Walking Dead: Europe Interest Check

[Carlyle]

Hey RPG! Your friendly neighborhood Poi is here with a new interest check straight out of the oven. Seeing a few Walking Dead RPs on the Guild got me thinking: what if I base a Walking Dead RP outside of the US? I've been RPing for roughly a decade now and I have yet to find a TWD RP that wasn't in the US, and so now we're here with this interest check.

I didn't put too much effort into this interest check because this is mainly for me to gauge interest before going out and making an OOC. I don't have anything solidified as of yet, but I plan for the player characters to be huddled up in Brussels or the surrounding areas like how we see the group outside Atlanta for sometime. Stuff will happen, people will die, and the gears of the story will move on from there.

Now, if still have you after reading through my laziness (more like sleepiness seeing it is 2:30AM as I write this), I've provided the rules and CS below ahead of time. Feel free to read through them, or just state your interest below in a post if you're still sticking around.

• As with any RP, all guild rules apply to the RP and those partaking as roleplayers.
• My word is law. I'm a pretty carefree guy evident as of this interest check and will listen to concerns, but don't test me with petty arguments once I've made my decision.
• No godmodding, no overpowered characters, etc. We're all capable roleplayers to know this.
• Romance is allowed, but before it delves into the mature category, fade to black and take it to the PMs.
• Please be active for the sake of the RP. If you must leave for IRL reasons or wish to drop out, please tell us instead of leaving us hanging.
• Players will be limited to one, perhaps two characters. NPCs can be made, but please put effort in to the sheets.
• Format the CS as much as you want, but do not post it in the character tab until it has been accepted.
• I will not accept any sheets that aren't in a spoiler. I will look over them, but they will not be accepted until put in a hider.
• Post expectations are lax to limit speed posting. A post is expected at least once a week to avoid rushed and hastily written posts.
• Quality over quantity. I would rather have a few great paragraphs over a novel from my players.
• Finally, as a way to see if people read these, the first person to correctly guess my favorite color will get a free pistol with a few rounds. One guess only per person. EDIT: Color has already been picked, but still comment your favorite color.

Character Sheet

Name: Obvious as it can be.
Gender: Male or Female.
Age: Also obvious.
Ethnicity: Make it plausible within your backstory. If you wanna be Japanese or something, go ahead, just give me a reason why they're in Belgium other than "they're just there."
Appearance Description: Mandatory without picture, otherwise optional.
Birthplace: Whatever you want as long as it sounds plausible.
Former Life: No military (at most I'll allow police). Just regular civilians from your fast food worker to your factory employee to your 9-5 office worker.
Gear: I don't want to see anyone packing severe heat. You people know who you are. Otherwise, hatchet, two water bottles, etc.
Skills: Gimme a list of at least five skills that your character happens to be good at both pre and post-apocalypse.
Likes & Dislikes: Only three are required for both (anything else is optional).
Personality: A few words or sentences to describe your character, but short enough to allow for character development.
Biography: At least 2-3 paragraphs minimum with enough detail.
Other: Got family still alive? Have an quirk that isn't quite a skill? What about a song that describes your character? Write it down here.

[Todd Howard]

You poisoned my mind and made me start thinking about this, you bastard. I'll see about writing up a character tonight or tomorrow.

I'll be the hero and take the first shot at your favorite color: Purple.

[glitchykins]

I'll be the klutz who stumbles in and says your favorite color is silver.. then slowly slip off before anyone realizes I tripped the alarm.

[Artymis]

Sign me up. I'm gonna take a swing at it and guees that your favorite color is black?

[Carlyle]

@Raddum@glitchykins@Artymis I appreciate the interest, but I have to say your guesses are incorrect.

[Tera]

Spring green?

[Carlyle]

Spring green?

@Tera

I'll have to say you went a little bit too specific on that one, but yes, green.

Your prize

FN Five-Seven (5 rounds remaining).

[Artymis]

Aww, thought I had it as well. Though I have got a question for you Poi, why did you pick Belgium of all places in Europe?

[Carlyle]

Aww, thought I had it as well. Though I have got a question for you Poi, why did you pick Belgium of all places in Europe?

@Artymis

I had three ideas in mind. France, Germany and the Benelux region. I eventually decided on the Benelux, but that left me with another choice to make: Netherlands, Belgium or Luxembourg? Since Belgium is at the middle of the crossroads of my original two choices and in the middle of Netherlands and Luxembourg, I settled on Belgium.

Melting pot, really. A ton of dialects and languages exist in certain areas of Belgium, so it gives people more options in terms of ethnicity and stuff.

[RumikoOhara]

@Poi

Poor innocent Poi

[Inmento Riku]

This sounds amazing, are you still looking for people to join?

[RumikoOhara]

@Poi

Name as yet unknown but profession Interpol Inspector

[Carlyle]

This sounds amazing, are you still looking for people to join?

