Line #26 Roleplay/ZOOOOOmmxBIES


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3	Zooooommxbies is a German [[PlayByPostGames Play By Post Game]] about a group of people trying to survive a ZombieApocalypse in Sydney. The players create characters with different stats for overcoming the challenges the game master provides. The story is divided in different chapters, each featuring unique challenges which require a certain amount of characters to participate. A character's stats and the game master's dice decide if he/she is successful and can continue the game or fails and has to face the consequences -- which are usually deadly for the character. Fortunately, there are also characters with certain special abilities that can be used to influence the outcome.
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5	The game started in August 2012 and ended in September of the same year. A second season started in August 2013. A third season started in September 2015, loosely following the events of the 1st and 2nd season, set 21 years later. The third season ended three months later. It is the source for most of the tropes listed here.
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10	!! This roleplay provides examples of:
11	[[folder: General Tropes]]
12	%%* ActionSurvivor: Pretty much all off the characters who survive their seasons. Special points to Niki and Leo, who've been around since the beginning.
13	%%* AnyoneCanDie: And many will.
14	* ApocalypseHow: They wanted to create Super Soldiers, they got Zombies.
15	%%* BadAssFamily: The [=McAldrins=] and the Millers.
16	* BoomHeadshot: The easiest known way to actually kill a zombie.
17	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Everyone's text has a personal colour to make it easier to know who's talking.
18	%%* CharacterDevelopment: Obviously especially strong in Niki, Leo, Fawyer and all other recurring characters. But even if you only look at the seasons themselves there is a lot of development going on
19	* DyingMomentOfAwesome: The chapter ending missions and posts around them are usually a lot longer then the pure RP-posts and a more epic, including music, pictures and sometimes a gruesome death scene.
20	* EpunymousTitle: The title refers to zombies and the forum which hosted this RPG.
21	* HeroicSacrifice: Everybody who dies while participating in a challenge at the end of a chapter could count. However, there is also a special ability that allows a character to face a challenge all by himself, saving everybody else but dying as a result. [[spoiler:Michail, Trevor and Kerosa make use of this.]]
22	* GameMaster: Well, somebody has to plan the plot and roll the dice. Daen vom Clan is the Game Master for Zooooommxbies.
23	%%* OurZombiesAreDifferent
24	* PutOnABus: Some players just straight up stop posting at some point or just leave the party. Sometimes there is an explanation in-game, sometimes there isn't.
25	%%* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: That's what the herogroup of every season is mostly consisting of
26	%%* TheVirus: Courtesy of the ADF
27	[[/folder]]
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29	[[folder: Season 1]]
30	%%* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Chapter 3
31	%%* EliteZombie: Fawyer, Alistair and Yuki had to fight one during the climax.
32	* {{Expy}}: Fawyer is one for James "Sawyer" Ford out of ''Series/{{Lost}}''.
33	* TeamPet: Machete, Helena's dog.
34	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Most members of the group really disliked each other. There were fistfights.
35	[[/folder]]
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37	[[folder: Season 2]]
38	%%* AfterTheEnd: The season starts a few month after the outbreak
39	%%* CoolBoat: Most of the season our heroes are on sea with the ''Heather''
40	%%* IncompatibleOrientation: Shelley and Gabriel
41	%%* LuckBasedMission: The raiding missions
42	* MinMaxing: Through heavy planning and a lot of lists, only one active player was killed in the whole season
43	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: With their decision to save themselves with the killswitch, the heroes doomed the world to be an post-apocalyptic wasteland.]]
44	%%* WorldOfSnark: Lexi, Gabriel, Jul, Suparman, Nathan... Even Shelley has her moments
45	%%* ZombieInfectee: [[spoiler: Ivan]]
46	[[/folder]]
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48	[[folder: Season 3]]
49	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bildschirmfoto_2015_09_29_um_212359.png]]
50	[[caption-width-right:300: ''The apostle will guide us.'' Indeed she will. ]]
51	20 years after the zombie apocalypse only few people remain alive. Those who survived live in small towns, scavanging the ruins of the old world to survive. Shengs Hope, Texas is one of these towns.
