[OOC] The Living Dead [Open]

[datadogie]

I think the highway is a good idea for the beginning.

[Flightless_Soul]

Heaven said
I was thinking we'd start on a highway- they stopped there to raid the vehicles for supplies- such as gas, food, clothing, medicine, etc. Then a hoard of zombies passes through- sounds like a good beginning? If not we can all throw ideas out there.

You know, I was totally gonna suggest the same thing. I love it!! ^0^

[Heaven]

Awesome! I think we're waiting on one more character sheet from drummer boy and I'll get us started.

[Flightless_Soul]

WOOOO!! CAN'T WAIT!!

[Gowi]

Still not sold on the highway pitch, my character would probably vote against scavenging a narrow "graveyard" with little room for safe retreat. There are plenty of other options, but there are places that are bad ideas 99% of the time in survival horror: highways, hospitals, shopping malls to name a few. I mean it's been two years so a lot of the 'dead' probably have moved on from the highway but even then it does provide a careless risk no matter how much bullets we have. Just my two cents.

[LokiLeo789]

Heaven said
Awesome! I think we're waiting on one more character sheet from drummer boy and I'll get us started.

Must we wait in him, we don't know if he will even post today, there are a lot of our participants online right know, I think this is a good time to start. *Wink, Wink, Nudge Nudge*
(if drummer boy is here, I said nothing, you did not see this post)

[Heaven]

Gowi- where do you think it would be a good place to start? (: It's a group vote thing, I want us all to agree on it.

[Gowi]

Heaven said
Gowi- where do you think it would be a good place to start? (: It's a group vote thing, I want us all to agree on it.

Really there's a lot of factors; current location, how much of the resources of it have been pilfered by survivors in two years, how many resources have spoiled in two years, etc. Though I did mention stuff like this a bit ago yesterday:

Though, 'ven you should probably establish some consistency of how long the outbreak has been about and where the group has traveled. For example, some apps allude to the outbreak starting two years ago and some people found the group in the "south" and "new mexico" that's a lot of traveling time through obstacles, seasons, and hordes. Probably should get our personal lore consistent which is why I've written a CS that is vague enough to fit anywhere.

[czechmate46]

I honestly think we should start tonight. I am going to be away for all of Saturday and most of sunday so I'd like to be here for the beginning so I'm not totally lost. And from my experiences, when someone "reserves" a spot, they either don't end up coming through or they take a long time. Not saying that this is what will happen, it's just what I've seen in the past. We can always fit him when he joins.

[LokiLeo789]

I dot care if we start now or tonight, as long as we start today I'm cool......

:P
What will you do "leader"?

[Heaven]

Well we still all need to come into an agreement of where to begin. The virus has been loose for four months, I think the highway would be good, but I want everyone to be in a understanding though and agree on it. I'd like to start tonight. :D

[Gowi]

The virus has been loose for four months

Then some people need to fix their CS's, lol. Trying to dig up where I read "two years into the apocalypse", but yeah.

I would also like to start today, despite me not being kosher with the highway.

EDIT: Also with four months into the zombie mess, we could still really effectively loot pharmacies, veterinary clinics, small convenience stores, apartments, houses, etc.

[czechmate46]

Ack four months is a rather short time for the ten of us to all meet up, considering the states we started from. And Washington is way up in the north west corner of America. But don't ask the Canadian here about American geography hehe.

[Gowi]

czechmate46 said
Ack four months is a rather short time for the ten of us to all meet up, considering the states we started from. And Washington is way up in the north west corner of America.

Yeah, either we have to amend our sheets (this is why I didn't say Will was from anywhere, though the original concept is from Oregon) to adapt or something. I mean Sloth's character is from Pennsylvania for chrissakes.

[LokiLeo789]

You know what here

4 month apocalypse
-we all lived in the same state
-We are raiding a store or something and we get confronted by either hostile humans, or a horde of infected.
- if we use this we change Cs

2 year apocalypse
- we would probably be more well developed, so cars, lots of guns, not as much need for a group of ten people to all scavenge.

- there would be way more than just 10 on us

- we start out fight with hostile humans

I just want to get this moving, this is my idea of the scenarios

[Heaven]

Hm, what about a a year and a half?
Or should we just have the group all live in the same place and meet up somewhere? Would that be more convenient?
I know I'd love to get it started as well! (:

[Sloth]

Gowi said Yeah, either we have to amend our sheets (this is why I didn't say Will was from anywhere, though the original concept is from ) to adapt or something. I mean Sloth's character is from Pennsylvania for chrissakes.

He also had a car and a personal belief that heading to the Midwest/Southern United States was the best option. Even with only four months of time, he works. He could still get gas since I'm assuming people would be MAYBE still nice enough to sell gas to people.

LokiLeo789 said 4 month apocalypse -we all lived in the same state

I'd really rather not. I specifically made Jake from the North for that reason.

Loki said 2 year apocalypse - we would probably be more well developed, so cars, lots of guns, not as much need for a group of ten people to all scavenge.

What? No. In two years the amount of fuel and ammo would be astronomically low.

[Gowi]

there would be way more than just 10 on us

Debatable, in my experience with zombie fiction and survival horror long sustained groups larger than six people aren't likely outside of established survival communities (Wellington in The Walking Dead, Boston in The Last of Us, Argus Research Campus in Zombie Hunters, The Enclave in State of Decay, and so on).

so cars, lots of guns,

Fuel would be stripped by lots of survivors, some gas would be lost through other means and needed for other things outside of cars (electric generators for example). Ammo would also be difficult-ish to obtain and while we might have more guns we would definitely not have huge stockpiles of ammo especially if we are on the move/mobile. Also, working vehicles would be harder to maintain and many cars would be wrecked from day one of the apocalypse.

Not trying to put a stick in your thoughts, just counterpoints.

Hm, what about a a year and a half?

If you ask me, our group as it is (10 people is a lot of people to feed and keep armed) poses a fun challenge already. I think a year or so is a good challenge rating yet still allows moderate resources to plunder and pilfer.

As GM you have two choices to set up as our inital problem in the starting posts: is our enemy the infected or simply amoral humans? Meaning are we dealing with armed assholes or hungry ghouls?

[czechmate46]

I feel like a year would be more ideal for what we originally had planned. But who knows. But traveling across states by car would be challenging, seeing as we've already established the danger with high ways. I'd assume a lot of us would have to travel by foot or horseback, or some other alternative like biking. Either way, those are relatively slow ways to travel, assuming you have to find your own path ways and stay clear of roads and high ways.

[Gowi]

czechmate46 said
I feel like a year would be more ideal for what we originally had planned. But who knows. But traveling across states by car would be challenging, seeing as we've already established the danger with high ways. I'd assume a lot of us would have to travel by foot or horseback, or some other alternative like biking. Either way, those are relatively slow ways to travel, assuming you have to find your own path ways and stay clear of roads and high ways.

I'm assuming Sloth's character drove on backroads and sub-routes. I've traveled throughout the United States and I've mapped out several zombie contingency routes (because I'm that much of a dork) - so it's possible he got a decent amount of travel to Oregon/Washington way if he stored up on a few gas tanks and drove/travelled smart. Might of even ran into a survivor group who traded gas for food, medicine, or ammo: as the four main resources of our world is gas, food, medicine, and ammo now. Also in the early days of the outbreak the problem was mostly in metropolitan cities over small towns though it spread like wildfire as the weeks turned into months...

That said, we just need a starting scenario to start. We can figure out "how the group formed" and "how long Jeff or Lucia have been in the group" and all that nonsense after that.