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In 2015, the entire world was pulled into nuclear warfare as World War 3 began. One country bombed another and that's all it took for others to retaliate, creating a back and forth nuclear war that managed to destroy most of humanity. It never officially ended due to the massive loss of life.

Twenty years later, the world is a completely different story. It is rare we see the sun anymore. The sky is usually overcast by clouds as dark as charcoal. Temperatures are cooler than they used to be and it's often a struggle to keep warm. It doesn't rain nor snow as much as it used to either. Growing crops is harder than ever with increased UV radiation due to the thinning of the ozone layer and a frost-free growing season for crops shortened by 10 to 40 days, depending on the region. Skin cancer ran rapid during these years. The population of the Earth has dropped to the thousands. Those who didn't die in the bombings died from disease, starvation or perhaps they were killed by each other.

It is a fight for survival. Laws and morals have been long forgotten. Many have resorted to becoming bandits, killing others for everything they own. These bandits sometimes group together and live nomadically, constantly killing anyone else they can find. Those of us who cling on to some idea of morals, we try to stay away from them as much as we can and fend for ourselves. Those that live sedentary lifestyles either live in random, abandoned places or in small, forted communities that often kill those who try to enter on sight usually due to fear of disease or of spies looking to expose their location. Other people aren't the only ones we have to worry about...

Animals have been mutating faster than the world has ever seen before. The exposure to extreme radiation and chemicals has caused for change in their DNA. They are bigger, faster, and definitely more hungry. There have been cases of flying snakes, eight-foot wolves, and even three-foot wasps. Humans have been mutating too, with cases of men with large eyes with the ability to accomplish night vision and of people with teeth as sharp as razors. People are evolving regressively to be less like humans and more like beasts.

In this new, dehumanized world, we face danger at every corner. Can you survive?

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RULES:
- All normal RPG guidelines apply, meaning mature themes are allowed but if there comes a time where romantically-involved persons are getting too hot and heavy, take it to the PM.
- This is a High-Casual roleplay. Please try to keep your posts to at least a 2-3 paragraph minimum. More is encouraged.
- The RPG takes place in the US. Try to keep the characters all there.
- No Mary-Sues. You're not just going to walk down the street, defeating everything in sight like it's nothing. It's a difficult world to live in and chances are you probably don't know the first thing about living in it.
- No godmodding
- No speedposting
- Have fun!

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Age:
Gender:
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Weapons (Don't go crazy):
Skills:
Any unusual traits? Does it show physically?:
Appearance:
Brief Personality (Try to show most of your character's personality IC instead of giving it all away):
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Apocalypse
2014: Global Political Tension, initial deceleration of war and deployment of troops.
2015: Complete and Official deceleration of war of all sovereign nations. Official Start of World War III.
2016: Mass Casualties; Human Rights Violation; Mass Declining Moral, everybody wanting the war to finally end.
2017: Governments Fall but Peace Negotiations are going nowhere.
2018: The first Nuclear Missiles are lunched; Anarchy through out the world.

Post-Apocalypse
2020: Nuclear Winter and Fallout; First Signs of Mutations. Possible Pseudo-Governments are establish.
2030: Stabilization of the weather and mutations, decreasing Fallout. Total disappearance of Pseudo-Governments.
2039: Present Day....

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Placed Maria in the Character Tab after acceptance back in the interest check. I will occasionally pop in here but I'm working on a Guide right now so I may or may not just sit here and refresh the page.
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I will try to have a CS up as soon as I can but I've been rather busy lately. If I end up taking a while to get one up, I urge you not to wait up for me as I will simply jump in when I can. :)
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Hey, this looks quite cool! I'll make a character sheet or two!
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I like the idea, I'll try have a CS up soon(:
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Name:
Chris (last name unknown)

Age:
21

Gender:
Male

Nomadic or sedentary:
Nomadic

Weapons:
Thanks to Chris's strength over many enemies, and his sharp claws and teeth, he usually does not need a weapon. However, when he does, he uses a knife that he has carried around for years.

Skills:
Chris is strong, and not too bad at fighting. He is also good at surviving, such as building shelter.

Any unusual traits? Does it show physically?:
Chris can usually eat raw meat without getting ill, unless it is very bad. This cannot be seen on the outside.

Appearance:
Chris is six foot seven, with a slim, muscular body. He has pale skin, and short, black hair. His teeth are sharp, and fingernails are very sharp too.

Brief Personality:
Chris is shy at first, when speaking to people. He can get very angry, very quickly, and you do not want to get on the wrong side of him. Christ does not speak much, and when he does he won't speak for very long. He often has conversations with himself in order to pass time, as there usually aren't very many people to speak to. He does not care about other people and will not mind ripping them to shreds if it comes to it. Sometimes he even wants to kill people, for no reason.

