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Advent Death; Story DISCUSSION AND RULES
Topic Started: Aug 11 2007, 06:07 AM (392 Views)
KodeTen
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This is a dark themed story of the survival horror genre.

Anyone is invited to write and join at any time, there are plenty of openings presented.

This story will be very suspenseful, violent, grisly, and (hopefully) frightening.

If this story becomes popular, we will write more books of it beyond this first one.

The first story will involve a caving/exploration college group that decides to explore a massive hole in the ground of the Central USA that was created by a town suddenly sinking below the surface. Little do they know the horrors in store for them below, walking the now-subterranean streets.

I provide a few rules that I implore you to follow when writing in this or any Advent Death story:

  • Multiple characters are allowed, even encouraged, but please only supply what characters you can reasonably and believably roleplay to a maximum of 3.
  • Always roleplay in Advent Death with the general acceptance that your character may very well die in your post.
  • Do not kill off other characters without their writer's express permission, submitted to me (Neostar) or the section leader via PM.
  • Do not force other authors into a position that their character has no reasonable way to survive, unless you have their express permission, submitted as above.
  • If you are considering entering Advent death with a character you are unwilling to kill, heed my advice: don't. Character death in Advent Death is to be entirely expected, if not guaranteed.
  • This is most certainly not a "everybody wins" story, it could very well be that all author's characters will die before reaching their objective.
  • Advent Death is violent, bloody, and gory, if reading of such things offends you, do not enter the story.
  • Absolutely no superpowers. The goal of Advent Death is to play completely human characters placed into inhuman situations.
  • Minor "talents," such as a faint 6th sense of danger, should be submitted to Neostar, and will be accepted on a case by case basis.
  • To put it simply, if you submit anything that would give your character a slight advantage over the average human, expect to be denied.
  • Again and I cannot stress this enough, do not enter the story if you are not fully committed and willing to kill the character you enter in an exceptionally violent and descriptive fashion.
  • Above all, have fun, and try to scare the shit out of your fellow author.
If you agree to these, then feel free to enter the story. The opening post will be appearing shortly.

As always, post questions, ideas, and character sheets here.
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Samandjackforever
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Alright, I'm in for sure. However, I will not be playing a college friend, instead I will be playing a character that has LIVED in the city since it collapsed and she was an early teen of 13.

Description will be given in the storyline upon meeting up with her, or in my first post.

She's fairly well built, not massive but strong enough and agile, living in this hell claimed city.

If cleared by Neostar, she will have a sort of gut feeling for some pretense of danger to a point, living in the city, knowing some of the tatics and predictabilities of some of the hellish creatures. In no way will she have any sort of extra-ordinary sense of strength, although her eyes would be slightly used to the dark of the city for living in it for 8 years. And wait, there is a down side to her. She's paranoid beyond belief, and a little unstable, and a little bit.. animalistic, being the only thing she thinks and depends on is her scavenging for survival.

Well anything else I'll think of I'll post later. Who else wants to have fun scaring each other?
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Hanacho Anda
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I am so in! I don't know what I will do yet but I will post here soon with a charater. but it may be a little while as school is starting back up on monday and I need to be ready... Yay for 7:30 classes. V_V. .. anyway. . . i will post a character here soon. ^_^
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Judgement
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I'm in as well and will be roleplaying a set of female twins. Will post more when I'm not at work!
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Sounds fun...I will definitely have to come up with something. Though I will tell you know, I plan on making two characters: One will definitely die in an unspeakable fashion, the other I would prefer not to kill off, if acceptable...should the need arise that NO characters survive, then I suppose I'd have no choice. However, if any characters do live to tell the tale, I want the second to be one of them.
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Jokuri
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Hey Neo, can you provide a rough character sheet if at all possible?
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KodeTen
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Yup.

IF YOU ARE PART OF THE EXPLORATION GROUP

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Hair:
Eyes:
Height:
Body Build:

Clothing:
Equipment:

Skillsets: (First Aid, CPR, Qualified rappeller, lockpicking, carjacking, keep in mind your a college student.)


IF YOU ARE A TOWN INHABITANT

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Hair:
Eyes:
Body Build:

Clothing:
Armor:
Equipment:
Weapons:

Skillsets: (Keep in mind they will be degraded from years of living in fear)
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Samandjackforever
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Name: Cassandra "Gunz" (last name she has forgetten)
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Body Build: Althletic

Clothing: Stained & Torn up jeans, tanktop covered by a puffy bomber jacket, worn but intact running shoes.
Armor: Bulletproof vest, homemade wrist gauntlets (looks like out of a cut up piece of pipe on each arm under her jacket.
Equipment: Thick rope, a 'safeplace', breathing respirator (as for dealing with chemicals)
Weapons: HK USP .45 Caliber, a hunting knife, pieces of sharp metals to throw

Skillsets: (Keep in mind they will be degraded from years of living in fear) Nurse, Adventurist. Learned some basic trapping skills while living in the hell city, as well as some fighiting tactics.
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Hanacho Anda
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Explorer:

Name: Melantha
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Hair: auburn
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'7"
Body Build:

Clothing: Shorts that allow freedom of movement and a tank for the same reason. They are serviceable and dark in color.
Equipment: Rock climbing equipment and first aid.

