I'm almost out. Have we decided on where we're starting?

Okay, Robin will go to the boat.

CallaLily180 said
I'm almost out. Have we decided on where we're starting?

Almost out of school, or almost out of the RP, or almost out of patience?

Tearstone said
Almost out of school, or almost out of the RP, or almost out of patience?

School.

My mini terror gets out of school tomorrow o.o

Oh really? Exciting.

Is it safe to assume the Asylum is abandoned when we arrive? Or are there patients still in the building? Need to know for my introductory post.

I'm going to go ahead and rule the following:

The asylum dates back to 1915, it served for quite a number of years as a sanitarium and psychiatric ward. Due to hurricanes repeatedly bashing it, the place became run down. A lot of patients were removed either by their family or case workers. In an attempt to revitalize the business (it is a business after all) they applied for renovation funding with the state. They were awarded a good sum of funding and construction began. Many of the patients were removed, but some of the more docile and clearer ones were allowed to stay if they chose. The place ran on minimal staffing, nothing more than a skeleton crew. It was a relief for some, and they did have the ability to get way from the banging and sawing and noise.

Perhaps Brandt even worked at this construction site, helping to restore and improve the building. The new construction seems to be building on the old which had been built quite sturdy to begin with. Construction crew abandoned the project as soon as the outbreak started, seeking to get home to their families. A couple staff members may still be there, looking after the small population left over, no more than five or six... However.. they might have been overrun and turned into walkers. The staff could have fled, and could have taken the few remaining residents with them to somewhere else.

I do intend for there to be a grounds keeper/landscaper still on the property, holed up in a small workshop, sectioned off. The entire compound is surrounded by a chain link fence, topped with barbed wire angled in and out on the top. There's also an iron square tube bar fence running around the property set into a low one foot wall of brick and concrete,, with two-foot high crenelations every ten feet. It's decorative in look, but it's hard to climb, even for the living. The top features arrow or spear type tips an inch or so wide and about two inches long. Not exactly sharp on the edges but the points would not be fun to slip onto. This fence, again, is hard to climb, is much sturdier than the cyclone fence, and could possibly hook and slow down any geek that did manage to get to the top. Fence is 10', both of them. There's an iron gate at the front with a buzzer, but that's not active now and would need to be secured with a chain and lock or carabiner or something.

Ohhh nice

So if I have this right we make our first post about how we are going into the group we are signed to?

Pretty much, or where your character's current whereabouts. If they're close to the asylum, or the boat, what their situation is.. etc. For instance, Chris starts out on the boat but I've positioned him out there so he could possibly rescue people nearby.

Updated a few small details on the perimeter. Also, if power can be restored, there are security cameras inside and outside the building. There are some radios too, some food supplies, water, showers, so on. There is a generator on site. If it's run on natural gas it could still be operational, or you might have to find some fuel for it if not.

I'll get my first post up soon, it will be as long as I can get it.

Good posts, Liah and Mouse. Thankfully chain-link is easier to climb, mostly. Electroplated square tube fencing isn't. There -is- a cross bar about a foot from the top for support and rigidity. So it's not super secure from a determined climber that can think.. bot for the geeks... it should be pretty effective for the time being.

I was hoping my first post would be pretty decent. So thanks I'm glad you said something. And yeah I'm keeping the fence thing in mind. I want it to be realistic and not some 'all mighty character who can do anything'.

My character is going to climb a tree and faceplant on the cement.

Yikes, that sounds painful

It will get her over the fence though. She isn't super agile but almost anyone can climb a tree.

Do we have trees?

If not I may just have her do a series of climbing maneuvers and vaulting.

I think there are trees? I mean, why wouldn't there be?

Update on fencing, just so everybody is on the same page. The spiked fence here, I would say the poles are set into the concrete, making the fencing even stronger. In looking at the fence, I think the Asylum group could possibly defend the perimeter quite nicely atop the platforms with something like axes, bats, maces..anything that gave them a decent reach. Geeks couldn't reach them, but the group could reach the geeks and knock 'em out one by one. Of course, you could always spear through the fence too.

The main gate is decorative but made out of the same material and is flanked by a guard shack and visitor check-in building




The chain link fence about ten feet or more behind the main exterior fence is just a typical perimeter fence.

Nice!