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53	One night, a mysterious coffin appears on the shore - in it are the remains of patient 0. A group of heroes starts one of the most important journeys in the history of mankind to bring patient 0 - dubbed ADAM - to an old lab in San Antonio to synthesize the cure against the virus.
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55	The roleplay started in early September 2015, and it took the players 3 months until they succeeded in their task. It is one of the roleplays with the highest wordcount in Germany, clocking in at around 750,000 words, written mainly by around 10 players and their game master, Daen vom Clan. It not only spawned most of the tropes listed here, it was also surrounded by a huge amount of hype, resulting in a lot of fanart made by some of the players and fans.
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57	!! General Tropes
58	%%* AfterTheEnd: 20 years after it, to be exact
59	* ApocalypseCult: The Cult of Vision and their love for zombies.
60	%%* BattleCouple: Season 3 has a lot of couples, and most of them are pretty badass fighters: Leo & Jackman, Haile & Raoul, Thorn & Kerosa, even Evi & Sheng to a degree.
61	%%* BigBad: [[spoiler: Toske]]
62	%%* CentralTheme: Family and Hope. Often invoked by Lancaster.
63	* ChekhovsGun: The corkscrew Evi gets from Raoul has several appearances throughout the game and gets finally used to keep [[spoiler: Pray and Blades save during her baptism.]]
64	* DoomedHometown: Shengs Hope doesn't survive the departure of our heroes
65	* DysfunctionJunction: Most of the characters are broken in one way or another. Lancaster is incredibly aggressive, Leo likes to eat people, Haile was a designated HumanSacrifice and is basically mute...
66	* EliteZombie: The mutations. Huge zombies with some resemblance to intelligence. They don't feel pain and are incredibly hard to kill. And then there is the Zombrilla in Chapter 4...
67	%%* EvilWearsBlack: The Cult of Vision
68	* FireForgedFriends: Almost all of the characters to some degree. Especially Leos and Hailes connection stems from their adventure in Riviera Beach in Chapter 1.
69	%%* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Thats what Georgina did to almost all the men in Shengs Hope.]]
70	* LivingMacGuffin: ADAM is actually still alive and holds the key to the cure in his blood.
71	* NearDeathExperience: Because of the players love for drama, this happens a lot. Almost everyone had one of these:
72	** The first glorious NearDeathExperience happens before the game even starts, with Vincent almost dying because he swallowed some cork.
73	** Lancaster getting surrounded by zombies and saved by Hailes jump from the crane in Chapter 2
74	** Evi getting beaten up by the Zombrilla in Chapter 4
75	** Haile gets stabbed by her father and only survives by an inch, hallucinating about Prudence and Helena
76	** Leo getting buried under six zombies in the laboratory
77	** Eryn almost falling from the float in Chapter 4 and a second one, when she almost died in her fight in Chapter 6
78	** Howard getting soaked in zombie goo and starts to wildly hallucinate
79	** Sheng [[spoiler:almost drowns]] in the final showdown
80	** Ellen getting bitten... [[spoiler:by a cat]]
81	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the raider clans. Raouls tries to invoke this with his crew, but fails miserably. Everyone just straight out refuses to call him "Guts", much to his dismay.
82	* PortmanteauCoupleName: [[invoked]]Shengevi, Derryn, Leoman, Rhaioule and Roumeare.
83	%%* PostApocalypticDog: Mary has a dog named November, also Salma has a dog
84	* TeamPet: Snowball, the cat Eryn saves from Fawyer. Lancatser would have been an naming option.
85	* TeenageWasteland: The most raider clans seem to be consisting of fairly young people.
86	%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Evi and Eryn.