@Inmento Riku

Sure, the more the merrier.

[Inmento Riku]

Colour: Even though it was solved, Imma still guess and say...um....Black? (CAUSE IT'S A SHADE!)

Character Sheet

Name: Mikaela Smoak

Gender: Female

Age: 21

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Appearance Description: Mikaela clocks in at one hundred twenty-eight pounds and is five feet six inches tall. She has medium shoulder length blonde hair and emerald green eyes. She's usually seen wearing her casual attire, which is just a white shirt with kirby on it, since she's a gaming nerd, blue jeans, and harry potter-esque glasses.

Birthplace: Canada was where she was born, but she moved to Belgium a few years back to attend school.
Former Life: In her spare time, Mikaela made some small games using her small amount of coding knowledge, but she was studying to become a lawyer which involved her moving to Belgium for schooling.

Gear: Leather jacket that she only has to try and pick up people at bars. A small butterfly knife. A mario water bottle.

Skills:
Pre-Zombie outbreak: Gaming, Basic law, Cooking (as long as it wasn't anything fancy), archery which she learned so that she could try and be like Laura Croft, and swimming. She's able to swim for hours and hold her breath underwater for about two and a half minutes.

Post Zombie Outbreak: Mikaela isn't terrible with a knife but she isn't amazing with one either, she became amazing at talking her way out of and sometimes even into a lot of situations, she learned how to set some basic traps for both zombies and terrible human beings which was inspired by Home Alone, and she learned quickly how to sauter and stitch some wounds.

Likes & Dislikes:
Likes: Stuffed animals, comic books, and sleeping in late when she can.
Dislikes: Mushrooms, guns, violence unless necessary.

Personality: Mikaela is a sweet but shy individual. Also if she's with people and she needs help, she'd never ask for it as she'd never want to "bother" anyone. She's adorably nerdy but a little naive at times as well.

Biography: (I hate these by the way....I can't do them justice. If this sucks..I apologize in advance.) Mikaela was born into your typical middle-class family. She had a decent life with many friends, a family who loved her, and was even amazing in school. She was always interested in law, and when an opportunity came up for her to take the course she wanted in Belgium, she immediately jumped on the first plane out without really planning anything. She usually just goes with the flow and it's never steered her wrong before. She has sometimes been defined as closed off but that's because she doesn't like letting people know when she needs help or is feeling emotional, and that has caused some problems.

As soon as the outbreak started, well let's just say Mikaela wasn't really aware. She had the day off school and had been spending her day off relaxing online playing the new Mario Odyssey. It wasn't until she took a break and tried to order pizza to no avail that she became aware of the zombie outbreak. Well, this wasn't the worst thing to happen, but it was second in her mind. So she decided to prepare herself, arming herself with the butterfly knife her dad gave her as a going away gift, her water bottle, her jacket that she looked damn fine in and her backpack, she decided to leave and try to make it out in this world alone, as she knew literally no one in Belgium.

Other: The best song to describe Mikaela is Amaranth by Nightwish, which is found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybyU0pdIu4Y Mikaela is also flirtatious, it's more of a defense mechanism than anything, but she is. She'll also only flirt with the same gender now after the outbreak....due to men being...well...scary, least to her.

[Lord Orgasmo]

Hey asshole. I'm following you.

Also, is this like... a year after the outbreak or...?

[Sh1nya]

I'm, in. I'm in desperate need for an to after a long hiatus

[PitxGirl93]

I have a german character from another zombie RPG I did. Can I possibly join with this character? If so, is there anything I need to change?

Sarafine

Basic Information

Name:

Sarafine “Sara” Friedrich

Age:

27

Nationality:

German

Ethnicity:

Caucasian

Sex:

Female

Physical Disabilities:

• Early stages of cerebral palsy

Physical Identifiers

• A mole on the right side of her neck
• Light shaking of hands

Appearance:

Most people would look at Sarafine and think she probably wouldn't survive in the apocalypse, given how small she is and her condition, but really she does quite well. At least, so far anyway. She isn’t dainty type of girl and rarely is seen in the type of clothes most girls are. Normally she wears loose fitting jeans and some kind of t-shirt with a musician on it. During the day, when she is around camp, her hair is always let loose and down, but is put in a ponytail when gone to go scavenging. Despite her being outside quite a bit, Sara's skins stays fairly pale. This makes her eyes always seem brighter than they really are, which are a light blue color.She wears a locket around her neck that once belonged to her mother. It is silver angel wings that are curled up in the shape of a heart. It has been passed down from generation to generation and was given to her just before she left Berlin.

She often wears knuckless gloves on her hands to help keep people from noticing them shaking. It doesn’t do much to hide it, though, it does help slightly. Not many people can see it, but she also has a tattoo on the back of her left shoulder. It is of an angel, holding a sword with a saying under it; “trust everyone just not the demons within them.” She got the tattoo in honor of her grandmother when she was 18. Her grandmother loved angels and often spoke those words to her when she was a child.

