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I came back from watching Land of the Dead at the theatres and began talking with my friends (jokingly) about what we would do, should the dead return. I began to remember it, when I decided, "Hey, that's a cool RP idea."

So here I am, with an idea: you choose a person, or people. The first while, they go through their boring routine of job, school, etc. Then the dead return and begin attacking people. Then you go from there. There are endless possibilities. You could run off and start a new haven like in Dawn of the Dead, or rebuild a city like in Land, or you could go mercenary. The choices are rather endless. However, the national governments have all fallen, but certain local ones may have remained.

Lastly, the Zombies are sluggish and primitive like in the old times. They can't run at all and they can't use tools or swim. So, any takers?

The only way I would do one would be if the zombies COULD run, like in Dawn of the Dead.

I have an idea for a nice little group of people, no more than the group at the mall in Dawn of the Dead.

I guess I could live with running. But using guns and thinking like in Land is just stupid.

Oh, and I guess the way to kill them is by destroying the head?

I've got a guy good for this one, Iron Mike is back in business, and so is Poppa O'Niel.

Well, disconnection the spinal column was what they said in Dawn of the Dead. So I think that would mean you could also kill them by cutting their head off in general, although you'd have a carniverous basketball rolling around trying to eat you.

I might be interested.

I'd consider it. What kind of setting were you thinking of?

Hey you can count me in, I'm an avid Survival Horror rp enthusiest, ran a few of the top Resident Evil & general survival horror roleplaying groups back when MSN Chat was free, so yeah, definately count me in.

I would do it. But I think the zombies should run and have a little inteligence. But nothing too thoughtfull.

I was thinking just a sort of world scene: pick where you want to start, etc. and go from there, but if you guys want to start in the same place, I'm cool. I really just wanted to do a Zombie RP.

I think intelligence in a zombie should be a question that we discuss first: how "smart" should they be? I agree with running, I just don't want zombies to be able to grab a 30 Calibre and begin killing all of my people. Whatever, tho is cool by me.

I guess if you want to put down names and stuff of your major characters, that would make sense. You wouldn't be limited to those people, per se, those are just the head guys.

I was thinking along these lines.

Zombies would have dogged endurance. They could go on for a while and keep on going even if heavily damaged.

They would have some inteligence, but nothing like making traps or tactics. They might realize if something is blantantly a trap, but mostly basic primitive thought.

I dont think that if someone is bitten by one that they should become zombies, at least if they get medical help. The virus, would work like this. Once in a person, it incubates, then suddenly kills the person. After a short time, the person becomes "undead" and are considered a zombie. This can be prevented with quick proper medical attention. If a person become's a zombie, it startrs to mutate their body a-la Resident Evil.

This would make some interesting zombies that would get stronger as the RP goes on.

omg. i was thinking about this all day yesterday. I was thinking, what about fire. Like, if you torch a zombie, it dies. well, stops being un-dead and just becomes dead. It would let the characters use things like makeshift flamethrowers (hair spray and a match) and Molotov cocktails and such.

omg. i was thinking about this all day yesterday. I was thinking, what about fire. Like, if you torch a zombie, it dies. well, stops being un-dead and just becomes dead. It would let the characters use things like makeshift flamethrowers (hair spray and a match) and Molotov cocktails and such.

technically thats not quite right, the Zombie will remain alive (unless burnt to ashes) and will now become more deadly as it can now set others alight, ima in by the way, will these Zombies be ravaging our own nations or are all our groups together in one nation?

technically thats not quite right, the Zombie will remain alive (unless burnt to ashes) and will now become more deadly as it can now set others alight

uh huh.
1: it was just a suggestion.
2: how exactly do you know that a zombie wont die if hit with fire. im about 99.999% sure NOBODY has actually seen a real zombie. Have you? cuz if you have, i withdraw my reply

uh huh.
1: it was just a suggestion.
2: how exactly do you know that a zombie wont die if hit with fire. im about 99.999% sure NOBODY has actually seen a real zombie. Have you? cuz if you have, i withdraw my reply
Dawn of the Dead, DVD Special features, Andy's last days, "I chucked a few mlotov cocktails, all it did was light em on fire, and now they smell like roast pork, and they're makin me hungry." Fire doesn't work too well, although explosions do work(propane tanks for example)

uh huh.
1: it was just a suggestion.
2: how exactly do you know that a zombie wont die if hit with fire. im about 99.999% sure NOBODY has actually seen a real zombie. Have you? cuz if you have, i withdraw my reply

hey chill man, i know it was just a suggestion, just the movie buff in me feels compelled to correct everyone, yes i have seen a Zombie, granted i was Stoned and it was dark, and we were all tired, but godammit i saw that Zombie

id be interested if y'all dont mind having a newb around

I was thinking along these lines.

