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Postby Tiltjuice » Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:01 pm

Khelshar wrote:Finally I got a post up. I don't really have any excuse for my lack of posting, I just struggle coming up with things to post. Have to delve into his mind and his state of mind, and that takes some time and dedication. And I don't want pointless posts where nothing happens, so I have to read everything twice to get things to fit and etc. Again, sorry for not posting any sooner.


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Postby Cylarn » Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:02 pm

I shall post soon.
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Postby Glasgia » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:19 am

Nexeria wrote:
Glasgia wrote:
Ok... Alasdair has a sudden breakdown, realising what he's doing. He tries to throw the knife away, but Monroe thinks he's throwing it at Zoe and panics - Shooting Alasdair in the shoulder. Alasdair finally receives proper treatment from the medics and, when he awakes, is given long awaited rations. Of course, I'd imagine everyone's still wary of him and might even try to punish him but that's up to you guys.

Sounds good?

Yeah, do that.

I just noticed that you did do that, but did you confirm it with Cylarn because you kind of took control of his character.


Will do so now. See below

Cylarn wrote:I shall post soon.


By the way, I took control of Monroe shortly just so we could get the whole incident over with - Though I would've liked to RP it out, they did a timeskip.

Nexeria wrote:Just leave Alasdair right there in that hospital bed, Glasgia.

Kenny's gonna have a chat with him.


That... That doesn't sound good.
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Postby Qeno » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:14 pm

So...I'm just lurking in the background hoping for something Rei could do while the church is on lock down...
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Postby Nexeria » Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:24 pm

Alrighty there, Glas. You best get talking. :D
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Postby Nexeria » Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:28 am

I don't think Kenny and Alasdair are going to along that well. :)

I may have a post in few hours.
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Postby Glasgia » Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:18 pm

Nexeria wrote:I don't think Kenny and Alasdair are going to along that well. :)

I may have a post in few hours.


Nope, probs not by the looks of it :D
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Postby Nexeria » Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:28 pm

Glasgia wrote:
Nexeria wrote:I don't think Kenny and Alasdair are going to along that well. :)

I may have a post in few hours.


Nope, probs not by the looks of it :D

I had to do short post, sorry. Posting from me may be slow throughout the next few days.
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Postby Cainesland » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:06 pm

NAME: Corran Knox

AGE: 16

NATIONALITY: Canadian

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

SKILLS: [Be realistic, and try to explain their skills. Lists are boring.]
-Diplomacy (He is a smooth talker capable of negotiating and talking with others, he is very charming and can usually talk his way out of a hostile situation. He can also give amazing motivational speech (closest walking dead character example is a mixture of Dale, Herschel and the Governor)

-Leadership (He is very good at giving orders and choosing the right path, using the confidence he exerts people naturally follow him, he tries to do whats right, good and just for everyone he leads thus granting him respect and wisdom (Ex. early season 3 governor),

-Planning (He is good at looking to the future to find out what needs to happen for survival to occur (ex. Rick),

-Horseback riding (He has been horseback riding since growing up on his grandparents farm and hanging out at the jousting fair held every summer in his area, as a kid and so has a natural way with both animals, plants and a great sense of balance),

Marksmanship (He isn't the best long range shot on the planet but he has the skill and training to hit a target short range or medium (long range accuracy being slightly off from near bulls eye to a long range golf shot's accuracy)

Armour training (As a kid his participation in jousting fairs warranted the training to use the genuine hand crafted iron plate mail Armour used by the pro joust reenactments and his history fascination led to him not only being a wiz in school but also the desire to get a tailor made suit of plate male for him to have in his room- Result he can wear most (not all) armor from the medieval era to the modern era)

WEAPONRY: [Not everyone owns a gun. This could be a pipe, if that's what your character has access to.] Walking stick, Sword, shield, Words, pen and pencil.