Background:
Chris was born to a family in a settlement. However, it was attacked by bandits when he was 15 and he ran away, his family dead. When he was 16, someone began to look after him, only to betray him six months later. Thankfully, Chris got away, and has been nomadic ever since, rarely trusting anyone. He is currently in New England

Alone or with someone?:
Alone

Other:
Chris has eaten human flesh, and does not mind it.


Sorry everything's short! Tell me if you want more!
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argh, due to busy day I lacked the chance to work on the CS's -_-...
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I posted a character.... Hope it's okay.
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I will post my character sheet later (:
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Here is my CS :D
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All characters accepted :) I forgot to mention by the way: from now on, post your character sheets here before posting in the character tab. Some of you seem to have caught on to that and the sheets that have been posted here may be moved to the character tab. However, girlonfire21, you posted in the character tab first which is my fault for not telling you to do it. Luckily, your character sheet is fine but if it's okay would you mind adding a bit more detail? Thank you everyone!
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question:
when I read nomadic I think, he lives alone, but then you get the question of is he alone, as that I dont know the word: sedentary
so I am kinda at a loss with the nomadic or sedetary question on what it entitles
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question:
when I read nomadic I think, he lives alone, but then you get the question of is he alone, as that I dont know the word: sedentary
so I am kinda at a loss with the nomadic or sedetary question on what it entitles


I'd say that nomadic means that they move about a lot, not sticking in one place for long, like gypsies. But you'd have to check with the GM.
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@Drake Baku

I'm pretty sure nomadic means moving from settlement to settlement, and sedentary, means your character settles down in one place, instead of travelling around.
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question:
when I read nomadic I think, he lives alone, but then you get the question of is he alone, as that I dont know the word: sedentary
so I am kinda at a loss with the nomadic or sedetary question on what it entitles

To answer your question, nomadic means that they move around from place to place. Sedentary means to live in one area and not move out of that singular area. The question is asking if your character moves around(nomadic) or if they have set up a base(sedentary). An easy way to remember their meanings would be to thing of the hunter-gatherer society types where they move from place to place staying only long enough to harvest what they can before moving on. An agricultural society, on the other hand, would be sedentary and rely on what they can hunt in the area around them and what they can harvest from their crops.
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Yeh.


Name: Bozak

Age: 43

Gender: Male

Nomadic or Sedentary: Nomadic

Weapons: Bozak loads himself down with quite a few offensive tools. He keeps with him a 12-gauge hunting shotgun, which is his primary death-dealer, and a .44 magnum revolver at his side. Besides those two guns are his rather large hunting knife, his fire axe, and his pair of weathered brass knuckles. Traveling light is not a familiar concept with him.

Skills: From past experiences that took place both before and after the war, Bozak has accrued all the necessary survival skills to live amidst the dangers of the US wasteland. Setting up camps, starting fires, hunting critters, all the good stuff. More so, over two decades of harsh traveling and violent encounters have given the man plenty of experience in hunting down mutants, both human and otherwise. He considers that his most valuable skill of all.

Any Unusual Traits? Does it Show Physically?: As far as anyone can tell from looking, Bozakโ€™s a normal human being. Maybe not normal personality-wise but thatโ€™s beside the point.

Appearance: Bozak stands rather tall at a little over six feet, though his equipment definitely adds a bit to his height. His gut may look weighty but thereโ€™s definitely some bulk around his upper torso to offset that. He wears a gas mask over his face pretty much at all times, refusing to take it off when heโ€™s around other folks. All thatโ€™s visible is his short, messy, dark brown hair, shaved along the back and sides. He wears an olive green tank top underneath a mess of bandoliers and pockets, exposing his tanned arms riddled with marks of the past. A pair of fingerless gloves, dark gray combat trousers, black boots, and a few more belts and pockets complete his getup.

Brief Personality: Bozak, at first, is a bit difficult to figure out. All the talking he does makes him out to be something of a hunter-survivor-philosopher combination, though the last bit can definitely be substituted with other names (psycho, thug, etcetera). He doesnโ€™t display any direct hostility at folks he passes by but heโ€™s definitely not a Good Samaritan right off the bat either. He leans more towards letting everyone else do their thing while he does his. If someone wants to talk to him, heโ€™s likely to humor them for a good bit to pass the time. Although thereโ€™s some topics heโ€™ll inadvertently render uncomfortable for whoeverโ€™s in his company. All in all, a decent man, but maybe not companion material.

Background: This is actually one topic Bozak will steer in a bunch of directions. Where heโ€™s from, where heโ€™s going, why he calls himself Bozak instead of his real name (which he keeps a secret), everything. In truth, Bozak likes to say that most everything before now just isnโ€™t important enough to talk about. But he will definitely regale his past combat experiences and hunting accomplishments, taking great pride in the mutants heโ€™s killed at the behest (and hiring) of communities heโ€™s passed through. In fact heโ€™ll claim he has something of a reputation around the southeast US, but surely nothing substantial enough to carry his name past him as he travels up north, towards New York City.

