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Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven


It's been three years since shit hit the fan. We're not one hundred percent sure of what happened. All we know is that everyone out of their teens-- usually twenty and older-- died from some sort of disease. Why it didn't affect children and teens is still a mystery, and as far as we can tell here in the city of Kano, Minnesota, nobody's even attempting to figure that out.

We're too focused on trying not to be killed by the gangbangers and psychos of the neighboring "clans".

There are various small groups, as well as three or four major factions. We happen to be somewhere in the middle. We don't have an official name for ourselves, but we are those not accepted by any faction. We were betrayed, and left to die in gutters by those we called friends, or injured in turf wars.

I suppose you can call us The Forgotten.

We took up residence in a local pawn shop, and have held it for two winters. In a way, we're the merchants of this new world, but that doesn't mean people don't try to kill us. Usually it's one of the local gangs, but smaller groups have tried taking over.

In that last skirmish we lost a lot of good people. They were my friends, but we must move on. After all, it would be a great dishonor to them if we stopped moving forward.




Welcome to the Apocalypse!


Rules
1- First and foremost, please be respectful of the other RPers. This includes no flaming, no fighting, no arguing (discussion and debate are welcome though), no eye gouging, no kidney punches... well, you get the idea.
2- This is a casual RP. That means most people will most likely write one or two paragraphs.
3- No godmodding. This includes controlling or killing another player's character without permission, doing impossible feats like stopping anything larger than a Prius with one hand, and many other things.
4- Keep it PG13. Anything you see in a PG13 film nowadays is fair game, however the "one f-word" rule will be in effect; your character my use it once a month.
5- If questions or conflicts arise among RPers, I ask that it be taken to PMs. If one or both parties wish, I can act as a mediator in these situations.
6- The current year in the RP is 2019. Please remember that as you play.
7- Last but not least, have fun!

The Virus
Nobody uses the Virus' real name since it takes too damn long to say. However, it wiped out thew majority of the population in the US, if not the world. Those affected were prepubescent or older than 21 years of age. Animals of every sort can carry the Virus, ranging from cats, dogs, rats, mice, and birds; the only animals shown to have immunity are fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Although very few cases of the Virus have been reported in Kano, it has shown to infect anyone in the above age categories if exposed.


Kano
Before the Virus appeared, Kano was a bustling city of just over 40,000 people. Now different groups and factions have divided up the town into territories. Some are gangs, and a few are religious cults. However, the vast majority are simply stragglers just trying to get by. The major groups are as follows.
The Gamers
The Gamers have control of the local arena, where the college basketball and football teams used to play. Now it's home to gladiator fights, ranging from to surrender, all the way up to fights to the death. As expected, goods and money are often exchanged here.
The Scorps
The largest gang in the city of Kano. Their home turf is mainly the residential district. Drugs and gambling are commonplace, among other, much worse things.
The Coyotes
The Coyotes control the outskirts of Kano. Like their namesake, they are tough, hardened survivors who can live off of almost anything. However, they risk exposing themselves to the Virus in order to hunt and farm. Due to their nature as thieves and scavengers, the gang often clashes with the Scorps.
Omnibus Scientia
By far the largest cult in the city. Roughly translated, their name means "All is knowledge". They have taken control of the libraries and courthouses. However, due to their beliefs, they have absolutely no problem turning to cannibalism in hard times.
The Forgotten
As stated before The Forgotten are those who are wanted by other groups, kicked out, or were betrayed and left to die. Although a relatively small faction, they own a small part of the shopping district. Despite this, they only operate out of a pawn shop.
The Earthkin
The Earthkin are the product of new age idealism and marijuana. Despite this, they operate out of the local Wally World, where they hydroponically grow plants (some more edible than others), raise animals (all tested for the Virus), and even raise those born after the Virus hit.