VEHICLE: [Once again, not everyone will own one.] Horseback or Walking.
BIOGRAPHY: [Where do they come from? What is their personality like? Where were they when the apocalypse hit, and what have they been doing since?] Corran is from Port Hardy British Columbia,There he volunteered at a number of locations and people before hell came crashing down including but not limited to, The local church, The local Funeral Home, The local politicians, His Grandparents and their neighbors and the local fishing port plus for a short period of one year up until the apocalypse Corran volunteered for the RCMP as a member of the cadet program. He is normally a pacifist around other people viewing it better to not cause harm or hostility to them unless absolutely necessary. He is kind, polite, honest, sensitive, caring and charitable man who tries to squeeze every once of joy from his short time on the earth as he can. Corran Walks the fine line between realist and Optimist as he sometimes knows when to run and what fights to pick but also tries to see the bright side to his predicaments and/or situations daily, he is a christian (Like Herschel) and follows the teachings of the ten commandments and the knights code of chivalry. Corran was in his Grandparents farm after returning from classic horror movie night at the local cinema which was playing "Night of the living dead" that night. Since the apocalypse began Corran has mostly stayed at his Grandparents farm looking after the livestock, doing the farming and the scavenging of which he takes only the essentials (what he or his group needs) lest another survivor need it and its not there, but coming up on a few months prior to the current part in the forums walking dead timeline (part 5) Corran heard a familiar sound emanating from the shore it was the train or so he thought, since 5 months ago Corran has gone from west coast to east coast Camping at night riding his horse in the day even stopping in the thriving town of "wood bury" once to resupply once even meeting and having tea with the governor while he was there, watched the zombie coliseum, participated in a zombie pit hunt, worked with Milton had a good time with the locals such as playing soccer with the kids, eating the barbecue food with the adults and picking up a hunting rifle and waving goodbye followed by months of scavenging, train riding, camping, horseback riding, zombie avoiding and walking occasional visiting small town country clubs (Like the one Daryl and Beth visited in season 4) and casinos to remind him of home and where the world was just a year prior. Then he met with the current survivors, a load full of experience, joy, passion and story's to tell.

APPEARANCE: [Picture preferred. Try to avoid using well-known celebrities.]
http://www.knightsandarmor.com/knight3.jpg
- Google image of a Gothic knight on horseback.
http://www.camagazine.com/images/2007/oct/camagazine5978.jpg
- Google image of an Rcmp Officer in red serge.
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Tsar-Nicholas-II.jpg
- Google image of Tzar Nicholas the second.
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Postby Cainesland » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:40 pm

It occurs to me that my characters seemingly leaving the island city of port hardy and making it to shore then exploring the mainland on horseback might be a little hard to wrap your head around so I'll offer 2 different option with option one being my favourite of the two.

After the Hindenburg blew up the hindenburgs secret evolution that was stable and fuel efficient was fully operational but was decommissioned due to low demand. After World War One one of the designers immigrated to Canada and moved to port hardy to start a long quiet life by the ocean. He flew his zeppelin over the Atlantic channel and parked it in his barn for years with each generation after him learning both how to maintain the farm but also how to maintain the "Evolution" as the zeppelin was nicknamed. As it turns out Corran Knox is the descendant of that designer and flew the zeppelin over the lake wide river separating port hardy from mainland North America with his horse, armour books and other supplies both essential and not essential on board. The plane is loaded with maintenance/lubricant oil and fuel petroleum and sealed vials of hydrogen and helium to power the ship.
As an added note: Corran as a flyer of the zeppelin and protege descendent of the designer of the ship would have pilot skills, repair and maintenance skills, jerry rigging skills, medical skills, creativity, and other such mechanical, physical and mental traits or skills that may be related to that.

Explanation 2: He took the family ferry across the lake wide river that separates the island from the mainland.
He would have medical experience, repair skills, creatively and experience with driving and docking safely boats of varying degrees of size and strength.

Hope that helps

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Postby Tiltjuice » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:25 pm

Thanks Caine. I'll look things over later tonight.
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Postby Camicon » Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:19 am

Cainesland wrote:NAME: Corran Knox
AGE: 16
NATIONALITY: Canadian
ETHNICITY: Caucasian
SKILLS: [Be realistic, and try to explain their skills. Lists are boring.]
- Diplomacy (He is a smooth talker capable of negotiating and talking with others, he is very charming and can usually talk his way out of a hostile situation. He can also give amazing motivational speech (closest walking dead character example is a mixture of Dale, Herschel and the Governor)
- Leadership (He is very good at giving orders and choosing the right path, using the confidence he exerts people naturally follow him, he tries to do whats right, good and just for everyone he leads thus granting him respect and wisdom (Ex. early season 3 governor),
- Planning (He is good at looking to the future to find out what needs to happen for survival to occur (ex. Rick),
- Horseback riding (He has been horseback riding since growing up on his grandparents farm and hanging out at the jousting fair held every summer in his area, as a kid and so has a natural way with both animals, plants and a great sense of balance),
- Marksmanship (He isn't the best long range shot on the planet but he has the skill and training to hit a target short range or medium (long range accuracy being slightly off from near bulls eye to a long range golf shot's accuracy)
- Armour training (As a kid his participation in jousting fairs warranted the training to use the genuine hand crafted iron plate mail Armour used by the pro joust reenactments and his history fascination led to him not only being a wiz in school but also the desire to get a tailor made suit of plate male for him to have in his room- Result he can wear most (not all) armor from the medieval era to the modern era)
WEAPONRY: [Not everyone owns a gun. This could be a pipe, if that's what your character has access to.] Walking stick, Sword, shield, Words, pen and pencil.
VEHICLE: [Once again, not everyone will own one.] Horseback or Walking.
BIOGRAPHY: [Where do they come from? What is their personality like? