Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!
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				Title: <strong>Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:05:10</strong>
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				<div align="center">(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/ds.jpg)</div><br>Okay folks... This here thread is for the above stuffs. The ideal is for only the GM or Mods (if such become necessary) to throw stuff up here. This is to make it easier to find stuff you need when you needs it.<br><br>First up a listing of threads in this game.<br><br><hr><br><div align="center">In Character Thread - The actual bit with the zombies! (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152762.0)</div><br><div align="center">OOC Thread - General yacketty yack and social interactions (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=150439.0)</div><br><div align="center">General Info, Announcements, Characters and STUFF! (This thread!)</div><br><div align="center">Plotting the Plots Thread - Story and Plot discussions. Serious Business. (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152313.0)</div><br><div align="center">The Synopsis Thread. History condensed into easy to swallow bite sized chunks! (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=184444)</div><br><hr><br>More threads as we require them. IC thread to come once all character bio's are in and folks have a clear idea what their opening posts will be following a nice long, hard, discussion in the OOC thread.<br><br><hr><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>List of posts in this thread for easy surfin'</strong></span></span> <sub>Links will open a new tab or window</sub><br><br><strong>Basic Game Info (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931597#msg6931597)</strong> (Including character creation and bio submission instructions)<br><br><strong>Romero New York Overview (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931598#msg6931598)</strong><br><br><strong>Romero New York Locations (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931606#msg6931606)</strong><br><br><strong>Details of specific places within Romero New York (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931618#msg6931618)</strong><br><br><strong>Quick notes on the zombies (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931621#msg6931621)</strong><br><br><strong>Stuff from the Old Dead State PBeM Game (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931623#msg6931623)</strong><br><br><strong>Making Dead State NPC's (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931626#msg6931626)</strong><br><br><strong>Approved Character Bios (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg6931638#msg6931638)</strong><br><br><strong>Former PC's up for Grabs as NPC's or or New Players (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg7354080#msg7354080)</strong><br><br><strong>Dead State NPC's (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg7354082#msg7354082)</strong><br><br><strong>Dead State Deceased Characters (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg7468625#msg7468625)</strong><br><br><strong>Contents of Bo's Truck (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg7472751#msg7472751)</strong><br><br><strong>Civil Defence County Headquarters Bunker Under Boulcotts Department Store (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg7610386#msg7610386)</strong><br><br><strong>Boulcotts Hunting Weapons Inventory (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg7755360#msg7755360)</strong><br><br><strong>TNT Surplus Weapon Inventory (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152200.msg7759417#msg7759417)</strong><br><br><hr><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:05:48</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Dead State. Basic Game Info.</strong></span></span><br><br>First of all I am aware, excited by and a backer of the Kickstarter project of the same name. My old PBeM game came first and its lists are still up on Google Groups for all to see. So there. I have precedent to use this name without embarrassment.<br><br>Second, its really not about the zombies. Its about the writing, the characters, the stories. Its about taking the world back a piece at a time. Its about surviving against the odds.<br><br>Third, We are fussy. We don't take just anyone and there is a vetting process. We look for writing style, quality and posting frequency. If you made it into E itself you are familiar with the process of being vetted most likely. We have a fairly in depth character bio form which you are required to fill out and we will be looking at stalking anyone who expresses an interest. If you do not have a history of posting on E yet we will ask for submissions of your writing via PM.<br><br>While we are fussy, we are not -that- fussy. We took in Caitlin after all, so hey, we can't be -that- bad. *Teasing grin* We are quite warm and fluffy once you come to know and understand us, we just have a certain basic standard we are looking for.<br><br>This will be collaborative fiction. We will be discussing where to take the plot as a group in the OOC thread, sketching out a plot and then writing towards that goal as a group. This sort of approach requires a mature and intelligent group of writers which I believe I have at this point and am very grateful for.<br><br><hr><br>The game takes place in the town of Romero New York, which is to the north of the state near Syracuse.<br><br>The game features zombies, the living dead, the walking menace. They are an ever present threat, the bogeyman, the monster under the bed.<br><br>The zombies in the game are of the Romero type. If you are unsure of the Romero type of zombie watch the films Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.<br><br>They are slow, however they are relentless, unforgiving, they don't sleep, they don't rest and they keep coming. They will break down a hastily constructed barricade over time, once they see or hear you they will not give up the chase till they have your flesh in their mouths or they find someone else to munch on. They kill and eat the living, and those they kill and leave enough of left behind get up and kill the living.<br><br>As the story begins its shortly before dawn in late fall (autumn to folks from the old country). The days are getting shorter, the weather colder, and some time last night the dead started walking.<br><br>Those who have stayed up all night will have seen the first news reports and the first paniced blog posts about it. They will know that this situation exsists all over the world, that it happened everywhere simultaneuously, and that governments are generally not reacting quickly or well to the things. That they don't understand what is happening and so are taking the wrong steps, as a whole, to combat the change in status of man from top of the food chain to meat for the undead.<br><br>The game is not about the zombies.<br><br>The game is not about the player characters cutting a bloody swathe through the zombies, returning each and every undead in their path to the grave.<br><br>This game is about the psychological effects on human beings of being besiged in the modern age by an implacable threat that you cannot stop. We are looking for realism and ordinary people under extreme stress.<br><br>Not to say you can't take out the occasional walking dead, we just don't want to see the kind of writing where guns never run dry, every shot is a perfect shot at the hindbrain no matter the situation and nobody ever get's bitten.<br><br>We don't like that sort of thing. We don't encourage it, and we don't stand for it. If this is what you are seeking, this is not the game for you. Please remember to switch off the lights on your way out.<br><br>The game will focus on several locations in the town where survivors will congregate, and eventually move out and reclaim the rest of Romero. These locations are to be inviolate. Zombies will not be written as breaching them, and they will remain as safe houses both figuretively and literally in some cases.<br><br>These locations are as of right now.<br><br>Boulcotts Department Store downtown, The Costco Distribution Warehouse in the industrial district on the outskirts of town, the The Judith Ridley Memorial Mall and TNT Surplus.<br><br>Once the town has been re-taken, if the game makes it that far, longer term goals for the survivors can be discussed in character.<br><br>The rules of the game are.<br><br>1: You get bit, you die. No antibiotics, no antivirals, no chopping off of bits (which is a bad idea if bitten on the neck anyway) is going to help you. The zombie mouth carries stuff nastier than that of the kimodo dragon. If you are bitten you grow weaker, you sweat a lot, you can't eat, you can't hardly move, you can't walk. Then you lay where you fall for a while. Then you die. Then if your friends don't find you and destroy the brain you get up and try to eat them. Zombie bodily fluids, especially after a few days of putrefaction, are extremely nasty and once infected a character is going to die.<br><br>2: <span class="bbc_u"><em><strong>No one man armies.</strong></em></span> No, its not cool, its not clever and its not fun for anyone. No not even you. Yeah, you are the kind of person that cheats in online multiplayer games because you can't win otherwise, and spoils it for the rest of us. We get the picture. Crawl off somewhere and grow a pair already. Realism is the order of the day and one man armies are not realistic.<br><br>3. Injuries are to have real world style consequences. Please research this if necessary. Without experienced medical professionals even quite minor injuries can rapidly become fatal. Major ones are <em>very</em> likely to kill.<br><br>4: Use your common sense. If you don't have one, you will not be issued with one. You are expected to either provide your own, or not apply in the first place.<br><br>5: The four locations listed above are not to be breached. They are the holdout locations for survivors and must remain inviolate.<br><br>6: There is no rule 6!<br><br>7: No zombie characters. No. The dead are the dead. We concentrate on the living.<br><br>8: Any issues with other players tell one of the mods. Any issues with one of the mods, tell one of the mods. Any issues with the game as a whole, tell one of the mods. Any issues outside of the game, don't tell one of the mods. Thats your own problem.<br><br>9: Any drop-outs become either zombie chow or NPC's and fair game for new/existing players to take over.<br><br>10: Mods are mods are mods. They look out for continuity and are there to not only steer the game but keep it on the straight and narrow. Please respect them and use your common sense. See rule 4.<br><br>11: Actions must have consequences and if any player involved in the game writes anything that is egregiously variant from agreed plot, logic or Dead State world norms then they will be quite reasonably asked to make changes to their post.<br><br>12: There is no minimum post limit, as writing styles differ and things do tend to be faster with shorter posts during dialogue. However if its a small number of people having a chat please consider a Joint Post as it helps with the flow enormously.<br><br>The object here is to write an interesting and compelling work of collaborative survival horror fiction. Or die trying.<br><br>Please fill out a bio form http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/blankbio.doc (http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/blankbio.doc) and mail it to me at veganmayonnaise@gmail.com along with possibly a picture of an ordinary type everyday person who matches your character description and visa versa. We are looking for realism here folks, so the closer to real life your picture is the better. Pictures of models or movie stars are not liable to pass muster. I have a good selection and collection of 'real life' type pictures and I am more than happy to help folks find one if they have trouble. While a picture is not required its certainly encouraged.<br><br><br>Accepted characters will then be posted hereabouts. If you require assistance in locating real life pictures I am happy to do so I have a good number of this type of thing on file from lurking and stealing them from /soc/'s neverending 'rate me' threads.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:06:44</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Romero New York</strong></span></span><br><br>Romero is a mid sized town in up-state New York. It is about eighty miles from Syracuse, not far from the shores of Lake Ontario and the sort of place that has seen better days. The town was prosperous through the two world wars, and into the fifties, sixties and seventies. It manufactured brown goods, white goods, refined sugar and had a large brewery. These industries have mostly moved on to cheaper locations, mostly China, and the town has been suffering a slow death as a result since the late eighties. There is still life, and there has recently been a small upswing as the middle class of nearby Syracuse has discovered the low land prices and 'charm' of the place, however there is not yet enough of an influx of new blood to bring the town back to its former glory.<br><br>Down-town Romero is built on a crossroads oriented to the points of the compass, one in every fifteen shop front however is closed as much of the business has moved to either the indoor mall on the edge of town or one of the strip malls closer to Syracuse.<br><br>The town is fed by a nuclear power plant just outside of town. This plant is modest by the standards of such things and supplies Romero and a few of the smaller outlying places like Westfalls. Being nuclear and fairly modern the plant is fully automated and power should be uninterrupted to the area's served for at least several months, if not years, depending on how long the fuel rods last and if the computers running the plant suffer any major failures. There are a lot of safety features in place to ensure the smooth running of the place.<br><br>There is a major water treatment plant a few miles out from the power plant that feeds the town. It takes in river water, purifies it and pumps it on to Romero and its environs. The plant is automated, though not as highly as the power plant and requires more regular maintenance. Within a few days of a lack of staffing the water quality will start to drop as filters are not changed and processes not followed. Within a month the tap water in the town will be unfit for human consumption.<br><br>The plant also processes waste water before pumping it back into the river relatively clean. The settlement tanks for this process can be strong smelling yet the distance from town usually prevents any foul odour from making it all that way into major inhabited areas.<br><br>The town has a modest police force, who are very good and kept very much in line by the local Sheriff who is very community oriented, stressing his officers focus on 'discretion' and 'care' rather than 'enforcement'. He is a good man and has served his community well for many years.<br><br>Romero Fire Department has two houses one to the west and one to the east of the centre of town. This is a throwback from the old days when there were more people living in Romero in the Eighties and they really only now need one firehouse. House 2 is scheduled to close.<br><br>There is a small community hospital, four floors, emergency room, two theatres and a number of wards. They have three ambulances and a helipad. All major cases and anything requiring complex diagnosis like MRI are shuttled to Syracuse.<br><br>There are numerous schools and one college. Romero Community College is a smallish campus that is recently on the receiving end of some major state funding and is looking to expand and attract more students. They are looking to one day in the near future attain themselves university status and are working towards this goal.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:09:14</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Romero New York Locations</strong></span></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><sup><em>The following list is -not- exhaustive and is to be added to as we go along. All players are free to invent new locations within reason for the town. Just please nudge me in a PM about the new place so I remember to add it to the list.</em></sup></span><br><br><br><br>Halliwell Hardware - various sundry hardware goods<br><br>'Romero Day' Newspaper Offices<br><br>YMCA - facilities include pool and weight room<br><br>Arcadia Regional Health Center- a hospital owned by Arcadia Inc.<br><br>Bub's Pub - A bar two blocks from Arcadia Regional Health Center<br>Underground access via stairs. Owner: Hap "Bub" Burlen.<br><br>Romero City Hall - Two story building<br><br>Romero - Russo High School- Across the street from City Hall<br><br>Octavion - Physical fitness/Boxing training Center<br><br>Romero Municipal Airport - Airfield etc. One hangar houses the towns Radio station.<br><br>Gino's Italian Restaurant - Carry-Out or Dine In, a wonderful selection of italiano specialities.<br><br>Hayworth Industrial Plaza - Many industrial units mostly second level manufacturing and shipping, has regional warehouse for Costco.<br><br>Cyn's Diner - Cheap honest faire, popular.<br><br>TNT Surplus Store - Owned and run by the Marwell family. A very secure building in a bad neighbourhood. Steel shutters all around that are locked from the inside at night. The family live and sleep on the upper floors while the ground floor is turned over to the store and the basement to a stockroom. All the windows to the basement are bricked up and have been for over ten years since a major break-in. The Marwell family are conspiracy nuts and have supplies in the basement for 'the upcoming Bilderberg world takeover'. Food, weapons, medical supplies, water, everything they could need to survive if they have to stay locked up in the building for up to two years.<br><br>Dwane Jones Apartment Bldg - Six story apartment building adjacent to Boulcotts. One to three bedrooms apartments on the first five floors, with four penthouses on the sixth floor. High rent, well maintained, in the center of town, a good location, sought after.<br><br>Jefferson Diner - Cheap dishonest faire, unpopular and in danger of finantial collapse.<br><br>Diggit and Shunt - Law Offices. Atorneys at law.<br><br>Enthucia Memorial Cemetery - The largest cemetery in Romero, NY.<br><br>Durden Street- Not far from the Dwane Jones Apartment Bldg. Durden Street is rumoured to play host to some kind of brothel, though obviously there could well be other locations of interest there.<br><br>Uptown Video - located near the "Jonesborough underpass"<br><br>Colony Court Apartment Complex - Four story complex, one and two bedroom apartments, low rent, poorly maintained, in a bad area, has a bad reputation.<br><br>St Jonah's church, Bill Bailey rest home, The Rankin Sports centre are former advertised safe houses that have all been overun.<br><br>Boulcott's Department Store Downtown - Large free standing building with its own write up elsewhere in this section. It is adjacent to the Dwane Jones Apartment Building, and the staff common room window is next to the bathroom window of Miho's old apartment in Dwane Jones.<br><br>The Judith Ridley Memorial Mall - Known locally as simply 'The Mall'. A mid indoor mall, two stories of shopping, three wings, central east and west with a large basement, a good size underground secure loading dock and a large open air car park. There is a strip mall around it with a good number of restaurants and stores additional to the main mall itself.<br><br>Lily Pad - A discreet store specializing in “marital aides” and bondage gear. Located off of Durden Street.<br><br>Cable TV / Radio Station KRZR - A small local affiliate station that deals with local news, local radio and feeds the local cable TV out to Romero and a few other smaller local towns via mainline satellite feeds.<br><br>The Tooth Fairy - A local out and proud dentist. Quite nice, but with a vicious sarcastic tongue at times.<br><br>The Vanridge Family Funeral Home and Crematorium – The only funeral home and crematorium in Romero.&nbsp; The Vanridge Family Funeral Home has been located in the same building since 1933.&nbsp; This large two story building houses rooms for services, viewings, offices, a meeting hall that is often rented out for parties as well as several offices and a small apartment for the on-site security guard.&nbsp; The preparation rooms are housed in the basement while the incinerator is in a small building on-site.&nbsp; The garages can hold all four of the company cars, two hearses and two luxury SUVs for grieving family members.&nbsp; A separate garage tucked away near the incinerator houses the transport vans and the security guard's personal vehicle.&nbsp; There is a recently developed parking lot across the street from the building.<br><br>Romero Roller Derby and Skate shop - A renovated roller disco from the seventies with adjoining shop selling all manner of inline skates, skateboards, pads and other counter culture paraphernalia. There is a small skate park out the back with a free for all policy and a graphitti wall.<br><br>Joseph Pilato apartment complex - Across the road from Boulcotts Department Store, its a five story old brownstone apartment building built in the forties. Well maintained enough, though suffering from occasional pest problems about once every five years.<br><br>Custer's Own Range - A private shooting range on the outskirts of town.<br><br>Mossy Bottom Pawn and Gun - Pawn and gun store run by old man Moss.
