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Endtimes: Chronicles of the Survivors

This looks really neat :>
I can always add more if need be

Brynn

Name: Brynn Rita Sauburn

Appearance:
5'3 | 120 lbs
Brynn has cut her own hair about once a year for almost 8 years now, it's choppy, it's messy, but it works. It's just long enough to pull into a pony tail. Besides not like anyone else really has nicer hair. She's got grey eyes that look like the sky when it's overcast, and a great smile that doesn't appear much anymore.

Just like everyone else her clothes depend on what she's doing. She's got some surgical gloves but those she usually saves for the more hardcore surgeries. She also has a white-ish lab-coat but it's age shows and it's starting to get pretty old. Other than that it's T-shirts, jeans and boots or whatever else is readily available. She's not too picky.

Age: twenty-eight

Origins: St.louis/ Pennsylvania /New york

Personality:
She's trying to be serious, you can hear it in her voice. The way it hits higher notes when the subject turns to dark humor, or the way she breaths a sigh when the injured return from outside. She acts like its the end of the world, like it's live or die with every step made, and that there is one way to make it out of this mess and it's a thin wire to walk.

She wants as many people to stay alive with her, it's why she became a doctor in the first place, she just doesn't want to let anyone down. She wants everyone to be as safe as possible.

Backstory:
It was like recalling a detail from the month before, "What was she wearing when she went missing?" "Do you remember what color his hair was?" Somethings are easy to remember, and somethings are not. It was easy to remember the little black chair in the corner of the apartment in St.louis, and easy to remember all the schools she went to. Names however, faces too, were never her strong suit.

Brynn could tell anyone who'd listen that she grew up in the st.louis suburbs and that her parents were divorced as so many were, it didn't even faze her now that they might be gone. But all that was before 2010, before she even finished high school.

Changing schools the summer before senior year sucked. But her mom was moving to Pennsylvania and she could either come or stay with her dad and five half brothers, and that wasn't about to happen. Of course, now it's something to regret. He'd always been and end of the world fanatic, so he was fine, but all her friends, she just didn't know. Lela was gone, that was the worst of it.

Everyone came back though, just as Brynn got into College. It almost seemed like two miracles at once. The brain-deadness was terrible and all, but at least they weren't entirely dead. Being an aspiring doctor she knew it could be worse. Of course, things didn't exactly get better. The 'reborn' started acting rabid, and then everyone else followed suit.
Being more of a doctor than other people made not getting killed easier. Bigger groups need doctors more and protect them. This is how she got through the darker years before GNYC really picked up. Inside there was even better, things were almost normal for once.

Profession: GNYC Doctor

Equipment:
Backpack- a little worn but still holds stuff
First aid kit- just what you would expect, gauze, needle and thread, hydrogen peroxide, antibacterial ointment, ect.
Sunblock- just 'cause there's a bigger threat doesn't mean the sun goes away.
Water bottle- for water

Hand-ax- a short ax, only about three feet long. It's more useful against doors than it is the reborn, but it can be used to break bones or chop off limbs if need be. It's main purpose is getting into locked or blocked areas.

Likes:
-Organization
-things being clearly labeled
-safety and safety equipment
-horror and crime films and shows
-logic games like "Clue" and "Guess who?"

Dislikes:
-the opposite of the things in the 'likes' list (aside from the bottom two)
-things without explanations
-the sound of breaking bones
-pessimists

Other:
-she can solve Rubik's cubes
-she liked the idea of being a doctor not so much the practice but by the time she found out it was a little to late to change her mind
-She doesn't know if her dad, mom, step mom, half-brothers, or old friends are okay or not
-she didn't have many friends after she moved to Pennsylvania or in college

@Classpet

Good character, she is accepted. You can move her over to the CS Tab.

Endtimes: Chronicles of the Survivors

---Accepted Characters---

Railmen:

Edward "Braveheart" Reikov- Active

Blackwatch:

Civilians/Outsiders:

Lucas Westchester- Active
Brynn Rita Sauburn- Active
Samantha "Sam" Whittaker- Active
Bartholomew Jacob Solomons- Active
Hava Reis- Active
Sonya Caroline Wallace- Active
Nikolai Petronov- Active

Endtimes: Chronicles of the Survivors

Appearance: He often wears his smithing clothes. Otherwise, he wears simple high-capacity clothing, stuff with lots of pockets. He is rather strong, but not in the sense that he deliberately builds muscle, rather that he simply works them.

