Our Dark World (Sign Ups)

The Current Situation

May 10, 2017

"There have been reports of disease coming from Africa. We are limited with information, but the disease seems to cause patients to become extremely hostile towards the healthy. The disease is highly contagious and infected areas have been quarantined until further notice. More information about the disease will be released soon, hopefully.

August 25, 2017

"Quarantine attempts have failed as the disease has quickly spread over the entire continent of Africa and reports of the disease are starting to come in from Europe and Asia. America has currently boycotted any trade and cut off any transportation that leads out of American soil. Let's just hope the infected can't swim...

January 8, 2018

The disease has now completely overtaken all of the Old World. America's isolation attempts seem to be working but rations are quickly disappearing. The starving country is in an outrage and people are starting to get desperate to feed their starving families. Cannibalism and murder aren't uncommon anymore and frankly it seems as if everyone turns their head the other way when someone goes missing. Damn... Just damn...

March 11, 2018

It's been almost an entire year since this horrible nightmare started. It's now in America and I'm starving and scared and... I just want it to stop. All of it. This will be my last journal entry. I can't stand this anymore, just waiting to be eaten alive. I've had this for long enough and I'm going to end it before I become one of those... Things. If you're alive out there and reading this, may God Bless you in this dark, dark world of ours.

The Symptoms

You can get infected in more ways than one. Being bitten is the most common but just getting the blood or saliva of the infected into your system is enough to do the trick. The symptoms usually start out looking like your everyday flu with vomiting, fever, same old same old. But then the eyes become red, and blood mixes with your saliva and stomach fluids. You get crippling migraines and fainting spells at the end of it before you turn. Your still alive is the scary thing though, the infection doesn't kill you. It does, however, take control of your body and cause you to attack the healthy. It takes usually days, maybe even weeks for you to turn though. If the bite's severe enough you won't even turn, you'll just die and stay dead. It seems that the infected retain their memories of when they were still considered human, however, that's not a good thing. If your husband or wife, mother or father, child or sibling, any loved one, recognizes you when they're an infected, they won't try to infect you. Instead, it's worse. They'll beat you to death. Sure they may bite you but you won't survive the bites. They'll mutilate you and torture you in the most painful ways imaginable and they won't stop until your deader than dead. That's the infection for you.

Rules

~This is a semi-advanced thread. All posts must be more than 2 sentences and spelled correctly. On occasion, it's OK, but if this becomes a common thing for you I will ban you from the thread with zero warning.
~If you want to leave the thread please just pm about it and not just sign off with no notice. It's just easier for me that way. If you are inactive for a long period of time without telling me what's going on I'll pm you and if you still do not respond within a reasonable amount of time, I'll ban you from the thread with zero warning.
~Please be respectful to others. That means no OOC: arguments and just being downright disrespectful IC: or OOC:. If you choose to act like a jerk or the prima donna I will ban you from the thread with zero warning.
~Be mindful of how descriptive you are. Whether it's kissing or killing, nobody wants to read any of that so keep the details to a minimal. On occasion a little detail's OK but if it becomes common I will ban you from the thread with zero warning.
~That being said no power playing either. No immunity, no superpowers, and no killing others without their permission. If you have more than one character, however, expect them to die eventually. If you do choose to power play I will ban you from the thread with zero warning.
~Feel free to have a dog or whatever, but no wild animals because it's unrealistic and in order to have a pet, you must have a human. If you don't have a human you're just not signing up.
~NOTHING on the form is optional (Except for the ones with ? behind them). That means no meet him/her's and no doesn't talk about's. Also NONE of the rules are optional.
~Please don't argue with me about the rules. If you have a problem with them pm me and talk to me about it with an actual reason. I've had this issue on different sites and it's childish and what I ask is just something that's expected of you. Choose to argue with me about anything and you will be banned from the thread with zero warning.
~This isn't really a rule but I'm just making something clear, you're in the US, it's 2018, the infection started in 2017. Pm me for any plot ideas or questions about the thread.

Form

Human
MANDATORY

Full Name ~ Erin Rhodes
Nickname? ~ None
Age ~ 20
Gender ~ Female
Personality ~ Erin has a quiet, shy personality. In no ways is she even remotely considered out going and prefers to keep to herself. She's somewhat absent minded and will often forget things or say and/or do things without even realizing. Erin is usually a calm, kind person but if you get on her bad side (Which isn't hard at all), her quiet and kind personality suddenly changes to hot headed and stubborn who isn't afraid of giving you a piece of her mind. Erin is reluctant to kill an infected person, even when given no other option, and spends more time studying them than actually attacking them.
History ~ Erin grew up the youngest child with two older brothers in the state of Alabama. Her mother died in a car accident when she was two years old so Erin never felt any emotional attachment to her mother. Erin's older brothers, Joseph and Will, raised her more so than her father did who soon spiraled into a chronic depression after the death of his wife which he'd never come out of. As soon as the disease broke out Erin's older brother Will enrolled in the army as America was sending troops out to Africa at the time. Will was doing great for a while until he, like billions of other people, became infected. Erin, afraid to lose Joseph like she lost her other brother, is very defensive of him and will not hesitate to put a bullet in the skull of whoever or whatever threatens him.
Pet(s)? ~ None
Relationship(s) ~ Erin has two older brothers, Joseph and Will.
Other~ None

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Full Name ~ Joseph Rhodes
Nickname? ~ Joe
Age ~ 25
Gender ~ Male
Personality ~ Joseph, much like his sister, is quiet but certainly not shy. Joe has a rough personality and hard to get along with but once he gets to know you he's somewhat nicer and willing to protect you with his life. Joe is quick to anger, like Erin, but doesn't have a tendency to be violent unless you're really asking for it. Joe is protective of his sister and still silently mourns the death of his twin brother, Will.
History ~ Joseph, like his little sister Erin, grew up in the southern state of Alabama by the coast line. He spent most of his childhood with his brother Will, and hardly ever even looked at Erin while Will was the exact opposite. While Joe spent years recovering from the death of his mother, he was unphased by the death of his father. All he ever did was sulk around feeling sorry for himself before he hung himself that one night, so why should Joe care if his own father didn't? He never told Erin their father killed himself, however. She was still too young to understand and didn't want to be bombarded by questions. It didn't seem to matter to Erin anyway though. She just shrugged it off like it was no big deal. When word of Will's passing reached Joe's ear, he was devasted. So was Erin, of course, but Joseph's family seemed to be crumbling away and there wasn't a thing he could do to stop it. Since this, he swore to himself that he would protect Erin no matter what, and make sure that she didn't end up like the rest of their family.
Pet(s)? ~ None
Relationship(s) ~ Joseph has a twin brother named Will and a little sister named Erin.
Other~ None