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				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:11:51</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Details of specific places within Romero New York</strong></span></span><br><br><sup>This post is for giving more details on specific places that require it such as the main four safe houses, though all players are free to come up with as much detail of other locations as they wish which will be appended to this list as we go along.</sup><br><br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Boulcotts Department Store</strong></span></span><br><br>Boulcotts Department store is located next to the Dwane Jones Apartment Building. It is a ten story building, and has been a department store all its life. It was built for the purpose in the early twentieth century.<br><br>Built by Chester Boulcott it is now owned by his great grandson Liam, a well appointed apartment is maintained on the top floor of the building for the owner. This is spacious, with five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a huge living room, a large kitchen, dining room, library, study, games room, smoking room and a ballroom for entertaining. The aparment also has a walled roof garden that has fallen into a somewhat overgrown state in recent years.<br><br>Building security is fairly strong. Following a series of break-in's in the mid 80's the store has electricaly powered steel shutters on all external windows and glass doors on the first and second floors. All other external doors, to the underground car park, the loading docks and service entrances, are all heavy steel, with steel frames. The underground car park has a heavy steel shutter and is sealed. The building currently has something of the zombie fortress about it. There are three sets of glass doors on the front of the building all covered with heavy duty shutters, two loading docks at the back of the building, in a walled off loading area. The walls of the loading area are brick, twelve and a half feet high and topped with razor wire. The gates are see through wrought iron, and would eventualy give to the pressure of body after body pressing on them, though it would likley take something over five hundred. There are four external steel doors, two in the loading area, one next to the underground garage, and a staff entrance down a side alley. These are all very sturdy and will not give to the living dead. A determined human with the correct tools however could gain entrance.<br><br>Basement level 3 - Records, Elevator maintenance room, Gas fired furnace, Machine room, Tool Store, Entrance to forgotten civil defence shelter (Origonaly built as an air raid shelter, later re-built and retrofitted as a fallout shelter. Equipment and supplies date from the fifties. The food is all canned, and still edible, the equipment, air and water filters, could be brought back up to working standard with a few days of concerted effort by an engineer. The tanked water however is highly suspect, and will need replacing if the shelter is to be used, though the tanks themselves are in very good condition. The generators in the fallout shelter have their own fuel tanks that are intact and full.)<br><br>Basement level 2 - Emergency Generators (installed following the large east coast brownout in 2002), Diesel tanks for generators, Overspill staff and visitor (not customer) parking.<br><br>Basement level 1 - Main Staff Parking, customer parking, small security office.<br><br>Floor 1 (Ground floor) - Fragrances, Ladies clothing and accessories, Giftwrap, Ladies Jewelry, First floor of warehouse, Loading docks.<br><br>Floor 2 - Mens and childrens clothing and accessories, Shoes, Mens Jewelry, Lost and Found, Customer Service, Second floor of Warehouse.<br><br>Floor 3 - White goods (Fridges, freezers, washers, driers, vacum cleaners etc), Camping Hiking and Outdoor life, Sports Goods, Third floor of warehouse.<br><br>Floor 4 - China/Crystal, Cook and Dinner Ware, Kitchen Electricals, Housewares, Tools and DIY, Luggage, Bathware.<br><br>Floor 5 - Stationary and Office Supplies, Hardware, Firearms and Hunting Gear (mainly shotguns some hunting rifles a few pistols very small section in store).<br><br>Floor 6 - Brown Goods (Tv's, stereos, DVD players, VCRs,&nbsp; computers &amp; accessories, other household electrical goods), Administration offices, Accounting offices, Staff common room, Staff lunch room, Staff kitchen, Other staff facilites.<br><br>Floor 7 - Books, Media store (CD's, DVD's, Games), Speciality foods, Art Supplies, Customer Service, International Services, Administration offices.<br><br>Floor 8 - Carpets, Rugs, Furniture department, Soft Furnishings, Interior Design, Bed and Bedding, Unused offices.<br><br>Floor 9 -&nbsp; Hair and Beauty Salon, Restaurant, Kitchen and food storage for restaurant, Boardroom, Meeting Rooms, <br><br>Floor 10 - Storage rooms, overflow offices, empty rooms and Owners Penthouse Apartment. The penthouse has a big heavy solid oak door. There is one main floor with dividing walls that has a large living area with a sixty inch plasma screen tv, mock fireplace with electric heater, double height ceiling, large kitchen, dining room, study, games room, and large storage room. The two main master sized bedrooms, both with en-suite bathrooms and good sized walk in closets are also on this level along with a hot tub and small sauna. Up one small flight of metal stairs with oak risers is a second level with a third bedroom also with en-suite a larger storage room which could easily be converted to more bed space and a morning room with large double patio doors out to the roof garden. The roof garden is overgrown with a lot of weeds and not many plants, nobody has tended and cared for the place in a long time.<br><br>Roof - Elevator winches, Water tanks, Roof garden, Apartment Skylight, Restaurant Skylight (Restaurant eating area has three story ceiling)<br><br><br><hr><br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Cable TV / Radio Station KRZR</strong></span></span><br><br>A brick and steel construction building that has been around since around the mid sixties the KRZR building was originally a warehouse for the toy factory next door. The factory closed in the seventies and the warehouse space sold to a string of other businesses before being bought and converted for media use in the early eighties by the founders of KRZR. The buidling is accessed either by the main front doors or by a keycard and code lock steel security door down side alley after hours. The front security desk is manned during daylight hours, the smaller desk at the back door at all hours. There are almost always at least one or two staff working in the building overnight due to the overnight nature of modern broadcasting. Security is good in the building the large glass frontage is all safety glass though would give with enough bodies pressing up against it, it will resist casual assault by the undead.<br><br>Basement - Server farm, IT office, tape and drive storage<br>1st Floor -&nbsp; Lobby in front &amp; canteen in back<br>2nd Floor – offices &amp; news studio room &amp; equipment storage<br>3rd Floor – offices &amp; dressing rooms (crew personal rooms and full bathrooms)<br>4th Floor – radio station &amp; offices (break room for naps)<br>5th Floor – executive offices (personal small fridges and bathrooms)<br>Roof - Dish array - Six main satellite dishes, eight small ones, eight line of sight microwave antennas.<br><br><br><hr><br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>TNT Surplus</strong></span></span><br><br>Owned and run by the Maxwell family. A very secure building in a bad neighbourhood. Steel shutters all around that are locked from the inside at night. The family live and sleep on the upper three floors while the ground floor is turned over to the store and the basement to a stockroom. All the windows to the basement are bricked up and have been for over ten years since a major break-in. The Maxwell family are conspiracy nuts and have supplies in the basement for 'the upcoming Bilderberg world takeover'. Food, weapons, medical supplies, water, everything they could need to survive if they have to stay locked up in the building for up to two years.<br><br>The building is brick built, very solid, and quite old possibly one of the oldest in the city, like the department store, dating back to around at least the great war.<br><br>The shop floor is full of old military gear, clothing, tents, boots, packs, tools, and mabe some machette's, knives, firearms (Some de-activated, the rest in secure cages), memorabilia etc. Camping equipment, both used and second hand, work gear, knives, batons, handcuffs, clothing, second hand stuff from the police, fire service, ambulance guys, post offices, all from various countries in the western world. Paintball gear, airsoft gear, generators, jerrycans, axes, axe handles, and other heavy tools. Survival gear including reverse osmosis pumps, ultra violet purifiers, ration packs (MRE's and stuff), simple medical kits and all manner of fun stuff.<br><br>There are cameras throughout the building that stream to a sever found in the bomb shelter in the basement with monitors there, on the shop floor and up in the living area, the system is very modern and based on standard IT kit.<br><br>The Maxwell Family consists of Harry Maxwell (45), Gillian Maxwell (47) their twin daughters Holly and Penny (24) and their youngest Nicholas (18).<br><br>The building consists of...<br><br>Basement: - There is one small laundry/utility room, Four large rooms given over to stores for the shop upstairs. Hidden panel in the wall of one room leads through to stairs down to a sub level built in the fifties as a bomb shelter, now used to store the families emergency supplies. The five room shelter is quite large and very well stocked and equipped. They have a very large supply of food, water, clothes, entertainment and arms in the shelter.<br><br>Ground Floor: - The main shop floor, all the windows have metal shutters that pull down and lock in place just inside the glass, the doors have an inner set of very sturdy metal security doors that slide out from the sides and lock in place. At night the ground floor is practically a fortress. The yard at the back of the building has a fifteen food brick wall topped with a foot of razor wire. The yard has been turned into an urban food garden where the family grow a good amount of their vegetables, grains, fruit and herbs. They also have a well concealed in a gazebo that was dug in secret given the local government never would have allowed them to dig such a thing if they had asked for permission.<br><br>First Floor:- Main living area for the Maxwell family. Their living room, kitchen, dining room, study and&nbsp; powder room are on this level.<br><br>Second Floor:- Bedrooms. Holly, Penny and Nicholas all have their own rooms on this level. The girls share a bathroom (one door to each of their bedrooms) while Nick's room has an en-suite.<br><br>Third Floor:- Master Bedroom and loft space. Harry and Gillian sleep in the master bedroom on the third floor. They have a large en-suite bathroom a large walk in closet which has four large floor to ceiling gun-safes in it. Mr Maxwell is a gun collector and keeps the bulk of his collection in these. On the landing for the third floor there is also a door through to the loft. The loft is fully floored and with a full ceiling and utilities. The Maxwell's had been in the process of converting this space into extra living space and the area is fully insulated and viable as living space with installed lighting and power sockets.<br><br><br><hr><br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size">Costco Distribution Warehouse</span></strong></span><br><br>The warehouse covers all the Costco's for the whole of the state of New York and three of the close neighbouring states too. Its a very large facility with very good security. There is a large car park enclosed by a fourteen food chain link fence topped with barbed wire tilted outwards.<br><br>Entry to the car park is controlled by a large sliding gate with a small security building.<br><br>One whole side of the warehouse consists of thirty five loading docks for big rigs, there are usually at least several trucks here no matter the time of day with deliveries and outgoing shipments going on day and night.<br><br>The warehouse itself is a huge mostly open space tall and wide with masses of rack space filled with pallets. A small army of rechargeable all directional high load forklifts service the warehouse which is semi automated and uses an RFID system to track all stock within the building.<br><br>There is an office block on a raised platform at the back of the building with administration, staff facilities including small canteen and toilet/shower blocks, management offices, store rooms, the main security office, meeting rooms and other such things. There is also a small Costo Online department serving the needs of the online orders for the state and those surrounding served by the warehouse.<br><br>There are several high security areas where high value and high risk of theft items such as cigarettes, liquor, jewellery and IT equipment are stored which are protected in large caged areas, access restricted by badge.<br><br>Given the season there is a large number seasonal items in the warehouse, Christmas and New Years stuff, which has priority stacking near the main loading dock prep areas.<br><br>Anything and everything you would expect to find in a Costco can be found in the warehouse including frozen food items. Fresh food is generally handled by smaller local suppliers and so is not found, yet longer term stores such as canned goods, rice and pastas, spices, chips, sodas, bottled water are all available in the building in massive abundance.<br><br>The building itself is high security with thick steel doors and no windows. All internal light coming from skylights and strip lighting. Besides the roll up loading dock doors there are two doors to the staff areas and eight emergency doors on the warehouse floor around the building. All are badge controlled with the emergency doors on a twenty second timer once the bar is pushed. The loading dock doors automatically lock when lowered and are very secure.<br><br>Though the offices do have windows these only face the inside of the warehouse itself and so will not require painting over so as not to attract Zombies.<br><br>The whole place is full of cameras inside and out controlled from the main security office.<br><br><br><hr><br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><span class="bbc_u">The Judith Ridley Memorial Mall Romero New York</span></strong></span><br><br>Located just outside of the downtown core in the suburbs the The Judith Ridley Memorial Mall is a shopping mecha. With three wings housing an Ikea a Target and a Sears its a three level affair with a great many stores housed within the building.<br><br>The upper and lower floors are quite vast with a large food court with double height ceiling in the middle of the three wings. The basement level is fairly small by comparison seeing as it also houses the underground section of the parking.<br><br>There are staff/goods delivery corridors behind all stores with five staff bathrooms on each non basement level and a small staff canteen along with one large security office all behind the scenes. There is also a series of administrative offices and on the upper level a well stocked civl defence storage area. Each department store has its own loading docks (two per store) as part of the underground parking. The main mall has one large eight bay dock also as part of the underground garage. There are four freight elevators and two passenger elevators in the main loading docks to aid dissemination of goods out to the various stores from the main underground dock.<br><br>The ground floor has entrances at each department store, one large grand entrance opposite the food court and several smaller ones around usually at cardinal points for the public. All are large glass affairs that are made of good thick safety glass and would take a lot of effort to break through. Enough zombies pressing on them will do it so best efforts to either block off the entrances or to not be seen by zombies during the first few days while their sight is still good are highly recomended.<br><br>The upper floors have extensive skylights and no windows, while the basement is all electrically lit. There is a pedestrian entrance on the lower level that consists of five large glass doors in from the underground parking.<br><br>There are various steel security doors that lead to the staff areas of the mall.<br><br><br>The listing of stores is as follows.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Department Stores</span><br>IKEA<br>Target<br>Walmart<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Apparel &amp; Shoes</span><br>2 Cute<br>Aeropostale<br>American Eagle Outfitters<br>Champs<br>Charlotte Russe<br>Christopher &amp; Banks<br>Designer Shoe Outlet<br>Express<br>Famous Footwear<br>Foot Locker<br>Forever 21<br>Frederick's of Hollywood<br>H&amp;M<br>Hollister<br>Hot Topic<br>Journeys<br>Justice<br>Lady Foot Locker<br>M&amp;M Menswear<br>Men's Wearhouse and Tux <br>My Tees<br>New York &amp; Company<br>Old Navy<br>Payless Shoesource<br>Premium Lounge<br>R&amp;R Leather Shoppe<br>Rainbow<br>Stride Rite<br>The Children's Place<br>Traffic<br>Victoria's Secret<br>Wet Seal<br>Zumiez<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Accessories</span><br>Charlotte Russe<br>Claire's Etc.<br>Lids<br>New York &amp; Company<br>NYS Collection<br>R&amp;R Leather Shoppe<br>Rainbow<br>Simply Cell Stuff<br>Sock Drawer<br>Sunglass Hut<br>Watch This<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Cell Phones/Electronics/Video/Media</span><br>Apple Store<br>AT&amp;T/Cingular Wireless<br>Cell Mart Kiosk<br>Cingular Wireless<br>Gadgets and Gizmos<br>Gamestop<br>HMV<br>Metro PCS<br>Radio Shack <br>The Sony Store<br>Virgin Boost Mobile<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><span class="bbc_u">Eye Wear &amp; Eye Care</span><br>Cohen's Fashion Optical/General Vision Center<br>NYS Collection<br>Sterling Optical<br>Sunglass Hut<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Food &amp; Restaurants</span><br>21 Toppings Frozen Yogurt<br>Arby's<br>Auntie Anne's Pretzels<br>Boston Market<br>Boulder Creek Steaks &amp; Saloon<br>Buffalo Wild Wings<br>Candy Heaven<br>Chinese Gourmet Express<br>Johnny Rockets<br>McDonalds<br>On The Border Mexican Cafe<br>Panera Bread<br>Pizza Hut Express<br>Pretzel Maker<br>Sbarro<br>Starbucks<br>Subway<br>Sushi.com<br>Wendy's<br>KFC<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Gifts And Stationery</span><br>Disney Store<br>Periwinkle Boutique<br>Spencer's Gifts<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Health and Beauty</span><br>Bath &amp; Body Works<br>General Nutrition Center<br>Nails 2000 &amp; Day Spa<br>Plaza Barber<br>Proactiv<br>Temptations Perfumes<br>The Threading Station<br>Walgreens<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Jewelry</span><br>Ailin's Jewelry<br>Benny's Jewelry<br>Kay Jewelers<br>Piercing Pagoda<br>Sterling Gallery<br>Unique Styles<br>Zales Jewelers<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Pet Supplies &amp; Services</span><br>Romero Pets<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Photo &amp; Photo Services</span><br>Photo Gift Center<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Services</span><br>Best Alterations (Tailor)<br>Bank of America<br>C&amp;C Market Research<br>Capitol One Bank<br>Dental Center<br>Fligel, Brint &amp; Co., CPA's &amp; Tax Tips<br>Komara Nationwide Insurance<br>Newstop<br>Pharmacy<br>Tae Kwon Do Karate School<br>Tax Tips Inc. &amp; Fligel, Brint &amp; Co., CPA's<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Specialty Shops</span><br>A Dollar and Deals<br>As Seen On TV<br>Dollars 'n Things<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Sporting Goods</span><br>Huntin' Fishin' Campin' an Shootin'<br>New York Golf Center<br>Zumiez<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Toys/Games</span><br>Disney Store<br>Gamestop<br>IKEA<br>Friendly Local Game Store<br>Toys"R"Us Express<br><br><span class="bbc_u">External Stores, Restaurants and Bars</span><br>Applebee's<br>Big and Tall<br>California Pizza Kitchen<br>Indigo<br>Jasmine Garden<br>Jones Convenience<br>Little Bit O' Britain<br>NCIX<br>O'Donnels Irish Pub<br>Red Lobster<br>Rona<br>Popeye's<br>TGI Friday's<br>UPS Store<br><br><br><hr><br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:12:31</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Quick notes on the zombies</strong></span></span><br><br>The zombies are the Romero type, slow and unsteady, you can walk away from them if you set a reasonable pace. However there are a lot of them, they are truly dead so you need to destroy the hind brain to drop them (not quite all head-shots work, though most will), they hear very well, their sense of smell is okay yet after the first day or two their eyesight is poor.<br><br>Zombie eyes go white after a day or two, not immediately, as they do not either blink or have working tear ducts to clean their eyes. Little particles of all kinds of gritty and dusty nastiness settle in and scratch up their corneas or just refract light on its way into the eyes. Fresh zombies are obvious from their moaning, their shuffling, their lust for your flesh, but not from their white eyes. Fresh zombies still have eyesight as good as they had in life and as predators have eyes keyed to notice and lock in on movement.<br><br>Once they know there is good tasty human food in a place they will make it a priority and try to break in. If something distracts them they will shuffle off in that direction of course, including feeding moans from other zombies if sufficient time has passed for them to 'forget' quite why they wanted into the building they are trying to break into. They are as strong as they were in life yet they feel no pain and will not let go of something without having something else grab their attention. If you are grabbed by one of these things its likely to be very bad news indeed. They do not care about accidentlly breaking their bones or tearing muscle, sinew and or ligaments from their bone anchors. They will literally tear themselves apart from the inside in order to lay teeth on prey. Once they have hold of prey they do not let go of it. They are incredibly single minded and will retain their grip at any cost, including tearing themselves apart.<br><br>They are not completely mindless and some are cleverer than others. Generally the more intelligent in life the better a chance there is of retaining that in death, though the chances of much understanding in one of these creatures is very low. The brighter ones could theoretically be trained to perform tasks.<br><br>They do rot, but the process is slowed down somehow and a zombie disintegrating to the point where its no longer a threat, at least without outside influence such as crushing or running water, could take a decade or two.<br><br>They have no body temperature and will freeze at temperatures bellow zero fairly quickly. Once winter sets in its time to loot the town, break as many zombie heads open as possible (digging through the snow to find them as necessary) meet up with other survivors and start to think about building walls and tearing up parking lots to plant fields.