I figured I should work on the detail of my scenario.

It takes place just inside the city, about a block from the suburbs.

Hi,

Hope you do not mind, but I piggy backed Scotsman's RP interactions (involved with him in another RP), and I couldn't help but fall in love with this thing. I do not know a great deal about zombies, as it's not really my genre, but I do love the survival factor.

Before I join, I wanted to know if the U.S Government is still functioning at this point? I've given the Walking Dead wiki a quick once over for a brief understanding, and it all seems pretty bare in covering it. Just abandoned military and CDC outposts. Just seems hard to imagine that something as slow moving and as stupid and zombies would somehow overcome the U.S military completely.

I'm asking, because if possible, I wanted to play a small group of National Guardsman operating out of some isolated outpost somewhere in Chicago. Running scavenging operations, and trying to maintain law and order over the people they're protecting. I like my soldiers, you see, as Scotsman can probably vouch for.

I wouldn't go around blasting everything to pieces with infinite ammo, I'd probably more be focusing on trying to navigate the city's ruins searching for survivors, leading big groups of zombies away from the outpost, and searching for supplies. Again, on the question of blasting everything to pieces, I imagine if the U.S Government is in a bad way, then there wouldn't be much of the stuff anyway.

Please let me know either way, and we'll go from there.

Thanks.

@KeyboardKilroy,

While it is not my decision, I really doubt there is any official system of order in the world at this point.

I'll try to post a CS soon. If not tonight, then somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I hear you, Syrian, Lori pissed me off in general. It was beyond ridiculous how she encouraged Rick to kill Shane and then chastised him for doing so. I think humans are quick to adapt and, as soon as a modicum of safety is in their hands, they go back to the trivial crap that makes them so flawed. Less pregnancy drama, more zombies! They really messed up with Season 3 but the reason I loved Season 4 is because you got to see how much the group cares about each other. It really explored the depths of their friendship. One of Season 3's greatest moments for me was when Merle and Daryl were together and Merle referred to Glenn as a 'chinaman'. Daryl called him this exact epithet in season 1 or 2 but because time has passed and Merle is a dick, Daryl angrily said 'He's KOREAN!'

Kilroy, the loose explanation in TWD is that the collapse of the government and the military was not only the sudden nature of the outbreak that overwhelmed them all but that the vast majority of the military left their posts to be with their families. I think that's a kind of realistic reaction. It's not that you have a bad idea, it just diminishes the importance of the main plot in which survivors are trying to get to Sears Tower (please don't make me call it Willis Tower) because that's supposed to be the last, strong bastion of humanity in Chicago. I'm also a little iffy on the amount of soldiers and pseudo-soldiers we have so far. Characters with military backgrounds are cool in small doses but it becomes just a smidge banal when half the cast used to be in the army. It also weakens the agency of the non-army characters since, realistically, the army characters should be able to kick their asses or at least have the upper hand along with having more supplies and weapons etc.

I guess that makes sense, although you might have thought that the soldiers would have become selfish. By that, I mean they would have been safer behind their Apache gunships, cruise missiles, tanks and machine guns than if they went AWOL. They would have seen how bad things were first hand, no one in their right mind would have just "walked off" on a suicide mission to find their families. Which is unfortunate, because that kind of behaviour would mean countries would not have civil wars. If the enemy is near your family, you would be disbanding to go and protect them; meaning there wouldn't be any opposing forces left! Haha.

But that's fair enough, if the Walking Dead's creator decided that's what happened, than I guess that's what happened.

Sorry for wasting you time. If I ever get the urge for playing a squad of KFC fryer staff, I'll return to unleash fast food justice on the zombie horde, and my fellow man.

KeyboardKilroy said
I guess that makes sense, although you might have thought that the soldiers would have become selfish. By that, I mean they would have been safer behind their Apache gunships, cruise missiles, tanks and machine guns than if they went AWOL. They would have seen how bad things were first hand, no one in their right mind would have just "walked off" on a suicide mission to find their families.

Have you served before?

Decisions made under emotional duress tend not to revolve around rationality and self-preservation ergo it's entirely feasible that they "walked off" to save their families. However, regardless of what the TWD canon indicates, we already have enough soldiers in this RP. Any more and the idea will quickly become trite.

I'm not sure if your last remark was a snarky jab or a good-natured joke. In case it was the former, that sounds like a false dichotomy to me. You can have an interesting and complex character without them being yet another experienced badass from the army. In comparison to the idea of even more soldiers, fried chicken warriors sound quite entertaining and original.

threedawg said
Decisions made under emotional duress tend not to revolve around rationality and self-preservation ergo it's entirely feasible that they "walked off" to save their families. However, regardless of what the TWD canon indicates, we already have enough soldiers in this RP. Any more and the idea will quickly become trite.I'm not sure if your last remark was a snarky jab or a good-natured joke. In case it was the former, that sounds like a false dichotomy to me. You can have an interesting and complex character without them being yet another experienced badass from the army. In comparison to the idea of , fried chicken warriors sound quite entertaining and original.

I'm sorry, I wasn't criticising the RP for a lack of soldiers. I just wanted to play a force of good in a world overrun by chaos and inhumanity. I had some time to go away, and think about a really diverse set of characters, and If you'll let me, I'd like to play as a: Buddhist Monk, Muslim Iman, Christian Priest and a Jewish Rabi, forced to put asides their ideological differences to survive. I think there would be a fantastic amount of room for all kinds of drama and character development. Especially as each of them tries to deal with the walking dead from the view of their respective faiths. What do you think?

Thinking about it, as interesting as that idea may be, it might offend people who read my posts, especially as I'm not a religious person myself. If you'll still have me, I'll take those 4 KFC workers and make my way through the apocalypse. No soldiers. No guns. No training. Just ordinary people.

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.



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