Alone or with Someone?: Bozak walks alone.

Other: Bozak refers to himself in the third person. This gets on peoplesโ€™ nerves sometimes.
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@Rae Zerah thank you
guess this would mainly be for yhe back ground if its a char that has a basr at yhe start but may change depending
unless the char is meant to stay at a place XD
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Name:
Joy Carter


Age:
20


Gender:
Female


Nomadic or sedentary:
Nomadic


Weapons:
The Ruger 10-22 (a pistol), Cold Steel SRK (a knife)


Skills:
Lying, sneaking, shooting


Any unusual traits? Does it show physically?:
Her vocal chords have been altered by the radioactivity, giving her more vocal range. Because of this mutation, Joy is able to mimic almost any human or animal noise. It shows as a small lump on her throat, almost like an adam's apple.


Brief Personality:
Joy is the very definition of rough. Her scratchy voice paired with her crass, sarcastic words and general dislike for everybody makes her easily the bitch. However, when someone first meets her thatโ€™s not what they expect. She usually changes her voice to sound honeyed and sweet, is polite, and acts bubbly until she feels like revealing that she is anything but. Joy gets a kick out of tricking people into thinking things about her and can take on multiple personas. Her moral code is low and she is not afraid to kill others without a single thought or prostitute herself to a man in exchange for a gun or food. She uses people, even though she knows she shouldnโ€™t, to get what she wants and never feels guilty. She doesnโ€™t care about anyone else but herself. One time, she even made a man fall in love with her so she could take his gun in his sleep! However, she is not without her merits. Joy is extremely intelligent and prefers to use logic over emotion, making her someone to rely on in a pinch โ€“ or not, if she decided to sacrifice you to live. She is patient, her patience seeming unending and hardly ever gets mad.


Background:
Joy Carter had never known the world before its fall. She was born into a cold, moral less world and, as such, came out cold and moral less herself. She was born to a young couple, but that is all she remembers due to the fact they abandoned her in woods, now not having to worry about what people think of them. She almost died from the cold until she was found by another survivor that went by the name of Trey. Trey raised her to survive in the big bad world, keeping Joy at a distance, never allowing herself to become emotionally attached to the young Joy. As such, Joy didn't value intimacy as much as the people in the previous age had. She taught Joy to use others and to never regret it, to abandon guilt, and to manipulate.

Joy didn't know much about Trey; she didn't know her age, where she came from, what her real name was, who she was before. For awhile, Joy would ask about her life, but when she did, Trey would slap her hard on the wrist and Joy learned not to ask questions. Around the age of nine, Trey began to leave Joy for an hour or two and, by the age of ten, Trey started leaving for days. One day, Trey never came back. Joy knew this was going to happen eventually and didn't dwell on it. She immediately left with all the supplies she could find and begun to search for someone she could use.

When Joy was sixteen, she was a part of a band of bandits and helped them steal right out from others noses. She stayed with them until she was nineteen, until one day, they decided to cut their losses in order to keep the supplies to themselves - they tried to kill her. Joy barely escaped with a bullet in her arm and stumbled around, trying to keep the wound from festering, when she came to a survivor at least twenty years her senior. His name was Steven and Joy entered into a sexual relationship with him; he eventually fell in love with her. Joy found his affection for her disgusting, but she allowed him to love her, using him to get what she wants.

When she came across Maria, a woman willing to mentor her and help her survive, Joy was quick to dump Steven and leave...in the middle of the night...with some of his things.


Alone or with someone?:
With Someone
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Name: Graham Hunter
Age: 10
Gender: Male

Nomadic or sedentary: Almost always on the run
Weapons: Scoped AR-14, and an old BUCK pocketknife
Skills: Running, hiding, and burning things.
Any unusual traits?: He has a heart disease, but that doesn't stop him.

Appearance: Graham has messy, neck length brown hair, light skin and brown eyes. He always wears a worn, once-red jacket over his camo shirt. His jeans are worn and ripped in many places. Oh, and he never goes anywhere without his backpack and can always be seen holding his assault rifle.
Brief Personality : Graham doesn't care much for people, but if you gain his trust he will be loyal and helpful. He always has his heart in the right place, and always wants to help his few friends. He also enjoys fire and shooting things, so don't double cross him.
Background: He travels from refuge to refuge, but invariably stays back in the overgrown woods and forests, where he is now. His parents were killed two years ago, murdered by the gunfire of a bandit gang. Graham ran. If he ever had the chance, he would shoot them, but he isn't looking for revenge. He always means to stay in a town, but they tend to burn to the ground. If anyone asks, totally not his fault. Actually it is, don't double cross him.
Alone or with someone?: Alone, for many of the reasons above.
Moral of the story: Don't double cross Graham Hunter, unless you want to end up burnt to a crisp or with 20 bullets in your head.

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