TEST DRIVE MEME #1.

[therunning]

OPTIONS: WAKING UP You wake up in a studio in an apartment building that's got windows all boarded up. You remember being sick, you remember dying, and you probably can't believe this is the afterlife. If you head out into the hall you'll see that others are heading out too, looking just as confused as you are. All of you died, most of you of the same thing. If you head down to the front office, you'll meet a native resident who will explain in brief that you're in Aqora, a settlement living among the undead and that people like you show up every so often. You'll be given an informational pamphlet, a shitty cell phone, and a walkie. Then you'll be expected to figure it out. No one has time to hold your hand. EXPLORING Miscellaneous things here: shops and restaurants turned into places to live, apartments full of people living day to day, the main focus (the library) being the hub where people come to learn and children go to school. Because school never ends, even in the apocalypse. Feel free to buddy up with other newcomers to figure out what the hell is going on. OR, say you've been here a while. It's time to figure out how to get more supplies! Let's go on a supply run. You'll just be heading out past the barricades to start, and you'll have to dig through buildings to try and find things. If you're lucky, maybe you'll hit a cache. If you're unlucky, you'll find too many undead to fight. No one goes out alone though, so hopefully your partner can help. "NETWORK" Someone has set up a rudimentary network using the nearest cell towers. You can communicate with others in the area but only via voice and text. Anything further out is voice only via walkies. You can have a username or leave it blank. Have fun, campers.

Comments

[hakuho]

"Current circumstances"? Are we planning for a future where that changes?

I'm not afraid of descriptions.

[notlucky]

Yes and no. Jamie wants to expand further and Kei wants to keep protecting what we have so that we don't lose any more people than necessary. We lose the most people on runs and even more the further we go out.

Almost every group that goes down to the structures gets totally obliterated. The only reason my group came out mostly unscathed was because we went in with a small supply of flares and noisemakers to set the dead off elsewhere but we don't have enough of a supply of those to clear the spaces out.

In short, the parking structures are slaughterhouses.

[hakuho]

Akiyama-san is cautious because he is our doctor. While I can't fault him for such a natural inclination, I can see how it might cause frustration in the long run.

Maybe it would be better to seal them off and wait for the dead to decay themselves into nothing.

[notlucky]

I agree. Jamie is... reckless, for lack of a better word. He means well but his style leaves something to be desired.

They're currently barricaded. A more permanent solution to blocking them off would suit, though.

[hakuho]

Opposite sides of the same coin. I take it you'e in the middle?

Small explosives to cause a cave in might work. But we'd need supplies we might not have.