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Awesome! And yeah, some ideas are inspired by state of decay. I think I'll be a cop, myself.
Alright, I'll be waiting for that.
I want to go for something a bit more fallout-like and I am legend-like.
My plot would take place in the year 2200, 150 years after the initial outbreak, caused by nano-technology. The collapse of society was a very slow process. Some cities fell within just a few years of the initial outbreak. Many groups of people living in the earliest of destroyed places now live in small communities similar to old, hunter-gatherer tribes. Even after most of the army was wiped out, and most of the federal and state government leaders went into hiding, some individual cities tried to do their best to hold together. However, even those have now fallen.
As for the world, it would have the look and feel of I am Legend, but would have approximately fallout-level technology. Sentient robotics, genetic engineering, powered armor, and energy weapons are now a very real thing. Energy weapons, bows, and firearms are all widely in use. Energy weapons are mostly used by scientists and private security guards, bows are mostly used by tribal communities, and guns are mostly in use by ex-police and ex-criminals.
The zombies come in multiple forms (some scarier than others). They have superb regenerative properties, but are slowly weakened by sunlight. They don't need to eat, but they do need to consume blood. There are zombie cannibals, but it's very rare. It requires blood contact in order to catch the disease. Consuming zombified flesh doesn't spread the disease (it is still cannibalism, if the zombie was previously human). There are in fact, animals that have made a habit on preying on the undead...though zombies are not easy prey.
Most zombies can be 'killed' by mostly anything that would kill a human, but the problem is that they can still regenerate. For example, if you smother a zombie to death, it will collapse on the ground and stop moving for a short time...and then it will reanimate seconds later. Injuries like shooting it in the chest will take longer for it to regenerate. In order to permanently kill a zombie, you have to destroy a certain part of its brain.
Animals that contract the nanite-plague will die, and occasionally reanimate, though reanimation isn't as common as it is in humans. Likewise, young children don't reanimate (however, they die of the disease very rapidly). Reanimation is for kids 13 and up!
Animals have overrun the cities, including clones of extinct animals created for research.
Our story revolves around a single group of survivors inside a recently-fallen city (Icarus City) who decide to share a hide-out and form a small community, using their various skills to try and stay totally safe from the zombies that want to gobble them up. It would focus on things like gathering resources, hunting animals, fighting off bandits, reinforcing our hideout, and of course, fending off the hordes at night.
A thing that I want this RP to emphasize is division of labor, where people have different jobs in maintaining our not-deadness. For example, a hunter might have a bow and try to keep us fed, where as an builder might have a hammer and try to make sure our fortifications are good, or a cop who carries a handgun and tries to keep us protected from bandits and such.
Some ideas for jobs, hobbies, pasts, ect, are written below. We can have a few characters with the same job (maybe they knew each other before the fall?), however, I think the story would work better with "rag-tag bunch of misfits" than "Sports team" or "Bunch of doctors" or "Police squad"
Also, these are just suggestions. If you have any ideas of your own or want to modify them, feel free.
0. Job = Skills = Equipment
1. Athlete = Heavy Lifting, Close Range Combat Speciality = Sports Gear, Fisticuffs
2. Medic = Healing People, Finding a Cure = Medical Equipment (Medi-Gun?), Scalpels
3. Criminal/Burglar = Breaking and Entering (Scavenging?) = Switchblades, Firearms, Crowbars, ect.
4. Construction Worker/Mechanic/Hardware guy = Building, fixing, and deploying nice things = Construction tools, Traps
5. Police = Security = Firearms, Clubs, Energy Weapons
6. Scientist = Getting electronics to work/hacking = Energy Weapons, Hack Tools, Combat Drones
7. Child = Getting into small places, are less of a target for raiders (even they have standards), tend to get better deals when trading with people = 'toy' weapons that aren't very useful
8. Logger = Logging = Axes and such
9. Farmer = Growing Food = Farming Equipment
10. Hunter = Finding Food = Bow, Cool pets
11. Taxi Driver/Trucker/Race Car driver/whatever = Driving, of course = Cool vehicle
12. Collector = Finding good things = Medieval weapons and such
13. White Collar Worker = Getting great deals on trades = Office supplies, Briefcase
14. Prospector/Miner = Destroying unwanted (read: Enemy owned) barricades and structures = Mining equipment, explosives, molotovs
15. Fire Fighter = Putting out fires, actually being competent at saving people, finding survivors = Fire extinguisher, Water spraying devices, Axes
Would this interest anyone?
