[OOC] Overgrown

[Voltus_Ventus]

RP CLOSED
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_Day 1: Legacy_
Damn computer, thing just eats powers, Well I'm low on fuel so I might as well make a start. My name is [Error.Loading], or rather was, assuming whether I'm alive or not (knowing my luck I'm a skeleton at the desk). I have decided to take the responsibility of documenting my life from now on onto this computer, I don't know why, maybe I want to leave a legacy -I've never really done anything important- or something, nevermind. I'm probably going to be writing about some weird stuff so I might as well start with why everything is weird, that makes sense, right? 
Right.
Ok, so it all kicked off around 3 years ago (Edit: the 3rd of October, 2014) , at first it was just a tiny fall in share prices and currency rates and such, we didn't really pay much attention to it, the world was still in a recession so it was kind of normal but then all of a sudden at around 3pm that same day the economy just crashed, not just ours but everyone's, Germany, France, Russia, The UK, even China, the worlds greatest economies reduced to nothing in a split second, scary stuff, I know. And on top of that prices for everything and anything sky rocketed, you couldn't buy a loaf of bread without bankrupting yourself and that brought up a lot of issues. Governments wouldn't sell stuff to eachother, instead keeping it in the country which you would expect caused problems, and by problems I mean World War Three. Because no one was willing to give wheat for sugar or corn for carrots they decided to just take it, American Troops marched into south America to take it's oil fields  and Russia invaded China, for it's minerals, everyone took sides and the world proceeded to slug it out for what was left of the recourses. However the war would soon come to an abrupt end, all sides were working on wonder weapon but by a twist of faith they were all developing the same thing: VS-4-55, a complex string of hydrocarbons, proteins and nitrates that produced a Virus of life ending proportions, a virus that turned the infected into piles if biohazardous slag but that wasn't what screwed us, what screwed us was it's effects on plants.
 They loved the stuff, it gave them all they needed to grow and then some, the size they grew in a few minutes was astonishing, you could visibly see them growing but VS-4-55 didn't just make'em grow fast, it screwed around with their DNA. Now you have things like bamboo that can grow a yard in an instant at will, impailing anything that is unfortunate enough to step on one, you also got vines that shoot around you and squeeze the living day lights out of you then digest you where you lay dead. However what could be called worse are the animals who have eaten "Evolved" plants, it's horrible, it's like a tree planted itself into the animal and grew out of it, branches and leaves and bark, all sorts growing off them and around them and sometimes even replacing parts of them, like limbs, teeth and fur generally replaced by organic plant matter, the carnivores aren't much different, eating an infected animal causes them to go botanical, that coupled with the escaped zoo animals can make pretty weird combinations -scary more often then not.
Another problem one could find these days besides the flora and fauna are the people, they survived because they were genetically immune, so am I (I wish I knew that before I walked for 3 days around a virus cloud), now that's all well and good, the more living humans the better right? 
Wrong.
Very Wrong.
The people that are left will much rather kill you then be your friend, I mean you can't blame'em times are tough and stuff is hard to find but DAMN! I really want to blame them! Well that looks to be enough for day 1, is it enough?
Yeah, it's enough, [Error.Loading] signing off.

Welcome to Overgrown guys! This RP (I'm hoping) is gonna be a good one that we can all enjoy and that there will be something for everyone. Now to me character development is a super important thing in an RP, it's up there the development of character relationships, so in order to nurture your character so they can grow and blossom this RP is going to be semi-character driven with a large overhanging story, the story is to add more decision making and character interaction and the character driven part is to -obviously enough- is to make the world and you more interesting! Now rules!

Rule (Basic):
-the usual, I'm not gonna repeat it m'kay?

Rules (This RP):
-If you guys want to change something or add something, write VOTE above your proposal and we'll see what happens.
-If you want to add something cannon, like factions or animals and plants I'll see if I like'em, odds are I will, if I don't I'll leave it for vote.
-You guys are going to put consumables in your inventory, it's a given so I have one request. YOUR ONE PACK OF INSTANT NOODLES WILL NOT LAST FOREVER! go hunt or scavenge! a can of tuna won't fall from the sky onto your lap! *Can of tuna falls from sky onto my lap* Disregard that.
- If you are an office worker or a taxi driver you do NOT have a bazooka, a small handgun is as far as I'll go and that's stretching it, guns are as rare as very rare thing and the ammo even rarer, so be careful. Opt Melee.