Name: Kiril Stanlislav

Age:(1000! You said no max ;3 ) 35

Origins:Born in the Czech republic, grew up in Georgia. Came to NYC after the violence began, thinking himself capable of solving the world's problems.

Personality:He values community and "old-world" ideals, driving him to take up a mission to restore them. That said, he is not naive, he's had more than a few encounters with unsavory types and he's come out alive every time, and it's hardened him. He's untrusting, but kind.

Likes:Community, Friendship.

Dislikes:Disorder, the Reborn.

Backstory: A fisherman in Georgia, he lived a simple life. When the apocalypse struck, he lost track of his family and was forced to flee on his ship. He spent two years on that boat, floating in a dead-end ocean, surviving. He eventually shipwrecked, and survived on his own in the woods for awhile, travelling, staying away from large cities and population centers. Eventually, he found himself another ship. Hoping for safety across the sea, he set course for the Western world.

As he would soon know, his hopes were futile, and there was no safety to be found. Low on fuel, he decided to move inland to hopefully survive there. This brought him to GYNC, and he offered up his hard-earned skills for shelter inside.

Profession:Smithy

Equipment/weaponry: A sword, and rifle that he made. He also carries a revolver that he did not make.

Other: (Anything extra about your character which doesn’t fall in the other categories.)

@darkandstar

Alright... first off, I'm gonna have to say that I would've preferred if you submit your sheet here in the OOC rather than the CS. For two, the quality in this sheet is lacking and it has some errors in its logic. If he was a fisherman, where did he learn how to smith? Between travelling the seas for years and getting to the GNYC, they would've had to learn from somebody with previous experience and even becoming a Smith good enough to forge a proper sword would've taken many, many years of work. Not to mention somehow knowing how to make a gun, something difficult to do even in the past without extensive training. Personality is severally lacking and appearance similarly so. All in all, I can't accept this sheet unless it goes through heavy reforms to meet standards.

Endtimes: Chronicles of the Survivors

Still not writing yet but question has arisen. Do I have to be a resident of this colony or can I be a traveler type person?

@Marshall

You can be a traveler if you wish, but you'll face prejudice and paranoia from everyone in the GNYC and will receive next to nothing in the way of rations.

Endtimes: Chronicles of the Survivors

Interested but I have a couple questions (interested regardless of answer :) )

Can characters be part of the blackwatch? Can they be part of the railmen? Or do they have to be 'lander' civilians?

Is this set in 2016? I.e. like an alternative timeline starting from 2006 to now?

Do the train lines still work? I like the idea of different underground settlements doing trade and making contact by rail, and it would make some extra roles availabke to railmen characters.

Hopefully I'll have a CS up by the morning :)

@hayley

1st question: Yes, you can be a part of Blackwatch or Railmen. Positions are limited there though as they receive the best equipment and supplies, though the Railmen get a few less in the ways of rations than Blackwatch.

2nd question: The timeline starts in 2010 so it is currently 2020. Actual Date: March 1st, 2020

3rd question: Rail lines still work but currently it is unknown by the GNYC whether or not there are any in the area. On top of that, several subway lines in the area of have been collapsed to protect the area and the tunnels are left without powered as they are not priority for electricity.

@Superman

Go ahead, we still got room.

Unorthodox Zombies? Check. Apocalyptic? Check.

@Aro@Marshall@sakurasan@Samara@souleaterfan320@DesperatePerson

The OOC is up! OOC

I could definitely be interested in giving this a shot, although I do have one question: wouldn't it work to remove and/or disable the limbs of the reborn?
I mean, no matter what kind of mystic mojo is keeping you going, it seems like it'd be pretty tough to get anything done with shattered arms and legs, or after getting blown to pieces with a mortar shell!

@Dethran

To answer, yes you could. Yet, the limb will partially ambulate if touched and getting the items to blow up a lot of Reborn in a public area would be difficult.

To all of you, it has been 10 years since the first Reborn began to appear and 9 years, 8 months since they became violent. Keep in mind when creating characters.