Biography

Sarafine was originally born in Germany. Her mother and father had a nice little house in Berlin. Her father, Ian, was a construction worker for the city and her mother, Reva, work in animal welfare there. Sara and her twin brother, Dmitry grew up quite happily there. Her brother learned to work on cars after some time and had plans to open up his own garage when he could get a loan. She worked closely with her brother on cars when she was not at work herself. She had a job at a local head shop in town, Back Stage gifts. Because of her illness, she started smoking marijuana at a young age. Being as it was illegal there they often had to get it from whatever shady person they could find. Her former boss at the headshop ended up being their main dealer, which is how she ended up getting a job there to begin with. He felt bad she had an illness and usually would give her discounts so that she could afford to buy it. She worked at Backstage from the age of 18 up until she was 25.

It was around this time that she met Eric Hennings. He was a soldier in the United States army and had been posted there at the time. They met when he came into the shop one day. He flirted with her for well over 30 minutes before being pulled away by his friends. He came back every day after that until he finally got the gumption to ask her out. He was posted there for almost a year before being told he was being deployed back to the United States. For weeks he begged her to go with him, but she said no for the longest time. It wasn’t until a week before he was about to leave that she actually decided to go with him.
She couldn’t help herself or the way she felt. Her parents and brother weren’t excited for the news, but they accepted it and let her go with him. They had every intention of going to the US, but then the whole world suddenly fell apart. They were just outside of Germany when the virus broke out. They had traveled to Belgium for the weekend to celebrate their engagement and have some fun with one another before their big flight to the US. Unfortunately the trip didn’t turn out to be enjoyable after all. As they tried to fight their way out of the city, Eric ended up getting bit in the shoulder when an infected woman jumped on his back during their escape. With the help of Sara, he was able to throw her off and continue running, but the damage had already been done. He died a day later, leaving her outside an infected city alone. Not long after Eric passed, she was able to meet up with a few survivors from the city and have been hiding in Brussels with them ever since.

Extended Information

Residence:

Previous: Berlin Germany
Current: Brussels

Profession:

Previous: Cashier at Backstage Gifts Head Shop

Relatives:

• Ivan Friedrich -Father (Unknown)
• Reva Friedrich-Mother (Unknown)
• Dmitry Friedrich-Brother (Unknown)
• Tessa Friedrich -Sister in-law (Unknowm)
• Eric Hennings- Fiancé(Deceased)

Personnel Data

Weapons:

• Weapons:
• 1 glock 17 (Acquired when her fiancé died)
• Black handled machete (Found)
• 3″ titanium, steel blade with stiletto tip (Acquired when her fiancé died)

Equipment

• 10 scrap handmade bullets
• Small first aid kit
• Motocross full upper body armor and shin guards
• Flashlight

Miscellaneous

• 1/2 ounce of pot
• Rolling papers
• Lighter
• Sunglasses
• 2 plastic water bottles
• Gold wedding band

Skills Pre-Apocalypse :

• Mechanic
  Sara has some basic mechanic skills. Her brother was very good with cars before everything happened. She often sat in and helped him work on some of his cars when they were teenagers.
• Can roll pretty good joints despite her hand shaking
• Can hot wire cars
• Good with animals
• Learned to be somewhat good with a blade. Her fiancé taught her some basic moves one night while trying to impress her.
  
  Skills Post Apocalypse :
• Learned to be a good scavenger for the group by figuring out to look for things in the oddest of places.
• Can calm people in frightening situations
• Getting good at learning to help with medical issues
• Can move around quietly without attracting attention.
• Driving. Gotten good at speed driving out of tight situations when scavenging.
• Likes/Dislikes
• Loves listening to music
• Loves a good book. Can often spend hours wrapped up in a good book
• Loves animals (Dogs especially)
• Doesn’t like the dark
• Hates cowards
• Doesn’t like to go in water above her waist

@Inmento Riku You may want to put your character sheet in hiders. He said he wont accept them if you dont.

[NarcissisticPotato]

Clickbait.

It's well know us Europeans would have dealt with a zombie crisis in a few weeks then made some nice patisseries and revolutionise Western thinking while we're at it! 🤔

[Lord Orgasmo]

Monica, will finish later

Name: Monica White
Gender: sexually identifies as an attack helicopterFemale
Age: I don't know when this takes place, so age is pretty ambiguous to me right now, but we'll say like... 29.
Ethnicity: American
Appearance Description:
Birthplace: California
Former Life: Cardiologist
Gear: She's holed up in a hospital, so probably anything you'd find there. IV's, Saline, scalpels, that kind of stuff. But very little food. However, the hospital has zombies on most of the other floors, so to get to those supplies, you'll have to get through the zombies. If this seems like too much, let me know.
Skills: Gimme a list of at least five skills that your character happens to be good at both pre and post-apocalypse.
Likes & Dislikes: Only three are required for both (anything else is optional).
Personality: A few words or sentences to describe your character, but short enough to allow for character development.
Biography: At least 2-3 paragraphs minimum with enough detail.
Other: Got family still alive? Have an quirk that isn't quite a skill? What about a song that describes your character? Write it down here.

