Atomyk

THE WALKING DEAD - Our Broken World

@Kuro

Looks good! Accepted.

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@Inkarnate

They look great! Pleasure to have you, haha.

THE WALKING DEAD - Our Broken World (A Zombie Apocalypse RP) [OOC is now up and in the first post]

@Atomyk Now that I think of it; wouldn't it be better for the RP to be situated on the outskirts of Fort Wayne? With Fort Wayne having around between 250K-260K estimated people, I'm not so sure setting up shop within the city is a good idea. Maybe one of the smaller outskirt towns could suffice, such as Arcola, Yoder, Hessen Cassel, or even New Haven?

@Kuro

Fort Wayne will have experienced a rather heavy mass exodus in the early days as rumors circulated that the Canadian border on the edge of Michigan had suddenly been left unattended and unguarded. Armed with the belief that walkers can't survive the cold, thousands of people left but never returned. That's something I've been thinking of in terms of lore, though, I understand it might be flimsy reasoning all things considered. Moving the setting could be an option.

For now, I do have the OOC up at least so we can move things over to there: roleplayerguild.com/topics/182159-the…

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Brooke

Appearance
Stands at about 5'7"


Name
Brooke İnan

Age
32

Skills
Brooke has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, though such a knowledge set has provided mild use in the post-apocalypse. She is an adept pianist but doesn’t much enjoy playing. She’s a quick thinker who enjoys puzzles and logically thinking things through. She quickly learned how to use a handgun in the early days of the outbreak.

Bio
Brooke was born in early 1982 to Turkish parents living in Fort Wayne. She was the youngest of her siblings and always a bit of a golden child. She was doted on most by her parents and excelled academically and was adored by friends and family. As a child, she was put through rigorous musical studies but Brooke began to distaste music as a result. She had a blow up with her parents in her teens and absolved free herself of their influence as soon as possible.

When she graduated high school, Brooke pursued a degree in civil engineering, having developed a fascination for it through a high school boyfriend. She took her time, becoming a teaching assistant and graduating in her 20s.

During a night out with friends at a bar, Brooke met Ray and the pair started a relationship soon after. They were together for three years before they got engaged, but the outbreak occurred before they could get married. They have been inseparable during the outbreak, establishing a community called Faith that was small at first, but grew into something they hold very dear to their hearts.

Ray

Appearance
Stands at about 6'1"


Name
Ray Williams

Age
35

Skills
Ray taught both high school and college students and developed a strong level of patience. He is endlessly empathetic and caring of others. Ray will always advocate talking things through before all others. He enjoys learning from others and spends hours assisting others in their hobbies.

Bio
Ray grew up in Fort Wayne, a single child to a hairstylist mother and a salesman father. He was always a pretty cute kid, so his parents loved to show him off. When he was very young, his father would do in-person sales outside of the office, he often brought Ray along. It turned out a lot of clients liked cute kids, as did all the moms that came into his mother’s business. Ray loved the attention at first, but as he grew older, he developed a detachment from it. When he was no longer a kid, Ray loved to be alone.

When Ray was a teen, a group of kids from his high school beat up and nearly killed one of his teachers. When the man came back to school after the incident, Ray was so inspired by the man that he grew to admire those in the teaching profession. He wanted to become a professor himself and started working toward that goal. His parents supported him wholeheartedly.

Ray taught high school for a few years before going back to school himself in order to get the credentials required to become a college professor. He met Brooke one night at a bar around this time and the pair hit it off pretty well. They had been together for three years before getting engaged, but the outbreak began before they could get married.

Ray founded Faith alongside Brooke early into the post-apocalypse. Ray has watched it grow, though has always grieved for the old world. He is Faith’s leader alongside Brooke, maintaining a philosophy against violence.

Danny

Appearance
Stands at about 5'9"


Name
Daniel "Danny" Heidecker

Gender
Male

Age
28

Skills
Danny has a lack of academic skills and never attended any post-secondary education. He has some hand-to-hand fighting skills thanks to some time spent in MMA. He’s good with his hands and can be steady and precise. He spent most of his days fixing up computers and playing video games, but these hobbies have not proven useful since the fall of society.

Since the outbreak, Danny has gained a basic knowledge of firearms but is far from an expert. He’s adeptly learned American Sign Language thanks to his friend, Elliot.

Bio
Of his family, Danny really only developed a bond with his younger sister, Joscelyn. He was never quite on the same level as his mother and father, who always seemed to want Danny to be something he wasn't. He was just never as smart or as accomplished as they wanted him to be it seemed. In an attempt to impress his parents, Danny started getting into sports when he got into high school, taking a particular interest in basketball and MMA. Through this, Danny found it easy to get friends. Still, in his senior year, Danny started to find himself closing off from most of the people he knew. The only person who was exempt from this sudden behavior was Danny's best friend, Shannon.

The pair had met in grade school and developed their friendship over time. It eventually got the point that Danny would spend more time at Shannon's than his own house. He enjoyed being around her parents far more than his own. It had been often whispered and joked about that Danny and Shannon were a couple, though truthfully their friendship had always been purely platonic.

