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@Kuro In terms of my bandwidth, I intend to manage it by playing my characters in 'arcs', so to speak. Out of the six, I'll probably focus on two at a time, with the others being mostly background. As for Jason, I can certainly understand how he looks... risky. The whole idea was to take a character who absolutely feels like a trope and examine him more deeply: what does this sort of cringelord actually look like in action and what does he actually do once the real apocalypse comes? How much of his prior 'experience' and 'preparation' is actually valid? I betcha the little halfwit is just Jonesing to use his sword collection and all his parkour gear. How quickly does reality destroy the fantasy, or does it? Does he crack? Are there copious amounts of copium? To some extent, Jason was intended as a lampoon of a certain species of metagamey character, but I want to play him with some heart and authenticity as well. I'd definitely hoped to give him one or two crowning moments of awesome amid the trauma and endless humiliation conga and maybe insert some levity while I was at it, but I'd conceived of him primarily as counterprogramming. However, if multiple people feel that he's metagamey and it's a potential cause of unease within the group that you're building, even as deeply excited as I am about this RPG, I'm alright with bowing out as well. I'm easy!
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I like the newbie idea (at least for the family, not so much Tegan). My main concern is that the game dev arc slightly steps on Force and Fury's toes, since both are going for the game studio angle, albeit with different positions of course. Maybe you two could work something out; perhaps Devon and Kyle know each other? Of course you don't have to do anything, I just figured to note the potential for overlap between the two of you.

Whenever you get a chance, you can go ahead and post it with the other accepted sheets.


I can change things if you want. I do not mind and have ideas of what to replace stuff with.
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is the deadline this weekend, or will there be a brief grace period after launch? i've been busy this week, but if time isn't on my side i could knuckle down and try get a sheet done today.


Grace period. Usually I close the RP after I accept sheets, but I figure that there'd still be space for sheets in this roleplay. @nodogs has already mentioned to me about stuff too.

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I can change things if you want. I do not mind and have ideas of what to replace stuff with.


I don't particularly mind you not changing anything, as I said. Keep it if you want. I just figured to note the similarities between the two characters.

@Kuro In terms of my bandwidth, I intend to manage it by playing my characters in 'arcs', so to speak. Out of the six, I'll probably focus on two at a time, with the others being mostly background. As for Jason, I can certainly understand how he looks... risky. The whole idea was to take a character who absolutely feels like a trope and examine him more deeply: what does this sort of cringelord actually look like in action and what does he actually do once the real apocalypse comes? How much of his prior 'experience' and 'preparation' is actually valid? I betcha the little halfwit is just Jonesing to use his sword collection and all his parkour gear. How quickly does reality destroy the fantasy, or does it? Does he crack? Are there copious amounts of copium? To some extent, Jason was intended as a lampoon of a certain species of metagamey character, but I want to play him with some heart and authenticity as well. I'd definitely hoped to give him one or two crowning moments of awesome amid the trauma and endless humiliation conga and maybe insert some levity while I was at it, but I'd conceived of him primarily as counterprogramming. However, if multiple people feel that he's metagamey and it's a potential cause of unease within the group that you're building, even as deeply excited as I am about this RPG, I'm alright with bowing out as well. I'm easy!


You don't have to drop out over a single character lol

That kind of trope style is fine, it's just that it was mentioned to me that people saw Jason as an attempt to cheat the system, like a "haha, look at me, I know how to solve everything" type of character. Something that basically defeated any sort of danger or threat from the get-go, which would also defeat the purpose of the RP. But if you're more intending to go with the "life isn't a video game"-type approach, then yeah, I can give some leeway here.
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@Kuro Yup. He's much more the latter. I did want to give him one moment of awesome at some point, just to not make his narrative so straightforward, but it's mostly meant to be a harsh dose of reality, gradually and crushingly delivered until he finds a way to rebuild himself. He's enthusiastic enough in the early going that he'll see, hear, and think no evil until things really catch up to him. Once they do... that's where the juicy part begins.
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Just a heads up: There's a big event going on where I live right now, and I also have some personal matters to attend to so I may have to delay the initial launch.
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@Kuro
Hopefully I'm not too late to join. I'm just getting back into RPs after a break and this one looks fun. Anyways I made a family sheet, let me know if anything needs changing.

