I can't tell you the exact date, or what year it is exactly, cause I honestly don't know. Most people stopped keeping count because it made living in this hellish life all that more bearable pretending like I was already dead, and that time didn't matter anymore. Detroit is one of the last safe havens for humans in the United States, and while its social classes are biased, people just seem to not care about their plot in life, or they just didn't speak up out of fear that they might be targeted by people who're higher in the so called "government.
The northern part of Detroit is where the uninfected, normally being upper class, live and go about their care free lives, never leaving their sterile environment.
The southern part of the city, well, lets just say thats where everyone else lives. If your infected, they just slowly monitor you in the slums, making sure that you can be contained once you croak from either a dangerous occupation or just old age.
The Infection( A small explanation)
No one knows how it came to be, but there are plenty of theories. All we know is that your born infected due to living conditions, or your bitten and just die and turn after about an hour. Because of this infection, brothers, sisters, or entire families are seperated from each other. Uninfected and infected aren't even allowed to have relationships.
The infected that die become something else. They can speak and retain full motor skills, and even a few skills. They carry weapons, like any other human, but they're decayed, and if not, their eyes give away their nature. Those black eyes rounded by a silver ring.
The government has been using what knowledge we have of the infected to come up with an antigen, but they have other plans. Some say that they're working on a project to use the infection as a way of combating the undead.
Ways To Combat the Undead(Technology and Specialties)
Through out the years, if one bothers to count them, scientists have been able to make crude supplements that can give a person the abilities of the undead, but they're very crude and lack sufficient power cause the DNA used to creat the supplements came from the Undead that have been taken out the old fashion way. A bullet to the head.
There have been other methods used though. Some rely on cybernetic enhancements. These little upgrades push nanites into your muscles and blood stream that give the person a slow, but reliable healing ability. Some people go so far as to get muscle enhancements, but these are dangerous, and come at the price of losing your entire personality, memory, and in some cases, your humanity. You become a new person, that is half machine and half human.
The Undead Classifications
Once you become an undead, you begin to mutate into a different being. You gain abilities at the price of losing your life.
1. Crawlers- These are the lowest ranking and the least dangerous of the undead. They are slow moving, but quick to pick up the scent of the living. Most crawlers use long range weapons due to there inability to move as quickly as other undead, but when they have enough numbers, they can do sufficient damage. Can be killed rather easily.
2. Horders- These are the main forces of the undead. They are fast moving and normally hunt in packs. They can pick up the scent of the living quicker than all of the other undead, and while they have average strength, they have numbers on their sides. They never move alone and always hunt in packs of five to ten. They have animal like claws, and mainly stick to melee weapons, but have been known to carry pistols. A shot to the head is needed to kill them.
3. Lashers- They're quick to move and have above average strength, but their real skills come in hiding in the shadows and using their speed to get the jump on people. In their forearms, they have bone-like spear heads that they use to combat the living. They posses a very quick healing factor that helps them in the field. A shot to the head is needed to kill them.
4. Brutes- They're tough, have tank-like endurance, and have incredible strength. They use the environment to their advantage, and are known to use any and all things around them as weapons. Given the chance to gain momentum, they become hard to stop, unless shot in the head.
5. Berserkers- Perhaps the most dangerous of the Undead. Like lashers, they can heal quickly, but they move with horders, and look like the average undead. Once aggitated, they go into fits of rage and become as powerful as brutes, but can only hold this fit of rage for a few minutes depending on their level of infection.
If anyone can come up with some other undead classes, I'd be happy to put them on the list. I'm always open for suggestions.
The Rules(Read these before posting or PMing me)
1.Keep Literate and please post in the third person narrative style.
2.Don't kill anyone off unless you have my consent and the consent of the RPer you wish to kill
3. You can have as many as two to three characters, and play as human or undead. (I wanted to make the undead a little more interesting and make them truly dangerouse)
4. Please stick to the character skeleton I've set up.
5. PM all profiles to me. Title the PM "Dead City" (duh!)
6. Keep it PG-17. That means no cybering. Romance is encouraged, but don't get too graphic. Keep cybering to PMs
7. Follow these rules and any forum rules set up!
8. There is only one member of the goverment project to give the infected the abilities of the undead. This may change later
9. Keep weapon choices in the modern era please. The closes you can get to a sword would probably be a machete.
10. Being bite and being infected are two different things. If your infected your merely a carrier for the gene and turn upon a natural death. If your bite, you die within an hour and turn instantly.
