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March 13:
A team of 'monster hunters' from an American television program head to the rain forests of Congo in order to capture footage for an episode about a creature known to locals as the 'Mokele-mbembe'. Before setting out, they stock up on provisions and hire an interpreter.
March 18:
The team comes across a small village deep in the rain forest. Having recorded enough footage for the show already, they decide to grab a few more interviews before heading home. The villagers don't recognize the pictures or stories about the Mokele-mbembe, but they do comment on an area a day's walk to the north which they claim to be cursed by a demon. Apparently the demon's curse haunts anyone who trespasses in the area, draining them of their life force before killing them off. The curse later brings back the dead under the demon's control and has them attack the living. Intrigued, the team decides to investigate in the hopes of getting enough footage for an extra episode. Something which would likely net them a bonus on their return.
March 20:
After a day of wandering in the supposedly cursed area and only finding dead plants and animals, the team concludes that the area simply has contaminated groundwater, likely from some sort of unknown volcanic activity putting sulfur into the water.
March 23:
On the night before leaving the rain forest and returning to civilization, one of the team's cameramen begins experiencing fatigue and headaches, but it is brushed off as being tired and worn from the trip.
March 24:
On the plane ride back to America, the cameraman falls into a coma and his heart rate falls to near zero putting him in a deathlike state. He is immediately rushed to a hospital upon the planes landing. The rest of the passengers are put into a quarantine and the plane is moved into a hanger for the duration.
March 26:
With no one showing any signs of illness except fatigue from sleeping in the plane's less than comfortable seats and a few cases of headaches from the exhaust given off by the planes flying nearby, the passengers are released.
March 28-29:
The passengers from the plane all fall into comas. Since many were from different places and had taken connecting flights home, the cases aren't seen to be related.
March 30:
The cameraman wakes from his coma and attacks his attending nurses. Several nurses and orderlies are treaded for bites after the patient is sedated and strapped to bed. Several doctors nationwide are called in to examine the disease thought to be a new strain of rabies.
April 2:
The nurses and orderlies bitten by 'Patient 0' fall into comas after having reported fatigue and headaches the past few days.
April 3-4:
The other passengers from the plane awake under similar circumstances as patient 0. Nation wide medical advisories are sent to hospitals to quarantine anyone who falls into a coma after having experienced fatigue and headaches prior to collapse.
April 5:
The nurse and orderlies bitten by patient 0 awake and their attendants are overwhelmed. Police are called in to quarantine the entire hospital. One of the infected nurses goes missing before the quarantine is fully in place.
April 6-7:
The attendants of the other passengers of the plane who were bitten when the passagers awoke now fall into a coma. The body of the infected nurse is found drowned in the city water supply. Thousands throughout the city begin to experience fatigue and headaches, many driving accidents occur as a result.
April 8:
The national guard fails to quarantine the city before several hundred infected people leave.
Over the next few weeks the disease spreads across the globe due to quarantines being to slow to be put in place, and infected individuals not being noticed before it is too, late. The victims of the disease whom are now known by the nickname 'zombies' outnumber the uninfected.
A town less than 50 miles from the city where the characters currently are has reported cases people infected with the z-virus as well as a few full blown 'zombies' wandering into the town. Now it is up to the characters to survive in this growing apocalypse. The characters will have to be ready to defend themselves while at the same time caring for their wounds and finding food and water (Which for simplicities sake, they will only consume one unit of per day). Characters do not have to travel together although they may if they meet up. However, as this may result in several one on one threads, I will be putting a 6 player cap to start the game with, although having large groups working together and thus making it easier for me may convince me to raise the cap. I will be using a homebrew system that consists of characters and skills leveling up separately: characters will gain xp from kills and the occasional achievement with levels granting a few stat points while skills will level through use.
I will give more details on character creation once I have enough interest (Say 3+ people). Also note that this system is only lightly tested so it may have some bugs.
Other details:
Corruption: It isn't present here as this is a non-erotic game (Although players can interact that way if they don't hold everyone else up). However, in it's place there will be fear points. Fear points are a measure of how freaked out a character is and they are damaged by either seeing people killed, seeing people try to kill you, or a few undecided factors. They heal slowly on their own if the players haven't taken any recently and can be healed manually once per day with a certain skill. If a character exceeds his or her fear point limit that character will begin to take penalties on all their rolls until the fear points drop to safer levels.
To Miachan and Ryu: Ascalion is not over, I'm just going to use the forum for more things as the Ascalion seems to have slowed drastically and I want to play with a new system.
Also, I will note, that Dreana has expressed interest already, however the thread in which that was done was accidentally deleted with the adbot flurry last night.
What I need players to give me:
Name:
Description:
Background:
Job:
Main Hobby:
Str:
Dex:
MD:
Vit:
Each stat starts with 1 point in it and you have 5 points to spend to raise the stats higher on a one-for-one basis. Your starting gear and skills will be based of of your job and main hobby, with the possibility of some stuff given by your background. The three secondary stats (HP, FaP, and FeR) are determined by vitality and mind (Health Points are from vitality, Fatigue points are from mind and vitality, and fear points are from mind.).
