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There's always room! Even if we get a lot of characters at the beginning (we're still pretty short, but I digress), I plan on having newcomers be introduced through the group's exploration.

1930's Zombie Apocalypse (Always accepting)

That's alright! Lurkers are always welcome, though there's always room for one more.

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Name: Jack “Mad Jack” Campbell

Age: 38

Appearance: Height: 5’10”, Weight: 175lbs. He has brown hair with peppered grey throughout. He received a glasgow smile during the war. ( A cut that curls from the corner of the lips to the upper or lower cheek, upper in this case. ) He has brown eyes, and a bent nose. Broken from a fight. Low cheekbones and a square jaw. He often has a a few weeks worth of beard growth. He has large bags under his eyes, and crow's feet.

Personality: Alone jack drowns his sorrows and tries forget the past. When outside he does his best to hold himself together. He puts on the facade of being cheerful and will go out of his way to help people. Though many see his drinking as a problem.

History: Jack volunteered at 18 to join the Great War, he served the entire war. Afterwards he came home broken and estranged. He would frequent bars, and often isolate himself from old friends and family. He held down a job at a steel mill, and then was a hunting guide during the hunting season. A friend who managed to stay close convinced him to travel to maine, that is where he was when the red plague hit. He survived on his own before settling down on the Tackett farmstead.

Speech Color: Maroon
Traits: Veteran +1, Sharpshooter +2, Hunter +2, Shell Shocked - 2, Addict (Alcohol ) -2, Smoker -1

@End Here

I'd like to see Jack's sheet beefed up a bit before he's accepted. Descriptions, details, et cetera. Check out the accepted characters tab for the usual length. Glad to see more veteran characters!
Also, this is only a small detail, but the RP starts at the beginning of the outbreak, so nobody's aware of it yet.

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@DeadBeatWalking One night, while Ellie was trying to find a place to stay (as she was homeless for most of the time and slept in the parks or under bridges), she encountered a few Polish kids and had to hide in a different part of town she had never been into before, so she was out of her element. She made the mistake of passing by a bar full of drunkard men and caught the attention of one. He cornered her, but he was so drunk he was lurching from side to side and almost toppled down a few times. He pinned her down and as she was twisting and turning to get away, she twisted her knee and since she couldn't efford medical treatment (not like any doctor would see to her) it never set right, causing her limp

@Irisity

Cool, add that to her sheet though. As for the homelessness thing, that's fine and all, though I assume she was doing a Mulan/Arya Stark thing and pretending to be a boy because, let's face it, realistically being a small 14 year old girl wouldn't help your chances of not being assaulted or murdered.

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Name: William "Bill" Pooley

Age: 37

Appearance: On his best days, Bill Pooley resembles a large, shaved bulldog. His Anglo-Saxon skin is in a permanently fluctuating state of sunburn, and as a result, many farmhands call him "Pink Bill", though few are foolish enough to say it to his face. Rather than hide his baldness, he shaves his head every morning with a razor and can usually be seen scratching at a cut or scab on his scalp. A lifetime of brawling has given him a flat face, with an unsightly meatiness to his features -- His nose has been broken many times, his ears are cauliflowered, his lips appear to constantly be swollen, and his forehead is a visibly protruding ledge. In short, Bill Pooley has won few beauty pageants.

Although not especially short or tall he has a squat, muscular physique, and a neck that resembles a fleshy tree trunk. His shoulders are sloping and wide-set, and every inch of his flamingo-tinted skin seems to stretch over a block of muscle. The most notable part of Bill's physique, aside from his robustness, are his nearly baseball-glove sized hands.

Bill owns one pair of clothes -- A pair of blue jeans, work boots, and a cream-colored workshirt that seems two sizes too small. In the winter, he wears a denim jacket and a flat cap.

Personality: Bill's greatest redeeming quality is that he is a hard worker -- there is little else you can say about him for the better. He is aggressive and bullheaded, and thoroughly enjoys starting fights. He is a bully by nature, and though there are few men he wouldn't pick a fight with, he especially enjoys picking fights he knows he'll win. He is both racist and sexist, though this is largely because he enjoys following schools of thought that allow him to define himself as "superior" rather than any actual prejudice.

Aside from his lust for violence, Bill has a penchant for drinking, which acts (surprisingly) as a method of pacifying him. When inebriated, Bill is generally too giggly to seek out violence, though his cruel sense of humor and impolite disposition are too deeply ingrained in his personality to cull with liquor.

History: Bill was not born into wealth, but craved it from a young age. Hailing from Erie, Pennsylvania, Bill's upbringing is not at all surprising considering his demeanor. As a boy he was a schoolyard bully, and as a young man he was a common street thug. Though he lacked the higher thinking for large crimes, Bill spent most of his youth starting brawls in bars, making most of his living pilfering through the pockets of men he had beaten unconscious. Eventually, Bill was arrested and imprisoned for two years on assault charges, though his violent streak granted him another six years for the guards and prisoners alike he had assaulted during his stay in prison.

After being released at 29, he became a drifter, hopping from town to town in search of either drinks or work. Eventually he settled in Eastport, finding that the life of a farmhand required all of the muscle he had, and none of the brain power he was without.

Speech Color: Pink.

Traits: Boxer +1, Prize-Fighter +4, Hot-Headed -3, Racist -3, Slow -1

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Glad to have you!

