0853, 32 Febtober, 2051 C.E.
The cold concrete walls of your government-provided
I'm With Her© Preferred Voter Housing
© feel refreshingly cool in the warm stagnant atmosphere of your one room apartment on the Xth floor. You grumble uncomfortably on your mattress, desperate to snatch a few more moments of blissful twilight sleep before being forced to face another monotonous day. In seven minutes, the parade of low-volume advertisements on the iScreen will halt and the daily mandatory programming will blare to technicolor life.
Suddenly, a shattering crash and a terrified scream split the serene morning. They're coming from outside, far below.
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This is a game about lighthearted zombie survival with limited resources in the not-too-distant postapocalyptic future.
You begin the game in your government provided housing, high above the street. You have never served in the military. You are not a survivalist. You are not any kind of edgy badass. You are not prepared for this.
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Maybe you actually are prepared for this. You have five character points (CP):
1CP - You have a
PrivilegePass© that lets you cut in government food lines and allows you to collect 100% of government assistance. Everyone else only gets 73%. To make up for past injustices, white cishet males are not allowed to take this advantage unless they can come up with some sort of identity label that makes them oppressed.
2CP - Knife license. It took several years and a background check, but your license to possess destructive knife devices finally came back. You are allowed to own as many knives as you want.
2CP - Actual skills. You have three actually useful skills. Yes, you have to buy this if you want any. They can be basically anything you want, from Medic to Marksmanship to Climbing. Anybody can choose as many useless skills as they want, but those should be things like Star Wars Knowledge.
2CP - Useful talent. You have some kind of useful attribute, like being fast or strong or smart or beautiful. You can't have a
PrivilegePass© and you have to wear some device to counteract your ability like in Harrison Bergeron. Can be taken multiple times. Iterations after the first cost only 1CP.
2CP - Ghost. You're not on any registry. You have no social media accounts. No one has your DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, face, or gait pattern on record. You're not even registered here, you just moved in without asking. The iScreen in your room doesn't even work. There is no official record of your existence at all.
3CP - You have an assortment of objects in your possession that might actually be useful. Everybody else gets some things too, but you get to pick
three items that you actually own in real life, and
one item of your choice that you do not need to own. None of these can be firearms of any kind, or knives with blades longer than three inches, unless you have a knife license. None of these can be gasoline powered (see 876 U. S. C. § 74823,
Environmental Protection Act of 2040)
3CP - Strange power. You have some unusual ability that normal people do not, and it isn't critical thinking. For 4CP, you get to choose what it is, within reason. For 5CP, you get two that I come up with or you get to choose one that is slightly unreasonable.
5CP - Firearms license. Somehow, some way, you managed to get your license to exercise your right to bear arms. Maybe it was a bureaucratic mistake. Anyway, you own one flintlock musket of your choice and a healthy amount of powder, shot, and all the accessories that you'll need to kill zombies just like the founding fathers intended. You may also choose a wheellock or a pistol or any other firearm of a design that existed as of or prior to 25 September, 1789. You are technically also a member of the militia and have additional obligations in that regard.
?CP - Something else. Pitch me your idea!
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Your character sheet:
Name:
Pronouns:
Gear: (Leave this blank for now unless you bought items.)
Description: (Keep it pretty short.)
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Player List:
Name: Edgar Treston
Pronouns: What you would expect from a male human.
Gear:
Description: Your archetypical nerd, except a tad bit older and with a goatee.
CP Spending:
-1 CP: Flimsy Nerd: Edgar is... not the most fit. He's not obese, but he's rather skinny and, as earlier stated, unfit. -1 to stamina and whatnot. ((subject to approval))
2 CP: Useful Talent: Edgar, being a nerd, has several nerdish skills, namely Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, and Chemistry.
4 CP: Strange Power: Edgar always seems to know when someone or something has it in for him. To be precise, he can sense hostile intent towards him, including its degree and location, as long as it is within half a mile of him.
((I bet he either dies horribly early on or ends up becoming the most powerful of the characters.))
Your character sheet:
Name: Walter Walterdale
Pronouns:
Not sure what to put here
Gear: (Leave this blank for now unless you bought items.)
Description: A pale, skinny young male with dark, shifty looking eyes.
