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Forest City, up until recently a safe haven untouched by the Zombie virus, is now beginning to feel the devastating effects of the plague. With most forms of communication dead, city officials have established a localized network for coordinating emergency services in the inevitable event the virus comes here. This "Survivors' Forum" is easily accessed by the denizens of the city, and as communication with the outside world becomes lost, it is soon becoming the last resource for organizing rescue efforts and communicating with the remnants of the US government. News, calls for help, and emergency personnel coordination are now being relayed on this network, accessible from many electronic devices. As the world burns and the dead walk, the last communiques from the survivors of a doomed city will stand here as a grim account of their last days.
Forum of the Dead will be a casual role playing game set in a fictional city in northern Michigan, a beacon of urban life in the middle of cottage country, where some three hundred thousand potential zombies live out their doomed lives. Players take the form of users of a localized network forum designed to act as a last form of communication while all others are dark. Any one can create as many users as they want and take part in the game, communicating their dying pleas for help, a cop asking for back up, a back wood survivalist hopelessly surrounded outside city limits, etc. This is a game with very little mechanics and one that can be jumped in and out on with ease.
Every week or so a status update will be posted detailing the state of the city, that players can use to ground their rp. From there, feel free to reach out to your fellow survivors, coordinate zombie hunts, establish strongholds, and raid for supplies. For the most part, you will decide on your success or failure, what ever makes sense for your rp. Though expect me to throw wrenches in your plans.
This game takes place in real time - based on standard eastern time, creating the illusion of a real forum of zombie apocalypse survivors. While most will be the standard users, I do need "players" to take the role of the Mayor, Chief of Police, Hospital Director, National Guard Base Commander, Fire Chief. It is these five characters that will direct emergency services, establish triages, construct fortifications, and maintain the general defense of the city. Though their underlings will be on hand to carry out day to day functions, these five should be active to guide the survivors and hopefully maintain a valiant defense.
Forest City itself has an abandoned lumber mill, a functional steel mill, oil refinery, and port. Outside the city limits are vast resources in lumber, and a coal mine and oil wells both with limited supply. Within the city there is also a national guard base, nearly emptied by the authorities in the first days of the crisis, a police station well stocked with arms and ammunition, a hospital well maintained and supplied, expansive green belts and parks, and access to Lake Michigan and the interstate freeway.
As the game goes on, expect me to exploit every misstep of the players, and generally cause havoc for all of you, until the city finally collapses and the last of the survivors are huddled in their dark shelters counting the days until the zombie horde overruns their meager defenses. btw, we're talking the walking dead variety of zombies, as in everyone is infected and the undead are generally shamblers where the "fresh" ones are capable of short bursts of speed at a close distance.
What is common knowledge is that zombies are undead, no longer living despite the emotional attachment one may have to a zed. Destroy the brain, you destroy the zombie. They are slow, especially the longer they rot, however common bacteria that break down the corpse are barely present in zombies, thus decomposition happens at a decelerated rate. The zombie contagion is spread through the transfer of fluids, most commonly bites. Zombie coagulated blood or gore in an open wound causes infection as well.
What is not yet known is that the zombie contagion has recently mutated, becoming dormant in the infected host to then take over upon death. This is why there is such a rapid spread of the virus in recent days. You do not yet know you're all potential zombies.
The current map of Forest City. Note that only the major roads are shown, and many side streets exist within the city blocks. The actual peninsula where Forest City is located, St Ignace, Michigan, has been made into a much broader landmass to accommodate the size of Forest City. Over 300k people call Forest City their home.
Expect the Forest City Emergency Communication Forum, or FORCOMM to come online tonight. As it does, keep in mind the following factors...
- This game takes place in real time, using standard eastern time, it is nearly 5: 15pm in Forest City at the time of this post.
- The internet is down, along with communication with much of the United States and the world.
- There is still power and running water in Forest City. A defunct Coal power plant still stands in Mackinaw Industrial Park, with few of it's components in tact.
- Forest City is currently drawing power from Presque Isle Power Plant 135 miles to the North West.