<br><br>They are dead, they mean to make you dead and they will kill you and eat you.<br><br>They will bring down prey in order to feed, feeding is their main impulse, once they have some meat in their mouth they may loose temporary interest in the prey while they chew and swallow long enough for that prey, if it can, to escape. However by that point its too late for the prey anyway.<br><br>Once bitten a healthy human has at most a few days to live.<br><br>They are as hardy as a normal human is. The skull, especially across the brow has a thick bone plate which is hard to pierce. Guns are a great way to bring them down with head-shots, yet make a lot of noise, which attracts more of them. Knives mean coming close, swords and bows require a lot of skill to use and in the case of swords, also coming in close, though not as close as knives.<br><br>Fighting hand to hand should be a last resort. Shooting is potentially suicidal without a very large amount of ammo and the coolest head imaginable along with several friends similarly equipped.<br><br>In ones and twos a trained and confident human properly equipped with a sword can easily hold their own and do extremely well, yet will tire in time, or break their blade, or miss a cut or thrust. There are billions of dead things out there by the end of the first week.<br><br>Zombies. Serious business.<br><br>Keep quiet, only fight if you have to, rescue everyone you can but beware of bites, wait for winter, use the cold the cold is your friend, retake the town.<br><br><hr><br>Inspiration for the strength and tenacity of the zombies and how they will tear themselves apart to reach living flesh can be found in the following image, though the reader is warned the account is harrowing and deeply disturbing. I don't know if its a true account of real events or not and frankly, I don't want to know either way.<br><br><em>Click the image to enlarge it for reading. Click it again once you have read more than you really ought to have done. Don't say I didn't warn you.</em><br>(http://chanarchive.org/content/14_x/12423888/1366060351007.jpg)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:13:25</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Stuff from the Old Dead State PBeM Game<br></strong></span></span><br><br>Old Dead State (the PBeM game) intro posts as examples of tone and setting the Miho post in cleaned up form will be a part of this game too, the others will not and are included to give you an idea of what we are looking for.<br><br>http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/olddsday01.zip (http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/olddsday01.zip)<br><br><br>The old Dead State game character sheets as someone requested to see them. The old sheets were far less detailed than the new ones. Note Miho's sheet has spoilers so if you don't want those don't open that file.<br><br><br>http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/olddsbios.zip (http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/olddsbios.zip)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:14:04</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Making Dead State NPC's</strong></span></span><br><br>NPC sheets will be stored in a post after the PC ones. This post is about creating the slippery little customers.<br><br>Anyone is free to make an NPC character and introduce them. You can play as many as you like. If you are going to use one for more than one or two scenes please seriously consider helping out your fellow players by filling out the following form, finding or asking for help finding a suitable real life type picture to represent them and sending said info along to your GM at the usual E-mail address. veganmayonnaise@gmail.com<br><br>http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/blankNPCsheet.txt (http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/blankNPCsheet.txt)<br><br>The sheet is far more simple than the Main character sheet and doesn't require anywhere near as much detail.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>16-09-2012, 18:18:44</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Approved Character Bios</strong></span></span><br><br><sup>All approved characters will appear in one big long list in this post to make it easier to find them, as long as I am allowed to have one big wall of text here of course...<br><br>All pictures are click-able for full size versions.</sup><br><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/miho.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Miho Anne Chave<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; Chichester, West Sussex, England<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero New York<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'2"<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 125lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 28<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Eurasian tending towards Asian, very light pale skin<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Big dark brown, with a full epicanthic fold.<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Short, ebon black, very fine, straight, often with highlights or dyed.<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; In her late twenties, Miho tends towards simple t-shirts and jeans. She does rather enjoy hats. She wears glasses and had two or three pairs of varying styles. She is unusual in that she has no piercings whatsoever.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Miho is generally very fit, she exercises by taking daily runs, starting off with some light upper body stuff at home beforehand.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Miho has no real distinguishing marks on her body and certainly no tattoos.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Miho is open, friendly, funny, physical, though tending towards being a little emotional at times. She is courageous and brave but not to the point of stupidity. She is clever and intelligent, witty, after all she does write for a living. Deeply caring.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Miho is not mad about heights or enclosed spaces and really dislikes spiders, yet is not actually phobic of anything.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviors you abuse: </span> Miho doesn't drink alcohol or caffeine. She doesn't take recreational drugs and is in fact quite boring when it comes to substances. Not just due to her job however she does spend an inordinate amount of time on-line.<br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Miho's immediate family died in a car crash some years ago.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; As above, Miho's brother is gone.<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended Family:</span> Miho's extended family are mostly in England and these days she has little contact with them. This isn't deliberate, its just one of those things that happens.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall Background:</span>&nbsp; Miho grew up on the south coast of England. Born of a Japanese mother and an English father. Her parents were middle class, lived in the cathedral city of Chichester, and brought her up as best they could.<br>Her free time growing up was often spent, in the spring and summer months at least, in various fields and sites of historic interest all over the south of England. Her father was a re-enactor, a hobby he had taken up when Miho was five. He took up arms on weekends as a fifteenth century man at arms. Wearing full plate mail and wielding a vast array of different weapons of the period. Miho initially enjoyed the dressing up, the sleeping in tents, the socializing with the other kids, and the attention of the public. This developed into an interest in medieval archery, then medieval combat. She learned how to shoot the longbow, how to use all manner of medieval weapons, especially the sword and dagger. She also learned other medieval western martial arts from the household, wrestling and boxing, though she wasn't as good at these as she was, and didn't enjoy them as much, as the swordsmanship. Her older brother was himself already fighting on the field with her father as part of the household, as a billman. Miho would regularly spar in the evenings with her father and brother, a good form of exercise, and fun. From sixteen she was a regular on the field with the other 'fighters' of the household. She made up for being small and skinny with determination, a high pain threshold, and being wickedly evilly quick.<br>Always a huge geek Miho met someone online when she was 23, they met, fell in love, and Miho moved to the US to be with her new partner. Three years later Miho, now a fully naturalized alien, moved out on her own once more, the relationship in tatters. She had been working in an office as a website admin/network manager for a small family firm that owned a number of web businesses. In the evening she had been maintaining her own site, idiotlantern.com, one with a rapidly growing following and climbing advertising revenue. Miho, a huge film geek for years had developed this film review and discussion site from scratch. She was twenty six when the money the site was making, more than covering the bandwidth costs, climbed to a level where she felt that she could leave her job altogether, she had been working part time only for the past year or so.<br>Life took a turn for the worse for her six months later when a car crash on the way to a re-enactment event took the lives of her immediate family. Her mother and brother were killed instantly, her father died a day later of his injuries in hospital.<br>Miho attended the funeral, picked up the things she wanted from her old house, and being as she was the only benefactor, arranged for the sale of the estate and the transfer of that estate to her own accounts. She returned to the US a month later leaving the details in the hands of their family solicitor, the heirlooms and ephemera she wanted from the estate shipped over to her by ship.<br>The accident threw Miho into her work, for the last year and a half, rather than really deal with the loss, she has been on automatic. She doesn't review too many movies for the site anymore, she has five freelancers who write pieces for her on a regular basis, and the large user base take care of a lot of that, she mainly beavers away at the day to day tasks of keeping the site going, and thriving.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Miho's friends are mostly on-line, though she does have good relations with a lot of the people she see's day to day on her runs or in her apartment building. She just hasn't let herself get really close to anyone since moving to Romero. Possibly due to her subconscious being a little scarred after the death of her family and a recent bad breakup with a girlfriend.<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal Enemies:</span> On-line there are plenty of people who openly hate, deride and abuse her writing. However she doesn't really consider these people enemies. The old woman down the hall however is another matter. She really doesn't seem to like Miho and will go out of her way to cause her stress. Or at least it seems that way to Miho.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current Job:</span>&nbsp; Miho runs the movie review and merchandising site 'IdiotLantern.com' which provides her with a very reasonable income from both the drop shipping of goods bought on the site and the advertising. She pays her freelance writing and review staff well and though she lives very modestly she doesn't really need to.<br><span class="bbc_u">Living Conditions:</span>&nbsp; Miho lives in a three bedroom apartment block next to Boulcott's department store in downtown Romero. The building is well maintained, though Miho lives modestly she is happy. Her apartment is a little cluttered yet she knows where to find everything and everything has its place.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Miho used to ride motorcycles in the UK, yet in the US she either walks or takes the bus.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Miho is a philosophical Taoist.<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Miho is of the opinion that the current 'Just Us' system has been put in place to enrich the few and help control the masses and wishes fervently more people would learn the difference between 'legal' and 'lawful' and understand the real meaning of 'policing by consent'.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Miho would only ever kill in extreme circumstances of either self defense or to save the life of someone she cared for. She finds the idea of ending someone's life personally abhorrent.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Miho is single, she has only recently had a very messy breakup.<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Miho is not currently looking for a relationship.<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or Other:</span>&nbsp; Miho is omnisexual and pollyamorous.<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Love, understanding, caring, plus a little bit of kink and play now again wouldn't go amiss. There are a good few things that Miho fantasizes about that she doesn't ever believe she could ever, ever, have a chance to explore in real life. She has low self confidence in matters of love and sex.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Get up, exercise and run, come home, shower, check e-mail, stay sat at the computer checking the forums and reading copy for the site. Edit, correct and post any new articles that meet expectations, send back for re-writes those that don't. Write anything that needs being written, watch anything that needs being watched. Liaise with suppliers, with movie and TV execs for press copies and press screenings, find time in the early evening to even cook and eat something. Settle in for the evening with whatever has to be watched and reviewed. Remember you need a notepad and pen. Bring a notepad and pen. Set to with watching and taking notes.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> The old lady down the hall, her dog, the guy at the bakery up the street, the cute girl at the local bulk food shop with the really nice backside, and the cute married guy who she sometimes jogs in the park with yet can never do anything about because, well, morals!<br><span class="bbc_u">Favorite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; If asked Miho will say its banning the idiots on the forums. She likes to cultivate her reputation for being ruthless with the morons. However she really just enjoys the business of watching new shows and movies and of writing up those experiences the following day.<br>She also really enjoys curling up with a good book in the evening if she manages to find the time.</div></div><br><br><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/jenj.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Jennifer Jacobi (JJ)<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; July 7, 1987<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'6"<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 120lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> <br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Hazel<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Blonde<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; JJ is thin, but fit.&nbsp; She eats relatively healthy.&nbsp; Her hair is natural blonde but she does have caramel highlights, which she hates.&nbsp; While at work, she has to wear make up, but once she is off or on the weekends, she may just use a bit of eyeliner, but not much more.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; JJ is on the evening news, so the gym is her friend.&nbsp; Luckily, she has good genes, but she goes to the gym every afternoon during the week, to keep fit and toned, after all the camera adds 10 lbs!&nbsp; While she goes to gym, she focuses on cardio and toning.&nbsp; She is not a weight lifter.&nbsp; JJ also takes several classes in a course of a month.&nbsp; Yoga on the weekends, and a cardio kick boxing class, but let's face it, cardio kick boxing does not a martial artist make.&nbsp; She had taken a few self defence classes that have been given at the gym.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; She has a small birthmark on her left hip.&nbsp; When she turned 18, JJ treated herself to a tattoo of a hummingbird and honeysuckle vine on her right shoulder blade area.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; JJ, has a can do attitude.&nbsp; Her parents taught her, that as long as she pushed forward she could do and be anything.&nbsp; She can be fiercely loyal to her family. She can be bubbly. But of course their are times when she just want to curl up with a bottle of wine and bag of chocolates. JJ is not a party girl, but she is still at the age, where there are times that she heads out with friends for a night of drinking, dancing and if she drinks enough maybe karaoke.&nbsp; <br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; JJ has always had an irrational fear of the 'monster under the bed', or the 'monster in the closet'.&nbsp; Her bed frame is one of those are directly on the floor, her closet door is always closed.&nbsp; Always.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> JJ maintains a healthy lifestyle.&nbsp; But she can be a bit of a shopaholic.&nbsp; And maybe have some hoarding tendencies.&nbsp; She really, really hates to run out of things.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Her father is an insurance salesman, for State Farm. Her mother is a History teacher at the local community college.&nbsp; Her parents are high school sweet hearts, so she has grown up believing in love.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; No siblings.<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span>&nbsp; JJ grew up surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins.&nbsp; In fact, they still meet every Sunday for huge family dinners.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; JJ grew up an only child, while they weren't rich, she didn't want for anything, but she grew up knowing that she had to earn what she got.&nbsp; She has a strong sense of family, and is loyal to her family and friends.&nbsp; She was well liked in high school, a member of the pep squad.&nbsp; She has had one boyfriend in high school, but when they graduated he went off to college on the West Coast.&nbsp; They still talk frequently and she considers him one of her best friends.&nbsp; She began college, hoping to follow in her mother's footsteps in being a teacher.&nbsp; In her second year of college, she won a local contest, in which the prize was a one-time weekend gig as the local weather girl. Rating sky rocketed that evening. Based on her TV persona the station manager offered the weekend weather gig.&nbsp; Not content to be weather girl eye candy, JJ changed her course of study to Meteorology. She takes courses in the morning and is currently in the top 10% of her class.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; JJ has a close group of friends, mostly people from high school and college.&nbsp; Her best friend, is Angela, who she has known since kindergarten.&nbsp; Her other close friend is Troy Hessing, her high school ex-boyfriend.<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span>&nbsp; Unknown to her, the primetime new anchor is feeling very threatened by her, and is even started a rumour that JJ, may have slept her way into her current position.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Primetime weather girl at the local news station.<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; JJ lives in one of the other of the four top level three bedroom places in the Dwane Jones apartment building and is a neighbour to Miho, though the two haven't met all that much they do know each other by sight. She shares her apartment with a pair of lesbian flight attendants, a couple, who work out of Syracuse but live in Romero as its quieter and 'quaint'.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; When she got her promotion at the news station, JJ splurged and bought herself a new Honda Accord. Payments are more than she wanted...but....its a girl thing.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Methodist<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; JJ has a strong moral code. She may break an occasion speed limit, but that is about it.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Bugs, but she cries over cruelty to animals.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Single<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Currently not dating.<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Hetero<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; One wouldn't call her innocent, but she isn't the most knowledgeable.&nbsp; She knows she missing out on many, many things. She desires to be more adventurous and spontaneous, but one must have someone to do that with.&nbsp; <br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; JJ is up at 6 am.&nbsp; At school by 8 am.&nbsp; Classes run till noon, which from there is an hour nap, from there it is straight to the gym for a one hour work out. She usually does reading for school while there.&nbsp; After her work out, it's shower and then straight to the new station. She has a small office, with a hanging rack of various outfits that she changes into for her time on television.&nbsp; At the new stations she goes on various web sites to gather information on local weather patterns.&nbsp; She writes her dialogue, and works on the graphics with whichever of the Graphics Department is assigned to her that day. She is on the set at 6 pm. She doesn't have to be on again until 11 pm. During her time between new casts, she works on homework and updates her weather information.&nbsp; She is home by midnight and in bed shortly after.&nbsp; Sometime during the day she manages to fit in eating.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span>&nbsp; Her neighbour in the building, they leave at the same time.&nbsp; Her best friend, Angela.&nbsp; Her station manager, Ed Danes, Her mother and her father.<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; The time between, the 6 and 11 broadcasts.<br><br></div></div><br><br><br><hr><br><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/abebb.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Alexandra Bebb (Alex)<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; January 1988, Aberdeen, Scotland<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero, New York<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5 ft 5<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 130 lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> <br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian, Pale<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Hazel<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Light auburn<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Alex is always dressed in a grungy 80’s rock style clothes. She wears her hair out and wild, Doesn’t bother with make up and will more often then not be pulling bright funny faces.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Naturally slim, Walks everywhere due to lack of car.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Peace tattoo on her wrist.