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[Fire Ze Missiles!]

Heh...consider it under consideration. I shall reflect upon the matter.

[Vortigern]

I wouldn't agree with completely wiping the slate clean. That would negate the value of everything that has already been posted, and there are some seriously good ones in there. Check out Chapter 2A as a great example.

[segwayrulz]

Hey, i have an idea lets have like an alternate history timeline of it with the same/different characters. so its like wiping the slate clean but its also starting again sort of.

[Vortigern]

What, parallel timeline sort of thing? Different people in a different city and go from there? Maybe we could eventually merge the two... Still, I'm not entirely in favour of that either, and I'm sure most of the old players would disagree with it too, and not rejoin with new characters.

[some_weirdGuy]

*Imagines alternate reality where everyone is big hamsters, and one of the hamsters has a little pet human*


Do you mean alternate timeline, as in everyone is the same, but instead someone has a scar that they didn't have in original, and one of the people who is alive is dead now, and one that is dead in original is still alive, and instead of one guy being skinny, he is fat, and one person with dark short hair now has long blond hair, and...

Stuff like that sort of alternate?

The idea of following a different group might be cool, it would be awesome to run into our old group and be all like "hey, look, other people"

but whatever... we could always start anew, and have anyone who wants to make new people make them, while the people who want to keep their old characters can keep them, and we can just say that those characters were the only survivors from the group.

it can be set a bit after where we left off when it died

maybe a few months after? (or is that too long?... or too short?)

[Vortigern]

I was thinking we just have new characters, somewhere else in the world, who have their own experiences. Essentially we start over with a new load of characters and the same story, but in a different place.

[segwayrulz]

yea, thats what i meant as in alternate timeline. not alternate reality, with random things in it.
we could make it in england, or asia? and have it so that the infection disease as mutated there unlike the old place. so it makes it so there could be the smart infected and stuff.

[some_weirdGuy]

Or we could be in Australia, the only place not infected, and then we can point at all the others countries and be like
"ha ha, you got infected and we di... agggh, agh, aaaggggghhh... ... ... ...


...bbrraaiinnss"
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But seriously, it might be interesting to start off in a non-infected country. Then have the 'eerie experience' of watching the news about how America got infected, the how it all spreads(despite everyones best efforts), to South America, then Africa and Asia, then it moves on to us in Europe (if thats where we decide to start?)

all of this in a matter of days... then our adventure with the infected begins.



If people dont want their old characters gone, then what if we run this story parallel to the original story?
the RP section so far be called
"North American Apocalypse/ North American RP section" or whatever, then have the new European/asian/wherever section

but... theres the problem of not having enough people for this to work well...

i really dont know what we should do, but someone decide. *looks at FZMs expectantly*

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

I must admit, I like that idea. I suspect there may well be too many old, inactive characters in the original story for that to be effectively continued (juggling my...what, 6 characters in the latter days of it was something of a challenge whilst also trying to stimulate the story) which is a shame as I had become rather attached to them. Still, the idea of a fresh start, set in England probably (my home country which I love and therefore my choice of setting ), with whole new characters and just exploring the same sorts of events but from a different perspective is very interesting.
However, I lay down an absolute decree here: no 'smart' infected. I apologise SWG, but it's just too contradictory to the mythos and it just feels wrong to me. However, as I write vague images of alternate nemeses are already forming and I'm sure they could be equally menacing.

So, what do people think? English zombies? Bearing in mind that means very few guns and no leader creatures as the whole genetic modification thing is based in Yankland. I suspect this is the usual case of if enough people are interested I can actually see myself going ahead with this

[southsidediablo]

Well, it'd be nice to start up again. The small amount of firearms would probably add to the story, although, I'm sure there could be some small workarounds or exceptions?

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

Doubtless we could happen across some abandoned police or military stocks, but initially they would be rather rare. I'm thinking more weapons of the cricket-bat-and-tally-ho variety

[southsidediablo]

Haha, sounds good, but I'd love to have a Smith and Wesson model 19-3 .357 =P

Edited by southsidediablo, 09 January 2009 - 01:39 AM.

