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Okay folks, heres the deal. This is going to be based loosely from a combination of the book and the movie. If you've ever read the book it focuses on his day to day life. That is largely what I would like to do here. In most RP everyone meets right off the bat and their characters are already developed. Here I want to focus for the most part on that development. The plot will be made up as we go depending on the actions our characters take until we all do end up together and I tie it all in to the larger plot at hand... Basically can you make day to day life interesting? And I'm not discouraging character interaction, in fact friendship, rivalries, and romance are all encouraged. Just let it develop as the story does! All characters do have a prior knowledge of each other, though they might not KNOW the person. They all live and work together in the same town.

The Setting:
It has been 50 years since the first 'fallout.' Society, slowly but surely is rebuilding. Most of the people who had survived were now dead. Much was lost during that time. Technology had to be scrounged from the ruins of 'old' society and then it was another story alltogether finding someone who knew what it did. People were learning slowly however. There were no shortage of books and those hungry for the knowledge within. When Robert Neville's 'cure' had been delivered to the settlement they renamed it Sacrifice in honor of him and put the brightest minds on mass production. Eventually the people were able to set up a working laboratory and were able to train in it's use. The remaining military force was sent out to administer the cure. They never returned. Just as with the original, the 2nd Cure had an unintended effect. A third of those who were given the antidote did not become human again. They merely adapted. Regaining their human intellegence and a somewhat uncomfertable tolerance to the sun. They could pass for human and so their bloodthirsty nature wasn't revealed until almost to late. Luckily it was found that they could still be harmed by an injection of garlic... or a good old fashioned bullet if it hit them in the heart or brain. Ten years later Sacrifice has carved a niche for themselves. The lab grew into the bear bones of a hospital, there was running water, enough generators to provide electricity to the entire town as well as charge the fallout shelter being built. There was even a school and people were learning again. Both how to rebuild, and defend themselves. Outside the town walls Nature was reclaiming what man had built. Animals were found to be imune to the virus and since the Vampires only fed on humans, or occasionally one another they could still be hunted as a food source. Hunting parties would be sent out during the day when the vamps were still weak, some to scrounge, some to get food, and others to find the vampires... if they could not be cured, they would be killed. So far, thanks to the constant vigilence of those patroling the walls Sacrifice has remained safe and life has settled into a somewhat normal routine...

The Rules:
Their are none really. Just use common sense, please be respectful, and be willing to stick with it. Your largely responisble for your own plots, though I will add minimal prompting from time to time. I'm also open to suggestions.

The Profile
Name:
Age:
Description:
technical skills: (job related)
Secondary skills: (anything your good at)
Personal items: (Anything you carry with you at all times, weapons and such can just be written up as the need arises.)
Personality: (What is your chacter like? And perhaps a brief history as to why they are like that. Every character was born in Sacrifice.)

Name: Eric Belving
Age: 22
Description:Eric is a tall man. Standing at 6'3 he looms over others. He is plain looking except for when he smiles. When he does, which is often, It softens his largely Irish features and lights up his dark brown eyes. He maintains a neatly trimmed goatee because he likes the red tint of his beard and feels that it makes him look older than he is. Eric has dark brown hair streaked with hints of red. He cuts it short for convienance rather than style and it is usually pushed back into messy spikes by the pair of aviator goggles he wears on his head. Five years scrounging has left him lean and tan. His clothing is all scrounged. He wears collared shirts open at the front because most of them have all lost their buttons over time and denim jeans. Holes were worn into the knees and other places from work and time. A pair of scuffed and worn work boots and a tool belt with various odds and ends complete the outfit.
Technical skills: Always fascinated by machinary Eric devoured all the knowledge he could about them. At 17 when he began scrounging, he started collecting mechanical manuals for various technologies and the bits and pieces for a moto-cycle. Working tirelessly in his spare time he has become a very adept mehanic.
Secondary skills: Eric was teaching himself how to shoot. He still had to practice, ALOT, but he was becoming a fair shot over time. You never knew when you would run into one of the 'cured' and he wanted to be ready.
Personal Items: His prized possessions are the aviator goggles he scrounged from the ruins of a museum and the tools strapped to his waist.
Personality: Growing up Eric was never very concerned with the inner workings of Sacrifice. When the other children were learning or playing together he was buried in schematics or listening to the more exciting stories of the scroungers. He is a generally happy person who always smiles. He is a good scrounger with an eye for what can be useful for the settelement so his slightly withdrawn nature is tolerated by the other scroungers who are usually a boistrous group. When talking to others he is usually reserved keeping things short and to the point. Unless of course he is talking about his machines becoming very animated and informative. Often telling you more than you ever wanted, or needed, to know. He is often described as friendly but aloof. Or just Odd.

Name: Corbin Oberon
Age: 25

Description: Corbin is has a frail 5' 6" build, and is pale from spending so much time inside. His black hair is tied back into a short tail, and he often forgets to shave. He wears whatever he can get his hands on - most of the shirts are stained, damaged and/or patched, the pants are always covered in animal hair from his cat, and he wears battered combat boots that are too big for them.

