I'm interested. Is there room?

We may or may not have room depending on how many make the post deadline
You're welcome to submit a CS but I'll need to wait till thursday. before making approval though in the case of a really original type I might beg the others to allow
Oh an the age limit is 18+ we have enough kids LOL

I turned 18 May 24, so....

LOL good to hear but I was referring to character age

RumikoOhara said
LOL good to hear but I was referring to character age

Oh. My bad. Usually I go for the mid 20s to the mid 30s.

It's okay, Honest mistake and all that

Wintergrey said
how did you guys do the character link

There's a little link in the top right corner of every post that says 'Permalink' then use the link QQcode.

Link: [put url=link to CS]Character name here[/url]

Okay you guys listen up. FreeStep had a special request that she wanted to discuss in private with 3 other people that were interested. But now that she has gone MIA I don't feel the need for it to be private anymore. Basically the whole thing was about a side plot from the main plot. It involved a family. A father, a mother, a daughter and her boyfriend. FreeStep was going to play that father, a character that is outside of the group, up until a certain moment which I will explain later in this post and I was supposed to be the boyfriend. Actually, my character, Paul Wilson is the boyfriend.

The Father was in the middle of serving in the Marine Corps over sea's when the outbreak hit. The mother, daughter and boyfriend having survived by the skin of there teeth and now with the group would have every reason to beileve he is dead. Her idea for this was that the daughter would have asthma and such would always need an inhaler in case of an emergency. The mother would be like a silent guardian of sorts always looking out for her daughter's best interests. Then the boyfriend. Here is where the real fun kicks in. The Daughter's asthma medication runs out as the group is on the road so what else can he do but take someone with him and go off to find some more asthma medicine.

At which point he and whoever goes with him would find themselves within a small town a few miles away from where the rest of the group was. At this point after finding the medication they get attacked by a hoard walkers or even by bandits. The father who happened to be skirting around the town unaware of anyone else would hear the fighting and would investigate, at which point he would intervene. After that, all of them would begin their way back to the main group encountering a few obstacles of course. The whole idea was to create some kind of drama for the group having the sick daughter who was desperately awaiting the return of her boyfriend, and the worried mother desperately awaiting his return with the medicine. As well it would create a smaller sub-plot to introduce a few enemies that I wanted to she wanted to show up later in this chapter.

As I mentioned earlier, Paul Wilson, my character, is the boyfriend and there is still need for the daughter, the mother and the father since FreeStep is gone. The daughter's name is Jennifer and the mother's name is Sarah.

Name: Jacob Rourke

Age: 27

Height: 5' 11"

Weight: 151 lbs

Equipment:
Gunsmithing tools
Gun cleaning kit
AK diagrams
Multitool
3 cans of beans
2 cans of chili
2 canteens filled with water
MP3
Deck of cards

Weapons:
AK-74 | PSO-1 scope | 2 magazines | 75 5.45x39mm rounds total
CZ-75 B SA | 3 magazines | 50 9x19mm rounds total
Tactical knife

Previous Occupation: Gunsmithing apprentice.

Appearance: Jacob is a pretty average looking guy, although a bit on the lanky side. He is not, however, unfit. He actually has very well-shaped muscles, they're just skinny. He also has green eyes and short brown hair. He does occasionally get a 5 o clock shadow, but he tries to keep his facial hair cut down.

Bio: Jacob was in the middle of disassembling a Browning Hi-Power when he heard the window of his boss's gun store shatter. He took a step out of the workshop to check on the front desk, but what he wasn't prepared to see was a mass of people desperately clamoring for any gun they could get their hands on. He would have drawn his own CZ-75 if it were just one person, but this was a crowd of people, and he was hopelessly outnumbered. When shots started to be fired, Jacob made a run for the rear exit, caring more for his safety than the fact that his boss would kill him when he found out the entire inventory was cleared out and he was the only one there. It wasn't until he got outside that he saw the walking corpses and realized what was happening. Knowing his boss was now the least of his worries, he fought his way back home to grab what he could, then began to work his way out of Dallas.

It took him two days of creeping around to make it out of the city and into relative safety. He knew he was several steps ahead of anyone else who made it, being armed and having a few days' worth of food and water, along with general supplies. He didn't really have a ton of friends, and most of his family lived in Chicago, so there wasn't much to keep him from leaving Dallas completely behind. So, with plenty of supplies and a penchant for helping people, Jacob began to actively seek out other survivors and help them along for a few days at a time. He wasn't comfortable with the idea of hanging around with complete strangers for extended periods of time, though it was less out of distrust than it was out of fear that he begin to care for them enough that he would be afraid to lose them.

He spent the next several months alone, looking for food, supplies, and people in need by day, and by night making modifications to his rifle, as well as taking some endeavors into crafting his own AK out of scrap and spare parts. After about 5 months, he found a small group holed up in a farm about fifty miles from Tulsa, OK. Months beforehand, he would have ignored it and kept walking, but with winter approaching he decided to look into staying, though just for the winter. He was met with suspicion, but he figured that was to be expected. A lone guy, armed to the teeth and with a fair amount of supplies seemed a bit too convenient, but after some convincing, he managed to get in. He made it perfectly clear that he intended to leave once winter was over, but he would contribute in any way he could until then. As it turned out, his gunsmithing skills earned him the respect of pretty much everyone in the camp, and he got to know everyone else pretty well.

