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[Esiphas]

Gravekeepers. The name given to the terrifying beings that emerged, that night. December the 12th, 2012.

It began in Britain. At the stroke of midnight, Lanterns emerged in the London fog. People began to walk out of the fog, tall, grey skinned people, who looked about as alive as an egyptian mummy. At first, they did nothing, just wandered the streets. Then, The Pastor of the local church came running through the streets, screaming about how one of the mystery men had cut him, sliced his palm with a strange, bone-coloured Curved blade. True enough, then man had a hideous black scab running down his palm. He was taken to hospital Immediately.

Then, that night, the man turned feral, sprouting blades from his fingers, and Carving his way out of the Ward. Those he attacked became infected son after. Soon, a full-scale outbreak of the infected, dubbed 'Servants' began. The servants found their way across the world. The Gravekeepers targeted military centres next, annihilating any and all trained resistance.

Now, new years eve, a small group of survivors, students from a local school, receive a visitation from an infected marine. He reveals to them, a stockpile of weapons, right across London town, before committing suicide. The body was quickly disposed of- and now, these students have a goal. get to the Supply stash. Perhaps from there, they can find a safe land- or end the infection forever.

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Name-
Gender-
Student year- (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th)
Age- (12 + your year number. Eg- 13 for 1st, 15 for 13rd, 18 for 6th. I will allow a margin of 1 year either way.)
Appearance- (School has no uniform, wear what you like)
Life Story- (Whatever works, but end it with finding your way to the schools basement, where the RP will begin).

Name- Karen Jamieson
Gender- Female
Student year- 4th year
Age- 16
Nationality- (Londons not picky where you come from, as long as you speak English.)
Appearance- Black Tracksuit bottoms, Black Boots, Black Sleeveless Hoodie, Blue Tank top, Blue and Black striped Arm-sleeves, Black fingerless gloves. Karen has jet black hair and green eyes, a kind smile, and wears very little makeup (though she has been known to put eyeshadow on sometimes). She is about 6'0'' in height.
Background- Karen was raised by a very laid back family. She was educated very young about homophobia, racism, sexism and all the other stuff she should avoid. Karen took these lessons to heart, and tried acting as a very compassionate person- a fact which made her fairly popular, right up until secondary school (for you americans, thats your 8th year of education. Not entirely sure on how it translates over). After that, she became a target for bullying- Karen had realised fairly early on that she preferred Women to men, and that information spread like wildfire.

Karen suffered through 4 years of secondary school, before the Outbreak of Gravekeepers. She became seperated from her Parents in the first night of the outbreak, and resorted to hiding in the schools basement- where the rest of the student survivors found her.

[mantisstalker]

Name- Zeek Trakard
Gender- Male
Student year- 6th year
Age- 19
Appearance- Zeek wears a white, ankle length lab coat with thick elbow length rubber gloves over the top. Under the coat he wears a simple grey shirt and white hoodie, with blue jeans and a pair of normal trainers. Rather tall for the average teenager standing just over 6'8" he is reasonably well built for his age but is not the strongest of people. Zeek has a simple black hair cut and rather pointed features that are usually covered over by a blue hygiene mask. His pale blue eyes are often covered by a set of protective prescription goggles he used for lab experiments.

Life Story- Zeek was born into what seemed like a very average middle class family, and led an unremarkable life with the only factor being out of place was his curiosity. Even for a child's it was never satisfied and he would often be caught in his early adolescent years dissecting all manner of insects in the families shed. As he grew older his curiosity never died and instead it often made him shun other people in favor of studying. This never really impacted on his ability to make friends but even people that have just met him can tell he's a bit odd, not that really it bothers him and often he seems not to be even aware of it.

Zeek naturally excelled in his education and soon found himself moving from his small country town where he had grown up to London to pursue Biological science. He became consumed in his work and quickly gained a reputation as being a very cold and distant person, even though the few that bothered to get to know him found he was quite friendly. But because of this sort of social shunning he began to care little for others and how they felt, and often would simply cut others off if they inconvenienced him, in his mind doing what was needed to be done.