- A water pumping station a few miles to the north drawing clean water from Chain Lake.
- An Exxon Oil Refinery, currently shut down, has the capabilities to refine oil into fuel. The depot is empty however, with only enough fuel to supply the city for a week.
- A tanker with enough oil to supply Forest City for a month of fuel is docked at the port.
- Oil wells north of the city provide a trickle of oil per day, only enough to sustain 10% of the population.
- A functional steel mill stands in the Industrial Park, capable of being supplied by the abandoned coal mine.
- A closed lumber mill is located in Totem Village Trailer Park.
- An abandoned coal mine north of the city has limited supplies of coal and iron.
- Scattered groups of refugees from the eastern seaboard have begun to cross the Mackinac Bridge.
- D.C. has fallen and the president and his cabinet are in an undisclosed location. The National Guard are now under the direct command of the POTUS.
Zombie Epidemic Timeline
• Early 2013- First reported Chinese outbreaks. Chinese government quickly and quietly covers them up.
• June, 2013- The Chinese government secretly acknowledges the existent of the growing threat of the undead. First Chinese 'Health and Safety' sweeps performed in remote towns.
• July 24th, 2013- British Special Forces encounter undead during a drug raid in Kyrgyzstan. The report from the solders is chalked up to P.T.S.D.
• August, 2013- The Chinese government, in an attempt to stop the rest of the world's intelligence offices from learning what was happening within their borders, start a campaign to destabilize Asia. Rebels in Taiwan start to be funded by China, 'Health and Safety' sweeps start to be covered up as fights against rebels.
• September, 2013- Small outbreaks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and northern India are reported but no long term action is taken to prevent future outbreaks. Most of the world is still unaware of the growing threat.
• October, 8th, 2013- To help keep the world's intelligence forces chasing after rumors of rebellion and stop looking into Chinese outbreaks, China assassinates there own Minister of Defense then blames it on rebels, giving an excuse for the crackdowns that followed.
• November, 2013- Outbreaks continue throughout the Middle East and Asia, first outbreak in South America.
• February, 2014- The number of outbreaks has doubled since November of '14, many occurring around Cape Town, South Africa. At this point all the world's governments know that something is wrong but to keep the populous from panicking most nations don't release their knowledge publicly.
• March, 3rd, 2014- The 'Taiwan Strait Incident' occurs, in which a Chinese Navy destroyer 'accidentally' launched cruise missiles at a civilian luxury cruise ship, killing 542 people. China threatens to invade Taiwan, leading to the US stepping in and the two Navies have a stand off.
• May, 7th, 2014- Copies of the Warmbrunn-Knight report are sent to most U.N. nations. The report was written by a member of Israeli Intelligence and a retired CIA annalist and gives details on the nature of the outbreaks and steps the world community should start taking to stop more from happening. The report is largely ignored.
• May, 16th, 2014- At an U.N. assembly, Israel announces its plan to go into self-imposed quarantine to prevent their nation from getting infected. All foreign Jews, people with Jewish parents would have two years to come to Israel, then the borders would close.
• May, 20th, 2014- After several weeks worth of infected civilians from outlying settlements arrive in Cape Town leading to many small hospital outbreaks, the infamous 'Great Cape Town Outbreak' occurs, infecting several thousand people. This being the first time the disease reached a major city, it makes world news. The plague is now being called 'African rabies.'
• August, 2014- Phalanx, a supposed prescription vaccine for African rabies, hits the market and becomes the most prescribed medicine in North America, even though it was never proven to prevent the disease. The US begins deploying 'Alpha Teams'; special forces with zombie specific training, to infected areas around North and South America.
• January-March, 2015- At some point between this two months Russia shuts down all non-government mass communication. The country entered some kind of civil strife of which the exact details are unknown.
• April, 20015- Most Americans and Europeans believe that the threat is mostly contained and only a major problem in places such as China and Africa. The Israeli government starts construction of a sixty foot high wall that will go around the quarantine zone. Jerusalem and the West Bank are declared too much of a liability by the government and are to be abandoned until the threat is gone from the world. This angered many and led to the start of the Israeli Civil War.
