Thread: Horror RPG Character Profile

Ok this is where you all sign up. I've posted the plot before but here it is again. The proper intro to the RPG will flesh this all out fully.

The Story is set in England, although you can be from anywhere in the world to take part. London is the setting. A futuristic London that is more like 20 years past than 20 years in the future. The world is run down, technology is sparse, the country is war torn. Collapsed buildings, dark smoky skies, people living in poverty. London. On New Years Eve, 2017, then Prime Minister of the country speaks to the nation in a televised address. He speaks of optimism and hope for a new period of life. Then a pale, sallow-cheeked, wrinkled creature with flesh like putty uses strength betrayed by his appearance to overpower the Prime Minster, smash the top of his skull off and feast on the brains within. The zombie gurgling and struggling to speak manages to get across the message that a new era really will occur. A plague of the undead will rise up tonight, and by the morning the whole nation will be overcome by them. We have made earth so bad, that the dead may as well walk amongst us, punishing us for the state of our lives, our nation and our world. We will all be dead soon.
A group of people hold themselves up in the church hall, (this group will be all who choose to play) This group, for arguments sake consisting of ten people, are all that remain as far as they are aware. All they know is that the future of the LIVING human race depends on them, but how could they, a tiny minority, possibly overcome the mass of the undead. One man, who will be played by me as a sort of gatekeeper roll, will offer them clues. He knows more than he can reveal, but he prompts them on their quest to salvaging mankind and vanquishing these demonic beasts.I as narrator will control both what the zombies do and what this leader does. You will all go on an adventure, based on my clues, across the country, to wherever you think you need to be to save the world. But be warned, I will kill those of you who are too rash. If you are excitable and rush out, you will die. You need to display many good character traits that represent survival etc... You must get to finish and save your souls, before the zombie's get to you. I am aware of how you can save mankind but I will not tell you as that is part of the fun of the game.

As I said I need at least 8 or 9 of you for this to work. I'll post the intro once all profiles are up.

p.s. does anyone whose done an RPG before know if you post the rules in this section or at the beginning of the actual RPG?

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Anyway, your characters; a few rules. No weapons to speak of at the beginning. You gain these as you go at my discretion base don your performance etc. Right, there are 3 camps. Choose your camp (and please don't all pile into 1)

The Intelligent- Superior humans with, funnily enough, all the intelligence. Smart, savvy and calculating, this group are able to think their way out of situations.

The Invincibles- Self-named of course. These are the violent humans. Intent on revenge and blood, they will stop at nothing to kill the zombies. Though they don't posess the intelligence of the first group, so this could elad to problems.

The Unmentionables- The freaks of the group. The outcasts, for one reason or another. You may give a reason for your expulsion from society (Renos babe already suggested she would be a vampire) but be warned this doesn't make you any more or less violent than others, just you have some things to create stories from.

Okay, place yourself in the categories with these stats

Name:
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Category: (Intelligent, Invincible, or Unmentionable)

History:

Strengths: (Within your chosen category)

Weaknesses:

P.S. You guys have not yet confronted any zombies, they have only been active for the past hour and you were the only survivors hearde into the church hall. I look forward to your profiles. I will validate them and then you will be a character. Hopefully our RPG will be up and running in a couple of days.

P.M. me with any queries. Good luck

Name: Iris Dehaveland
Age: 19
Height: 5'6
Weight: 137 pounds
Category: Unmentionable

History:
Iris had a lonely childhood. Her mother and father were very rich, and insisted that she grow up with the best education. Consequently she was raised having as little interaction with other children as possible. In fact the only person she had really ever known was her tutor Paul Alexander, a highly intelligent American. Iris noticed that her mother and Paul had a strange relationship. Her laugh was warmer around him, and he touched her in ways that her father did not.

When Iris was twelve, her mother and Paul disappeared. Her father declared that Iris’ education was complete, and that now she would study alongside him. He had spent his life researching what he called freaks of nature; Inhuman beings such as vampires, werewolves, and creatures of the underworld. Iris spent the rest of her adolescence watching her father performing painful experiments on any of these creatures he was able to detain. Accordingly, her father became a prime target for anyone of the groups he studied, but he never thought that he would someday have to fear his own child. In fact he worshiped her. He worked night and day to make her have the talents of the creatures he hated, and allow to retain her human nature. Ever time he discovered a desirable trait he would inject his daughter with a serum containing the necessary mutagens to change her blood. As a result, she became somewhat of a freak herself.

When she was 17 Iris stumbled upon a file on the computer that her father had not wanted her to see. It was documentation of horrific experiments performed on two humans, her mother and Paul. The pictures showed them lying naked on a floor, crying and screaming. Their nails had dug deep grooves in the walls that entrapped them. The final entry on the file was the sentence “Subjects died due to starvation.” Iris didn’t cry. She only retrieved a large syringe that she jabbed into her father’s neck as he was dissecting a werewolf’s brain. She took his sleeping body, feeling no remorse, to a meeting of the underworld. The creatures looked down on his body with a lust for death in their eyes. She left it there and said nothing to them, but ever since she has been able to find company with the Unmentionables of the underworld. For the past two years she has learned skills from them that were never included in her education, and now she will need all of them to survive.