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Free spirit who does not like being in the same place for too long. Very friendly social butterfly with an open mind and a contagious laugh. Avoids conflict. Will try to see the good in everyone and thing.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Is afraid of heights<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Can drink beer like a professional.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Happily married mother and father who are alive and healthy in her home town Aberdeen.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; Older brother Daniel<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> No one worth mentioning.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Alex grew up in Aberdeen with her parents and older brother. She was a troublesome kid always getting lost or stuck, or saying the wrong thing to the wrong people at the wrong time. She wasn’t very interested in her schooling constantly off in dream world and it shows in her grades. After school ended Alex started work at the local chip shop where she met a tourist passing through. His name was Clive Matthewson. He told her stories of his travels so beautiful and inspirational that Alex had no choice but to gather her things and explore the world and find herself as well. She started her journey flying to Canada using her mother’s birthright as a gate way to the rest of the US. She is currently making her way illegally around the US catching rides and making friends as she goes. Alex is currently filling a weeklong job vacancy at Gino’s Italian restaurant washing dishes on the night shift, It pays cash which is the kind of opportunity an illegal immigrant wandering through the US jumps on.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Everyone<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> Alex does not believe in holding any grudges.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Washing dishes at Gino’s Italian restaurant<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Friends couch’s or lovers beds<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Feet<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Open minded<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Treat others how you want to be treated<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Could never kill a person unless it was kill or be killed<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; No<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Alex likes to stay uncommitted so she can go where the wind takes her<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Bisexual<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Who ever appeals at the time. A beautiful soul<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Alex tries to live moment to moment. Currently she is working her time around a weeklong gig washing dishes at Gino’s. After work she will hit the town looking for live music, free drinks and a place to crash.<br></div></div><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/tiago.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Tiago Sanchez<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Male<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; São Paolo, Brazil<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero, New York<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 6’ even<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 195 lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 27<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Mulato/Darker White<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Brown<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Black<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Tall, leanly muscular, rugged good looks with evidence of scars on his face, primarily on his cheekbone, and above the eye. Ears show initial clotting evidence.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Lean, and hard<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; A scar on his back, tattoo of a cross on his chest, and a bull on his back. Also, a heavy accent.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Rough and tough, the lovable kind of guy for his quick jokes, general good humor, and the ability to come up with a bad joke when it is needed.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Claustrophobic in a nasty way, along with an aversion to insects, waking up early, and bad 80s music.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Having smoked in his youth, he generally gets into a foul mood when somebody smokes around him. He drinks regularly, having a good-sized stash of the ‘good stuff’ in his pantry.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Father and mother still alive, still in Brazil, or last he heard.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> An uncle that lives in the States, and has him hired to import Brazilian wines for Restaurants in New York City<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Born in Mid-southern Brazil, to a middle-low class family, he learned at a young age that you can’t live without working. He studied hard as a child, as hard as can be expected, anyway, and he got involved in Parkour, MMA, and other such body-involving niceties. Turned out, he was actually a natural, and very good. However, life calls for more than skill, and he was invited to live In Romero, near his uncle, to help him full time in importing wines, meat, and other delicacies from the Brazilian ‘cerrado’. The man also had a few friends in a nearby gym that paid well for a personal trainer, both in the arts, in the general body-building. Being as in love with the concept the USA as all Brazilians are, he agreed to the good pay, apartment, and job security. He has been in contact with the English language already, and can speak fluently, but with a heavy, and, according to some, charming accent. He arrived two months previous to Day 1, and is still adapting to the American lifestyle. However, recent developments, zombies and such, have cancelled his working plans indefinitely. He was able to bring his ‘adega’ over from Brazil, but doesn’t know if he will be able to get back to it. He has dated a few girls, who like him for his exoticness, but nothing really serious.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Most people that he meets are friends, or at least don’t think poorly of the man.<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> None that he knows of... except for that flesh-eating critter just outside.<br><br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; MMA and Parkour instructor, and adept.<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Not too shabby<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Toyota motorcycle, second hand, and a few years old, and in surprisingly good condition, being that he knows a thing or two about working with motors, but he usually leaves this at home, preferring to go running to work<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Devout Catholic<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Very solid, but flexible when under dire circumstances. He refuses to do anything that will hurt a friend, and avoids hurting others if at all possible. He, like every Brazilian, has a very loose view of the law, and, if it doesn’t hurt anyone, and if he thinks he can get away with it, he will try<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Last resort, of course, having done so in the past to protect his girlfriend from being raped<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Nope<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Tambem não(nope), recently broken up<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Hetero<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; pleasing his woman endlessly<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Wake up, light workout consisting of pushups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and a fifteen minute jog around the block. Strong coffee, with a lot of sugar, and a solid breakfast, followed by some reading, since he only needs to get to work later, in the afternoon. Then, running to work, or riding if he is in a lazy mood, teaching his classes, followed by a slightly heavier work-out, going home, having a drink, and a heavy dinner, then going out with friends, or the occasional girlfriend<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> His fellow instructors, most of whom are his friends that he goes out with, his landlord, and a neighbor who has a crush on him<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; The drinking<br><br></div></div><br><br><br><hr>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
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				<span class="bbc_u"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size">Approved Character Bios</span></strong></span> <sub>(Continued)</sub><br><br><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/Caitlin.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin Walker<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; Livingston, New York<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero, New York<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'6" (173 cm)<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 144 lbs (65 kg)<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span>&nbsp; 26 (December 21, 1986)<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Soft Blue<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Strawberry Blonde<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin prefers casual clothing when she's at home. She wears her hair either loose or in a ponytail. She has a fit and toned body, B cup breasts, and follows a healthy diet.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; She's very fit; she jogs four miles every day before breakfast and visits the gym two times a week. She also enjoys competing in running competitions, and runs half a marathon every year at the marathon of New York.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Her shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair. Caitlin used to have freckles as a child, this still shows if she sits in the sun for a while. She also has a cherry tattoo on the left side of her mons veneris, but this is hidden from public view.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin is friendly, kind, funny, loyal, caring, but also has a problem trusting people/ letting people get close. She's easily stressed, especially when things don't go as planned, and it doesn't take much to scare her, although she learned not to scream at everything scary.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Fears thunder (in general she fears loud unexpected sounds), germs, and infections.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Caitlin is a social drinker. She used to smoke in her teenage years, but quit the habit when she entered college and her boyfriend - now fiancé - disapproved of it. She still gets the urge to pick up a cigarette when she's under a lot of stress. She smoked weed several times, but after learning about the negative effects on prolonged usage she gave up on that.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Martha (53) and Dennis (54), were still living in Livingston when the Apocalypse hit. Her parents owned the local grocery store, and made enough money that way to send Caitlin to College.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; Brandon (17), her eight year younger brother. He used to tease her about the walking dead, spied on her whenever he could ever since he became twelve, and was a general pain in the ass due to his younger age.<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> Killian (56), her father's older brother. She used to be close to him when she grew up, but he moved out of Livingston to the west coast when she was eleven years old. She rarely saw him ever since.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; <br>Childhood<br>Caitlin grew up in Livingston, New York, a small village with a little more than 2,000 inhabitants where everybody really knows everybody. Her parents were hardworking people who often came home late, leaving Caitlin to her own devices between the hours of getting off school and her parents coming home.<br><br>Caitlin was also a bit of a tomboy, enjoying the wild games with the neighborhood kids. She joined the girl scouts when she was six years old and picked up many useful survival skills, while she enjoyed camping in the outdoors.<br><br>Teenage years<br>Caitlin turned from a tomboy into a beautiful teenage girl, who scored high marks in her biology classes. She also enjoyed helping people, and as a result she chose to become a nurse once she finished high school.<br><br>College<br>In college she picked up the habit to go running with several of her friends. She enjoyed staying fit a lot and it was a fun social exercise. Any fat she had was gone within months and her daily exercise resulted in a fit, toned, and healthy body.<br><br>Career<br>She finished college when she was twenty-two, and worked as a full-time nurse ever since. <br>She met her fiancé, Rick Patterson, in college. He proposed to her last summer and they planned to marry in February next year.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Rick Patterson (fiancé), Hillary Green (college friend who also became a nurse at the local hospital), Jennifer Patterson (Rick's younger sister).<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> Nobody; in general she doesn't let people get close enough to become her enemy. She does have a strong distaste for her supervisor.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Nurse at the local Hospital.<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin and Rick rented an old apartment in one of the apartment buildings downtown Romero, until they saved up enough money to buy their own house.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin drove an old beat up Ford to get to and from work, and to do her grocery shopping. She preferred to walk if she didn't have to travel far.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Atheist, though raised in a Christian family with Christian values. As a teenager she rebelled against going to church and once she turned fifteen her parents let her stay home on Sunday mornings.<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin is a lawful person and upstanding citizen. She feels bad when driving through a red light, even if she's in a hurry and the streets are empty. She wants to do the right thing and treat everybody fair, as long as it doesn't come at her own cost.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin beliefs in survival of the fittest. Although she'll go through great lengths to save people, if her own life is jeopardy she'll always go with the option that ensures her own survival, even if it means the death of others, including killing them if she's forced to. She prefers fleeing over fighting, however, and will only resort to the latter when it's the only option left.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Engaged.<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; At least once every two weeks with her fiancé.<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Bi-curious<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin loves to experiment, but she's not a big fan of heavy bondage, although light bondage is okay with her. She prefers vanilla sex, including anal, and enjoys experimenting with different positions. She also likes to take charge and is an active and passionate lover. Although she's never been with a woman before, she did fantasize about having sex with her best friend, Hillary, with who she even made out and felt up when they were both tipsy in college.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Caitlin gets up at 6:30 am for her thirty minute jog, after which she eats breakfast. She drives to work at 7:30 am and starts her shift at 8:00 am until 4:30 pm. Depending on their stock, she either goes to the mall to purchase new groceries, or drives home immediately and does several housekeeping chores until 6:00 pm, after which she starts cooking dinner for her and her fiancé. She goes to bed at 10:30 pm. If she has the night shift she wakes up six hours later, but generally follows the same pattern.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Her fiancé, her best friend, her fiancé's little sister, her supervisor, and the landlord.<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Jogging, it's the only moment of the day when she can truly relax with a not a single worry on her mind.<br><br></div></div><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/Carl.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Carl Johnson<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Male<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; Gilbertsville, New York<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero, New York<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'11" (178 cm)<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 191lbs (87 kg)<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span>&nbsp; 64 (July 4, 1948)<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Blue Gray (Penetrating ice cold gaze)<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Gray and mostly bald<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Due to his poor eyesight he has to wear glasses. Generally he wears his black priest robes with a silver cross on top. He prefers to wear loose robes, to hide his overweight belly. His balding head lights up when he stands under lamps. He's vain and spends at least five minutes in front of the mirror before he has to appear in public, even going so far to pluck his eyebrows if he thinks a single hair is out of line.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; He never enjoyed working out, and considers running below his standard. He's a priest, and as such he carries himself with the dignity of walking. If it means that others have to wait for him, then so be it. As a servant of God he deserves no less than the utmost respect. As a result, however, he has a very poor stamina and is easily out of breath when he has to do just about anything.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; His silver cross, small-rimmed glasses, balding head, and black robes.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Vain, self-conceited, superiority complex, easy-talker, manipulator, lazy, and charismatic.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Demons, hell spawn, darkness in general.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Wine (only the best), pornography, cigars.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Sharon (deceased), Hank (deceased)<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; Timothy (62), Bethany (60), Billy (58), and Sandra (54)<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> Too many to name, however, none live close-by nor do they visit him, or vice versa.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; <br>Childhood<br>Carl Johnson grew up in a deeply religious household, in a small laid back village. His family attended the catholic church every Sunday. His father was a baker, while his mother worked at the local post office.<br><br>Teenage years<br>As a teen Carl was a mediocre student who often got into trouble for not doing his homework. He actually enjoyed it more to go out shooting at stuff with the boys and wrestle with them. He turned out to have a talent for shooting various weapons and became a quick shot with handguns.<br><br>After a strong intervention from his father and the local priest, however, he was forced to improve his life and do the Lord's bidding. As a result he became a choir boy and had to help out the local priest after school and the majority of his Saturdays, until it was time for dinner. It was a job he absolutely despised, until he learned the power and influence a priest really carried, at which point he started to pay more attention and got interested in 'the holy ways' for his own selfish gain. <br><br>College<br>Since Carl's grades weren't good enough to get into college and since he also didn't want to accept an apprenticeship, he choose to become a priest, especially since he had long since learned that once he secured a good position in the church he didn't actually have to do all that much and could just let others do his bidding instead.<br><br>Career<br>After several ministries at smaller churches he was accepted at one of the Catholic churches of Romero in 1998, where he served ever since. He followed the teachings of absolute morale, preaching hell and damnation to his followers if they didn't completely abstain from sex before marriage and didn't do the Lord's bidding. <br><br>He had turned into a god fearing man, blaming everything wrong on the devil and his minions. He strongly beliefs that the apocalypse is the work of God for all the sins that mankind had committed.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Father Williams, Father Brown, Father Bush, the mayor.<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span>&nbsp; Atheists, the LBGT community, and people who give him orders.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Priest<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Carl lives in a luxurious apartment next to the church.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; He drives in a modest, classic car. He wants to keep up appearances that he lives a modest life, rather than letting people onto the luxurious life he's actually living.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Roman catholic<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; He beliefs in upholding the Ten Commandments, or least beliefs in preaching others to uphold them.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; This comes surprisingly easy to him, under the guise of killing heathens or demons. As long as he can somehow justify it from a biblical point of view, he has no issue whatsoever with killing even the young and innocent.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Single<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; No<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; In the closet gay<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Plentiful; he dreams of having orgies involving both men and women where he's in charge and orders people in how to pleasure him. Any kind of sexual contact goes, as long as he's in command. His values, however, prevent him from acting out his fantasies and he considers them ways of the Devil to persuade him to the dark side.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Carl gets up 7:00 am and eats his breakfast. Although the usual morning prayers start at 6:00 am, Carl is not a morning person and he came up with excuses years ago to let his underlings handle that chore for him. He handles the 8:00 am prayers instead, and then goes on about fulfilling the daily rituals until the midday prayer of 12:00 pm. He handles his administration and house visits until 5:00 pm, after which he returns home. He does the evening prayer at 6:00 pm, and eats dinner, which gets prepared for him every evening at 6:15 pm. He often has guests over for dinner, during which he tries to spread his influence. He does the night prayers at 8:00 and 10:00 pm, and goes to bed at 10:30 pm.