My plot would take place in the year 2200, 150 years after the initial outbreak, caused by nano-technology. The collapse of society was a very slow process. Some cities fell within just a few years of the initial outbreak. Many groups of people living in the earliest of destroyed places now live in small communities similar to old, hunter-gatherer tribes. Even after most of the army was wiped out, and most of the federal and state government leaders went into hiding, some individual cities tried to do their best to hold together. However, even those have now fallen.
As for the world, it would have the look and feel of I am Legend, but would have approximately fallout-level technology. Sentient robotics, genetic engineering, powered armor, and energy weapons are now a very real thing. Energy weapons, bows, and firearms are all widely in use. Energy weapons are mostly used by scientists and private security guards, bows are mostly used by tribal communities, and guns are mostly in use by ex-police and ex-criminals.
The zombies come in multiple forms (some scarier than others). They have superb regenerative properties, but are slowly weakened by sunlight. They don't need to eat, but they do need to consume blood. There are zombie cannibals, but it's very rare. It requires blood contact in order to catch the disease. Consuming zombified flesh doesn't spread the disease (it is still cannibalism, if the zombie was previously human). There are in fact, animals that have made a habit on preying on the undead...though zombies are not easy prey.
Most zombies can be 'killed' by mostly anything that would kill a human, but the problem is that they can still regenerate. For example, if you smother a zombie to death, it will collapse on the ground and stop moving for a short time...and then it will reanimate seconds later. Injuries like shooting it in the chest will take longer for it to regenerate. In order to permanently kill a zombie, you have to destroy a certain part of its brain.
Animals that contract the nanite-plague will die, and occasionally reanimate, though reanimation isn't as common as it is in humans. Likewise, young children don't reanimate (however, they die of the disease very rapidly). Reanimation is for kids 13 and up!
Animals have overrun the cities, including clones of extinct animals created for research.
Our story revolves around a single group of survivors inside a recently-fallen city (Icarus City) who decide to share a hide-out and form a small community, using their various skills to try and stay totally safe from the zombies that want to gobble them up. It would focus on things like gathering resources, hunting animals, fighting off bandits, reinforcing our hideout, and of course, fending off the hordes at night.
A thing that I want this RP to emphasize is division of labor, where people have different jobs in maintaining our not-deadness. For example, a hunter might have a bow and try to keep us fed, where as an builder might have a hammer and try to make sure our fortifications are good, or a cop who carries a handgun and tries to keep us protected from bandits and such.
Some ideas for jobs, hobbies, pasts, ect, are written below. We can have a few characters with the same job (maybe they knew each other before the fall?), however, I think the story would work better with "rag-tag bunch of misfits" than "Sports team" or "Bunch of doctors" or "Police squad"
Also, these are just suggestions. If you have any ideas of your own or want to modify them, feel free.
0. Job = Skills = Equipment
1. Athlete = Heavy Lifting, Close Range Combat Speciality = Sports Gear, Fisticuffs
2. Medic = Healing People, Finding a Cure = Medical Equipment (Medi-Gun?), Scalpels
3. Criminal/Burglar = Breaking and Entering (Scavenging?) = Switchblades, Firearms, Crowbars, ect.
4. Construction Worker/Mechanic/Hardware guy = Building, fixing, and deploying nice things = Construction tools, Traps
5. Police = Security = Firearms, Clubs, Energy Weapons
6. Scientist = Getting electronics to work/hacking = Energy Weapons, Hack Tools, Combat Drones
7. Child = Getting into small places, are less of a target for raiders (even they have standards), tend to get better deals when trading with people = 'toy' weapons that aren't very useful
8. Logger = Logging = Axes and such
9. Farmer = Growing Food = Farming Equipment
10. Hunter = Finding Food = Bow, Cool pets
11. Taxi Driver/Trucker/Race Car driver/whatever = Driving, of course = Cool vehicle
12. Collector = Finding good things = Medieval weapons and such
13. White Collar Worker = Getting great deals on trades = Office supplies, Briefcase
14. Prospector/Miner = Destroying unwanted (read: Enemy owned) barricades and structures = Mining equipment, explosives, molotovs
15. Fire Fighter = Putting out fires, actually being competent at saving people, finding survivors = Fire extinguisher, Water spraying devices, Axes
Would this interest anyone?