CS Template:
Appearance: (what you want to look like in real life)
Name: (something pronounceable)
Age: (nothing younger then new born please)
Gender: (if you're in between that's fine too)
Former Occupation: (Hobo works)
Bio: (No novel please but that's not an excuse to be a nobody)
Stuff!: (for your weapons and NOT INFINITE FOOD)

Enjoy!

[Voltus_Ventus]

I'd like someone else to post the first CS because I ain't to good at'em and would like a template.

[Wintergrey]

i'll get an app up in a bit. Just a few questions, how many people (roughly) are left? And how over grown is everything? Like This?

[Voltus_Ventus]

Just a bit less green (you can actually see graffiti!).

[Whirlwind]

Appearance

Name: Emmi Reynolds

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Former Occupation: Student and Herbal Medicine Shop Worker

Bio:
When the world went to hell, you’d think parents would pull kids from school. But no, they still had a misguided sense that education would lead to some sort of future. Well, that future might not be worth living anymore. Emmi continued to go to school as her parents pushed her though, and got a side job at an herbal medicine shop. Drugs were a growing business as people got more injured by fighting, or wanted an escape because life just sucked, or pharmacy grade products were out of their price range. But the price of more herbal remedies didn’t skyrocket nearly as much. Emmi, thanks to a family friend, got a job at the shop and absorbed the knowledge of what did what like a sponge. She was meant to be in this profession. But then a new batch of pills came. The old bottles were set in the back, and for the taking. Slowly, Emmi began taking things from the shop. After all, these were still incredibly valuable. And soon, they would become even more so.

The new shipments of herbal medicines began having odd effects of their customers. They were demanding the previous drugs, but Emmi and other workers had pretty much cleaned them out. The new drugs, had been tainted by VS-4-55. Pretty soon, almost all their customers disappeared. Emmi eventually stopped showing up for work as the world went more and more to hell.

She packed up what she had and wrote on the bottles what they did, and packed a few of her toiletries and clothes in two duffel bags. She also pulled out her parents’ camping gear and took out some survival gear and her dad’s fishing bow they used when they would camp each year. This year however, they would not be camping. The local zoo animals began to mutate and broke out, and Emmi was just forward thinking enough to have everything she needed packed and ready to escape. After all, she was never a fighter. In fact, she was much more of a hippie, tree hugger type. But when she begged her parents to go, they refused, saying they were staying in their home and so was she. She left at night, and hasn’t gone back. She knows she needs to survive.

Her belief is that all this is humans’ punishment for their gross mistreatment of the earth and each other. She thinks it will eventually blow over when humans are appropriately served their bout of karma, but until then, it will be nature taking its vengeance.

Stuff: A veritable pharmacy in her bag (hope this is ok since she would basically die in a fight if she couldn't escape)

list

Honey (draws bacteria and excess fluid from sores)
Chlorophyll (antioxidant, treats infected wounds)
Tea tree oil (treats fungal infections, antiseptic)
Melatonin (sleep aid)
Garlic pills (antioxidant, antibacterial, treats colds, HBP, prevents heart attack, treats ulcers)
Aspirin (reduces fever & pain)
Charcoal tablets (treats overdoses and poisoning and upset stomach)
Half empty Epsom salt bag (treats wounds, itching, eliminates toxins, and prevents blood clots when used with water)
Half used tube of Neosporin (antibiotic gel)
Full bottle of rubbing alcohol (astringent & disinfectant)
Silver Sulfadiazine cream (treats burns)
6 Benadryl tablets (antihistamine)
Belladonna pills (sedative & pain killer)
Ipecac syrup (forces you to throw in case poison is ingested)
Potassium supplement (prevents muscle cramps)
Snake bite kit
Lavender oil (sleep aid and antitoxic essential oil- helps with toxic bites like from spiders)
Coenzyme Q10 (prevents damage from radiation)
about 15 cotton balls
1 half empty box of cloth bandages