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Fellow priests, underlings, churchgoers.<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Dinner time, since it allows him to manipulate the people who are important to him.<br><br></div></div><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/mac.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; James MacAvoy<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Male&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; January 28th, 1978<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Bridgewater State Hospital, Massachusetts<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 6 feet even<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 190 lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span>&nbsp; 28<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian, white<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Green<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Big, brawny yet lean, powerful<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; In perfect condition<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Knife scar in his upper right shoulder, knife and crossbones over his back, other small ones over his body.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Hard and cold, not quite uncaring, but it would take a lot to make him care for something. Loyal and respectful, always addressing a person by 'Sir' or 'Ma'am' when he is in a good mood. Easy to anger, and hard to cool off.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Insects in general, doctors and meds.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> A smoker and a drinker<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> None<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Was abandoned to the care of an orphanage run by nuns in the Bronx. He grew up there, taught his manners, his prayers, and an almost obsessive cleanliness. He never had any interest in finding his parents and seemed to be content growing up in the orphanage, at some points even thinking about joining some order or another. But he quickly dropped that idea once puberty hit and he had a taste for the womenfolk, and celibacy was not an option.<br><br>Due to a violent streak that developed, he was never adopted, and at the age of 15 he ran away from the orphanage and started running with a bad crowd. Soon, he had earned something of a reputation with his fists and quickly got taken under the wing of an enforcer in a ring of the Irish Mob. He did rather well there until a bar brawl with men of a rival ring and put three men in the hospital, one dying soon thereafter. He took the fall for it, and his lawyer pleaded that he was criminally insane, due to his already quite considerable rep, and so he was serving a life sentence in Bridgewater.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; None anymore<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> Many<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Inmate<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Cell<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; He steals one of the orderly's motorcycles in his escape<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Catholic<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Flexible<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; If the person deserves it, owes money, or somehow angered the person that is paying him.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Nope<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Nu-uh<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Straight<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Lots!<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Wake up at 8 AM, mess hall, outside time (not really), mandatory session with that fucking shrink, mess hall again, inside time, mess hall, and cell.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Guards, orderlies, said fucking shrink<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Daydreaming about beating the shrink up with a baseball bat for asking too many questions.<br><br></div></div><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/placegirl.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Mary Aston<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; New England<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Lives in New York, New York.&nbsp; Also has a place in the Hamptons<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'6"<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 129 lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span>&nbsp; 38<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Blue<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Previously bottle blonde.Increasingly a darker blonde with the odd grey hair.<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Twinset and pearls, slightly nasal New England accent.Bree from Desperate Housewives is the archetype.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Previously quite good due to regular sessions with her personal trainer.Starting to slip as the effects of hunger and deprivation kick in.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Good heavens no.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Born wealthy and married in to more.&nbsp; Led something of a sheltered life in terms of useful skills in a zombie apocalypse but has a tough core previous only seen in Neighbourhood Association meetings and charity boards.&nbsp; Card carrying republican, most of the country's problems could be resolved if people took a little more initiative for their problems instead of relying on the government.&nbsp; Not that she does of course; she has a husband.&nbsp; This is other people we're talking about, not her.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; The entire situation is something of a fear for her.&nbsp; A previously unacknowledged one of losing the privileges of her class.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Enjoys the odd valium, but running a little low.&nbsp; Traditionally would take a couple of glasses of wine with her evening meal but again not for a while.Might have a drop of wine at other times, if the mood strikes.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; John and Sarah Parker.&nbsp; Alive (last she heard at least) in New England.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; A brother working as a tax lawyer in Atlanta, another working as a Congressional Aide in Washington.&nbsp; Both alive last she heard.<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> Nothing of particular interest.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Born to wealthy parents in a wealthy area.Privately educated through to college which she attended to pick up her MRS.&nbsp; Accidentally got a degree in sociology as well, though that was hardly the aim and she's forgotten most of it.&nbsp; Met her future husband at the country club, dated at the golf club, wedding reception was back at the country club.&nbsp; Six columns in the local paper.&nbsp; It's not that she didn't/doesn't care for him, simply that most of what she talks about in her life are the places she went with him, the things they bought together and so forth as opposed to actually him.<br><br>He worked in contract law for a city firm leaving her to fill her time with charities, bridge, lusting after gardeners, valium, the neighbourhood association and culture.&nbsp; She joined the NRA at her husband's urging and has fired the gun they keep in their New York apartment a few times, though isn't terribly good.&nbsp; He works early and late so her main social interaction is with the other wives of her husband's business colleagues and the members of the various boards, organisations and charities with which she spends her time.<br><br>Regularly they travelled upstate and took a leisurely drive back, occasionally going through relative slums like Romero to get the visceral thrill of seeing all over those Hispanics and people she never refers to as Negros out loud.&nbsp; It's not that she's racist per se, more utterly unexposed to that portion of the world that isn't a wealthy WASP.&nbsp; A lot of them are terrorists, anyway.&nbsp; Isn't it odd that Obama took so long to show his birth certificate?&nbsp; Not that she believes any of that nonsense of course but, well, it is a little strange don't you think?&nbsp; At least that's what her husband says and he certainly seems to know what he's talking about.<br><br>One such drive landed them for the night in the Adelphi in Romero.&nbsp; When room service didn't arrive her husband went looking for it.&nbsp; That was quite some time ago now, and things have gone downhill from there.&nbsp; Two days in the hotel room before a banging on the door started.&nbsp; Three nights sleeping on the balcony - if you can really call it that, honestly would it kill these people to put out some plants or something?&nbsp; Two nights in the next door room accessed by a terrifying traversal of the two foot gap between their balcony and hers.&nbsp; Now huddled in the increasingly foul smelling kitchen after a desperate hunger inspired dash from next door's room.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; <br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> <br><br>Realistically the classes or people are the same.&nbsp; She has no close friends but a huge circle of acquaintances.&nbsp; All of whom constantly move up and down her tacit internal ranking based on a vast number of factors.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Unemployed, technically, though not looking for work.<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; A plush apartment in Manhattan near her husband's work.&nbsp; Decorated with those artworks that her fellow members of the Museum's fundraising board assures her are good investments.&nbsp; Or assures her husband's accountant, technically.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Doesn't drive herself.&nbsp; Does have a licence but it's been so long she's not certain she remembers.&nbsp; Their building has a number of drivers on retainer, she just uses one of those if travelling alone.&nbsp; <br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; An unexamined vague Protestantism.&nbsp; Her belief is more in the church itself - she hasn't missed a Sunday in years, than in anything divine.<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Again mostly unexamined.&nbsp; Her stated beliefs are a series of catchphrases she's picked up from her husband.&nbsp; If you criminalise guns and so forth.&nbsp; She's law abiding herself but accepts that the law is what lawyers make it, not what lawmakers think it should be.&nbsp; Which is probably for the best, anyone can be a lawmaker but it takes a certain something to be a lawyer.&nbsp; At her heart she probably does follow something of a right wing line but has never really applied her belief in hard work and such like to her own circumstances.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; A man's home is his castle, and if someone comes bursting in then they get what's coming to them.&nbsp; Whether she could actually pull the trigger herself…she's not sure.&nbsp; Probably.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Married to John Aston.&nbsp; Missing presumed zombie.<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; In actuality: no one.&nbsp; In occasional flashes of thought: a succession of gardeners, drivers, doormen, business colleagues of her husband, husbands of her "friends"...<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Heterosexual, of course.&nbsp; It's not that she has anything against those people, you understand.&nbsp; It's just, well, it's an odd choice to make isn't it?&nbsp; Not natural, if you ask her.&nbsp; Again, this is largely based on nothing.&nbsp; To the best of her knowledge she's never actually met anyone who's not heterosexual.<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Well, if you really must know.&nbsp; Missionary three times a week.&nbsp; She gave him a blow job once when a bit drunk but didn't really care for it.&nbsp; Most people, she imagines, think about being thrown onto an expensive shag pile carpet and ravaged by a well built intruder.&nbsp; Large black hands holding down her small white ones… It's probably quite common, not that she has ever checked.&nbsp; <br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Wake up.&nbsp; Husband will be gone several hours by this point.&nbsp; Freshly squeezed orange juice and some sort of fruit, depending on what her current diet is.&nbsp; &nbsp; A two in seven chance she has a hair or nails appointment, a three in seven chance her personal trainer is visiting.&nbsp; Leaving a two in seven chance of maybe having a drop of wine, certainly not a full glass, and concocting a variety of situations involving her personal trainer or possibly some other crush du jour.<br><br>Probably some sort of meeting in the afternoon for one of her various groups.&nbsp; Pass some comments with those of her circle whose husbands are doing well on those of her circle whose husbands aren't.&nbsp; If, heavens forbid, her husband has suffered some sort of setback she might well treat herself to a valium before said meeting.&nbsp; Honestly, a lot of those people are harpies and she just knows they're all talking about it.<br><br>Husband probably wouldn't be home by the time she got back so maybe half a glass - never more- of wine.&nbsp; Maybe fifteen minutes on the treadmill or half an hour on the thighmaster then another two or three half glasses of wine to while away the long evening.&nbsp; She'll probably be in bed by the time her husband returns but if not then meaningless small talk over the evening meal.&nbsp; She'll likely treat herself to a glass of wine or two at this point, but she's careful to limit herself to two glasses a day.&nbsp; It should be noted that "half glasses" of wine or "drops" of wine in no way contribute to her hard maximum of two glasses a day.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Personal trainer, driver, hairdresser, whichever two of the familiar faces that populate her social circle are most in favour at that moment.<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Well, after a busy day she does like to unwind with what little wine she allows herself.<br><br></div></div><br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>09-12-2012, 17:59:05</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Former PC's up for Grabs as NPC's or or New Players</strong></span></span><br><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/heather.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Heather Millowitz aka Tell Tale Tart<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; Camden, NJ<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero, NY<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5’00”<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 95lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 18<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian, very pale<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Green<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Red bordering on soulless ginger.&nbsp; Long and wavy.<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Heather is willowy even though she’s short.&nbsp; She’s rather flat chested and slim hipped.&nbsp; Currently wearing roller skates, a pink and black plaid schoolgirl skirt with black knee high fishnets and a white cami top that’s bloodstained.&nbsp; She also sports the beginning of two fine black eyes and her nose is swollen.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Great cardio, minimal upper body strength.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Scar on her tummy from an appendectomy.&nbsp; Light freckles.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Deflects and turns difficult questions back on the questioner.&nbsp; Tends to attention whore and make everything about herself.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Terrified of not being pretty, especially in her face.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Xanax (recreational), Vicodine (recreational and sometimes necessary after a derby).<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Daniel and Ethel Millowitz.&nbsp; Daniel is a CPA and Rebecca a dedicated overbearing Jewish mother.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> Grandmother Millowitz, Grandmother Cohen (maternal), Uncle Morty (Ethel’s brother)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; From the outside, the Millowitz family is your typical modern Jewish household.&nbsp; Father Millowitz is an accountant and is a slight, already balding man who drives a moderately priced, sensible car and whose suit is always just a little bit baggy.&nbsp; Mother Millowitz spends her day keeping the home, noshing with neighbours and bickering with and being browbeat by her mother-in-law who has moved in with them.&nbsp; Grandmother Millowitz is really short, smaller even than Heather, and is in everyone’s business and is eternally suffering from the fact that her David married such a bad wife.&nbsp; And she lets everyone know about it.&nbsp; At length.&nbsp; She also has a host of medical problems that are her delight to discuss.&nbsp; From time to time, Grandmother Cohen comes to visit from Camden.<br><br>From the inside, some cracks in the façade show to be much larger than they appear.&nbsp; Mother suffers some sort of poorly diagnosed and largely dismissed bipolar disorder and is prone to panic attacks.&nbsp; She seeks solace from them, and from her mother-in-law, in the pill bottle, especially Xanax.&nbsp; When he comes home, Father is tired from work and spends little time with the family, preferring instead to let his mother fuss over him and tell him what a good boy he is before trading shoes for slippers and going into his study to read and do a little bit more work.&nbsp; Grandmother Millowitz dominates the household and has a sharp tongue for everyone but her David.&nbsp; She is currently very critical of Heather for not finding a good boy to marry, for dressing up like she does and playing that scandalous, dangerous game of hers and for not eating enough.&nbsp; The only time everyone is happy at once is when Grandmother Cohen comes to visit.&nbsp; She is a truly amazing woman and it’s a bright, busy time when she’s around and all the more depressing when she leaves.<br><br>Heather is the only child, and is a little spoiled because of it.&nbsp; She earned decent marks in school but is by no means a scholar.&nbsp; Growing up with the constant harassment from her Grandmother, Heather’s self confidence took way too many hits to survive.&nbsp; The only thing, ever, that Grandmother Millowitz gave Heather praise for was being pretty.&nbsp; It’s the anchor to Heather’s fragile self esteem and she’s wrapped up in it and terrified of having it challenged.&nbsp; Roller derby is less about the sport, and more about the attention she receives because of her derby persona, the Tell Tale Tart.&nbsp; <br><br>Heather has one really good friend, Elizabeth who is a senior at the HS and a flighty and deeply loving friend who forgives Heather all her faults.&nbsp; She’s the one real person in Heather’s life whom she needs and loves.<br><br>Heather works at Hollister in the mall, has no plans to go to college and isn’t dating anyone.&nbsp; She’s never been on a date before; being forced to go with someone to a Bar Mitzvah dinner doesn’t count, nor do the awkward yenta-ish pairings her Grandmother arranges with nice grandsons of other meddlesome Jewish grandmothers.&nbsp; <br><br>Of late, Heather has been dipping into Mommy’s Xanax, taking chemical refuge from the emotional storm at her house.<br><br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Roller derby teammates, Elizabeth Goetz (cheerleader at HS)<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> Vulva Display of&nbsp; Power (Susan Moritz)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Retail, Hollister Judith Ridley Memorial Mall<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Lives at home in her upstairs bedroom.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Roller skates, Mommy’s Van, Elizabeth’s Volvo<br><br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Reformed Judaism<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Follow the rules, don’t shame the family.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Immoral<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Single<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; No one<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Bisexual, but not yet had sex<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Would really like to kiss a girl, really kiss one.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Facebook, get out of bed, see what Mommy or Grandma Millowitz has cooked for breakfast.&nbsp; Complain about it and get scolded for not eating enough.&nbsp; Facebook.&nbsp; Text Elizabeth.&nbsp; Update profile with new pictures.&nbsp; Shower.&nbsp; Facebook.&nbsp; Go to work.&nbsp; Pretend to like people and lie that they look good in what they’re trying on.&nbsp; Text. Get yelled at for texting at work.&nbsp; Skip lunch.&nbsp; Facebook.&nbsp; Go home.&nbsp; Find Mommy tripped out and decide whether or not to raid her purse, medicine cabinet or just borrow the keys to the van and go out or all three.&nbsp; Come home way too late.&nbsp; Get scolded by Daddy or Grandma Millowitz.&nbsp; Facebook and text until you fall asleep.&nbsp; On derby days, skip all that and spend the entire day primping and trying on outfits for the derby.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Daddy, Mommy, Grandma Millowitz, Elizabeth, Herself in every mirror possible.<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Facebook.<br><br></div></div><br>Currently Written by:- Open to all<br><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/ColinSawyer.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Colin Andrew Sawyer (AKA 'The Prof')<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; male<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; June 15, 1985 in Toledo, Ohio<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero, NY<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 6’0”<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 175 lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 32<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian/peachish<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Brown<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Medium Brown<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span> Appearance: Colin tends to be slightly dishevelled with a “who cares?” type of look.&nbsp; However he tries to maintain his goatee as a nod to society <br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Thin, fit but not muscular<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; earring in his left ear<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Colin used to be an idealistic man but now, that is no longer true as he no longer likes what he sees in the world (and that was before the zombies came).&nbsp; For the most part he is affable but he rarely affords the opportunity for anyone to get too close to him as he does not wish to suffer any more disappointments in his life.