Zombies would have dogged endurance. They could go on for a while and keep on going even if heavily damaged.

They would have some inteligence, but nothing like making traps or tactics. They might realize if something is blantantly a trap, but mostly basic primitive thought.

I dont think that if someone is bitten by one that they should become zombies, at least if they get medical help. The virus, would work like this. Once in a person, it incubates, then suddenly kills the person. After a short time, the person becomes "undead" and are considered a zombie. This can be prevented with quick proper medical attention. If a person become's a zombie, it startrs to mutate their body a-la Resident Evil.

This would make some interesting zombies that would get stronger as the RP goes on.

What kind of medical treatment? Would it be possible to vaccinate?

I think you could have whatever you want to RP. I, for example, am going to get my friends and a cargo barge and move to an island in the Caribbean, as my character lives in South Texas. That way, I would have a group of about 60-100 people. But if you only wanted to do one person, or the nation of China (that would be harsh O_o). This is going to be very open.

I'm just gonna have a few guys, 7 to be exact, but they'll be holed up on a Georgia farm, owned by a paranoid old man, who has a large, and wonderfully illegal collection, of guns.

well i was thinking of doing it Shaun of the Dead stylee, cos that truly is the best Zombie flick.

Parthini']What kind of medical treatment? Would it be possible to vaccinate?

I think you could have whatever you want to RP. I, for example, am going to get my friends and a cargo barge and move to an island in the Caribbean, as my character lives in South Texas. That way, I would have a group of about 60-100 people. But if you only wanted to do one person, or the nation of China (that would be harsh O_o). This is going to be very open.

Well, like very strong antibiotics/radiation treatment and such. There shouldn't be a vaccine, but at least a way to fight if off if you get to it in time.

I was hoping that we could all be in the same city, or in the same area. Maybe a place like New York, London, Moscow, Hong Kong, Tokyo. Somewhere big with a big population. This would allow more interation between charactors. Maybe like Resident Evil infection (hence the time to get help) and RE mutation. That way, as the RP goes on, we get to fight hard zombies. I would love to go into a military "Hive-like" structure.

I'm talking of the RE movies BTW.

EDIT: Try Here. (http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/) Interesting simulation. As population density goes up, chances of being infected raise and they spread more rapidly. Wish it would take into account some armed people though.

Maybe we could have it in Florida. That way, we have big cities, lots of potential zombies, rednecks with lots of guns, and a close proximity to the caribbean. We don't have to start in the same city, just in and around Florida. Plus, it would be ironic.

Why don't we just copy the zombies from Dawn of the Dead (i've got the DVD for reference) and say that there is a treatment for zombie bites that the governments started working on when it first broke out, before they were overran. We can say that once you're bit you're going to turn into a zombie unless you keep pumped up on the stuff. That way there's no invicibility but danger is still there.

My idea was 12 people, kinda like Dawn of the Dead, holding on to a small naval station that has 1 ship docked, preferably a small frigate.

I don't want to take away from the fun, so we'll say the Marine Expeditionary unit left for Australia (watch DVD Special feature "Newscast" and pay close attention) and there's only a few guns left.

There isn't any military hardware left laying around except for a helo and POSSIBLY an APC, but none of them can be used because of running out of gas.

'Could say the ship was secured some makeshift way and we are having to try and get it free before the zombies make it through whatever blockade we have up.

Make it a note, i'm not going to use any major sea artillery or anything, nothing more than a .50 cal or grenade launcher that's on the ship for port defense.

Then eventually we can have the people loading everyone, all the food it can carry/they have, and the equipment they can fit (probably crame everything on deck and tie it down). Then it basically evolves into us slowly making contact and such and having to defend from being overran at numerous ports and such.

I wouldn't mind seeing my folks in one of the scenes like the end one in Dawn of the Dead... (credits)

Is the too large scale/god modish (for this RP) for anyone?

Thats an idea. But I would like to elaborate one it.

We start off as a scatter bunch of ex-military/military personel. We slowy get together in a port and try to get a ship loaded with supplies and whatever survivors we can find. We then hop to other ports in hopes of find more people to save and such. It would give us a varying amount of environments.

I am a fan of all the Dead flicks. My favorite is the 1978 Dawn of the Dead.
There was a role playing game in the late 70's but it didn't really catch on.
There was also a board game.


