Its that time again! :D

In addition to Jay Warren I'd also like to welcome Friedrich 'Fritz' Glaumann and his travelling partner Zaynab bint Sulayman bin Yusuf Bukhari.


And woo hoo! Just hit 5000 posts!
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:05, Wed 23 May 2012.

Hello! Zay and I shall be the latest and possibly strangest additions! *waves enthusiastically*

Hello!!!

Heh, nice mexican stand-off, I say. ;-)

Well, it's no fun when everyone gets along. =P

I won't be able to post till this evening due to my being at work.

If your wondering about my job, I'm a super spy!

FYI, you're a spy?

I would say that leaves Jay and I plenty of time to snap at each other like two angry dogs, but since I live in GMT-land, it's already later in the evening and early starts dictate that I sleep. Looks like Jay gets the last word in...this time. ;)

Well, I live in GMT+2 -land, so you might be able to get back at him...but Jay made Fritz swear even though Fritz told him to refrain from in because Zay is religious...;-)

GMT -7 is my zone :) posting on here from iPhone at work.

I'm so baaddd

Eight hours at work is better than no sleep at all, they say. ;^)

Lol and who are 'they'?

I'm gonna try and post now, though I'm back in the AM. I have a great excuse though; after work I went to see Men in Black 3.

Kinda dropped the ball today, will post tomorrow I promise before work

I'll be off to Greece in less than eight hours and will post whenever I have a chance to do so. I'll be semi-absent for the next two weeks, that is.

I'm going to post tonight. I've been wrapped up all day, but I will be posting tonight for sure!

I'm moving into my new place this weekend so my replies may be postponed to monday afternoon GMT -6 hopefully sooner.

Still in the process of setting up my desktop Internet at the new house. I will reply tomorrow even if by iPhone.

Jay you missed replying to the GM post a couple posts behind you

Corrected. By the looks of the DM post, I kind of understood, Jay was already home free from that.

Sunday after work i will be posting the Npc characters and will touch base with Raes group.

Additionally we will be admitting more players shortly! :D

Posting in a couple hours when I finish work :)

Posts coming tonight

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Hopefully will be posting tonight! Might be going to the movies, so...it will be tomorrow if that happens!

Posts coming tonight! Then time change after current scenes play out

I will be bumping up the time to morning the next day, and will be picking up the pregnancy situation in the Caravan thread at that time instead of playing out the quite possibly traumatic pregnancy ;)

Time shift coming tonight or tomorrow evening.

Sorry for the delay, I had family matters that messed up my routine but i will be posting the time change tomorrow morning before work. Sorry again for the hold up! ;)

In my opinion, real life has to come first, so there's no reason for an apology, not that we don't appreciate it. :-)

Aww shucks thx Jay :D

Writing up the time jump now, lol.

Work has been sort of nuts! I should post today or tomorrow.

I must amend this again, I will be posting tonight!

Posts coming today after work when I finally get free time

I'll get something up at some point today, trying not to get swept up in IRL stuff!

Back from weekend away, will begin answering PMs and posting in-game today.

Please welcome our new player-character Rob Achermann! :D

Fresh meat. Yummy! Welcome.

Hey everyone. Nice to be one of the survivors, so far.

NPCs will be posted today

I'd like to welcome Mouse to the game :D

Squeak squeak...


Heh... just kidding.  I'd like to say I'm happy to be here, and quite honestly I am.  My character?  Probably not... but who would really want to be in a world that's covered in roaming dead people who are looking to eat you?

Welcome! Hope you survive :)

I'm sure we all have the same sentiment... *Eyes the redneck crew suspiciously*

Another chick. Not bad. Welcome, and mind the hicks.

NPC posts coming tonight and posting New Mexi as well.

Sorry for the delay, couldn't be helped. but will be posting today to be sure, after work :)

Welcome to the game, Rachel :D

Why thank you, and hello all

Posts coming tonight.

Cookie is missing, as well, though, so I'll have to deal with that issue soon. I will say that you should all anticipate a time change within this next week.

In reply to GM (msg # 48):

Cookie's owner's desktop went "Pfui, shan't work anymore" and I'm on a borrowed laptop for now.  Have to see what those computer repair thieves want to fix it.

What's a desktop? *Snickers*

Hey, am I right in assuming Mark's RV is banged up?

yep and Cookie shot the coffee machine as well :)

*collapses on the couch* phew..lotta posting. I need to start letting the zombies do the work. :D

I'll do the sound effects if you like.

Grr... arrg.

Done.

Several newbies about to join, if all works out, 5 new people, so yea, expect craziness.. Will post npc's etc tonight or in the morning.

If Jay is anything of a shot (and he should be), he'll relieve you of a couple of NPCs. ;-)

Hello all! I am ready to participate in the fun...or something like that.

Hey guys. Popping in to say that I'm one of those new guys, and itching to get my part in this RP started

Welcome, guys. We don't bite (except for Cookie).
This message was last edited by the player at 05:01, Tue 11 Sept 2012.

Lol..Cookie Monster.

Om nom nom

I will post npc's probably tomorrow (fri) i might do it tonight but it might not be in the cards

Hi, everyone! I'm new and looking forward to playing!

Welcome to ZOMBIELAND!

More GM events/npc posts tomorrow cause I got to run to bed for my early start on work.

I'll try to have some more posts up mid-day but may have to wait till tomorrow night for the rest.

GM posts delayed till tonight. Would have posted last night but I went to a pirate themed party instead XD

Arrrr

Talk like a pirate -day party? Yarr! Shiver me timbers!

Posting after work today

Yay!

*gives jay some bacon*

In reply to GM (msg # 71):

*munch, munch, munch. BURP!*

I'm sorry about my lack of posting.  I should have on in at some point today.

Back from family funeral, posts will trickle in through tomorrow.

*hugs GM* So sorry.

My condolences, mate.

Sorry for your loss and for my continued non-posting.  I intend on doing so soon

Thank you for the kind words.
I'm beginning to write up some posts but I may not have all of the NPC's posted until tomorrow mornin.

