One last Chance (A new twist on the Walking Dead enclosed)

[Kodiak]

The Walking Dead: One Chance Left

“We’re not a people worth saving, plain and simple. We’re completely beyond that—both the undead and the few still living. Yeah, 'living.' Some life, huh? But it’s the only life we could ever possibly live if we want to stay alive another day. It’s our life that terrifies me.”
Bryant A. Loney

The world is dead, five years... its been five years since the beginning of this parasite, this disease, this act of God was stricken upon the Earth. Almost everyone is dead, or at least that's what I believe, every single attempt at restarting civilization has been meant by men who choose to take what they want, even if it means to kill and this has lead to there being no true safe place in anymore. Every single walled town has fallen violently, the people who once lived in them now wonder their streets as the dead. The few who have managed to survive this long are scattered and forced apart by thousands upon thousands of Walkers, running as far as they can towards nothing but certain death. There is no hope left anymore, there is no chance, there is no reason to live, this truly is the end of our world and the civilization that was once known as man... or at least that's how it was. As crazy at it may sound a rumor emerged from the north, a rumor that someone had a cure for the disease and they were willing to give it to all those who could make it to their location. The times are desperate and there is no guarantee that there is such a thing as a cure, but what is guaranteed is that we will not last much longer in the Dead Lands. We have one chance left and if it ends up being false then at least I will die knowing in the very end that I tried.

Colonel Sharp (USMC)

Ok so without making a really long winded explanation I have written a really short intro into this idea and will explain it a little more specific. The world is shit now, its been five years, there are no safe havens left, no towns, no walls, most of the living population is officially dead. This is pretty much the final prelude to human extinction, and there are only very few left alive who are witnessing it. However there now seems to be hope again, a mysterious broadcast has been heard on any device capable of playing it, a broadcast that says a cure had been found, while there is much skepticism there is also the reality that if this could be real then this would be the last chance to save humanity. So against all odds the remaining survivors of the human race who have heard the broadcast race to its location in search of its sender and the cure. Now this is where the twist is going to come in, the cure is not some secret vial of medicine or a vaccine of any sort... no the cure is taking shape in the form of... a time machine built by the last surviving genius in the world. Yes the hope for humanity takes form in the shape of a mythical device that should not be possible but has become reality, this roleplay is ideally going to have two parts too it, the first will be converging on this cure and reaching the location mentioned in the broadcast, and the second part will be going back in time to stop this from ever becoming a reality and changing the human fate.

Ideally we are going to be creating the reason how this disease became a reality, the origin of what has destroyed the world, the final chapter of the story. With that said I am looking for a small group of dedicated roleplayers to brain storm with on this story. So if your interested in this story and are not the start em and leave em type shoot me a message below.

[SilverWings]

I would love to commit to this so I'm throwing in my interest. I really like both elements that you have come up with and I think it would make for a story that suits me. So I would like to register myself in for this. It's a good introduction and I can't wait to see it come to fruition.

I think it would be interesting with the time machine aspect to explore how much could really be changed. I wouldn't be averse to the possibility of a bad ending, or perhaps a pyyrhic victory type idea, where humanity is, instead of saved, still forced to go through the apocalypse but not as badly threatened with extinction, or some other kind of bleak outlook.

Of course, with the zombie thing being typically a plague I definitely think that the usual route for the end-game would be preventing the research of a cure for a disease or something along those lines. We'll have to see if that's what people decide on but I wonder if that would be considered too cliché for this story, and if we want to go for something different.

[Kodiak]

Thanks for your interest and also the collab, Iv watched the walking dead since day one and I am a Walking Deadophobe so naturally me and my bro are always discussing how it would end. I mean lets be honest with ourselves there is not much hope in the show and the survivors have had to resort to a lunatic state of mind just to survive. But the one question I have always posed is how did it all start? The reality is we may never truly know how it all began, however that is exactly why I want to do this story. To come up with a reason worthy of the show however in the current world there is no realistic way to portray that which is why I wanted to do a heavy mix of science Fiction i.e. a time machine.

As for the ending if it is good or bad that is to be determined, I am less apposed to things ending badly then most Iv always been sort of the darker side of the story type of person. Iv even thought that perhaps the reason this all started was because they went back in time to stop it, you know one of them time paradoxes. Iv literally been thinking of hundreds of directions in which this story could go which is exactly why I am looking for some creative minds to add to the process.

As for the disease route you mentioned above, your very right it is rather cliche, unfortunately a lot of the roads we could take are heavily cliche, iv been thinking of original idea's, no disease cures, no genetically engineered virus, no youth fountain elixir gone wrong but something fresh. I had thought of a story line involving some kind of Alien virus but I scratched that idea out all together in the end mostly because in the realm of Walking Dead that just seemed way too out of story for that universe and also X-Files had a similar thing going with an Alien Virus but in different aspects.

[Nevix]

I'm intrigued.