Right, I just thought I'd throw this one out here.
Basic story: Everyone in the world is dead. No-one knows why, or how, but all of your friends, family and distant relations have died. You 6 players are the only people you know in the world to have survived this. Its not a zombie outbreak, because no-one came back from the dead. Its not an invasion by aliens, because nothing was destroyed. You 6 have to make it in the world, restart, make a new society, grow, become what you always wanted to be!
You think your the only ones alive, but who knows, there might be others?
Setting: Edinburgh; 2009 1st January. The disaster did happen on New years day. Which does mean there'll be alot of dead people on the streets.
Characters: Anything you want them to be. Preferably something realistic, Edinburgh has a high population of Students/old people/Polish immigrants/and Scottish people (well duh). I'm looking for 6 people, first come first serve.
Rules: There arn't any specific rules, just general don't throw abuse at people irl. RP will make life here easier for you. and stuff.
So I'll have to work it out, but you'll probably start in the center of town all meeting for the first time. I'll post a small map of the center of Edinburgh via google maps and you can take a look see.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/Nilocy/Roleplayinggamemap-1.jpg)
People interested:
1. Rooster - Kate
2. deadlycairn - Simon
3. Aqizzar - Rachelette
4. sonerohi - Millar
5. Pengiun - That prossie lady Candy
6. chaoticjosh - Fernando
===Update Section===
Ok, I did note that the map was of bad quality when I uploaded. So I'm gonna post up the bigger version with numbers :D Sorry about that Aqizzar. And no, the animals didn't die. Just humans (I'll go fix that :D) I'll put up a link to the download.
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Oh yes, I'll need you to give a quick character description, like about 100 words or something, who they are, where they're from, what they're doing in Edinburgh, any special talents (just make it like... one for just now, you can learn some more later).
The general jist of the rules goes along the lines of if you have a talent you'll do it better, if not then you wont. You don't have any major difficulties with anything survival related (you've watched Ray Myres etc.) You know how to start a campfire and stuff.
The turns meanwhile shall be played out on a week by week style, if anything major happens (and it will) then I'll tell you lot and we'll do it on a day by day basis. You get one action for each day, this is what you'll be spending the most time on in that one day (be it finding food, building shelter, planting some crops.) When the major events happen you'll have 24 action points to spend to figure the event out and stuff. It will act like one day action point over all. But you'll get to specify what you do better. Note: If you want to suggest a better way of doing these turns then please tell me :D
Intro
31/12/08 Hogmanay (Hog-man-nay Scottish New Years).
23:30. People are out celebrating what is the countries biggest New years party. People are everywhere on the streets, drinking, laughing having a wonderful time as they forget what was a quite terrible year for the world. The clocks ticking down to the biggest use of fireworks seen yet at Edinburgh Castle.
23:55. People gather everywhere for their own view of the castle, the fireworks start. The concert in Princes Street gardens is coming to its climax in unison with the Castles display. People are getting anxious, waiting for the final rockets to explode in their wonderful reds, yellows, greens and blues.
0:00 January 1st 2009. Suddenly five hundred thousand people drop dead onto the floors as the colours in the air begin to fade. In an instant what was one of the most celebrated times in the year became the quietest. No-one was around, not a single voice except for the harsh winds picking up from the north.
0:05. 6 Sole people find themselves the only people left standing in Princes Street. There are no tears shed among them, they just stare at each other wondering what had happened. A faint thud is heard towards the east.
Ok, thats the intro. You guys were all celebrating new years in the center of town, just north of the castle on that long street. Its up to you what you guys want to do now.
Turn 1.
Choatic Josh’s turn:
You wake up on the first of January 2009 all ready for a new sexual encounter. It was quite hectic last night, celebrations in the streets going on all day and night. You decided to retire with the sweet chick you picked up while at one of the many pubs on the Cowgate (it’s a pub and club haven in Edinburgh). Your hotel is quite close to the centre of town and so it’s a short 10 minute walk to your room. You have a great night, possibly the best ever, with this broad, unfortunately like every man you fall asleep after your business is done. You wake up after being stirred by a cold wind to find your date for the evening motionless slumped over the balcony. Its still fairly dark as the sun hasn’t risen yet and theres a cold breeze coming through the window. You go up to her cautiously dreading the worst as you get closer you see that her skin is pale blue. You go up to her and touch her wondering if she’s dead. You check her pulse. She is dead! You panic. You run downstairs forgetting you have only your tight y-fronts on to inform the people at the desk only to find a bellboy lying on the floor dead. Your seriously freaked out now. Two dead people in one day? You notice there is no-one else in the hotel and push the gigantic wooden and glass doors apart to inform someone outside. This is one crazy ass dream you must be having. Only to come to a sight that should have woken you up, hundreds, no thousands of bodies littering the floor, blood running from some of their crack skulls; men, women, children of all ages everywhere.
