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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:41 pm
Michael Janson's Diary: January 21st, 2031
Well, it's been two years since The Flash annihilated half of Europe and Asia, and finally all the chaos it caused and life around here is finally starting to get comfortable. The few hovels we built north of Toronto a while back are finally starting to look like a half decent group of houses now. I wish we could take all of the credit, but things have been helped a long by the decease in raider activities around here. Marcus thinks we might have bagged their leader on their last raid. Maybe even those neanderthals need more than just inhuman strength to be dangerous, gotta have someone on point to keep them together. Thank God that the radiation from The Flash brought them down to just a notch above animals in the brains department while it augmented their physical prowess. I'm glad to be free of them for a while, even though it means we get to trade non-optional danger for a greater danger which has actual dividends.
I've been asked to attend the steadily growing numbers of raids into the ruined cities to the south, looking for supplies, tech and most importantly information. It's just a shame that most of the cities are populated only by the cannibalistic mutants we lovingly refer to as Zombies. We couldn't believe at first how much they resembled the fictional monsters of those old horror movies, just a lot more mobile and vicious.
Now, dear readers, you might think how we've survived this long, what with the raiders, zombies, and various dangerously mutated animals and the occasional killer plant. Luckily for us we've been able to gather a formidable list of those I've affectionately named Hero's of the new age. Those that were exposed t the radiation in just the right amount to augment their biology, affording them unheard of abilities. That when combined with a few dozen brave souls lucky enough to escape the radiation of The Flash and the subsequent global natural disasters, we just might have a fighting chance to survive.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:06 pm
Michael Janson's Diary: February 6th, 2031
Well looks like our lead scientist was right, The Flash has messed up the climate here permanently. We had an extra long growing season this year before a sudden snap freeze turned the ground into a block of ice. Luckily we were able to get stocked up on winter supplies and food this year, we even managed to find a small family of survivors who were left untouched by the radiation in the city. That would bring out population to two hundred and fifteen. Our chief scout and head of security finished laying the winter traps yesterday, have to remember to avoid the little orange ribbons in the forest north of our little farming field. Can't believe how much progress our trade master was able to make on the fields and our farming equipment this year.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:08 pm
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[b]Council Role:[/b] (Which area of the settlement they look after: Defence, Trades, Scouting, Sciences, Medicine, Technology)
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[b]Bio:[/b] (Briefly explain what they did before The Flash, and how they came to live in the settlement)
[b]Skills[/b]: (Trades, education, etc)
[b]Augmentation[/b]: (How their body was changed by radiation and how that's manifested into a power)
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:24 am
Heroes of the New World Gaian Name: Si_Valael
Name: Michael Janson
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Council Role: Technician and Settlement Chronicler
Appearance:
Bio: Michael was always a bit of a nerdy kid, preferring to take apart more and more sophisticated electronics until he was taking apart, reassembling an reprogramming every piece of his parents electronics down to their cell phones. It isn't much of a surprise then that Michael ended up attending MIT, graduating with top honours in computer design and programing. He had chosen a competitive position at a top software company in Toronto and was enjoying the first few years of adulthood freedom when the Flash occurred. He was on break in his favourite cafe when a massive earthquake ripped though the city, collapsing the roof down on top of him. He woke up a two days later as the national guard engineers found him and dug him out. However, the steel and concrete that had trapped him had crushed his right arm. When the medics looked him over informed him that amputation was the only solution despite his avid protests. It was while he was laying on his triage tent cot that he heard the news stories and rumours about the great devastation of half of Europe and Asia.
It was only a handful of days later when the effects of The Flash's radiation began to take effect. Soon the military camp that Michael was recovering in was being over run by the crazed 'Zombies' by night and raider attacks by the day. It wasn't long before the perimeter was breached, at which point Michael and a a handful of other survivors were rounded up by one of the officers and his squad to escape while the other soldiers held the horde off.
The small band made their way slowly though the ruined cityscape, hiding where ever they could and salvaging what ever they could find. The more Michael recovered the more he began to realize that he was not quite the same as he was before the earthquake, besides the physical change. Lights would flicker as he walked by, even in areas completely blacked out of power. TV's would spring to life as he approached them often playing fuzzy and distorted news broadcasts before the news stopped all together. It wasn't until the group was cornered by a group of raiders that the stress and adrenaline pushed his abilities to fully manifest. His body's natural bio-electrical field had been super charged, allowing him to unleash a lightning storm from his body. The resulting blast of electrical energy stunned or killed the raiders before Michael passed out.
When he woke he found his group at an experimental hospital, and the grateful group had found him a suitable present for his heroism. In the facility they had found an experimental robotic limb for replacement of soldiers arms that were lost in combat. The only thing holding it back was the inability for the researchers to overcome the low power of synapse signals from the nervous system being too low to activate the limb. Luckily for Michael, that wasn't a problem for him. One long surgery later, preformed by a brilliant young doctor who had been hiding in the facility and Michael had a new, steel plated arm.