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Colin is afraid of death and tends therefore to be risk adverse.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Colin is an alcohol abuser, not an alcoholic.&nbsp; Any time that he looks back on the disappointments or sorrows in his life, he is likely to be found drinking and will not stop until wasted.&nbsp; Black outs are not uncommon.&nbsp; When he gets drinking, especially if he’s alone, he will vent diatribes in opinion letters to the local paper under a pseudonym.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Howard and Belinda Sawyer<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; Amanda Chance (25), brother-in-law Tyler Chance<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> Douglas Sawyer, paternal uncle; Jana Sawyer, paternal aunt by marriage to Douglas; Michael Sawyer, cousin; Cheryl Sawyer, cousin; Nina Brady (divorced, took back maiden name), aunt; Robin Boone, cousin; Tamara Boone, cousin.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Colin had a fairly unremarkable childhood other than he always viewed, perhaps correctly, that his sister was his parents’ favourite.&nbsp; <br>He received his undergraduate degree with majors in history and political science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.&nbsp; However, U-M would not accept him into their PhD program for political science, which dampened his spirits.&nbsp; His parents, however, were more than disappointed that he chose to pursue a PhD as they warned him that the degree would be next to useless in making money.<br>However, getting into a warm university at Florida State lifted them again.&nbsp; In his final year of creating his thesis, he fell in love with his ex-fiancé, Jennifer Dennell, a blond hair, blue eye bombshell who spent as much time tanning and shopping as she did in his bed.&nbsp; Figuring, this was everything that he could desire in a woman, he proposed to her.&nbsp; <br>In the final stages of finishing his dissertation, he applied for and was virtually assured a professorship at Syracuse University.&nbsp; He broke his lease and moved all of his materials to New York only to be told upon arrival that funding had run out and they would have to hold off on his employment.&nbsp; When the job fell through, his fiancé’ told them that she was done with him, as well and cancelled her plans to move to New York, citing that it was “too cold.”<br>Dejected, and having nowhere to turn to, he was able to wrangle a job at Romero Community College teaching history and political science.&nbsp; Since then, he has heard no end of “I told you so” from his parents and their pride at his sister’s wedding last year.&nbsp; His parents have started bothering him about settling down and hinting with pride that his sister is trying to get pregnant.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Most of Colin’s friends are scattered around the states and world due to the nature of being in academia.&nbsp; He tries to keep up via facetime, Facebook, and email when he thinks about it.&nbsp; Usually, however, they have to instigate conversation.<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> ex-fiance’, Jennifer Dennell<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; History and Political Science Professor at Romero Community College<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Two bedroom apartment, very cluttered but not filthy.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; 2002 Honda Civic<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Agnostic<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Follows the rules that make sense and that will help his career.&nbsp; He does not go out of the way to break the law.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Only when necessary and in self defense.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Single<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Not at this time<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Heterosexual<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; He has no particular known kinks.&nbsp; At Florida State, he once had a three-way with two women.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Wake up, depending on how many hits of the snooze alarm, shower and eat breakfast (breakfast suffering in the case of a late wakeup), go to the college, teach and do office hours or whatever mandatory meetings, write, apply for openings for professorships at reputable universities, eat dinner and go to bed, starting “fresh” in the morning.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> students, faculty, landlord (usually because rent is late), security at the college and college administrative staff<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Sleeping<br><br></div></div><br>Currently Written by:- Open to all<br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/clare.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Clare Callaham<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; 1990, New York City<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Colony Court Apartment Building, Romero New York<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'6"<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 115lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 26<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; white girl!<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; brown<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; blue and black<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; gothic girl, all in black<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Thin, but not physical<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Tattoo of the devil on her left buttock<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Odd and cranky, macabre.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; The depths of the ocean<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Soda and cigarettes <br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Mother lives in New York City. Father passed away.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended Family:</span> None<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall Background:</span>&nbsp; Her mother turned into a drunk when she was fifteen. It was brought on by her father losing his life to cancer. As soon as she graduated, she moved from New York City to Romero. She had been in charge of&nbsp; her school’s small radio station, and that opened the door for her to a position at the Romero Cable and Radio station. She is in charge of working nights and making sure the music stays on, as well as a few speaking parts where she states the station’s name. Her odd hours haven’t allowed her to make any friends or enemies, though her love of loud, hard core music has pissed off her neighbour more then once.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal Enemies:</span> Perhaps the man that lives next door<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current Job:</span>&nbsp; Radio DJ (sort of)<br><span class="bbc_u">Living Conditions:</span>&nbsp; Modest, in a poor neighborhood<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; 1970 Nissan Sentra in very bad shape<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Do unto others as they do unto you<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics And Law:</span>&nbsp; She follows the law for the most part. Red lights don’t count.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; She’s never killed before.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; No<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Broke up with a coworker six months ago, when he moved to New York City<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or Other:</span>&nbsp; Heterosexual<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Orgasms. A lot of them.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Wake up at 6pm, drink coffee, smoke, eat at the diner, sometimes, then go to work. Then maybe shopping or reading after she gets off&nbsp; in the morning.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often:</span> Landlord, the night security man when he closes up behind her, the waitress at Gino’s Italian Grill, the dirty old bum that asks her daily for change, and her cat, Fluffy <br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Putting on one earbud and listening to her Ipod and good music while she sits alone in the radio station.<br></div></div><br>Currently Written by:- The Incomparable Aadreal<br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/robtRiley.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Robert Riley<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Male<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; 10/10/1980, W. Virginia. - moved to NY when he was 7 <br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; A Cabin in the woods a few miles from Green Lakes Village, NY (About 15 miles outside Romero)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'11”<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 170 lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> <br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; White, mostly Irish but who really knows<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Dark Grey<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Red<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Thin, but in shape from hiking, hunting and fishing.&nbsp; Angular features and poorly kempt beard.&nbsp; Longish hair, usually tucked under a baseball or knit cap depending on the weather.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; In fairly good shape from a highly active life style.&nbsp; Bob has very good endurance, used to hiking for miles.&nbsp; <br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Mostly his beard, none otherwise.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Bob is a quiet and solitary sort of person.&nbsp; He's not much for conversation unless he's had a couple of beers or a joint.&nbsp; He's not very friendly, but very respectful and polite from his southern roots.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; None that he is aware of<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Bob drinks beer and smokes pot, a lot of pot.&nbsp; He's also got a pretty decent streak of paranoia about the end of the world.&nbsp; A few years back he bought a small cabin in a village outside of town and has been stockpiling food, water, rifles, and other survival gear.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Both live in Romero.&nbsp; His dad works as a carpenter, his mother a geriatric nurse.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; One younger sister, Amy Riley, living in NYC<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> His extended family&nbsp; is almost all back in W. Virginia.&nbsp; He has several aunts and uncles on both sides.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Robert grew up in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains in W. Virginia.&nbsp; When his dad lost his job, they moved to upstate New York when he was 7 and his sister Amy was 4.&nbsp; He got average grades in school, spending most of his time out fishing when he was younger, getting into hunting in his teen-age years.&nbsp; While not exactly poor, his family struggled growing up, and hunting and fishing helped the family get through rough times more than once.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Bob doesn't really have many close friends.&nbsp; One of his cousins back in W. Virginia comes to NY to hunt every November.&nbsp; After a recent visit to TNT, he invited Nicolas to come hunting or fishing out by his cabin some time..<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> None<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; New York State Public Parks<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Lives in a small cabin, with about 20 acres of woods around it.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; 1984 Ford F-150 and a 1982 Honda CX 550.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Vaguely Methodist.&nbsp; More what he was raised with than what he really believes.&nbsp; Still he goes to church with his parents most Sundays.<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Mostly tries to live by the golden rule.&nbsp; Doesn't much trust the government or big companies.&nbsp; His family is from a long line of union supporting southern democrats.&nbsp; Like religion, he doesn't really have very strong feelings on ethics or politics, it's more about the way he was raised and the fact it feels comfortable.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Doesn't enjoy it, it is his least favourite part of hunting.&nbsp; That being said, he has a fairly practical view on killing, being raised to believe the best self defence was a .38 revolver in the night stand.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; No<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; No<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Hetero<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Due to his upbringing he's not a particularly sexual person.&nbsp; It's not that he doesn't have desire, but he doesn't express it often and it's not high up on his list of concerns.&nbsp; <br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Wakes up, smokes a joint.&nbsp; If it's tourist season, he'll be stationed at one of the ranger stations on a rotating schedule.&nbsp; Trail maintenance is one of his favourite tasks as he will often spend a few days on the trail by himself or with one other ranger.&nbsp; After work another joint, a six pack, and then usually something related to preparing his cabin.&nbsp; Lately he's been trying to build a distiller in his root cellar.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> His parents, and more recently the Maxwells, where he is a big customer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Wake and bake.<br><br></div></div><br>Currently Written by:- The Bane!<br><br><hr><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/lizcastle.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Elizabeth (Elie) Castle<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; August 7th, 1990; Syracuse, NY<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero, New York, USA<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5’ 4”<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 105 Lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 22<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian/White<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Brown<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Black<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Appearance: In her early 20’s, Elie cares almost only about her physical appearance; she would never go outside, or interact with anyone without being 'appropriately' dressed and wearing make-up. She would never want to be seen as less than 'perfect'.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Elie considers herself pretty fit. She goes to the local gym every morning to work out, alternating between free weights and swimming. She also tries to eat healthy most of the time so she can keep her good health and looks.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; Elie has a somewhat noticeable scar on her left side, about 8 inches long, which she got at the result of a car accident in which she was involved.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Elie is very much a “Daddy’s girl”. Due to her father’s wealth, Elie never had to do much for herself. She would just need to ask daddy, and him loving his daughter so much, would give and grant her almost anything. Because of her “easy” life, Elie has never really had the opportunity to learn many of life’s lessons, so she can be quite gullible as she wouldn’t know better. Elie likes to live an exciting life so she goes out seeking parties and social gatherings where she can have fun.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; As mentioned above, Elie has a fear of never presenting herself as perfect to others. She also has a phobia of heights, were even a few feet off the ground is enough to make her panic.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Elie is definitely the kind of girl that abuses of her looks where she will flirt to get what she wants.<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Elie’s parents are still happily married and still living in Syracuse. Both are famous and very reputable lawyers within the city, always trying the biggest cases the city sees.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; Just one; a younger sister, Malory, still living with their parents.<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> Most of her extended family lives in Syracuse, with a few of her aunts and uncles spread across other states.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Born just over 22 years ago in the neighboring town of Syracuse, Elie was from the start daddy's little girl and nothing was ever denied to her. Growing up, Elie was actually quite the shy kid, not really dealing with others and preferring her own corner. Due to Elie's mother being strict when it came to schooling, Elie always was a grade A student, which was easier since she spent most of her time at home. Since she preferred being on her own, Elie's childhood was quite uneventful. Just before she enrolled in fourth grade, her family moved to Romero, so her parent could continue on their careers as lawyers. That's when she met and made her real first friend, Anthony. They became almost inseparable after that. Elie and her family moved back to Syracuse before she started senior high. When she started senior high, that's when her personality changed in almost its entirety. With the arrival of a new pretty girl, she immediately fell into the popular crowd, and the status and personality that came with it. She had now become the exact opposite of the child, and young teenager she had been. She was now a total extrovert, a bit more selfish, definitely more superficial (where her appearance was paramount) and preferred to be in every popular social event. Later in her high school year, she started to mingle and date boys, and once she found out she could use her looks and body to get what she wanted, nothing became out of her reach; especially since she was still daddy's girl. Once she had graduated, she took a few years off school to enjoy life and her friends before she decide to go back to Romero and study business at its community college. Although there's not much that she didn't try and experiment with after senior high, like drinking and smoking, she had never done drugs, refusing every single time. Although Elie loved having fun with boys, as in between the sheets, there was never one that sparked the feeling of wanting a long term relationship. She had fallen in love with the physical connections and having no attachment that it was all she wanted; sex and nothing afterwards. Once Elie had become this new person, her personality never seemed to revert back. This new person she had become over such a short amount of time was now Elie; and she actually loved who she was now. Elie was now almost done her associates degree, to be completed this summer before she would pack her bag once more and head to a university to get her bachelor’s degree.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; Elie has a few friends in Romero; notably Natalie and Sarah. She’s also great friends with Anthony (Tony), whom was the first person she met when she moved to Romero. Tony would love to be dating Elie, but she’s condemned him to the Friendzone. All four often referred to themselves as the Quartet.<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> There’s no one Elie would consider an enemy, although she has been at the receiving end of more than a few threats due to her flirting nature with other men, although nothing serious has ever become of it.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; Student; currently studying at Romero Community College.<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; Elie lives in a two-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of the Dwane Jones Apartment building.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Elie drives a relatively new, white, Volkswagen EOS Convertible.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Although born a Christian, she has decided to align herself more towers atheism.<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Although she mostly knows right from wrong, and isn’t one to break the law, she will definitely try to have it bent in her favour.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Elie is too much a of a pacifist when it comes to things like death; she would do anything to avoid it rather than confront it.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Single.<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Elie is only interested in flirting and a quick hook-up, she’s not interested in anything long term at this time.<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Heterosexual as she has only been with men, but she has expressed curiosity towards women.<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Elie is all about pleasure; she wants hot, passionate sex with no attachment. She definitely knows what makes herself tick.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Elie’s routine always starts by having a quick, light, breakfast before heading off to the gym. Once done her workout and shower at the gym, she’ll head off to school for the day. Once school done, she’ll usually dilly-dally around with her friends before heading home to eat and do her homework. Although she’s not the smartest when it comes to street-smarts and she likes to party and have too much fun, she is very book smart and studious, taking her business studies very seriously. Once her work complete, she’ll either hang out a home glued to her computer or head out with friends just to laze around. On the weekends, Elie can easily be found at a party or anywhere else all other college kids are hanging out at.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Anthony, Natalie and Sarah which she sees daily. There's also Drew, one of her most common hookups, every few days between the others. Elie would also often see her parents, at least every few weeks.<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Going to the gym. Although Elie loves being a social butterfly and always being around people, she enjoys the hour or so of alone time, so that she can collect her thoughts and make all those hard life decisions.<br><br></div></div><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/Ash.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Ashlyn Belle Grant (aka Ash)<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Female<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; Westfalls, New York (a very tiny town to the north east of Romero) <span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Romero New York<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; 5'7"<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 149lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> <br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian/fair skin<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Dark moss green with golden speckles<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; Honey blonde hair cut into long layers falling in loose curls and waves to just below her shoulders<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; In her mid twenties Ash is a conflict of appearances.