Zombie Party[hi-cas/adv] int

[Lady Rawr]

Zombie Party IC
Zombie Party OOC

The idea is a zombie apocalypse thing. But the base premise is that more of society than expected survived the initial outbreak - with there being kind of town/outposts and a few cities remaining and heavily defended. It'd be set maybe 10 years after the initial outbreak - where about 70% of the population (or something) is infected.

Initially after the main 'survival wave' people like labourers and builders ect (useful but generally lower paid jobs) become extremely important - leading to a kind of working man leadership - but the politicians, bankers, stockbrokers ect (higher paying but effectively useless jobs) are pushed to the bottom of the pile. Now that there is a kind of stability, they are warring for power using every dirty trick in the book - whilst all surviving in a wasteland of zombies.

This would allow for lots of action, trade, politics, betrayal, death ect that I think would be pretty epic.

Zombie wise I’d be going for my personal favourite – the standard zombie as opposed to any kind of neo-zombie/fast-zombie/mutated-zombie. If anyone has read anything by Max Brooks – that’s what I’m basically going for. Normal shambling corpses that overwhelm with shockingly large numbers and unrelenting, untiring efforts that never stop.

I will of course write up a description of the main points regarding the zombies if I get enough interest and what not. But its more or less the standard – destroying the brain is all that kills them, virally transmitted infection through fluids (mostly the mouth, as most bodily fluids dry and crust up )

The main story would obviously be general survival – but as I said I wanted a focus on action, trade, politics, betrayal, ect between the survivors in the city or something.

The main way the zombie horde works is by one zombie spotting a survivor – which triggers the moaning to begin. Other zombies hear said moaning and also start to moan, whilst moving towards the sounds/survivors. This sound can be heard by other zombs from quite a distance so it ends up pulling in all of the undead in the area into a shambling horde that generally travels together – unless there are no survivors or anything anymore, and they slowly disperse once more.

This would allow for build ups of zombies – as you’d imagine around the population centres. Meaning that there would almost always be a horde surrounding the areas which could either be periodically destroyed or simply ignored. (Until they build up and up and up and inevitably breakthrough – adding to the overall infected levels)

But anyway – for now I shall leave it at that. Anyone interested or even have any ideas or suggestions?

Also this’ll be either high cas or possibly adv – again depending on responses and what not.

[Starpowerrr]

I am very interested in this. Very nice idea! I think it's perfect the way you've planned it out so far.

[NigelThornberry]

This is me. Me is interested.

[Lady Rawr]

bump

[TeCoolMage]

Can I join this? It sounds interesting .

[Lady Rawr]

Splendid - Well with 3 people interested I will start to work on some more precise info about the plot.

My only thought at the moment is weather to set this in the US or in Europe - any opinions on the matter?

I'm probably leaning towards the US just because I'm sure most people would be more familiar - if not simply for the ease of firearms availability and large size. But to be honest this type of RP won't be specifically restricted to any areas.

[Lady Rawr]

Bumpy

[Alcia]

It sounds refreshingly different from the usual "super-high trained soldier/survivalist with a complete armory of high-tech weapons/dual-katana-wielding whatnot" zombie apocalypse plots. What about weapons, especially guns, how common/rare are they?

[Lady Rawr]

Well I suppose it would depend on where it is based – but I’d imagine that either way they would be accessible and easy enough to obtain without any real shortage.

I suppose that the supply of weapons and ammo could fall into the more political side of things – in terms of he who controls the supply pretty much controls everything else.
So actually it may be better if beyond scavenging weapons were controlled and there were only one or two locations with any kind of ammo manufacturing/collecting going on?

[Lady Rawr]

That or perhaps that they are less common – and things such as guns are generally only owned by the groups that protect the settlements – be them mercenaries or a ‘town guard’ type of organization. But it will vary per location depending on how things are done in that particular settlement.