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@McHaggis D'oh! My bad. Anna's accepted.

@Irisity Details would help, I was wondering about the leg thing myself.

@Error Yes.

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@Irisity If you can explain how a 14 year old Ellie travelled around America without ever being in danger, she's accepted. After all, she's a small teenage girl travelling alone.

@Mr_Pink Looking good! All Ronnie needs is a history and he's accepted.

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<sub>The year is 1934. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president, Flash Gordon has recently been published, and Bran Flakes remain America's favorite breakfast cereal. The Great Depression has sent scores of the unemployed travelling across the country in search of work, filling factories and farms with all sorts of drifters, from former stockbrokers to former bootleggers.

In a small town in coastal Maine, a strain of rabies has mutated into a virus that robs men of their humanity, and turns them into mindless predators with a biological imperative to spread the infection and consume the flesh of the uninfected above all else. This virus is known as "The Red Plague", named for the distinctly red sclera of the infected caused by internal hemorrhaging that takes place during the initial infection.

Our story follows the farmhands of The Tackett Farmstead, and those they encounter.</sub>

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The Setting

Our story takes place in the fictional town of Eastport, Maine. Eastport is a quiet town with few tourist traps or frivolities; Aside from homes, the town has a general store, a bar, a one-room schoolhouse, a doctor's office, a seafood market, and a sheriff's department. It is surrounded on all sides by thick forests, with one paved road to the highway that takes travelers to Portland, which is 30 miles south. Beyond the forests, the town's eastern coast has a craggy gravel beach.

The Tackett Farmstead is about 5 miles north of Eastport, and is owned by, unsurprisingly, Farmer Tackett. The farmstead has three barns -- One is used for stables and storage, while the other two are used as segregated bunkhouses. The Colored Barn is an unpainted grey barn with a rusting roof and sun-bleached cow's skull hung over the barn doors, while The White Barn is red, with a wooden barnstar hung over the doors. Though Farmer Tackett insists on keeping the two separate, the two buildings are mostly called "The Grey Barn" or "The Red Barn", and farmhands of all races can usually be found in either one -- Thirty men live in The Grey Barn, while twenty live in The Red Barn.

The farmhouse is a three story colonial house, painted white with blue shingles and shutters, with a porch wrapping around the building. The Farmer lives here with his wife and daughter, as well as the farmhouse workers, ten women who live in a bunkhouse in the attic, who do the cooking and cleaning on the farm. To stop any "Unmarried Fraternizing", Farmer Tackett is known to fire the men he finds near the farmhouse worker's quarters.

The farm is 30 acres, surrounded on all sides by trees, though there is a buffer of waist-high grass between the farmland and the untamed brush, along with a stone fence wrapping around the property. There is a small pig barn with ten pigs, a goat barn with a single goat, and a chicken coop with roughly thirty chickens that mostly roam around the farmstead, coming back to roost in the night. There are two horses in the animal barn, named Blackie and Brownie, although they are rarely taken out.

Though the farm keeps animals, they are mostly consumed by The Tacketts or sold at county fairs -- Nearly all of the money made by the farm is through agriculture. The farm has a cornfield, as well as five gardens and a small cluster of beehives used for honey.

The Infected

Rhabdoviridae Hematemesis, colloquially known as "The Red Plague", is a highly mutated, hyperaggresive strain of rabies. The first cases being deer, the beginning of the outbreak started with reports of extremely aggressive stags charging at hunters. Originally assumed to be the actions of injured or starving deer, little was done in response by authorities. After about a month of inactivity, reports around Maine started coming in rapidly of riots and grisly murders, all centered around hunting communities.

The virus enters the circulatory system and is quick to manifest itself into the victim, causing symptoms within minutes and full infiltration within an hour. As the virus infiltrates the host, they experience a spasmodic effect. Shaking and or shuddering of the outer extremities in a rapid manner. Following that, seizures and frothing of the mouth will occur as symptoms progress. Copious amounts of infected blood is continually gibbered out of the due to internal hemorrhaging. The last stage is known as "turning", wherein a victim's eyes turn red shortly before suffering a stroke. After victims regain consciousness, they retain only a minimal amount of brain use, and have the same mental capacity as a fairly intelligent chimpanzee.

The Red Plague causes its hosts to permanently enter a primal state of murderous rage with a biological imperative to spread the infection or kill the uninfected and consume their flesh above all else. The infected are reduced to an animalistic state of permanent hostility and aggression, driving them to attack non-infected with no concern for their own safety and no moral inhibitions that could control their actions and behavior. The infected retain the ability to use primitive tools such as sticks and rocks, and can conceptualize simple plans if given enough time.

Adrenaline is constantly being produced and utilized by the infected body, as even days after the change, an infected specimen can perform display extraordinary feats of strength, agility, endurance (especially in pursuit of the uninfected), and ignore wounds such as stabbing, explosive amputation of limbs and even immolation.

While the infected will attempt to bite their victims, it is usually as a means of either infecting or killing them, often by biting into the main arteries in their neck. The infected do not consume each other, and can recognize (and will readily eat) any and all edible food from canned goods to wild animals. Since infected specimens are still living human beings, they can be killed using means that are fatal to uninfected, though they will ignore any wounds that are not immediately fatal such as decapitation or destruction of the brain.

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