[Vortigern]

There'd be a few farmers and whatnot with rifles, and the military would have weapons. The first place I'd head for in the event of a zombie outbreak would be a military base. Therefore, there would still be potential for weaponry, but it would likely begin far more along the lines of Shawn of the Dead-style 'whack them over the head' tactics. I'm game.

[Fire Ze Missiles!]

Haha, a six-shooter would be hilariously awesome and useless. I love it
But seriously, I was thinking of a darker, more sinister feel to it than is implied by the word 'hilarious' and Shaun of the Dead, although that film is a) awesome and b) an accurate tactical model.
Anyway, I have school tomorrow so I'm off to bed now and have work tomorrow, so see you lot Saturday.

[Rafv Nin IV]

Britain? That means no "rednecked ignores-game-limits hiking maniac" characters I guess I'll have to come up with something else.

But that's fine with me, so long as there's more activity.

[Vortigern]

Clearly you've never heard of Lincolnshire. Besides, Britain is overrun with ramblers. Statistically, at least one of them must be a nutter.

[Copaman]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! YESSS!!!!!!!!!! Greatest idea EVUR: wear rugby boots seeing as how we'd be in Britain, and roundhouse kick the zombies in the face Chuck Norris style!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!! That's trademarked by me, BTW.

Upper class in Britain might have access to shotguns... shoot skeet and whatnot.

I like the "watching it happen" idea. By the way, I'm totally going to Britspoof my character. Sorry, but just as the majority of the rest of the world sees America as dipshit hicks, I'm going to have to be the "footy, black and tan, and a ruggers match on the pitch, gov'na bloke" guy. Maybe. Probably not. I was kidding there to begin with.

Edited by Copaman, 09 January 2009 - 12:53 AM.

[Vortigern]

Hang on, 'rugger' and 'gov'na'? Are you cockney or lordling? You can't just mix and match your accents, you know. I'm thinking I, ah, might tend towards the, ah, more aristocratic end of the spectrum, as it were, what what. If we're going for Britspoof, I shotgun Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.

Also, Americans are dipshit hicks. Don't defend them. You're part Norwegian, as I recall, so you can get away with it.

[Copaman]

Irish and Scottish as well. I'm an Anglo Saxon/Germanic baby hardXcore style I honestly don't think my family has been in the states long enough (great-grandmother, still alive, was a first generation immigrant to the states from Ireland. My great-grandfather (grandmother's husband's father [does that make him my greatgrandfather-in-law?]) was as well, IIRC. Yet somehow, an aunt of mine on my father's side swears my father's family is related to both Barack Obama and Gee Dubyah. Not to mention Elvis. It's all really confusing to me.

And as for cockney vs. lordling, I have no idea what the difference is, sorry. If you can enlighten me, I'd be glad to differentiate myself (I am going to have a bias towards the side which supports Manchester United in the premiership). All I know is that my grandfather currently lives ~15 minutes outside London. Or at least that's what he makes it sound like to me. He's somewhere by London, I know that.

[southsidediablo]

Also, Americans are dipshit hicks. Don't defend them. You're part Norwegian, as I recall, so you can get away with it.

Vortigern, Just to let y'all know, I'm American, Northern-redneck, and have a somewhat Southern accent. Spend some of my days doin nothin but mud-boggin and shootin =P No hard feelins though =P

And Fire Ze Missiles, I happen to own a 19-3, and I'll let you know, it's dead on accurate in Double-Action, and when you run out of ammo, it's heavy and strong enough to knock ya around a bit =P Plus, it'd be would have been smuggled in-before any of those silly gun laws, or the rise of the infected =D Thirdly, I'll never have to worry about my revolver jamming, just running out of ammo =P

Edited by southsidediablo, 09 January 2009 - 02:03 AM.