Once they had gathered what supplies they could, the group headed north into the relative safety of the wilderness. Many kilometres out they founded a small settlement near a river that made its way down to the city allowing them access for raids. In a little over a year Michael was placed in charge of the slowly growing catalogue of electronics and generators that they had obtained though the raids, his expertise also earning him a place on the council. He was also appointed the official record keeper of the settlement, keeping a daily journal on the village's goings on.
Skills: Expert in Computer programing and engineering. Proficient at electrical work. Basic survival skills.
Augmentation: Michael's bio-electric field has been amplified due to the radiation from The Flash. With practice he has learned to control and direct this field, allowing him to control electricity around and within him. He is able to power and control electronics by controlling the flow of electricity inside them. He is also able to act as a generator station, recharging the village's generators. This also allows him to create magnetic fields allowing him to move magnetic metals with a large degree of focus.
Other: Michael has a unique hobby in the village. When on raids he looks for any information on The Flash in order to try and discover its origins. He has come up with several theories, ranging from the plausible to the bat s**t insane, making some of the villagers visit him often for entertainment, while others regard him with sever scepticism.Gaian Name:AlyhaKit
Name: Kaite Reeves
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Council Role: Medical Leader
Before the Flash
After the Flash
Appearance: Blonde Hair, Blue eyes, slim, athletic build. Light tan.
Bio: Born to a family that for all intents and purposes was ‘average’ Kaite was a bit of a shock. As the youngest and only girl with four older brothers, though, her parents adored her uniqueness. She graduated high school when she was 16 and went on to medical school, graduating top of her class in both and snagging a cushy job at an experimental hospital just outside of Toronto right out of college.
Despite her passion – and almost obsession – with learning and her new job, Kaite still made time in her world for family camping trips and hiking with her brothers – the only times she was truly on even ground with her family. But that was before the Flash. On the days preceding the Flash, Kaite had been heading a team developing bio-mechanical limbs for soldiers wounded in battle. Her family had gone ahead on a vacation to London, expecting Kaite to join them in a couple of days once the first trial of one of the limbs was complete.
The Quake struck shortly after the trial. When Kaite came to after being hit in the head by a falling bit of ceiling tile, Kaite discovered that she was one of three survivors out of her team of 5 and the 10 onlookers to her team’s first trial. The others had been crushed by large equipment in the Quake or had had the misfortune to be too close to a few syringes filled with bio-chemicals that didn’t mix well together inside the human body.
She and the other two survivors combed the building looking for anyone else who might have been there in the next two days, and began to notice changes in each other. Kaite realized that she healed faster than she’d ever had before and that her two remaining team members were suddenly craving blood more than ever.
It alarmed all of them and while they slept fitfully, Kaite secretly made two syringes of a toxic cocktail, hoping she was just being paranoid as the horror films her brothers had loved came back to her in vivid detail. When they were awake, Kaite to blood samples from her coworkers, working with them to try and discover what it was that had happened to them. Five days after the Quake, Kaite woke to the screams as one coworker dove at the other, the two tearing each other apart in a bloodlust. Swallowing the softball sized lump in her throat, and managed to stab both with the syringes.
Then she ran, deeper into the maze that was her hospital home, hearing the pounding of her blood-crazed friends until they fell with thuds behind her. Tears streaming down her face, she kept running, locking herself in one of the surgical rooms. It was another day before she ventured out, surgical saw and knives in hand as she heard the sounds of life beyond her little room. She almost cried again in relief when the movement turned out to be more people. Safe, sane, un-monsterfied people. Hearing their tale as a couple of the soldiers removed the bodies of her zombie-fied friends, Kaite treated their ‘hero’ and when he awoke, offered him a chance at her new robotic arm. He accepted and she enlisted a couple of people from his group that looked like they had strong stomachs to help with the surgery.
It took 4 hours to attach the arm to the man, and in the end she insisted they stay another night to let him heal and collect supplies from the building before accompanying them to what would become their home. The most highly trained doctor in their group, Kaite earned herself a seat on the council and leads a group of refugees in keeping their settlement healthy and well cared for, occasionally going with on scavengings to get more supplies for their blossoming medical clinic.
Skills: Medical training and Bio-engineer. Bio-mechanical surgeon. Recently a triage doctor, midwife, and pediatrician. Basic survival skills.
Augmentation: Augmented immune system. Allows her to heal herself very rapidly, and heal others through touch. Once she stops touching them, the healing slows until the last of her cells leave the patient's body.
Other: Kaite has been working on creating a serum with her white blood cells that will allow her to safely inject her healing ability directly into the bloodstream of her patients to speed their healing or kick-start their immune system.
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