This is going to be a Survival-Horror esque RP, based around a virus that in many ways resembles Rabies. A lot of the background info on the location, the infection etc. as well as the rules and character-sheet templates are below in the spoiler boxes.

I'd be looking for no more than 8 players, and whilst it is an open RP I will be reserving a couple slots for a friend or two for a little while, so for now there are, say, 6 open slots.

The initial focus will be more on survival, evasion and research before open combat - I do NOT want 8 Rambo-style survivors, simply because 8 combat-orientated characters will most likely be torn apart before they've gotten their hands on any decent weaponry because they won't be able to go anywhere, or understand the threat.

Although the RP IS open, please send your character submission via PM ONLY, simply so I can have all the sheets in one place rather than cluttered in this thread, so I can keep this thread reserved for questions and suggestions, or just people telling me how much I suck, and it also tells me who has actually read this post instead of thinking "OMFG LOL Survival-Horror must post character sheet several times OMG ROFL".

Here's all the background info I can think of to put in, be aware that whilst this is the core of the game, I will most likely be putting in some 'suprise' aspects that I either don't want to talk about or haven't fully thought up yet.

Warning, most contain text dumps; if you just want the rules, then read Getting Infected, Combat, Research and Character Sheets, if you want all the waffle then read them all.

That's pretty much all I need to put here, I realise it is a lot and that may put some people off but that could be good - if you don't like reading I can tell you you're in the wrong RP, for a survival horror I plan on having a fair bit of plot with lengthy updates in between the running and the screaming and the dying.

As for post limits - one combat/action post per every GM post, and as many dialogue posts as you like outside combat within reason - if you've gone over a page of bullshit and fighting with no character development then you've talked too much waiting for me.

As I've said, whilst the RP is designed and ready, this is a CHECK; if I don't get a good response I'll know to be quiet and go back to playing rather than hosting.

I'll be happy to answer any questions - I'm pretty sure I may have left gaps here and there, but it is hard for me to tell when it is all in my noggin.

I'm in. I don't have a character yet but I'd play.

Update; If Rex does indeed make a science character as he plans, then there are 2 science-orientated characters - meaning that from now on, for a balanced team, I can only really take one more science-based character. After that, people will need to pick combat, medicine or electronics orientated characters - combat not necessarily meaning a soldier, and medicine not necessarily meaning a doctor, they just need to have those skills to keep things balanced.

We only really need one medic, two is great, and from then on anything you can think of, combat characters would be good but not as essential as science and medicine.

I'm in save me a spot

Another quick update before I'm off; I THINK that Spartan is going for a combat character, but he will have the ability to pick locks - he has sacrificed a firearm for the tools.

This doesn't really effect the balance of the team, so no worries there, I just thought I'd say I MAY be increasing the number to 10, depending on what response I get, perhaps even 12 and split it into two teams of 6 to begin with - however, be aware that the more people there are the more I'll crank up the difficulty, to 'thin the herd' as it were.

count me in as well, i'll work up a character sheet tonight and post send it to ya by tomorrow

gah sorry for double post, computer's being slow

Mmmm...seeing how the Bioshock RP seems to be decaying quite nicely; and the Fallout RP is in a state of flux, I'll be happy to join.

Making my guy as we speek (as you read this).

I'll be watching intently, as I have other things to do. I sure hope this succeeds, we need more RP's that rely more on chance events.

Okay, so far I have;

Rex - who SHOULD be playing a science-orientated character.

Revolverwolf - who has a biologist

Spartan Banana - a combat-orientated character with the ability to pick locks.

Teafo - Unconfirmed

Spleeni - A stealth-orientated character in the form of a school delinquent - as well as picking locks can pickpocket, sneak etc. etc.

Knight Templar - an engineer (so electronics-orientated) with some firearm experience.

Now then, we have enough scientists and enough characters based on subterfuge, so now it needs to be something else really;

Any combination of combat you can think of.

I've decided demolitions could actually be useful.

A medic or two.

One more electronics member, perhaps a hacker or software technician as Templar has hardware covered.

Maybe even a repairman or a mechanic.

EDIT; Seeing as things are going rather slowly (still faster than I had hoped, however) I think I'll wait for 2 more before starting.

Once I have Teafo's and Dinnj's character sheets the RP will begin.

Dinnj's internet is down or he's having problems of some kind, can't remember, but he's in my Mafia RP and PM'd me telling me he'd be offline till monday or so, I say give Teafo 24 hours to send you his char then start

sorry for taking so long to get character sheet in, as I have said in other threads, I don't currently have interwebs in my apartment so must mooch off the wireless at the nearby university. thankfully, i'm a student so they don't mind. I will definitely be able to post once a day, although i may miss one day here or there, I will try not to let it happen often. as of now, character sheet is in to Qayin, hope Jimmy looks good. Looking forward to the starting/intro

Spartan it's only untill, well, later today that I have a solid connection, and apparently at the moment I have access now, so I should be ready to start when the RP does.

Can't believe I missed this, I've been waiting on one for a while. . .

BaldingSteve:
Can't believe I missed this, I've been waiting on one for a while. . .

You may be able to make it in, PM Qayin about it, we do have a person who can't post that much, so he might let you in so that we have a true eight people and not 7 and a half