• May, 2015-The US government realizes that the threat is growing and there are beginning to be too many small outbreaks within their borders that can be covered up. The US announces that they will begin pulling all American military forces from abroad. All airports and harbours are closed in an effort to cease the spread of the plague.
• May, 28th, 2015- China massacres over one thousand Indian refugees trying to cross the border to escape their own nation's outbreaks. India threatens military action against China. Some people begin to say World War Three is close at hand.
• July, 18th, 2015- A reporter for CNN World News breaks the story of how the US government has been covering up outbreaks and that things are spiraling out of control. This triggers 'The Great Panic.' Widespread panic ensues. Many city centers are rendered warzones as civil unrest reaches an unprecedented high.
• July, 28th- The Israel Quarantine Zone becomes compromised, and in the matter of hours, is lost.
• August 2015- Uncontrolled outbreaks begin appearing along the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Communications with Europe, Africa and Asia are lost, and the worst is feared.
RULES
Any OOC or ICs that do not fit the forum narrative, must be put into spoiler tags - [*SPOILER][/*SPOILER] (minus the *) The goal is to make a game that looks like an online forum.
Rather then game mechanics, this game is driven by your roleplay. As such, use common sense and have your characters act in a manner that is reasonable given the circumstances. Stray outside the bounds of reason and a zombie will eat you.
Fill out the template below and include a detailed bio for your major characters. You may have an unlimited amount of secondary characters with no bio necessary.
Include the info below with each IC.
USERNAME:
NAME:
DOB:
OCCUPATION:
STATUS:
IC HERE....
FORCOMM
******************
Welcome to the Forest City Emergency Communication Network. The purpose of this network is to serve as a backup communication grid should other means become compromised. FORCOMM is monitored around the clock and emergency personnel are standing by should any user be need of assistance.
Please log in and enter your password. If this is your first visit, please register your profile. Fill out the fields below accurately to ensure efficient search and rescue in case of emergency.
USERNAME:
NAME:
DOB:
OCCUPATION:
STATUS:
BIO:
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Forum of the Dead
Forest City, up until recently a safe haven untouched by the Zombie virus, is now beginning to feel the devastating effects of the plague. With most forms of communication dead, city officials have established a localized network for coordinating emergency services in the inevitable event the virus comes here. This "Survivors' Forum" is easily accessed by the denizens of the city, and as communication with the outside world becomes lost, it is soon becoming the last resource for organizing rescue efforts and communicating with the remnants of the US government. News, calls for help, and emergency personnel coordination are now being relayed on this network, accessible from many electronic devices. As the world burns and the dead walk, the last communiques from the survivors of a doomed city will stand here as a grim account of their last days.
Forum of the Dead will be a casual role playing game set in a fictional city in northern Michigan, a beacon of urban life in the middle of cottage country, where some three hundred thousand potential zombies live out their doomed lives. Players take the form of users of a localized network forum designed to act as a last form of communication while all others are dark. Any one can create as many users as they want and take part in the game, communicating their dying pleas for help, a cop asking for back up, a back wood survivalist hopelessly surrounded outside city limits, etc. This is a game with very little mechanics and one that can be jumped in and out on with ease.
Every week or so a status update will be posted detailing the state of the city, that players can use to ground their rp. From there, feel free to reach out to your fellow survivors, coordinate zombie hunts, establish strongholds, and raid for supplies. For the most part, you will decide on your success or failure, what ever makes sense for your rp. Though expect me to throw wrenches in your plans.
This game takes place in real time - based on standard eastern time, creating the illusion of a real forum of zombie apocalypse survivors. While most will be the standard users, I do need "players" to take the role of the Mayor, Chief of Police, Hospital Director, National Guard Base Commander, Fire Chief. It is these five characters that will direct emergency services, establish triages, construct fortifications, and maintain the general defense of the city. Though their underlings will be on hand to carry out day to day functions, these five should be active to guide the survivors and hopefully maintain a valiant defense.
