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ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#1: Aug 9th 2011 at 4:36:14 AM

The mind is a very powerful tool, It does everything that keeps us alive. But we aren't actually talking about the brain, we're talking about something much deeper, and infinitely more powerful... The psyche. The Psyche is the part of the mind that houses The Ego, The Super Ego and The Id, the three parts of our psychological makeup that encompass all of our subconscial energy.

Now, moving on from that, every person alive has a creature living in their subconscious. Some call them Familiars, some call them Tulpas, or Thoughtforms. Some even call them "imaginary friends", but that is ridiculous, because they do indeed exist. We, of course, Call them The Fallen, beings who banished themselves from the world of the living to be imprisoned in the minds of man. They were creatures who rebelled against humans, who they deemed to be weak, inferior. Man fought back and won effortlessly, because despite being hugely powerful beings, they had one crippling weakness; they were changed by human thoughts.

All man had to do was walk brazenly up to them, and think of them as weaker. And weaker they became. In a last attempt to escape being destroyed utterly, they imprisoned themselves in the subconscious of man, acting as the silent voice that would guide man. And ultimately, guide man into freeing The Fallen who was imprisoned within.

A person who has been taken over by one of The Fallen will change shape completely, into the form of The Fallen that possess them. After they change form, The Fallen one will be able to utilize all the power they had when they weren't imprisoned, no longer having to worry about being weakened from another's thoughts. They could then protect themselves from someone else's mind manipulation now that they had their own mind to protect them. As you can imagine, A Fallen One completely in control of their Human host is a dangerous thing indeed, as they can do whatever they please... No doubt they plan to completely take over humanity and become the dominant ruler's once more.

...And it is today my brothers, today when we begin our plan to stop this uprising. We will take control of one of them, one of the most powerful Fallen One we can find, and use them as our Deity. We will control all of them before they can control us! And we know where a very large grouping of them is. When a Fallen One takes over a human, they release a large amount of almost undetectable energy. We have managed to find an area in America where a ridiculous amount of energy is being released. It is a simple boarding school, called Crystal Hills Boarding School, where we believe a large grouping of The Fallen have found their way into...

The day is almost upon us my bretheren, it is soon that The Church of The Fallen will be victorious, we will save this world! We will become gods in the eyes of man! We will fight, and WE WILL WIN!


That's the basic story summary of what is happening. A fairly crazy church is preparing to infiltrate a boarding school to find beings banished into the minds of humans a vague period of time ago.

The players will decide whether or not they will be a member of The Church or one of the boarding school students possessed by The Fallen (by the way, anyone have a better name for them than "The Fallen"?)

-Sign Up Sheet- Character Name:

Character Age: (Between 10-18 if student) (Between 15-99 for Church member)

Character Appearance:

Character's Faction: (Student or Church member)

Character Personality:

Favorite mythological creature: (Creature! Cannot be a specific person)

Character's Equipment: (NO weapons or heavy armor, this is supposed to be modern fantasy)

Other: (Basically whatever else you think I need to know.)


FAQ: (as questions are asked, entries will be added. ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS!)

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Dragon573 Sanity not included from Sitting at a bonfire Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Sanity not included
#2: Aug 9th 2011 at 4:46:10 AM

This looks really interesting...

It's kind of funny. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is like sufficiently advanced science; eventually, you find something you can't solve.
ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#3: Aug 9th 2011 at 10:41:13 AM

You have no idea how much that means to me. grin

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stargirl93 Snowy from Zemuria Since: Jul, 2010 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
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#4: Aug 9th 2011 at 12:14:49 PM

Ok, so A Fallen= Someone's Superpowered Evil Side, right?

edited 9th Aug '11 12:15:03 PM by stargirl93

ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#5: Aug 9th 2011 at 1:58:55 PM

For the sake of brevity, I will affirm this.

EDIT: I felt guilty about not giving a better answer.

To be completely honest, its more like a Super-Powered Alter Ego , not all of them are evil (per se)...just most of them.

edited 10th Aug '11 9:19:27 AM by ZaneBarrow

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KarlKadaver Stupid Man Suit Wearer from Just offscreen... Since: Apr, 2011
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
#6: Aug 9th 2011 at 8:53:36 PM

Hmm...

Color me interested.

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ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#7: Aug 10th 2011 at 3:51:05 AM

This also makes me very happy! grin

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KarlKadaver Stupid Man Suit Wearer from Just offscreen... Since: Apr, 2011
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
#8: Aug 10th 2011 at 7:26:48 PM

And my character. It's late and I'm tired. I'll probably edit this.