Endtimes: Chronicles of the Survivors

To think it all began years ago, the gradual decline that would bring the once bustling cities of the world to a halt. The governments of man failing to protect them from something which couldn’t be stopped, their mindless movement unceasing even when the conventional means were used. It all started with murders, disappearances, and kidnappings. At first, nobody thought much about it. The families of those who were found dead or went missing mourned but everybody thought “Hey, it won’t happen to me. They were just unlucky.” How wrong their thoughts were, the mindless act of pushing away something which soon became so unbearing that nobody knew how to act. So unbearing that the pillars which supported them collapsed like a regular man trying to be Atlas.

They came one day, the shambling masses of the missing and kidnapped. They were reported found and rescued by all those who had seen them, who had recognized their faces from the milk cartons and daily news reporting on them. The media swarmed, they were taken away by their crying families and given a home. They smelled of rot though, unbearably so that those who lived with them often had to bathe them everyday to remove the smell. They were just as they had been the moment they were taken or disappeared, but they were mindless and unresponsive. They didn’t eat, didn’t sleep, simply sat and went wherever they were led. Then, one of them killed somebody. It wasn’t like the movies, the ones where they mindlessly attacked the man and ripped them to shreds to consume the flesh. No, it was something more.

The Reborn, as some had taken to calling them, cared not about eating their target but used their teeth and bare hands as they were the most immediate weapons. They had no motive for who they killed, simply striking with fury and mindless abandon. Those who had been left out on the streets became a danger to civilians, attacking whenever. One couldn’t go anywhere on foot or otherwise without worrying about being attacked. The Cops, the National Guard, they tried to stop them but a bullet through the brain wouldn’t end it nor removing the head from the body. They kept going, ambulating wildly and attacking whatever they touched. Burning the bodies was the only way but the stench… the look of pain and inhuman screaming brought that idea to a halt quickly. People started to riot, break down mentally in public and plead with their governments for some kind of safety only to be met with half-hearted and half-assed attempts.

Looting, murder, kidnapping, it all came crashing down as people stopped caring about being civil and did as they wished. Humanity showed its true colors finally and we realized that, if we were to survive, it was either alone or together. Those who had a common goal banded together, protecting each other from the danger of the Reborn and outsiders. Paranoia brought mass killings as those who pleaded with the less civil of groups were often killed out of fear. More Reborn came, crawling out of their graves and rising from those who were murdered in the months following their arrival. People got use to the sight of them and the fear of them died off, so long as one was safe behind the walls of many upstart towns that is. The Outside is death, the Inside is life. Within, it is as if everything were normal. But even being normal comes at a cost, especially in a world like this one.

The Greater New York Colony

The Greater New York Colony, or the GNYC, is the largest and most influential of the colonies that are not part of the New American States. Having made a deal with the NAS, the GNYC is provided with power from the nuclear power plant further up north and runs relatively normal inside. With walls established around almost of all of Manhattan, the GNYC holds a population of over three million people and a security force similar to that of S.W.A.T in numbers of ten thousand. GNYC has a strict curfew for any and all people not working on the walls or guarding, one which starts at 8pm and doesn’t end till 6am. Ships come into port from outside the GNYC to deliver food products, often in trade for medical supplies or care of those injured. A recent decision by the mayor of the GNYC has made Central Park a farm land for fresh food. Rumors are circulating that more than thus injured men and women are being brought in by boat, some say Reborn are being researched as well

Reborn

The Reborn? They are like any normal person, on the surface at least. They look no difference from a distance, almost seem completely normal when someone sees them wandering the streets. But at a closer look, one can see that they are mindless and move listlessly towards some… destination that nobody knows of. They don’t breathe and don’t speak, just… walk. Unlike the zombies common media would’ve wanted one to believe they were, Reborn don’t eat flesh but simply rend it and tear away the flesh. They seemingly attack at random and will not stop until whatever they attack is dead. Removing the head causes them to hobble around at random, never knowing where they are going and only knowing what is around them by touch. Removing limbs is effective but the limbs will still partially ambulate on their own whenever touched. The best way to avoid a Reborn? Just… slowly walk around them and stay away, sleep with one eye open.

The Blackwatch

Ah the Blackwatch, the elite of the elite guards for the GNYC. Having been around since the beginning of the colony several years back, the Blackwatch is the most well known military force in the area, second only to the Railmen who guard the subway. Whenever there is an internal issue, the Blackwatch is the first to answer. In times of need, they also guard the walls and manage the primary security force of the Colony. Using military vehicles, the Blackwatch can get near anywhere in the city in less than thirty minutes.