After the stomach wrenching sight you came across you decide to investigate. Picking your way through the streets you come across your Cadillac sitting in the hotel garage. You cant see yourself driving on the roads with so many bodies everywhere.
Hunger sets in. You find a small bistros in the side street and decide the situation warrants it that you have to break in. You find a brick and smash the window of the door in and unlock it from the inside. You walk in to find the electricity is still working for the time being, the water also works. You fix yourself up a hearty breakfast from all the meats in the fridge and freezers. Only dreading the idea that you’ll have to go back out.
It takes you some time to pluck up the courage to go outside again and once you do, you notice someone wandering the street. Is that someone alive?! You haven’t seen anyone all day and this could be your brain playing a trick. You decide to go out to investigate and follow them for a while. What you gather is that they’re in their mid twenties, female and very very distraught. You’ve met Rooster! She is heading back from the local shopping centre to a hotel where she‘s gathered a load of supplies. And you should go with her, which in the current situation isn‘t to bad. Walking all alone with a cute girl, what couldn’t be worse in a post apocalyptic scenario? You get back, have dinner and discuss with the others what they should do now. The general suggestion is to go wait for others in the city centre. You find a wheelie bin and set it alight for warmth in these artic conditions. !Waiting you meet Aqizzar and deadlycairn! You go back to the hotel with adequate supplies and bedding, there is also a few heaters and car batteries.
Roosters Turn.
You were out celebrating New Years like any other student. Getting well and truly pissed. During the big countdown everyone was staring at the sky, waiting for that golden moment of the years changing. When it happened fireworks from all around the city fired off in a spectacular synchronised display. Unaware while watching the fireworks everyone beside you slumps over in the street. You turn to your side to talk to your best friend Jason only to find his dead body nudging your leg. You scream. You don’t stop screaming for 20 minutes until your voice runs dry and you’ve cried your heart out. Your surrounded by dead. Thousands of them in every direction. You start shouting at the top of your voice. Only to hear the cries of a few other voices. You look around and see nothing, but you can hear them. You find a few cans on beans and some sausages, but not much else as it was New years, so these places aren’t stocked up yet. You wander around and find a camping store and decide to take some must haves, boots, tenting gear, the lot. On the way back from mall in yours dazed out state you notice something behind you, turning around you see a man of Spanish origin hiding behind a lamppost. Shouting out to him asking what the hell he’s doing he replies, “Your alive?”. He decides to stay with you as you go back to the other survivors. You get back, have dinner and discuss with the others what they should do now. The general suggestion is to go wait for others in the city centre. You find a wheelie bin and set it alight for warmth in these artic conditions. !Waiting you meet Aqizzar and deadlycairn! You go back to the hotel with adequate supplies and bedding, there is also a few heaters and car batteries.
Aqizzars Turn.
The clock strikes 12 midnight. The fireworks go off in a triumphant boom. Captivated your unawares of everyone around you falling dead onto the street floor. Looking down from the sky to share you awe with the fireworks you freeze. Unable to comprehend the mass deaths of thousands of people at the same time, while your still alive, you stand still for maybe an hour. The clock in the distance strikes 1 o’clock. The single tone echoes through the streets, waking you from your coma like state. You start to regain your senses, your legs start moving, before you can think of anything else your already running towards your flat. I must get home. This isn’t right. You remember your phone, taking it out of your pocket you scroll through a list of family members, mum, dad, brothers and sisters crying as they never pick up. You try your friends numbers to no avail. Hearing some distant cries of people you get spooked. You run, and keep running until you can no longer hear them. You continue like this for several hours until you finally snap into the right sense of mind. If you’re the last person on earth, you have to retain its knowledge. Remembering your downloads at home will probably still be going for a few hours to come to run home. Arriving there you note that the water and electricity are still running. You freshen up, grab something to eat, ignoring your roommates open door, and start browsing the internet. Searching for anything new in the last few hours you come across some truly bizarre sites with the date stamping of 1st of January 2009 02:21. It originated from the UK so what ever happened here happened at the same time. The web post in question is full of garbled symbols and characters you’ve never seen before. Other than that, there’s nothing to make of it. You decide to leave it as it is. Noticing the distinct lack of food in your fridge and cupboards, leaving with a change of warm winter clothing and a fairly powerful torch light, you head back outside into the chilly winds to search for food. You walk over the street to your local ‘Subway’ store and break in. You fix yourself a nice foot long subway and decide to head back to the city centre where you heard the voices earlier this morning. You take the quickest route through the meadows, no-one really going to attack you this late right? An lo and behold there is a light in the distance. it’s a tent. In the tent you find a frightened young man. !You‘ve met Deadlycairn! You tell him theres survivors in the city centre and head off to there. As you get near to city centre you find a bunch of survivors huddled around a fire. You‘ve met the rest of the group! You go back to the hotel with adequate supplies and bedding, there is also a few heaters and car batteries.
deadlycairns Turns.