Gm posts probably coming late tonight

Arty for the delay, I will be posting tonight after work and then after work tomorrow as well.

Sorry for the posting hiatus.  I'm back now.

Is an Air Cadet base what they call an Air Force base in Canada? lol ;)

Yeah Australia doesn't have 'Air cadet Bases' either, so what is the equivalent?

Lol, Air Cadet Base is meant to be a training basecamp for Air Cadets, air cadets being men and woman under the age of 18 who train in various aviation areas with a discipline and bend on a future military career and/or pilots license/accreditation.

My sister and a friend of mine were in Air Cadets up here in southern Alberta.

This place won't have stealth bombers, haha, more like practice gliders or aging small helicopters for training.

Yeah I live on a training base in the UK, you'll probably have one or two prop aircraft in addittion to the gliders...and a motor pool.

Posts coming tonight after work

Unexpected late night, will get posts out before work early Fri :)

Sorry I didn't answer earlier, but the Air Force base in Belleville is Scott Air Force Base. It provides air transportation for Congressional dignitaries as well as Air Evac Medical personnel and air aid for military patients worldwide and also civilians in emergency situations. They also provide air refueling support.

The following page has a video on it about Scott Air Force Base and what it does, what planes are there, etc, if anyone is interested. It might make the playacting a little more real, ya know? hehe

http://www.scott.af.mil/library/newcomers/index.asp

I never had an actual location in mind lol though I appreciate the research :)

Hehehe. Well, it just so happens that I live in the area and know it pretty well. All in the name of realism! lol

w00t!

I just got back from drinking with a friend, so I won't be posting until tomorrow midday or Thurs morning. Sorry for the delay but I'm working two jobs now and I usually like to tackle all my writing at once when I have a free two hours or so. Though if I get more time in the next day or so I will crack out posts piece by piece but my tentative timeline is that I will catch up with everyone in entirety by Thursday.

You spell very well for someone who's been drinking...lol.

I'm high functioning when I drink XD

Setting up some stuff for you now, people, bear with me.

That car crash. The odds for that are so unbelievable. I was reading the post was like "Oh.....didn't see that coming at all."

Buahahaha

Where GM/NPC posts are needed there will be posting tomorrow afternoon or night.  :D

Everyone enjoying themselves? :)

Just want to remind the group in The Caravan thread to give Dominic a chance to post before continuing on too much, thx!

Hey there everybody!
I'm new to the game but have been following events for a little while. Hope to see you all pretty soon.

Hi ya, an' welcome! Beware of the Cookie-monster. She bites. ;-)

Welcome!

hey everyone,

Jed will be joining in the fun real soon too.

looking forward to gaming with you all

Posts and touching base will happen sometime tonight, hang in there folks

*rubs eyes* Oh man..so much posting..so little time.

Fatigued from both jobs and it being so freakin late I'm going to have to postpone my posts until various scattered posts through wednesday and thursday.

My schedule is the same as last week which is essentially BUSY as I work seven day work weeks now.

Bear with me a lil more :( F*** I'm burnt out, haha.

Welcome, Jed. It would be pretty interesting to see, who would win, Jed or Jay, should there ever be a fight. Jay doesn't fight clean, though...;-)

Oh, I've been away thanks to workload but I must say I love the car crash. I did not see that coming at all. A lovely turn of events! Kudos

HI all,
May be out of communication for a while as a large storm is headed my way, and I'm called to stay at work as essential personnel.  Hope to be back Weds or Thurs.

Good luck and safe journeys.

Got a short reprieve as storm slowed down, managed to find my aero bed tho.  Will be gone probably til Weds night, EST. So sorry to leave in middle of a zombie hunt !

Sending prayers of safety to the East Coast!

Once again it looks like Wed-Thurs will be the earliest posting time for me due to my two jobs. But I have the weekend off (mostly) and will be able to keep up a decent enough posting rate for my R & R days :D

I will try to get to those of you who have PMed me ASAP just please bear with your tired GM.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:54, Tue 30 Oct 2012.

Things are very bad here in NJ.  I am one of the fortunate ones.  Many of my coworkers lost their homes, can't find petrol, can't find food.  The city I work in is dark - no power.  We're working a lot of hours to try to get the job done so my posting will be sporadic.  Looking at sleeping over there on the weekend too.  Still rather shell-shocked.  I wasn't born in America but I love it deeply and this truly hurts.

Take care of yourself and don't worry about the game. We'll be here when you come back.

Srry for the delay, been working two jobs, I will be posting sometime saturday or at the latest Sunday when I get my first whole day off in a a few weeks lol.

Seriously, it's snowing like sixty out here.  If I drop off the map, I'm either at work, without power, without internet, and/or definitely without sanity.  THIS time I shall let my colleague deck the annoying middle manager.   Bugger.

Posts likely coming Sunday

to those on the raiding party, the pharmacy and blood supply is up on the fourth floor... as is the psych ward... i was made aware of  this by the gm in a private message

He's correct I'll post something to that effect though no one needs to edit anything.

I'm going out in an hour but I'm going to snap out some masterful creative writing before I go :D

There seems to be a contradiction. how can the pharmacy be both "a mess of emptied out drawers and piles of medicine tablets and pills" and "an assortment of drugs and medical equipment that was altogether undisturbed"

Just cause I work two jobs and never have enough sleep to always be accurate. Ill fix stuff later.

Well, maybe if you didn't spend all your time being a responsible adult, we could have a coherent game. Come on man, priorities...

Sorry. Since we didn't have directions I just put in a suspense inducing something-hit-the-fan moment. Seemed fitting :)

Lol I know right?

I think the simplest way to deal with the discrepancy is to ignore it, haha. The drugs etc I could take or leave it it's a hospital so you shouldn't want for any of that stuff.

I need your characters to go to the fourth floor for the blood in and around the mental ward  so we can intro Jed to the game :D

I will post and touch base Monday morning, sorry again for the fragmented routine, but it's my two jobs soaking up time.

