Zombie Genesis: The Forum Game
Zombie Genesis is a game revolving around a dynamic story. Players sign up with a description of their character and, based on their interactions with a pre-made skeleton storyline, I write up stories about what their characters go through within a set time frame. This is generally thirty minutes to an hour but is by no means a concrete amount of time. (i.e., exactly 37 minutes and 47 seconds to do whatever actions you planned to do)
All players stories do proceed in synch with each other, however, so everybody has the same amount of time to work with.
The goal of the players is whatever they decide it is. The story is predicted to be several hundred pages long, if not longer, by the time the players reach the end of the pre-determined book scenario. How the book turns out can be much different than the skeleton storyline would have turned out. This is because the players are effectively the main characters and can thus alter the storyline tremendously.
Regardless, the first of these three books, Zombie Genesis (hence the name), will take place across a Tutorial and 7 Stages, no more, no less.
If all the players die during a stage, the game will still proceed to the next stage regardless of the consequences of the players' death. Because there are no repeats, the players' actions are especially important, so think carefully on what you want to do.
Results tend to take longer for this game than other forum games. This is due to several factors including but not limited to my responsibilities in real life, the other forum games I run here and the fact that results can easily run over 50 pages long. Take advantage of the extra time to read results at your own pace. You can get by simply reading your own results, but the results of other players can often yield important information about what's going on. For instance, if another player in a different part of the same city you are in just got killed by Cthulhu, you'd probably want to be aware of that.
On a related note, often times, players are in close proximity to each other, or otherwise are in a position to have great impacts on the results of other players. This means that I cannot write results for some players without the actions of other players being submitted. At least, not without running the very high risk of having to rewrite large sections of results because somebody submitted an action that affects other players and did so after I finished writing said other players' results. So, it's fine if you decide to take your time to think about your action before posting it, but you can expect results to be delayed by an amount of time roughly equivalent to the extra time you took to make an action.
The below Spoilers contains the background information and inventory of each player.
Name: George Washington
Age: 25
Personality:
Likes drinking and hates machines, except guns. Guns are his best friends. Tough-guy.
Occupation:
Freelancer.
Story:
He studied a few styles of kung-fu (essentially mastered), and is currently training in gun-fu, under a school he's inventing. Ambitious toward this goal. He somehow woke up on a plane and got freaked out when he learned he was in the air. He jumped up and ran around until an air marshal tried to shoot at him. He knocked the air marshal out, stole his gun, and accidentally hijacked the plane. He crashed into the sea, but escaped and floated to shore, sleeping the entirety of last round untouched. He currently has temporary amnesia, so he doesn't remember any of this.
Physical Description:
Large and muscular, but has no unnecessary muscles. Bald, but wears a short-black-hair wig until he starts to fight. Has several scars all over his body, including one large gash across his face.
Limitations:
Can't use computers or really most technology. Doesn't even know what a television is. Has to be explained how to use most technology. However, he can read, so manuals help.
Strengths:
Martial arts. Sniping. Gun-fu (basic). First-aid.
Inventory:
Pistol
Clothes
First-aid kit
Pistol ammunition
Name: Will
Age: 20
Appearance: Glasses, Jeans, grey t-shirt with "Sarcasm isn't my only talent" on it, running shoes, a black hoodie, a silver chain link bracelet on the left wrist, and an iron cross necklace.
Distinguishing Features: A small scar running almost horizontal just above his left eye, lazily combed back slightly longish dirty blond hair, running 5 o'clock shadow, a strangely tall body that looks way too slender in those clothes to be able to support the parts you can see, perpetually wearing earphones, and two small cut scars on the back of his left hand near the wrist.
Inventory: an Iphone, a Nintendo 3DS, three 16 GB USBs, a pair of Karate Gloves, and a swiss army knife.
Backstory: Almost none. Just appeared naked in a field about a year ago when a couple of high school students ran over his prone body while driving out to have sex after their prom. She dumped the guy he was with the second he saw his 20 charisma and guitar hero with extra star power. As a form of revenge, the guy called an ambulance and drove home without his date. The paramedics arrived and found two prone naked bodies, one of which went for the only articles of clothing present. Ever since then, Will has been working as an orderly to pay off his medical bills and legal fees for "statutory rape." He was able to get a room with a credit card left at the scene with most of the name scratched off and food courtesy of the girl who found him, named Liz, in exchange for a place to crash when her dad complains about credit bills or when she just feels like catching a repeat for that first date. Still, for one year, he's been just going through the paces. He has no real memory or identity. The only thing he can remember is one name: "Drew."
Peculiar Personality Quirk: While usually such a promising individual, he is useless when depressed. He can't focus. And when angry, he can be blinded to what's around him and just attack the first thing his mind recognizes as attackable until he can't recognize it anymore. Usually quite optimistic. Big eater who never gains weight. Instinctively devours anything that is edible (preferably instinctively known to be nutritious and tasty) and instinctively denies anything that is out of date, rotting, poisoned, or even starting to go bad without even looking at the expiration date or even the food itself. No one know how the hell he does this, but they find it impressive that he's managed to avoid contracting disease through food, food poisoning, and Mexican restaurants so adeptly. Tends to naturally home in on Italian (particularly pasta alfredo), which makes his slim figure even more astounding.
Inventory: $$$
4 knives
baseball bat
5 lighters
food
rifle
rifle ammunition
Current Map:
Last edited by Zairak; 11-12-2012 at 09:14 PM.
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