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Atomyk

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Horror, Modern, Modern Fantasy, Multiverse/Panfandom, Mystery, Paranormal, Scifi, Survival
The Walking Dead - Among the Ruined

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth...

Season 1 - Into the Catacombs
Season 2 - A Civil Dispute
Season 3 - New Roads Taken
Season 4 - Shadows That Linger
Season 5 - March to Death

Season 6 - Answers in Blood

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    - Art by QT

    Welcome to our Walking Dead RP! Like any zombie roleplay, there will be action, gore and zombie killing, but at the heart of any RP within this genre is the twists, the turns, the drama, the heartache, and the joy of moral decisions that have both good and bad consequences.

    Everything you do and say could have consequences down the line. The walker you killed yesterday was actually the mother of the person you met today. That guy you refused to give food? He decided to take it anyway and killed your best friend. That little boy you helped? He came back with a large group to steal your supplies. In this world, each choice can mean the difference between life and death. Don't ever get too comfortable, because you never know when things will all go to hell.

    Of course, it's already there, isn't it?

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    The GMs for this RP are @Lady Myst, @-QT-, and @Atomyk.

    A link our OOC Skype chat: Join conversation

    Among the Ruined was a roleplay that went on for a year on another website (Roleplayer Guild) and ended up with four "seasons". Now, we're bringing it to Iwaku with a reboot of sorts. The events of the past RP will be a part of the new RP's lore, but knowledge of the previous RP will not be required for any new RPers joining us!

    So, what's the plot you may ask? It is not quite set in stone, but generally we'll be looking at various communities living their lives amidst the zombie apocalypse. Most of the people of these communities are just trying to survive and have to worry about the hardships that come with that. Of course, there will be conflicts between the survivors.

    New players will start in and around the cities of Natchez, Mississippi and Alexandria, Louisiana, though the plots surrounding Alexandria have yet to really kick off. In Natchez, a community has settled within a fortified school once known as Morgantown Middle School. "Morgantown" will be where characters new and old alike will be colliding and attempting some measure of peace as they all try and coexist together. There is another group in Natchez involving a walled off apartment complex.

    Right now, we're looking for input from past or new players on plots that will run into the future. Any input on plot, characters, or locations is always welcome.

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    1) Absolutely no fighting in the OOC! You only get one warning, then your character(s) will be killed off and you will be banned from the RP.

    2) No overpowered characters. It's okay to have weaponry, but not everyone is survival trained and can make a rocket launcher with a pocket knife, some string and a potato. Be realistic with your character's skills and their weapons!

    3) An extension of the above rule-- We won't be accepting characters with military backgrounds. Characters with medical backgrounds will likely be asked to change as well. To avoid any conflicts it's best that you plan on your character having just been a regular person before the apocalypse hit. Stray from creating characters that have a particularly firearms-related background (Like someone who grew up hunting and is a skilled marksman).

    4) We don't have many limits when it comes to explicit content. Strong language is fine, and gore is more than likely to come up. However, absolutely no smut should occur. Romance is fine, but anything beyond kissing should fade to black. If you really want to RP that out, take it to PMs or the Libertine section (But make sure you're both of the correct age!).

    5) Killing of characters must be agreed upon, even NPCs. NPCs without a * next to their name are free to be moved around/controlled, required that their written personality/history is adhered to.

    6) All ideas are welcome! If you have any ideas for major plot-related ideas, characters. locations, etc. then please PM either any of the GMs.

    7) Before making any game changing decisions, please PM one of the GMs about it or discuss it in the OOC before posting it. This does not mean we need to make every decision for you, but MAJOR plot twists need to be approved by the GMs.

    8) You can have as many characters as you can handle. Do not ignore anyone and post regularly. If you can't post for a couple of days, let us know so we can move around your character. If you do not post in the IC or OOC or PM us for a significant amount of time, then your character will be made an NPC and likely become a walker/corpse. If you want to return after that, you will have to make another character.

    9) In that same vein, if you've been in the RP for some time and decide you want to go, the option for your character to become an NPC is there in case you ever return. Though NPCs are more likely to be killed off, the character just may be alive when you come back.

    10) People will die. It's a zombie survival RP. We ask that you strongly consider ideas for your character's death eventually, even if you don't really wish for them to die. While we will never kill off your character without your consent, no one is likely to survive forever in zombie fiction. Just keep the idea in mind when making your sheet.

    11) An important rule that some may take for granted: NO ONE IS IMMUNE. This is not "The Last of Us", this is a "The Walking Dead" RP. There is no cure and there is no immunity to the zombie virus. Everyone already has it. Your character can be working on a cure, but that is all that is permitted.

