Captain Shelton

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Law Enforcement handgun qualification usually isn't much better than the military's (just an FYI so you know what to reasonably expect of him, basic marksmanship would be good but not much else)
Anyway, you're fine, go ahead. You can have two M9s and all that. No swords though. It's a pet peeve of mine. Kinda'.

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If you can make all those changes AND get rid of his shitty action movie attitude from Survival, then he might work. But he needs to have a believable personality, everyone can't be a hardass and I'd prefer it if almost no one was in this RP (at least not all the time)
I remind you, in Survival, he killed a sewer alligator with a katana and CUT OUT ITS HEART. This is more the gritty, personal drama type of RP that follows the show. So, yeah, just make sure you take care of that and you're good. Main thing is that a suppressor can be hard to find so having two on (and USING) two pistols at once is a bit much. Duel wielding pistols doesn't work. And in the military, (depending on branch) most people don't get a lot of training with handguns. You would literally get more and better practice at a civilian self defense course taught by a squared away school/instructor. Just for the record.

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Kodiak/Ozias, glad to have you back and thank you for reporting the troll, saved me and AB the trouble.
That said, I'd like you to pick a different character for this RP, primarily because Nero/Moretti is just too...unrealistic. This RP's crowning achievement has always been how real and brutal things are and how believable the characters are. Dual wielding suppressed pistols (which doesn't work very well by the way) while hack-slashing zombies with a samurai sword doesn't really fit the bill. He doesn't have to be joe-schmo average-guy, but he needs to be really believable, almost tangible. Basically, try to picture meeting him in person right now today and if you can't really envision that, then you should go with a different charrie.

Everyone else is accepted without any issues.

Wired, I would like for our characters to meet and for mine to possibly take on a sensei-ish mentor role with yours. The two would relate well to each other over their murderous hatred for raiders and tragic losses caused by them and I think it'd be neat to see Matt (my guy) training him a little and helping him exact his streak of revenge. To keep from spoiling things and cluttering the OOC, please PM me if you are interested.

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Probably within the next week, and that's a liberal estimate.

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Accepted and it's fine bro, we appreciate humor round here. Just a quick thing though, Washington is fricking cold and fricking wet most of the time so I expect to see his life sucking ass whenever he's outdoors. If you want to edit your CS, you may at any time up till the IC is posted. Just let everyone know. I will be adding a Luger P08 handgun to my CS for continuity's sake (peeps from the original roleplay will know)

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Looks good, welcome aboard! The RP will be up before too long guys. The idea to get started with is that we'll all end up forming our own little packs of survivors and hopefully nature will take its course and by the middle of the RP we'll all be in one large group OR several warring factions. We shall see.

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It's preferable that they have, but not mandatory. As long as they understand the basics and the atmosphere.

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Please do, who were your original characters?

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Please note, the nickname "Ghost Soldier" is not an ego indulgence, it's what the Raiders came to call him during his month long Guerilla campaign against them. He is not referred to by this title by anyone other than them, and they're all dead so...

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Name: Matt "Ghost Soldier" Shelton
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Appearance: Crouching at left
Clothing: Tan cargo pants, combat boots, black Under Armor shirt, OD green work shirt, black baseball cap, Kevlar police gloves
Equipment: Coyote brown patrol pack (contains: hammock, fire starter kit, hygiene kit, change of clothes, x3 MREs, sharpening stone, weapon cleaning kit, batteries, map, compass, mini-binoculars, homemade jerky, x3 extra rifle magazines, first aid kit, emergency blanket, Multicam Gore-Tex jacket, Beretta M9, Desert Eagle Mk XIX, Luger P08)
UCP-pattern SPCS (Plate Carrier) with x2 Double-mag pouches, hydration carrier, IFAK,
x240 rounds of 5.56x45mm NATO/.223 Remington (total)
x66 rounds of 9x19mm Parabellum (total)
x9 rounds of .357 Magnum (total)
Weapons: M16A4 with ACOG scope & tac-light, Glock-17 with night sights, M9 Bayonet, Spyderco Endura folding knife
Bio/Background: (begins where summary ends) Matt and his militiamen eventually started a month-long guerilla campaign against Jackson's 50+ strong group of Raiders, picking them off one at a time with booby traps/IEDs, sniper fire, Walker attacks, etc. This however led to an eventual attack on the group's hideout which forced the militiamen into an open fight. Matt and company, through various booby traps and several hundred rounds of ammunition, wiped out the bulk of Jackson's forces, punching a hole in their ranks and allowing the Captain and his younger companion/fellow Army veteran, Jamie, to make their way to Jackson and his Lieutenants. Jamie gunned down Jackson's guards and inner circle without notice using a silenced M9 while the Captain snuck up on Jackson himself, attacking him in hand-to-hand combat. Jackson shot Jamie in the chest with his personal sidearm, a Desert Eagle MkXIX, mortally wounding the young soldier. Matt wrestled the weapon away and turned it on Jackson, shooting him through the chest and taking cover behind a Humvee while Jackson's remaining forces opened fire on him. Jamie died in his arms and Matt, as a final favor to his friend, stabbed him in the base of the skull, puncturing his brain and peacefully preventing his reanimation. Jackson was not given the same courtesy and reanimated. One of the raiders held Matt at gun point, intent on using him as a bargaining chip against the rest of the group, but was ironically attacked from behind and killed by a reanimated Jackson, who Matt then dispatched himself, killing the Raider Chief a second time. The remainder of Jackson's forces however were unfazed and set fire to the group's home, luring every Walker in the area straight to them. Matt and his remaining soldiers wiped out most of the Raiders, scattering the rest and sending them retreating into the forest. The entire group was killed save for Matt and Shan who escaped into the forest, relentlessly pursuing the Raiders. Over the next several days, the grief stricken couple hunted the Raiders like animals, picking them off with wire traps, sniper shots and occasionally knives to the throat, leaving their bodies hung from trees and stripped of any useful equipment. Once the last one had been killed, the couple replenished their supplies as best they could, and set off into the vast wilderness at the base of the Olympic Mountains of Washington, surviving in the wild by hunting and foraging, far from the massive hordes of Walkers that now roamed the cities and towns.
Occupation Pre-Apocalyse: US Army Special Forces Officer with combat experience in the Afghan Mountains

Note.
The Desert Eagle is a trophy taken from Jackson, the raider boss.
The Luger P08 is a trophy taken from the leader of a Neo Nazi gang.
The Beretta M9 is a keepsake passed from his friend Desmond to his friend Jamie who was killed in combat with Jackson's forces.