When the outbreak hit the school he refused to abandon the experiment he was working on, going as far as threatening another student that had tried to pull him away with a surgical knife. When he was finished the infected where smashing there way into the lab and after a few seconds of studying them Zeek simply turned on the gas and walked away, and waited for it to reach the Bunsen burner he had kept on. He initially tried to make his way to the roof but after finding to his annoyance, the halls packed with screaming students he decided to head to the basement to try and wait it out. When he discovered that other survivors had barricaded themselves in there he saw the perfect opportunity to document the infection without being in harms way and quickly joined them, eagerly waiting to see what would happen next.

[ziggythetrygon]

Okay, what is with all these huge people? I'm 6'3" and taller than almost everyone I meet. This is also high school. Which means it's more likely that people haven't reached their full height yet. Maybe it's different across the pond, but the average guy I knew back in those days was about 5'9', with girls topping out at about 5'6", 5'7"...

Name- Brian Eriksson

Gender-Male

Student year- Senior (6th)

Age- 17

Appearance- Brian is not what anyone would call strapping. While he has an attractive, well defined, angular face, topped off with a ruffled bristle of short hair, his physique leaves something to be desired when it comes to mass. He is, however, wiry, with excellent muscle definition. He always appears to be in a state of high-strung physicality, not so much out of nervous tension but sheer innate energy. His clothes are tattered, he has a ragged grey hoodie that keeps the chill off, some grungy grey sweatpants, and under-armour underneath to further ward the chill. His has on worn down combat boots that are not originally his, and carries a shortsword in a sheathe that he nabbed from from the Tower of London slung across his back. He had taken it when the Gravekeepers came to the place, when he an his parents had been on a tour there. Two large kitchen knives are secreted away inside his clothing, but still in convenient reach.
Height: 5'10"
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue

Life Story-strangely, or not so strangely, given the circumstances, Brian is not a Brit. He is originally from America, where he grew up in a small farming town in called Skyland in the middle of Kansas. His family was small, just himself and his parents, who made sure that their intelligent, quick witted, analytical child received the best education available. His natural skill for thinking on his feet, and gift for analysis, made him a natural for Detective work. Young for a Senior in High School, he has already applied for several universities well known for their Criminal Justice programs, all of which collapsed when the outbreak occurred. He was in England on a family vacation at the time. Quite suddenly the young man who normally would have been spending his time practicing parcour or musing over philosophy and the Universe on a good jog found himself putting his speed, brains, and agility to the test against what might even be considered otherworldly monsters. His parents were luckier than most; they died in an explosion near a gas station, probably due to poorly maintained tanks as a result of the crisis. At least they never became servants. That was two months ago, and despite the pain he has carried on, leaping over, dodging past, and outrunning all the dangers in his way until now, as he pauses just outside the door he saw the marine go in, keeping alert and preparing to knock softly.

[Esiphas]

My uncle was 6'8 by the time he hit 1nd my Ex was 6'1'' at 15. Theres alot of tall people in Britain.

Your aprooved Mantis

Ziggy, you cant have Weapons like that. Yiu cant get them in england, and you wont have got those on a plane. A kitchen knife would be Okay, but nothing designed for real combat. Other than that, your fine.

[ziggythetrygon]

I'm going to assume a machete is fine, because they're for hacking through brush and are an outdoorsman item, so if you guys have a Bass Pro equivalent, it'd be an easy find.

I keep forgetting England is lame like that...I could get knives and guns within walking distance of my house here in the states. I also own a few. Never bothered anyone with 'em though.

Actually, come to think of it, can he have raided the Tower of London for an authentic sword? That'd be amusing, and would make sense if he were a tourist in the area at the time of the outbreak. If not, it's fine.

Also, seeing as he's survived this long alone, and longer with his parents, I should probably know some more details about the Gravekeepers, like how to avoid them, get away, basic biology, etc. PMing me some of those details would be helpful.