87	* TrueCompanions: The core group of characters and players grows together pretty closely. Haile always mentions how the group is her family.
88	%%* WhamEpisode: Chapter 7 as a whole. Also, Chapter 3, when the heroes return to the destroyed Shengs Hope
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90	!! Chapter 0
91	20 years have passed since the Zombie Apocalypse. Humanity rebuilt themselves in little towns all over the world. Shengs Hope is one of those little towns. Life there is not always good, but it's stable. Save. What could possibly happen?
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93	* AwkwardKiss: Hailes first kiss with Raoul. She has no idea what he is doing, and he thinks she's REALLY good at playing coy.
94	* BarBrawl: Sheng/Evi/Jäger versus Shaun/Steve. But everyone in the Dusty Derrecks takes some part in it.
95	* EasingIntoTheAdventure: The roleplay starts a day before ADAM's coffin emerges and the journey begins. The players quickly fill Shengs Hope with life, though.
96	%%* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Most of the [=NPCs=] get one
97	* FreeRangeChildren: Nobody really cares about the Ahladita-kids, even though Shengs Hope is actually really small and they are known to steal everything in sight.
98	* FryingPanOfDoom: What Eryn uses to knock out Raoul.
99	%%* GroinAttack: Evi tries this with the two scavengers in the bar brawl. It doesn't work.
100	%%* IncitingIncident: Blades shooting Sara in the leg.
101	%%* LadyAndKnight: Sheng and Evi in the bar brawl. They even act out a little scene!
102	* ShipshapeShipwreck: The IHS Ahladita is rusty and almost completely ruined, but there are still a lot of people living in there.
103	%%* ShopliftAndDie: The reason why Floyd-Williams kidnaps Raoul
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105	!! Chapter 1 - Wave Shengs Hope Goodbye
106	After the arrival of ADAM on the shore the bravest people of Shengs Hope gather materials, food and ammunition to start their journey across Texas. Now is the time of the last goodbyes, sorrowful speeches and the rekindling of hope. Also, we really have to find a way to survive on the road.
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108	* AlmostKiss: Evi almost gets crushed by a table, Sheng saves her, their faces draw closer... And then, Ranger appears.
109	%%* BigScrewedUpFamily: Everything that happens at Ol'-Cletus-Farm.
110	%%* CoolBike: Lancaster gets one of these.
111	* DecidedByOneVote: Lancaster has one vote more and becomes the leader. He's not really into it.
112	%%* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why Derreck is exiled
113	%%* MomentKiller: Lots and Lots between Sheng and Evi.
114	* SustainedMisunderstanding: Eryn and Sheng talking about how love makes idiots out of everyone. He talks about Evi, she thinks that this is a VERY weird love confession.
115	--> '''Eryn:''' ''I'm right here, you idiot?!''
116	* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Sheng and Evi. Both of them are horrible flirters and there is always someone interrupting the moment.
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118	!! Chapter 2 - Charging Itza
119	Before our team can go north, we have to get batteries for [=ADAMs=] life support. In the area south of Shengs Hope live two possible trading partners: The clan Vulture and Sabals Keep - both factions are at war and the heroes have to decide who earns their trust.
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121	* BarbarianTribe: The Road Vultures count as that, with a hint of an Aztec motif and voodoo mixed into it.
122	* FakingTheDead: Will acts like a dead body in the church in Chapter 2.
123	%%* LoveAcrossBattlelines: You Are and Romero. Oh so much.
124	* MudWrestling: The fights in the pit in the Vulture-camp are extremely muddy. Seeker and Leo don't use it that much, but Thorn and Haile are actively beating the crap out of each other with mud.
125	%%* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Evi has to kill one to earn the trust of the Vultures
126	* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Haile jumps from a building crane into a hoard of zombies to save Lancaster's life. He wasn't ready for this.
