SyrianHamster

The Walking Dead: Chicago (Dark, post-apocalyptic zombie RP - Always open!)

Yo dragon, you have any idea where we wanna end up? I was going to close my eyes and point to somewhere in Chicago, but now might be a good time to get some sort of plot direction going.

Sorry for leaving you hanging by the way. I got way too involved with The Walking Dead game.

Spoilers

Can't believe that bitch made me shoot Kenny. I liked Kenny, especially with the whole Solid Snake thing he had going on!

Anyways, I've completed it now, so here I am ready to roll indefinitely.

The Walking Dead: Chicago (Dark, post-apocalyptic zombie RP - Always open!)

ThreeDawgFO3 said
BTW, I'm in no relation to threedawg.

Of course, I never thought it for a moment.

*Frantically makes background check*

EDIT: Missed this.

threedawg said
Dang, I suppose now would be a bad time to reveal that I adore the show... LOLI like that they don't focus too much on the zombies, the most interesting aspect for me are the humans and how they react to the world falling apart. Season 1 and 2 were great, 3 was bad but 4 was a terrific return to form in my opinion. The show is getting pretty damn dark.The video game blows it out of the water though. I will unabashedly admit that it made me cry . It'd be incredible if they made a TV series based on the game! I think with zombie stories, suspension of disbelief is absolutely essential so weird logic doesn't bother me as much as it should. I barely flinched when Clementine opened a can of beans with the same knife that had previously been lodged into a walker's shoulder.What you said about the walker blood makes the most sense but the reason I mentioned the saliva aspect is because the characters in TWD often cover themselves up with walker gore to mask their scent. Living as rough as they do, there's gotta be micro-cuts that the gore could seep into but they never get infected this way in the show, comic or game. I think we could say that it's possible to get infected this way but the cut would have to be fresh, deep and you'd have to get a substantial amount of walker blood in this way.

Loads of people like the show. I understand the human factor in the world falling apart, and that the zombies are interchangable... but like, hear me out:

I'm standing around with a bunch of strangers, trying to set up a fence so that I can sleep without getting my foot chewed off. My wife runs up to me, and tells me she's just fucked some guy she just met. Alright, now I'm going to tell you now that my reaction would be this:

"Well that's nice honey, you just sit there talking shit whilst I put up this fence... and you know, not die."

I'm fairly so sure that the world going to shit, death being a daily matter, and not being able to trust anyone would equal me not giving a fuck about trivia as who slept with who. We're humans, survival creatures, we've got ourselves a god damned on-off switch for that kind of crap. You think the West is so advanced because it's been in constant danger? Hell no, it's just we got to a point where we were so safe, we could afford to sit back and think about nonsense.

That's my take on things anyway.

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Pepperm1nts said
Machines-guns for anti-air purposes could work. Aside from that, I think only bombs would be feasible. That's a painting of a German airship diving over Warsaw to drop bombs down on the city.EDIT: I agree with the rule of cool scenario though.

I was just going to arm mine with down facing rifle ports, and a Gatling gun or two. For me personally, it's their ability to move troops over difficult terrain, and quickly, that gives me their worth.

The Walking Dead: Chicago (Dark, post-apocalyptic zombie RP - Always open!)

threedawg said
@SyrianHamster: I agree, TWD lore is all over the place. There's a good fan explanation for this stuff, though. In the lore, the airborne virus is dormant and only activates upon death. A fan theory says that there is one other way to activate it and that's having walker saliva enter the bloodstream. It has to be a sizable amount so the only way to transmit this would be a bite. The classic walker fever is the result of the virus activating and shutting your brain down to accelerate the zombification. I think that's a lot better than Kirkman's whole 'the bite kills you because of blood loss or infection'!

Playing the Walking Dead game right now, which I think is more based on the comic than that absurd TV show. Would an infection really kill you that quickly? I thought it took days, in the game it takes hours. Either way, I've read so many zombie-based novels, that I'm going to go ahead and include that "mixing blood", i.e, getting cut up and then covering yourself in zombie gore, is a sure fire way of catching something nasty.

