Infestation: Modern Survival OOC/Recruitment

**ComradeAndz** · Subject: Infestation: Modern Survival OOC/Recruitment Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:49 pm

Infestation: Modern Survival

Incident one: July 5th 2011

Location: Aberdeen, Scotland

Nature: A number of murders in and around the city, although all details have been restricted by Aberdeen police. News coming out of the city has also ceased to a censored trickle. Incident goes unnoticed by all but those living around the Aberdeen news quarantine area.

Incident two: July 15th 2011

Location: Dundee, Scotland

Nature: Murder rate increases significantly before like Aberdeen news is reduced to a trickle. The population of Scotland takes notice but is passed off by governmental excuses. Conspiracy theorists take note and conspiracy internet traffic increases significantly.

Incident three: July 29th 2011

Location: Glasgow/Edinburgh, Scotland

Nature: With increasing murders in Scotland, Scottish government close off the two major cities with cordons. They can no longer hold off the wave of media interest. Questions fly but no real explanation is given. Answers contradict each other, as do ministers and security commanders.

Incident four: August 12th 2011

Location: Border, England

Nature: The entirety of Scotland has been cut off. British forces have been brought back from various theatres around the world and have been deployed in a cordon along the Scotland/England border. Media personnel are banned from entering the country by the British government although many do. Details coming back are sketchy, terror apparent in the reporters. Murders seem to involve cannibalism and moaning is always heard in the background. None of the reporters have returned. Officials put these down as hoax’s, replying that no reporters are allowed into the country.

Incident five: August 30th 2011

Location: Sheffield, England

Nature: The cordon along the border fell apart, with many murders and other incidents. Reports coming back involve some sort of ‘monster’ or ‘swarm’. All reports involve cannibalism. Sheffield is furthest north city still connected to the south. Footage coming out of the city shows human figures lumbering slowly through the streets, screams are heard in all.

Incident six: September 1st 2011

Location: Britain

Nature: State of emergency declared. Government go into hiding in nuclear bunkers. Military pulled back to defend south of England, primarily the capital.

Incident seven: September 19th 2011

Location: London, England

Nature: The capital is infested. The country has fallen. It is impossible to flee the country as all countries have stopped all traffic from Britain. Nevertheless, incidents are appearing in other countries, primarily Europe.

Incident eight: October 2nd 2011

Location: Salisbury, South England. Inside the green zone.

Nature: A refugee camp like the rest of the south west. A small vigilante contingent screens those attempting to enter the camp. Shots can be heard almost continuously as they take out the infected. A makeshift wall surrounds the city with a small cordon around the county. Constant patrols are carried out by the very small contingent of civilians with weapons scouring the land for any infestation. The military is nowhere to be seen.

It is the human nature to turn to some higher being in times of trouble, either to seek guidance or to lay blame. Hourly services are held in the cathedral and unlike previous years there is always a large flock. In amongst the hymns of repentance and forgiveness, screams are heard. Not by all, especially not those singing. But the sound is there. Lights are going out in the countryside, but no one notices. Everyone sings for their own personal survival.

But is it in vain. God isn’t listening, if he is even there. The time is here. For those alive to decide, to make a decision. And to survive.

There are a few rules for this Roleplay:

A major one is that you must be 'ordinary', 'average', 'run of the mill'. That means no psychic powers, no magic, no flames coming out of your arse, abilities to fly, WHATEVER! You must be HUMAN. It doesn't mean that everyone will be the same. You can have specialities, because as we know humans are not all the same. You can be a rocket scientist with considerable intellect, or a muscle bulging thug who boxes with walls and wins. It just has to be feasible. And that will be determined by myself.

Another is the weapons front. This is set in Britain. It is a major crime to be in possession of a firearm without a licence to justify it, and even then it will normally be only a shotgun for farmers with very little ammunition. Therefore, weapons like rifles etc will not be allowed without perfect justification. Even though law has broken down with the infestation, it was still enforced before the outbreak and therefore weapons do not magically appear, especially into a country with closed boarders.

And just to make it clear:
Handguns are completely illegal in Britain. As are automatic and semi-automatic (except shotguns and .22 calibre) weapons. Bolt and lever action are the fastest you will get for anything else- anything else effectively being a rifle. The maximum legal ammo capacity for a shotgun is 3 shells internal.

Finally, as this is a survival roleplay, if you don't make the grade in-game, you WILL be killed. This decision is final. Do not argue, just make a new character if you wish to continue playing or go away.

Character Sheet:

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[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Occupation:[/b]
[b][u]Appearance[/u][/b]
Images are welcome
[b][u]Equipment[/u][/b]
[b][u]Biography[/u][/b]
[b][u]Acceptance: ComradeAndz[/u][/b]
[b][u]Acceptance: Dantai[/u][/b]

The acceptance sections at the bottom MUST be left blank. Myself and Dantai will edit posts with our answer.

Lets play ball!

Here are some maps detailing how the infestation has spread, as well as the area you are in at this moment in time.

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	This is a close up of the area around the cathedral. Hundreds of people flock to this compact area. This can be in search of guidance from the Fathers, or rations and other ammenities from the vigilantes. The people are on edge constantly and most hold some sort of dangerous object as a weapon. The crowd is balanced on a knife edge.