Forest City itself has an abandoned lumber mill, a functional steel mill, oil refinery, and port. Outside the city limits are vast resources in lumber, and a coal mine and oil wells both with limited supply. Within the city there is also a national guard base, nearly emptied by the authorities in the first days of the crisis, a police station well stocked with arms and ammunition, a hospital well maintained and supplied, expansive green belts and parks, and access to Lake Michigan and the interstate freeway.
As the game goes on, expect me to exploit every misstep of the players, and generally cause havoc for all of you, until the city finally collapses and the last of the survivors are huddled in their dark shelters counting the days until the zombie horde overruns their meager defenses. btw, we're talking the walking dead variety of zombies, as in everyone is infected and the undead are generally shamblers where the "fresh" ones are capable of short bursts of speed at a close distance.
What is common knowledge is that zombies are undead, no longer living despite the emotional attachment one may have to a zed. Destroy the brain, you destroy the zombie. They are slow, especially the longer they rot, however common bacteria that break down the corpse are barely present in zombies, thus decomposition happens at a decelerated rate. The zombie contagion is spread through the transfer of fluids, most commonly bites. Zombie coagulated blood or gore in an open wound causes infection as well.
What is not yet known is that the zombie contagion has recently mutated, becoming dormant in the infected host to then take over upon death. This is why there is such a rapid spread of the virus in recent days. You do not yet know you're all potential zombies.
The current map of Forest City. Note that only the major roads are shown, and many side streets exist within the city blocks. The actual peninsula where Forest City is located, St Ignace, Michigan, has been made into a much broader landmass to accommodate the size of Forest City. Over 300k people call Forest City their home.
Expect the Forest City Emergency Communication Forum, or FORCOMM to come online tonight. As it does, keep in mind the following factors...
- This game takes place in real time, using standard eastern time, it is nearly 5: 15pm in Forest City at the time of this post.
- The internet is down, along with communication with much of the United States and the world.
- There is still power and running water in Forest City. A defunct Coal power plant still stands in Mackinaw Industrial Park, with few of it's components in tact.
- Forest City is currently drawing power from Presque Isle Power Plant 135 miles to the North West.
- A water pumping station a few miles to the north drawing clean water from Chain Lake.
- An Exxon Oil Refinery, currently shut down, has the capabilities to refine oil into fuel. The depot is empty however, with only enough fuel to supply the city for a week.
- A tanker with enough oil to supply Forest City for a month of fuel is docked at the port.
- Oil wells north of the city provide a trickle of oil per day, only enough to sustain 10% of the population.
- A functional steel mill stands in the Industrial Park, capable of being supplied by the abandoned coal mine.
- A closed lumber mill is located in Totem Village Trailer Park.
- An abandoned coal mine north of the city has limited supplies of coal and iron.
- Scattered groups of refugees from the eastern seaboard have begun to cross the Mackinac Bridge.
- D.C. has fallen and the president and his cabinet are in an undisclosed location. The National Guard are now under the direct command of the POTUS.
Zombie Epidemic Timeline
• Early 2013- First reported Chinese outbreaks. Chinese government quickly and quietly covers them up.
• June, 2013- The Chinese government secretly acknowledges the existent of the growing threat of the undead. First Chinese 'Health and Safety' sweeps performed in remote towns.
• July 24th, 2013- British Special Forces encounter undead during a drug raid in Kyrgyzstan. The report from the solders is chalked up to P.T.S.D.
• August, 2013- The Chinese government, in an attempt to stop the rest of the world's intelligence offices from learning what was happening within their borders, start a campaign to destabilize Asia. Rebels in Taiwan start to be funded by China, 'Health and Safety' sweeps start to be covered up as fights against rebels.
• September, 2013- Small outbreaks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and northern India are reported but no long term action is taken to prevent future outbreaks. Most of the world is still unaware of the growing threat.
• October, 8th, 2013- To help keep the world's intelligence forces chasing after rumors of rebellion and stop looking into Chinese outbreaks, China assassinates there own Minister of Defense then blames it on rebels, giving an excuse for the crackdowns that followed.
• November, 2013- Outbreaks continue throughout the Middle East and Asia, first outbreak in South America.
