Even though you’ve most likely spent your entire life here, I’d like to reintroduce you to the only home most of you have ever known: Ishida Point. Plentiful crops, a scenic river with easily cleaned water, and the tallest walls you’ve ever laid your eyes on. Paradise on Earth, some would say. Established by Keith Ishida about 80 years ago, this place has grown from a miserable settlement struggling to survive to a bonafide stronghold, a testament, standing tall, to Humanity’s resilience and adaptability. Only issue is, it’s the only one of it’s kind. For all we know, Ishida Point could be the last place with living, healthy humans left on Earth. That’s why you, my friend, have been given the “honor” of being sent out on the third of the “Ishida Expeditions.” These suicide missions, thought up by the bigwigs in the government, if you can call it that, are meant to be missions of goodwill, to try and see if there really is anyone else left besides us. Most of us have been locked safely behind these walls for so long that we don’t know what’s even out there, and few have returned to tell us the details.
We, the lucky ones chosen (more like drafted) for these expeditions, know the real reason these missions were started.
Recently, in the last decade or two, what was simply a council of leaders brought together to make decisions, has grown into a full blown government, and with that growth, came division. Before, there were no “sides”, simply those who led us, and those who advised them, but now, “parties” have sprouted up. The two main ones are easy to remember, the “Purists” and the “Curists.” Before these parties were established, the leaders were really a mixture of both, some wanting to take stern measures to thin out the population of the dead outside the walls, and those willing to capture and do tests on the dead, finding out what they could about the disease that made them the way there were.
Slowly but surely, disagreements began to rear their heads. Those interested in attempting to create some sort of vaccine or even a cure argued that taking violent measures against the dead was hurting not only the chance perhaps being able to bring some of the dead back to the world of the living, but perhaps bringing the world back to the way it was. Those interested in eradicating the threat insisted that too much time and resources were being wasted on failed or fruitless studies, and the act of capturing the dead was too risky and put too many lives on the line to be worth it.
I think you can see where this is going.
Political dissidence in a world where we just recently stopped killing people over simple disagreements is a dangerous thing. Everyone is armed, everyone has killed, and they aren’t scared to do it again.What better way than to get rid of any dissidents, than to just send them away to their deaths, making it out to be some “grand cause”?
“Well, what’s stopping those people who got drafted from staging a coup?”
Well, not only does it help that this government of ours is growing more totalitarian as it ages, giving us the North Korean treatment, (do what we say or your family dies), but the government has guns, too, and a coup could end up destroying one of the last known bastions of Humanity left in the world, which, understandably, doesn’t sound like the best idea, now does it.
So, we have a choice to make: Go out into the New World and try to stake our own claim, not knowing if we'll ever be able to see the family and friends we leave behind again, or do we stand on our own, refusing to leave, and starting a war that could be Humanity’s last?
Alright, I know this is sparse, I know it’s rough and short on details, but I needed to write my idea out to be able to see if it’s worth expanding on, so I’d like to see how many of you are interested!
I already have a few other ideas for the zombies, the various factions of Ishida’s point, and I already have the endgame in mind, if it even comes to that. If you think that you could contribute more ideas or help manage the RP or things of that nature, I could always use a Co-Gm, as my work hours and life are a little unpredictable, and aren’t always very conducive to roleplay. It’s been about a month or two since I last roleplayed, so hopefully I can manage to see this through to the end, but yeah! That’s it. If you’re interested, please say so, and if you have any questions or ideas, PLEASE don’t hesitate to post here or message me!
Thanks for reading!
We, the lucky ones chosen (more like drafted) for these expeditions, know the real reason these missions were started.
Recently, in the last decade or two, what was simply a council of leaders brought together to make decisions, has grown into a full blown government, and with that growth, came division. Before, there were no “sides”, simply those who led us, and those who advised them, but now, “parties” have sprouted up. The two main ones are easy to remember, the “Purists” and the “Curists.” Before these parties were established, the leaders were really a mixture of both, some wanting to take stern measures to thin out the population of the dead outside the walls, and those willing to capture and do tests on the dead, finding out what they could about the disease that made them the way there were.
Slowly but surely, disagreements began to rear their heads. Those interested in attempting to create some sort of vaccine or even a cure argued that taking violent measures against the dead was hurting not only the chance perhaps being able to bring some of the dead back to the world of the living, but perhaps bringing the world back to the way it was. Those interested in eradicating the threat insisted that too much time and resources were being wasted on failed or fruitless studies, and the act of capturing the dead was too risky and put too many lives on the line to be worth it.
I think you can see where this is going.
Political dissidence in a world where we just recently stopped killing people over simple disagreements is a dangerous thing. Everyone is armed, everyone has killed, and they aren’t scared to do it again.What better way than to get rid of any dissidents, than to just send them away to their deaths, making it out to be some “grand cause”?
“Well, what’s stopping those people who got drafted from staging a coup?”
Well, not only does it help that this government of ours is growing more totalitarian as it ages, giving us the North Korean treatment, (do what we say or your family dies), but the government has guns, too, and a coup could end up destroying one of the last known bastions of Humanity left in the world, which, understandably, doesn’t sound like the best idea, now does it.
So, we have a choice to make: Go out into the New World and try to stake our own claim, not knowing if we'll ever be able to see the family and friends we leave behind again, or do we stand on our own, refusing to leave, and starting a war that could be Humanity’s last?
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Alright, I know this is sparse, I know it’s rough and short on details, but I needed to write my idea out to be able to see if it’s worth expanding on, so I’d like to see how many of you are interested!
I already have a few other ideas for the zombies, the various factions of Ishida’s point, and I already have the endgame in mind, if it even comes to that. If you think that you could contribute more ideas or help manage the RP or things of that nature, I could always use a Co-Gm, as my work hours and life are a little unpredictable, and aren’t always very conducive to roleplay. It’s been about a month or two since I last roleplayed, so hopefully I can manage to see this through to the end, but yeah! That’s it. If you’re interested, please say so, and if you have any questions or ideas, PLEASE don’t hesitate to post here or message me!
Thanks for reading!
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