For reasons known only to Danny, he had started acting out at home. He was never quite on good terms with his parents, but never to the degree of actively yelling at them. For a while, Danny's home life was a mess. When he realized this was negatively impacting his relationship with his sister as well, he started making plans to move out and live with Shannon's family. After a major falling out with his parents, Danny was quick to finalize the move. He lived with Shannon and her family for about a year, keeping in contact with only his sister. At 18, Shannon and Danny moved to a different state to live with Shannon's pen-pal, Monica.

While Shannon went to school, Danny ended up doing mostly dead-end jobs. Fast food worker, cashier, assistant manager at Wal-Mart. He never quite developed any particular skills through his various jobs.
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When the apocalypse started, Danny and Shannon were forced to separate from Monica. The pair fell in and out of separate groups, where Danny ended up meeting a deaf boy named Elliot and the pair became pretty close in the early days of the apocalypse. It’s around this time that Danny developed some level of handiness with rifles, but he was never a big fan of them and has never been able to become anything like an expert. After many hardships, losing new communities, new friends, and Shannon, Danny and Elliot ended up wandering into Fort Wayne where they joined the community of Faith.

Elliot

Appearance
Stands at about 5'10"


Name
Elliot Morris

Age
23

Skills
Elliot’s always had an interest in film and went to college for film production. He has an eye for detail and is particularly methodical in his approach on most subjects. He is adept at reading lips but it is rather difficult and never perfect, so Elliot prefers to communicate via American Sign Language.

Bio
Elliot was born deaf and grew up in a pretty normal, loving home for the first eight years of his life. However, such a normal, nuclear family life didn’t last forever. His father lost his job and left the family rather unceremoniously. Elliot’s older brother, Richard was eight years older than him and had to step up to help provide for the family. Richard was like a father figure to Elliot and took care of him a great deal, even after the apocalypse began.

Richard never left Elliot’s side, helping others they met communicate with him and teaching new friends ASL. A community the pair joined seemed to become their permanent new home, but Elliot realized it was easy for others to write him off as useless due to his inability to hear. He ended up becoming close friends with Danny through this community and the two stuck together even as they had to move on.

Elliot lost Richard and was only able to get through it thanks to Danny. He had lost his friend as well and the two eventually had only each other to rely on. They eventually found their way to the community of Faith and have been there ever since.

Sarah

Appearance
Stands at about 5'5"


Name
Sarah Ziegler

Age
24

Skills
Sarah’s practical skills are few and far between. She is a self-styled mechanic, having learned a bit from her dads but learning more after the world fell. She has some skills as a musician, having enjoyed many nights playing guitar for her friends. She never learned to fight but has gained a knack for hiding and sneaking around the undead. She’s spent a lot of time alone, so has learned to tolerate loneliness.

Bio
Sarah grew up in Tennessee and had a pretty normal childhood. Sarah was always a bit of a wild girl who loved to party growing up. She had two dads who were pretty easy-going in their parenting style and Sarah found she did a lot of growing up in her teenage years. She knew her limits and her interests earlier than most. Still, she had a hard time settling down and found that school was never a good fit for her.

Sarah went to a community college for General Arts and Science when she was 18, moving out of the house to live communally with a bunch of her friends, at least two of which were on-and-off boyfriends for her. It was not long before Sarah dropped out and lived mostly off her friends and roommates for a couple years. She had a few odd jobs here and there, but her most stable career came when she started working at a fabrics store.

After everything started to go bad, Sarah and her friends honestly believed nothing would happen if they all stuck together. They isolated themselves and partied, not realizing the world just got worse and worse without them.

A couple of months in, a bunch of Sarah’s friends were killed on a supply run. None of them had the experience needed to face the new world. What remained tried to move on, but one of Sarah’s friends died via suicide, reanimating in the night to kill all of her friends. Sarah managed to escape, but she was only one.

Sarah ended up finding shelter at an old car dump. The office provided good shelter for her and she learned how to hide very well. Sarah spent her days alone, eventually practicing her mechanics skills on some of the broken vehicles. She eventually found an old school bus that was pretty intact. She fantasized about driving off and finding people again. It grew to the point where Sarah could not handle it any longer and she just started driving North.

All Sarah has wanted since then is to find a community to call home.

THE WALKING DEAD - Our Broken World

The Living

Ashley Carpenter
Brooke İnan
Casey Guidry
Daniel "Danny" Heidecker
Darnell Edwards
Elliot Morris
Imogen Woods
Isabelle Steel
Jessica "Jess" Langbroek
John Loren
Leda Kieu
Nathalie “Nat” Soltero
Ray Pope
Ray Williams
Rory Steel
Sarah Ziegler
Turisa Saunders

THE WALKING DEAD - Our Broken World

Guidelines

• Be realistic with your character's skills and their weapons. It’s pretty uncommon for anyone to be running around cutting up zombies like they’re some kind of assassin.
• Please avoid making characters with military backgrounds. There tends to just be too many of these kinds of characters in these types of RPs. It's best that you plan on your character having just been a regular person before the apocalypse hit. Stray from creating characters that have a particularly firearms-related background (Like someone who grew up hunting and is a skilled marksman).
• You can have as many characters as you can handle. If you can't post for a couple of days, let me know so I can move around your character. If you do not post in the IC or OOC or message me for a significant amount of time, then your character will be made an NPC and likely become a walker/corpse.
• Killing of characters must be agreed upon, even NPCs. However, people will die. It's a zombie survival RP. While your character will never be killed off without your consent, no one is likely to survive forever in zombie fiction. Just keep that idea in mind when making your sheet.
• All ideas are welcome! If you have any ideas for major plot-related ideas, characters. locations, etc. then PM me about it.