• February, 2014- The number of outbreaks has doubled since November of '14, many occurring around Cape Town, South Africa. At this point all the world's governments know that something is wrong but to keep the populous from panicking most nations don't release their knowledge publicly.
• March, 3rd, 2014- The 'Taiwan Strait Incident' occurs, in which a Chinese Navy destroyer 'accidentally' launched cruise missiles at a civilian luxury cruise ship, killing 542 people. China threatens to invade Taiwan, leading to the US stepping in and the two Navies have a stand off.
• May, 7th, 2014- Copies of the Warmbrunn-Knight report are sent to most U.N. nations. The report was written by a member of Israeli Intelligence and a retired CIA annalist and gives details on the nature of the outbreaks and steps the world community should start taking to stop more from happening. The report is largely ignored.
• May, 16th, 2014- At an U.N. assembly, Israel announces its plan to go into self-imposed quarantine to prevent their nation from getting infected. All foreign Jews, people with Jewish parents would have two years to come to Israel, then the borders would close.
• May, 20th, 2014- After several weeks worth of infected civilians from outlying settlements arrive in Cape Town leading to many small hospital outbreaks, the infamous 'Great Cape Town Outbreak' occurs, infecting several thousand people. This being the first time the disease reached a major city, it makes world news. The plague is now being called 'African rabies.'
• August, 2014- Phalanx, a supposed prescription vaccine for African rabies, hits the market and becomes the most prescribed medicine in North America, even though it was never proven to prevent the disease. The US begins deploying 'Alpha Teams'; special forces with zombie specific training, to infected areas around North and South America.
• January-March, 2015- At some point between this two months Russia shuts down all non-government mass communication. The country entered some kind of civil strife of which the exact details are unknown.
• April, 20015- Most Americans and Europeans believe that the threat is mostly contained and only a major problem in places such as China and Africa. The Israeli government starts construction of a sixty foot high wall that will go around the quarantine zone. Jerusalem and the West Bank are declared too much of a liability by the government and are to be abandoned until the threat is gone from the world. This angered many and led to the start of the Israeli Civil War.
• May, 2015-The US government realizes that the threat is growing and there are beginning to be too many small outbreaks within their borders that can be covered up. The US announces that they will begin pulling all American military forces from abroad. All airports and harbours are closed in an effort to cease the spread of the plague.
• May, 28th, 2015- China massacres over one thousand Indian refugees trying to cross the border to escape their own nation's outbreaks. India threatens military action against China. Some people begin to say World War Three is close at hand.
• July, 18th, 2015- A reporter for CNN World News breaks the story of how the US government has been covering up outbreaks and that things are spiraling out of control. This triggers 'The Great Panic.' Widespread panic ensues. Many city centers are rendered warzones as civil unrest reaches an unprecedented high.
• July, 28th- The Israel Quarantine Zone becomes compromised, and in the matter of hours, is lost.
• August 2015- Uncontrolled outbreaks begin appearing along the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Communications with Europe, Africa and Asia are lost, and the worst is feared.
RULES
Any OOC or ICs that do not fit the forum narrative, must be put into spoiler tags - [*SPOILER][/*SPOILER] (minus the *) The goal is to make a game that looks like an online forum.
Rather then game mechanics, this game is driven by your roleplay. As such, use common sense and have your characters act in a manner that is reasonable given the circumstances. Stray outside the bounds of reason and a zombie will eat you.
Fill out the template below and include a detailed bio for your major characters. You may have an unlimited amount of secondary characters with no bio necessary.
Include the info below with each IC.
USERNAME:
NAME:
DOB:
OCCUPATION:
STATUS:
IC HERE....
FORCOMM
******************
Welcome to the Forest City Emergency Communication Network. The purpose of this network is to serve as a backup communication grid should other means become compromised. FORCOMM is monitored around the clock and emergency personnel are standing by should any user be need of assistance.
Please log in and enter your password. If this is your first visit, please register your profile. Fill out the fields below accurately to ensure efficient search and rescue in case of emergency.
USERNAME:
NAME:
DOB:
OCCUPATION:
STATUS:
BIO:
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