CP: 5 for telekinesis
Name: John A Lion
Pronouns: He
Gear: None yet.
Character point Things:
2CP - Ghost
2CP - Actual skills
>Running
>Sneaking
>Hacking
(1CP - Sitting around Taking up space)
Description: He is 3'8, he has Silver Hair, he has Blue Eyes, he has Black skin.
Name: Gary D. Mason
Pronouns: Evil, Devious, Friendly
Gear:
Description: 6'7" with a "Farmer's tan" and the occasional mud smear.
Strange power, 5CP: Superinventor. Has a way with grafting items together, or making parts to new inventions due to his large amounts of spare time between caring for animals, crops and the machines that allow them to grow. Prototype weapons created this way had a tendancy to break, but a more professional craftsman may be able to replicate the design with finer materials.
Other, ???CP: Thought criminal: Known for having somewhat radical views, he is under large amounts of suspicion to be in coalition with fringe elements and as such is distrusted by citizen and government official alike.
Vanilla build is a GO!
Although, given the nature of the "Useful Skills" and maybe the "Privledgepass" advantages, it's difficult to say what is or isn't "Vanilla."
Name: Fengyi Jie/Jie Fengyi (杰 疯医)
Pronouns: He.
1CP - Privledgepass - Chinese ancestry.
2CP - Useful Skills
- Medical
- Unarmed/Improvised weapons (as in, picking up something and hitting someone with it improvised, not homemade bombs improvised)
- Knife Fighting
2CP - Knife License
Gear: (Does getting a knife license mean I can get a knife for free at the start of the game? I mean, it wouldn't make sense to get a license for something without being able to use it)
Description: Fairly tall but also fairly slim, his hair is shaved and he prefers to keep it that way. His eyes are brown.
I'm gonna attempt something wacky. If it's too wacky, I'll make another one.
Name: Bubbles
Pronouns: He.
0CP - Monkey Business : Bubbles is actually not a human, but a monkey wearing a trench coat and a fedora escaped from a circus. Somehow, no one has ever noticed this.
2CP - Useful Skills
- Acrobatics
- Juggling
- Knows sign language
3CP - Useful Talents
- Agile
- Has good endurance
Wait List:
Your character sheet:
Name: Rhea Caras
Pronouns: Female pronouns.
2CP{+1} - Useful talent. {Device counteract: Eyeglasses}
> Observant
> Agile
2CP - Actual skills.
> Cooking (Advanced Chemistry)
> First Aid
> Long Distance Running
Gear: (Leave this blank for now unless you bought items.)
Description: Rhea is a young woman around 5 ft in height, light brown in complexion, and is currently a college student.
Kill a zombie: +3
Seriously injure a zombie: +1
Kill a zombie while in a life or death struggle with said zombie: +5
Be the first person to point out that these are zombies: +1
More to come~
1 point:
- a banana
- a zombie
- a 16oz bottle of water
2 points:
- a black bandolier made to hold shotgun shells or rifle cartridges, ammunition not included
3 points:
- a pool cue
5 points:
- 10 rounds of 9mm jacketed hollowpoint ammunition
8 points:
- a morgenstern:
10 points:
- a break open single shot 12ga. shotgun with five shells in a cute little shell holder on the stock
12 points:
- a Smith and Wesson M&P Shield in 9mm, with fully loaded 8 and 7 round magazines, one of each
15 points:
- a box of 25 12ga. 00 buckshot shells
Other stuff: Tell me what you want to buy with zombie points
ZOMBIE POINTS LEADERBOARD
12 zombie points: Jie, as played by AzyWng
8 zombie points: Gary, as played by Dustan Hache
6 zombie points: Bubbles the ape, as played by Legendary Marksdorf
5 zombie points: Lil John, as played by crazyabe
4 zombie points: Walter, as played by vishdafish
3 zombie point: Edgar, as played by FallacyofUrist
INJURY LEADERBOARD
Battered and bloodied - Jie
Large bump on head, headache - Lil John
Bleeding arm wound, zombie bite - Gary
Battered and bruised, noose around neck - Walter
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Topic: Zombie Survival RTD: Turn 4: 6/6 (Read 8361 times)