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Surviving IAAN


Life in the country is seemingly normal. Everything is going fairly well within the world. That is until children the age of thirteen and younger start to seemingly drop like flies. Panic spreads through the nation and after a few months scientist discover a disease that is later named IAAN, Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration. Once the death count slows nearly to a stop it is discovered that approximately 98% of children thirteen and younger have died with all under the age of eight gone and a few fourteen and fifteen-year-old children dead as well. Fear comes to a max within nearly all citizens of America, but the fear is not aimed at the disease. The majority of the fear is aimed at those left.

Soon the government sets up a system to 'help' the children. They request that if any child exhibits any symptoms of IAAN that they should report it to the government so they may be relocated to 'Rehabilitation Camps'. This is just the cover story though. Once a child gets onto the bus to be relocated it's obvious something is wrong. Guards with guns and not being allowed to even speak. Fear and tension rise within the children. As soon as the children arrive at their assigned camp they are instantly put through a screening process and then designated a color. Some don't understand, but a few already know what the colors mean. The harsh reality comes to light when each child realizes they are now a prisoner of the government for something out of their control and there is nothing they can do about it. Will you try anyway?

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Welcome to the Surviving IAAN interest check. This RP is based on a book series by Alexandra Bracken. The Darkest Minds is an apocalyptic books series pertaining to the children of America that are infected by a disease called IAAN, Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration. A virus that originally killed at least 98% percent of the children, while the others gained peculiar abilities. The children that live through the pandemic that gained abilities are sent to 'rehabilitation camps', but these camps more resemble contraction camps or maybe extremely intense boot camps. A lot of the camps were very different than others. Think how in Fallout games the Vaults all did things differently. All of the children have one of two goals, escape or survive.

This is a books series that as soon as I began reading it I was absorbed in the story. For a while I have wanted to role play this story, despite it being so large it's also surprisingly easy to follow. It's also fairly easy to manipulate the characters in the stories, and I think it could be really interesting and really epic. I will put a few of the things that will remain the same down below, these same things also helped the story progress very nicely and give a very strong since of paranoia and allow even more people to join. I will not set a limit to how many join, but of it seems like their is a larger amount of interest than I expect then I will set a limit. Until I know how many people are interested everyone will be limited to a single character. Depending on the way this interest check goes I may change that.

Now, onto all the important info. As I have already stated the children who lived gained abilities. These abilities were classified into colors. Before putting it off here they are:



Within the books their are a few people, groups, and some items that should be mentioned here.



Rules and Regulations


Here is where I falter. But lets go for it.

RULES
#1: All guild rules apply. Duh.
#2: Please be active and put forth effort in the RP.
#3: Respect is a must. Please respect others in the RP and yourself. I don't want any fighting in the OOC. Save it for the IC.
#4: Romance is allowed, but all guild rules must be respected. Limitation of kissing is preferred, but fade to black in some cases may be used.
#5: Cursing is allowed, but I'm gonna go ahead and say I don't like cursing. It bugs me for multiple reasons and I feel it hinders writing, but I'll allow it due to the kind of RP setting this is.
#6: I don't necessarily have a minimum number of paragraphs you have to post as long as it isn't rediculously consistent and their is substance to the post.
#7: I don't want someone to go to sleep and wake up to like 15 IC posts. It has happened to me before. So, those that post quickly let there be AT LEAST two different users to post before you post again for a certain character.
#8: Please post at least 2 times a week within the OOC. I would love for this RP to run smoothly as well as effectively. If you disappear from the OOC I will assume you have dropped the RP unless you stated beforehand you have an issue that keeps you from posting in OOC. Just communicate and this rule won't ever take affect.
#9: Everyone is allowed to have two characters. If someone wants a third I will look through their past on this site to determine if I will allow them to. If they are new to the site then either Wait a while and I'll see how you do or link me to a site where you RP'ed before.
#10: Be creative.
#11: I am all for Collabs as long as they don't shut others out.
#12: PM a GM if you have questions.
#13: Read Lady Amalthea's Rpers Guide To Etiquette. You can get to it by finding one of her posts and a link is in her signature. To prove to me you read it copy and paste the thirteenth line of the post then send it to me in a PM.
#14: Mention me or a Co-Gm in your Character are wanting approved.
#15: For now all users first characters will be Psi's. After that your second character may be anything else within the world.
#16: In regards to Red's and Orange's it is slightly unlikely anyone will be one of those. This is due to the government killing all Oranges they could and killing large numbers of Red's and taking the rest to camps where they brain washed them to be soldiers. You'll have to be detailed in the history of how they survive this up to the point we fully start to get a Red or Orange.
Rules may be added to or changed as things go.

I would also like to add that it has been three years since I read the books. I had borrowed them so most of the facts come from memory or the Internet so I may get certain things wrong and I apologize for that.

How I want the RP to Go


Alright, let me start by saying what we will do if/when the RP starts. We can either start with what occurred when IAAN first started happening to the point our Psi kids are taken to a camp the do a two year time-skip, or leave that as a semi-memory thing for our characters. Either or works with me. Both get what I want out of the beginning.