Technical skills: He can fix most basic problems with an engine, and has some skill with repairing and building computers, but nothing to write home about.

Secondary skills: Corbin has excellent hearing and an unhealthy fascination with vampires; he has a theoretical knowledge of martial arts, but no real practice. Corbin was a failure at scrounging, tending to come back empty-handed or with small useless items and more books to add to the library - after he had a close call with a vampire in a dark archive of an abandoned library, the scroungers asked him not to come out with them again. After that, Corbin bounced from job to job(he even apprenticed with teachers and scientists temporarily), gathering basic skills in each before his tendency to distraction lost him the job. He is a jack of all trades(but fairly inept at all of them), and picks up spare work whenever he can in order to get by. He teaches science classes when he's desperate.

Personal items: More often than not, Corbin has a book in hand even when he goes out, and carries a bag that he won't let anyone touch. He wears an old, chipped pair or sunglasses even on cloudy days.

Personality: The encounter with the vampire and the death of his father was supposed to have traumatized him, but he only uses them as an excuse whenever people complain that he isn't contributing to the community. His father, who was one of the scientists helping to reproduce the vaccine, disappeared after spending days tracking one of the adapted vampires, supposedly in an attempt to reason with it. Corbin claims that he is unaffected by it, even though afterwards, his personality did a 180 - he had been known for being outgoing and sociable (though still somewhat eccentric), with solid plans to become a teacher. He's uncomfortable around people, so much so that he rarely leaves the house.

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Name: Maple Scotts
Age: 17
Description: Average height, slender build, pale complexion, brown eyes and brown hair.
technical skills: Adept reader that can read pretty well anything. Also understands things in French, German, and Spanish. As basic knowledge of martial arts, and roaming the wilderness has her training.
Secondary skills: She learned from experience to survive in the outside world, foraging and knowing what animals to avoid.
Personal items: A small hunting knife for defense and the faded green shirt and jeans she left with.
Personality: Curious and chatty. She also comes off as angry and intimadating at times, but anyone that gets to know her understands just how vunerable and terrified she is.

I know, very basic, but I promise to make a more detailed post in the IC.

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Silivalne
Cromine

Those two need your clicks

Interest check for weird roleplay idea! Please look!

is there still time for me to join?

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Born under the Full Moon...
... Born to kill.

You are the true warrior of Gaia,
and nothing will withstand your rage.

(So, I quite literally spent an hour making this character profile. Slip of my finger, poof. It's all gone.)

Vincent Corsfield.

22

Computer guy thingy

shoots revolver. blam blam.

aviator jacket. cargo pants(black)

comedic back up.


I'll make everything later when I've cooled off.

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Theres plenty of time to join Hilda! Just post a bio and feel free to post when your ready!

:P I hate when that happens Sai. I've lost many a good post because my computer insists on being an asshole. Expand when you can.

As for the rest of you... All of you can join. I'll leave it open until everyone thinks we've reached a good cut off point!

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A dark smudge in a world filled with light.

Name: Vincent Corsfield
Age:20
Description: A young man with shaggy medium length brown hair with deep blue eyes. His face is covered with a usual goatee of 5 o' clock shadow, something he has never been exceptionally well at growing out. He is fairly skinny with a slight muscular build, and as such is an excellent runner. He wears a black aviator's jacket, a gift from his grandfather's grandfather (Pilot in WW II.), but instead of the usual attire, it is broken and faded, and even covered in patches that he himself has added over the years ranging from places he has ventured to contest winnings( such as high scores from ancient video game machines called Ataris.)

He wears tan cargo pants that are faded from wear and torn at the knee caps, the first thing that usually breaks in his clothing.(My brother and I have that problem. V.V) He wears old combat boots that have been sewn together over and over, and have scraps of metal in certain places to reinforce them. Under his aviator's jacket he wears an old shirt from his grandfather, a band called Avenged Sevenfold. The letters and writing is hardly visible in places. He also has large headphones, more as a fashion statement, but also usefull for covering ears if the creatures begin to screech.
technical skills: He excels at computers and medical knowledge, and took the mantle from his family to search for a second cure for the other sentient vampires. He is usually found with a laptop.
Secondary skills: Trained with an old .45 revolver from a young age, he is fairly skilled at marksmanshipand reloading.
Personal items: Revolver, ammo, various jump drives, and extra vials for blood samples.
Personality: Vincent was born to a loving family, if but secluded and slightly...geeky. Both parents were exceptionally skilled in their fields, and so he became immersed in the wonders of data and technology at a young age. He spent most of his life with his grandfather, a cynical old man with a good aim, and learned both the art of wise-cracking and marksmanship. He became slightly darker when his grandfather passed away at the age of 16, and really began to learn about the old days before the neccesity of the city of Sacrifice. He still likes to hold on to the old relics, like CDs and fashion trends, working them in so that they still are of use and focus on quality over quantity.

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Posted, in case this needed a bump. And I'm out for the afternoon, bbl.

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Okay, that really sucks. I just spent two hours typing up a post and when I tried to spell check, it all disapeared. I don't know why but regardless I lost it. So after dinner and some other stuff. I'll repost.

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A dark smudge in a world filled with light.