I'm thinking of joining. I'll have to look over the old stuff to see if I can swing it, but I think I want to have two characters at first. A mechanic guy for setting up stuff like electricity and traps, and an escaped psych patient who thinks the ability to commit wonton acts of destruction without consequences is the best thing ever. Or at least one of his personalities thinks that. The other's a British guy who's far too stuck up to survive in a zombie apocalypse. Or I can make him two characters.

Alright everyone, I've finally gotten the OOC up! Drop by ASAP and we'll get this story going.

TheUnknowable said
I'm thinking of joining. I'll have to look over the old stuff to see if I can swing it, but I think I want to have two characters at first. A mechanic guy for setting up stuff like electricity and traps, and an escaped psych patient who thinks the ability to commit wonton acts of destruction without consequences is the best thing ever. Or at least one of his personalities thinks that. The other's a British guy who's far too stuck up to survive in a zombie apocalypse. Or I can make him two characters.

Everyone loves a good mechanic; those are always handy to have around. The split-personality psych patient - though he sounds like it can be a brilliant idea - make sure he's done tastefully. We like us some character development and brutal, honest humanity. As much fun as it is to write complete destruction and death, don't let the character(s?) become a gimmick.

That being said, a snobby British guy who is too righteous for a zombie apocalypse? Now there's something that could make me laugh. Am I the only one who pictures a blood-stained, raggedy man acting like the Queen of England?

Well, technically, the guy was a POW that was tortured after a few day of it, he cracked and developed split personalities because of it.

One personality is his carefree, immature side, and the other his mature, stuck up side. They both got his military training, but the British guy thinks guns are "simply brutish" and prefers to let others fight for him if he can. Of course he's too snobbish to walk around in blood-soaked clothes, so expect him to want to change after every battle, shave every morning, and be generally "too good" to stoop to burial detail. The other guy figures this is his time to cut loose and have fun. Also, as the movie says, he wants to bug out and nuke the sight from orbit, but he's not so crazy that he'd knowingly kill allies. Neither remembers life before they split, except for the occasional dream or nightmare.

Over the course of the RP (if he lasts that long) the two will merge and he'll eventually become a normal guy.