Black Rain: Insanity Trigger (Survivor-Horror)

[Kingmaker]

Premise:

Spoiler:

The Effects:

Spoiler:

The Tall Man:

Spoiler:

Character Sheets:
Name: A-dur
Age: NOTHING below 16. I feel bad about killing kids.
Sex: This is a gender, not a "yes" or "No" question.
Location: Slums, Mid-Wage Tenements, Apartments or Condos. (These are the "states" of City Prime in rising order of cleanliness)
Former Occupation: What did your character do before this?
Weapons: If applicable, choose something that has a limit. This is a survivor-horror RP, not a shoot-em-up.
Affected?: If you are affected by Black Rain, tell how. Right now, I AM allowing certain parts of the side-effects to be included. In other words, you can hear some of the thoughts of Affected, or you have increased resilience, but not the insanity. Please be reasonable and expect this to change as the story goes on.
How did you survive: The RP starts a month after the Rain has been falling sporadically. How did your character survive being Affected? (Note: To be Affected, you must be in physical contact with Rain for a long time, get it into the bloodstream, OR swallow it)

What I Expect:
This is a Survivor-Horror RP. Your characters won't know what's real or hallucinations for quite a long time.
Don't get pissy if your character dies. If you make a stupid choice (I'll save you! Run!), I maintain the right to royally fuck up your character.
PLAY as you would TRY TO SURVIVE
I'm allowing multiple characters, because I'm expecting people to die. A lot.
This is fairly free-form. I have several ideas on how Black Rain came to be, but YOU guys decide which to go. I'm merely a guide, you guys write the story.

AND LASTLY: DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES godmod so you can kill A. The Tall Man, B. A Player-Character, C. A Plot-Important NPC. I MANTAIN the right to be the one who decides what characters live and die. If someone PMs ME to tell ME that they want their character to die at someone else's hands, okay, but TELL ME.


I will answer any and all questions in here.

[Shekinah]

Hey, this sounds very interesting, count me in!

Still, a question: is this a sealed off area? Or does Black Rain occur around the world? For instance; what if you'd want to play a character who has resided in another country and came back and found this and has never been in contact with this Black Rain before?

[Kingmaker]

Well, right now, we don't know. Think of City Prime as Oceania in 1984, all we know of the outside is hearsay.

You're by all means allowed to tell if the Black Rain has spread, or if it's punishing only City Prime. That's totally up to you.

[Shekinah]

Okay, so in that case I assume I can create a character that just came back to City Prime?

[Kingmaker]

Yes, that's perfectly acceptable. In fact, I'd make two characters, and keep one in reserve (As in, don't RP with them yet) in case your numero uno gets killed off.

[Shekinah]

Good idea. I'll come up with a char as soon as I can then. I should study now... have an exam tomorrow... Well, guess I'll have it up tomorrow either way!

[Kail DeWraith]

Its been a while since I've done a role play. Now that school is over I'm ready to get back to role playing. If you don't mind I would like to put a character up for this.

[Loki]

Character Sheets:
Weapons: If applicable, choose something that has a limit. This is a survivor-horror RP, not a shoot-em-up.

Don't get pissy if your character dies. If you make a stupid choice (I'll save you! Run!), I maintain the right to royally fuck up your character.
PLAY as you would TRY TO SURVIVE

AND LASTLY: DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES godmod so you can kill A. The Tall Man, B. A Player-Character, C. A Plot-Important NPC. I MANTAIN the right to be the one who decides what characters live and die. If someone PMs ME to tell ME that they want their character to die at someone else's hands, okay, but TELL ME.

SOLD!

I LOVE survival RPs... when they are done right.

The fact that you are setting the aforementioned ground rules is very promising, count me in. I'll have a CS up sometime within the next day.

[Loki]

I would like to be in control of both of these characters from the beginning of the story rather than establishing one as an NPC. Would that be acceptable?

