved away, and that was that. She had never been with another since, looking for the right one this time.

After school, Olivia went on to become a professional tennis player, and travelled around the world to play for several tournaments. Although she loved playing tennis, she wasn’t quite satisfied with her life. She felt as though there was something important missing in her life, which she couldn’t, for the life of her figure out.

She had just came back from an overseas tournament not more than two weeks ago, dejected and depressed, when the outbreak happened. On the way home, she saw the huge commotion on the streets and the main roads leading in and out of the city. There were police presence everywhere, and a manner of vehicles filled the road, trying to exit the city. When she reached home, Olivia began calling out and searching for her parents, but they were nowhere to be seen. Finally, locating a note pasted on the fridge, her parents had stated that they have gone out of the city to leave with their relatives in one of the suburbs.

Packing her backpack with whatever she thought that was necessary, she then left home and started to begin her journey out of the city. Unfortunately, fate had other plans for her, and her path was littered with obstacles, with many of the infected now filling up the path.

[Sven the Silent]

@Symphoni You're looking good so far. I have no clue about how common a Kukri is in America though, some check ups tell me it's a weapon from Nepal used in their army, the Indian army and in Gurkha regiments. Hence i'm unsure if it would be available in America. (Bringing it from another country seems unlikely, don't think an airport would let it through.)

[Komo]

@Sven the Silent

Oh, okay. Thought it was available world-wide in hunting stores and the like. Anyway, I've changed it to a machete, since they are kinda similar anyway. Let me know if there are anything else that needs to be changed or it's good.

[Sven the Silent]

@Symphoni Keep in mind that a machete gets dull and you have no knowledge of how to sharpen it. Just a hint. Anyway, feel free to post it in the character tab. :)

[Komo]

@Sven the Silent

Hey, so I found that the kukri is indeed available in the US. The US Army uses it. So I'll use it if you don't mind.

http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/superblades/A-1011-1.jpg
http://www.mc-armyknives.com/u.s.army/knife/rock-steady/A-1011

[Sven the Silent]

@Symphoni Army weaponry is not that easily available for civillians, and I don't think it sees a lot of service, does it? Just don't see a tennis player getting her hands on it. But if its plausable then go ahead.

[Pripovednik]

@Sven the Silent Second post :D

[Penguin]

Size: 5'5" 120 pounds

Physical Shape: She is on the thin side with enough muscle to sustain herself through quite a bit of physical activity. Though fit, she is in no way very strong. Her small frame and physical ability allows her to be a very fast and agile individual.

Name: Emily Vica

Age: 20

Personality: Emily is an intelligent individual who tends to stop and think before doing. She knows how to assess a situation and think of the right solution in an efficient manner. Despite this, she has little patience for irritating people and can have quite the temper sometimes. That being said she can be sarcastic at times. She is not afraid to put up an argument if she feels it is necessary. Emily is quite brave and will put herself into combat if she realizes that is necessary especially for someone she cares about. However, as mentioned, she's very analytical and if she feels it will benefit her or others to avoid a situation at hand, she will say and do so. She is caring for those she values but will not extend mercy to strangers often and can actually be a bit cheerful around certain people such as her brother. Emily will try her hardest to act happy and be positive in order to cheer the people around her up.

Occupation: Freshman in college studying pre-med, volunteered in hospital and worked half-time at Starbucks.

Equipment: Emily is always wearing a brown leather jacket over a tank top with some dark green cargo pants that are tucked into a pair of black combat boots. Her jacket has an array of pockets that allow for her to store other small items. She also wears a set of black gloves. She wears a small gold necklace with a heart locket that opens to reveal a picture of her family.

Inventory: Emily has the following items with her in a light-weight dark-colored backpack:
- A refillable water can
- roll of plastic
- very small radio
- small flashlight
- 4 small cans of food, a pack of crackers and some nuts
- bottle of deodorant, half-empty toothpaste, cheap toothbrush, small hairbrush
- old wallet with identification inside
- can opener
- a blanket
- a small diary that's falling apart and a pen that looks like it was chewed up by a dog
- 3 sets of clean underwear and socks

Weapons:
- bow and a quiver of arrows that she had used during high school
- pistol with 2 magazines, tends to use bow

Background: Emily was born into a low-middle class family. They weren't starving on the streets but they weren't well off either. From a young age, she worked hard with the help of her parents' pressuring to do well in school so that she could hopefully give her own kids a better life when she was older. She aspired to be a doctor so she could be helpful to many and have enough money to not have to worry like her parents had to. She took up an interest in archery which she got good enough to participate in competitions to make herself more well-rounded. The negative aspect of this is that she didn't get to have many friends in high school. She rejected most invitations to go out and rejected anyone who asked her on dates.

When Emily graduated high school, she regretted this deeply. All her high school memories consisted of studying in her bedroom and trying to join as many stupid pointless clubs as she could to make her high school resume look better. She made the decision to ease up a bit in college and try to enjoy life more. Her parents had passed away before graduation in a tragic car accident and there was no one but her brother Axel to congratulate her. With the depression that followed her parents death, she knew she really had to try to get out there and find the joy in life.

In her freshman year of college, she had really started to enjoy herself and had made quite a number of friends. Not only that but she was managing to do great in school. That's when the virus outbreak happened and suddenly life wasn't so great anymore. Her new friends died off pretty early on and she ended up leaving to meet up with her brother to try to survive with him. Emily's way of coping has been to focus on the present and ignoring the past as much as she could. All her hard work in life had amounted to nothing and she has nothing but anger for anything having to do with the past.

[Dirty Dan]

So, is it night time?

Also, I have no idea about Georgia, so I'm just gonna start off in Downtown Peachtree Street, which I believe the SunTrust Plaza is located, along with a variety of other different landmarks and such.

[Sven the Silent]

@Penguin You don't seem to have any experience with the bow you're carrying, I think you may have overlooked to put that you've practised archery in your character sheet. :) Unless you're inexperienced that is.

[Sven the Silent]

@Dirty Dan We can go from the morning, just the intro bit is night. When I used the ''Unknown Survivor'' bit.

[Penguin]

@Penguin You don't seem to have any experience with the bow you're carrying, I think you may have overlooked to put that you've practised archery in your character sheet. :) Unless you're inexperienced that is.

@Sven the Silent

haha yeah I meant to mention it and I forgot. Thank you! I just editted it in.

[Sven the Silent]

@Penguin Go ahead and put her in the character tab. :)