The holiday season will be tough for all of our posting routines coming up, and like last holiday season we may lose some players in the long run, but this will only add plot after holidays end haha.

I will always be here, even if I get busy, the game will always continue I assure you all :D

-Inevitable delays, will try and get time off for the game within the next couple days

Inevitavle delays tend to be just that, inevitable. No harm, no foul (or fowl, as it is Thanksgiving in the States, I believe). ;-)

Going to start my next bout of posting..now :D

taking time for a posting wave this weekend where needed in the game.

Holidays are on the horizon.. or rather Winter is Coming.. Going to be a tough time for rping.

Starting my posting now. Responses will be out for all threads within the next 30-40 min.

Posts coming tonight and/or tomorrow :D

Yay! Boy, have we been waiting for it! ;-)

Aha yay? I'll endeavor not to let you down haha.

Starting to post now, I'll have each thread posted in before I go to work in a couple hours.

changed up my portrait. Hope is doesn't cause too much confusion.

Awe, man! Now Bohannon has to come up with new nicknames for you.

sorry man, just thought this one fit better

I'm back, and will get things underway Sunday and Monday, see where everyone is and perhaps get going again if we're all back from holidays :D

Just got home from a trip to Tenerife (literally, 15 minutes ago). I'm ready to play!

I'm still up and around.

Gonna take time for the game tomorrow(Tuesday, before work) bear with me, I'm around but life is no less crazy already, haha

A new challenger has arrived! Can't wait to start up with you guys.

Ah, welcome then. Watch out fornthe Cookie-monster. She tends to bite, whether you like it or not. ;-)

So, are we going to skip through time back to the Caravan? Doesn't seem like there's anything to play out en route, unless Jay throws Bohannon out of the moving van...

Yes I'll post as Christopher soon in the Caravan thread to make the transition more clean cut.

I think, he is considering that...;-)

I like how you've literally warned he last three people that've joined about Cookie lol

She's a force to be reckon with!

Well, she's the Cookie-monster. ;-)

OK, you're alla officially gettin' on my last nerve, youse guys.  Whatsamatta, you gotta problem or somethin' wit the NJ chick ?  ;)

And it's true; NJ girls CAN drive anything; they know how to pump gas but WON'T if they can possibly avoid it, they roll their eyes and there are many hand signals, head tosses, etc.  And mousse.  They can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and smack the zombies with the frying pan for dessert.

I will have the remaining NPC posts from Janice, Aishe and Hector up through Sunday. My desktop has crashed and I've been scrambling to get access this weekend. :D

Aww, sweet peas, I'm just tryin' to enhance your image 'bout bein' the fearless chick, who you don't screw with unless you have a deathwish - screw as in the botherin' sense. Got nuthin' 'gainst a NJ gal, especially this particular one. ;-)

I have to agree; do not mess with a Jersey Girl.  It is not healthy.  Far easier and better on your personal well-being to cater to their every whim....

Besides, messing with her would also get a certain biker in a reasonably foul mood, which can get pretty unhealthy as well. ;-)

Let's hope for Benson's sake, Jay will not hear about the cowboy's proposition to Dom, or the cowboy will get the truck towing himself, by the ankles, with a rope...;-)

I'm so glad you and Cookie both wandered off when you did.

Benson better brace for impact...

Mouse, is it Jay you're calling newcomer or...?

It would seem kind of silly to call you a newcomer.  I was referring to the mountain walking next to Jay like a lost puppy.

He's not a biker. He's a boxer and he followed me home - can we keep him. He's housebroke...

ok... but ONLY if you take care of him. That means feeding him, walking him, and also protecting him from the zombies.

Hey everyone I'm back, I derped out and didn't even realize I was in a new thread, so yeah, my mistake.

Is everyone okay with me bumping up the time? I would like to move the Caravan to a new location, and get everyone a more even footing with the new folk from which to post.

If so, if you want to have a say in the future time-setting, give me a heads up or ask me about it or I will go ahead and select a time and setting for us.
If moving things up is okay, just giving me a general 'Yuuuup!' and I'll set it up for us.

What I'm thinking is I'll bring us up to a safe point where the Caravan is at rest but the expanded numbers of the Caravan may be out doing different things, some may be on their own raids for the Caravan, some may be mulling at camp, some may be making other plans.

I'll want to do a more significant time jump for everyone by jumping maybe a month or two into the future, into the Fall season where things are getting colder and food is scarcer. This will also allow everyone to assume they've known eachother for a few weeks more, and thus allow everyone to build up some familiarity and/or tension for the time jump lol.

If the jump is gonna be a big time skip, I say you should wait a couple more posts so we could get a little bit more settled. So bigger plot posts can finish up.

but if its a small one than go right ahead.

I'd kind of like to see an answer from Dom (and Jay's subsequent reactions to possibly hearing about what Benson said).

Hey guys!

Can't wait to join!

Welcome to the party! Cookie bites, Jay growls and Benson waves his guns around (no innuendo). That means, we're your typical, strange, dysfunctional and highly crazy family. ;-)

Wouldn't have it any other way...
Will be posting as soon as i get the green light!
This message was last edited by the player at 12:17, Fri 18 Jan 2013.

Yeah I am going to go with Lyle with this one, after all I don't think Dom's going to be too thrilled moving NM in such a fragile state.

Fragile state is better than eaten *shrugs*

huh....fair point perhaps theres an option three

Hey Cookie, you seem to have the helm here on the approaching horde, how big a horde are we talking?

I lold at the use of the word slithered, its perfect.

I will be making my posts for the NPCs, etc Sunday and/or monday, just a heads up!

In reply to Benson Bohannon (msg # 169):

Is there such a thing as a small horde ?  What is the stagger-rate of the average zombie ?  What about Bohannon's horse ?

Hey more importantly what about Doms helicopter?!
This message was last edited by the player at 22:42, Sun 20 Jan 2013.

If the horde is manageable, Bohannon probably wants to stay and fight it. He's scrappy like that.

Also, he abandoned the horse at the shooting complex. No way to transport it at the speed of the caravan.

