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Winter Break playing group

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Since many of us are college kids and will have ample time this winter break, I'm looking for a few people interested in playing a character on a modern zombie survival NWN PW. Since I don't have the playtime during school, I will personally be (mostly) abandoning the group in a few weeks, so I intend to be a very lively group with some intense action. From what I've played so far the world is pretty interesting and the community seems to be a group of pretty good RPers, which is frequently not the case in a lot of ZS communities (where do you think I found Secutor? Yea, true story).

http://outbreak.freeforums.org/index.php

There are a few options I've thought of, and I'm all ears to suggestions:

-A bunch of thuggish neighbors from the slums who love a little mayhem and find their new and chaotic world to be just what the world needs- to start over, live life like the Stone Age... (based loosely on the neo-nazis from Smokin' Aces and Fight Club) My second favorite idea.

-ex-cops (or ex-firefighters) trying to pull the people at the headquarters together, every one having their own ideas about how to get the job done right. My third favorite.

-citizens-turned-mercenaries who want to lay down their own set of rules (needs more detail)

-An Upper-Middle class family just trying to make it through the madness but whom refuse to leave their great-grandpa behind and were unable to evacuate him before the infection. This is my favorite so far.

-A bunch of high school students from either totally different or nearly a identical situation (i.e. a sports team, and NO, we won't play the damned cheersquad, I'm sorry Wern) who managed to stick together through the madness because of some odd coincidence (detention/athletic event/whatever).

I'll be playing during the days- nights will be for partying like a rockstar. Thus, Europeans who play late or Americans who play during the day are best, although I won't deter anyone from hopping onboard. If you would like to join me, say so here as well as which ideas you like best (or your own idea!). Rank your favorites first through third. If you have questions, please direct them to me via PMs. I'll probably be using this thread to keep the group posted on what's up. ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Bullets are REALLY hard to get in sizable quantities, considering the danger of retrieving them coupled with the low probability of actually finding them. Even when you do, you get 1-12 at a time and there are 15+ different kinds of ammo...

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Current arrangement for the Roberts family. Note that the blanks are just a rough outline; some of these family members may already have died.

Definate family: Great grandpa Brennecker, mother's grandfather: the reason the family stayed; gonna ask if we can get him as an NPC, if not, we'll assume he perished. He was a perfect example of a grumpy old man.

Doctor Johnathan Roberts, the uncle/brother (Garem): A swarthy and wealthy radiologist from West Tennessee. Always a bit too adventurous, thus never married. He treats his nephews and nieces as if they were his own children. He spent two terms as an alderman for a Memphis suburb before returning to practice. An avid sportsman and outdoorsman. Fifty-two years old, and in decent health.

Son of undetermined aged (The Focusing of Skilled Pwnage): "I'll go for a quiet, introspective type who, while seeming to be soft, is actually quite sadistic. He believes greatly in poetic justice and the greater beauty in things, and has a strong dislike for whoever in the family is the most manly and brave, and assumedly vice versa. He will most likely slowly turn mad by the Undead around him and become evil, Lord of the Flies style."

Allison Roberts, Daughter (Linelle): 21 years old girl, "'Allie' is a driven and unconventional girl. Highly intelligent and witty she is not one to submit to peer pressure, managing to stand out in her own way. Despite being charming and friendly, she is somewhat self-conscious about her looks and has a tendency to be messy and behave awkwardly on account of this. But she still is very convinced of her own views and thinks of her parents as somewhat old-fashioned. Currently studying at college for a major degree in education and a minor in english; also developping an eating disorder. Because everything was mostly just handed to her in the past she has an extra hard time to adjust to a life in the post-apocalyptic nightmare."

Younger son, 17-20 year old (Poiking of Paha): "A rather young fellow on his edge of heading to independent and adult life, as he is, I was thinking of a rogue character. He's a quiet type of a fellow, with habbit of breaking it all out in one burst if it goes to that. He's a bit snobbish, thinking that as they are, he and he's family can do everything better than most of them, and tries to live up to it."

Grandpa Brennecker, mother's active grandfather (StD): In his seventies. Always complains about his aching back.

Cousin, son or daughter of the father and uncle's sister (LTS): Eccentric cousin.

Tentative family:

Father, Dr. Robert's younger brother, age around fifty.