Toiletries (1 practically full tube of toothpaste, a couple bars of soap, scent free deodorant, 2 extra sets of clothes, 6 packets of detergent)

Food & food related items (solar powered burner, water bottle that filters water, 3 cans of broth, can opener, 2 sardine cans, 6 packets of dried fruits and vegetables, 1 large bag of trailmix, 1 pot)

Other: gas mask with 5 filters, 2 different sized knives (one butter knife for cutting pills in half & eating/cooking, one large machete to cut through brush), fishing bow (no extra arrows), army blanket, 1 gallon sized ziplock bag, 1 crank flashlight

[Voltus_Ventus]

Very comprehensive, I like it.

[Whirlwind]

Voltus_Ventus said
Very comprehensive, I like it.

Yaaay ^_^

[Apokalipse]

Name: Magnolia Spencer
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Former Occupation: Bartender
Bio:
Magnolia Spencer was a relatively normal child born to a woman and a man, both chefs that worked in a small neighborhood. Magnolia did well in kindergarten and was friendly with all, never getting into fights. She was a sweet girl who had a fascination with bugs and wouldn’t harm a fly.

All of this changed when she turned seven years old and was playing at the park near her parents’ restaurant. It was nearing seven o’clock and the neighborhood she was in had never had any prior incidences. Magnolia was on the swings when a teenager approached her, grabbing her by the scruff of her neck and throwing her onto the ground. Fear gripped the young girl’s heart and the traumatic experience stirred something within her. His grinning face was all she saw and then she saw him running away with a bleeding nose, like a skipped movie. She had no idea how the moments transitioned. As the months passed by, she kept losing time and was accused of fights at school. At the age of nine, after many incidences of memory loss and unusual behavior, Magnolia discovered another personality within her named Piper whom was a hot-headed, blunt violent girl living within her. Magnolia was later diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, or Multiple Personality Disorder.

While struggling to control her other personality, Magnolia went through school with silence, hardly ever talking and always concentrating on her studies. However, when Piper had control, she lived a much more dangerous life. Piper hung out with bad influences and was always getting into trouble. Piper had a boyfriend who she ended up beating up when she discovered he cheated on her, and if Piper had control during a test, Magnolia was doomed to fail. Despite their vast differences, Magnolia considered Piper to be her best friend.

When the Virus gained control on the world, Magnolia heavily relied on Piper to keep her sane and safe during the times. She attended college for a while in the beginning of the outbreak, having a job as a bartender to pay for her tuition, but eventually dropped out when she began to fear the plants that had grown around her. Eventually, Magnolia and her alternative personality, Piper, packed their bags in hopes of finding somewhere that was safer and still retained societal life.

Stuff!:

Magnolia’s Bag

- First Aid Kit
- 5 pairs of jeans
- 5 shirts
- Canned food

Piper’s Bag

- Knife
- Handgun
- Magazines

[Automaton]

Appearance: Joshua

Name: Joshua Allen

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Former Occupation: Debt Collector

Bio: Joshua was raised on the streets of L.A, his father a drunken Gambler and his mother a whore, he spent his days with pimps,gang members and the like. It was only inevitable that he would start his life in the crime industry, he started with being a lookout for a local gang when they would do deals, he would get a cut of action for just keeping an eye out for cops, easy enough. But then he escalated, he wanted to actually be apart of the gang, once he got in he did minor things, a few raids etc. Soon though something spectacular happened, apparently his boss's had dealings with the mob, and didn't pay. There was a war, and his side was losing so he left the gang and did odd jobs for people willing to pay. Well I guess karma caught up to him and he woke up one morning tied to a chair, his former under-boss now top dog had tracked him down, someone leaked information to the mob and he wanted to know who it was.