In reply to Justin (msg # 170):

Hehehe, thanks.

Oh! Bohannon abandoned the horse with it tied up? *grabs beating stick*

What can you say - the cowboy's an ass. ;-)

Maybe he can slow down the horde along with Tommy...

In reply to Sierra Mabaric (msg # 175):

Whoa! No. We skipped forward in time from the shooting complex to Belleville. In between the jump points, Bohannon would have set the horse free, to go find other horses, that it could play with, and be happy...

"Abandoned" was a poor choice of words.

And you know Jay, words can hurt. *Sniffle*
This message was last edited by the player at 07:24, Mon 21 Jan 2013.

Oh, you mean we can drop the cowboy off too? ;-)

Now i'm curious. What's an MSN?

In reply to Esther Durant (msg # 180):

lol... its an auto correct typo ... i wrote man... its fixed now...
This message was last edited by the player at 20:05, Mon 21 Jan 2013.

In reply to Esther Durant (msg # 180):

all i have is a cell phone right now to access the net... touch screen auto text is the bane of my existence

In reply to Jed Cooper (msg # 182):

Bummer, i thought i'ld be learning another bad word...

In reply to Jay Warren (msg # 179):

No, we have to keep him. He let the horse go to run and mate and be happy. So I can't hate him yet.

Hey everyone! Its 11:57pm where I am and I just finished three hours of reading and homework for Uni after working earlier today.

I have just gotten a chance to read all of your posts and I am really impressed with the dialogue and character dynamics that I am seeing.

Bushed as I am, I need to get sleep and will want to pick things up tomorrow after classes wrap up for the day. I can post as the NPCs but mainly I would like to shuffle us along to another location if not necessarily a far off time jump.

Naturally I will not jump things unless you all sound ready but if you are you may give me some suggestions or input of what you would like to see in the time shift for when I write things up.

I have a number of NPCs lol even if I culled some so I would not mind getting a chance to reset where they all are without having to post so much in one sitting when I rarely have a chance to anyways(at least nowadays)

I wouldn't mind a quick jump to the next area, but I'm not too sure about a month time jump sorta thing, maybe have some time to interact just to form base relationships with everyone, so that there's an idea of how things will be after a big jump.

Any jump will do fine by me! But you guys take your time. I'll be freshing up on my rules in the mean time!

A jump is quite okay and in my opinion some of the NPCs can be faded in to the background without a problem. Too big a jump would disrupt the internal roleplay of the group.

I'd be ok with a jump, though the size of the jump would determine whether or not Dom's managed to bring NM back to health.

I think maybe one or two weeks is enough for a time jump.

also since the caravan is mostly on the move it is a good time to make a jump
This message was last edited by the player at 20:27, Tue 22 Jan 2013.

A jump of any more than a few hours would totally kill Bohannon's plot. once we get to the next location, it wouldn't take me too long to prep for a longer jump, but I need to tie up a whole hell of a lot of loose ends. Right now Bohannon is collapsed in the RV bathroom, bleeding from an unknown wound. So, there's that. Then there's the deal to settle with Dominic for New Mexico's life. and then of course there is "The Bohannon problem to sort out" as Cookie put it. We need to set the tone for my character's role in the Caravan going forward. Then, on top of that, I'm going to introduce a bigger plot line I've been cooking up. It won't take long to introduce, and I can work the time jump into the bigger picture, but i do need time to get the ball rolling.

...Unless, and I'm kind of thinking out loud here, Bohannon's injury is more severe, and he's out of commission for a couple weeks, then an immediate jump starts to make sense. If i do some OOC collaboration with Jay, Cookie, and Dominic (and whoever else wants to weigh in on Bohannon's fate) then I'd be OK with a jump of a week or two, three at the most, if everyone wants to jump.

I'm game with whatever the group decides... I'm to new at this point for it to really matter.

Okay so what I will do is a less pivotal time jump and maybe skip ahead about 3-5 hours ahead of the present time.

The group is being urged to get a move on and thus I will jump everyone to a new location. Undead being spotted means the group is going to have to move regardless of what's going on but I won't jump you all ahead too too far.

I will move the caravan some hours into the future to a new location and we can continue current plot trends as the time change won't be huge.

Time Jump is going down tonight

That's so awesome! I love that.

Ouch

Oh, everyone loves Sawyer.  LOL.  Cookie MUST snark; it is the NJ way.

Sawyer? What do you mean? I didn't borrow excessively from LOST...

Just the portrait :D

Hello everyone, I will be joining soon, pleasure to meet you all. Also I think this picture will be temporary until I find a better one, as my character doesn't have glasses, but didn't want to spend an hour trying to find the pefect picture.

Hey Michigan! Welcome!

Welcome to the highly dysfunctional family of misfits and loonies!

He'll fit right in, pretty dysfunctional himself

May be stuck at work the next 48-60 hours or so, blizzard on the east coast.  No internet access, as a peasant like me does not deserve such kindness while at work.

Aww. Keep safe, Cookie-monster. I want to see the Cookie-Jay -clickque advance further. :-)

Blah, survived storm but my back is gone out and I'm off to hospital to get xray'd, so I shall be cranky in the extreme.

Aww. Did you fall or something?

I'm betting shoveling

Well, let's hope Cookie's discs are still intact. Fixing them is always a pain...

Hope you're ok Cookie... I've thrown my back out shoveling before... if its a slipped disc it takes a long time to heal... I'm in Nova Scotia and are in the middle of a blizzard... heading out to shovel out two driveways... at least the cars aren't completely buried today like they were yesterday before I shoveled.

I've been waiting for a gm response to an in game pm... I'm going to post later today and just freeform out a bit.

Well then, don't have any good news to report on the injury.  One of my vertebrae has gone rogue and vicodin makes me ill.  It was shovelling that done it, yer honour.  So I may be gappy and sappy in response for a while.

Sorry to hear that. If the Vicodin gives you problems, you can either ask for another painkiller or for medication for the nausea. There's plenty of alternative drugs (though I'm not entirely sure, which ones they use in the U.S.).