A team of 'monster hunters' from an American television program head to the rain forests of Congo in order to capture footage for an episode about a creature known to locals as the 'Mokele-mbembe'. Before setting out, they stock up on provisions and hire an interpreter.
March 18:
The team comes across a small village deep in the rain forest. Having recorded enough footage for the show already, they decide to grab a few more interviews before heading home. The villagers don't recognize the pictures or stories about the Mokele-mbembe, but they do comment on an area a day's walk to the north which they claim to be cursed by a demon. Apparently the demon's curse haunts anyone who trespasses in the area, draining them of their life force before killing them off. The curse later brings back the dead under the demon's control and has them attack the living. Intrigued, the team decides to investigate in the hopes of getting enough footage for an extra episode. Something which would likely net them a bonus on their return.
March 20:
After a day of wandering in the supposedly cursed area and only finding dead plants and animals, the team concludes that the area simply has contaminated groundwater, likely from some sort of unknown volcanic activity putting sulfur into the water.
March 23:
On the night before leaving the rain forest and returning to civilization, one of the team's cameramen begins experiencing fatigue and headaches, but it is brushed off as being tired and worn from the trip.
March 24:
On the plane ride back to America, the cameraman falls into a coma and his heart rate falls to near zero putting him in a deathlike state. He is immediately rushed to a hospital upon the planes landing. The rest of the passengers are put into a quarantine and the plane is moved into a hanger for the duration.
March 26:
With no one showing any signs of illness except fatigue from sleeping in the plane's less than comfortable seats and a few cases of headaches from the exhaust given off by the planes flying nearby, the passengers are released.
March 28-29:
The passengers from the plane all fall into comas. Since many were from different places and had taken connecting flights home, the cases aren't seen to be related.
March 30:
The cameraman wakes from his coma and attacks his attending nurses. Several nurses and orderlies are treaded for bites after the patient is sedated and strapped to bed. Several doctors nationwide are called in to examine the disease thought to be a new strain of rabies.
April 2:
The nurses and orderlies bitten by 'Patient 0' fall into comas after having reported fatigue and headaches the past few days.
April 3-4:
The other passengers from the plane awake under similar circumstances as patient 0. Nation wide medical advisories are sent to hospitals to quarantine anyone who falls into a coma after having experienced fatigue and headaches prior to collapse.
April 5:
The nurse and orderlies bitten by patient 0 awake and their attendants are overwhelmed. Police are called in to quarantine the entire hospital. One of the infected nurses goes missing before the quarantine is fully in place.
April 6-7:
The attendants of the other passengers of the plane who were bitten when the passagers awoke now fall into a coma. The body of the infected nurse is found drowned in the city water supply. Thousands throughout the city begin to experience fatigue and headaches, many driving accidents occur as a result.
April 8:
The national guard fails to quarantine the city before several hundred infected people leave.
Over the next few weeks the disease spreads across the globe due to quarantines being to slow to be put in place, and infected individuals not being noticed before it is too, late. The victims of the disease whom are now known by the nickname 'zombies' outnumber the uninfected.
A town less than 50 miles from the city where the characters currently are has reported cases people infected with the z-virus as well as a few full blown 'zombies' wandering into the town. Now it is up to the characters to survive in this growing apocalypse. The characters will have to be ready to defend themselves while at the same time caring for their wounds and finding food and water (Which for simplicities sake, they will only consume one unit of per day). Characters do not have to travel together although they may if they meet up. However, as this may result in several one on one threads, I will be putting a 6 player cap to start the game with, although having large groups working together and thus making it easier for me may convince me to raise the cap. I will be using a homebrew system that consists of characters and skills leveling up separately: characters will gain xp from kills and the occasional achievement with levels granting a few stat points while skills will level through use.
I will give more details on character creation once I have enough interest (Say 3+ people). Also note that this system is only lightly tested so it may have some bugs.
Other details:
Corruption: It isn't present here as this is a non-erotic game (Although players can interact that way if they don't hold everyone else up). However, in it's place there will be fear points. Fear points are a measure of how freaked out a character is and they are damaged by either seeing people killed, seeing people try to kill you, or a few undecided factors. They heal slowly on their own if the players haven't taken any recently and can be healed manually once per day with a certain skill. If a character exceeds his or her fear point limit that character will begin to take penalties on all their rolls until the fear points drop to safer levels.
To Miachan and Ryu: Ascalion is not over, I'm just going to use the forum for more things as the Ascalion seems to have slowed drastically and I want to play with a new system.
Also, I will note, that Dreana has expressed interest already, however the thread in which that was done was accidentally deleted with the adbot flurry last night.
What I need players to give me:
Name:
Description:
Background:
Job:
Main Hobby:
Str:
Dex:
MD:
Vit:
Each stat starts with 1 point in it and you have 5 points to spend to raise the stats higher on a one-for-one basis. Your starting gear and skills will be based of of your job and main hobby, with the possibility of some stuff given by your background. The three secondary stats (HP, FaP, and FeR) are determined by vitality and mind (Health Points are from vitality, Fatigue points are from mind and vitality, and fear points are from mind.).
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