Character Skeleton
Gaia Name:
Character Name:
Age:
Gender:
Enhancements: (Any cybernetic or nanite enhancements done to your character in the past. Applies to humans and the undead)
Type: (Infected or human...only applies to the living)
Race: (Undead or Living)
Weapons sad please stick to modern weaponry. No more than three. No large swords. Knives, daggers, machetes, and guns)
Bio: (Minimum of four sentences)
Appearence: (description or pic)
Characters
The Defense Force
Gaia Name: TheTrueGrave
Character Name: Anthony Heater a.k.a 13
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race: Undead
Weapons: 2 Colt 1911 and a machete
Bio: Anthony was born as the son of an infected women and uninfected father. Because of this, he was marked for the rest of his life as a freak. The government, having recieved his records decided that they would enlist him in "Project 13". So, after his parents death, Anthony was trained to handle any situation on the battle field, be it tactical or ethical. After coming back from a mission with a bite mark, the science division did research to discover that because of his unique blood type, the bite was mutating him into a different kind of berserker zombie. Once Anthony had passed away, they acted quickly and put an experimental antigen in system that would hopefully counteract the unfortunate craving for flesh that the undead had. Upon reawakening, not only did Anthony not have the craving for flesh, but he had gained the abilities of a berserker, with deprecciated power though. He is just recently being put into action on the field after a few months of getting used to the new abilities. At a price for his new abilities he requires monthly blood transfusions.
Appearence:
(The scar is the bite mark that he came back with, but they sewed his face together to hopefully avoid questioning. He also wears colored contacts to hide the infected eyes)
Gaia Name: tlc_angel
Character Name: Angel the Fearless
Age: Unknown
Gender: Female
Enhancements: Has an eye that is machine, but always covered up
Type: Doesn't know
Race: Human
Weapons: Gun
Bio:Angel has no memory of her past. She remembers waking in a chamber with people in white lab coats. The ran tons of test and evaluations on her. Then she remembers them people talking to one another about her, basically what they were going to do with her. Something with her imunity to the disease. Still not understanding what they were talking about, put a microchip into her senthetic eye. The told her that she was a free person, and threw her out into the streets.
Appearence:
Gaia Name: Birdman3000
Character Name: Adam Hayes
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Enhancements: Nanites(Healing and Muscles)
Type: Infected
Race: Living
Weapons: Brass knuckles(counts as one), .357 Magnum, and a Bowie Knife
Bio: Adam had been on the defence force since he was able to hold a weapon. He went along on scavenging missions with Anthony Heater, including the time his partner was bitten and turned into a project. After one mission Adam had serious injuries fro escaping a large scale assault from the undead, thus he was injected with nanites, giving him a fraction of teh undead's own strength and endurance.
Appearence:
Gaia Name: southern_belle_onyaka
Character Name: Kendall Arianna Kingsley (Ken, or Kenny for short.)
Age: 21 (even though she looks a lot younger)
Gender: Female
Enhancements: Nanites (Healing, sight enhancements, the Nanites are believed to be the reason she isn't aging correctly.)
Type: Human
Race: living
Weapons: She carries a semi-automatic Sniper Riffle, She also keeps several throwing knives hidden in her dress.
Bio: Kendall was born in the uninfected part of the city. Her parents were very influential politicians, however once she realized that the government and the politicians were using the people of Detriot as test subjects, she decided to go out on her own. She had always had a very profound sense of justice. Kendall went behind her parents backs, to have nanites introduced to her blood stream, she also got sight enhancements. Afterward she stopped in at a pawn shop to purchase a gun, which is where she found her sniper riffle. She hasn't seperated from it since, she left the safe part of the city. However shortly after the nanites were put into her blood stream she practically stopped aging, she also noticed changes in her personality. She became a very different person, she was now extremely cynical, she grew to live for the kill, and she became almost overwhelmingly pessimistic.
Appearence:
Civilians
The Undead