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This is going to be fun! ^.^ So, before I write up my character sheet, I just want to double check that you're okay with my character being the leader of a cult. Please let me know, oh GM!
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@Airalin Bow down! Worship me, plebian! XP I kid. But, yes. It's possible that she could lead Omnibus Scientia, or a smaller cult.
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I could definitely tweak her to lead Omnibus, but fair warning, she's a 10 year old prodigy and plays on that a lot. =p
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Name: Alice Graethem
Age: 10
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Faction: Omnibus Scientia
Personality/Backstory: Long story short, Alice is a genius. At the age of six, she was zooming through advanced calculus problems at a pace that made her father's college students quiver with insecurity. However, because of her high intelligence, she was always something of a loner - children her age were so stupid it was obnoxious, and adults never understood her idea of fun. As a result, Alice grew distant from others, viewed them as inferior. They treated her like the outcast she was, and soon, Alice learned that cruelty was the only way to protect herself from the ridicule of others. After the plague wiped out her entire family, Alice decided to make a change - she would project a kind, bubbly image to the world, to endear herself to others, for she could not survive on her own. Her ruse worked all too well; before long, the marriage of her feigned innocence and ruthless intellect had given birth to companions, and, with the help of a few well placed lies designed to revive the dashed hopes of the unsuspecting, Alice turned her companions into followers, and Omnibus Scientia was formed. And, oh, the fools kept joining and joining...
Other: Alice's greatest tool is her intellect. She is useless in a fight, and relies on her followers to defend her. However, Alice does have a talent for hiding herself, when she must. She is very paranoid about what she eats and drinks out of a fear of assassins. Nonetheless, on rare occasions, she may let down her guard if offered chocolate chip cookies.

Note: Oh, by the way, I just thought I'd post this here until it gets approved, and if it does, I'll put it in the Character Sheet section.
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This does sound fallout-y

Name:Charles D. Ronnington, M.D. (self appointed) AKA Charon
Age: 22
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Faction:Straggler, To Be Determined.
Personality: Charles appears at first an even tempered individual with a flawless work ethic, a rare throwback to how life was before the Virus. Charles doesn't compromise on human lives, and he tries to live and let live the best way he can in this world, offering guidance as perhaps one of the last -adults- this world has seen. However, cracks in his psyche are apparent. Charles has just lost too many things to the Virus to remain unaffected, and his inability to fight it burns him from the inside out. He's single-mindedly determined to find a cure or breakthrough to such an ailment.
Backstory: Charles was a humble medical student who was barely 19 when the outbreak started. As the plague overpowered the vast majority of adults and depleted the medical ranks aswell, Charles was soon fielded, despite his relative youth and lack of experience. Fully exploiting his resistance to the virus, he volunteered to deal with many afflicted patients, despite the obvious risk of infection. Seniors, children, all died in his hands without him unable to do anything about it. Yet he still lived. And he kept stubbornly refusing to ever give up.

By the time the plague had reshaped Kano, Charles was already a seasoned field medic, but one terribly broken and in grief. Taking the nickname of "Charon", the ferryman of the dead, as a self-parody of his ghastly patient record, he shouldered on, still determined to maintain the one little piece of medical expertise that the Virus was unable to exterminate, himself.

Other: Charon has been infected a grand total of 12 times during his tenure as field medic. As such, he's adquired a great degree of resistance to the illness even if he's past the assumed safe age of infection. He's familiar with many of the workings of the old world, specially in the way of medical expertise and equipment. Charon is also rather fit, and he has a decent left hook when the situation calls for it, but he's not a master martial artist. He has surgical precision when using blades, but it's more useful for proper healing than fighting. He usually wears a portable medkit in his backpack, as well as sample recollection material. He can drive decently, and he's managed to keep a motorbike up and running to this point.
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Name: Kin
Real Name: Keith Wyatt
Age: 17


Appearance: Caucasian, 180cm, 80kg, toned body. Grey hairs coming out, looks 10 years older than he is. Has perpetual bags under his eyes.
He wears Kevlar under a heavy jacket, denim jeans and construction steel-toe boots

Faction: The Forgotten

Personality: Everybody knows Kin the guard. The one that that patrols the place far more than he needs to. The one that reflexively grips his weapon if he hears a gunshot in the distance. The one that looked down the length of a raider's gun barrel, pushed it to one side and dislocated the raider's shoulder as he pinned the poor bastard to the ground. Despite this, so long as you're on good terms with him, he is possibly one of the most dependable and protective people you'll meet. The Forgotten is his home, and he will fight to his last breath defending it and everyone in it. He's loosened up in the past years, but you'll still be hard-pressed to find him smiling, or even laughing at anything.

Equipment: Remington 870 Shotgun (max. 7 shells), Kevlar vest, binoculars, makeshift spear.

Skills: Shooting, endurance, strength.

Other: He is suspicious of anything that could possibly present a threat to his home, and is a little jumpy, as a result.
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Plan to get a character up later tonight ^^
Are we supposed to be doing anime style or realistic style?
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I'm guessing anime style. It's just that the pic I have right now is the best I've found so far for my character.