As usual your parents are conked out after a hard nights partying with their friends in the Meadows. You wake up and notice they’re not up yet. Deciding to leave them sleeping you go through to the next room in the tent to fix yourself some breakfast. Unusually, your parents aren’t woken up by the noise of frying bacon, you looove bacon. Going through to check on them, you notice that they’re not there. Ok, this is starting to get weird, where could they be? In George and Deirdre’s tent? You go through and check, nope not there. You suddenly realise the distinct lack of any noise any where. Your getting scared. You run through to the frying bacon, which is now burnt, grab your coat and run outside to find them. They said that they’d be at the north end of the meadows where everyone else would be. You keep running until you find quite literally a sea of corpses. Hoping to god that your parents are not one of them you shout out for them. No luck. For the next 2 or 3 hours you look through most of the corpses still not find your parents anywhere. Around midday you find them. Frozen in the mud with smash glass beside their face. You fall to the ground clutching your face and cry, cry for hours. You stay in your tent until it gets dark. You don’t notice the cold at all as your mind cannot get rid of the images of your dead parents. Out of nowhere there’s a flicker of light on the tent. You run outside looking to see where it came from. Its from the path up ahead. As the light draws nearer, you see a fairly good looking girl, with glasses about 20 years old. You shout “Who are you?!” She replies “Rachelette”. !You’ve met Aqizzar! She tells you to come with her if you want to survive, she tells you that there’s a bunch of survivors near the city centre and she’s going to find them again. So you both head of towards the city centre. As you get near to city centre you find a bunch of survivors huddled around a fire. You’ve met the rest of the group! You go back to the hotel with adequate supplies and bedding, there is also a few heaters and car batteries.
Penguins Turn.
After a days servicing men you decide to hit the town to see if you can pick up a few more monies. The usual stuff happens, you find a guy, stick with him. If he doesn’t pay, move on. You do this until you come up to your final guy, a handsome guy named Millar. !You met Millar!! You follow him for a while, and after the fireworks go off, you become aware that you two are the only living people around. He runs off to his house after a few hours of crying and your left alone wandering the streets. Eventually he comes back and you stick with him till you end up meeting another bunch of survivors. !You met the rest of the group!
Sonerohi’s Turn.
You’re here in Edinburgh’s wonderful capital city with a bunch of your friends. Your having a great night, drinking, chatting up ladies and then out of the blue this quite attractive, if not whorish, lady comes up to you and introduces herself. !You met Penguin!! After a great many drinks and false countdowns to New Years, its just you two left in a crowd of people watching the finale of the fireworks display. You toast the New Year only to be greeted by the sight of thousands of dead bodies everywhere. At first it was unreal, it still is now, but you stood there, with tears dripping from your eyes unable to do anything, the screams of Penguin behind you doesn’t shake you out of your weird trance like state. Suddenly, you have to get home. Running as fast as you can over the bodies you keep running until you get to your flat. First you look through photo albums, they’re the same. Nothings changed. You decide to hold onto one of your friends and family and pack a rucksack full of food and drink. You have to do something here, what could you do? Bury the people? No, that’d take too long. It’d take you hours to dig just one grave, let alone thousands. You come up with the plan to return back to city centre, eventually you come back to find Penguin still crying in front of a shop front. You hang around for a while wondering what to do Penguin tells you that she saw a bunch of people not to long ago. You decide to stay put. At about 8pm or so you notice a fire to the east of the city centre and head over there. !You met the rest of the group! You go back to the hotel with adequate supplies and bedding, there is also a few heaters and car batteries.
Ok, that’s the major events done. I'd like some more back-story next turn ok? For now, your basically stuck in the hotel with an adequate amount of supplies left. You start talking about what to do next. So please, ICC times! Then I’d like a turn for the next day, its still a major event as you just lost everyone in the last day. Remember kids, best not to read each others turns for the sake of RP. Talk to each other and explain what you found out.