127	-->'''Lancaster:''' Fuck... fuck fuck fuck... holy... Are you alright, girl?! Nobody makes that jump and lives \
128	'''Haile:''' ... ''faints'' \
129	'''Leo:''' Well, that was the Zombie Kill Combo of the day.
130	* ShoutOut: Romero and You Are are one giant ShoutOut to the classic play by Shakespeare. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well, too.]]
131	%%* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Vincents]] way of going out with a bang
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133	!! Chapter 3 - No Hope Left
134	After days of travel the road towards San Antonio is blocked. But on the horizon we see Shengs Hope burning. Something happened in the little town - and our heroes have to investigate and find out where our friends and families have been taken.
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136	* {{Fingore}}: Mum Perlmutter loses her fingers to a zombie bite.
137	%%* MoodWhiplash: Our heroes return to find Shengs Hope [[spoiler: burning and ruined]].
138	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Lancaster beating a Buccanear to mash with over 130 punches, one for every citizen of Shengs Hope.
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140	!! Chapter 4 - River Revenge
141	The heroes follow the trails of the kidnapped townsfolk, but are blocked by an army of zombies guarding the only bridge on the way there. Not only do they have to find a way through the enemies, but they also have to deal with the local brothel and his eccentric owner, the clan Flame-Rider and a lost zoo with all kinds of danger living there.
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143	%%* BlatantLies: Fawyers first explanation of the Z-Energy.
144	* DoesntLikeGuns: When Leo, Evi and Haile find a perfectly fine hunting rifle in the zoo, they don't use it and just kind of awkwardly take it with them, because all three of them rely on melee combat.
145	-->'''Evi:''' We're too Vulture for this.
146	* EliteZombie: The Zombrilla is a huge silverback, completely driven insane by the virus.
147	%%* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Jäger learns this the hard way
148	%%* MutualKill: What almost happens between Haile and her father at the final mission of the chapter
149	* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Chapter 4 marks {{the reveal}} of the leader's real name.
150	--> '''Jackman:''' I'M HUGH FUCKING JACKMAN AND YOUR ASS DOES WHAT I SAY AS LONG AS YOU'RE ON THIS BIKE!
151	* TheCameo: Fawyer is back! And he now has his own brothel
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153	!! Chapter 5 - Crossroads
154	After months of travel the laboratory is finally on the horizon. But first, there is a whole new battle to be fought. If we go directly to the lab our friends and families, kidnapped by the cult, will die. Or we save those people, but at the price of maybe being to late to save the world. A hard decision, that threatens to tear apart the group...
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156	* JerkassHasAPoint: Leo and Jäger. They vote for leaving the people of Shengs Hope to their fate and to actually go on and save the whole world by delivering ADAM.
157	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Everyone loses their shit when Haile starts to talk.
158	--> '''Eryn:''' Shiiiiiiiiit.
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160	!! Chapter 6 - Never Forget The Alamo
161	San Antonio lies in ruins and the headquarter of the cultists, the lost Alamodome, brims with life. Our families are being hold there and we have to find a way in to save them. There are also other people and tribes still living in the ruins - but are they friends or foes?
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163	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Jäger and Haile use one to get into the Alamodome. Jäger doesn't take it well.
164	* ActOfTrueLove: Sheng really wants to die for Haile's sake. He tells Evi he doesn't want to be saved. She doesn't listen.
165	* CurbstompBattle: When Leo and Jackman confronted the BigBad, both of them rolled an 1 on the dice. The battle was over... very fast. [[spoiler: Leo cuts off Toskes head with one swift strike, while Jackman shoots him between the eyes. They are both completely flabbergasted how EASY that was.]]
166	-->'''Jackman:''' That's it? He just kind of...died.
167	* ExploringTheEvilLair: Jäger and Haile explore the Alamodome in Chapter 6. Eryn and Lisa join the fun later on, disguised as zombies. And it works.