As of right now all users first characters will be 10-15. The ones who were in the 8-13 age range when IAAN hit two years in the future so do your character sheet like that. All our characters for now that are Psi's will be sent to the same camp, which I haven't picked a name for yet. They don't all have to be from the same school or anything, but somewhat close to the location of the camp. Maybe a couple of miles.

This RP will be a slight AU of the books for the sheer fact that our characters can participate in the main story line if we want. Even if we don't participate in the main story main characters may show up. Depending on how things go I may speed up time with how things happened in the book. Example is that if we need/want I can speed up Ruby's escape from Thurmond. All main characters will be controlled by me and Co-GM's but other than that if someone makes an NPC to their character and they allow it you can control them. I will allow people to make NPCs connected to their character, but I may kill them if it seems necessary or makes sense. Which means it probably won't even happen.

Also, all characters we use CAN DIE. If they do something stupid I'm not going to adjust the way the NPC they are fighting to change the way they do things just so they live. I will avoid killing PC's as much as possible though so don't worry to much. More detail to be given as time goes on.

Also here is the Character Sheet:

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This OOC post is dedicated to informing everyone of updates and the such.

Update on 10/3/16 at 11:27PM.


Updated Rules 9, 15, and 16. Also edited a small part of How I Want the RP to Go section.
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Also, guys. Here is a pretty interesting thing I found.

A pretty cool thing I found. It's a Prezi on the first book. May be helpful.
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When will you have an example CS up?
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Edit:
Guys, I've decided the location of the camp will be Du Pont, Georgia.

Edit Edit: I'm a dumb dumb who replaced a 4 with a 2. Thanks for pointing that out Jackalope.
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I hope this works!

Edit: Sweden is clean and still a perfect place to raise your children once again.
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@JackalopeLove I must have forgotten to put this in the first OOC, but IAAN is something that only affected USA. It also happened very rapidly. From the time of the first deaths to the starting of camps was a couple of months. In the books there is a moment when some characters contemplate it thinking it may be a biological weapon or some sort of poison in the water. All countries pretty much cut off America in a way and for the sake of avoiding spoilers I won't mention something until Bass gets to that point. He'll know when he gets there.

Other than that the CS looks good. Just edit that small stuff and you'll be good.
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@alexfangtalonKK easy fix!
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So here's the CS I've been working on, and I feel like I did fairly good job on it except for probably the history which I feel like I'm gonna have to change.

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@PatrickDrummer Every Red has some part of them that twitches out of their control. Can you pick one and place it under the Power tab.

Also, in the history section who do you mean by 'They all'. I'm assuming you mean their siblings but wanted to clarify first. Also unless the two siblings had prior experience as military personnel or police officers they would have had to go through basic training first before being put around Psi's. There are other kinds of jobs they could get to be close by though if you still want them there.

Also, this is for anyone who wants to be an Orange or Red, I have come up with something that can happen when all our characters first show up at camp to make it easier to hide their abilities. It has more or less something to do with a few trying to fight back while being scanned. All you really have to do now is state how your character kept from using their powers since Orange and Red have the hardest time controlling their abilities. I hope that by trying to find an easier way for people to be able to use Orange's and Red's I'm not making things harder or more confusing.

@JackalopeLove If they were to immigrates to America just before IAAN started then she would have to be either 12 or 13 when they immigrated due to how quick it was.

Also to both of you and @MechonRaptor. I found a web site that has a good chunk of the first book. manybooks4u.com/new/e2992.html I would ask you only look at the beginning stuff to understand how the people in the world felt. I leave it up to you if you want to read further. I just don't want to be unfair to Bass since he probably bought the books or borrowed them from someone who bought them. I do think if y'all knew how most characters thought in the beginning it may help.
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I added what part of him twitches to his power tab. Also his brother was a police officer but do to budget cuts he was relieved of duty, so that meant his sister had to do basic training. And yes I meant siblings when I said 'they all.' Hope this clears up somethings.
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I'm contemplating either having a guy or girl for this, but I'd like to know some of your opinions on which I should have. It wouldn't particularly affect anything, so I don't mind either or, but I just want to know if you want a balance of gender or not.
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@PatrickDrummer@JackalopeLove Alright, you're both free to move them on over.

@MechonRaptor We don't need to have a balance. Since I'm allowing multiple characters I think it may end up being fine. I will say that different genders will affect how others treat you, but you already knew that.
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@MechonRaptor It looks good. I like how you went into the detail of what happened with his siblings. Honestly felt like it came almost right out of the book. Reminded me of reading the part where Ruby(MC) talked about her experience at the beginning. You can move him on over.
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@BassDropp Looks good. You can move him on over. By the way, do you know what the device they use to identify the Psi's is called. I still can't find its name.
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I never caught the name of it either, I only heard it called a screening device of some sort. @alexfangtalon
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So when's the first IC post gonna go up?
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@PatrickDrummer We can't do that yet because both you and @BassDropp have neglected something y'all need to do. A hint is that it has something to do with a request I made of everyone in a certain part of the first OOC. This either means y'all didn't read it or you forgot. I hope it's the latter.

Also is anyone good at drawing cause I'm trying get a map of the camp for y'all but I suck at drawing.
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