Skillsets: First aid and rock climbing

Townsfolk:

Name: Wicapi Wakan
Age: 30
Gender: female
Hair: Black
Eyes: Black
Body Build: Lean but well muscled.

Clothing: Black slacks that have seen better days cover her shapely legs and her shirt was once a light shade of blue but it now looks as though it has become gray almost black.
Armor: She doesn't wear much for armor as it tends to get in the way when she is trying to perform medical work. She has a flattened trash can lid on the front and back of her body and some metal pieces sewn to her pants and arms.
Equipment: medical equipment and some odds and ends from places she has been in around the city.
Weapons: Carries a large knife and a small gun .9 caliber pistol. She also has poisons and things like that.

(I will fill in back story soon.)

Skillsets:
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Exploration

Name: Ashley
Age: Twenty
Gender: Female
Hair: Platinum Blonde
Eyes: Ice Blue
Body Build: Slender and Tall - think runway model.

Clothing: Think Vera Wang meets Batman.
Armor: N/A
Equipment: Journal and pens, basic textbooks, voice recorder, spelunking gear, flashlight, and a basic first aid kit.
Weapons: Stakes and Garlic

Skillsets: Charisma - able to get her way in and out of most situations.

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Name: Amanda
Age: Twenty
Gender: Female
Hair: Platinum Blonde
Eyes: Ice Blue
Body Build: Slender and Tall - think runway model.

Clothing: Think Vera Wang meets Batman.
Armor: N/A
Equipment: Journal and pens, basic textbooks, voice recorder, spelunking gear, flashlight, and a basic first aid kit.
Weapons: Machete

Skillsets: Charisma - able to get her way in and out of anything.

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Background Information: Amanda and Ashley are identical twins, the only difference seperating the two is that Amanda is about an inch shorter then Ashley. Both girls were brought in a town just outside the town based in the storyline. They grew up in "snobsville" getting everything handed to them on a silver platter. They're parents recently died in a private jet crash and now with the two girls being "orphaned" they decided to join the Exploration Team in order to do something with themselves. If it isn't obvious, Amanda is the brighter one of the two.

[OOC: I have full intentions of killing Ashley off myself. I think you'll all like what I have in mind.]
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Name: Matthew Tucker
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6'0"
Body Build: Athletic

Clothing: Hiking boots, blue jeans, rigger's belt, Rock band T-Shirt, ball cap
Equipment:
WORN: Utility Knife, First Aid pouch, flashlight, headlamps, knee & elbow pads, gloves, flight harness, Backpack
IN BACKPACK: Ropes and climbing equipment, food, extra batteries, water, cell phone, GPS, map of the area around the hole, old map of the town (from county archives)

Skillsets: CPR, Assistant Rappelling Instructor, Survivalist, Free Climber, Aussie Rappel

Matt is odd in that he wears a modified flight harness to rappel from, but this usually makes it easy on him to let his extra gear, such as his backpack, "hang" from him to free up his body as he climbs or rappels. Matt can also perform the Australian rappelling technique, in that he can "walk" down a wall with a rope hooked into his back. This normally requires an inhibitor or "pace man" at the start point of his rope, but he can also perform it without the equipment due to his ingenuity with his own harness.

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Name: James Gaitman
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6'2"
Body Build: Athletic

Clothing: Hiking Boots, Jean Shorts, riggers belt, Tank Top, 'du rag'
Equipment:
WORN: Utility Knife, flashlight, knee pads, gloves, rappelling seat, Backpack
IN BACKPACK: Ropes and climbing equipment, large first aid kit, food, extra batteries, water, cell phone, map of the area around the hole

Skillsets: First Responder, Rappelling student, rock climber, base jumping

Jimmy made fast friends with Matt during rappelling classes at the college, although not a master at the technique, Jimmy is an advanced student and is very comfortable in the seat. Jimmy is also a volunteer fire fighter and therefore trained as a First Responder, he usually helps Matt to plan out excursions such as this and then tags along to keep everyone patched up during the course of the adventure, as well as provide what advice he can for things such as broken limbs and other more serious injuries. In his free time, Jimmy took classes on the Base Jumping technique, and is qualified to parachute off a cliff face or skyscraper roof.
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KodeTen
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Will there be any other characters?
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