To think it all began years ago, the gradual decline that would bring the once bustling cities of the world to a halt. The governments of man failing to protect them from something which couldn’t be stopped, their mindless movement unceasing even when the conventional means were used. It all started with murders, disappearances, and kidnappings. At first, nobody thought much about it. The families of those who were found dead or went missing mourned but everybody thought “Hey, it won’t happen to me. They were just unlucky.” How wrong their thoughts were, the mindless act of pushing away something which soon became so unbearing that nobody knew how to act. So unbearing that the pillars which supported them collapsed like a regular man trying to be Atlas.
They came one day, the shambling masses of the missing and kidnapped. They were reported found and rescued by all those who had seen them, who had recognized their faces from the milk cartons and daily news reporting on them. The media swarmed, they were taken away by their crying families and given a home. They smelled of rot though, unbearably so that those who lived with them often had to bathe them everyday to remove the smell. They were just as they had been the moment they were taken or disappeared, but they were mindless and unresponsive. They didn’t eat, didn’t sleep, simply sat and went wherever they were led. Then, one of them killed somebody. It wasn’t like the movies, the ones where they mindlessly attacked the man and ripped them to shreds to consume the flesh. No, it was something more.
The Reborn, as some had taken to calling them, cared not about eating their target but used their teeth and bare hands as they were the most immediate weapons. They had no motive for who they killed, simply striking with fury and mindless abandon. Those who had been left out on the streets became a danger to civilians, attacking whenever. One couldn’t go anywhere on foot or otherwise without worrying about being attacked. The Cops, the National Guard, they tried to stop them but a bullet through the brain wouldn’t end it nor removing the head from the body. They kept going, ambulating wildly and attacking whatever they touched. Burning the bodies was the only way but the stench… the look of pain and inhuman screaming brought that idea to a halt quickly. People started to riot, break down mentally in public and plead with their governments for some kind of safety only to be met with half-hearted and half-assed attempts.
Looting, murder, kidnapping, it all came crashing down as people stopped caring about being civil and did as they wished. Humanity showed its true colors finally and we realized that, if we were to survive, it was either alone or together. Those who had a common goal banded together, protecting each other from the danger of the Reborn and outsiders. Paranoia brought mass killings as those who pleaded with the less civil of groups were often killed out of fear. More Reborn came, crawling out of their graves and rising from those who were murdered in the months following their arrival. People got use to the sight of them and the fear of them died off, so long as one was safe behind the walls of many upstart towns that is. The Outside is death, the Inside is life. Within, it is as if everything were normal. But even being normal comes at a cost, especially in a world like this one.
Character Sheet
Appearance: (and a brief description!)
Name:
Age:(16 minimum, no max)
Origins: (Where did they originally come from, doesn’t have to be in New York?)
Personality:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Backstory:(What did they do before the apocalypse? Were they one of the people whose family member disappeared and came back? At least 1 paragraph and a half.)
Profession: (What do they do in the GYNC?)
Equipment/weaponry: (This can be anything, all citizens are allowed to carry weapons of their own wherever they go but have restricted ammo rations.)
Other: (Anything extra about your character which doesn’t fall in the other categories.)
Rules
-GM decisions are final but, if your argument against it is valid, a change in decision will be made.
-Keep your actions and items logical, this is an apocalypse and in a government style settlement where rations are controlled.
-You can be however old or young you want, but remember that it has been ten years since the Reborn first appeared and younger characters will be less knowledgeable of things from before the apocalypse.
-If you are gonna be absent for a prolonged period of time, just message me.