Magic Magnum said
It may be loaded, but if it is I'm not seeing it. :/I just looked at it as a "Who would you rather see benefit? The people or corporations?" sort of question.
even the most pro corporate guy is probably motivated by by some ideas that corporations are beneficial to humanity, so...
A question I thought was loaded was "if globalisation is inevitable, it should benefit humanity rather than corporations".
Here's mine:
Exactly how authoritarian I am changes every time I take the test, but I consistently stay just above the authoritarian line.
I tend to be a right-wing outlier on forums.
I do think a few of the questions are a tad loaded, however. Still, it's probably the best political test made in some time.
Exactly how authoritarian I am changes every time I take the test, but I consistently stay just above the authoritarian line.
I tend to be a right-wing outlier on forums.
I do think a few of the questions are a tad loaded, however. Still, it's probably the best political test made in some time.
Appearance : http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/9/92/Secret_agent.jpg
Name : David Smith
Age : 26
Skill : Stealth, Marksmanship, Investigation
Weapon (up three): Silenced Mini Uzi, Trench Knife, Taser
Personality : (good and bad points)
Brief Bio : (we are not going to know much about each other at first so only a brief history, such as what they were doing before the outbreak, is fine)
I'll get back to you on the rest later on.
Name : David Smith
Age : 26
Skill : Stealth, Marksmanship, Investigation
Weapon (up three): Silenced Mini Uzi, Trench Knife, Taser
Personality : (good and bad points)
Brief Bio : (we are not going to know much about each other at first so only a brief history, such as what they were doing before the outbreak, is fine)
I'll get back to you on the rest later on.
My political compass lands me at Authoritarian Right, by the way.
Cayden Black said
I like to believe the greatest government is the wisdom of friends and the leadership of a hero/heroes.I know this sounds very fairy tale but I believe that their must have been a time when a single person stood up and inspired hope, belief, loyalty and above all, love. In my fairy tale world you do not need drugs, you just need a role to fulfill and the inspiration of a great hero to do it.Sadly, this fairy tale also means we need to go back about 3'000 years in my mind and even then humanity proves that darkness always finds a way.
The last great heroes did not exist 3000 years ago, for while there will always be men like Hitler and Stalin, there will always be men like Churchill and Gandhi.
Jannah said
No, no. You have it all wrong. Sheogorath for president. If I was American he'd get my vote.
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I'm a conservative quasi-Minarchist. I think the only thing the federal government should be funding is police, military, and scientific research, especially in the fields of exploration and of course, to research military technology.
My stance on:
-Gay Marriage = I believe the government should stay out of marriage issues. Thus, I'm technically for 'Gay Marriage'.
-Abortion = Probably my strongest political position; I do believe America is unacceptably lenient towards abortion. In general, I will vote for anyone proposing laws designed to restrict and limit abortions.
-Drugs: I'm not particularly against /weed/ specifically, but I do believe that the sale of at least some drugs (meth and cocaine come to mind) to be criminal. Drugs are an agent of oppression, and I believe that with proper allocation of resources and police vigilance, we can limit the sale of these drugs down to more acceptable levels.
-Military involvement: US interventionism (America as global military police) is, in my opinion, not inherently a fallacy. The problem, however, is that in order to pull off global police, there has to be a global mafia. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is simply no large threat to the entire world.
However, this will not be the case for very long. Super powers will always exist, and the cold war was not the last global conflict. As such, I propose America begins to ship its military out of places clearly able to defend themselves (Who's going to invade Europe?) but keep a certain amount in high-risk areas, namely Israel and South Korea, to discourage an invasion by their enemies. We'll keep a large amount simply in reserve to prepare for another military rival to arrive.
-Gun Control: I have 3 criteria for if a weapon should be legal:
1. Is it non-lethal? (Pepper Spray would be 'yes', a knife would be 'no')
2. Is it being issued to your local, state, or federal police force?
3. Does it have a low-risk for collateral damage? (A rifle would be 'yes', a flamethrower would be 'no')
If you can say "yes" to any of these questions-especially number 2-then I believe that weapon has to be legal for civilian ownership.
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