Just checking in with you lot; I'm gonna try and post and get things rolling Tuesday and Wednesday evenin'.

Time Bump tonight!

Bump, bump, bumpety-bump. That is all. ;^)

I was going to forge on and search the attic but I have been dealing with my fiancée who has been going through a bad bout of clinical depression.  getting her to doctor, adjusting meds,, keeping her from harming herself, etc...

I'll wait until the time jump tonight and post when I can... I don't know how long until u things will bee back to normal here so I apologize in advance if my posting is sub par for a while.

Allways great to see a man who knows his priorities! You take care of her! Hope to see you later IG!
This message was last edited by the player at 13:23, Thu 14 Feb 2013.

6K! That is all. ;^)

Now, honestly speaking, I've enjoyed playing with you guys so far. Many capable writers and even if my character wants to blow Benson to kingdom come at times, I'm cool with you. ;^)
This message was last edited by the player at 20:10, Wed 20 Feb 2013.

My character has yet to be a part of it, but I look forward to posting with you too Jay, lol.

Also, my character was originally named Michigan due to minor bit of confusion, just so everyone knows.

I gotta agree with you Doug, can't wait to join in the action.

Aah, fresh meat. Brains. Wait, that's not my line? Oh. Welcome. ;^)

This week has been crazy with studying and work but I will be doing a round of posting Friday evening as the NPC's/environment and will answer Private Messages and get in touch with you new folks waiting to get in on the action.

Thank you for the patience! :)

I feel for you, mate. I know well enough how it is like - currently writing a huge load of school papers.

Take your time GM, just don't forget me!

K thank for you the understanding, if I do not complete all of the posting tonight I do finally have a day off tomorrow as backup. phew!

oh ha, guess I wasn't the only one who thought about communism when making a post

Well, in times like these, it might not be such a bad idea. Everyone gets an equal share and nobody owns anything but their personal things (of which some things might be appropriated to public use if necessary).

I totally disagree witn that. People have to have some things to call their own. Communism doesn't work, never did. It would just cause resentment. I know Sierra would definitely object if one of her personal items that _she_ found before meeting the "locusts" (as she thinks of the caravan) was "appropriated" because someone else wanted it.

My Cell (and only reliable net access) has been down for a week now.  I will hopefullly have access on home computer in the next couple of days.  Am on work comp right now and have checked in briefly a few times over past week but cant make posts from here.

If Sierra was sitting on something vital to the survival of the caravan not available from anywhere else and refused to share, then I think the "communism" would apply...

In reply to Jay Warren (msg # 231):

You didn't say anything about vital to the survival of the caravan. You implied that anything and everything needed to be shared and that personal property could be "appropriatee to public use if necessary." Sierra isn't trying to be difficult, just fair. If she had something the group needed, she'd give it up before she was asked or before it was "demanded" that she give it up.

I did not mention that, yes. Jay's a big guy who is trying to keep people safe and looking after those he especially cares for. He's not a bully and the outburst at Sierra and the crazy lady was the result of having lost a couple people on the raid to the city and Benson being a complete ass...

That's fine. And understandable. But Sierra knows nothing about any of that. At the moment, she thinks Jay is a bully who threatens harm to people in order to get his way. :) So far she hasn't seen anything different.

And, also, I have to confess, Jay's thoughts about certain ones being "the heart" of the group struck Sierra's writer as being a bit elitist and gave me little hope for my character ever really fitting in. :(

Never judge a book by the cover. Jay's a nice guy, but he has his past like everyone else. His big size and the heavy ink on his skin doesn't exactly make him appear like the son-in-law of the year. But the heart of the group for him is the bunch of people he considers his friends: Cookie, NM, Dom - there's a reason for that. NM had his back and welcomed him to the group when people were rather wary about the big biker. Dom is a no-nonsense guy and his skill as a medic is important. Then there's Cookie. Well, that's enough said. ;^)

Hey now... I might be small and all... but I'd like to think I've never given Jay guff either.

I think everyones characters have their own little circle of friends, I mean Doms would probably be Jay, Mouse, Rachael and Sierra. Nothing against the others but those are the ones that he's hung out with the most and gotten to know and more importantly haven't died :p

As for the Communism thing, in a setting such as Zombieland real communism (as opposed to Maoism or Bolshevism)would probably work quite nicely as nobody really has much in the way of personal possessions. There is no rich and no poor so everyone is pretty much on a level playing field...for now.

I agree with the "for now", lol. Once they settle down (if they ever do) then people are going to want things, just like in any other normal society. That's when the "share-and-share-alike" would have to meet a natural end. Food would have to be shared, of course, until some sort of barter economy started up. Maybe proof of killed zombies could be used for trade like in that one zombie movie. Oh, what the heck was that called? The Hunter traded zombie fangs for goods and services. Arrrgh, my memory!

Sierra, I'm pretty sure you're talking about Stakeland. They were vampires but they might as well have been zombies that just burn in sunlight. Great movie by the way.

I love that movie!

oh, and IC in OOC for a sec, Lyle, I'm just gonna say that Justin stayed quiet after you spoke, I didn't have a response, and its hard to turn "Justin stayed silent" into a paragraph.

That's it! Stakeland! Thank you, Ricky! I loved that movie until the end. And then I was like WTF? Hunter just hands over his stuff to the Kid and leaves? To do what? Get eaten by the nasties? After all those years of hunting them? I don't think so! Lol!

I honestly don't know much about cars, so don't expect too much car mumbo jumbo coming out in my posts.

but I do know a bout Burn Notice, which is close enough.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:26, Sat 02 Mar 2013.

That was exactly what I was thinking when I first saw your character. I was like "Man, he's like Adam Weston from Burn Notice!"

Thats ok I don't know alot about medicine and I am the Doc, lol

I'm a medical professional in real life, but Jay can set a bandaid and that's about it...;-)

Posts coming tomorrow (Monday) !!!

:D

That's today, but probably my tomorrow! ;^)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:39, Mon 04 Mar 2013.

Woohoo, us waiting people are in, hopefully I don't mess up in posting, but we'll just see.