There is a book with a collection of short stories about other areas
of the world and folks trying to survive.

I am interested in this. I think it would be kinda neat. I am ex-military
and I know I would head to the nearest National Guard Armory and get
myself a M-577 command post APC to cruise around in. I can picture
myself crashing through the doors at Wal-Mart and making a food run.

Yup,

What we could do is you an I start out together with a few military people and a few civilians.

We could say the frigate is some sort of Hybrid so we are constantly having to find fuel for it, and we can do several operations to raid other fuel depots on up the coastline for the helo and APC.

From there we'll want to search for survivers. They don't have to be military, though.

I'm game, though my post will be on and off after friday night... damn vacation, damn my cousin's 26k...

In the older movies zombies were afraid of fire. If the oxygen supply was cut
off due to fire for a length of time I think it would destroy the brain enough
to finish them off.

im in. i will have 10-15 civillians. my main char will be the owner of a local 'guns & bait' shop. when the zombies attack, all the 'hardcore' gun nuts will go to my main guys shop, load the guns into some pickups and head for the nearest defendable place.

In the older movies zombies were afraid of fire. If the oxygen supply was cut
off due to fire for a length of time I think it would destroy the brain enough
to finish them off.

Meh, I like the super zombies in Dawn of the Dead better.

Would anyone be mad if I DID use a 5 inch gun once or twice? Not to save me or make anything alot easier, but just to spice things up?

5 inch guns sounds just fine to me. Might come in handy in case any other
survivors have some heavy firepower like the motorcycle gang in the original
Dawn.

Ok,

I don't plan on just leveling anything we're going into, but it could set up a few good missions.

So, what's the overall goal going to be for this RP?

to survive, isn't that the goal of every Zombie flick?

No shit?

I know that, but it's usually like (in almost every movie) "go to an island where there are no zombies."

Of course, watch the credits for dawn of the dead and we know that doesn't always work.

well in Shaun of the Dead they kill all the Zombies by the Military and in 28 Days Later they kill the Zombies via Starvation, and in Resident Evil, they don't kill the Zombies, they just leave it on crappy cliffhangers.

I know that my charactor is going to be one of the original scientists that was working on the virus project, but got kicked out because I started questioning what they were telling me to do.

your only having one character? O_o do a team man, ima having a team of just basic Stoners and Wasters, based on me and me mates, cos we all know that Stoners kill Zombies

I was hoping to run along with another human-controlled group, but I might do my own group.

if your guy is in Britain then i would be only too happy to have you along, so long as you don't mind me smoking :P

I'm all for it (clearly)

I'll probably have a group of 5 characters;

They will be stationed at some remote military outpost on the shore, the outpost is basically a small armory, they have military equipment (up to my battle rifles, and SMGs, and one sniper, check my sig for details), the dock has a small Patrol Boat armed with a 25mm Bushmaster, and 2 dual .50 cal mounts.

Basically, they get attack, fight off the zombies, load up everything they can onto the PB, and leave, but they have to make food runs (with a stored Fast attack vehicle) in every costal city, hopefully coming in contact with other surivors.

Any problems?

I think we ought to use RL weaponry. Keep it simple. You also have to RP a limited ammo supply.

RL weapons? Fine with me, and yeah, only limited ammo, so they also have to make raids on armories, oh, and limited gas.

what about home-made weapons, not Molotov's, but Lynx Flamers, Snack-a-Flares, Turkey Cannons, and more...

what about home-made weapons, not Molotov's, but Lynx Flamers, Snack-a-Flares, Turkey Cannons, and more...

I think that those would be more than acceptable.

you don't even want to know what they are?

I'd like to know.

Lynx Flamer- Get a Bic lighter a roll of selotape and a can of Deoderant, strap the Lighter to the front of the Deaoderant can and light, the deoderant can can make small bursts of fire, no more than a few shades off a second

Snack-a-Flares- not really a weapon but more a signalling device, get a Snack-A-Jack compressed cracker and light it, it will shine so bright that it makes a good flare

Turkey Cannon- get a small round bin and spray a LOT of hairspray inside, ram inside a Chicken or similar sized poultry and place tilted over an open flame, after a while the gases throw the Chicken out at a speed of around 50 MPH

I intend to do some homemade stuff. A frigate can hold how many people? I have no more than 12 at first and about 4-6 will die in a few RP's?

I can store ALOT. Mainly i'm interested in homemade guns. Someone play Mercenaries and use a cheat to get the secret north korean weapons create.

