What Happens After The World Ends? RP THREAD

BACKGROUND

The end of the world as we knew it came and went, well I think so anyway...

If I'm honest, all I have been told is that our planet was no longer sustainable for us, humans couldn't live there anymore, so we moved underground. The Government built huge underground cities capable of housing hundreds of people all over the country... possibly all over the world. The rich built their own huge bunkers near the surface with pools and theatres, while the rest of us scavenged the money to be put into a tiny, cramped house in one of the under ground cities. If you didn't have the money, you couldn't get in.

At first, things where fine the surface people had runs of cities, and all the food in them. Things got bad when the bombs dropped, the government wanted a clean slate for the earth, they wanted the earth to regenerate so in 100 years humans could come out after being underground and live peacefully without the constant natural disasters. Anyone who was immune to the radiation survived and fought for their lives for food, shelter and clean water. People raided any surface bunkers they could get into, stole the food, water, any supplies they could and left the people in the bunkers for dead (either by starvation or exposure to radiation). The rich where targeted the most, their extravagant bunkers became the bases for gangs and mobs.

So while the Earth became greener, more lush, the people ran wild and society fell.

Of course, everyone underground had no idea the world above them was falling apart at the seams, we where worried about our own issues.

Our city, along with the other bunkers and cities, was not meant to hold the amount of people (that had accumulated over the 100 and something years), for the amount of time that we had stayed there. We where running out of food and electricity. Our time was up, and to be honest, I was going crazy in that town.

One day I went to the food bank, and I tried to rob it. I was desperate, my family hadn't eaten in days, my little sister was wasting away, I couldn't watch anymore, so I did something about it. Well, I tried too. I obviously got caught. When a 19 year old single-handedly tries to rob a food bank, things don't go well. I was thrown in jail and my punishment was to be sent to the surface.... a deaths sentence by radiation.

I don't know how I'm alive, I guess I'm one of the "lucky" ones who is immune. From what I can tell I am the only one who has survived being sent to the surface. The pile of bodies I woke up in is a bit of a giveaway.

It's not too bad here if I'm being honest. The sun feels warm on my face during the day, the nights are cold but when you are next to a fire its not so bad. I have managed to avoid most of the 'locals' by hiding. The animals are mostly okay to eat, as long as they don't show signs of radiation poisoning, but they are hard to catch and all I have is a small pocket knife.

The gangs are the real issue, they shoot first and ask questions later, they take all you have and leave.

The days are getting colder though, the nights are less bearable. I don't think I can live out here much longer by myself....

Gangs:

Cifaretto

- the most dangerous gang

- they where the first to form and have the most weapons and ammunition

- their base is a huge, above ground mansion that survived the bombs

- if you see them, you hide. If they see you, you run. If they get you, you plead for your life.

- they roam the streets causing general havoc because they can

- they like to hunt people down

Positions:

1. Leader

2. Second in command

3. Outsiders (they go out for resources)

4. Hunters (look for survivors to capture and bring back for "entertainment")

5. Wilds (they just run rampent and do what they want)

Stracci

- the largest gang

- they live in an underground bunker/ abandoned city (according to the rumours, no one knows as no one has been there and escaped)

- they have cars they drive around in and drones (only used sometimes due to veryyy little petrol) to find more food/ resources that can be used

- more structured

Positions:

1. Leader

2. Second in command

3. Warriors (defend their territory)

4. Gathers (go out of the complex for food/ other resources)

5. Doctors/ Chefs (they look after anyone thats been hurt and help to provide and cook for the gang, usually people who have been taken hostage)

Survivors:

Jade Wick - featherblossom

Kwatile Sitara (aka Tara/ Tile) - KagomeMoana

Rachelle "Sabertooth" Hernandez - CaserDilla

Elliot Taylor Flynn - kdiggy

Toro - rippelt

Reamir Nielson - ReamirTheSlytherin

Lumaree - ToxicSoldier1996

Marcy Graceland Vineyard - ToxicSoldier1996

Sterling Vineyard - ToxicSoldier1996

Cifaretto:

Leader

Kiyoko Komatsu ("East Side Snake")- Crepe

Second in command

Marcelina Louise Montclaire - BOKEH

Outsiders

Corisande "Cora" Amie Angelos - kdiggy

Hunters

Wilds

Stracci:

Leader

Second in command

Warriors

Xerxes Cyrus Golara - BOKEH

Gathers

Marley Padmore - littledawnfire

Doctors/ Chefs

Levi Kyte Ranier - Crepe

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ooc: okay so this is my first thread that i have run/ been apart of for a supperr long time. I'm hoping to have this thread go in the general direction of forming a smallish group of survivors who have to escape the gangs, find their own food, and survive basically. Your character could have also been sent to the surface and survived (or maybe escaped one of the bunkers or underground cities) or has been born on the earth and this is all they know.

Im more than happy for people to play more than two characters if you want. You can play someone from one of the gangs or someone from the survivor group. If anyone has any plot ideas, you are welcome to put them on the table or any ideas about gangs or groups or anything really you are welcome to add them! I'm super flexible as long as its discussed first

anyone is welcome to join! if you want to write paragraphs, you are free too and if you are a beginner like me, just write with what you are comfortable with. Quality over quantity

Jade Wick

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Jade lay on the forest floor. The sky was a soft orange that matched the embers of her fire. The birds chirped and sung, the forest was filled with their songs. Their calls where Jade's modern day alarm clock. She slowly opened her eyes, the glare of the sunrise was already too bright for her eyes. Blinking quickly to try and adjust her eyes, she sat up slowly and stretched, and tried not to notice the dizzy spell and loss of vision that overcame her. Her body ached from sleeping on the hard ground. Her back and shoulders cracked as she twisted and rolled her body, desperate to get rid of the aching. She slowly and methodically picked the leaves and twigs out of her hair and clothes, yawning every so often. As the sun rose, she sat there, watching the world around her. She was starving, absolutely ravenous, but the effort to reach up and pick leaves out of her hair had left her arms shakey. She licked her dry, cracked lips, the salivia stung her cuts and she took a deep breath.