Character Sheets:


Name: Ahnissa Elrich
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Location: Mid-Wage Tenements
Former Occupation: Student/Athlete
Weapons: Aluminum Baseball Bat, Hatchet
Affected?: Yes, showing signs of forgetfulness, sporadic hive-mind, increased resilience, and bouts of insomnia.
How did you survive: Ahnissa had been unaware of the true effects of the Black Rain until the damage had already been done. Fortunately for her, most of her free time was spent at her brother’s side helping him to recover from his illness rather than spending time outdoors; though she still had come into contact with it enough to develop mild symptoms.



Name: Chase Elrich
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Location: Mid-Wage Tenements
Former Occupation: Apprentice Mechanic
Weapons: 9mm (or futuristic equivalent), Machete
Affected?: No
How did you survive: Chase had contracted an illness that left him bedridden for nearly two weeks, starting just before the Black Rain began to fall. By the time he had recovered, suspicions had arisen suggesting that the Black Rain may be responsible for the sudden unusual behavior of the general public. After realizing mild changes in personality in his parents and sister, he opted to err on the side of caution and avoid any direct contact with the unusual substance.

[Guest]

Hmm, I think this looks promising

[Shekinah]

Is it okay for me to come up with a second char later on? At any rate, here's my first char:

Name: Alun van Brenkenhorst
Age: 23
Sex: Female
Location: Apartments
Former Occupation: Student/Researcher
Weapons: Bagh Nakh, Beretta
Affected?: No
How did you survive: Because Alun was a student-researcher she was residing in The Netherlands for the pas few months, conducting research about prisoners in that country. She just came back to City Prime.

[Kingmaker]

All approved. By the way, you can make a character at any time. This is never closed.

Consider it this way: In a city the size of City Prime, there's easily gotta be over 100,000 survivors, right?

Anyways, as a little note, some of the writing might seem a bit... Cheesy, if you're not in the right mindframe. I'm aiming for a setting where no one knows what's real or what's a hallucination any more. I'll set us up an OOC and an IC tonight. Thanks, all, for joining.

[Eternity]

Making a character, might just edit it into this post if no one posts after me by the time I'm done lol.

[Eternity]

Name: Abigail Valentina / "Valentine / Val" (as she goes by her last name)
Age: 22
Sex: female
Location: Apartments
Former Occupation: Security Systems Shift Designer
Weapons:
-Tactical Stiletto
-Pistol (Sig Sauer P220 Equinox)
Affected?: Yes. Effects include:
-Mutation:
-->The fingernails have grown out on her left hand until they are sturdy and sharp, only an inch long though. But they have also grown back into her fingers, having grown both ways. Because of this, her fingers are bound by band-aids. Every time her nails grow in either or direction, she bleeds a little from every finger and feels immense, numbing pain in her left hand.
-->Her teeth are sharper. A less painful something, but her canines are sharpened and slightly longer than the rest of her teeth. But don't take this as being vampire-like. The rest of her teeth are wicked sharp as well; like a wolves' teeth. Because of this, she tends to bite her darkening tongue or lips, and when she has her mouth closed, one can see her canines either out of her mouth, or against her lips from the inside (as having to hide her teeth makes her look as though she has an under-bite).
-Other:
-->Her mind is still somewhat sharp, but she has extreme paranoia about people following her, and strangers on the street.
-->Her hormones are somewhat rampant at times, making her have urges of lust and anger for short bursts of time.
She was infected the first day on her way home. She looked to the sky and a drop fell on her lips, a little getting inside of her mouth. After that, she's come in very slight contact with it twice more.
How did you survive: Valentine survives because of her good acquaintance Thame, and annoying little brother. She's also tough, unafraid of most things, and stubborn as hell. Dying is just too easy. As well, she's a tactical person. Having worked for a large security firm for two years, she knows the layouts of most buildings, as well as how to hack most automated locks, car alarms, and security setups.

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Name: Thame Estevan / "Amos"
Age: 30
Sex: male
Location: Apartments
Former Occupation: Security Systems Field Tester & Maintenance
Weapons:
-Benelli M3T Shotgun
-Hunting Knife
Affected?: No
How did you survive: Amos survived by being the toughest and most thought-provoking smartass around. He spent six years in the S.W.A.T. team and was done with that career by 27. He's got extreme combat training, a small arsenal of weapons, and the kind of training that prepared him to deal with all the damn crazies. He's also smart enough to know that if the black shit makes you sick, to stay away from it. After that, he worked in the security field.