If you have any recommendations on where I can find an anime version, I'd be most grateful
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@Camerch

I usually go between deviantart and lookbook
I'm more into realistic photos myself, but don't mind the anime style if everyone has it. ^^

I'll keep an eye out for a character like yours :)

Got to make my character sheet too >>
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I'll have a CS up sometime tonight :)
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So if our characters are part of The Forgotten, they would have known each other for a while?
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Name: Shiba Akabane

Age: just turned 18

Appearance: but his necklace is his dads dog tag

Faction: The forgotten

Personality: an adaptive person he will always try to negotiate first and try diplomacy before he lets the enemy into his trap, he always has a back up plan to his back up plan. Shiba wants to live and figure things out but honestly but he will always try to figure out a way to survive and speed up his hopes of being a father. Shiba while seemly cold to others actually has a warm heart and has a soft spot for kids. Shiba is loyal to his group and will remain loyal until asked to perform something....atrocious then he will not perform it and may even quit if the issue is pressed.

Backstory: January 13th Friday evening, today is Angelo birthday. Yeah happy birthday and all that right? well Angelo just turned 18 and you know what he did to celebrate? He found a nice bottle of scotch and cracked it open, oh don't judge. You know what else he did to celebrate? no he didn't have a birthday cake he didn't go to the fair or anything like that, he spent the rest of his day taking pot shots at a few gang members. Surprised? well you shouldn't be. This is the end of the world as we know it and right now all Angelo bothers to do is drink and kill you would think an 18 year old killing others would be a traumatizing experience but in reality he has already accepted it as the norm ever since all the adults were killed off in some weird way. Angelo grieved for his parents when it happened but what else could he do, he played enough video games to know that the end of the world meant he needed to find a way to survive. Thankfully his father was in the army so he had a good stash of weapons and military rations and he played enough video games and went to the shooting range with his dad enough to figure out which end of the gun to point.

Angelo spent his time making his home into a makeshift fort placing all his furniture out towards the windows and doors to keep himself locked in and he figure out how to stretch the rations for a good while before they dried up on him which meant he had to get moving and find some survivors or at least supplies so he could head back home. The odd thing was that when Angelo went into town he saw that other people his age were still alive nobody old enough to have a grey hair mind you but those of us who were still going through puberty or just finished. Angelo fully expected a zombie horde like in the movies but instead their was gang violence. Angelo made sure to keep away from them he wanted nothing to do with them. Angelo looked around but what else could he expect other then to find out the gangs looted everything so he decided to just lone wolf it.

Angelo wandered around with his gun taking shelter in whatever place looked defensible he tried to go to his fathers army base but it seemed to be taken over by a gang so their was no luck their. Whenever Angelo tried to trade with others he seemed like he was making some sort of ambush and was immediately shot on site, thankfully Angelo had enough sense to wear a bulletproof vest and his dads old army helmet. So Angelo carried guns with no food or water. Along the way he sold a few pieces to some loners like him for food and whatever else they could spare to keep himself alive but soon enough he was starting to starve, he still had the guns to trade but no food. eventually he found the pawn shop and he almost pleaded to trade and when they did they asked Angelo if his was part of gang and once Angelo explained how appalled he was by them they gave him a hand and said that he could join them. Angelo took their hand and never looked back which brings us to today, drinking some scotch and shooting some gang bangers that thought they could steal from their shop. happy birthday....

Skills: strategic mindset able to outmaneuver the enemy into his own trap or ambush, eagle eyes, stealth: able to find a way past enemy lines

Weapons of choice:
*Cheytac .408 cal sniper rifle able to blast a hole through a wall at 100 yards (just exaggeration im not sure if this is actually true I just know its a badass sniper rifle)
*Remington Model 870 pump action combat shotgun meant for close quarters combat
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This is going to be fun... I love playing a villain! xD
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.....I am not shooting a child.

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.....I am not shooting a child.


O-oh my! Not even if she's doing horrible things, and it is necessary to protect yourself and your friends? =p
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@Airalin@Jangel13 Speak for yourself! If you send your cronies over here I swear to god-!
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No, cause then I'll just hit her hard with my gun tie her up then have her hang upside down from a lamp post till she acts like a good little girl.
I said I won't shoot you not that I won't punish you
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I said I won't shoot a child I never said I wouldn't punish one
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Oh dear. All of this went downhill quickly.
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