The In character topic is now (finally) live (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=141985.0)! ;D<br/><br/>My apologies for the extra time it took to set things up.<br/><br/><br/><br/>I hope to see all of your character introductions soon, the idea is that we'll all meet up at or near the mall where Caitlin and Carl are currently resting. It's also okay if you meet up with the rest of the group shortly after we leave the mall with the other survivors, or if you only introduce one of your survivors now and have another one join up later on.<br/><br/>To make it easier with writing the introduction I wrote a summary of what happened during the apocalypse:<br/>Day 1 (23 May): Virus escapes.<br/>Day 2 (24 May): Patient Zero is hospitalized, the Mayor issues a general warning at the 6 o'clock news, declares martial law and sets a curfew.<br/>Day 3 (25 May): Patient Zero dies.<br/>Day 4 (26 May): Incidents are reported from all over the city, but nothing major yet. Hospitals are closed.<br/>Day 5 (27 May): Large civil unrest, resulting in riots and looting. The infection spreads like a wildfire.<br/>Day 6 (28 May): The civil unrest continues and the infection keeps spreading like a wildfire.<br/>Day 7 (29 May): The Mayor learns of the existence of a vaccine. There is a witch hunt going on for scientists.<br/>Day 8 (30 May): People are fortifying positions, gangs and neighborhood watch programs make an organized appearance. The gang start a war for control of territory.<br/>Day 9 (31 May): The gang wars abruptly end as the zombies attack all gangs massively until their positions are either overrun or they run out of ammo.<br/>Day 10 (June 1): The first day that the situation stabilized and it's relatively quiet on the streets.<br/><br/><br/>What really helped me with writing the introduction was I build up a history for Caitlin first that described day by day in the events that lead to her being in the mall with Carl. Then I wrote the actual scene where I started my first post with and I could just copy/paste the history of what happened after that below it.<br/><br/><strong>Update June 8, 2012</strong><br/>There was a small mistake with the summary before, the mayor made his first announcement on the 24th. The current summary is fixed and has the notification set correct.