    12) Something we refer to as the "posting rule" should be in effect for every IC post. It is extremely helpful in keeping track of where everyone is. At the top of any post you make put in bold the name of the character you are currently playing, their location, and who you are interacting with. For example:

    Kim - Bus Stop - Steven

    If you are playing multiple characters in one post, just add their names in:

    Kim and Stacy - Restaurant - Each Other

    If there are multiple people in the same place and you don't know who you are interacting with at the moment, broaden the terms:

    Kim - Office - Everyone

    This way, no matter who replies, everyone who is currently in the office knows you might be interacting with them or can start an interaction.

    13) We reserve the right to add more rules if needed.​

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    When making your character, keep in mind that the RP is currently approximately 10 months, since the apocalypse began and that the current general setting is the Louisiana/Mississippi area of America.

    Appearance: (We request that you do not use pictures of an anime style for appearance. Real life images are preferred, but you may also use portraits or art if it's realistic in style. If you have trouble finding these kinds of images, feel free to ask me for assistance.)

    Name:

    Age:

    Skills:
    (Is your character good at medicine? Cooking? Electronics? Hunting? Marksman? These can be skills acquired after the outbreak)

    Preferred Weapons (up to three): (Anything they would realistically have. This can be optional if you really have nothing in mind. You could even use it as a sort of character inventory if you want)

    Personality: (Both good and bad points)

    Bio: (Characters generally will not know much about each other at first, so feel free to offer only a brief history, such as what they were doing before the outbreak and what they've generally done since then)​


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hmmm okok, i believe ill go with the guys at the apartment
Or you could do your own thing... we're basically fine with people wanting to be freeform about what their characters get up to.

But that's fine. There's currently a convoy from another community at the apartments, so it's buzzing with activity.
 
Or you could do your own thing... we're basically fine with people wanting to be freeform about what their characters get up to.

But that's fine. There's currently a convoy from another community at the apartments, so it's buzzing with activity.
exactly hahah i want interaction hahaha
 
@Vaila Yo V! That's the zombie Rp i was talking about!
Think about it and let me know if you want to join like that we plan some epic zombie stuff >:D
 
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Hello hello. I'm new to Iwaku, so please bear with me if I mess anything up!

With that said, are you still taking new players? :braces:
 
Hello hello. I'm new to Iwaku, so please bear with me if I mess anything up!

With that said, are you still taking new players? :braces:
Yep, feel free to join on in and write a character sheet.
 
Fantastic, thanks! Mind if I send you a pm about my character and ask some questions about how things are currently in the setting?
 
Sorry I forgot to write a post. I been so busy and all over the god damn place. I forgot to write anything. But I will tonight or tomorrow.
 
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Fantastic, thanks! Mind if I send you a pm about my character and ask some questions about how things are currently in the setting?
Sure, go right ahead.
 
And now that I've gotten her all squared away with the gm ^^ Here's my character! If anyone is interested in plotting things past, present or future, I am private message and plot friendly! Don't hesitate to poke at me and we'll see if we can toss some ideas back and forth. I am also open to creating connections with players for all three of the characters depicted below - aka, Hernandez, Juan and Elle

Hernandez and her two npcs will start out with no direct affliciation with any of the groups, so I'm pretty open here!



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"I feel I must remind you that it is an undeniable and may I say a fundamental quality of man that when faced with extinction every alternative is preferable."

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General

Name: -----
Alias: -----
Sex: Male?
Age: 28-32?

Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: -----
Height: 5'5-5'7"?
Weight: 130-150 lbs?
Complexion: -----
Distinguishing Features: -----


Marital Status: ----
Spouse:] ----
Family: ----
[Known] Accomplices: ----


Known History

Color Recognition: ----
Date Of Birth: ----
Place of Birth: ----
Ancestry: ----

Name: Emelina Maria Consuela Hernandez
Age:30
Gender: Female
Orientation:Heterosexual

Physical Features:
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 120 (Somewhat malnourished)
Hair Color: Onyx
Eye Color: Green
Distinguishing Features: Eme has what looks like burn scarring along the right side of her face, shoulder and the palms of her hands.
Two simple black stars tattoos, one to each inner wrist.
A Poem written along her spine between her shoulder blades.


"Four Gods wait on the windowsill
Where once eight Gods did war and will
And if the Gods themselves may die
What does that say for you and I?

Now, three Gods wait on the windowsill
Where one God's blood was lately spilled
While black tongues lap at the spreading pool
And build the strength they need to rule

When two Gods wait on the windowsill
The wick of the world is burning, still
But when one God in triumph shouts
The candle of the world goes out

And when that candle, bare and white
Sheds at last its dancing light
Then we will rouse, with raiséd rod
To pierce the very house of God"
--The Quartet for the Dusk of Man

Art by myself and Andrew Doma, please don’t use or redistribute.
Art created by myself in collaboration with Andrew Doma, do not use or redistribute.