A streep sweeper and stuff.

Of course, alot of stuff will be fashioned from M16's or use parts from difuctional M4's.

question, how will the dead be returning? Virus? Rage infected Monkey? Voodoo Priest? Solar Flare?

I'll probably have a group of 5 characters;

They will be stationed at some remote military outpost on the shore, the outpost is basically a small armory, they have military equipment (up to my battle rifles, and SMGs, and one sniper, check my sig for details), the dock has a small Patrol Boat armed with a 25mm Bushmaster, and 2 dual .50 cal mounts.

Basically, they get attack, fight off the zombies, load up everything they can onto the PB, and leave, but they have to make food runs (with a stored Fast attack vehicle) in every costal city, hopefully coming in contact with other surivors.

Any problems?

Basically that's what i'm doing, only with a bigger ship. A hybrid powered frigate. Don't worry, i'm still going to have fuel as an issue.

Then i've got a HELO and an APC, but i'm in the water so the APC has no use (possibly raided for parts or used for port defense?) and the Helo is used to a minimum due to fuel problems.

question, how will the dead be returning? Virus? Rage infected Monkey? Voodoo Priest? Solar Flare?

I was hoping to have it due to a virus.

question, how will the dead be returning? Virus? Rage infected Monkey? Voodoo Priest? Solar Flare?

Spacebourne?

Spacebourne?

thats what i meant by Solar Flare, but yeah, that one, i wouldn't mind it if we all had different reasons, and therfore different styled Zombies.

We all can't be in Florida then.

If we're all out on different continents or at least different areas of the seaboard we can say the virus eventually mutates and stuff.

Me, i'm going to have Dawn of the Dead all over again. :p

I MAY even have someone modeled like Andy who lived right across from the naval port and was paranoid about them spying on him. I could say he owned a gunstore too, but 10000 rounds is a little excessive, which is why i'll use no more than 7000 and some grenades. :p

Of course, I could save him for later and say we have to rescue him... yeah, that would be fun. Would also be a way for me to justify not getting a few thousand guns, too.

I can't wait to justify building my own guns. I could have "the gun dude" set up an experiment shop in the lower decks of the ship. :D

SotD Style Zombies for me, locked up in a Tesco's, In England, brilliance

What's a Tesco?

Virus sounds good, i'd be like inital spread due to spacebourne virus(Like in the andromeda(sp?) strain book, and then spreads due to zombies.

And a revised version of my little group of characters.

12 characters at start, armed with M-8 assualt rifle chambered for the 7.62mm round(a few with grenade launcher attachments), 2-3 light machince gun versions, and 1-2 sniper rifle versions, and maybe a .50cal Barret Sniper Rifle. and a Desert Eagle side arm for each, maybe a few hand grenades and a few blocks of C-4's and a few claymores. All along with the Patrol Boat(engine is a diesel-electric hybrid), and an army FAV(a dune buggy, with a .50cal in front of the passenger seat, and a Grenade launcher for the gunner(also diesel electric hybrid)

I play to end with no more then 5 characters.

What's a Tesco?

:O

that cannot be possible, you don't know what a Tesco is? oki calm down Acco *breathes in* Tesco's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tescos) it is the one stop shop for all your Munchy needs

Oh, a 7/11.

Are you going to have real guns or rig a coke can and bottle rocket together to shoot some things?

hopefully a nice mix, ima base the characters off me and me mates, but i know some pretty wierd guys, maybe one gun, a rifle maybe *walks off to plot*

I plan on using a FEW people from my RL, including this one really hot girl. Of course, i'm not going to be like in Dawn OTD and get her killed.

I'm in Virginia in RL, so we love guns. 'Nuff said.

I'm still trying to figure out how to use that APC though... We could take it's guns off and use them to up arm the ship. Possibly even make a "last stand" area by using the armor and material from it to make sure that no zombies could get inside the ship itself in the case of an overruning while in port.

Suffolk, Schnikt, actually i plan on RPing a RL event into this RP, currently in my home town theres a demi-war going on between the Chavs and the Rockers, could mingle that in aswell.

Yup,

Have gang wars between the zombies! That would be hilarious!

Yup,

Have gang wars between the zombies! That would be hilarious!

it's not exactly a gang war, just that the Chav's feel the need to subdue a craving to fight be beating the shit out of anything they can find, walls, relatives, Rockers, Chavs, anything, we Rockers (most of us) just wanna get stoned and have a good time, when we get caught in the crossfire it ends in a mass Chav-hunt led by the Rockers, last one was when me mate Spaz got beaten crapless, but yeah, i would like to see Chavs Vs Zombies, so when is this starting ima getting itchy

We kinda have the same thing here that croped up when they put in another high school.

