GRAND OPENING

[therunning]

Hello survivors, it's time to start playing! While we're going to have a loose plot moving forward, these initial weeks are allocated for characters to settle in. Explore the area, talk to NPCs, ask questions, claim an apartment, figure out your niche, whatever! Enjoy the slice-of-life while it lasts, because it's not going to last forever. Everything is set up and for now, supplies are somewhat plentiful. If you have injuries, go see Kei. If you need something, go see Morna. If you have technical skill, go see Carey. If you want to join security or need to turn in a weapon, go see Jags. If you've played on the TDM, you can either take it as game canon or not depending on if the other character is in game! Anything with an NPC can be considered canon. Thank you for your support all this time, and we hope you all have fun!

Comments

[ballroombro]

Hmm, a zombie apocalypse, what sort of character would be appropriate...

C'est magnifique! A ballroom dancer!

Hi, I'm Tetra (Tetradecimal) and I'm playing Gaju Akagi from Welcome to the Ballroom, a cool-headed young man with no impulse control issues whatsoever. Looking forward to playing here!

[isthecontext]

I knew sports anime was a thing but the fact that there's a ballroom dance sports manga is amazing. I'm Chasekat and I play Kevin here, and I am definitely hitting you and Gaju up for the sheer wtf factor alone.

[ballroombro]

Well, if there's ice skating there must be ballroom dancing! But yeah, I really like the art, and it's a pretty interesting sport. Looking forward to playing with you :)

[notlucky]

i too didn't know that there was a BALLROOM DANCING MANGA I LOVE THAT???????? when you tagged kei with him i was ????????? until i realized what was happening and then i was so delighted.

it's good to meet you! i'm glad to have you here. c:

I MIGHT WANT TO PUT MY NAME i'm trent hello.

[ballroombro]

Hi there! Kei is a cutie and I'm glad he takes things in stride because stride length is (apparently?) pretty important in dancing.

Nice to meet you too!

[witwanton]

the sports anime/manga genre is incredible omg

honestly it's fun to see characters that have no business being in a zombie apocalypse at a place like this, it'd get pretty one-note if everyone was already an expert survivalist lmao

[ballroombro]

Of course! We can't all be Mad Max or everyone would just stand around growling at each other with gravelly voices.

[witwanton]

That would make for very boring network posts.

[choosetruth]

It's cool I brought a journalist. Of course, she's a journalist from a world crawling with zombies but you know, still a journalist, still determined to bring the news in the face of the apocalypse.

Hi, I'm Shana, nice to meet you!

[ballroombro]

Hello and nice to meet you!

The news waits for no one, someone's gotta get that scoop :|b

[isthecontext]

Hello folks! I hope you guys don't mind a straight up serial killer, 'cause I definitely brought one in. I'm Chasekat, and I'm here with Kevin Khatchadourian from the movie We Need To Talk About Kevin. He's a manipulative little shit and prone to disliking people on principal alone, but you'd never know it. He's a rich kid that hates his mom and kind-of-sort-of shot up his school with an archery set.

If anyone's up for Kevin fucking around with them, please let me know, I would love for him to mess with one of you folks. As for me, go ahead and add me on chasekat! Looking forward to tagging everyone, this game looks like a blast.

[notlucky]

PUSHES KEVIN AWAY BY THE FACE

[isthecontext]

hes done nothing wrong in his life ever

[notlucky]

this is a blatant lie

[isthecontext]

'accidentally' tears fence for zombies to come in

[neart]

as long as he keeps in line for the most part, jags won't have a problem with him. carey (eochair), on the other hand, most likely won't like him (but, to be perfectly fair, carey doesn't like most people in general either).

also welcome to the game! i am super pleased somebody brought in a serial killer like you don't even know.

[isthecontext]

Aaah, thanks! I really like the NPCs here, so I'm pleased that there's so many and they seem active. :)

[witwanton]

merlin's got a pretty good bullshit-o-meter but he's also pretty manipulative and great at acting like a gullible idiot (and sometimes he actually is a gullible idiot but that's, yknow)

anyway, def toss him at me sometime

[hakuho]

Hello!! I'm Rema (luftballons) and this is Yoshitaka Mine from the Yakuza video game series. He's kind of awful on the inside but he's polite on the outside, usually? Unless you do something to make him mad.

His story about trying to find the power of friendship by joining the mafia & the extent to which that does and does not work. The good news is: he'll be super useful. The bad news is: he may have a skewed sense of what friendship looks like.

[thecost]

don't make fun of people's accents, punk

[hakuho]

you bet akiyama-han

[notlucky]

fuck i laughed

look he uses -san!!!

[notlucky]

most of the time!!!

[ballroombro]

Hi again! Looks like we'll be playing in the same game after all \o/

[hakuho]

Heck yes we finally did it

[ballroombro]

annoying party horn noises intensify

[witwanton]

i mean who really knows what friendship is supposed to look like

not merlin that's for sure

[isthecontext]

Hello hello! I admit I'm unfamiliar with your canon but yakuza are pretty badass so I can't wait to see him around. I'm Chasekat and I play Kevin from We Need To Talk About Kevin (they never really do), and I went ahead and added you on plurk. Can't wait for Kevin to see what actual criminals are.

[choosetruth]

ewwww rema you're here gross

[dirtyredneck]

Hi there! I'm Autumn and I'm bringing Daryl Dixon from The Walking Dead. He's very familiar with living in a zombie apocalypse, though he's much more at home in the woods than the heart of a city. But he'll make do. He's good at being silent, shooting things from a distance, and knifing things in the head.

[isthecontext]

Hey Autumn! I'm still watching TWD but I absolutely love it; Daryl's probably one of the best parts. I'm Chasekat, and I play Kevin from We Need To Talk About Kevin, who is pretty much the opposite of Daryl - rich, younger, spoiled, etc - save for his love of archery.

I can't wait for them to meet. :)

[dirtyredneck]

Nice to meet you, too! Sorry for the late on getting back to you here. Life's been a bit hectic. I know nothing about your canon, but I love the meta text you're putting in about Kevin. He seems like a spoiled asshole. He's great.

[choosetruth]

Sup Autumn! I'm Shana, and I'm bringing another character very familiar with living in a zombie apocalypse, though Georgia's zombie apocalypse is a hell of a lot more civilized than this. It's been twenty years. They've rebuilt a lot. She's used to having internet.

I have no idea how she and Daryl are going to get on (I suspect not great) but I am excited to find out.

[dirtyredneck]

Hey there! Georgia's apocalypse sounds about where TWD will be in 20 years or so if they can get the whole building a new world thing off the ground. I'm not sure how well they'll get along. But it sure seems like an interesting combination.

[witwanton]

well hey

I'm Kai and I've got Merlin here (yes that Merlin, like from Camelot and stuff) and hopefully Hester (withinwires, nerdy art historian from an......... interesting false utopia universe) soon and I'm on plurk at unfroyharper if you don't already got me added! Merlin's getting set up to be a field medic, so he's a guy you probably want to get along with! Luckily he's pretty easy-going most of the time. When Hester's in, she'll be helping to run comms. Both of them are primarily non-combatants buuuuuut if pushed they can both get up to some fucked up shit. (unsure plurk emoji)

[choosetruth]

Hi Kai! I've got a journalist from a different zombie apocalypse who will... probably like Hester, may be more skeptical of Merlin because, I'm sorry, Merlin, really. There's no way. Georgia's a bit of a skeptic despite coming from a world with zombies. They're very hard science zombies, okay?

Anyway, looking forward to playing with you! Georgia's going to be trying to set up a newsfeed type thing so I have no doubt she and Hester will have things to talk about.

[witwanton]

look, being some sort of mythical figure is weird for him too okay. can't do anything with magic here, but he's pretty clearly not from modern times lmao

Hester's deal would be more with the walkies and keeping track of everybody out on runs, but she does have a nice voice for radio!

y'know cause her canon is a podcast

[choosetruth]

Hello hello! I'm Shana and I'm bringing in Georgia Mason from the Newsflesh series. She's a journalist who's spent the better part of a year following a presidential candidate around the country, chasing down conspiracies, and oh yeah, dealing with zombies. They're not that big a deal. It's the humans you got to watch out for.

Anyway, she's gonna be annoyed as all hell because she's not with her brother, and because she's used to a much more civilized post-apocalyptic world. But that doesn't change her mission: report the news. Expose secrets. Tell the truth.

SO YEAH. That's gonna be fun. I'm antivillain or antivillain#2451 on discord if you wanna chat. Can't wait to make trouble.

[isthecontext]

Hiya hiya! Chasekat here, and I know I already said it on plurk, but I'm v excited to be in a game with you.

[tojoclan]

haha shit I totally forgot to post here HELLO I'm Jan and I'm bringing Daigo Dojima from Yakuza to our fun zombie game. Yakuza, the series that has an actual canon zombie AU (don't talk to me about Yakuza tbh, I will never stop)

Anyway, Daigo's a totally normal-looking businessman in his thirties who just happens to be the head of Japan's biggest yakuza clan so a normal day for him involves greasing a lot of palms and getting kidnapped sometimes. For a criminal, he's very nice. But he also has a gun with him and he's Not Giving That Up, sorry.

As for me, feel free to add me at cantito. I'm looking forward to playing with everyone!

[buildabazooka]

hi hi hello

I'm Javid and I've just brought in Tulip here from AMC's Preacher! Her best friends are an Irish vampire and a preacher with Jedi Persuade powers (who also happens to be her ex) but she's a very normal Texan girl, promise. She just also happens to have an incredibly explosive temper and very little care for the law. She will definitely yell at people more than not. And possibly break things.

Also, she knows how to make homemade shrapnel bombs out of household objects so she is pretty well equipped for the zombie apocalypse, actually. Look, she's helping!

I can be found at erlking! Feel free 2 add meeee