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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. Current Map: Last edited by Zairak; 11-12-2012 at 09:14 PM. |
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Last edited by Zairak; 04-12-2012 at 08:03 AM. |
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I sing up: weapon is a steel crowbar
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I'll sign up...
I'm gonna use a character called Rikku, who will begin with an unloaded shotgun as a melee weapon. She's a drifting gunwoman, carrying a shotgun and she's having her handgun upgraded at the local weapon shop. They ran out of shotgun shells, but are getting a shipment later that day. That's her backstory. |
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I sign up.
Um... Weapon will be a sledgehammer. I'll write a backstory later. |
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I will sign up with baseball Bat (and if allowed, 2 dice and pack of cards lol)
EDIT 33333333 Name: Alex Fared Age: 19 Sex: Male Job: Student (Law degree) Skills: Fencing and Gambling. Manpuilation and tricking poeple. Leadership. (as well as law, but not sure how that will help him here, well unless their Canadian Zombies ^_^) Likes:Gambling, Drinking, Woman, Card and Dice tricks, Manpuilation and tricking poeple Dislikes: Hard Work, sports, love -:From Lower Middle Class back ground, where he was seemlingly well raised. He went to grammar school, got good grades and is now in his second year of Law at higher rated University. He isn't most charsmatic character, but his willingness to take charge, and natural abitily to tell others what to do and his cool head, means is he normally in a position of ladership in most siturations. But when he takes charge it is only for himself as he is a selfish, sarcastic character who likes self-glory and cares little for others. He was once heard to have said, "I would sell my soul to devil for penny, as I know I could trade it back for my friends." However Mr Fared had grown bored of the "normal life" and so started down the dark road of Red lighting, where the drink was fast, the woman were free and life was one big party, without work or morals. Problem was that, the money he had made from part time jobs and inheritance's quickly ran out and real world was now catching up with him, which wasn't good. Aspecially when he decided to play a game of Poker with a local Gangster, though he was better player, the gangster was a cheat and good cheat at that, meaning by end of night, our Mr Fared was 150,000 grand down puge with no way to get back up the pipe. Though he some that on the morning of day which would have been his last (as was deadline for his debts,) he surpisingly survived thanks a somewhat strange set of events to do with undead raising from their graves. This meant that he was actually happy about Zombie problem as the end of world sort of removed his debt problems (The only person who fortures went up from this ^_^.) Last edited by Fat1Fared; 07-04-2009 at 08:19 AM. |
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Has to be a blunt weapon at first, Fat1Fared.
Last edited by Zairak; 01-03-2012 at 08:07 PM. |
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I'll sign up with an iron pole.
i'll sort out the backstory later... Edit: Backstory time... Name: Aster Age:17 Personality: Generally apathetic and lazy, sarcastic attitude. On the rare occasion he can be caring and serious however. Job: recently left school, and is unemployed Skills: Computer programing and basic hacking skills. Likes: sleep, listening to music Hates: Any and all forms of work and labour, due to this, Aster has a below average physique. Last edited by AsterGray; 07-04-2009 at 07:44 AM. |
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I sign up with a cross. Name: Echo
As a gun for hire I roams around the world silently dispatching who I'm told. When he recieves a phone call telling him to go to [blank] for further instructions I just had to comply. Now I'm waist deep in zombies. |
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Okay, story time.
Name: Insane Age: 22 Job: None right now Sport: Football (The real kind), Athletics, Fencing (Mostly Sabre) Personality: Can be caring, patronizing, pensive. After a relatively normal upbringing at a good school where his genius and strategic mind could flourish Insane took to trying to find a way to make money in a safe, simple way. After this failed he took many jobs in the next 3 months before realising he was only suited to strategy, which, after being surrounded by zombies, he realised would come in pretty damn useful. Insane acts most of the time like a complete asshole, occasionally dropping his facade to reveal his true kind nature. This nature has been tested many times during his 22 years, where he has had to become fairly strong in order to earn respect and not get his ass kicked. He has a fairly strong upper body, and a strong lower body. And when that failed he took to running, which gave him great stamina, and helped himself realise that he was very quick. Last edited by Insane; 07-05-2009 at 01:59 PM. |
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I'll sign up. I will tell the rest later.
Edit:Here goes my story. Name: Neo Trench (But some people call me FanMan) Age: 16 (You always gotta have a kid in the story) Education: Honors student in High School Sports: Track Personality: Caring, kind, and shy but with great ideas. Weapon: A fan about 3ft. tall used to cool the room when it gets hot inside. BackStory: I'm an average student who decided to go into the honors classes to get ahead in life. I can be very lazy when it comes to certain things, including homework but I still get the job done no matter what the risk is. When it comes to sports, I am the one of the fastest runners in the tri-state area so I have great lower body strenght. Unfortunately, I don't have much of strong upper body strenght but still able to lift some heavy things. The reason that everybody calls me FanMan is that a couple years back in one of my classrooms, there was a small fan standing on the ledge. It fell of one day by accident and since I was the closest, the teacher thought it was me and decided to call me FanMan as a joke. The name stuck and now one day in class, there was a zombie attack. And in order for me to survive, I decided to grab the nearest thing and ironically it was a fan. Last edited by FanMan; 07-03-2009 at 08:38 PM. |
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I sign up
And I will do so as myself in character form :P Name: Dev (Just Dev =D) Age: 17 Gender: Male Nationality: Irish, Part British Sports: Parkour (Freerunning) Occupation: Student Personality: Shy, nerdy guy. Prefers to stay indoors. Clothing: White Tshirt with black designs, Black shirt over it. Jeans (Not the best for the sport mind you), Black RUnners with PLENTY of grip. Weapon: A pool Que BackStory: Student just finished the Irish Leaving Certificate with pretty average scores. All good and able to get into collage but not yet... Going on a trip around the world... Japan, Korea, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, The US. Everywhere... But on one specific location ends up in turmoil... Needing to use skills he has or will pick up to escape.... ZOMBIEZZZZZZZZZZZZ |
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I has edited my story
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Edited post is edited...
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Just as a heads up, I'll be requiring at LEAST a week to set this scenario up, possibly up to two weeks, depending on the circumstances.
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I sign up.
Blunt Weapon: A Large-Print, hardcopy of War and Peace Name: Sheila Age: 25 Background story: She's just a small town girl, living in a lonely world. She took the midnight train going anywhere. Sheila was a former track star in her highschool years, and then went on to community college where she majored in cosmetology and education, and spent her spare time building sets and making costumes for the local theatre group. Unfortunately, she was kicked out of school for slicing a customer's ear off after the woman refused to leave a tip. How ungrateful. |
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I think I will sign up.
Weapon: Golf Club Name: killshot Story: A chemical engineer who was recently fired for sleeping with the boss's wife and two supermodel daughters. His extraordinary skill allows him to make explosives from a wide variety of household chemicals. Because of the time spent working in a lab, his physical condition is only average. Miscellaneous other skills include cooking without utensils, operating a sailboat, deep sea fishing, repairing machinery, and that cool trick were you pull the table cloth out from under the dishes without spilling anything (the ladies love that one.) |
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ME!
Weapon: Replica Mithril Sword Name: Berober Story: Bero had worked at the local game shop for 12 years, he knew the place inside and out. It wasn't a shock to him when the apocalypse came. He rushed over to a glass cabinet and took out the owners, who had himself been infected, replica Mithril Sword. While not a real one of course, it did do damage similar to a Sledgehammer and it looked fucking awesome! Gathering all the supplies he could find in the shop, a laptop with a spare battery, Superglue and a box of 24 Warhammer Game Boards. He managed to build a small makeshift bunker with the game boards, blending against the forest bushes and began to plan his course of action... |
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I'll join in the fun, why not :D
Not sure what all I need to post now, everyone seems to be doing different things :S Name: McDoob Age: 19 Height: 6'0" Weigh: 150 Personality: Self sacrificing, will go out of his way to make others comfortable at the expense of his own. Accomplished musician, Eagle Scout, Rudimentary knowledge of robotics and computers. Loves the Outdoors. Clothing: Blue Jeans/Tshirt, Hiking boots Back story: The majority of McDoob's time nowadays are spent behind a desk at his job in a business school library near his house. Being summer, it's always very slow and he can usually be found leveling up his team of pokemon for one of five different versions of the game he has on his thumb drive. While not at work, you can find him reading, playing baseball, hiking or learning guitar. Starting Melee Weapon: 34" aluminum baseball bat Last edited by IamMcDoob; 07-05-2009 at 11:04 AM. |
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What you've posted is fine, IamMcdoob. Making a backstory is more an optional thing, for fun and so that you can have some influence on your starting stats.
EDIT Finished the third Grid of the Map, and added an image of what the Grid layout looks like. Added a link to it in the first post. Last edited by Zairak; 07-05-2009 at 06:45 PM. |
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Made another minor edit
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Oh, sorry, my bad. I hadn't yet updated your Weapon, I guess.
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i'll sign up
Edit: Name: Baku Age: 21 Last edited by bakurachick; 07-05-2009 at 07:11 PM. |
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Some more on me because I'm bored
Age: 24 Height: 6'3" Weigh: 189 |
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First Quadrant of the map is completed and uploaded to the PhotoBucket account, along with Players' relative positions.
Last edited by Zairak; 07-05-2009 at 07:18 PM. |
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Weapon: crowbar
Name: Checkmate Story: a war veteran Age: 21 Height: 6 feet Weight: 210 Last edited by Checkmate; 07-06-2009 at 03:37 PM. |
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since everyone has a back story i guess i should give one too....i'll be playing as myself
Age: 21 Height: 1,80 m Weight: 75kg Im new in town, just moved to look for a job. Only skills i have that might be usefull in this situation is that im a good driver and a decent shot. |
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Are we a-go-go yet?
Also I'm in the forest, not a game shop if you read my description fully |
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