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For those of you faceclaim sticklers, here's a real life visual of her
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Noteworthy Skills:
Skills of merit before the downfall: Food preparation, construction, basic first aid, unarmed combat, blade handling, street-smart, street-chemistry, pharmaceuticals, gymnastics.
Skills she's learned/strengthened post-downfall: Marksmanship, Survival, Scavenging, Foraging, Stealth/Surveillance

Strengths:
- Street smart/wise
- Smuggler wise/Drug smart
- Can turn swill into a delicacy (Food preparation - Prison/poverty taught)
- Construction smart
- Has the unique ability to pull rabbits out of her ass (Jail time calls for improvising!)
- Damn good gymnast
- Dresses specifically to appear male

Weaknesses:
- Socially unstable/awkward
- Untrusting and defensive
- Pack mentality (Brutality keeps people from fucking with you or your shit)
- PTSD
- Struggles with depression and self-motivation
- Technically isn’t legally allowed to own firearms…


Personality: Varies depending on the person.. She usually comes off as brash, angry and merciless when in reality she’s brash, angry and terrified.

Maybe you heard it before, perhaps on the news amongst all the other heinous tragedies fed out by the media or maybe one of your friends brought it up? However it reached your ears to be filed away in your mind with the rest of those tedious facts that would do you no good in life didn't matter, but you had heard about it.

It happened oh... about 13-15 years ago. You know, the old cliche? Problem child - frequent runaway teenaged daughter doesn't like the rules required to live under her parents’ roof. Said problem child runs away and is brought back by the cops several times. There are even rumors that this problem child had gotten in with the wrong crowd - talks of drug rings and underaged prostitution are being thrown all over the place. That's not the kicker, though. Just little things to show just how truly mentally unsound this youth was before she finally snapped and brutally murdered both her mother and father. It was all over the news after all, right? Sure, for about 3 months before it seemed to just disappear beneath the next life-time drama brought to reality. No one cared much about the story after - Justice seemed to be served when the girl plead guilty and took a 15 year sentence as part of the bargain.

Fast forward about 13 years later, finally this girl is released on good behavior - no longer a child at all but a full grown woman raised among the penal system. She struggles from job to job, struggles with the 'normal' human social order and eventually ends up living with her little sister and infant nephew - who's 'baby daddy' decided raising a kid and paying for the kid was too hard. Ms. Hernandez's sister seems remarkably forgiving of the one that killed their parents, she even had no problem letting said aunt baby sit the adorable little guy. That was until one of those pesky neighbors remembered this black marked woman for the monster she'd been and worried for what she'd become. DCF was called in and to avoid the obvious drama with little actual aid, 'Aunt Squishy' was forced to move out and minimize her time alone with little Juan Hernandez. It was the more palatable of options in the end.

A year or so later all hell breaks loose - people are dying left and right while others are hunting you down and trying to eat you like some vore-lover's wet dream! Maybe that neighbor was right, maybe DCF knew what they were doing all along because low and behold, from the ashes of humanity rises a disheveled pair - Aunt Emelina and little Juan 'Solo', alone and with none else of what little family they had to be seen or heard from.

Inventory:Back pack – A can of peaches..., couple of plastic jars of peanut butter mixed with sawdust. Glass jars wrapped in plastic cushioning containing pickling meat(don’t ask what kind) or bugs, glycerin, bleach and ammonia poppers. One can opener, one P-38, a screwdriver, a ball-pein hammer, wire roll, a couple of wads of cut and cleaned cloths, small sewing kit she is terrible at using, a box of nails/screws and bolts, scissors, gut-hook onion skinner.

Condor Parang machete holstered along her spinal-cord for added protection.
Tomahawk strapped to her hip.
A switchblade in her boot and one hooked to the inside of her pants at her back.
Silenced Walther P22 with three bullets left in the magazine.
Two empty .22 LR mags

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+some kind of face obscuring mask.

+ 2 children - One 6 year old male and one 11 year old female. These are not always with her.

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Age: 6
Gender: Male
Height: 3'4
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Notable Features: Always wears a Han Solo costume

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Age: 11
Gender: Female
Height: 4'8
Hair: Red
Eyes: Brown
Notable features: Dimpled cheeks, desolate eyes
 
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Hernandez and her two npcs will start out with no direct affliciation with any of the groups, so I'm pretty open here!
Just to let you know, I've added your character to the character list.
 
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Okay I am awake and I'm alive. So I am going to go ahead and post.
 
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I have a question. I'm not to sure how things are done on this site, or in this roleplay, but are we allowed to play a character in multiple scenes at a time? Like say...

John Doe and Jane are interacting in one scene today, around 3 pm in the day.