The original members that formed Blackwatch were former military personnel, taking it upon themselves to protect the fledgling settlements. Originally just a roving band of military personnel that would travel to each settlement as they picked up more and more members and supplies as they continued to stay on the move until the first walls were being constructed. The group then divided it's members and sent them each of the settlements to protect them while the construction took place. While there they maintained a perimeter around each settlement defending them from the Reborn, and once the walls were complete they moved within each settlement setting up a base of operations to begin training more members of Blackwatch to patrol the walls.

This went on for much the early years until the Blackwatch began to take it upon themselves to ration out supplies and take a more active role within each settlement as the governing body. With the rationing of supplies, granting Blackwatch members a greater share than most others, several riots were incited, but with the superior equipment and supplies that Blackwatch had been amassing for themselves the riots were put down quickly and harshly. While the number of those killed in the riots was less than 50, the number of wounded was substantially higher as the Blackwatch, wishing to maintain some semblance of order, opted to break bones than outright kill the civilians.

The aftermath ensured that the Blackwatch maintained order in the settlements, although a negative stigma was gained by the group. This lead to many of it's members wearing masks to hide themselves from the public's eyes to ease their life when not on duty.

Within the last few years the iron grip that Blackwatch had maintained on the settlements has lessened, allowing for civilians to carry weapons on them at all times within the settlements, but they are provided with limited ammunition to compensate for this.

While the members of the Blackwatch still swell, mostly for the better equipment and extra rations provided to it's members, the higher ranking individuals of Blackwatch deemed it necessary to create another division with Blackwatch itself due to the animosity that many civilian's feel towards the group. Using trusted members of the populace they would be trained, armed and provided for given that they become the Blackwatch's secret police force to keep order with the settlements, and if necessary take up arms. The secret group of Blackwatch are often heard in rumors among the populace, but without any proof to their existence they remain simply that, a rumor. Only a select few members of Blackwatch know the true identities of these members to protect their cover among the civilians. -Created by @Aro

The Railmen

The Railmen, the original people to have delved into the NYC subway when the Reborn first appeared, the conspiracy theorists and homeless who were worried for their safety. As time went on, many of these stations became their own little city-states but had banded together for the most part as they knew that a single station could not last long on its own. And as such, the NYC underground had began to unify and became known as "Railmen"; those who lived in sewers also are called Railmen as the term Sewermen is actually considered offensive the collective underground population.

However, the Reborn were relentless, their attacks constantly and deadly. In their desperation, the governing body of the Railmen, the Underground Union Council (aka UUC or U2C), decided to destroy the lines and tunnels of the worse affected lines. As such, the Green and Yellow lines had been destroyed which seems to have successfully stemmed the undead tide for now. The Purple line was also planned to be destroyed, but reports suggest that there is something... otherworldly that unnerves anyone who goes near it beyond the Reborn that lurk there and as such it has simply been quarantined with a specialized force tasked to patrolling and protecting that line.

Since then, the UUC has consolidated its forces and population around the Blue and Red line with Orange being the "capital" line. Recolonization efforts have begun with the Yellow line although regular attacks have proven troublesome at such efforts. The largest change was the official establishment of the Rail Guard, an order of soldiers and trained militia who are given the task of acting as the military arm of the UUC and protecting the lines and its Railmen from the reborn.

They have also made contact with the surface once more, unifying as with the "Landers" in the face of such overwhelming threats. However, its not an easy alliance as the armed forces of both factions distrust each other. The Lander's Blackwatch seeing the Rail Guard as armed rabble who are undisciplined and glorified militia while the Rail Guard view the Blackwatch as a bunch of snobbish assholes whose lack of skill is covered up by fancy equipment.

In the Rail Guard's defense, they do see much more action in much more dangerous cramped areas with much more limited supplies and equipment and their need to be very flexible and independent of any sort of support means they do not take kindly to strict chains of command.

There are those who stand out amongst the Rail Guard who are known as Sentinels; the few who dare take up the assignments relating the Purple Line, otherwise known as the Mythic or the Ghost Line. Such are often veterans or distinguished Rail Guards who go into the Ghost Line as men and come out as legends. They seldom share what they see in the line or what they hear, but whatever lurks in the lost stations has hardened them more than any amount of training can. It should be little surprise that to Railmen, the color purple denotes danger or eliteness as Sentinels are known to paint parts of their armor purple as a sign they've survived incursions into the Purple Line.

