Reality Bites; Revamp [Rated M - OOC]

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Rated M for adult themes including but not limited to violence, blood, gore, naughty words, general mayhem and maybe even a little romance; if anybody survives long enough.

The original out of character thread for this can be found here, if anyone would like to grab their old character.

IC



Reality Bites
A true-to-life zombie apocalypse rp.

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We've all thought about it, in different degrees of seriousness, at least once. Personally, I've probably spent more time than is sensible devising different game plans - just in case.
The tale of the Zombie Apocalypse is a well-known and often told one, and who can honestly say they've never considered how they might fare were they to actually find themselves in the midst of an all-out apocalypse.

It'll never happen... probably. But it doesn't hurt to be prepared, right?

So what would happen? Not to the soldiers, the scientists, the surgeons. The poker-faced, bad-ass and beautiful ex-con who also just so happens to be a black belt in an obscure form of Martial Arts and not too shabby with a crossbow. This story will follow the bankers, single mums and that thirty-five year old next door who still lives with his parents, playing Call of Duty all day.

Our story begins on an average day in their average lives, right before the beginning of the end. Will they fortify themselves in a camp locally? Forage for supplies before setting off for a major city? Hack a radio to get in contact with the government?

Probably not - they're a little busy trying not to die.

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The Plot

In case it wasn't clear above, this roleplay will follow the terrifying 'adventures' of a bunch of every day people as they try to survive the onslaught of the living dead. If you love to play a gun-slinging human weapon, this is not the roleplay for you!

One thing should be made clear, before we begin. Not everyone will survive this rp. There will be injuries, and deaths, and whether or not your character survives is entirely up to their choices IC.

If your character is killed, you will be allowed the opportunity to make another. As I feel it is essential to completing a roleplay from start to finish, there will be a structured sequence of events. However, as I also feel it is important for players to help drive an rp, there are several different ways this story could play out.

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The Setting

Surfers Paradise.

A popular tourist destination on the East Coast of Australia, the growing city is a mixture of skyscrapers, resorts and shopping centres in it's heart, and suburban-bliss style permanent residences and corner stores as you travel toward it's sprawling outskirts. The coastal highway that runs through the city, as well as the appeal of it's picturesque beaches and active nightlife, give it a bustling, crowded atmosphere at most any time of day.

Notable Places
to be added upon discovery.

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The Nitty-Gritty

Spoiler: Rules 

-All RPA Rules apply
-Your character may be injured, or killed according to the decisions they make. If this happens, please do not start an argument about it. If your character is killed you will be allowed to create another.

Spoiler: Character Sheet 

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Occupation:
Appearance:
Personality:
Bio: Not required. I am happy for people to reveal this IC so long as they don't throw in anything unrealistic later. Your character has not secretly studied medical science, or happens to be a master hunter because he went with his dad every weekend as a kid.

Items/Equipment: Must be justified. Opportunities to obtain useful items and weapons will occur in the course of the game.
Notifiable Skills: The reason for these/how your character obtained them must be included.

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The Survivors

Jordan Reynolds by Sonic
Location: His house.
Items/Equipment:none.
Injuries: none.

Daniel Grey Fretheim by Dire Hoef
Location: His bar.
Items/Equipment: None.
Injuries: None.

Julie Smith by RoughDragon
Location: Her apartment.
Items/Equipment: Her purse, containing a water bottle and her hotel key.
Injuries: None.

Isobel Warren by G
Location: Paradise Highschool; Classroom.
Items/Equipment: Backpack containing one lead and several coloured pencils, two ballpoint pens, a notebook, some textbooks, a water bottle and a lunchbox containing a packet of chips, a muesli bar and a chicken salad sandwich.
Injuries: None.

Angelica Hammer by G
Location: At home; residential area.
Items/Equipment: None.
Injuries: None.

River Moonbeam by G
Location: The city street.
Items/Equipment: One satchel containing several notebooks, Two pens, (one black, one red) Mobile Phone, Headphones, Wallet.
Injuries: None.

Jenny White by Naraness
Location: The laneway behind Starbucks, in her car.
Items/Equipment: Cell phone, keys, Chapstick, wallet.
Injuries: None.

Hiroyuki Elm by Naraness
Location: Paradise Highschool; classroom.
Items/Equipment: His backpack containing five band-aids, some Neosporin, a compass, a whistle, a small Swiss army knife, and a Fruit Roll-up.His bike.
Injuries: None.

Anthony Hollins by SoulReaper
Location: The laneway behind Starbucks; en route to Jen's car.
Items/Equipment: None.
Injuries: A cut on his hand, made by shattered glass.

Cap'n Dave Atwood by Goodpie2
Location: The docks, aboard Westwind.
Items/Equipment: None.
Injuries: None.

Christopher McAdams by Cassiopeia
Location: The Boulevard.
Items/Equipment: Canvas bag containing keys, phone, wallet. Three energy drinks, one open.
Injuries: None.

Kathryn Swanson by rabbit
Location: The street beside the shore.
Items/Equipment: Her bag and backpack (contents in CS)
Injuries: None.

Juno Edelstein by Echo
Location: Starbucks
Items/Equipment: None.
Injuries: None.

[Sonic]

I'm down!!! Time to bring Jordan back

[Dire Hoef]

Time to bring back me old characta.

[.Karma.]

I'm so down

[InfraredHero]

I love me some zombies...