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Name: Aaron Brooks
Age: 17
Sex: male
Location: Apartments
Former Occupation: Cashier at the local BP Station
Weapons:
-Kukri
-Phantom 9mm
Affected?: No
How did you survive: Mooching. He stuck with his foster sister Abigail and her ... unexplainable ''acquaintance" Thame. He acts tough, but without the guard of his bigger and wiser buddies, he'd be dead ten times over. He does have some skills with theft and sneaking around, though fighting and being intelligent about much of anything totally eludes him.

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[Kingmaker]

Okay. Are you gonna use all of them at the same time?

Anyways, my CS:

Name: The Tall Man
Age: Unknown, appears anywhere from 20 to 60
Sex: Male, obviously.
Location: He appeared in the Slums first, because that's where the Affected gathered the most...
Former Occupation: Well, this would take all the fun out of guessing, wouldn't it?
Weapons: Himself. The Affected.
Affected?: Oh, God's blood, yes. You could say, he's the epitome of affectedness.
How did you survive: Simple. He didn't.

Spoiler:

That's the main villain.

My Player Character:

Name: Joseph Doren
Age: 24
Sex: male
Location: Apartments
Former Occupation: Photographer
Weapons:
-Camera
-"Beatin' Stick", a reinforced metal pole with what appears to be concrete and barbed wire at one end.
-"Old Miss Fire" An old, slightly unreliable pistol.
Affected?: He's been affected with paranoia, hallucinations, brief flashes of the Hive Mind, and hormone/pheremone tracking abilities.
How did you survive: Joseph was caught in the first downpour. He'd been out, searching for clues on a paranormal scoop. The scoop? Some tall, lanky guy kept appearing. No one knew how, where, or why, but bad things always followed. He'd last been seen near a water-treatment plant. Joseph was walking home, empty-handed, when the rain started. It got in his eyes and ears... He spent the next few months in a paranoid stupor, before slightly awakening in his room, surrounded by hundreds of pictures of a tall, white male. In each and ever photo, the face was blurred.

Joseph vowed to find this man, and figure out what the Black Rain was.

[Eternity]

I plan on you, or me, killing off Aaron rather early. The point of having him is volunteering to throw that bastard under the bus lol.

[Kingmaker]

Accepted. He'll make a good show of what The Tall Man can do.

And depending on how far and wide this spreads, I have other "The *blank* Man" and Women thought up. For now, The Tall Man is mine, but if others get introduced, you can use them if they don't get godmodded to hell.

Ideas include:
The Burned Man
The Blind Child
The Missing Lady
The Fat Lady
The Strong Man

I'll let your imaginations churn these up...

Remember, whatever scares you, scares others. Let's make this a wild trip!

[Eternity]

Oh God my mind made immediate wonderful examples of The Fat Lady and The Blind Child.

I also thought up (so very quickly)

The Sick Man
The Doctor

[Kingmaker]

Well, we've got a sickly creative person here. Wonderful. We'll start with The Tall Man (He's sorta plot-intrinsic) and at a certain point, I'll let three other "people" be made, and we can all vote on that.

Sound good?

[Shekinah]

Name: Yosuke "Josh" Hokoshima
Age: 35
Sex: Male
Location: Apartments
Former Occupation: Scientist
Weapons: Staple gun, stun gun, axe.
Affected?: Yes, but just recently, so he's in the stage of dementia and just entered the stage of increased hormones and pheremones.
How did you survive: He's a scientist, the reason he was affected so late was that he never trusted the black rain to start with, since it was such a new phenomena. He has been inside ever since the rain started to fall, observing it from behind his window and seeing what it did to people who got affected. In the end he figured he had to try to come into contact with it too, if only to see how he himself would react to it and because he thought he could otherwise never find a cure, if there was any.

[I'm not sure yet when I'm going to use him though]

[YenWen]

Are you still looking for players?

