Your life wasn't going the way you had planned. Slowly beaten down by a soul crushing career, or driven to depression by tragic events, you decided enough was enough!

No more waking up, staring bleary eyed into a mirror that portrayed a dull grey face you no longer recognised. No more struggling to find the motivation to just carry on breathing. No more coming home from work, only to collapse into a chair and silently curse the inadequacies of your life choices.

It was time for a change! You only get one shot at life after all, and what's the point of sitting about moping all the time? People have had it worse than you, or so you suspect, and some of them got on just fine. It was time you did the same.

Booking a place in a group holiday to Australia, you looked forward to meeting new people, seeing new sights and finally discovering the passion that once fired your engine of enthusiasm.

Of course, the moment the plane's left engine exploded, you knew that this was all a hopeless endeavour. Some people are just cursed to live in misery; chased into the grave by a spree of bad luck, cowardice and cold indifference. As the fire spread up the wing, you heard so many screams it froze your mind - but your voice did not add to the orchestra. Why scream? How was that going to change anything?

In retrospect, your life probably isn't worth living anymore. Going down in a fiery inferno is probably a good thing, with everything considered. No more regrets, no more broken dreams, and no more staring up at the ceiling and contemplating how different things could have been.

If only, right?

You wake up beneath a warm sun and a blue sky. The sound of a gentle surf lapping against the smooth sandy beach upon which you have found yourself, is the only noise you can hear. Everything is eerily quiet, as if you've stepped outside of reality and into a small capsule beyond space and time.

Looking around, you quickly realise you have been washed up on some desert island. The realisation of this prompts a spurt of sea water to surge from your lips, and you collapse retching in pain as your lungs struggle to dislodge the unwelcome liquid. And then, to round everything off, you hear an explosion - and feel it too. You open your eyes for a moment, and see smoking rising from the ocean in the distance.

Did you really survive that plane crash? Are you dreaming?

Of course you're not dreaming. Your life sucks. You really did survive, and now you're stuck on god knows what island. Have fun with that.

• Characters are survivors who miraculously escaped the plane.
• I never watched Lost. This is not Lost.
• The survivors must... well, continue to survive on the island. Firstly, by finding each other, and secondly, by establishing their own little colony as they attempt to work out a way to get home.
• The survivors are all people who had planned for their vacation to be a life changing event after a sustained period of trouble in their lives. Looks like they got more than what they bargained for.
• The island is tropical, but unmapped, allowing for players to explore their own locations.
  
  SO, who wants to go survive on an island? There's no zombies, I promise.

I like this idea actually.

I heard zombies, I like it..

But in all seriousness, this sounds great, I'de love to participate. Though I must ask, do they all need to be people down on their luck? Nothin else allowed? I can deal but I may as well ask.

I heard zombies, I like it..

But in all seriousness, this sounds great, I'de love to participate. Though I must ask, do they all need to be people down on their luck? Nothin else allowed? I can deal but I may as well ask.

Well, it's all a matter of defining "down on one's luck". To some people, this could mean a widower who's wife of 40 years just died, and they're looking for one last crack at life before succumbing to the grave themselves. To others, it could be a university student facing a mental break down due to the pressure of his/her exams. It could also be someone who is stuck in a dead end job, and has just realised that they've wasted years of their lives doing something they hate simply because they were stuck in a rut.

So in short, it's not a competition of who has a sadder back story. I think as people we all have our ups and downs, but some more than others, and it's those "more than others" I want to focus on. For some reason, the idea of a group of pessimistic individuals trying to survive on a desert island seems interesting to me.

Feels a lot like a group of people for a while going "See I shouldn't have done anything my life is garbage" etc then a month later they're all singing Kumbaya around a fire! I'm in!

Well its about time one of these washed up >> I am in

Save me a spot for this please!

Sounds kind of fun, i'll throw some interest here because SyrianHamster.

I'll be throwing my bit of interest in here.
+1 interest

Thanks for the interest guys! I'll get an OOC up tomorrow, which for me is in about 6-8 hours. We'll have fun with this one, I think :D

Feels a lot like a group of people for a while going "See I shouldn't have done anything my life is garbage" etc then a month later they're all singing Kumbaya around a fire! I'm in!

Unless their neurotic tendencies get entrenched by the freedom of being on a desert island, in which case we're looking at a Halloween scenario!

Sounds kind of fun, i'll throw some interest here because SyrianHamster.

Trying to remember you. It was the nation RP wasn't it? with the custom races and stats that ultimately exploded in my face? I think that's it.

In any case, glad to have you aboard.

I'll be throwing my bit of interest in here.
+1 interest

I'll throw my bit into your bit.

+1 interest to your interest.

My head has been turned in your general direction

@SyrianHamsterHeh, yeah, that's the one. The sheer fact it even got that far with the amount of work you had to do was... impressive. Hence I have good hopes for pretty much any RP made by you.

Interested as well

I'm in.

SO is this going to happen or no?

Very interested.

Interested

Interested

Hammy Hamster !
Please tell me that this is still a thing!? Was kind of stoked for this.
@SyrianHamster