[MidKnight]

Ah! I gotta find my old character again.

[Sonic]

Name: Jordan Reynolds

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Occupation: Stay-at-home son.

Appearance:

Jordan is a short man befitting his shortcomings both in the bed and the working world. His hair is dark, like a computer screen that has been turned off. His eyes are a blue that are used to seeing pixels and nothing else and his entire demeanor invokes a sense of sloth and procrastination. As a result of staying indoors for so long, his skin has digressed to a pallor that doctors would immediately associate with a terminal illness (although, in terms of health, there is nothing wrong with Mr. Reynolds). Jordan is chubby, but not yet of that girth size that would have him being called ‘obese’. He is usually seen—if he is seen at all—wearing a gamer shirt; either Link, Mario, or some other iconic gaming character.

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Personality:

Don’t give a task to Jordan because if it doesn’t involve gaming, then it doesn’t involve him. He is a lazy man whose favorite saying is one of his own creations: “Things will work themselves out.” He is a NEET who blames others—his mother in particular—for all his misfortune and also believes that people owe him something. He doesn’t have much care for the world and if it were to end right this moment, he would not bat an eyelash.

He doesn't consider himself to be a misogynist, although he does believe that woman are only good for three things: fucking, cleaning, and cooking--not necessarily in that order--so perhaps there is a paradox there. These thoughts, however, he keeps to himself because the only woman he has had an actual conversation with is his mother and even she tries to keep that to a minimum.

Before gaming, Jordan will read a verse from the bible--any verse will do, as long as God knows that someone is talking to him--and before gaming tournaments, he will pray. To be sure, although Jordan is a Christian--an Anabaptist--he isn't overtly religious and if one were to ever see him, they would never consider him as such. And, he isn't. To be sure, he only met God through gaming. If it wasn't for that, then he would be a 'lost one' as the Catholics like to say

Items/Equipment:

A PS3 controller/ a PSP that is fully-charged/ a plastic Link sword/ five water bottles he has kept in his room—one of which is filled with his urine./ the Bibe: King James Version

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Yay! Looking forward to seeing/being reintroduced with your characters! There's a link to the original ooc in the first post if you'd like to grab your old sheet.

Sonic, Jordan is accepted back into the fold.

[.Karma.]

Should have a CS up by evening <3

[G]

Great! Here's mine, by the way; disclaimer: River is just a funny take on a stereotype, and in no way a suggestion that I agree with it.

Spoiler: Isobel Warren 

Name: Isobel "Izzie" or "Sissy" Warren,
Age: Thirteen and three quarters.
Gender: Female.
Occupation: Student - 7th grade at the inaptly named 'Paradise Highschool.'
Appearance: Izzie's unassuming brown hair and eyes, teamed with her usually quiet, pensive expression should make it easy for her to go unnoticed in a crowd. She dresses in clothes typical of a child her age, or at least of one who has not fallen into the 'twelvie' trend; consisting mostly of simple, thin dresses and sandles or thongs; uh, flip-flops. Thongs for your feet. This RP is set in Australia so no one's allowed to make an underwear joke.
Personality: Her mind and body whirling with the chemical changes of puberty, Izzie can be somewhat emotionally volatile (hence the nickname; Sissy.) She has not matured quite enough to realise that the universe does not, in fact, revolve around her, and small issues can seem to her like unsolvable disasters. In her first year of highschool, and the subject of bullying, Izzie's biggest worry is that she doesn't have cool enough clothes or fashion sense to sit with the popular girls.

Items/Equipment: Her school bag. Contains one lead and several coloured pencils, two ballpoint pens, a notebook, some textbooks, a water bottle and a lunchbox containing a packet of chips, a muesli bar and a chicken salad sandwich.

Spoiler: Angelica Hammer 

Name: Angelica Hammer. Though most of her friends just call her by her User ID; Hammer.
Age: Twenty-six.
Gender: female.
Occupation: None.
Appearance: Beneath the dishevelled braid, the sallow skin and eyes darkened from lack of sleep, a pretty young woman peeks through. Usually dressed in sleepwear, or undergarments- or whatever she threw on the day before.
Personality: Hammer is a gun-slingin', fist-throwing weapon of brutal, awesome destruction... at least virtually. Since she spends so little time outdoors, she's not really sure what her RL self might be good at.

Items/Equipment: Nothing.

Spoiler: River Moonbeam. 

Name: River Moonbeam.
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Occupation: Art Student at Paradise University
Appearance: River's mass of long, wildly curly brown hair accentuates her slightly underweight frame, her large, blue eyes peering out judgmentally from within it's frame. She wears only light makeup, vegan and cruelty-free, of course, and usually a matter-of-fact expression; reminiscent of Hermione Granger about to tell you why you're wrong.

Personality: River is a sweet, carefree, loving young woman - embracing the beauty of the world around her and grateful for her opportunity to live her infinitesimal life on such a vital planet. As such, she believes it is her duty to take as little as she can, to eat and live sustainably, and to share this knowledge and way of life with everyone she meets. It's all for the good of mankind, in the end! It just frustrates her a little when they don't immediately realise how right she is. So if she has to spam their Facebook wall with forty-seven videos about animal cruelty and throw out their gluten-riddled lunch every day before they get a chance to eat it, she will. It's for their own good, in the end.

Items/Equipment: None.