168	* GeekyAnalogy: Jackmans plan for saving Sheng, Raoul and Wingman
169	-->'''Jackman:''' ...That's the best plan since that werewolf thing I did in Van Helsing! \
170	'''Evi:''' That's a horrible plan.\
171	'''Jackman:''' Yeah, and Van Helsing was a terrible movie!
172	* OhCrap: Jackmans reaction to the bomb in the hotel.
173	%%* RousingSpeech: Jackman holds one in front of the Skypeople. They're ''frantic.''
174	%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Several of them. Mostly targeted at Jackman
175	* VomitChainReaction: Leo, Jäger and Howard all vomit inside of the hotel - although they all have their reasons for it.
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177	!! Chapter 6,5 - Nearer Too Thee, Mother Earth
178	It's the evening before the final fight against the cultists. One last chance to say everything that needs to be said and to do everything that needs to be done. We are camping at a lost golf court, together not only with the saved people of Shengs Hope, but also with our sisters and brothers from the clan Vulture and with the remnants of the military force.
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180	%%* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: Raoul. [[spoiler: He DOES have a reason for this.]]
181	* AloneAmongTheCouples: That's how Blades feels in the band of teenagers.
182	* BlingOfWar: Ellen leads Kerosa, Raoul and Haile into her clothing chamber. Hilarity ensues. And they finally get some new clothes!
183	-->'''Kerosa:''' ...Nah, I just need a bit of white fabric, golden details and hey, stallion, if we find you a shirt in one piece and maybe a leather jacket we can talk about a threesome! \
184	'''Raoul:''' No.\
185	'''Haile:''' ...No.
186	* BreatherEpisode: The sole reason for the existence of an interludium. After saving the Love Interests and all the other [=NPCs=], it's time to lighten the mood before the final fight.
187	* DueToTheDead: Frank buries Mary and speaks a few words.
188	* {{Mangst}}: Jackman has a little breakdown, including some {{Manly Tears}} after finding out about [[spoiler:Mary's death.]] Sheng isn't in a good mood either, but his angst is a bit more external.
189	%%* MissionBriefing: Provided by Ellen
190	%%* RousingSpeech: Sheng gets to do several of these. After all, it IS what he can do best
191	* ShipperOnDeck: Haile and Eryn are active Shengevi shippers.
192	* WartimeWedding: Haile and Raoul, of all people. It's not really a wedding, but they exchange their amulets the night before the final fight. Kerosa is not amused. Leo isn't happy about this either, but for completely different reasons.
193	--> '''Kerosa''': But you're not married now or some shit like that, amirite? You didn't even have sex!
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195	!! Chapter 7 - History In The Making
196	The final battle for the world has begun. While most characters protect the laboratory, there are a few special missions - deadly, dangerous and most possibly extremely important...
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198	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:After the final fight there are only few survivors, most romantic pairings have been divided by death and only 7 active players are left alive. And they can't stay together, but have to travel the world to spread the cure. There won't be a Shengs Hope ever again.]]
199	* BoringButPractical: Some missions in the lab itself - repairing the solar panels and enticing away the dogs living there, for starters
200	* {{Cliffhanger}}: What happened after the first part of Hailes fight against [[spoiler: Georgina]] and the betrayal by [[spoiler: Raoul]] got a different post a few days later.
201	-->''Good night, sweet sister.''
202	%%* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Eryn towards [[spoiler: Derreck]]
203	%%* GrandFinale: The whole premise of Chapter 7
204	%%* MisfitMobilizationMoment: When the few survivors of Shengs Hope finally fight back
205	* ShoutOut: One towards Edward Snowden, who is second in command to the Skypeople - which are actually the remnants of the NSA.
206	* SuicideMission: Taking the jeep to [[spoiler: Georgina]] and killing her behind enemy lines. The mission is staffed with Haile, Eryn, Raoul and Kerosa and no one expects them to come back. It's one of the missions with the highest death rate.
207	%%* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: You Are and Kerosa]]

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