OOC thread is here! [url]http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/79289-how-to-survive-when-the-power-goes-out/ooc[/url]
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[b]THE GREAT PURGE[/b]

Location: Earth, 2022

Unknown cosmic force wipes out 80% of Earth's population, leaving no bodies behind. People are just...gone.  Those who stayed are left in remains of once modern and technologically advanced civilization. [b]Electricity is off[/b], since all the wires and power stations have been fried by the cosmic wave.  The towns and the cities are left in the dark. Those remaining seemingly untouched soon began to realize that they are all about [b]the same age – 20 to 30 years.[/b]  They are scattered across the globe, and for some it takes days before they come across another survivor.  People being robbed of their former lives began to unite into small groups, soon recognized as [b]the Tribes[/b], just to maximize their chances of survival. The smartest ones soon inhabit the malls, where they have free access to all life's necessities – food, clothing, medicine... However, supplies are not unlimited. Fresh food that needs refrigerating goes bad first, and whatever's left cannot feed all of them forever.  People are getting desperate. Some decide to fight another tribe to win control of their food resources, others try to reconnect with their primal instincts and learn how to grow vegetables and hunt wild animals, and others try to understand what happened and figure out a way to reverse the Purge.

This RP will revolve around one  group of 4 – 6 people, who form a Tribe known as [b]the Mall Hounds[/b]. I will play a leader of this tribe. Apart from the obvious - trying to survive the new world - the RP will be also focused on the conflicts between the Tribe's members. So yeah, you can bring in romance, hatred, rivality, betrayal, envy...anything. But that shall be discussed later when making CSs.

Also, I'm thinking certain people should gain some ''supernatural'' powers, caused by the cosmic wave. But nothing too extreme. Perhaps enhanced vision or hearing, things like that. 

I've been brewing this idea for a while now, but never got a chance to play it. Anyway, I'd like to see if this sparks any interest in you.

What do you think? 

EDIT: I've already made my CS (yeah, that's how excited I am about this!), so go ahead and take a peek.

[hider=The Mall Hounds leader]

[u]Name:[/u] Dominick O'Conell

[u]Age:[/u] 30

[u]Gender:[/u] Male

[u]Appearance:[/u] [img] http://s17.postimg.org/kxy76fc3z/013_jonathan_rhys_meyers_theredlist.jpg[/img]

[u]Background:[/u] On the day of the Purge Dom was stuck in the jail cell of the local Police station, being charged with a car theft and an assault on the police officer. Of course, he thought he did nothing wrong. So, he stole someone's car, what's the big deal? The town was full of them, anyway. But while he was sitting on the ground of that stinky old cell, whistling a melody  of a song he couldn't remember the name of, the weirdest thing happened. The cell door that had an electronic lock on it suddenely opened, and the station was left in complete darkness. The power was off, along  with the emergency power system that's supposed to be working during a blackout. Dom didn't think about it twice, and took the opportunity of breaking out, only to find out that he was completely alone. No officers to be found, hell, no sign of anything brutal going on. Just silence. He bursted out on the streets, and faced what seemed to be a ghost town. No pedestrians, no signs of possible apocalypse... it all looked like everybody just disappeared, and he was the only one left. But why him? And where did all the people go? Was it all just a dream?

He decided to head south, boldly stole a police car (although he couldn't really steal anything if there was no one to steal from), and drove 100 miles to the nearest city, hoping its population of 300.000 people was still the same.  However, it was not. The once busy city was now another ghost town. Although, taking free gas and free food at all the gas stations was pretty fun, the feeling of isolation soon began to creep in. He wasn't stupid. And as a street thug and common criminal, he knew that power was always in the numbers. Sure he was more of a lone wolf, when it came to socializing, but being alone in the crowd and being literally the only person left on this world were two completely different things. However, as he continued to roam the empty city of New Orleans, he came across a few others, who seemed to survive whatever happened on the February 22th, 2022. His knowledge of living in the streets, stealing stuff, burglaring, picking the locks, and overall enduring the brutal sides of life soon proved to be exactly what a group of confused and terrified souls needed in order to survive the New World.

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