Strengths: Highly Advanced Intelligence, Immunity to various curses of the Unmentionables, Posses certain traits of unmentionables including; quickness in movement, advanced eye site, advanced hearing, advanced athleticism and strength, Slight telepathic ability. Skilled in swordsmanship/archery/and guns.


Weaknesses: A Loner that has trouble working in groups, abilities are stronger at night than during the day, and she has asthma (lol), her unmentionable skills are not consistent (i.e. at times she may have advanced eye site, but be completely deaf.)

Name: Fessi Sunstalk
Age: 15 but really cause it's cat/human age is different so in human years around 18.
Height: 4'6
Weight: why weight ? any way 128 pounds.
Category: (Intelligent, Invincible, or Unmentionable)
Unmentionable, cause he is a cat/ human thing.
History:
In the an old part of watford, it's just outside london, with the pollution from the city, acid rain became dangerous to people and living items within a few miles of londen. A small village called Newraku (weird name) was
destroyed by the pollution. The inhabitants were mutated soem reatained their form however a cat like race, were created from human and cat dna, a scientist realising how amazing their skills were, took samples the Canesh, the cat like people. The scientist tried to experement with them causing in a few different races. Fessi was a being created by these experiments. The scienctist went missing rumors among the unmentionable told that he was killed by a female heroen, someone who saw their existance as amazing,The Canesh live amung the unmentionable in south londen. Fessi is self thought, although his langauge is sort of muddled, some of the words he doesn't understand, he can pick up a langauge by actions, however this does not mean that straight away my character will understand every word.


Strengths: (Within your chosen category)
Well because he is cat like, he has fur so he can stand the cold, he has claws and he can has a tail, which can be useful. he is agile.
Weaknesses:
Well his lack of the english langauge is one, as the Canesh speak in a sort of look and action langauge. He has inherted all weaknesses from a cat bar some.
Descrption: Because he is a cat like person. He has a normel human teen body except for claws and a tail, he also has cat ears and teeth aswell as fur which is brown and ginger.
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Hopefully this is ok. Sorry Charliee Leanor i had to use your father, it was such a good excuse for the Canesh's existance.

good stuff guys, but we now need some others to fill out the first 2 categories. apart from renos babe who asked me y'day, im closing the unmentionable category until we get some takers for the first 2.

If you need me to I can change to the intelligent since she is human. Just let me know.

Name: Alyssa Greenley
Age: 18
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 110lbs
Category: Intelligent

History: Alyssa had quite a normal early childhood. She grew up in a home in a village in the countryside, went to a local playgroup and had lots of friends in her village. She also had a little brother, who was four years younger than her. Things started to change when she was five; her mother died suddenly in a car accident.

It became quite obvious that Alyssa had withdrawn into herself. She spent more and more time reading, and writing in private notebooks. For a while she was a shadow of her formally sunny self. After a time, though, she seemed to return to normal, and it was widely agreed that she had simply been suffering from grief.

Then, when she was nearly 8, she was playing at her friend Lucy’s house. While they were playing, Lucy’s teenage sister was struggling with trigonometry homework. When Alyssa and Lucy asked what was the matter, she showed them the equations she couldn’t figure out. Alyssa worked out the answers in a matter of minutes.

When Lucy’s sister informed her father and school of Alyssa’s amazing prowess, she was tested further. It became clear she was a true genius, and was taken out of primary school and given a private education. By the time she was eleven, she had completed her GCSEs, A Levels and a PhD.

When the zombies first started appearing, her little brother, father and old friends were all killed. Alyssa was only able to escape because of her sharp wits. However, she blamed herself for her friends’ and family’s deaths, and has never forgiven herself. She has once again withdrawn into herself, and become somewhat cold hearted and distant.

Strengths: Superior intelligent and wits, calm under pressure and able to think rationally in difficult situations. Can speak several languages, and is well informed about most subjects.

Weaknesses: She can be quite scornful of people with lower intelligence. Sharp, sarcastic, unequipped to deal with social situations. Sometimes painfully awkward, and cold.


There! Hope that’s all okay!

No Charlie that's fine, although as the RPG progresses you could have links to the Intelligent.

Great Profiles guys, all approved so far...

Don't forget that when the story starts the zombies have only been killing for a period of three or four days. We have all been in the church hall for a few days lying low after the killings first started.

Name:Virgil Dinamor
Age:23
Height:6"2
Weight:200lbs
Category: (Intelligent, Invincible, or Unmentionable)
Intelligent

History:Virgil was born to a father in the military and a mother who worked as a lecturer at a university.
His father died when he was young, and his mother was very close to him. However, before he died his father had risen him to be an athletically powerful boy, he was trained as both a gymnast and a boxer and is thus perhaps at first glance more like an invincible than an intelligent and possesses a muscular yet powerful physique.
However, after his fathers death his mother schooled his mind rather than his body, however, Virgil took up his own training and continued the rigorous routine his father had set him on, he is thus in top physical condition but also extremely smart thanks to his mothers teachings.