By spring, Jacob was somewhat torn between sticking to his original plan and staying with the group for a bit longer. They all came off as being decent people, and he had come to care for them. He tried to avoid it, but it was one of those things that crept up almost imperceptibly. One day he was cleaning the guns, talking to TJ when Ashley told them to find a place to hide and stay quiet. As it turned out, a herd was passing through at the time, and although everyone in the barn was safely ignored by the walkers, they all knew Nick was out there gathering food. They learned several days later that he was attacked by the herd when they found his mutilated body in some nearby woods.

Jacob disappeared from the group later that day without a word. He had broken one of his cardinal rules; never get too close to people. He had managed to avoid seeing for himself the corpse of someone he cared about, and it struck him harder than the emotional trauma he experienced from the initial outbreak. He had been substantially lucky until then, and he began to grow self-destructive. He started making riskier supply runs, using less caution and more brute force, even going so far as to run into Tulsa without a second thought. He rationalized it as wanting to find a stash of supplies, but subconsciously he knew he was trying to get himself killed, and nearly succeeded.

He became barricaded within a building one day, stuck between making a mad dash through the crowd of walkers surrounding the building and just waiting it out. After a week of the latter, he was found and rescued by the group, but not without them losing Bradley. Jacob saw Bradley's death as being his fault, which of course didn't make his mental state any better. Now, instead of just being self-destructive, he was also quasi-suicidal and guilty. Of course, everyone else was having none of this, and they kept a close eye on him, trying to simultaneously keep his spirits up and keep him from doing something crazy. It took until late fall, but he managed to come around.

Even with the bonds he had made over the months, Jacob felt as though it was time for him to move on. He waited once more for the winter months to pass before deciding to take his leave. He thanked everyone immensely and headed north. It took him some time to reach Kansas, but it was shortly after arriving that he found another band of survivors to make contact with. He thought it through and decided that it was better to have friends in a world like this than not and decided to make contact. He has been with them for two months.

In my opinion it's ok to have a character who is experienced with guns and weaponry, however there should be some kind of trade off like instead of him being a muscular twenty something year old make him an older man so it makes more sense that he's had a lot of time to learn about guns or come up with something else. Maybe he isn't that good at actually using the guns or the ammo his gun uses is very rare. I'm not the GM so I can't force you to do anything, just my thoughts on reading the CS.

I don't think the link thing is working as I am on an iPad. If somebody could link my character, Earl stone, I would be very grateful. Going to start on my first IC soon. Oh and for the story, there is nothing more annoying in a book, film, game or story than a kid with asthma. It always kicks in at the most irritating time...

Angst driven characters can be interesting but sometimes a bit one dimensional but so long as his suicidal thoughts become an obsession

The fact that he's lean an in shape is of small consequence because let's face it in the World of the Walking Dead after 2 years only the strong or subjugated survive.

I do however have issue with a fully automatic weapon this early in play
Also I will point out that arming a weapon like an AK-74 which uses an odd caliber round ( the 5.45×39mm) would mean Brass much less actual loaded rounds would be difficult to come by
A Gun smith is useful but pick whether he's good with using or repairing weapons
I am very familiar with guns an gun smith. I have found at Jacob's age he'd be one or the other but seldom both
By the above I mean he's an expert at Repair and a fair shot or he knows the mechanics of guns enough to keep them working and is an expert shot with almost any type
Both of the Above skills require extreme dedication and
Splitting your attention lessens their effectiveness

Oh and the Most common round found in any gun store is the 22, 223 then the 308, an 30.06 so I'd stick to one of these calibers as they are the easiest to scavenge

Why don't we have all the people who want to join now (TheMadAsshatter and DeatstrokeSW) take up the roles of Sara, the mother, and he father if they want to. Just because those characters are already woven into the story.

I actually was thinking of having a former Russian military character.

Please no former military unless you plan on making them UNIQUE and INTERESTING, I don't want any characters like:

Sgt.Noble
18 years old
Kicked out of the army because he was too badass and heroic, telling his bosses to stuff it as he went in and shot down a predator drone that was going to bomb an innocent civilian family, now all he has is a rocket launcher and a tank as he tries to survive the zombie apocylpse.

GuySenpai said
Please no former military unless you plan on making them UNIQUE and INTERESTING, I don't want any characters like:Sgt.Noble18 years oldKicked out of the army because he was too badass and heroic, telling his bosses to stuff it as he went in and shot down a predator drone that was going to bomb an innocent civilian family, now all he has is a rocket launcher and a tank as he tries to survive the zombie apocylpse.

I LOLed from this

Damn it! That's back to the drawing for me XD

Realism is much more fun. I'll have a cs up summarily.

Yeh, I was joking. I already have my charecter sheet posted :)

How do we feel about Special Forces?