&nbsp; While she takes great care of her appearance, she hides her figure behind layers of clothing. Fitting the general profile of “cute” she rarely lets it shine through, preferring to hide it away from the world.&nbsp; Her ex was extremely jealous and it became habit. She’d love to be more adventurous with her looks but is terrified of making any changes, even something as simple as temporary dye in her hair.<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Biking and walking ensures she manages to keep off the extra pounds the years have tried to add to her. Never really a health nut she eats what she likes, which is starting to show in the slight pooch of her stomach.<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; While Ash is rarely in the sun anymore, she still bears freckles on her face, arms, stomach and legs from her youth. Also there is a round scar high on her right inner thigh, possibly a cigarette burn.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; Ashlyn has two sides, the public persona and the private.&nbsp; Publicly she is upbeat and bubbly, the eternal cheerleader there to make days brighter.&nbsp; Always wearing a smile she goes out of her way to make others feel good and is often at the center of attention.&nbsp; Privately she enjoys being alone.&nbsp; She feels bad that she doesn’t deeply care about anyone or anything but she just doesn’t.&nbsp; Even though she fakes it quite well.&nbsp; She’d be perfectly happy being left all alone with her books.&nbsp; Mostly cheesy romance novels.<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Ash is afraid of fire, especially near her.&nbsp; She is terrified at the thought of suffering a long, drawn out death and has resolved to kill herself if ever diagnosed with anything terminal.&nbsp; She’s never been a fan of horror movies and ever since her first job working the mortuary in Westfalls, zombie movies have given her nightmares.<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> She’s tried various substances, legal and illegal and they all made her sick.&nbsp; So she’s never really gotten into any of them.&nbsp; Really her only addiction is chewing on ice cubes, it’s rare for her to not have a cup of mostly ice chips with her when she’s stressed.&nbsp; She’s started chewing gum as a replacement after chipping a tooth on an ice cube.&nbsp; But it’s still not quite the same.<br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Her parents still live in Westfalls.&nbsp; They had a falling out when she left for the “big city” of Romero with Kyle six months ago.&nbsp; Both teach at the one grade school there, her mother teaches English and her father Math.<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; She is an only child<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended Family:</span> She has been told she has family out West in the Oklahoma area but has never met them.&nbsp; Her parents moved to New York when they were fresh out of college.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall Background:</span>&nbsp; Born in Westfalls, NY to a pair of high school sweethearts Ash had the perfect youth.&nbsp; Always pretty, popular and athletic she was well known and friends to most of the kids her age.&nbsp; Her sweet disposition and outgoing personality helped her get out of any trouble her friends landed her in.&nbsp; She was a leader but only if left no choice, preferring to remain in another’s shadow.&nbsp; <br><br>She’d been mediocre in school, never quite measuring up to the standards her parents set.&nbsp; Or what they considered her full potential.&nbsp; Cheerleading came easily to her, the show of it, the tumbling and athleticism.&nbsp; Once she was in high school she truly began to shine, her leadership abilities coming out until she was the head cheerleader.&nbsp; This drew the attention of Kyle, the football quaterback and generally considered golden boy.&nbsp; The two of them dated throughout high school, Kyle pressuring Ash into so many things she didn’t want to do.&nbsp; Only she and his other victims ever saw his dark side.<br><br>With her grades being less than stellar and having no idea what she wanted to do, she found herself missing out on the various college offers her parents pushed.&nbsp; Or perhaps it was because her parents were pushing.&nbsp; They’d always been rather controlling, wanting her to fit in an image of their design.&nbsp; So she ended up working at the local diner while attending classes to earn her beauticians certification.&nbsp; The funeral home director in Westfalls was a good friend of her father and offered her a job working as the make up artist there.<br><br>Kyle lost his scholarship and was kicked out of college for plagiarizing papers and paying others to take his tests.&nbsp; Returning to Westfalls in shame he convinced Ash to move with him to Romero where they could start a new life.&nbsp; She’d managed to find work there, but nothing full time and so was left struggling with multiple part time jobs.&nbsp; Kyle on the other hand found himself quite comfortable living off of Ash.&nbsp; And then later off of a former friend from Westfalls who just happened to move to Romero as well.&nbsp; It was all too much for Ash and she finally developed enough of a backbone to leave Kyle for good, moving in with her only true friend who came to Romero for work.&nbsp; So now she’s truly single for the first time since she was a teenager and trying to build her own life.&nbsp; A new dawn is breaking for her, just not in the way she thought.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; She has only one true friend, here in Romero or in Westfalls.&nbsp; That would be Sarah Cole, the woman she is currently living with.&nbsp; Sarah and Ash were friends back in high school, complete opposites yet they bonded instantly in detention one afternoon their freshman year.&nbsp; She has many acquaintances but if they are out of her life for more than a week she really stops caring about them.&nbsp; It’s rare for her to let anyone get close.<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal Enemies:</span> Currently she considers her ex Kyle Stephens her enemy.&nbsp; Along with her former squad member and “friend” Jenny White.&nbsp; Jenny always seems to be around when Kyle starts fights with Ash and invariably he ends up in Jenny’s bed after drinking himself into a stupor.&nbsp; As with friends, she doesn’t really let people in enough to make enemies.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current Job:</span>&nbsp; Funeral Home Make-up Artist at The Vanridge Family Funeral Home and Crematorium.&nbsp; Also works freelance as a cosmetologist for a couple of salons around town and bridal shops.&nbsp; She’s hoping to someday earn a chair at one of the salons but with the economic downturn there’s not as much business as there once was.<br><span class="bbc_u">Living Conditions:</span>&nbsp; Currently homeless and crashing with a friend that lives in an apartment above Lily Pad. A discreet store specializing in “marital aides” and bondage gear. Located off of Durden Street. The homeless situation is new, she and Kyle rented an apartment together four months ago but after a fight she stormed out, leaving everything behind. That was about a week ago and they've yet to contact one another. Other than what she was wearing at the time she has had to buy a new wardrobe from the thrift store.<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; Bicycle. She prefers to walk or ride her bicycle however when the weather turns bad she takes the bus.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; She attended a nondenominational Christian church throughout her childhood but since moving to Romero she hasn’t bothered.&nbsp; Religion and belief systems never really stuck with her.&nbsp; Nothing seems to click and so she just goes through life trying to be a nice person and treating others as she wishes to be treated.<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Ash has an almost childlike faith in the government, federal and local.&nbsp; She firmly believes that they will do what is best and only people who have something to hide disagree.&nbsp; The police are always in the right and if they do make a mistake, well, they are human after all.&nbsp; But the justice system will let the innocent prevail.<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; Despite dealing with the dead all day, she can’t even manage to kill a bug in the apartment.&nbsp; It’s not that she’s squeamish, she believes all life to be precious.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Ash is in an on again, off again long term relationship with her drunken and sometimes abusive high school sweetheart, Kyle. He was the school darling and quarterback and she homecoming queen and a cheerleader. It was always expected they would settle down and marry.<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; Currently she is not looking for a relationship even though she considers herself single.&nbsp; After the last fight she swore she’d never get back with Kyle again.&nbsp; She’s decided to focus on getting herself in a better place and is considering leaving Romero all together.<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or Other:</span>&nbsp; So far as she knows she is straight. But then again, her ex has been the only one she's ever gone beyond kissing and light petting with.<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; She sees nothing wrong with sex, no matter who the partner is. She just doesn't think it's for her. Sex is a chore and an obligation. She'd much rather just take care of herself when the urge hits.&nbsp; So far masturbation has been the only time she’s ever orgasmed.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Her daily routine has changed since moving in with Sarah but as it stands...get up at four, use the bathroom.&nbsp; Head to the kitchen to make breakfast and pack a lunch for Sarah&nbsp; while she gets up and gets ready for work.&nbsp; Check her calendar and emails for appointments while they eat together.&nbsp; Once Sarah leaves for work at six clean up the kitchen and give the place a once over.&nbsp; If she doesn’t have anything lined up for the day, search for work locally and outside of Romero or head out to do what shopping needs to be done.&nbsp; If she does have appointments, gather her kit (if for the living, the kit for the dead is stored at the funeral home) and head out.&nbsp; Her schedule varies by day.&nbsp; If possible she makes dinner for the two of them.&nbsp; She’s not a great cook but she’s not terrible either.&nbsp; Clean up the dishes and kitchen then usually head to bed by ten.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Sarah, the mortician/funeral director William Vanridge, Mrs. Burke the nice old lady who owns the store downstairs, Gavin who is Mrs. Burke’s pet, Tammy the owner of one of the salons she works at and Brittany the owner of the other.<br><span class="bbc_u">Favorite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Being able to take care of things for Sarah.&nbsp; The woman works long hours and has high stress levels as a pediatric nurse.&nbsp; That she can do this for her friend makes her reconsider the desire to leave Romero. <br></div></div><br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Dead State NPC's</strong></span></span><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/npcharrym.JPG)<br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Harry Maxwell</strong></span><br><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span> Harry Maxwell<br><span class="bbc_u">Nicknames:</span> Old Harry<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 45<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span> Male <br><span class="bbc_u">Appearance:</span> Late Middle Age, greying, somewhat curmudgeonly<br><span class="bbc_u">* Hair:</span> Greying dark brown, receeding hairline<br><span class="bbc_u">* Eyes:</span> Dark Blue<br><span class="bbc_u">* Height:</span> 6'2"<br><span class="bbc_u">* Weight:</span> 235lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">* Clothes:</span> Tends to wear jeans and t-shirts or surplus gear<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Background History:</span> Inherited the store from his father, born and raised in it and has been working in it/running it/raised his family in it. He served in the US Army for eight years from eighteen to twenty six and served in the drug war in Bolivia. He is a committed and dedicated family man who will do all he possibly can to protect his loved ones.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Job/Schooling:</span> Owns and operates TNT Surplus<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Usually played by:</span> mayovagn<br><br><br><hr><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/npccharlesm.jpg)<br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Charles Martin</strong></span><br><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span> Charles Martin<br><span class="bbc_u">Nicknames:</span> Marty<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 32<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span> Male<br><span class="bbc_u">Appearance:</span> Young looking for his age, well cared for seventies style afro, black with a tidy goatee beard.<br><span class="bbc_u">* Hair:</span> Big black seventies style afro<br><span class="bbc_u">* Eyes:</span> Dark Brown<br><span class="bbc_u">* Height:</span> 6'4"<br><span class="bbc_u">* Weight:</span> 270lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">* Clothes:</span> Casual but smart and well turned out, always likes to look good and tends to wear labels. Very confident <br><br>in his own style.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Background History:</span> Charles grew up in Boston, studied business in college and landed himself a position at the <br><br>local Costco soon after leaving college. Handed his own department he did very well and was soon asked if he would be <br><br>prepared to re-locate to a new location. He took over from the retring night manager at the Romero Distribution warehouse <br><br>and has been working there ever since. He is a good boss and liked by his staff.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Job/Schooling:</span> Manager of the night staff at the Costco Distribution Warehouse in the industrial district<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Usually played by:</span> !open!<br><br><br><hr><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/npcdave.jpg)<br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>David Nazdine</strong></span><br><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span> David Nazdine<br><span class="bbc_u">Nicknames:</span> Dave, Big Dave, Big D.<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 27<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span> Male<br><span class="bbc_u">Appearance:</span> Large and fit Caucasian male always looking professional even with the long hair which is usually pulled into a tight ponytail.<br><span class="bbc_u">* Hair:</span> Long, light brown hair currently died black. Facial hair is on/off sometimes a full beard, sometimes clean, sometimes a goatee<br><span class="bbc_u">* Eyes:</span> Blue-Green<br><span class="bbc_u">* Height:</span> 6’4"<br><span class="bbc_u">* Weight:</span> 250lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">* Clothes:</span> Slacks and a button-up shirt of various styles and colors. He has also been known to wear a suit jacket if the occasion called for it or a Duster.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Background History:</span> Born and raised in Romero, NY, Dave went to school in NY city to get his degree. He then moved back to his hometown after college and got a salaried job working at the local Radio/News Station. He was only salaried because he was constantly On Call, any time anything went down, he had to drop what he was doing and get there to fix it. Company car included in the package. Neighbors with the local late night radio host and her blaring music.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Job/Schooling:</span> On-Call IT Technician at KRZR<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Usually played by:</span> mayovagn (Possible promotion to PC if a new player would like to take him)<br><br><br><hr><br><br><br><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"></span>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>01-01-2013, 08:35:32</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Dead State Deceased Characters</strong></span></span><br><br><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size">Main Characters</span></strong><br><br><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt;" class="bbc_size">Bo Hawkes</span> - <em>Gunshot to the gut followed by mercy killing by Clare Callaham - Disposed of in the gas furnace under Boulcotts Store</em></strong></span></div><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/bohawkes.jpg)<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Basic Details:-</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span>&nbsp; Robert ‘Bo’ Hawkes<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span>&nbsp; Male<br><span class="bbc_u">Born:</span>&nbsp; Carson City, Nevada; January 1982<br><span class="bbc_u">Current Residence:</span>&nbsp; Carson City, Nevada&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Appearance and Physical Traits</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Height:</span>&nbsp; Six Foot<br><span class="bbc_u">Weight:</span>&nbsp; 215lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 31<br><span class="bbc_u">Race/Skin Tone:</span>&nbsp; Caucasian/White<br><span class="bbc_u">Eyes:</span>&nbsp; Brown<br><span class="bbc_u">Hair:</span>&nbsp; None/Bald<br><span class="bbc_u">General Appearance:</span>&nbsp; Usually Camo Pants and a T-Shirt of sorts. Typically clean cut and well groomed simply for purposes of fighting and ease of maintenance. If it’s cold out, he’ll either wear a CarHart jacket<br><span class="bbc_u">Fitness:</span>&nbsp; Physically fit, runs often and constantly working out in preparation for defending his right to bear arms<br><span class="bbc_u">Distinguishing Marks:</span>&nbsp; No scars. Only other thing would be a 5’O’Clock Shadow<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Mental Traits and Personality</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Personality:</span>&nbsp; If you’ve ever known the military nut that never joined the military, Bo is the epitome of that. He is twitchy and nervous about everything, never really wanting to trust anyone and always thinking they’re after him<br><span class="bbc_u">Phobias or Fears:</span>&nbsp; Having his firearms taken from him is his main fear<br><span class="bbc_u">Addictions or Substances or Behaviours you abuse: </span> Mountain Dew<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Family</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Parents:</span>&nbsp; Deceased<br><span class="bbc_u">Siblings:</span>&nbsp; A brother he never talks to<br><span class="bbc_u">Extended family:</span> His gun club<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Overall background:</span>&nbsp; Bo grew up in the mountains in Nevada. His parents owned a small house in Carson City where he was raised and taught how to shoot from a young age. His father was an avid member of the Carson City Gun Club. The club would get together once a month to discuss firearms and shoot at their own private shooting range. From the moment Bo could hold a BB Gun he carried it everywhere, his father taught him to shoot and he’s been slowly progressing in his skill and weapons knowledge since he was a child.<br><br>His parents died when he was 21 and left the house to him. He only had one other sibling, the black sheep of the family, he was anti-guns and ended up joining the Peace Corp, his family disowned him the day he left. Bo, on the other hand, carried on the legacy of the Hawkes family, eventually becoming the President of the Carson City Gun Club, CCGC. Bo also inherited the family arsenal as well as picking up a few weapons of his own throughout his life. You name the rifle, shotgun, handgun or carbine and he probably had it or was planning on getting it. The illegal stuff was a bit harder to come by, but being the president of the CCGC, he had connections and could get his hands on almost anything gun related.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Friends and Enemies</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Friends:</span>&nbsp; The members of the CCGC and other Gun Clubs around the country. Bo was an avid member as the President, always traveling and trading weapons and talking with the other clubs around the country<br><span class="bbc_u">Personal enemies:</span> Liberals<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Job and Economic Status</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Current job:</span>&nbsp; President of the CCGC. He doesn’t get paid from this, but his trade in weapons as well as being able to restore and or perform light repairs on almost any gun has made him enough money to stay afloat and be relatively comfortable with few creature comforts<br><span class="bbc_u">Living conditions:</span>&nbsp; The Family Home in Carson City&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><span class="bbc_u">Transportation:</span>&nbsp; White Ford Bronco<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Religion and Ethics</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Beliefs:</span>&nbsp; Do unto others as you would have done unto- GET OFF MY PROPERTY!<br><span class="bbc_u">Ethics and Law:</span>&nbsp; Supports the right to Bear Arms like it is his religion. Follows the laws.. Loosely...<br><span class="bbc_u">Killing:</span>&nbsp; If they’re trespassing, it’s fair game.<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Relationships, Romance</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Married or in a Committed Relationship:</span>&nbsp; Committed to the cause.<br><span class="bbc_u">Dating:</span>&nbsp; None<br><span class="bbc_u">Heterosexual, Bisexual, Gay, or other:</span>&nbsp; Straight<br><span class="bbc_u">Sexual Desires:</span>&nbsp; Straight sex. Can be kinky and a little rough in bed. But mostly missionary<br><br><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Daily Routine</strong></span><br><span class="bbc_u">Daily Routine:</span>&nbsp; Wake up, practice taking apart his vintage Colt 1911 for an hour and putting it back together, trying to beat his best time every morning. He then goes for a 2 mile run and works out in his garage on a punching bag and with a few free weights. After doing this, shower, shave and go out to the Club to practice shooting. If a trip is not planned, he will go about his day, hocking his wares to fellow club members as well as selling his services to collectors as a restoration specialist. By the end of the day, Bo ends up at home after talking guns, selling guns or restoring guns all day. He eats, showers once more and goes to sleep with a gun under his pillow. If he has a trip planned like his trip to Romero, he will do his usual morning routine then load up his truck with anything he plans to sell or show off before driving cross country. He makes sure to stay at or under the speed limit and does his best to not do anything illegal considering his cargo that sits under&nbsp; blankets in the back of his truck.<br><span class="bbc_u">Five people you see most often: </span> Vice President of the CCGC. Fellow Gun Clubbers. Any customers he has throughout the day and his vintage Colt 1911<br><span class="bbc_u">Favourite thing about your daily routine:</span>&nbsp; Cleaning, dismantling and reassembling his vintage Colt 1911 in the morning<br><br></div></div><br><hr><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Supporting Cast</strong></span><br><br><br><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size">Janice Franks</span> - <em>Munched on by a crawling biter on the run from the radio station to Boulcotts department store on Day01. Left at her insistence. Almost certainly crawling around dead herself now due to lower leg damage from crawler.</em></strong></span></div><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/npcjanicef.jpg)<br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Janice Franks</strong></span><br><br><span class="bbc_u">Name:</span> Janice Franks<br><span class="bbc_u">Nicknames:</span> Jan<br><span class="bbc_u">Age:</span> 31<br><span class="bbc_u">Gender:</span> Female <br><span class="bbc_u">Appearance:</span> Neat and tidy black woman in her late twenties or early thirties, usually smiling.<br><span class="bbc_u">* Hair:</span> Short close cropped black<br><span class="bbc_u">* Eyes:</span> Dark brown<br><span class="bbc_u">* Height:</span> 5'8"<br><span class="bbc_u">* Weight:</span> 148lbs<br><span class="bbc_u">* Clothes:</span> At work wears the blue grey security guards uniform that all three WRZR employees wear to man the desk. In her off hours wears comfortable casual clothes in a variety of bright colours.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Background History:</span> Born and raised in Romero, used to work in a factory manufacturing Fridges and Freezers as a finisher. When the factory packed up and moved down to Mexico found a new job as a security guard/concierge with one of the downtown apartment buildings. Moved on from there to night security at WRZR for better pay and the oppotunity to read all night.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Job/Schooling:</span> Night security at WRZR.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Usually played by:</span> mayovagn<br><br><br><hr>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>02-01-2013, 03:40:16</strong>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>02-01-2013, 03:40:26</strong>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>02-01-2013, 04:53:36</strong>
