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Shelter: A Zombie Survival Story

_{17 - Scorpio - Senior - 5'6" - Olivia Rodrigo}

“It’s not personal, I just know you’re a dumbass.”

Hera, to pretty much anyone

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Appearance Details

i keep rewriting this

Characterization

Where should you start with González-Jones?

She’s an active overachiever, constantly on the hunt for the next item on her checklist. The more a college has to look at, she figures, the more likely they are to take her in on a full ride. Because she’s definitely not going to be able to pay for it and the idea of being perpetually indebted to a loan officer terrifies her immensely. Not that is all going to matter anymore given the state of the world.

How people perceive her is definitely going to hurt more than it will help, though. Not that is entirely her fault, either. People see “cheerleader”, “school newspaper”, “overachiever”, “national honor society” and they all start connecting dots. Her awful personality just takes it home. She keeps people at distance, cracks jokes that seem made of landmines, and every boyfriend she’s ever had has never been more than a brief distraction. To call her a mean girl wouldn’t be accurate, either, though. She doesn’t have a book of grudges or particularly go out of her way to make people’s life hell. She just doesn’t care. High School is just another short stop on a very long bus ride that she feels will never account for anything. Well, she wasn’t counting on the apocalypse and having to depend on others to survive. Life’s a bitch.

With her family, Hera is pretty fine with them. She doesn’t come from a super abusive household or have any distinct parental issues. The only real issue she’s ever had is her dad died in the line of duty before she could walk and as a result has pretty much only had her mother and her uncle to lean on. Not that she ever sees either of them much since it is through them she goes to a nice school and has everything she needs to succeed. She’s pretty fortunate to have them and they have taught her how to be fairly self-sufficient as a result.

Though given the pending end of the world, she has started to worry more than she ever has before.

Character Notes

- Her mother is a Nurse at a hospital a half-and-hour away from Alpena Heights. Hera suspects she's dead.

- Her uncle runs a restaurant in the northeastern corner of Alpena Heights.

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Shelter: A Zombie Survival Story

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Shelter: A Zombie Survival Story

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Hera González-Jones
_{Seventeen-Year-Old Class Valedictorian, portrayed by @mickilennial}

Ethan Hubbard
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Jessica Langbroek
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Shin-ae Yun
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Quinn Ashurn
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Aaron West
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William R. Nielsen, Jr.
_{At sixty-six years of age, William R. Nielsen, Jr. has been not only the Headmaster and Principal of Stockbridge Academy since 2004 but also something of a diplomat. Nielsen is an amicable man whose promises to investors and parents alike have earned him a positive reputation during his tenure. His fate is currently unknown.}

Eleonóra Merkatz
_{At thirty-three, Eleonóra is one of the younger members of the faculty. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the witty albeit snarky instructor has found her calling within the History Department of Stockbridge. On top of American History (a requirement for newly minted Freshmen) she teaches Military History and Civics as electives. She has been with the school since 2016. Her fate is currently unknown.}

Harrison M. Potter
_{Nearing the big 4-0, Harrison M. Potter, is growing unsettled. Already having to deal with Stockbridge students making the tired “Harry Potter” joke, his patience has grown quite thin. A member of the English Department of Stockbridge, Harrison takes pride on teaching classical literature, poetry, and the occasional epic. On top of 12th Grade English he serves as an AP Literature instructor as well. His fate is currently unknown.}

Jessica Quinby
_{Technically Stockbridge’s Health Teacher, though it is no secret the burnout ex-Olympic athlete was hired to advise Stockbridge’s budding softball program. At thirty-eight, she’s accepted that she will never play professionally again, though she was pricklier when she joined Stockbridge in 2015. She also teaches an elective class focused around sports history, though that’s only been on the program for the past year. Most kids consider it an “easy a”. Her fate is currently unknown.}

Mary Stevens
_{Mary Stevens is a member of the English Department of Stockbridge. Her fate is currently unknown.}

Robert Toolsey
_{An inept Spanish Language teacher who had a lousy reputation with the students. He was devoured at the Auditorium during Lockdown.}

Louis Jeffries
_{A member of the Science Department of Stockbridge. Often one of the tougher teachers in the school, though until recently was seen as someone who cared about the well-being and success of the students. Evidently, a zombie apocalypse can change a man. His fate is currently unknown.}

Shelter: A Zombie Survival Story

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Shelter: A Zombie Survival Story

A Z O M B I E S U R V I V A L RP
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Shelter: A Zombie Survival Story

This is NOT happening.