Setting:

You are an average civilian in the Wiltshire area. This means you cannot be military (Soldier, Officer etc) You CAN be other civilian jobs that have militaristic qualities (Police, Private Contractor) Only police can have firearms such as pistols and only with restricted ammo.

Wiltshire is in the green zone. Salisbury is near the boarder so tension is high due to the immediate danger. However, it is far enough back so that no infected make it to the city's outskirts. It is the base of operations for the vigilantes in the region.

Salisbury itself has fallen into disrepair. Most of the houses are heavily barricaded with only one or two entrances, mainly above ground level. Shops have been raided long ago, electronics and foodstuff being taken long ago. However, the electronic goods have now become useless as electricity has been shut off from the city. The loss of many of the stations in the north has hit the National Grid. Many houses have their own generators but petrol for them is quickly running out. Cars litter the streets, many with refugees sleeping rough in them.

The centre for the city is easily the Cathedral. So many people have flocked there, self appointed leaders use this place to give out information, rations and to recruit those brave enough for patrols. It is constantly lit by candlelight, seen from all over the surrounding area as a beacon for those lost out on the Plains; either for ambushed patrols or for survivors attempting to seek refuge (the latter much to the disgust of the vigilantes)

Inside the city, people roam the streets at will. They have nothing to do but live, and so many walk around in a mindless daze, unsure of what to do. Many congregate in the Cathedral, so called 'Disaster Believers'. A vigilante group constantly patrols the city as a police force of sorts.

From time to time trucks move into the city from the furthest south west bringing food and ammunition, if any can be spared. As Britain has few manufacturing plants now, with imports non-existent, life is becoming harder and harder. Many farms have been set up on any available land, fishing has been taken up by everyone on a coast. A central agency has been set up in the centre of the Green Zone, distributing supplies to as much of the zone as possible. However, it holds little to no power and many people hoard what they have to themselves.

(I hope this gives people enough background information. If not, ask and I shall include it.)

The final update I wish to include before Infestation goes online once more s how the roleplay will shape out. One of the main things that make this a survival horror RP is that you yourselves do not get to decide your own fates like you do in other roleplays. This one is run with myself as the GM of the Horde and Dantai as a sort of well of information, IF you can get it out of him.

What will happen with your actions is you must describe as fully as you can what you intend on doing. For example;

"Comrade swung the axe with all his might, aiming the heavy weapon at the creatures skull."

What would come next would be me, posting the result of the action and the response from the horde;

"The axe connects with the skull of the creature, splitting it open and taking the creature out of the fight for good. However, the axe becomes embedded in the skull and looks like it will take some serious effort to dislodge it. The rest of the horde continues to move forward, oblivious to the loss of their comrade."

I hope this will not disrupt gameplay too much, and will not come into play until MY second post. Before my second post you may make your intro posts and at that time you are the writers of your fate. After that, your lives are (partially) in my hands.

Here are some details about the city itself. First of all, HERE is a link to the Wikipedia page.

HERE is also a useful link about the Cathedral!

Right, now for the city fortifications. There city centre has been fortified around it's perimeter and is regularly patrolled. This is not to say that it is surrounded by an artificial wall, but that, because of the design of the city, the crowded, back-to-back building act as a wall, and what little gaps remain have been reinforced. These fortifications follow four of the city's contours: the railway to the north, the ringroads to the south east and the river to the south west. Unfortunately, this cuts off a large majority of the city's residential housing, and so many citizens are left unprotected.

There are, however, four outposts that are maintained which are outside the borders of the city centre and constantly report back to the main fortification. These are: the police station to the west, Sarum castle to the north (as well as an outpost at South Wilts School), Godolphin school to the east, which is used as the main entrance to the city due to its closeness to the border with the Laverstock residential district and large iron gates, and the Salisbury Academy in Laverstock is also used (east). The Cathedral, which is completely surrounded by the City Wall in the Cathedral Close, looks over the south and monitors the Harnam residential district, which has the City Hospital as it's outpost to the south west, but despite not being fortified is thriving due to the fact that the infestation is in the north, very far away from Harnam, where it would, in the residents' eyes, be possible to flee easily.

Here would be a map. Key points are marked in green boxes, the fortifications are marked with red lines, the City Wall around the Cathedral is marked in purple lines, and buildings coloured red are important public buildings.

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Next we have a map of the Cathedral Close. It is completely surrounded by a very high wall, with three gates along the east wall, one to the south and one to the north. The west and south west is surrounded by the meandering River Avon.

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Finally, here is an areal view of the Cathedral Close. I have marked the wall with an orange line, with gaps indicating the gates.

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As a very final note, I might like to add that Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest spire in Britain and can be seen from miles around, all across the Salisbury Plain, even from Stone Henge.

**ComradeAndz**

I am going to try and start Infestation back up. For this to go ahead I need at least four people, one of which will probably be Dantai, as my 2IC.

Due to the loss of a number of posters from the original thread, I have deleted it for lack of continuity.

The RP will work the same way as before, but the story will progress differently so you will not know what is coming next due to involvement in the previous attempt.

I hope I can get at least SOME interest in this.

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**Dantai**

I'm in, obviously. I just damn hope this picks up again.

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**Raythus**

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Course i'm in

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**Dantai**

Anyone else?

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All you unoriginal cunts, copying my god damned sig!

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Andz for ~~President!~~...Pubic Enemy #1!

I'm a big gaybo with an English accent. Kill Frenzy is a myth.