Gather round all ye dead and merry,
and fill the forum with tales of fear!
You shambled masses, you lifeless and scary,
with wounds both rotting and severe!
But on with the point, I hear you plea!
Let us start this rhyming zombie RPG!
The rules and simple and quite concise,
All actions must rhyme and be in verse.
No stats, no tables, no dice -
You play the dead, corpses most diverse!
Speak in haiku, sonnet or song,
as long as it rhymes we'll all get along.
You start in the town of Little Deaftone,
Where few people still dare draw breath.
Scattered about town, scared and alone,
visit upon them the living death!
Act as one, or form a horde,
The taste of flesh is your only reward!
So, awful rhyming scheme aside, this is perhaps the internet's first musical zombie-themed RPG. It's quite simple - it's much like RTD, in that there's no real failure of anything. It's all about the articulation - if you can convey it in song, sonnet, or poem, then it'll pretty much be possible (within the realms of practicality, of course) The only restriction is that your 'actions' must rhyme - feel free to borrow any other characters, settings, or props needed to get the most out of your musical adventures.
The kind of zombie you play, the personalities they have, and their particular style of musical expression they possess is entirely up to you. The pale, wasting Haiku-spouting Zombie Samurai? The lumbering, rapping bloated Zombie? The everyzombie of the horde, belting out inspirational hits, vowing to make something of himself? Whatever you want! Simply post a short description of the character you're playing and then start rhyming. I'll intercede from time to time to make sure that things are progressing nicely, adding events that are needed to move the action along, and every now and then putting the best of the songs into a collection and posting it up somewhere for everyone to have a good look at.
Here's a character layout template (just to make things easier to read):
Name: Self-explanatory.
Style: The mood, form, style, whatever of the lyrics you'll be writing.
Instrument: Just something to add some flavour. Singing zombies are one thing, but singing zombies belting out awesome flute solos? Even better.
Bio: Maybe something from pre-death here, or even post-death. Remember, you can be any kind of Zombie you want - you don't have to be a brain dead mumbler.
Have at you, lads and ladettes. You start out in the small country town of Little Deaftone, which has been overrun with undead. A few survivors still manage to eek a living out of the town, hiding in their safehouses at night and attempting daring raids for food and ammunition during the day. What comes next?
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Topic: Nocturne Of The Damned (Read 5478 times)