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				<span class="bbc_u"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size">Contents of Bo's Truck</span></strong></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Guns</strong></span><br><br>All arms that are clearly capable of full automatic fire or that Bo didn't have permits for/were otherwise illegal are concealed under the rear seats in a compartment created for this purpose. For those weapons that have box magazines there are up to four spare empty magazines, though this number varies and some weapons do not have spares. Bo is carrying several hundred to several thousand rounds of the more popular types of ammunition though the rarer, scarcer kinds he is not carrying as a good number of the guns he is transporting would have been for the collector market who do not shoot their toys.<br><br>All guns are well maintained and in good to excellent condition (variable).<br><br><strong>Rifles</strong><br>Three M1 Garands<br>Two British Short Magazine Lee Enfield's Mk4's<br>Four M1 Carbines, <br>Two M14's (Military issue version with fire selector for full automatic)<br>Four Bennelli pump action shotguns<br>One Ruger .22 rifle, <br>One FN FAL battle rifle, <br>One Dragunov sniper rifle, <br>Three AK-47's, <br>One AKM and <br>An AK-74 with reflex sight<br>Arctic Warfare Magnum sniper rifle. <br><br><strong>Light Machine Guns</strong><br>1 Bren<br><br><strong>Submachine Guns</strong><br>Two Sterling L2A3's<br>One Steyr TMP<br>Four H&amp;K MP-5k's<br>One MP-38<br>1 Long barrel Uzi<br>2 Uzi's<br>2 Uzi Mini's<br>3 Chinese Type 05 JS (9x19mm chambering)<br>1 PPSh-41<br>2 Thompson M1A1's<br>3 M3A1's<br>1 Ingram Mac 10<br>2 Skorpion vz.61's<br>2 PP-90's<br><br><strong>Hanguns</strong><br><br>Five Browing HP Mk III's<br>Four Glock 19's<br>Two Glock 26's<br>One Steyr GB<br>One Luger P-08<br>One Mauser C-96 Model 712 with 20 rd magazine<br>Two H&amp;K P7M13's<br>Four Walther PPK's (9x19 chambering)<br>One Walther P38<br>Two Desert Eagle .50AE Magnum's (Gold Plated)<br>One Desert Eagle .357<br>Three Beretta 92S's<br>One Beretta 93R<br>Seven Tokarev TT's<br>Two Makarov PM's<br>One Stechkin APS (with stock)<br>One AMT Automag II<br>Five Colt M1911's<br>One Colt Government short slide<br>One Wildey Wolf (.45 Winchester Magnum chambering with kit for .44 auto mag)<br>Three Bren Ten<br>Three Ruger P95's<br>Two CZ 75's<br>One SIG-Sauer P-228<br>Two SIG-Sauer P-229's<br>Three SIG-Sauer P-232's<br>One Baby Nambu<br>One Webly Mk 4<br>One Colt Python (2.5 inch barrel)<br>Three Colt Detective Specials<br><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Other stuff.</strong></span><br><br>On the back seats are numerous items including Bo's large bag, two large thick olive drab blankets,&nbsp; an army all weather sleeping bag, a full sized hatchet and a small pop up pup tent.<br><br>Bo's bag contains two changes of clothes, one large survival knife, one hatchet, one goretex hammock, a set of mess tins, two tooth brushes, boot basics (polish and boot care items), one reverse osmosis hand pump water filter, AM/FM Weather Radio, Whistle, TP, Condiments and spices, Snare wire, Two sets of pen flares, Chem light sticks, Extra cell phone batteries, spare pay as you go cellphone, roll of duct tape, metal mirror, small sewing kit, fishing line weights hooks and lures, mosquito repellent, fallschirmjager poncho, small solar charger,&nbsp; two full canteens of water, a hundred yards of paracord, a military stove and two packets of hexamine blocks, small gun maintenance kit, small personal tool kit and a small survival tin.<br><br>In the glove box of the car there is a packet with ten grand in fifties and twenties in it, map books for the US, personal papers, ziplock bags three CREE LED flashlights and one CREE LED headlamp flashlight.<br><br>Under the front seats there is a small medical kit and a vehicle tool kit.<br><br>In the back of the truck there is a locked tool stowage box bolted to the bed with a small gas generator and a full set of hand tools. Locked into the sides of the truck are two gerrycans of fuel.<br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>26-01-2013, 08:52:22</strong>
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				<div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="bbc_size">Civil Defence County Headquarters Bunker Under Boulcotts Department Store</span></strong></span></div><br>Since this is likely to come up in the story sooner or later I am providing floor plans for the bunker. The plans are not fully to scale, doors for instance are exaggerated.<br><br>In the basement of Boulcotts, hidden behind one of the shelves in the files store on the third level of the basement is a door that leads to the tunnel to the back door to the bunker. This tunnel is about two hundred yards or so long, plus or minus twenty yards and slopes down with a sharp turn at the end as a blast baffle. This hidden door and its tunnel will no doubt be discovered sooner or later. It has the old fifties civil defence logo stencilled on it and is a solid steel design but not otherwise anything special.<br><br>The blast doors shown on the floorplans are all tank armour grade steel and will require some finesse or brute strength to move, though they are all currently open.<br><br>Most of the supplies, including all telephone, television, radio, computer and other equipment was last updated in the mid nineties but is in place and functional. All the plant is functional though could use some maintenance. The bunker is watertight and shows no sign of flooding. It is lit and the air system cycles every half hour or so automatically. The bunker is clearly not totally decommissioned but does appear to be somewhat mothballed.<br><br>All stores are in place aside from those that should be in the armoury, which is currently empty.<br><br>The main operations room has a large map of the county in it as well as several maps of the country and of North America as a whole and is clearly intended for use to plan contingencies in the event of war.<br><br>The computers and phones all work, though the computers are all late nineties vintage. There is a bank of ISDN connections to the local town hall which are in unknown condition.<br><br>The tunnels that lead to the entrance blast doors are both around two hundred feet long and slope downwards gently. The bunker itself is clearly a good distance from the store due to the length of the tunnel.<br><br>The staircase that leads down to the lower level has a winch and pulley system that runs down the middle of it that can be used to lower heavy equipment down from the upper floor.<br><br>Each dorm has double bunk beds with footlockers and will hold around forty people.<br><br><br>Any questions or comments about the bunker please yell at me in PM.<br><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/bunker_upper.gif)<br><sub>Upper floor of the bunker (click to expand)</sub><br><br>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/bunker_lower.gif)<br><sub>Lower floor of the bunker (click to expand)</sub><br><br><br><sub>Original source images that were adapted for use as the Romero Civil Defence County HQ Bunker were found &nbsp;<strong>here</strong> &nbsp;(http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/st_twynells/index.html).</sub>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>20-02-2013, 09:12:20</strong>
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				<span class="bbc_u"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Boulcotts Hunting Weapons Inventory</strong></span></span> <sub>By Joy</sub><br><br><br><strong>Shotguns</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mossberg 500 12 guage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 taken by Bob, both come with 3 barrels, in storage under the cabinets<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mossberg 500 20 gauge&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;field barrells only<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remminton 11-87 12 gauge semi automatic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remminton 11-87 20 gauge semi automatic&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beretta DT 11 over/under 12 gauge&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beretta DT 11 over/under 4-10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><strong>Rifles</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remmington 700 .308&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remmington 700 30-06&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Browing BAR .300 Winchester&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Browing T-Bolt Sporter .17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Browing T-Bolt Sporter .22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remington R-25 .243 Win&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><strong>Pistols</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Smith &amp; Wesson Bodyguard .38 revolver&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;have integrated laser sight<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Glock 17 9mm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Glock 23 .45&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ruger MkIII .22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Taurus 1911BHW .45 ACP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><strong>Bows</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Only carries the one brand<br>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bear Archery Youth Bow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bear Archery Super Grizzly Recurve&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bear Apprentice RTH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Highly adjustable entry level bow 20-50 pound draw.&nbsp; One in pink camo, the other standard<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bear Archery Siren RTH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bear Archery Anarchy &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bear Archery Encounter RTH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bear Archery Legion
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				Title: <strong>Re: Dead State - General Info, Announcements, Characters and Stuff!</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>mayovagn</strong> on <strong>21-02-2013, 02:47:27</strong>
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				<span class="bbc_u"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size">TNT Surplus Weapon Inventory</span></strong></span> <sub>by mayovagn and Joy</sub><br><br><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Shop floor and stockroom</strong></span></div><br><strong>Rifles</strong><br>7 Ruger 10/22 Carbines<br>6 Ruger 10/22 Target<br>5 Ruger 10/22 Sporter<br>4 Ruger 10/22 Tactical<br>3 Ruger SR/22 Tactical<br>2 Ruger M77 Hawkeye 30-06<br>4 Ruger M77 Hawkeye 308 Win Mag<br>3 Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle Hardwood<br>4 Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle Black Synthetic<br>10 Ruger SR-556 with Collapsible stock<br>5 Ruger SR-556 with solid stock<br>8 Ruger SR-556 Carbine with Collapsible stock<br>1 Sig Sauer SSG3000<br>1 Sig Sauer TAC2<br>2 Sig Sauer SIG551-A1<br>3 Sig Sauer SIG556<br>1 Sig Sauer SIG716<br>2 Steyr SSG 08<br>1 Steyr Elite 08<br>1 Steyr HS .460<br>3 Steyr AUG A3/SA USA<br>8 Colt LE901-16S<br>12 Colt LE6940P<br>3 Colt AR6450<br>8 Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P15T .223<br>4 Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P Sporter .223<br>6 Bushmaster ACR Enhanced<br>2 Bushmaster M4-A3 .223<br>3 Bushmaster ORC .308<br>1 Bushmaster MOE .308<br>2 Bushmaster BA50<br>2 Diamondback DB15FDE .223<br>4 H&amp;K SL8 .223<br>2 H&amp;K SL8 .308<br>3 H&amp;K USC<br>7 Springfield Armory M1A<br>1 Springfield Armory SOCOM II<br>2 Springfield Armory SOCOM 16<br>4 SAM7R 7.62x39mm<br>10 WASR-10 7.62x39mm<br>2 Norinco MAK-90 AK-47 7.62x39mm<br>38 Mosin Nagant<br>24 SVT-40<br>9 SKS<br>6 Short Magazine Lee Enfield No.IV Mk 4 (Indian Manufacture)<br>2 Short Magazine Lee Enfield No.IV Mk 1 (Enfield Manufacture with Volley Sights)<br>2 Lee Enfield No.V Mk 1 ‘Jungle Carbine’<br>3 Mauser Kar98K<br>1 M1 Garand<br>3 M1 Carbine<br>1 M1903 Springfield<br>1 Arisaka Type 99<br>1 MAS-36<br>4 Remington 700 .308<br>3 Remington 700 30-06<br>1 Remington 700 XCR Tactical .338 Lapua Magnum<br>3 FN FAL 7.62N<br>4 FN PS90<br>1 FN FS2000 Tactical<br>4 FN SCAR 16S<br>2 FN SCAR 17S<br>3 FN FNAR Standard<br>1 FN FNAR Heavy<br>1 Savage Arms BA110 .338 Lapua Magnum<br>2 Kimber Montana 8400 30-06<br>2 Kimber 84 Longmaster Classic 308 Win Mag 24"<br>1 Blaser R8 Luxus .300 Win Mag<br>1 McWhorter Weatherby 300 Wby Magnum<br>3 Winchester Model 70 30-06<br>2 Winchester Model 70 .300 Win Mag<br>1 Browning Xbolt Medallion .308 Win<br>1 Beretta Tikka T3 Lite .243 Win Mag 22"<br>1 McMillan Brothers Rifle Co. TAC-50. 50BMG<br>3 Rossi 92 R92-56001 .357 20"<br>7 Rossi 92 R92-57002 45 colt 20"<br>3 Henry Golden Boy .22 LR 20"<br>2 Henry Varmint Express 17 HMR 18"<br>1 Henry Youth Lever Action .22 LR<br>1 Browning 1886 45-70<br>2 Bushmaster M4A3 AR-15<br>1 SIG 516 Patrol<br>1 Brazilian M954 30-06<br>2 Knight Armament SR-25 Widowmakers .308<br>1 Rossi Circuit Judge 44 Magnum<br>2 American Tactical Imports STG-44 22 LR<br>3 Kel Tec RFB .223<br>1 Kel Tec RFB .308<br><br><strong>Shotguns</strong><br>4 Mossberg 500 Persuader 12 Gauge<br>3 Mossberg 500 20 gauge<br>1 Mossberg Maverick 88 Tactical 12 Gauge<br>6 Remington 11-87 12 gauge semi automatic<br>3 Remington 11-87 20 gauge semi automatic<br>1 Remington 870 Exp Tac 12 Gauge<br>1 Remington SPR 453 12 Gauge<br>2 Benelli Super Black Eagle II 12 Gauge<br>3 Benelli Montefeltro 12 Gauge<br>6 Saiga 12 Gauge<br>2 Browning Silver Lightning 12 Gauge<br>2 UTS-15 tactical shotgun 12 Gauge<br>1 FN Herstal FNH SLP 12 Gauge<br>1 Ithica Model 37 12 Gauge<br>1 Winchester Model 1912<br>3 Kel Tec KSG<br>2 CZ-BRNO RV85 26.5mm Flare Launcher<br><br><strong>Pistols</strong><br>3 Sig Sauer P226 9mmP<br>2 Sig Sauer P226 .45<br>2 Sig Sauer P228 9mmP<br>3 Sig Sauer P229 9mmP<br>1 Sig Sauer P290<br>1 Sig Sauer M11-A1<br>3 Sig Sauer P232<br>2 Sig Sauer 1911<br>6 H&amp;K P7 9mmP<br>2 H&amp;K P7M13 9mmP<br>3 H&amp;K VP70<br>3 H&amp;K P30 9mmP<br>1 H&amp;K P30 .40<br>1 H&amp;K P30L .40<br>2 H&amp;K HK45 Tactical<br>1 H&amp;K HK45 Tactical Compact<br>1 H&amp;K P2000SK<br>3 H&amp;K USP<br>2 H&amp;K Mark 23<br>2 H&amp;K P2000 .45<br>2 H&amp;K P2000 9mmP<br>8 Glock 17<br>9 Glock 19<br>4 Glock 26<br>3 Glock 27<br>3 Glock 23<br>2 Steyr C-A1<br>1 Steyr M-A1<br>1 Steyr L-A1<br>2 Ruger MkIII<br>2 Ruger LCP .380 Auto<br>3 Ruger SR45<br>4 Ruger SR22<br>1 Ruger LC9<br>2 Rugar Super Redhawk .44 Mag<br>6 Ruger SR9C<br>5 Ruger SR1911<br>2 Ruger P95<br>2 IMI Desert Eagle .50AE<br>3 Beretta 92F<br>8 Beretta 92FS<br>2 Beretta Px4 Storm Type F<br>2 Beretta BU9 Nano<br>9 Browning Hi-Power Mark III 9mmP<br>9 Browning Hi-Power L9A1 9mmP<br>3 Browning Hi-Power Practical 10mm S&amp;W<br>1 Colt M1911A1 (1940 vintage) .45 ACP<br>12 Colt 1991 .45<br>1 Colt Defender .45<br>3 Colt New Agent .45<br>1 Colt Special Combat Government .45<br>1 Colt Special Combat Government .38<br>5 Colt Combat Elite .10mm<br>2 Colt Pocketlite<br>3 Colt Single Action Army<br>1 Colt New Frontier<br>3 Tokarev TT-33<br>3 Makarov PM<br>4 Walther PK .380<br>2 Walther P22<br>2 Walther PP 9mmP<br>1 Walther PPK 9mmP<br>1 Webley Mk.IV<br>3 Kel-Tec PMR-30<br>4 FN Five7<br>6 FN P45<br>3 FNS 9mm<br>1 FNS .40<br>6 CZ-82<br>2 CZ-91S .380<br>1 CZ-91S .32<br>7 CZ-75 P07<br>1 PLR-16<br>5 Century Draco Pistol 7.62x39mm<br>2 Diamondback DB9<br>1 Diamondback DB380<br>2 Diamondback DB9HO<br>2 Kahr P380<br>3 Kahr TP45<br>1 Kahr K40<br>1 Kahr MK40 Elite<br>1 Kahr CM9<br>9 Kel Tec PMR 30<br>5 Kel Tec PF-9<br>2 Kel Tec P11<br>2 Kel Tec P3AT<br>4 Kel Tec PLR-16<br>4 Kel Tec PLR-22<br>2 Taurus 24/7 .40<br>1 Taurus 24/7 9mmP<br>1 Taurus 24/7 .45<br>1 Taurus 709B<br>2 Taurus 1911HW<br>1 Taurus Model 44SSB<br>1 Taurus Raging Judge<br>2 Charter Arms .38 Undercover<br>3 Charter Arms .357 Mag Pug<br>1 Charter Arms .44 Special Bulldog<br>1 North American Arms .22 Magnum Derringer Revolver<br>2 Smith and Wesson SD9 VE<br>3 Smith and Wesson SD40 VE<br>2 Smith and Wesson SW1911<br>4 Smith and Wesson 22A<br>1 Smith and Wesson Bodyguard 380<br>2 Smith and Wesson Classics Model 42<br>1 Smith and Wesson Hammerless Concealed Carry revolver .357 Mag<br>2 Smith and Wesson Governor<br>1 German Sport Guns Sport Pistol 522 .22LR<br>2 Bersa Thunder .380<br>1 Bersa Thunder .22<br>3 Bersa BPCC<br>2 Bersa Thunder Pro HC 9mmP<br>2 Bersa Thunder Pro HC .40<br>2 Draco AK-47 Pistol<br>2 Bushmaster Carbon 15 Type 21S Pistol<br>1 Bushmaster Carbon 15 Type 97S Pistol<br>2 Springfield Armory XDS<br><br><br><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Upstairs in Gun Safes and hiden caches</strong></span></div><br><strong>Rifles</strong><br>4 Ruger 10/22 in ZK-22 Bullpup conversion with built in laser and threaded barrel<br>1 Walther WA 2000 in .300 Win Mag<br>1 1903 Springfield with Pedersen device<br>1 Browning BAR (World War II Vintage in ‘Clyde Barrow’ cut down configuration)<br>1 Barrett M99 .50 BMG<br>2 M1 Garand<br>2 M1 Carbine<br>1 1903 Springfield<br>1 Short Magazine Lee Enfield No.IV Mk 4 (Enfield Manufacture)<br>1 PTRS-41<br>1 Mk 1 Boys<br>2 Fallschirmjägergewehr 42<br>2 Sturmgewehr 44<br>1 M1941 Johnson Light Machine Gun<br>2 Sturmgewehr 52<br>2 SVT-40<br>1 M30 Luftwaffe Drilling<br>1 Martini Henry Short Lever Rifle<br><br><strong>Shotguns</strong><br>2 Mossberg 500 Persuader 12 Gauge<br>1 Saiga 12 Gauge<br>2 Kel Tec KSG<br><br><strong>Sub-Machine Guns</strong><br>1 Lanchester Mk I<br>1 FG 42<br>1 MP40<br>2 M3A1<br>4 Thompson M1A1<br>1 BSA Thompson 1926<br>1 Bermann MP28 II<br>1 Sten Mk II<br>4 PPsh41<br>1 Sterling L34A1 (integrally suppressed)<br>1 Lysaght Works Owen Gun<br>1 Vigneron M2<br><br><strong>Machine Guns</strong><br>1 MG-42<br>1 MG-34<br>1 M1919A6<br>1 Bren<br><br><strong>Pistols</strong><br>2 Kel-Tec PMR-30<br>2 Stechkin<br>3 Makarov PM<br>1 Artillery Luger P.08<br>1 Navy Luger P.08<br>2 Kel-Tec PMR-30<br>1 H&amp;K P7<br>1 H&amp;K P7M7<br>1 H&amp;K P7M13<br>1 Sig Sauer P232<br>1 Smith and Wesson Bodyguard 380<br>1 Mauser C96 Red 9 (with holster stock)<br>2 Mauser C96 M1930<br>1 Mauser C96 Luftwaffe M30<br>1 Mauser C96 M1898 Pistol Carbine (with holster stock)<br>1 Mauser C96 M1932 (with holster stock)<br>2 Mauser C96 M712 (with holster stock)<br>2 Hanyang C96<br>2 Astra Model 900 C96<br>1 Mauser HSc<br>1 Colt 1903<br>3 Colt 1911<br>1 Colt 1911A1<br>1 Colt Navy 1861 Heavily Engraved and Silver Plated - Signed by Gustave Young<br>2 Colt Single Action Army (pair in box mfd 1901)<br>1 FN 1910 9.65<br>1 Auto Mag Corporation AutoMag .44<br>2 AMT AutoMag II<br>1 AMT AutoMag III<br>1 AMT AutoMag IV<br>2 Glock 19<br>1 Glock 27<br>1 Gyrojet Mk I<br>2 Gyrojet Mk II<br>2 AMT Hardballer<br>1 AMT Hardballer Longslide<br>1 AMT Hardballer Commando<br>1 Springfield Armory 1911A1 Brastil<br>1 JP Sauer 38H<br>3 Walther P38 (WWII Wehrmacht use)<br>1 Nambu Type A<br>1 Nambu Type B<br>1 Nambu Type 14<br>1 Nambu Type 94<br>1 Nagant M1895<br>1 Hi-Standard Model B 1939 .22 LR<br>1 Hi-Standard Model H-D Military .22 LR with Original Box<br><br><br><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>In the Bunker</strong></span></div> <br><div align="center"><sub>Most of the weapons stored in the bunker are for emergency purposes. A few are part of a private collection of 'illegal' guns that require being hidden from prying eyes.</sub></div><br><strong>Rifles</strong><br>4 M14 Juggernaut Rogue<br>6 AK-47<br>2 AKU-94<br>1 AN-94<br>1 Z-M LR 300<br>1 Flux Colt XM177E2<br>2 Steyr AUG<br>4 Kel Tec RFB .308<br>4 M1 Garand<br>3 M1 Carbine<br>2 Short Magazine Lee Enfield No.IV Mk 4 (Enfield Manufacture)<br>2 Mauser Kar98K<br>2 Blaser R93 LRS2 .338L<br><br><strong>Sub-Machine Guns</strong><br>2 P90<br>2 MP5A5SD<br>1 MP7A1<br>1 MP5K<br>2 American Arms American-180 (Each with 3 275rd Drums)<br>1 De Lisle Carbine (Original World War II from the Sterling Armaments Company)<br>2 AN-94<br><br><strong>Shotguns</strong><br>4 Saiga 12 Gauge<br>1 AA-12 12 Gauge<br>2 Mossberg 500 Persuader 12 Gauge<br>2 Kel Tec KSG<br><br><strong>Grenade Launchers</strong><br>1 China Lake Grenade Launcher<br>2 M79<br><br><strong>Machine Guns</strong><br>1 Pecheneg bullpup conversion<br>1 H&amp;K G3<br>2 Stoner KAC Stoner 96 LMG<br>1 RPK<br>1 FN MAG<br><br><strong>Pistols</strong><br>2 Kel-Tec PMR-30<br>3 Makarov PM<br>6 Sig Sauer P228<br>2 H&amp;K VP70<br>2 Diamondback DB9<br>1 Goncz GA-9 Long Barrel 
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