Welcome to ZekeTown- A Small Scale 'Nation' RP

[Lady Selune]

"Eight years ago, we lost this city to the horde. We fought like we were men and women possessed, but we were forced out of our homes. Now? Now we take it back from them."

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Welcome to Zeketown. The idea behind this RP is, instead of taking over a country, we instead take control of bands of survivors, no larger than 40 people maximum to start with, and try to reclaim a city from the living dead, clashing with each other and building up multiple sanctuaries. The smaller scale would allow for more characters and more clashes, more individuals and more bonded groups, making this more of a cross between a normal group and a nation RP.

The City

Dachia is a large, western city that, pre-zeke, had a population of around 9 million people. A single large river runs through the middle of it, and around the mouth of the river are huge amounts of abandoned docks and warehouses. The city is surrounded by farmland, although the quality of land is poor, and post-apocalypse, few major crops are likely to grow well there, apart from perhaps potatoes.

Due to the size of the city, there are still many small isolated communities holding out against the horde. If shown sufficient leadership, some might join, but a number of them are powerful in their own right, and will likely oppose any attempts at communications. Dachia has strict gun control regulations- whilst revolvers, shotguns and antique weaponry will much more prevalent than any other kind of equipment, melee and improvised weaponry will be the name of the game.

Zekes

Zekes, zombies, zeds, ghouls. Whatever you want to call them, they're here. Infection transmits through any contact with infected fluid or tissue. Because of this, when fighting infected, any open cuts must have a waterproof covering, and eye/mouth coverings are highly reccomended. Motorcycle masks and gasmasks are good choices. Zekes do not require sustenance, but are driven to infect all uninfected beings. They can be killed via overwhelming damage to the body, or destruction of the spinal cord/brain, and can be crippled much like humans.

Zekes have an unusual propensity to recover from injuries sustained whilst alive. Humans with spinal cord injuries have been reported to be able to walk normally after infection. Incubation period takes on average 20-24 hours, with the lowest recorded infection time being 12 seconds (in the case of an implanted, infected kidney,) and the longest being 49 hours. Currently, there is no recorded incident of anyone being immune, and no cure synthesised. There is a vaccine, but it is dubious, and runs the risk of infecting the person who takes the vaccine.

Anyone interested?

[Elgappa]

Interested!

[rush99999]

Count me in too.

[Ascendant]

How complicated are you interested in getting in terms of maps and supplies, any rolls involved, etc?

[Lady Selune]

How complicated are you interested in getting in terms of maps and supplies, any rolls involved, etc?

@Ascendant

I personally dislike too too much statistics and reliance on rolls, so this will be more narrative based. The map will be used to keep track of hordes, sanctuaries, 'white zones' that are completely ovverrun, and scavenge crews. Supplies wise, there will be two supplies, broken down into sub-supplies.

These supplies are luxuries and essentials.

Essentials: Food, water, ammo, weaponry, clothing/armour, construction supplies.
Luxuries: Anything not mentioned above.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Interés tentativo

[AspenIvan]

Interested.

[Wildman13]

Interested.

[BilboTheGreat]

Interested.

[Lady Selune]

Well, that's seven, so I'll start getting ready.

[ChickenTeriyaki]

Essentials: Food, water, ammo, weaponry, clothing/armour, construction supplies.
Luxuries: Anything not mentioned above.

@Lady Selune

Medicine.

[BCTheEntity]

@ChickenTeriyaki Technically, you don't need medicine to recover from a lot of infections. Just the ones that kill you.

[Darcs]

Uh, yes please.

[The Nexerus]

This has the potential of being interesting.

[Lady Selune]

I'm having serious trouble with a map, so any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[Darcs]

Well, it's a Western City, so the river's got to be the Colorado, right?

[Lady Selune]

Well, it's a Western City, so the river's got to be the Colorado, right?

@Darcs

I was thinking more coastal London, so the Thames.

[rush99999]

There is a vaccine, but it is dubious, and runs the risk of infecting the person who takes the vaccine.

@Lady Selune

Out of curiosity, how easy is it to get your hands on this vaccine?

[Darcs]

@Lady Selune Oh! That's actually really cool, the UK is rarely used as a setting for zambambos in the media I come across, so that's cool.

Though, Thames is kind of central England, right? Maybe Dachia could be a city on Avon or Wye? Near the Welsh border, to be more western.

[Lady Selune]

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Out of curiosity, how easy is it to get your hands on this vaccine?

@rush99999

It was synthesised pretty quickly after the outbreak, and before mass panic had settled in, but almost all supplies of it were burned through during the mass panic, and even finding individual needles of the stuff is uncommon. There's basically no large stocks, and there are different strains of infection that render it almost useless anyway. (More detail on strains when the main thread gets set up.

@Lady Selune Oh! That's actually really cool, the UK is rarely used as a setting for zambambos in the media I come across, so that's cool.

Though, Thames is kind of central England, right? Maybe Dachia could be a city on Avon or Wye? Near the Welsh border, to be more western.

@Darcs

That would be an idea, but to my knowledge, in England, there's not another city that comes close to 9 million outside of London itself. The Severn could be an idea, just because it's the largest river, and flows through Gloucester.