After explaining that he left before the initial war he was let go, but the leader banished him from L.A and Joshua left L.a and moved to Miami, once he got to Miami he was about eight-teen and he needed money, and the only thing he knew how to do was steal,hurt and extort. So that's what he did he joined up with a private contractor who gave him jobs collecting debts for different people, the mob, corporate people or just anyone that needed a debt. This job suited Josh just fine as long as he had money to get by he didn't care what he had to do.

Once the world went to shit he was with his boss, he and the rest of the other debt collectors formed a small group, stealing from and killing other survivors, though Josh didn't like killing innocent people he had to survive. One day one person in the group named Johnny Howard killed everyone after they found the mother load of supplies in Odessa,Texas he killed all but Josh for dead,because he owed him a debt from the old world. Since then he has been tracking Johnny.

Stuff!: Batteries,Axe 'Apollo' container, lighter,Base ball bat, Glock and one magazine, four cans of food and three full water bottles, Gas mask with one filter left.

[Wintergrey]

yay under the dome, have had a very stressful day, will get app up when time allows

[Voltus_Ventus]

Everyone accepted!

[Automaton]

Yayyyy :D

[ChibiYuki]

-(Insert Botanical Creature Here)- :P

[Automaton]

I have a question, are the plants just hostile in general?. Or are they like Some predators where once they eat they don't need to eat for a certain amount of time?. Or do they feed on the usual stuff (water,sun etc) and they kill humans just cause?.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Automaton said
I have a question, are the plants just hostile in general?. Or are they like Some predators where once they eat they don't need to eat for a certain amount of time?. Or do they feed on the usual stuff (water,sun etc) and they kill humans just cause?.

Well plants need nitrates to live, when they became infected they lost the ability to gather nitrates from the soil, so they constantly catch and kill and digest animals to keep growing. The animals however only eat until they are full and stop until they are hungry again, they dont keep grow forever so they don't need a lot of nitrates.

[baskets]

I should have a CS up by tonight!

[Voltus_Ventus]

Major missing plot point. The city's name is Empire City and don't think about escaping -it's surrounded by forest ;).

[baskets]

Kelsey

Name: Kelsey Granova
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Former Occupation: Street rat; ran odd jobs here and there for small amounts of cash.

Bio: Kelsey ran away from home at 16, living on the streets and surviving off of petty crime and odd jobs. She became especially skilled at thievery and breaking locks. Kelsey often found herself getting into trouble as a result of her lifestyle; she spent several nights in jail for misdemeanors, but never actually had to serve any serious jail time.

During her 20’s, Kelsey got off the street and moved into an abandoned warehouse in the industrial district of Empire City, settling into the warehouse as a permanent home. She lived a hedonistic, day-to-day life; Kelsey found herself indulging in the vices often, and never set a long-term goal for herself. Instead, she did almost anything she could to make money and survive, and let loose with the few people she called friends in her free time.

As the world began to fall apart, Kelsey began stocking up for any potential fallout. She stored supplies in her warehouse and began making preparations for the media began calling the end of the world. When the virus hit, Kelsey converted the warehouse into a safehouse; she fortified the building and stockpiled as much as she could into it. She’s stayed with her safehouse ever since, trying to stay under the radar and scavenging the city to survive.

Stuff!: Kelsey keeps a backpack with her at all times, and is almost always equipped with some sort of sharp or blunt object that she can use as a weapon, like a bat or any long blade that she can find.

Kelsey’s backpack

Bandages
Rope
A jacket
Bottles of water
Some form of food, often easy and packaged
A lighter
A pack of cigarettes (when she can find them)

Kelsey also has a bit of rations in her warehouse, though she often has to scavenge for more food and restock. At the moment, she has about enough supplies to survive a week without scavenging. She has a sleeping bag, a collection of firewood, three gallons of gasoline for the fire, a variety of things she can use as weapons, and a handgun, though she has only one bullet for the handgun at the moment. She keeps that bullet safe, just in case she needs it.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Accepted!

NO LONGER ACCEPTING NEW CS AT THE MOMENT.

Except you Wintergrey.

[Wintergrey]

thanks, sorry i've been super busy. I'll try to get one up tonight