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So I made some minor edits, so the family is fully instead new to the town, and Kyle is a comic book artist instead of a game dev. Just letting you know.
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@Martian Post the sheet in the CS tab.

As for everyone else, I'm in the process of chewing through all my roleplay needs right now that I delayed because of weekend issues. Just got one more post for another RP and this thread to do next. If I don't get the intro up and running today I'll surely have the OP up by tomorrow, as I will be free all day Tuesday to write and do other things.
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Zeroth post + character post is up.

Feel free to react to the zeroth post or just introduce your characters. Up to you, I just wanted to give people an idea as to what to write for a post. A feeler, if you will.
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Would the people of Mulberry Street know that/how many others survived and is it known if the undead are actually dead risen again or still living and just infected?
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Would the people of Mulberry Street know that/how many others survived and is it known if the undead are actually dead risen again or still living and just infected?


Weird. The site just now gave me notification for this post.

OOCly, not much of the town made it. Mulberry Street is the one shining outlier in this case, somehow managing to avoid most of the carnage due to a multitude of factors, like being wise enough to take shelter, just plain dumb luck, etc. depending on how the player wants to write it.

ICly, no, the characters would probably not know how many people survived. It has only been a few weeks into the apocalypse, and I doubt many if any characters have ventured into Huddeen proper yet post-apocalypse. But I imagine they could infer from the undead they see wandering around other neighborhood roads or the stray undead that occasionally find their way into Mulberry Street that there aren't many people left living in Huddeen. It's basically a ghost town out there, or well, I suppose an undead town in this case.

As for the other question, yes, most people are probably aware that the undead are bitten people who have died to the infection, blood loss or w/e and came back as a zombie. I'd imagine some of the cast have probably seen it happen in person to someone they know or a stranger somewhere. Or, maybe they read it online or seen it happen on the news prior to Huddeen falling to the undead.
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So, should I post over to the Char tab or is Jason just to spicy? Let me know one way or the other.
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So, should I post over to the Char tab or is Jason just to spicy? Let me know one way or the other.


Yeah, toss em in the CS tab.
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Hello! Is there still a spot? I’m a sucker for zombie RP’s and would LOVE to join! Pretty please!
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I'm going to be so bold and drop my CS's for approval! I'm really excited about them! (In the hider below, still thinking of a restaurant name..)
I wrote my CS's mainly without looking at other CS's aside from age/general set up of the families. After I wrote I found some things that may be nice to implement!

@TGM I read that one of your characters is also 18 and just out of our high school, which means our characters were in school together and probably know each other. Would you wanna establish a friendship (#besties) there or would you rather not? Either is fine, but I would like to!

@Martian I peeked that Kit works as a server in a local diner, since my family owns a popular local diner/restaurant type of thing, would it maybe be nice if he worked there? You can totally say no if you want to of course.



Edit: I made this in excitement late at night while I'm lowkey exhausted. Please excuse some spelling/grammar mistakes or small lacking.
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I read that one of your characters is also 18 and just out of our high school, which means our characters were in school together and probably know each other. Would you wanna establish a friendship (#besties) there or would you rather not? Either is fine, but I would like to!

I wouldn't mind talking about relations. 👌 I imagine the street [inhabitants] would have prior interactions with each other so us as a RP group should maybe spitball some stuff in general at some point.
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I wouldn't mind talking about relations. 👌 I imagine the street [inhabitants] would have prior interactions with each other so us as a RP group should maybe spitball some stuff in general at some point.


Would 100% be up for this.
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I wouldn't mind talking about relations. 👌 I imagine the street [inhabitants] would have prior interactions with each other so us as a RP group should maybe spitball some stuff in general at some point.


Exactly! Awesome!
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Exactly! Awesome!


Seeing how my character is the town Doc, I’m obviously up for relations as well.
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Seeing how my character is the town Doc, I’m obviously up for relations as well.


I was actually considering asking you that Axel would be a known patient due to diabetes! So they'd at the very least know each other/DJ would know his condition.
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