[mantisstalker]

If you think England is lame for weapons Zig you should see the laws we have in Australia. What people can have in terms of guns and blades is very limited and on top of that you need to have a reason to own them rather than for just sport. And as for tall people I was born in England and I'm only 16 and I'm still 6'3".

Any way wasn't aware we got weapons to start off with so I would just like to add to Zeek a first aid kit and an array of surgical tools (Autopsy would be nice) if that's ok with you Esiphas.

[ziggythetrygon]

Well, Mantis, I figured that a guy not holed up in a school basement would have something on him like that. You guys would probably have access to first aid kits, mops, brooms, shovels, possibly pokers for the boiler-room depending on how old the school is...something you could nab from the cafeteria, knives you had illegally, etc. I'm not sure why you'd have an autopsy kit on site at a school lower than university, though.

[mantisstalker]

Well at how engrossed I want Zeek to be with his curiosity it wouldn't be hard for him to nab a few dissection tools from the schools lab and he could have got the kit illegally like you said. But I was only saying it would be nice to have it, not that I do have one and that's why I was asking. I'm fine with a couple of scalpels as Zeek will most likely be a support character to patch up your ever so mighty machete wielding American

But even if I do get an autopsy kit it wouldn't be much use in combat as the biggest weapon it would contain would be a bone saw and a few surgical knifes, he would probably be better using a plank with a nail in it. I had planned on using it to chop up bodies to try and gain some knowledge on the infected not swing it around above my head shouting Leyroy Jenkins.

[Deadlink]

Guys can some one explain to me how it works I would like to put in a character but I'm not sure how the whole story will run??

Deadlink97

[ziggythetrygon]

I think we're just going to try and not die while getting some guns, and then we'll go from there.

As for Brian being mighty, well, he might be wiry, but if he gets in a scrap with what I think we're facing, it's likely he'll lose. Badly. My thoughts were that he basically survived on whits and the ability to get the heck out of places, and that the knives and machete (or shortsword/longsword, actually, a sturdy length of rod sharpened on the ends would be excellent for a parkour guy, depending on the good graces of the OP) were more used as tools than weapons. If one cut infects, he can't have been in any serious fights that lasted more than a hair of a second, or he'd be dead.

[mantisstalker]

The mighty part was a joke I was just trying to get across that even if I had weapons they wouldn't be used extensively, and that job would fall to people like you.

But as for the goal I think Zig pretty much summed it up, and when we reach the weapons or on the way to them we will probably be given something else to do like rescue a scientist that might have a cure, that sort of stuff. We really know very little of what we're actually stepping into as most of us have been locked in the schools basement, but if you want to have survived outside and got inside the school later like Zig feel free. But Es might not want too many people starting outside so better to ask first.

[ziggythetrygon]

Also, I made sure to balance the fact that Brian was already outside and armed with knowing diddly squat about England or where the heck he was. For every pro a con, or the characters get too absurd.

[Yuno]

Name: Keket "(Keke) Lamia Meskhenet
Gender-female
Student: 5th
Age: 17
Appearance: Keket is Egyptian although her parents moved to London when she was a little girl. Her hair is dark black like coal, her eyes are black like the night. Her skin is tan and she wears dark cat eye make up. Her parents are Muslim as is she so she wears the traditional dress for young girls which involves covering her hair and wearing unrevealing clothes. She is quite beautiful despite this mode of dress.

Life Story: Keket's parents moved to London when she was very young, despite this she is well versed in arabic and english. She is a remarkable straight A student who was certain to graduate early and attend an excellent university when the outbreak hit. Instead, when the outbreak got really bad she moved to the basement hoping to hide there until it was all over.

[mantisstalker]

Sigh Zig... the only reason I posted in the first place was to clear up your thought's over the autopsy kit and nothing else. I have nothing against your character and as long as the GM is happy with him so am I. I'm not trying to get a jab at you or anything like that, so you don't have to keep justifying your character to me, ok?

[ziggythetrygon]

Er...I wasn't...I was giving deadlink some advice on what he could try with his, which is what I thought you were doing...

Also, YAY, EGYPTIAN. Just because.