Character Profile (Shroud version):

Name: Maj. Robert Langford (Ret.)
Age: 53
Primary Melee: Combat Knife
Secondary Melee: Unarmed
Primary Ranged: MX-4 "Equalizer" 10mm Assault Rifle
Secondary Ranged: 7mm Semiautomatic Pistol
Appearance: 6'1, medium build, brown hair starting to grey
Bio: Joined the national armed forces as a commissioned officer at the age of 21 but left 6 years later when the army was privatised. Joined a private security firm, where his expert military training put him in good stead and he quickly advanced up the ranks. After his employers bought a controlling stake in one of the armed services providers he was deployed with other army units where he led successful military operations. As projectile weapons were phased out (after being deemed inhumane by the UN) he finally resigned, claiming he would not be as effective a commander if he was forced to use energy weapons, which he deemed unproven and ineffective. His contacts in various weapons suppliers were able to supply him with illicit firearms and ammunition as well as experimental designs.


All equipment statistics will be supplied on demand.

I too, will write in third person because it's a lot easier for me to do so.


EDIT: Updated

Edited by - The Evil Thing on 12/2/2006 5:09:06 AM

oh, i just pulled a number out of my lawyer(it's a joke) to please you.

Also the virus had swarmed the earth so many times that if we were to talk about technology we'd be about 3000 a.d. right now.

However the reason that it's incurable is because the virus actually bonds with the hosts DNA, and converts it. Then it leaves a trail of the virus everywhere it goes. In time it will assimilate the atmosphere of the planet it's currently on. The only real way to deal with it once it outbreaks is to preform a Base Delta Zero. However the military has strict orders not to if there are any life forms left.

I'll make the brief history of the virus tomorrow.

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Edited by - The Shroud on 11/22/2006 7:49:21 PM

Ok, I vote 2100 AD.

EDIT: Shroud, any updates for us or shall I just create a huge, boring monologue for my character?

Edited by - The Evil Thing on 11/24/2006 11:26:59 AM

Can I join in? I don't know much about role-playing though (the daughter goes rpg-ing every week, she's got one of those multi-sided dice things) I don't know how the rules work or anything but I can think up good stories. No rabbits though.

Character profile

Name: Dr. Edis Thorin, Ph.D.
Age: 35
Primary Melee: Utilities (e.g. Screwdriver, power drill, butane torch, etc.)
Secondary Melee: None
Primary Ranged: Prototype XL-54 'Eliminator' Tachyon Rifle (Personal design. Medium range, HIGHLY destructive, low ammunition capacity, has an internal 10-round rechargable cell, or can be powered from most power sources)
Secondary Ranged: Disposable 4-shot dart pistol (With additional dart cartridges)
Additional Equipment: Comprehensive engineering toolkit (Sci-fi version of those tool pouches electricians and repairmen have), Radiometric sensor (Like a tricorder, for lack of a better example), small geiger counter (Or equivelant radiation sensor device)
Clothing: ankle-length khaki pants with a bright red-orange shirt, worn underneath a (very) dark blue matrix-style coat. The socks (fluro green, if you wanted to know) are invisible underneath a pair of gumboots. Thorin's horrible fashion sense is immediately apparent the moment you see him
Appearance: Thorin is approximately 6'2", bald, with fair skin. He has blue-green eyes. Apart from that, he is fairly unimposing, sporting no distinctive marks or features. Occasionally, he may wear a contact lens on one eye, changing one of his iris' colour, much to the annoyance of his colleagues
Bio: Edis Thorin, born to Lana and Hark Thorin in 2065, was a very secluded child during the early years of his life. Due to an accident at the age of 6 that killed both his parents, he does not have any hair growth follicles on his scalp, rendering him permanently bald. He was raised in his aunt's home until he was 17, when he was kicked out for destroying a quarter of thier home in a science experiment. Within two months, he had become employed at a scientific engineering firm, remaining there for a further 4 years until he completed his PhD. in Theoretical Physics. Following this, he was employed in an entry level position at Megacorp Inc., working as a laboratory assistant. Within a number of months, his prowess for physics and engineering had him promoted to a leading role in their Weapons Development division, where he designed more than 30 different weapons, ranging from high-power experimental weapons, to cheap and disposable weapons. By his 35th birthday, he was intimately familiar with amost every modern weapon design known to humankind, and could build a number of improvised weapons from very common materials.
Starting Location: Unknown military base, making a personal delivery of the XL-54 to the base commander when the infection broke out. At current, he has sealed himself into the base security centre, trying to get ahold of any non-zombie personell still inside the base.

Notes: I took SOME liberties with the design, primarily Megacorp and the weapons design, and assuming that the military base i am in is the same as the colonel's (Just wanting to get into the story). Is the character okay?

Questions: Just so i know, i have a few questions about the setting and the technology - 1) Are we on earth, or some other planet? 2) how developed (if at all) is space travel and/or FTL technology? 3) what is the overall objective here? (Kill all zombies? survive? get out alive?)

I'll post my first paragraph once i get character approval from shroud

Edit- changed name and date



Edited by - Arania on 11/26/2006 4:52:47 PM

Yes, yes that would work.

before i get stuck into creating a character (I have one in mind) I'd like to ask 2 questions please:

1. is the setting 10,000 years in the future, or 100 years? because my character won't make any sense at all 10,000 years hence (unless hardly anything has changed from today) so can i have this clarified please?
2. why are all the characters so far seem to be lifted straight out of video-games or straight-to-video B films? if that's what you want, ok, but my character isn't one of those stock special forces/engineering genius types.

I chose a commissioned officer because fighter builds are traditionally rather easy to make in D&D and I'm lazy when it comes to transposing the rules onto a completely different setting. He's also not special forces, he's got pretty average stats and his weapons are apparantely gimped. If Shroud insists on a 10000 AD setting then I'll rework the lot.

Fine we'll vote on the time period!

100 years. Everyone's character should fit in fine with that time frame.