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Thinking about a conflict/zombie RP set between October 1917 and December 1919. Starting with the Kerensky Offensive and ending in the North Russian/Siberian Intervention of 1918-1920 by American forces to evacuate war-materials.

Incidentally, this RP will be assuming SCP-186 WILL NOT be contained.

For more information, please read SCP document 186-52: Letter from Pvt. Pyotr Avtukhov, participant in the Battle of Husiatyn Woods.

Will send an armored-train of reinforcements to the Husiatyn wood, Ukraine at once to stabilize the situation, contained within will be an armored unit of Legionnaires to help restore order.
~Long live the Republic.

Types of zombies:

Herbert West's Re-animates (American):
West got his true test on the fields of Flanders in 1915, and since then has slowly built-up a small army.

Frankenstein's Mosnters (Austrian) and Human Centipede / German Abominations:
-Previously dead, can be killed, but Frankenstein's original creations were usually taking the literal 'best bits' of soldiers
-The German 'abominations' on the other hand, were often creations from still living, or unkillable test-subjects in order to supplement their existing abilities. Multi-armed specimens were found not to have the bone-structure to make heavy-lifting feasible, however many examples have been pressed into use as 'field medics' for German forces in order to speed-up this labor-intensive process of grafting limbs back together. The monsters are still fielded as heavy-weapons specialists.

Medium Joseph Crowley's Substutiary Locomotion (British):
These forces were offered as an armored platoon of unmanned tanks (one Medium Mk VII-F, and four Renault FT), commanded by a group of officers for tactical advisement and occultist medium "J. Crowley". At their request, the Russian Imperial War Museum allowed this unit access to all the old uniforms of Crossacks and other ranks loyal to Russia.

Crowley then began training several other units locally and allwed each to have a single command-tank.

Later in the conflict, many of these members were no longer fit for command, and were summarily shot for cowardice. Crowley now commands an unmanned supply-convoy as a conscientious-objector.

Dr. Jean Durand's "Prussian Blue" (French):

Rasputin's Demonic Possession (Russian):
Not as effective in combat as other forces, but often used as a last resort to coerce Cossacks to obey orders.
-Thankfully, the death of Rasputin has curtailed the use of this particular technique.

Needless to say, for many of these, shooting them in the head won't do shit.
*And for some reason, the Soviets thought they knew quite a bit on reviving the dead.

And none of that rubbish of "But we don't want to fight!"

Now I order you, BACK TO THE TRENCH!


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A FEW GOOD CO-GMS

Players will be allowed to RP as any nationality with any loadout within reasonable justification of existing TO&Es and concepts of the era, and are expected to be willing to RP their gear literally going through hell to the point of failure (including those old-timey uniforms), and then being forced to fight-on with broken weapons against a foe that cannot die.
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[Insert general statement of interest here.]
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"Oh this sounds rather amusi-"

>SCP

Nope.

Can this be done without any of that SCP stuff? It lost it's funny a good while ago.
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"Oh this sounds rather amusi-"

>SCP

Nope.

Can this be done without any of that SCP stuff? It lost it's funny a good while ago.

Well, "SCP-186" isn't so much an organism as a location where some pretty nasty fighting went down in real life, and the only real lore I borrowed was transcript SCP-186-56 as follows:



Bold emphasis mine.

In theory, I could trace where someone found a pop-sci reference to such a gas (Russian sleep experiment?), and use that instead, but this was more readily-available.
-The rest I'm pretty sure I can throw out.

But in summary, both sides are making zombie-armies of their own definitions and things have started to get a bit out of hand, prompting an international intervention (which did happen IRL, but for different reasons).
-It's not all bad, though
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Well, "SCP-186" isn't so much an organism as a location where some pretty nasty fighting went down in real life, and the only real lore I borrowed was transcript SCP-186-56 as follows:



Including it feels like trying to make an unoriginal hodge-podge of everything. The concept is amusing, but it's sort of killed by the entire SCP genre of Creepy Pasta. It's up there with Ben Drowned and everything kids are all over as a joke in the horror or monster genres (well, zombies in general fit that bill, but there's a point of saturation too).

Frankly, I don't see the inclusion of anything from the SCP-verse as essential or really needed. Whatever transpired or not. And trying to include that in the plot ignores a very significant happening at this time. It doesn't even tie together everything that makes this period its own period. At least to the general reader or writer. The First World War is the 1910's. Chemical weapons is this era. Spanish Influenza - the great model of modern pandemic fears - is this era. Mass death, social upheaval, the spawn of another generation of European national and social politics is rooted in this era.

SCP is not. It's an abortion that even /x/ doesn't care about anymore.

Now if you're taking suggestions at this early stage then I may consider hanging about if SCP is tossed out and the existing conditions of the period are used to make a unique setting for zombie survival. Atop the background of conflict scouring Europe physically and socially is the Spanish Influenza. But there's a sci-fi turn that also introduces a zombie virus or mechanics.

No need to explore it, that'll just weigh it down. Give it a lampshade. So now we got a world of global conflict on multiple fronts with people dying in the trenches by the scores from artillery fire (the #1 cause to war-time casualties among soldiers for the First World War), an influenza outbreak, and now either the dead coming back to life by some means or scores of otherwise healthy citizens becoming hostile and irrational.

The zombie genre is a versatile thing and experimentation in crazy sorts of mayhem. SCP just does not fit. You have all the ingredients to make this an interesting ride with the setting. You do not need to add SCP.
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I see, you're probably also somewhat familiar with how the French Ergot/LSD outbreak in 1951 somewhat inspired Romero's film "The Crazies".

Tell you what. I'll toss the SCP-mention in favor of a greater emphasis on the historical and (limited) literary mash-up, in combination with the greater Spanish-flu nearly wiping out a quarter of the human population due to the war hindering efforts of containment and vaccination. But it will fall on you to ensure the idea can still stand.

I'm also going to suggest that all players at least start-off as alive, and part of the containment/evacuation-efforts.
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So, wait, players can become undead?
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Very undead.

Keep in mind, it at the very least implies a fatal injury, and continuing for eternity with that pain as people shoot at you for fear of their lives.

A soldier can, in some instances, blow your head off... you'd still feel it. Forever.

Or, you could become a zombie-head on a stick.
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Man, that sounds really shitty.
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Which brings us to why the zombies want to kill us.

And why, even when you die, you DO NOT want to leave them anything of yourself they could use.

Save the last bullet for yourself. It won't stop them from re-animating you, but it will slow them down, and hopefully you'll be too lobotomized to care.
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So there is a definite chance of dying in this RP, and by that I mean losing your character and having to either make a new one or just say "fuck it"?
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Well, to be nice I'm probably going to give everyone a squad, or the remnants of one.

Also, take this:

*hands TMA a Pederson-device for his Obrez-Mosin, making it the rarest Real-life Mosin in world, last seen somewhere in Oklahoma.*
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Woah. Fancy.
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Still interested, just FYI.
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So that makes for two, maybe three still in this.

This is why it's a good idea to let an int-check ferment.

Separates the people who like the idea and those who were just passing through like cream from buttermilk for a wicked white-Russian vodka.

BTW, Welcome to Dubai, @TheMadAsshatter. Enjoy your eternal stay.
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This int-check needs more dakka, us two can't hold the line forever, comrade!
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