Mother, a few years younger than her husband to allow son/daughter age flexibility.

unassigned/unchosen players: DoctorDragon DolorousEd Halfbrood Emyruk

Could be giving it a shot. Though, I'm away for the christmas about a week at 19th day, but in general this could be fun to try out a bit on spare time.

The idea of upper-middle class sounds just dandy. Rather normal folk with few chances to enchance the nature of character.

Oooo...modern.

I'm in France right now, but if I can find a decent FREEDOM CONNECTION for my laptop then I'll definitely check this out.

This might be interesting. If I'm free, you can count me in. It'll give me something to do, when I'm not scoring with hot chix and their sisters.

Count me in. I'll get my firefighter/cop/superhero dad of the family's ancestor axe of zombie slaying to help you guys.

I already have a char on there and would be glad to help your group shoot up stuff! Done Done DunDUn!

Exam time, as I may have mentioned. I'll be contacting everyone in the next couple days to arrange things. As it stands, we'll go with the Upper-Middle class family. I'm going to be playing the grandpa or an older Uncle. We need a father and/or mother settled first. Anyone interested in this?

LTS, if you're playing, you're playing the snobby college freshman daughter. You don't get a choice.

Current setup now posted on the first post I made.

It'll give me something to do, when I'm not scoring with hot chix and their sisters.

So, you'll have an over-abundance of time on your hands to play then.

OOHHH, BURN

I'll play the older son if you want.

Ideas and spots are being grabbed. This is, of course, still open to the public!

Ha, 1/2brood pwnt.

I should have the time and the inclination to play in the near future, if there are any spots left - I should note that I don't really play female.

You can be the dad!

I tried to get this to work, but failed miserably. Couldn't even log in.

I'll try again tomorrow night.

Alright, it's about that time. I'm hoping we can get started this Tuesday for sure, tentatively from 12 pm to 8pm. Let me know if this doesn't work out.

Second, get in a description of what you'd like to play to me, if you haven't already done so. Just a sentence or two so I can post it by your character's name and allotment in the family. Remember, you don't necessarily have to be a family member; you can be a neighbor, a friend, the family's pastor, the gardener, a nurse for the great-grandfather, a son's best friend... whatever. Please indicate your relationship towards the other family members, if such exists (the daughter is easily angered by the mother and vice-versa because they grind each other's nerves about silly things, the younger son dislikes the father because he feels that he doesn't support him like the elder despite the opposite being true, the father doesn't like his father-in-law because he blames him for not helping him save his wife although there was literally nothing he could do in the situation... whatever)

Third, Kotenku sucks at life.

Fourth, I'll be on IRC almost all day tomorrow if the day goes as I plan it to, so contact me there for other questions.

Talk to you all tomorrow!

Garem Third, Kotenku sucks at life.
qft

Seventeen hours from this post is when we'll start- 4pm CST.

Catch you all then!

You'll have to send me a PM when I'm around to tell me the exact time... since I suck at timezone conversions.

Ditto.

Wow, I slept until 4pm today... I haven't been able to do that since I was a child. My apologies, but it looks like we need to solidify the time anyways.

Lets go with the 20th (two days from now) and ten minutes after the time of this post. That would be...

6 pm CST 5 pm EST

11 pm GMT

Aw I won't come home at all on the 20th, and even if I would I have to study for the big exam thing in a topic I am totally not good at, so no go.

No matter, you can start regardless, I will have more time the coming week as we will get a few days off.

The daugther just stayed late at school to study for her big exam on a rare topic she's not very good at. Good excuse. <_<

What Staring said.

Everything is still on.

Starting in one hour and fifteen minutes. Make sure you've got your character made and everything is working properly. As a reminder, this server uses its own haks, NOT the standard d20, so double check if you're not sure it's working.

Meet in IRC channel #MZS2 . I won't be there until nearly the go-time to ensure maximum playtime because my computer tends to overheat if I leave it on before playing (isn't that cool?).

See you all later!

I'm pretty sure I missed the start. And now I can't join. Sorry!

Well, my computer suddenly decided that it wouldn't play NWN at all and SFP was the only other person there... SO!

We're just going to start assuming we all ended up there at the Ringo Bar. No use making everyone wait for conflicting times. Check in on frequently #MZS2 so we can play together and all.

Will do, boss man.