"I need to find water..." she croakily said aloud, not knowing who she was telling, "being alone for so many weeks is driving me mad" she whispered as she stood up, leaning on the tree for support as another dizzy spell hit her. "if I dont find water soon, I'll die" she thought, and for the first time in her life the thought of death didn't scare her, it welcomed her....

Jade Wick

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Jade took a deep breath, letting the cool morning air wash over her, waking her up from the inside. She threw her hood, the material was too thin to offer any actual warmth, but just having it on made the cold of the morning feel more bearable. As she walked she held her pocket knife close (it was her only belonging apart from her clothes), the only time she had used it was when she chased off serval crows who had started to eat a dead rabbit, she managed to skin it and roast it by the fire. She hadn't been so lucky since then. Jade has never hunted, never seen other animals apart from the usual household pets, and the ones she saw now, she only knew their names from the many books she read while underground.

She tried to be silent as she walked, avoiding the really leafy areas, but she was weak and clumsy. Her steps where echoed by the crunching or snapping of leaves and twigs, she winced at every crack. Jade paused, trying to listen for the sound of water and kept walking when she heard nothing but the birds in the trees.

After what seemed like hours, Jade stumbled upon a small cave. "this looks like the perfect place to sleep for tonight" she thought. As she continued to walk she made small cuts in the trees, marks that she could follow back to the cave.

As she stopped to listen for water, she heard it. The soft sound of running water. Using what seemed like the rest of her energy, she jogged, cutting the trees as she went until she found it. She almost fell into the small stream as she knelt down to take a drink. Cupping her hands she threw the water on her face, and gulped it down, hoping it was clean enough to drink.

Jade Wick

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OOC: littledawnfire i totally forgot to say thank u sm for your comment on how my writing is beautiful, it meant alot :)

Feeling full after drinking what felt like her body weight in water, she lay there. Watching the sun get lower in the sky, she thought about what supplied she needed to get. Jade had so far avoided any and all towns she had seen, worried about what dangers lurked there. She had hid, out of sight, peeking through a bush as a car full of boisterous men and women drove past, blaring music and occasionally shooting in the air or at anything that moved or looked like it did. They were fearless, and Jade didn't want to run into anything like them.

Jade knew she was weak, she couldn't put up a fight if she wanted too. Weeks barely eaten had left her looking like skin and bone. Her knife was her only defence and even then she couldn't really use it, you had to get close to your opponent to use it, and she doubted she could get close enough to anyone to use it before her opponent killed her.

She needed a water bottle, a decent weapon, something that she could use from far away for food and protection, and some warmer clothes. Her prison clothes where thin, and offered protection from the sun, but not from the cold of the night.

Jade started making her way back to her camp for the night, taking some big gulps of water before heading off. She collected sticks, logs and twigs as she followed her knife marks back to the cave.

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Jade Wick

19| Survivor

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Jade followed the marks she left on the trees back to the clearing with the cave. Without much care she left the twigs, sticks and logs she collected on the outskirts of the clearing, "I'll come back to those later" she thought as she placed them down.

In the afternoon sun Jade walked further into the forest, cutting trees on her way. She wanted to explore a bit, "The cave will be a great place to make a camp, its near water, it has shelter... I just gotta find food..." she mumbled to herself absentmindedly. As she walked she became aware that the forest around her was thinning, the gaps between the trees became sparse and some different bushes, trees and flowers covered the ground. Jade slowed her pace, and tried to step lighter, as she became aware of the loss of cover. As she walked, she stumbled upon what seemed to be an house and an overgrown garden.

House isn't really a good description, it was really a shack that had fallen apart. You could see into the building through the bits of rotten wood. Inside was large tins of paint, nails, seedlings, a lawn mower and a hammer. Almost everything was on the ground, it had clearly been ransacked by someone long ago. Jade walked in and rummaged through the mess, hoping to find something of use. Under a pile of wood cuttings she found a jar with a lid on it, it had some kind of liquid inside that she would have to clean out but it would make a good drink bottle. She kept digging and found an old pistol, mostly metal and it was rusted, no bullets in it, but it could buy her a few seconds if she pointed it at someone. Lastly, she found a box of matches, only 8 where in there, but it would make lighting a fire a lot less stressful and a rusty pot.

As she left she checked the garden for any food. She dug up six very small carrots, four potato, one slightly rotten cucumber, one lettuce that was overun by bugs and a handful of small tomatos. She didnt pick everything knowing that this was her only source of food, she needed to only pick what she needed. As she picked she became aware of music playing, loudly. She looked around to see where it was coming from and noticed a building in the far distance, one that was not so run down.

Jade quickly ran in the shed, looking for something to hold her new treasures in. She grabbed some of the old cloth sitting in the corner, shoved her treasures in it, tied up the corners so it made a bag, and started walking home quickly, following the cuts in the trees.

Only when the music was gone did she slow, and started to walk with newly found confidence, she had found supplies! With a bounce in her step she walked back to the clearing, ready to start a fire and cook her first meal in days.