Cold and Alone [Dark; Post-Apoc]

[TheMadAsshatter]

This is just an idea I've had rolling around in my mind for a bit, and it's going to be a mix between two concepts I've had for an RP. The basic idea is that each character is one of an absolutely minuscule number of people who survived the new ice age brought on by an asteroid impact that blocked out the sun for over a month, causing the Earth's climate to change dramatically. It is now ten years later, and you are one of MAYBE tens of thousands of people who have managed to stay alive in the snowy/icy wastelands. It's going to be a bit like the book World War Z in that each character has their own story, completely separate from anyone else's. If you bump into someone else, you bump into someone else. Maybe you stick together, maybe you don't. The most important idea is to focus on the isolation and abject misery one might experience.

Obviously, it's just a rough idea right now, but I think it has potential. I have a feeling it won't get a lot if interest since there's not going to be a lot of (if any) character interaction, but there will be a lot of individual freedom to do whatever you want in the RP, within reason.

[Equally-Cynical]

I'll join. Is there anything you need to know?
Just one question. Are there zombies or an equivalent? I don't mind them, but it's a little overdone for post-apoc. settings.

[null123]

I don't think there will be, because zombies need body heat /sarcasm
On a more serious note its not like there was a virus that turned people into zombies. While there would be diseases as infrastructure collapses and no one can get to hospitals there wouldn't be any zombies, or at least I think so.

But I would join, seems like a tempting idea.

[TheMadAsshatter]

Well, since it's cold as shit, several diseases would have actually died off as either all of their carriers died or the microbes themselves couldn't take the cold. I'd have to do some research on the matter, but infection isn't impossible. No zombies, that has nothing to do with the plot, though several animals that used to live near the polar regions would have likely emigrated closer to the mid-latitudes, things like wolves, polar bears, arctic foxes, etc. I'm still thinking through the details, but if this garners enough interest I'll get to it.

[Equally-Cynical]

TheMadAsshatter said
Well, since it's cold as shit, several diseases would have actually died off as either all of their carriers died or the microbes themselves couldn't take the cold. I'd have to do some research on the matter, but infection isn't impossible. No zombies, that has nothing to do with the plot, though several animals that used to live near the polar regions would have likely emigrated closer to the mid-latitudes, things like wolves, polar bears, arctic foxes, etc. I'm still thinking through the details, but if this garners enough interest I'll get to it.

so the world became radioactive Alaska essentially?