Will be there right away with something running after me. Be prepared Doug!

Sorry I didn't post sooner Esther, shortly after my initial post, I got really sick out of nowhere and went to lay down. Also I think my initial posts are going to be a little long until things calm down, cause I did not mean to put that much in the last post.

I don't see what's the problem!

Ah, welcome fresh zombie baits...er, people. ;^)

Pardon me, but Sierra isn't in Dominic's room. She sat out in the main room to wait for him. *ahem*

I stand corrected.

It was a ruse! A ruse to see what they really think of her.  Not much apparently LOL...
This message was last edited by the player at 20:47, Wed 06 Mar 2013.

Yeah, obviously, hehe. And for no reason!

If you are referring to Jay's manner of behaving towards Sierra, he's just slow to warm up towards most. And the first expression wasn't really the best, not to mention the fact, he's got something he needs to fix for now - so no time for idle chatting.

Well, I'm not too worried about Jay now, honestly. I figure he'll come around when he realizes how useful Sierra can be. But Cookie's thoughts about her would definitely hurt her feelings if she knew. Cookie's kinda being a be-yotch about her for no reason at all. I'm glad Sierra's not a mind-reader! lol

Do not assume too much about Cookie or Jay. Things are not always what they seem and sometimes the way people act is just a shell. I'm not saying I'd know too much about Cookie, but I know she's more complex person than you give her credit for.

In reply to Jay Warren (msg # 259):

I'm not saying she's not and I'm really not assuming anything. I'm just going by what's in print on the post. All I can respond to is what I see. I'm not really trying to be mean, I'm just making comments on what I see.

It's okay. :^) I'm nothing like Jay in real life and I'm pretty sure, very few of us are like our characters anyway...

Whaaaat?  I'm... I'm not a gangster Hispanic chica?  Son of a...

I know I'm not a mute with a prosthetic arm, though the arm bit would be kinda cool. And I don't think Sierra is really comparing Cookie to the person behind the character, just what she see's as her character, like how my character thinks Esther in our topic is a little rude for totally ditching me in the heated situation, lol.

I'm actually Micheal Westen

In reply to Doug (msg # 263):

A little rude? If someone did that to me I'd be pissed!

Yeah, but Doug is meek and forgiving.

In reply to Doug (msg # 266):

Not to mention mute.

Lol, they need a like feature on this site.

You have misunderstood my point, but it's okay. You'll find Jay to be an okay guy, if you can manage to get on to his good side. :^)

Thats ok Mouse, I don't have a "Yummy" French accent in RL either, though I do have an British one
This message was last edited by the player at 22:40, Thu 07 Mar 2013.

That's yummy enough!

French accents are yummy?

I think he meant french croisants :)

"Outrrrageous French accent! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!" Sorry, could not help it. ;^)

But the best accent I ever heard was this Scottish guy. I melted into a puddle of goo every time he opened his mouth! lol

Remembered my character had glasses so I looked for a new character portrait. Hope you guys like the new look.

HIRO NAKAMURA!

god i miss heroes, it was a great program IMHO

You can't force equality on people, Jay. This scares me.

who is up for an old fashion coup d'etat

Well, you may try, but Jay'll shoot to kill, if need be.

Posts coming tomorrow! (Sunday) :D

Coup d'etat! I believe Hiro wold say, YADA!!

i can see one flaw in the equal food for everyone issue... people like Jed and Jay are going to lose a lot of weight and fast... usually diets at determined by calories  in conjunction with ones body weight... i would hazard to guess that the majority of the group weigh 180 lbs or less... Jed weighs 250 lbs and has a high metabolism... he isn't going to survive long eating as much as someone who weighs 100 lbs less than him... Jay I imagine weighs over 200 lbs a well, so is in the same boat.

And there's always the possibility of the people in charge being corrupt. In the case of the medicine, who decides who _really_ needs the meds? Who decides who lives or dies? They've spent a lot of resources and lives on meds/equipment to save NM. Are they going to go to those ends for everyone or only the ones the people in charge deem necessary to the group?

even if we take measure to 'not get close to anyone' (ie: call me New Mexico, you don't need to know my real name) bonds are formed either way. Who knows if Cookie Jay, or anyone really, can care equally for those they don't even know.

No love for zombie boy <(T_T)>

Lol!

don't worry Jee, if you really turn for real, I'll still keep you around. Just like Michonne.

lol, maybe I'll be a vegetarian

Posts should come out in a few hours, but I may have something coming up in RL tonight as well. If not all of the posting is done tonight I will have time for it again tomorrow as well. Just keeping you all in the know!

I'm aiming to do a round of posting tonight after work, before bed, just a heads up, no promises lol but I think I'll be making it happen! :)

Congratulations, Jay! How exciting!

Thank you. :^) It's a splendid thing, really, and I'm very much waiting for the end of July.

Yay!!

We'll celebrate by getting drunk off our limited rations of alcohol!

No need to keep our wits about us, we can trust Bohannon to guard the Caravaners from walkers while we cut loose :D

Or we can but Benson on a stake and let the walkers join the feast. ;^)

We have alcohol? ;)

Probably yes, but Sierra ain't getting any. Jay and Cookie might get schloshed though. ;^P

Chris will ration out booze to the Caravan :D

Yep, drunken Caravaneers attacked by Undead while sloshed....sheesh, you guys.

Sierra doesn't want any, anyway. *blows raspberry at Jay*

I am afraid Dom would probably have to confiscate it all for "Medicinal" purposes

Posts coming tonight and/or tomorrow :D

Worked late, going to try and get these posts,etc done in the morning. I love going to school and having two jobs..haha XD

Hey, if anyone is interested, a friend is running a Cyberpunk RP that runs kinda like this one.

link to another game

Looks like it could be good, so come on down if your interested.

This weekend for Easter and this week for school is going to be a lot of work for me, but I will find time to post within the next couple days hopefully.

Coming up next week in RL I was thinking of a time change after some things have played out a little more this week.