  • Character Name: Shawn Eschelman
  • Character Age: 18
  • Character Appearance: He's between 5'11" and 6' tall. His skin is a little paler than most, since he tends to spend a lot of time inside. For the most part, he's fairly average-looking with short brown hair and brown eyes. He wears a pair of dark-trimmed, half-rim glasses.
  • Character's Faction: Student
  • Character Personality: He’s very shy and reserved, and tries not to “butt into” any conversations. Anyone who talks to him, though, will find that he’s actually a pretty nice guy and will talk freely about just about everything (see below). He tends to spend a lot of time alone, buried in a book of some sort.
  • Favorite mythological creature: Chimera
  • Character's Equipment: In his back pack, one would find three books (the ones that aren’t text books, anyway): A collection of works by HP Lovecraft, A collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe, and a collection of works by Anton Chekhov. One would also find the standard equipment of the average student: Pencils, pens, erasers, etc.
  • Other: He walks with a slight limp from an injury sustained when he was a child that didn't heal correctly. He doesn't like to talk about it; if anyone asks about it, he typically replies with, "It happened a long time ago."

edited 12th Aug '11 7:07:51 PM by KarlKadaver

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ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#9: Aug 11th 2011 at 6:29:57 AM

I would prefer a more detailed description of your character's appearance. If you really don't feel you can, a link to a picture would be acceptable.

Otherwise, I like the brevity of the application.

EDIT: Does your character have any defining characteristics? Like a unique hat or accessory? A scar? Weird hair? Pendant? Anything?

edited 11th Aug '11 3:17:17 PM by ZaneBarrow

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ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#10: Aug 12th 2011 at 11:37:16 AM

...I don't suppose anyone has any ideas of what to add to this?

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KarlKadaver Stupid Man Suit Wearer from Just offscreen... Since: Apr, 2011
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
#11: Aug 12th 2011 at 7:01:54 PM

I'll see what I can edit. Like I said, it was late and I was tired; I just wanted to have something posted.

I'll do better. Promise.

Edit: Edited.[up][up][up]

edited 12th Aug '11 7:09:31 PM by KarlKadaver

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ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#12: Aug 12th 2011 at 7:25:30 PM

Accepted happily. grin

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KarlKadaver Stupid Man Suit Wearer from Just offscreen... Since: Apr, 2011
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
#13: Aug 12th 2011 at 7:41:33 PM

Do you still want a better name for "The Fallen?" Maybe, "Exiles" or "The Banished." Those are the names the immediately came to my mind after reading the intro.

Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#14: Aug 12th 2011 at 8:03:26 PM

I'll consider them.

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ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#15: Aug 15th 2011 at 7:03:28 PM

...uh, I meant to say something meaningful, but I seem to have forgotten.

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#16: Aug 15th 2011 at 10:00:48 PM

Posting interest. I will make a character as soon as possible.

ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#17: Aug 16th 2011 at 5:02:04 PM

I'm greatly looking forward to it.

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ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#18: Aug 17th 2011 at 4:50:15 PM

Still waiting...

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#19: Aug 17th 2011 at 5:17:47 PM

I'm working on it. It should be finished by tomorrow night. I'm sorry its taking so long, but I'm currently at band camp so I only have the evenings for doing the write up...

ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#20: Aug 17th 2011 at 7:23:00 PM

Understood.

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#21: Aug 18th 2011 at 9:25:25 PM

  • Character Name: Sara Darrell
  • Character Age: 15
  • Character Appearance: Sara is a scrawny girl with stringy black hair. She is average height. She has blue eyes.
  • Character's Faction: Church
  • Character Personality: Sara is a completely devoted to the church, and truly believes in the dogma of the church and the pureness of their motives and goals. Despite her sheer fanaticism to the church, Sara is a kind hearted young girl who always attempts to do the right thing. She has very little understanding of other people, and doesn't know how to interact with people, and, as a result, she is very shy.
  • Backstory: Sara never knew who her parents were, but she had someone who was nearly one. The leader of the Church had found her as an infant, and, unbeknownst to her, but beknownst to us, her family were taken over by the Fallen, and killed by the Church. She was raised by the Church, for the Church, and trained in espionage, and combat. She grew up isolated from all influence other than the Church's. Because of her age, she was selected for this mission, and it will be her first mission.
  • Favorite mythological creature: Unicorns
  • Character's Equipment: A light chainmail vest.

How's this?

Also, maybe we can call them the Voice, as that's what they essentially are, a voice in the collective heads of humanity.

edited 19th Aug '11 8:21:58 AM by deathpigeon

ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#22: Aug 19th 2011 at 4:03:56 AM

I like it in general, but it annoys me that you put a weapon under equipment, especially considering I specifically said "No weapons (or heavy armor)"

...The shield annoys me too, but for a completely unrelated and semantic reason...

I liked the application and the backstory very much though.

The light chainshirt is fine... In fact, I kinda like that too. It makes your character more interesting somehow.

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
ZaneBarrow Zombie Survivalist from North Carolina Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Zombie Survivalist
#24: Aug 19th 2011 at 9:12:54 AM

Yes.

Also, Do you have any questions I might add to the FAQ section?

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#25: Aug 19th 2011 at 9:20:53 AM

What sort of ideology other than hating the Fallen does the Church have, and what do they call themselves?


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