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The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

Ok, working on the OOC. Will have Linky up soon.

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The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

I could do two characters. Kinda tired of waiting around and tired of people shrugging their shoulders over what to do. I'll see about getting the OOC up after I get off work, around 4 o'clock Central Standard Time

The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

Two groups sounds good. Do we want to set up two separate In Character and OOC threads, and keep tabs on things. If KoKo is going to GM for the Asylum group, we'll need to coordinate... Or, I can lead GM for with a Co-GM in one main thread.

The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

Perhaps. I was thinking that if there were two groups, the yacht group probably had the owner and someone else who had fallen in with a group of survivors and had made a successful run for the boat. I don't think too many affluent people would be surviving the situation, but it's possible.

The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

Actually, I did have an idea for a yacht, which was a trimaran, much faster at a top speed of 23 knots at best speed, 42.5 meters, with crew space for six, can run on half that, and up to 9 guests/passengers. I guess Koko decided not to share that information though.

Below is the main deck plan, an exterior shot, and one of the interior shots, and I can get more. It's a pretty forgiving design, stable on the water, long range, efficient.







Splitting up into two groups might be a good idea.

The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

Any non undead nutjobs are probably violent psychos... not somebody you want mobbing about in the place. The Redland facility is huge. The photo is broken, but the image link still works from the raw version of the post.

Back to ma boat... Jennay *Forrest Gump*

Yes, I believe we still have room for a couple more, "Lumini.

The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

I had a suggestion of an asylum come up from a friend.

Merits:
Most people avoid.
Would not have been used for disaster relief.
Designed to provide security and protection
Plenty of food stores
Likely to have backup power
Infirmary, medication, sanitation, some recreation facilities
Usually good sight lines, decent kill zone, sturdy construction, good positioning for rooftop coverage.

Flaws:
funnels, tight spaces
designed to prevent egress/escape/evasion
not self-sustained or contained
no permanent off-grid solutions
may still have patients to take care of/watch out for
May have former patient and faculty walkers within the facility and may take a while to fully clear.

Thoughts?

The Walking Dead: Miami, Florida

I like collaborative works, or at least with group consensus... at least that way everybody feels directly involved, and gets to weigh in on things. I'd be more than happy to run the show and play the game engine, and help arbitrate when it comes to decisions. I.E,, I could GM, sure. I'd be my first run GMing on The Guild, but not my first time in other venues. I would certainly appreciate help. Koko's input would be welcome,as well as anybody else who knows much of anything about Florida. I'm a little nervous about it, just because I want to do it right and be successful with it. I want to make something that keeps people interested. I'm pretty big on freedom, so long as there's logic to what happens. If you jump off the side of a cruise liner to water 100 feet below, it -will- be like jumping onto concrete. You will break bones and most likely die. Half that distance, it's just gonna hurt, and you'll probably go deep. Ears might pop, might hurt your inner ear, but survivable, sure.

I'd want to place an emphasis on survival, in that track your food, water, health, fitness, stamina, injuries, and how hot or cold they are. Zombies are there, and they're a problem, but so is the loss of amenities, and the need to provide for yourself without supermarkets, grocery stores, gardens (if you want to start one, that's awesome), and so on. There's an adjustment process, and a learning curve. I wouldn't want people to track it to the point of not being fun, but just something to keep in mind. Also you boys and girls might pick up a few things, if it goes on long enough.

I had another thought for an option on the water would be a transport ship or barge with cargo containers, which may or may not have had lots of supplies.

I'm still up for the yacht idea, but yachts also have drawbacks unless they're a sailing yacht.

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That's a lot of how Ded Fonez operates. They mix legit business, in music, fashion, club ownership, some hotels, transportation/logistics, while also dealing in drugs, sex, guns, piracy, cybercrimes (hacking, cyber-espionage) and surveillance. I think that they also hire mercs, but they have their own hitters and enforcers... they'll get a little more dirty than the Sleeping Moons.

Something for the Sleeping Moons is private security firms. They are multi-million contracts, and make billions per year, and can operate legitimately or illegitimately. Course private security is just a fancy word for merc. Something else to consider, a lot of ex-spies and spooks become gun runners/arms dealers, so SM and DF would both have access to decent people.

Another side thought is perhaps DF and SM might be working together under the table, or they could be in direct competition with each other. Either way works for me. I would think that perhaps DF might have an issue with High Society types, since they can be very judgemental, snobbish, and conservative and so on... Not all are like that, but a lot. Thoughts?