Going to have to take things on over the weekend where I can find the time. Saturday is my best time to get on this in between uni projects.

Will keep you all posted.

So, who's turn is it to post in the Ricky/Doug/Esther part?

I'm gonna guess GM, but he's busy, so we wait for now lol

you guys can still talk to each other while you wait though. Or siting in silence eating canned peaches is fine too.

Right out of Holes. Only with less dried up lakes and more zombies.

Lol@Benson...that was a good one...made me smile.

Amazon.com has the pilot of Zombieland, the series....of course a completely non-star cast but the opening sequence with the whiny lactose-intolerant bloke had me roaring.

There's a series of it? I thought that it was just a movie.

Wait wait wait....Is Charlie pointing the gun at us? Or at the group inside the house?

group inside the house

I'm left hanging over at the farm house.

Oh my god I thought I posted! I'm so sorry.

I've no idea where to go in any longer.  I'm sorry for the long hiatus, but it's over and I'm ready to play if you'll still have me.

Of course, I think a few of us myself included went a little AWOL for some reason.

Hey Mouse welcome back. I'd assume that you need to be in "Chapter 2" its about 2-3 days after the events in the last caravan section and at the moment all is quiet

Sorry forgot to tell everyone I won't be able to post until maybe tuesday or later, cause of FANIME

I wonder what goes on with Cookie, Benson and me?

I'm satisfied cutting there. I'm going to the next episode.

I think we can just say 'tracking finds were inconclusive" and head onto the new thread, gents.  Cheerio, see you there

heads up ;New slab of gm and npc posts will be up over the weekend either tomorrow or sunday.

Sorry 'bout the long absence. With a baby on the way, I've been trying to clock as much time at work as possible to increase the cash inflow. With about a month to the birth, I'm calming things down a bit now and returning to writing as well. So, sorry for not having been around, but I'll promise to improve my manners on the subject.

No worries, been nuts for me this last week as well.

I'm going to aim for a round of posts tomorrow after work or at the latest Saturday.

Hey guys, just wanna give the heads up for a game I made a week ago. Set in the world of The Last of Us, link to another game

Check it out if you guys want. I need a few more to really get the game rolling.

Heads up. Aiming to post this weekend.

My lords, ladies and gentleman. The Family mediiic is proud to inform you of the birth of a princess on 28.7.2013 at 0124 hours. Both parents and the child are doing well. Measurements below.

4305g/9.5lbs, 51cm/20.1"

In reply to Jay Warren (msg # 331):

Congrats !

Congratulations, Jay! She's a _big_ bundle of joy, it sounds like! *hugs*

I'm opening up a thread for the raiding party. Raiding peoples join it when ready, everyone else may continue in the main thread meanwhile.

At the conclusion of this raid I would like to do a time jump to a significant location/plot device.

One of my exes really did teach me that stunt and a couple more, hee hee.

Ok I am beginning to think that leaving Lyle in charge of the pain killers may have been a bad idea

what are you talking about? I'm responsible

He's just a kidder.....I don't think these too like kidders

@Sierra To be clear,  Dominic moved to block Bohannon's path, so he stepped around him. He "pushed past" Dominic's position. There was no shoving involved. Just a figure of speech.

Well, you can't blame me for saying that he pushed Dom if the phrase used was "pushed past" 'cause that's exactly what it sounded like.

Zombieland the series will not be picked up by Amazon, sad to say.  The pilot episode is there if you wish to watch it.  Bah.  Was looking forward to that.

Sorry for not having been around lately. The baby girl will be eight weeks in bitunder three and a half hours, so you can guess what I've been doing lately. I'm doing my best to get in to writing again, and more than a few lines. :-)

Awwwww.

Hey everyone just a note; School has been a big part of my schedule this last week or so. I'm going to try and get out some posts as soon as possible.

I second that...

A note. I'll be completely unavailable for a week starting on saturday due to a military exercise I'm taking part in. I'll be in the bush most of the time, so I will not even be in contact with the outside world save for perhaps a phone call or two to my wife. I will return home the next saturday, but it'll be probably until sunday at least before I am going to even think about writing.

My access to the game is going to be sporadic for a couple days but I'll try to get on when I can. **Midterms :D

Yeah, what Bohannon said. I thought Christopher was just shot. He wouldn't have been contagious, would he?

In several zombie scenarios, everyone alive is already infected with the zombie virus (in dormant form) and it takes over once the person becomes dead by any means that did not destroy the head.  Sort of like once having the chicken pox can lead to future infections of Varicella zoster in the form of shingles (with less biting and chewing of humans).  Reanimation times vary from 30 seconds to a day or so.  Not saying this occurs in this game...just that it's common to the genre.

Yeah its a problem they encountered in the Walking Dead series; someone dies of flu then rises up to eat his mates

I like the idea of 'everyone' is infected. It makes it so the characters always have to be on their feet.

For our purposes we'll say that sometimes people come back but sometimes they don't, it all depends on the level of dormant infection. So you could be careful and double tap the conventionally killed or not and you'll have to roll the dice.

This way we can satisfy either point of view on the matter.

If the infection is dormant in everyone, and simply dying can make you turn, then being bitten has no effect, it's just a bite. No different than any other wound.

Now if the virus is spread by bodily fluid contact, then a bite transmits the virus via saliva to blood or blood to blood contact. We can't have it both ways. It doesn't make sense to me.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:01, Tue 05 Nov 2013.

In The Walking Dead, didn't a bite from the walkers activate the dormant virus in the victim?

Apparently so. I just looked it up snd it said that the doctor from the CDC said that everyone is infected with the dormant virus. When a person dies, they automatically reanimate. Which is, of course, totally contrary to all previous zombie knowledge but, oh well. I don't really understand how everyone got infected but oh well there, too.

I don't see why it can't be both ways :D

I never said everyone was infected when I started the game but I'm willing to go halfway on it. Can re address this when we get further on.

So, wait. A zombie bite kills you. You get bit, you die, you turn, right?

Yes but sometimes someone who seems to have died from more conventional reasons can reanimate, perhaps they were exposed and didn't know it or it didn't take till severe sickness or death.