Lol, the TV show, I remember watching that and thinking "why is everyone worrying about who slept with who? there's fucking zombies around" it was just so much soap drama and total rubbish in my opinion. As if like, the zombies weren't even part of it. It was just your average drama with some creepy people occasionally stopping by to move the plot forwards.

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Rhymer said
Maybe to balance it out, describe the most powerful class of airship/ship/rifle/artillery etc. and set that as the standard. Then everyone can go from there..

Great minds.

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Pepperm1nts said
If the timeline is clarified once and for all, and we get everyone on the same page, I may considering joining. But I'm still concerned with how some people have giant metal ships, and others don't, ect. Seems really unorganized. It's probably not your fault, but it's a problem I'd rather see fixed before it becomes a clusterfuck.

Agreed.

Mr. Kilo, perhaps you could show the group a picture or two of the most advanced tech you would expect to see in the RP? That way people could work their way back from that, and use the kind of technology shown as their rare/later units.

Also thanks for accepting me back into the flock, I promise not to launch a coup. *rubs hands together when no one's looking*

But yeah seriously, thanks.

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Thanks guys, means a lot. But Kilo has the final say in matters.

Same applies with the map, it was just a suggestion. It'd make it easier to pinpoint NPC states, but again, Kilo is the new captain of this ship and it's down to what he wants to do.

The Walking Dead: Chicago (Dark, post-apocalyptic zombie RP - Always open!)

Sure. When the fence came down on her, it crushed one of her legs under the weight of the wood and walkers. The bone is in nasty shape, probably cracked in several places. The skin is also not in great shape, torn and skimmed in places. She's lost a lot of blood, and so it'll be touch and go whether she survives even with treatment.

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Thanks for your vote of confidence, rad as balls is what I aim for.

Kilo, if you need a hand with anything, let me know. Even if you don't want me back here, I'd be happy to do anything in getting this RP off the ground.

Here's the map. I've cut it into countries, and numbered them. Use it if you want, up to you :) It's what I woulda done, but then that's me.

Map

100 regions all told, nice even cut, for an epic sized game.

The Walking Dead: Chicago (Dark, post-apocalyptic zombie RP - Always open!)

Scenario #3

Scenario: East Sunset Avenue
Scenario Type: Open
Scenario Post Frequency: At least 1 per 48 hours, or I ask for GM’s approval on DayZing your char ‘n looting his/her stuff.
Max Players: 3
Current Players: SyrianHamster, Dragonbud
Loot Level: Moderate
Walker Density: Heavy.
Bandits: Possible.

Hannah’s Group

Members: Hannah Banks, Camellia Morgan, Woodrow Hepburn, Oskar Rennold.
Weapon Pool: M14 (1 x 11), M4A1 CQCR (1 x 30), Winchester Model 70 (x20), Heavy Duty Tyre Wrench
Vehicle: Humvee | 50% Fuel | 75% Condition | Seats 6
Equipment Pool: Apache helmet, military radio, 2 x can of baked beans, box of stale bran flakes, map of Chicago, protein mix, car battery.
Location:CDC Safe Zone

Hannah and Kylie moved back to the Humvee, and its engine burst to life in a series of splutters and heart-stopping chokes. After a few seconds, it settled, and started to idle.

“Ooah,” Hannah muttered. “About time we had some luck.”

The horde had reached the church however, and were yards away from the vehicle. Hannah wasted no time in letting rip with six well placed shots, taking out the walkers nearest them. With the time they’d bought, her and Kylie were able to scramble inside.

Camellia had been laid across the back seats, and she was going a deathly pale.

“Where to?” Oskar yelled.

“Don’t give too many fucks about that, Rennold. Hit the gas and get us out of here,” shot back Hannah. She then turned her attention to Camellia. “Fuck.”

Hannah could shoot walkers well enough, and order people around like your average TV drill sergeant, but first aid was not her strong suit. She looked at Kylie.

“Any idea how to use this stuff” She asked, pointing at the first aid kid. “Because if so, hop to it, Cam is running out of time”

The Humvee lurched forwards, knocking a pair of walkers to the ground, and then it banked hard right and flew on down the road. They were safe, for the time being, after what seemed like a life time of living on the edge.