[Spectre]

Heya. Well, if you're still looking for players willing to fight or flee, im in. If not, you can sure use my character as an NPC to destroy if you wish ;P... or even trash. up to you. xD


Name: Andrew 'Andy' Robinson
Age: 29
Sex: Male
Location: Apartments
Former Occupation: Rookie Police Detective
Weapons: pocket knife, [licensed] concealed carry G19.
Affected: No
How Did You Survive: Wearing a rain jacket, and a hood. Didn't ingest any black rain, nor receive any through the orifices. He kees seeing slight hallucinations however, of a tall black figure in the corner of his eye every once in a while...Regardless, his partner has been away from work for a week. He plans to visit him sometime, and bring an umbrella.



Name: Donald 'Don' Rothgar
Age: 52
Sex: male
Location: Condos
Former Occupation: Senior Police Detective
Weapons: Concealed Carry short 357 revolver, swiss army knife
Affected: yes, recently. Dementia, Hallucinations,
How DId You Survive: Well, he was not wearing a hat on the last day of work he attended. However he was able to receive the black rain through both his eyes and mouth, unintentionally of course. His trainee and partner has been trying to get ahold of him, however he has been unavailable for a week or so...

[Kail DeWraith]

I didn't realize there would be so many cops. Hopefully this is ok. If not than let me know and I can change this.





Name: Robert O'Guin
Age: 29
Sex: Male
Location: Slums
Former Occupation: Police Officer in the Gang Unit
Weapons: Kimber SIS .45,Benchmade Nimravus Knife, 10 inch flashlight, telescoping baton
Affected?: Yes, early stages of being "affected" by the Black Rain
How did you survive: Robert worked the slums of Prime City. He was out on a routine "walk-through" when the rain started to fall. Being without his rain jacket he was soaked in the rain. He did get a little of it in his eyes. Since then, Robert has gone building by building, doing his best to make it back to his family in a better part of town.

[YenWen]

Name: Amena Nahrazi
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Location: Mid-wage tenements; slums
Former Occupation: Telemarketing
Weapons: Small knife, kept from her father as a memento. It can fit in her pocket, but is still very sharp. Comes in handy in some situations
Affected? : Yes, in the early stages.
It started not long ago, but its affects are becoming apparent. Amena’s been easily enraged at everything in her path for about two weeks or so now. Her nights are filled with still sitting in front of the window, instead of precious sleep in her bed. She has bad spells of extreme tiredness during the day, due to her insomnia, thus she confuses her beginning hallucinations for simple day dreams. Being female, she’s also assumed her hormonal imbalance
How did you survive: Amena used to run frequently, just to keep herself in shape, so falling and skinning herself was nothing new. Unfortunately, although the rain was strange, she didn’t think much of it, being used to some of the disgusting things to be seen in the city-state. She skinned herself, tripping over a curb, and into a thick rain puddle. Her legs, from the knee down, were covered in the watery substance. She went home and showered quickly, but it wasn’t enough. She denies she’s affected, however, and tries to live her life as normally as possible. Under a paranoia of his own, her boss at one of the local telemarketing firms knew she was affected when she first started showing up to work tired from sleepless nights. He fired her shortly after, afraid the disease may mutate to being spread from person to person. Since losing her job, she’s begun to stay in motel rooms in the slums, until she can find a new place, and a new job, there, where people won’t believe her to be one of the Affected.

[Kingmaker]

All accepted. Since we have such a huuuuge group, I may not be able to mod over all of you. If I decide to choose a Co-Writer, will anyone be interested? I need someone who's creative, a little macabre, and able to govern over about half the people who have signed up.

If I get a co-writer, the IC goes up TONIGHT!

[Eternity]

I'll do it.

[Eternity]

OH I thought about another character. Instead of The Doctor, I have thought of The Nurse, and have the PERFECT picture for a frightening Affected Nurse.

EDIT:

I'm super excited. Just a little extra something I'd tack on.

[YenWen]

I'll help in anyway possible, if need be :3

[Eternity]

When we kicking this into gear?

[Kingmaker]

Okay, sorry. We start the IC tonight, possibly. Depends on how my schedule's looking.

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