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When making your character, keep in mind that the RP is currently approximately 18 months, since the apocalypse began and that the current general setting is the Indiana area of America.

CHARACTER SHEET

Appearance: (It’s preferred you use live action pictures for your characters. You may also use portraits or art if it's realistic in style. If you have trouble finding these kinds of images, feel free to ask me for assistance. Images can be accompanied by a written description if you’d like.)

Name:

Age:

Skills: (What is your character good at? What do they enjoy doing? Feel free to put anything you can think of)

Bio: (What the character did before the apocalypse and a little bit about what’s happened to them after. Feel free to keep it brief if you’d like.)​

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NPC SHEET

Appearance: (It’s preferred you use live action pictures for your characters. You may also use portraits or art if it's realistic in style. If you have trouble finding these kinds of images, feel free to ask me for assistance. Images can be accompanied by a written description if you’d like.)

Name:

Age:

Skills: (What is your character good at? What do they enjoy doing? Feel free to put anything you can think of)

Personality: (Keep it brief. Feel free to just list adjectives if you’d like.)

Bio: (What the character did before the apocalypse and a little bit about what’s happened to them after. Feel free to keep it brief if you’d like.)​

THE WALKING DEAD - Our Broken World

In a world ravaged by the dead, the worst of humanity comes alive. Society has collapsed and our world is broken beyond repair. The living must survive any way that they can, pushing their morals to the very edge. The dead only know how to feed, but the living? The living know how to hunt.

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The Walking Dead is a comic, television, and video game series that generally focus on groups of survivors living in the “zombie apocalypse,” a setting where the living members of humanity are outnumbered by the living dead. The society of old has collapsed and what remains of humanity fight to make the most of what remains.

This RP will have little to do with the stories or the characters of the established franchise and more to do with name recognition and the use of the specific rules of that universe, such as that all of those who die without an injury to their brain reanimate no matter what and that the use of the word “zombie” is largely nonexistent.

The outbreak will have started on September 20th, 2012. The outbreak will have been going on for 18 months, so the RP takes place March, 2014.

The initial setting for the roleplay will be set in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A community has sprouted up and secured itself for about the last ten months. The community, named “Faith” after the Presbyterian church it’s situated around, is run by a male/female couple and houses about 40-50 people.

Faith takes up this square block, with walls built up and around the parking lot edges. The front gate is located on the North side. Here is where the area is located (the red dot). Though RP locations will be based off a real-life locations, liberties will be taken as needed. Apologies to anyone who lives in these places, haha.

Faith has a security office beside the front gate that used to be an attorney's office. Derek Cook is head of security and lives in this building. The northeast corner building used to be a YMCA but now houses supplies and equipment, as well as a few sleeping spaces. Ben Graham is in charge of supplies. The southeast corner is where rows of planters have been set up for crops. Elyse Hubbard is in charge of the crops. On the south edge is a building that used to be a theater but now is where the bulk of the community sleeps. Beside it is the church, where a greenhouse where flowers are grown can be found. The altar used to be a space where community members communally slept but has since been cleaned up. Craig Hanlon is a young priest who occasionally runs services here.

Samuel Barlow is in charge building and maintenance. He had the biggest role in the construction of Faith's walls.

(These NPCs will have sheets soon)

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The initial plot of the RP will involve the fact that the citizens of Faith have not seen a living person in the immediate area for about a month. Even more concerning is the fact that the supply caches they have set up in areas nearby have been recently mysteriously ransacked on a few occasions. These caches are meant to be temporary housing during times of heavy walker rotation and now those who leave Faith's walls don't feel safe using them.

In terms of specific relevant lore, Fort Wayne will have experienced a rather heavy mass exodus in the early days as rumors circulated that the Canadian border on the edge of Michigan had suddenly been left unattended and unguarded. Armed with the belief that walkers can't survive the cold, thousands of people left but never returned.

In addition, the city of Indianapolis will have gone up in flames in the early days and many of the surrounding towns/cities are unlivable. They are filled with the dead.

THE WALKING DEAD - Our Broken World (A Zombie Apocalypse RP) [OOC is now up and in the first post]

Is there an ETA for when the OOC is to be dropped? I know you mentioned it was already finished.

@Kuro

Will be dropped tomorrow!

THE WALKING DEAD - Our Broken World (A Zombie Apocalypse RP) [OOC is now up and in the first post]

Yup, multiple characters will be allowed.