Hey, whatever man!

[To be read with appropriate level of snark]

We can certainly leave it in the aether with sometimes people come back and sometimes they don't....it could indicate mutations of the virus; some strains are stronger than others.  Some influenzas knock you onto your backside and some are merely annoyances.  Oh, and true story about the operator job at the sewage treatment works - it DID happen where someone near and dear was told "We don't hire women."  In THIS millennium.  Delightful, eh ?

This message was deleted by the player at 00:38, Wed 06 Nov 2013.

Apologies for my absences this last week, I've had some stuff to deal with, nuff said!

Gonna start working through some stuff now :D

Please forgive the "I-watched-House-so-I'm-a-doctor" amount of medical knowledge displayed in my last post in the Undisclosed Location thread. I'm sure I probably got something wrong. If any of you happen to know any better, please don't take those mistakes as the character's mistakes. He ought to be rather competent...

*A zombie lurks up behind Ferguson and breathes in his ear, thereby infecting him!*

Ladies and gentleman, we've received word that the cooties virus has mutated. Please avoid all further contact with girls...

Symptoms may include death, reanimation, and an insatiable hunger for human flesh. If you or someone you know becomes infected with cooties, destroy brain imidiately.

This has been a public service announcement.

Sorry I've been gone. Sunday night I was in the ER with a kidney stone nightmare. It tore me up pretty good so I'm still not 100% but at least I'm here. :)

Cooties!

Hey people's I've been having a rough week with rl commitments but I will be getting on to update my posts as soon as possible, aiming for getting caught up by this weekend after getting caught up I rl.
Thx for the understanding :D

All the whispering going on in our thread is hilarious! We're like a Soap Opera over there!

Alrighty gonna get caught up now, sorry for the delay folks

Just to remind you: I'll be gone for the next six days due to a military exercise. Will be back on the 6th. Sorry for the inconvenience.

No worries thanks for the heads up Jay, we'll make it work! :D

Have fun! Err I think? XD



Everyone else, my posts for NPCs and some events will be coming about in the next couple days. I'm finished semester this week, yessss!
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 01:34, Wed 04 Dec 2013.

Now that I'm properly back, yes I had some fun. Five days in the woods, wading through snow up to your knee, hauling a machinegun (a PKM, to be exact) and teasing the little conscripts who we were playing opposing force to...

Haha heyyy sounds like a good way to spend the beginning of December :D

I'm back from my trip.

Gonna post today where needed.
Still aiming to get to the end of Chapter 2 so that we are ready to jump into Chapter 3 of our game Zombieland.

On that note, at some point in the next week or two I'm going to impose a semi-hiatus just like last holiday season to give everyone time to reboot. 'Course people can continue to pal around here if they wish during that time.

More details to come later,
GM posts will be up today sometime. :D

Hey gang;

Sierra has left the game, she'll be an NPC for now.

And I am currently away visiting family till Monday. See ya then!

Yo players ;

Gonna be jumping everyone to the boat to escape the mess going on and get back to a cleaner more simple situation.
After I move the caravan to the boat we'll have the group drift down to fort Dixie for Chapter 3 of the caravan saga, away from the St. Louis mess.

I will initiate this either today or tomorrow so we can move on with less confusion, just wanted to say thanks to everyone for participation and patience. :)

Will be in touch

Sorry about not having been around. The renovations of our new home have been taking more time than I would have liked and thus, I've been away from the computer quite a bit (and when I've been there, I've been too tired to write anything of consequence). However, I'll be trying to get my posting back on track in the next few days.

No worries man, we'll pull your character along and keep him unzombie till you are ready. I firmly believe that real life goes first, as long as people tell us they'll be busy for a bit, which you have lol.

Chapter 3 will start soon after I move the escape and the team has a chance to breathe before what comes next.

Hey people;


We have new players that may be joining us shortly, I will be doing some thorough vetting on Saturday.
Saturday is when I'm going to open up the locale for Fort Dixie among a couple others perhaps.

Busy in RL life with commitments until Saturday (its thurs night where I am right now).

Till then,

;)

Hello guys!
GM granted me access and I've to say I'm really enthusiastic to join my first online RP game.
I just added some stuff in my character description. Please be merciful as I'm very new to RPOL dynamics and also english is not my 1st language.

Jess

Welcome to the game!

I also updated my profile to fit Lyle's changing personality.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:06, Mon 10 Feb 2014.

Welcome! :D

Hello everybody.

Welcome to Z-Land, may you forever remain unbitten! :D

Hi everybody! Please be gentle with me.

TY for the kind welcome.
The good thing about waiting for being introduced is you have not to worry about survive. Lol.
Please everyone have a look at my character sheet to see the real Jessica appearance till i'll be able to have the real pic. on my profile.

Sorry for my grammar errors. Jessica is Italian :)

Just a heads up to everyone;

I will be posting tomorrow when I have time off to get some stuff done.

Thx, till then ;D

Hello everyone.  Just joined.  I'm looking to get my zombie fixation after finishing The Walking Dead.  My favorite zombie movie/show is 28 Days Later.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:38, Sun 16 Feb 2014.

Howdy folks, I'll be joining up here shortly.

welcome Alex.... so waiting for seeing you all ingame :-(

Of the most recent posts I especially liked Karen's.  :)

In reply to Macie Ryans (msg # 390):

Why, thank you! I appreciate that.

Should be doing 1st IC posting shortly, whooowhooo.

In reply to Alex Cross (msg # 392):

Never been in a cell so long, indeed

In this crazy world, being behind bars might be the safest option.

In reply to Alex Cross (msg # 394):

But safe is boring too

You can always take up solitaire.

In reply to Alex Cross (msg # 396):

Thats an option

You could start the zombie joke club...

Two zombies walk into a bar, the first turns to the other and says "ughhh arrrwars hunhhh grrroooohhh unggh." The second looks at the first and says "hunnghrgh mmmmrgh rrrruhhnh ughhhhnguhn"....then they ate the bartender.