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Text adventure zombie game [setup]

 
 
Triplets
15:07 / 05.09.05
Inspired by the TAGE, a flood of zombie dvd's and a fair bit of dedication to Urban Dead has got me itching to start up a one-shot game of "running for your life" to be played until a dramatic finish or people get bored.

The game will be set in, or approaching, a Western American town that I won't really ever specify in present time 2005. The characters will be friends/acquaintances coming back from a concert in the city you just left. If you're interested I need:

A character name; their job; their age; one or two hobbies or outside interests and one drawback that might cause trouble for them later on. I'll use that to generate some stats I can use to do behind the scenes pass/fail stuff.

The tone of the game will be Romeronian grim n grritty survival horror with touches of black humour.

Feel free throw out character ideas here, I might have to veto some if they don't fit the overall approach but we should be able to jig pretty much anything to fit (except ninjas or pirates).

How many people are up for this?
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
17:27 / 05.09.05
This sounds like great fun. I take it you're looking for relatively realistic characters? So, for instance, a survivalist whose hobbies are kung fu and picking locks might be a little over the top?
 
 
Triplets
17:45 / 05.09.05
Unless he was in a wheelchair or something...

Yeah, I'm just looking for everyday characters for the most part. No action movie heroes. Your survivalist guy might work if you put in a qualifier that he quit the lifestyle a while back and his martial arts and lock picking skillz are now a bit shit.
 
 
Quantum
17:46 / 05.09.05
Could I play an electrical shop assistant/DJ who just wants to get his girlfriend back? Called Shaun?
 
 
Shrug
18:35 / 05.09.05
A snotty nosed half feral child who's tag says "M-I-L-O" and only word is "BARK".
 
 
Triplets
19:03 / 05.09.05
Why do you hate me, Shoulder Bug?
 
 
Shrug
19:23 / 05.09.05
Yes I am unsure of how serious that was meant to be. Sorry.
Still you could work it, I have faith.
 
 
Shrug
20:54 / 05.09.05
A snotty nosed half feral child who's tag says "M-I-L-O" and only word is "BARK"

A character name:M-I-L-O
Job: Feral Child.
Age: undetermined 7-9
Interests/Hobbies: Eating bugs,saying"BARK", playing hide and seek with zombies, being deranged.
Drawback: Can not speak.
 
 
Billuccho!
21:20 / 05.09.05
Name: Shogun Smith
Occupation: Layabout.
Hobbies: Playing zombie apocalypse RPGs.
Skills: Swings a mean tetherball pole.
Drawback: Necrophiliac.
 
 
Triplets
21:50 / 05.09.05
Yeah, I'm just looking for everyday characters for the most part.

Shoulder, fuck you. Bill, your guy's fine except for the corpse sex.
 
 
Triplets
21:52 / 05.09.05
I'm looking for about three (viable) characters max. This is a test bench so I want to keep things simple.
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
22:16 / 05.09.05
Name: Johnathon Wayneflete
Occupation: cat burglar
Hobbies: thievery, lockpicking
Weaknesses: cowardice
 
 
Triplets
22:33 / 05.09.05
That's cool, Vec'. Quantum if you're serious I'm down with you playing Shaun. Bill, Smith is fine (apart from one tiny thing).
 
 
Lord Morgue
09:37 / 06.09.05
Name: Roc Sandstorm
Age: 23
Job: Supermarket clerk
Hobbies: Martial arts, too many Jackie Chan films.
Drawbacks: "I am a ticking timebomb of fury."
 
 
gridley
20:45 / 07.09.05
Name: Sylvia Bang Bang
Age: 24
Occupation: stripper
Hobbies: studying comparative religion, DJing
Weaknesses: dangerously fascinated by acts of violence
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
22:16 / 07.09.05
Name: Prudence Smith
Occupation: Devoted wife and soccer-mom, Republican activist every election year.
Hobbies: Church, SUV driving (level 5), intolerance, doublethink.
Weaknesses: Closed mind, devotion to God and Government.
 
 
Billuccho!
14:20 / 08.09.05
Aww... but he'd be tempted by the constant barrage of half-naked zombie demonesses!
 
 
Quantum
14:53 / 08.09.05
Nah, I've too many text games going on already- would be interested in watching it happen though.
 
 
P. Horus Rhacoid
21:54 / 08.09.05
Modifications to Mr. J. Wayneflete, burglar, if it ain't too late (a cat burglar with hobbies related to burgling seems redundant):

Hobbies: eXtreme yo-yoing
Weaknesses: eXtreme self absorption
 
  
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