It's said that only the brave or foolish go into the purple line and that the smart or the cowardly stay out.

-Credit for Creation goes to @ClocktowerEchos

Character Sheet

Appearance: (and a brief description!)

Name:

Age:(16 minimum, no max)

Origins: (Where did they originally come from, doesn’t have to be in New York?)

Personality:

Likes:

Dislikes:

Backstory:(What did they do before the apocalypse? Were they one of the people whose family member disappeared and came back? At least 1 paragraph and a half.)

Profession: (What do they do in the GYNC?)

Equipment/weaponry: (This can be anything, all citizens are allowed to carry weapons of their own wherever they go but have restricted ammo rations.)

Other: (Anything extra about your character which doesn’t fall in the other categories.)

Rules

-GM decisions are final but, if your argument against it is valid, a change in decision will be made.
-Keep your actions and items logical, this is an apocalypse and in a government style settlement where rations are controlled.
-You can be however old or young you want, but remember that it has been ten years since the Reborn first appeared and younger characters will be less knowledgeable of things from before the apocalypse.
-If you are gonna be absent for a prolonged period of time, just message me.

Pokemon - Epic Journey!

@Muffinator

Maria would be getting through Grimm crossing, or at least trying to, without being freaked out by all the ghost pokemon in the area. Also added the theme song.

Do you create attractive characters?

I wouldn't say I do it on purpose, as far I know I have never gone out of my way to specifically make an attractive character. But, my process is slightly weird. Despite being male, the majority of my characters at this point are female and I always start my sheets with two things; a name and a picture. I take a picture and write my character based on that. The personality, background, and everything else all come down to what inspiration the picture has given me. While I never focus on making an attractive character, it happens sometimes and I realize that I like the description I had written for the character to explain what the pictures don't.

To clarify though, I stay away from anime pictures and real people unless the setting requires a real person. Both ruin my feel for a character when I'm writing them as anime pictures are far too childish looking most of the time and a real person leaves little to the mind to describe. But, I also can end up creating bland characters. Like one in a dark fantasy RP I was in which was described as bland with brown hair, brown eyes, and a homely complexion. She isn't what one would classify as overly attractive and it made sense since she was a member of a band of warriors where death was likely to happen.

Pokemon - Epic Journey!

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Name: Maria Valentine
Age: 17
Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA_bNiYlBrg

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Background: Maria Valentine, only daughter of Helen and Marcus Valentine, was born and raised in Arcadia by her scientist parents. Her parents, spending most of their time at their lab within the city, left Maria to be raised by her close, albeit eccentric, uncle. Much of Maria’s young life was spent being doted on by her uncle, being bought the most recent of clothes and taken out of her classes for days out on the town. She was happy to be with the man who became more like her Father than Marcus could ever say he was. Yet, her uncle grew to be around less often as he became occupied with his job as a breeder

Upon turning thirteen, she was given a Horsea by her uncle as a sort of pet. Finding pokemon to be her passion, Maria set out to learn as much about them as possible from her uncle. Yet, despite having learned so much about pokemon, her uncle couldn’t answer the boundless questions and her parents showed no interest in toying with her desires. As such, Maria studied as much as she could until she was taken by her uncle to get her trainer’s license. Upon turned seventeen, Marian announced to parents and uncle that she’d be leaving to study the world’s pokemon.

Hometown: Arcadia Town
Current Location: Grimm Cemetary

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Bag:
10x Poke Ball
10x Dusk Ball
5x Max Potion
5x Full Heal
3x Full Restore

Pokemon:
Species: Horsea (♂)
Nickname: Horatio
Personality: Horatio is very bold, often going out of his way to make contact with others while Maria is trying to avoid them. Also doesn’t like to be in his pokeball.
Ability: Swift Swim
Extra: Has the move Water Pulse from breeding.

Species: Duskull (♂)
Nickname: Dusky
Personality: Dusky is a very shy pokemon, taking to avoiding most people and hiding behind Maria whenever meeting new people. Yet, he also dislikes to be held in his ball and prefers to stay outside despite being shy.
Ability: Levitate
Extra: Can be placed in his ball with some goading from Maria.

Trainer Perks: