The Walking Dead

Shadowhawck · Jan 17 '12, 4:59am

Applications here or in a thread in the game forum??

Geostone · Jan 17 '12, 5:01am

Here

Fell · Jan 17 '12, 5:05am

Whoweeeee. Walking Dead. Will this be leaning towards the show or graphic novel?

Either way, I have some interesting ideas.

I am thinking of a Chinese-American, former Triad member, who is now thinking of survival in a post apocalyptic world.

Geostone · Jan 17 '12, 5:37am

My apologies it's going to be leaning towards the show, however it will not be following the characters from the show. As a side note there will be special zombies thrown in from time to time to keep the game interesting rather then 5000 zombies it'll be 4999 zombies and a holy bejezzus zombie :P

iantruesilver · Jan 17 '12, 7:20am

Hm... I may just have to modify one of my existing concepts to fit. Setting is more or less modern earth with no bells and whistles?

Greycloak · 3:05pm

Name: Doug Crenshaw
Pre-outbreak profession: Farmer and Rancher
Appearance: Doug has short brown hair stuffed under a sweat-stained blue and white baseball cap sporting the name of a pipeline company that doesn't exist any more. He has bright blue eyes with crow's feet, is rarely clean shaven but doesn't sport a beard. He has powerful looking legs under his dirty jeans, tanned arms and a hard round beer belly that stretches his brown Carhartt jacket.

Greycloak · Jan 17 '12, 8:28am

A few questions:
Is that what you had in mind? Did you want it to be private? Did you want more mechanics in there or just concept like I delivered?

Also, I haven't watched the show yet so I'm a little behind on the background but I'll try to pick that up in the next little while.

iantruesilver · 9:28am

Name: Saundra Michiyo
Pre-outbreak profession: Doctor
Appearance: Never much of of the blouse and skirt type, Saundra had always had her black hair tied back in a neat ponytail over her labcoat, long-sleeved compression shirt, and dress pants. A couple of fine lines have marked her grey-blue eyes from her late night and early morning research over her school years, even at the ripe old age of 26.

Despite her health condition, Saundra tries to keep fit with jogging and other forms of exercise, which if nothing else seems to contribute to her body shape here and there.

Saundra never knew her parents. Born with an congential heart disease, the unfortunate infant of only several weeks of age was abandonded in front of a hospital in Osaka, Japan.

Some of the nurses at the hospital used to say luck was at her side, because if not for one of the traveling doctors working abroad at the hospital, little Saundra would have ended up at the orphanage, possibly destined to then lead a very differnet life.

Doctor Darren Michiyo, a general physician working in the Sumitomo hospital took the infant into his care, and provided the girl a family in exchange for a child he and his wife were unable to have on their own, a little gift to the couple they named Saundra.

So from a tender age Saundra had traveled with her foster parents, trotting the globe while the both of them provided aid to those in need. It wasn't until later in her youth that Saundra's family had moved back to America, where she was to stay and study for her own career.

Saundra's parents always knew the day would come when they would have to move back to California, but they didn't know it would be so soon. Saundra on the other hand, the thought had never crossed her mind. Although she had dreamt of seeing the United States, she had in truth grown used to traveling with her parents, seeing all of Japan and its culture, and had not considered taking up residence somewhere else. And it took having to look in the grim face of death to change her mind.

The symptoms of a bicuspid aortic valve had not manifested themselves as a significant issue during the girl's childhood, and it had not been operated on as Saundra's father was a proponent of naturopathic routes. So naturally it was only during her teens that she had experienced complications with the defect.

They had returned briefly to Japan then, and Saundra had been studying in a school near the hospital where her parents worked. In its attempt to cover up their shame, the staff of Ichiritsu Nagano highschool refused to report the truth leading up to the girl's malady. They opted to say that young Miss Michiyo had contracted a case of pneumonia after being out in the cold and kissing a boy, when in fact she had suffered a cardiac arrest from actively defending the boy from a bunch of bullies from an upper class.

"They are well-to-do parents that father these children," explained the vice principal when Saundra's dad confronted the school system on the issue, hinting at the fact that these parents supported the school heavily in their finances and they would not wish to condemn the children by accusing them of bullying.

A week later, Saundra and her mother were flown back to California by LearJet, and soon after the family settled into a home in Redwood Shores, near the San Francisco Bay area.

Despite her gallivant childhood, Saundra's academics had always been impeccable somehow. While her parents would attribute that to her own genius and hard work, the girl would always smile and admit to good parenthood herself when she was asked. Graduating from Stanford University with a double doctorate in cardiology and pediatrics at a mere age of only 26, Saundra caught the interest of several institutions and was soon offered a position at the Oregon Health and Science University.

Why stick with Saundra? Well, who would you want to stick with when the zombie apocalypse hits, a doctor who can patch you up like the best of'em, or a gal who'll have your back with a knife and a baseball bat? Saundra's both.

Reiko · Jan 17 '12, 9:42am

I still need to pick equipment and figure out if she should be level 3.

I'll do the background and post-outbreak story tomorrow.