Meanwhile in another scene, Jane is interacting with Doctor Random a couple of days earlier (Which wouldn't cause any weird time rifts because the scene has no chance of actually causing long lasting effects on anyone else or the characters involved, really... Except maybe Jane finds out she's pregnant, that could be the worse of it, etc etc)

Then in another scene some time between the two, Joe is checking on Jane who is throwing up, etc etc.

Is that sort of thing allowed, or would we have to take any side scenes to side threads we create? Furthermore, if there's history between any characters can we do flash back scenes with them and play out things that happened between them in the past? o.o
 
@Amarlo; you want to team up our characters?

What I am stumbling into is I don't know how I generally want to start in the IC and feel like anyone who just joined the RP who hasn't posted yet, post with me
 
Which character(s) are yours? I have some stuff in the works at the moment, but nothing is cemented. Maybe private message me and we can see if we can figure something out? ^^
 
I have a question. I'm not to sure how things are done on this site, or in this roleplay, but are we allowed to play a character in multiple scenes at a time? Like say...

John Doe and Jane are interacting in one scene today, around 3 pm in the day.

Meanwhile in another scene, Jane is interacting with Doctor Random a couple of days earlier (Which wouldn't cause any weird time rifts because the scene has no chance of actually causing long lasting effects on anyone else or the characters involved, really... Except maybe Jane finds out she's pregnant, that could be the worse of it, etc etc)

Then in another scene some time between the two, Joe is checking on Jane who is throwing up, etc etc.

Is that sort of thing allowed, or would we have to take any side scenes to side threads we create? Furthermore, if there's history between any characters can we do flash back scenes with them and play out things that happened between them in the past? o.o
When I started reading this, only flashbacks came to mind. In order to NOT to screw with the timeline for the RP, where everyone is, flashback is probably the best and may even be the only choice for you. So anything written out in flashbacks should be just fine.
 
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I'm waiting on @Amarlo to do a copost with
 
Oh o-o Uh. I'm waiting on Akashi to be free before I do my opening post.

Here, let me send you a private message again. Haha. I think we may have had a little misunderstanding!
 
Hello =^.^= I was hoping you guys would allow me to join you in this amazingness ♥ so...um....here's my character form....if anything needs changed let me know, I am more than willing to comply with any orders =^.^=



Appearance:
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Height; 5'0"
Weight; 96lbs
Hair; Pink
Eyes; brown
complexion; pale
Fashion; click
Distinguishing Features; She has a tattoo on the back of her right shoulder.

Name: Kylie Benson

Age: Eighteen

Skills: Kylie is an amazing cook.

Preferred Weapons (up to three):
~ Beretta 92
~ Twin Daggers

Personality: Kylie doesn't really understand emotions, and fears them, as such she is always seen wearing a masquerade mask to hide from them. She likes to believe herself to be brave, and while it may not be the smartest of options she rarely listens to others. One of her most interesting 'quirks' is that she rarely, if ever, speaks and instead writes almost everything down on a small notepad she carries around with her.

Bio: Before the outbreak Kylie worked part-time at a local diner as a waitress. When the outbreak first started, she was working a shift, and ended up staying in the diner with the few who were there as well. About two weeks in, it was decided that everyone was to go their separate ways. Kylie's first stop was a pawnshop not too far from the diner, where she found her daggers, and a pistol(though there weren't any bullets). Afterwards she simply wandered about, stopping in various locations to rest.
 
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Hello =^.^= I was hoping you guys would allow me to join you in this amazingness ♥ so...um....here's my character form....if anything needs changed let me know, I am more than willing to comply with any orders =^.^=



Appearance:
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Height; 5'0"
Weight; 96lbs
Hair; Pink
Eyes; brown
complexion; pale
Fashion; click
Distinguishing Features; She has a tattoo on the back of her right shoulder.

Name: Kylie Benson

Age: Eighteen

Skills: Kylie is an amazing cook.

Preferred Weapons (up to three):
~ Beretta 92
~ Twin Daggers

Personality: Kylie doesn't really understand emotions, and fears them, as such she is always seen wearing a masquerade mask to hide from them. She likes to believe herself to be brave, and while it may not be the smartest of options she rarely listens to others. One of her most interesting 'quirks' is that she rarely, if ever, speaks and instead writes almost everything down on a small notepad she carries around with her.

Bio: Before the outbreak Kylie worked part-time at a local diner as a waitress. When the outbreak first started, she was working a shift, and ended up staying in the diner with the few who were there as well. About two weeks in, it was decided that everyone was to go their separate ways. Kylie's first stop was a pawnshop not too far from the diner, where she found her daggers, and a pistol(though there weren't any bullets). Afterwards she simply wandered about, stopping in various locations to rest.
Looks Good. Accepted.
 
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