Objectively speaking here, as the most accomplished person at Stockbridge Academy, the entire prospect of ‘zombie apocalypse’ is nigh impossible. It’s fiction. Allegories for society, politics, public health, and the distrust between people in general. It’s not real. It can’t be real. I wish it wasn’t real. But it is.

I should’ve known it was bad when the teachers told us we weren’t going home two weeks ago. That CDC had flagged our homes as host to a dangerous pathogen that needed to be rooted out. Our rights went out the window from there and the school went into super lockdown–the state of emergency that investors and the school board signed off on when the point of discussion about school shooters came up. Turns out, a school shooter would be a good distraction right about now.

Not that they would do much against the entire 9th Grade Class being infected.

We were in the auditorium when it became clear that somehow, that sickness the CDC was worried about decided not to be outside anymore. I’ve never seen someone die before, let alone seen a half-a-dozen 9th graders turn into feral animals in a snap. Mr. Toolsey was an idiot and nobody (and I mean nobody) liked him, but nobody deserves to go out like that. After seeing all of that? Well, everyone ran. The infected got who they got and I’m still thinking about all of the teachers that followed in Mr. Toolsey’s example and those that didn’t try to protect any of us. Hard to blame anyone in a state of emergency, but now I know Mr. Jeffries is willing to throw us on the floor to save his own skin.

Not that I did much better. I found the first classroom to hide in and didn’t look back. A small handful of students are here with me and I can’t even fathom what we are all going to do.

All I know is we have to find a way to reverse the lockdown and get out of here. Even if the world is fucked, I’d rather be out there than stuck in here.
_{- Hera González-Jones}

For the last three decades, the Stockbridge Academy for Higher Learning & the Arts has been the pride and joy of the State of Michigan.

Initially seen as just another roundabout attempt at creating another new age private school to prey upon the growing dissent toward public schooling, Stockbridge has become a name that is known nationwide despite its humble roots in the folksy suburbs of eastern Michigan.

Perhaps a lot of the school’s success has been on its investors, but the current Principal and Headmaster, William R. Nielsen, Jr., insists that the prestige comes from the success of its students and not that of its board of investors that have helped provide most of the top shelf academic facilities. A distinct athletics program has even allowed students interested in golf, football, basketball, soccer, hockey, baseball, and softball to have the opportunity to play their sport of choice and compete competitively at a state-level. A few state championships deck the trophy case at the front of the main building before the administrative offices.

As of the present date, Stockbridge provides quality education for grades six-to-twelve with various outreach programs, partnerships, and scholarships. You do not need to be “the best of the best” to get into Stockbridge. All you need is potential to show the world that the best was inside you all along. It is for this reason that the teaching staff of the multiple departments are as varied as any other. As a member of this faculty it is your responsibility to bring out the best of your students. Some notable members of this teaching staff have come from the finest universities in the world, though others are from less finer distinctions, of lesser colleges and even community ones. Imperfection can often lead to the best results.

Stockbridge’s facilities are varied, though principally based on a repurposed (and modernized!) structure near the center of the city of Alpena Heights.

As the story goes, Alpena and Alpena Heights transformed from townships to cities in the early sixties, similar to other major fixtures of the downriver area. With a population of around 13,000, The City of Alpena Heights prides itself in keeping itself down-to-earth and locally-grown. Common public areas include a fruit market, older theater (that has since been renovated into a community center), metropolitan park, and a mall. Basically, its the boring picture of the idyllic middle class.

- Shelter is a small group collaborative story focusing on a group of High School Students from Stockbridge Academy as a zombie outbreak occurs at their school at the tail-end of the Michigan Winter Season in 2023.

- In Part 1, players may create characters who are any composition of trope, class, or determination. A fourteen-year-old freshman is just as fair game as a eighteen-year-old senior. Players are encouraged to figure out how their character interacted pre-outbreak.

- The location of Alpena Heights is a fictional determination, but it is loosely based on the metro suburbs of Detroit such as Dearborn Heights, Farmington Hills, Wyandotte, Woodhaven, and Royal Oak.

- Players are expected to be productive and hold each other accountable in terms of activity. The posting expectations is two weeks to maintain activity, though communication of availability is also paramount. GMs do not play by special rules. They are expected to communicate and be active as well.

- Writing Level should be consider middle-of-the-pack Casual. Flexible, but not too time consuming. A focus on character and substance will be more important in character review than extensive composition and exposition.

- Keep drama to the minimum and keep in line with site policy. No Emmanuelle Arsan novels, please.

- Faceclaims are to be based on real actors rather than anime or artistic renditions.

- Applications in OOC in a hider. Accepted ones in CHAR without a hider.

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