Survival is a four letter word. Hope.
(Thanks to
@Xalo for helping with the intro/lore.)
It all started in the country. A rural Entomology Lab, St. Mary’s Memorial Laboratory, was working with local hematologists that were investigating a rise in the transfer of diseases from leeches. These leeches had been monitored, and had found to be storing previous blood sources for years longer than anticipated. To test the longevity and bodily cleansing of these illnesses, the researchers attempted introducing disease after disease.
The testing went on for weeks without a hitch, and great progress was being made. That was, until an ill matter amalgamated to cause a minor, and unforseen evolutionary mutation within the leech. Their teeth began to protrude more from their bodies, their mating calls and screeches were audible, and they lunged. It was only a matter of time before disaster struck.
A medical intern that had been assigned to learn at the facility had volunteered to watch over the experiments overnight was caught off guard by their violent and aggressive nature. By dawn, the leeches had overrun his body and had spread across the lab. By midday, they had escaped the unprepared, non CDC certified lab and populated the local waters.
It wasn’t long before the local reservoir was contaminated, causing locals to find themselves suffering, perishing, and soon turning against the living by the hundreds - then thousands. Before three days had passed, the pandemic had spread nationally, then globally by week's end; there was nothing to prepare the world governments to handle such an aggressive and immediate threat with no direct source as to what or how it came to be. With most the world's population either dead, dying, or fighting for survival, you are left in one of the few and remaining safe bunkers left in the US. Though resources are dwindling, minds are lingering from the claustrophobic atmosphere, and you're not sure what will happen next with the instability of the other inhabits unpredictable.
Overview:
This is a mainly character driven roleplay. Your choices will have a direct impact on the storyline. Player characters can die if stupid choices are made. I will not hesitate to kill off a character if you give me a reason to. That being said, I will not go out of my way to do so. I am running this because I enjoy the freedom that this setting gives people to roleplay, and it allows for some awesome character development.
In this roleplay you will be deciding the fate of your character(s) and following their new life in the zombie apocalypse.
It is set in August 2018, beginning on the outskirts of Toronto, Canada. Given the area and time that we’re starting in, I expect people to cohere to the environment. Canada in August, you can expect temperatures in the range of 20 to 30 Celcius (70 to 85 ish Fahrenheit) mixed in with varying weather. I’ll be putting a weather report that can be RP’d to be heard over the emergency channel at the beginning of the occasional post, which is to be taken as the current weather for the majority of participants.
The first post for each character will be similar to a normal day in their lives, a few months before the initial outbreak. This serves two purposes. One, it allows for a decent introduction of the character itself, and two, it allows us to see the starting point of the character’s morality and values. After that we will skip to a week after the outbreak began. Characters will begin somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area, though where that is will be up to you. To have survived this long into the outbreak, you would have most likely found some sort of safehouse. Supplies will be starting to run thin at this point.
We Need You!
Due to a recent loss of activity by half of the participants, I am looking for more people to take part in the fun that is the end of the world. If you're interested, the main OOC page can be located
HERE. I look forward to seeing you and your characters in Lonely World!