[Todd Howard]

Well, this seemingly blew up since yesterday. Haven't gone through the posts tho.

@Poi I decided to be an absolute degenerate so forgive me for this:

Some Fuckin' Loser

"We didn't just play games together, man. We were a team; Almost like a family."

Name

Michael "Michie" Kenning
Former Gamer ID "SplitzSpitz"

Gender

Male

Age

25

Ethnicity

Caucasian

Birthplace

Norman, Oklahoma

Former Life

Michie was a professional E-Sports player, specifically he played a shit ton of CS:GO.
He came to Belgium to win a competition, not to get eaten. Fuck this place.

Gear

A nylon backpack
A Spill-Proof Water Bottle (Currently half-full)
2 Extra Outfits
A Pipe Wrench
A Pair of Glasses (Though he doesn't wear them; They aren't his.)

Skills Before Apocalypse

Michie's PC-Gaming skills are utterly useless now, but he's still a pro.
Considering he built his own Gaming PC though, he's actually pretty good with computers.
You know what else his gaming habits improved? His hand-eye coordination. Immensely.
His father was an handy-man, and that general know-how to fix things was passed down to Michie as he grew up.
Michie isn't a shut in; He's actually quite fit. He's a fairly impressive track runner, and has good balance as well.

Skills After Apocalypse

Michie knows how to aim for the head, and is quite good at smashing walker skulls with his wrench.

He's taught himself to set up safety measures to keep alert even while asleep: Rattling cans for noise, damaging floorboards and causing them to creak, that sort of thing. He can of course fortify locations too.

His athletic traits have evolved into small-time parkour. Hopping across cars, close-by rooftops, and such. He has learned that being able to climb to high places can be helpful against mindless idiotic zombies.

His in-game awareness has somewhat evolved into a real life trait. He keeps a close eye on ares around him, as to not get surprised by walkers, or survivors with harmful intentions.

Evolving from just flicking a mouse for quick shots, Michie's reflexes have improved due to the apocalypse bringing him into situations where being quick can save your life.

Likes

Games no shit
Alternative Metal. Specifically anything by Rob Zombie.
Geckos
Beef Only zombies are pork eaters!
Friendly Competition
Trash-Talk (Playful trash talk, at least)
Comedy
Constructive Criticism (Even if it's a bit harsh)
Killing Zombies (Kind of. Doesn't go out of his way for it.)
Rain

Dislikes

Pork
Birds
Power Outages
Yelling (Being yelled at, or yelling at people unless it's a warning.)
Fighting (Among survivors, at least. Fuck the undead!)
Loud Sirens/Alarms
Hot Weather
Driving
Deserting People

Personality

Good Spirited
Motivational
Playful
Ashamed
Naive

Biography

Since he was 21, Michie has been a competitive CS:GO player that has gone on to play at multiple competitions across the world. He's spent the last three years of his life constantly traveling, training, and competing in competitions; His team, BridgeBandits, is a mostly American with one Belgium player. After meeting up in person, the five players almost always traveled together: They became a bunch of brothers, basically. Considering each-other family as much as actual blood. Michie himself thought very fondly of his entire team, and that made the outbreak even more tragic for him.

This year, the BridgeBandits went to Belgium for an ESL. They were all excited, Michie included: This was going to be a big event for them outside the US, and also be worth a lot of money to see it through to the end. Unfortunately, on the first day of the event, the outbreak had begun: Undead bastards invading the inside of the event building and eating a majority of the people alive. Panicked by these events, Michie grabbed what few things he had and got the hell out of there: He wasn't sure where he was running, but the less screams he heard, the safer he felt.

He quit running only when he ran out of breath, ducking inside a small, luckily unlocked home. Only then did he have time to reflect and think about what he did; He ran off, without a second thought, leaving his friends behind. He considered going back, but could remember the blood, and gore, he witnessed as he bolted away: He didn't think many people got out... and told himself that if he hadn't of run away, he would have never gotten out of there, either. That didn't stop the guilt, though. He wasn't sure if anything could ever take the guilt away.

Currently, Michie has decided to simply try and survive. He's seen a few of those zombies; They seem pretty dumb, as to be expected. He was much more quick-witted than they were; He could keep himself alive. Find people. Not be alone anymore.

He hoped so, at least.

Other

Michie's favorite Rob Zombie song:

_{*prepares to be shot*}