Strengths: Virgil combines both mental and physical strength, he is extremely fit, strong and athletic but to within reason and is also extremely intelligent, especially in the use of languages.

Weaknesses: Virgil fears and hates small spaces, thus he suffers from chlostrophobia.This is due to his father died when a lift came free of its suspension cables and fell foor floors.

Nice stuff Lyonidus. Two Intelligents, Two Unmentionable, hopefully we'll get a few Invincibles soon.

Name: Jackson Cage

Age: nineteen

Height: 6 feet 2 inches

Weight: 220 lb

CategoryIntelligent, Invincible, or Unmentionable)

History: Jackson was born in an upper class (as far as upperclass extends in this world) family in new york. He saw his father die at the age of seven a victm of time and circumstance who was simply in the wrong street at the wrong time and was killed by a poor man simply looking to take his father's wallet and be gone. One day he ruturned to his house from school at the age of thirteen (six years later) only to see his mother and little sister dead each killed by one shot to the forhead execution style in an unexplained murder. Jackson was then sent to live with his grandfather who, after making a less than favorable comment about Jackson's mother (Jackson's grandfather had never approved of her), fell victm to Jackson's anger and was found dead two days later missing his lips as well as his tounge. Jackson was not charged with the murder and was left sole heir to his grandfather's fortune. One year later, at the age of sixteen, Jackson killed a man outside a nightclub who had insulted him and found that he liked it very much. Jackson killed seven more people that year without being suspected since he was one of new york's favored sons. After one victm gave Jackson a run for his money nearly killing Jackson, Jackson hired various instructors and learned to fight. two years later at the age of eighteen (after commiting 29 seperate murders), Jackson came undersuspision for the murder of a young college student, Robert Benz, and fled the police. Jason spent the next year of his life adrift among the new york streets until he met a woman named lileth who seduced him. Later that week one of Jackson's victems (he had continued killing and had since his escape from the police only done so more often) pulled out a 45 caliber hand gun and fired at his head. Miraculously, Jackson not only survived the shot, but was only knocked backwards till he regained his balance and finished his prey off. He has no idea what happened to him, but since that night he has been stabbed twice and hit by a car, and he is still alive.


Strengths: Jackson has no ihibitions about killing, knows how to fight and thus far seems somewhat unable to die.

Weaknesses: Jackson has only a limited amount of self control and often finds himself blacking out or the victem of other mental ailments. Also when Jackson was hit by the car it did take him about two days to walk again.

nice profile but maybe you would be better suited to being an Invincible? If we could just excuse the not dying thi ng, you'd work very well there.

Name: Faith Wolf
Age: 6000+ (looks to be about 19)
Gender: Female
Height: 5’7
Weight: (Refuses to tell)
Race: Dhampir (half Vampire Half human)
category: The Unmentionable.


History:
Faith was born in a small village outside of London; her father was a creature of the night, a vampire, her mother a member of the village. Faith’s mother died giving birth to her, leaving her father and his clan to raise her. Faith grew quickly and fitted in with the vampire clan amazingly well. Her ability to go out in daylight hours made her a key tool for hunting (the clan doesn’t kill its human victims or turn them; they just take what they need to survive). But when the zombies attack the clan was destroyed quickly. Faith was only saved because her father had sent her away for a while to find a new home for the clan. Upon her return she swore vengeance against the zombies, and has been killing them from the shadows.

Strengths
(So you know what she can and can’t do and how to kill her)
-Can go out in sunlight (But it weakens her abiltiys slightly)
-slightly faster than humans the fittest humans
-Can control her lust for human blood. (But needs it every couple of years, it can also heal her from the brink of death)
-Slightly stronger than humans
-she can bite through almost anything
- will live forever if she isn’t killed

Weaknesses
-silver (it doesn’t kill her but makes her incredibly sick)
-holy water, crucifixes ect. (Hurt her they can kill depending on how they are used)
-Stake through the heart (she doesn’t fear stakes but they can kill her)
(Basic how to kill vampires stuff)
-shot between the eyes (normal bullet, anywhere else and she will live)
-bitten by another vampire, werewolf or zombie (will kill)
-forgetting when she needs human blood


(Tell me if you think she's too overpowered i had to be careful when making this)

Very good,we've got 4 in the unmentionables now, two in the intelligent we need some people to be invincibles, so for the time being no more unmentionables please.

Good profiles so far guys look out for the RPG to start in next few days.

Get your friends involved

group of people hold themselves up in the church hall,

any chance of me starting outside the church, since most stuff inside could kill my character?

Extremely good point Renos. I shall write the intro taking that into account.