That won't matter in the story though. I'm going to have several of my friends be on the ship though. If nothing else they can find stuff that blows up while the rest of the crew is shooting zombies.

Virus sounds good, i'd be like inital spread due to spacebourne virus(Like in the andromeda(sp?) strain book, and then spreads due to zombies.

And a revised version of my little group of characters.

12 characters at start, armed with M-8 assualt rifle chambered for the 7.62mm round(a few with grenade launcher attachments), 2-3 light machince gun versions, and 1-2 sniper rifle versions, and maybe a .50cal Barret Sniper Rifle. and a Desert Eagle side arm for each, maybe a few hand grenades and a few blocks of C-4's and a few claymores. All along with the Patrol Boat(engine is a diesel-electric hybrid), and an army FAV(a dune buggy, with a .50cal in front of the passenger seat, and a Grenade launcher for the gunner(also diesel electric hybrid)

I play to end with no more then 5 characters.

Sounds a bit too armored, but I guess you can do that. I'm going to be hanging with a private security contractor who has a lot of pistols and such, and maybe a few sub machineguns.

I just dont want to be stuck with the same generic military dumbasses from every zombie film.

My Charactor: Lazy link (http://www.phillyfests.com/pff/2003/press/Beyond%20Reanimator/BE-RE2%20Jeffrey%20Combs.jpg)

Ammo for me is basically 4 M4's with about 1000 rounds there, 3 M16's with about 300 rounds. Across the street (hard to get to, zombie problem, gun store) we have enough pistols to get everyone a sidearm with a few rounds and a few crates of grenades. On top of that Bob is rumored to have a stockpile of Spaz Combat shotguns and C4. He has also talked about a "armory" with up to 5000 rounds of assorted ammunition for experiments he's been working on for building his own makes of guns.

Of course, I can change any of the above.

Bob is rumored to have a stockpile of Spaz Combat shotguns

there are Spaz combat shotguns, ahahahaha ROFLMFAO

:D

Meh,

My names are going to be very simple in this, too.

"Bob"

nonono, see my mate's name, infact the name of one of me characters, is Spaz, and everyone says to him when they hear this "Your parents must hate you"

OMG!

I SOOOOO WANT THAT NAME!

I'm going to legally change my name to "Axel Rose" to get around copyright laws...

i had the same idea, only ima change to Acco Spoot

(BTW me mates name is actually Sebatian, it has been shortend to Spaz, it's just that everyone calls him Spaz so it has transcended the class of Nickname and is now his official Stoner title)

Meh, are we ever gonna start the thread?

Before we start, I need to get one thing hammered down. Are we all doing the zombies differnetly? I think they should all act the same way at first and that starts to differ as time goes on and they mutate more.

i think to start, they should be all slow-like and not very intellegant at all. as time progresses, they might 'learn' from their actions. like how to avoid traps and such.

dudes, i say we start now, strike whilst the body is still luke warm

hey let me in. this sounds cool.

and it is my young padawan

dudes, i say we start now, strike whilst the body is still luke warm

Make sure to post the link here.

what? Ima not starting, thats up to the Thread starter, Parthini

I know,

Just making sure someone posts it here because i've been known to miss threads I signed up for.

has every1 decided their group yet or are we doing that at the start?

everyone decided their group but that is still subject to change, i'd say that you just go with the flow

ill probaly just throw in a group of 20. 1 ex-military leader the rest a bunch of useless civilians with nothing more advanced than a few pistols and rifles/shotguns between them, with a fair amount of ammo and a few civilian vehicles.

Question: Are we all going to meet up at one point, if so, who's going to first? Also, are we working toward a common goal, like making it to a certain area or something?

yeh.....

Does anyone have a problem with me using a nuclear powered ship that's limited only by consumables? Or does everyone want me to stick with the same hybird power?

I would rather you stay conventional. A nuke reactor requires a lot of people to operate safely anyway.

Is it to late to join? Cause if it isnt Ill join.

If so im only going to be one person, a 12 year old, armed only with his Dad's Glock with only about 3 clips of ammo, a small bat, and his skateboard.

join in anytime, we havn't started yet so...

Ok I'm gonna create a thread and post it here. Post the names of your characters on your first post. Edit it from there if you pick up or kill off others. If you guys have a better idea, post it.

Sorry btw, vacation is stupid.

Heres the thread: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9330759#post9330759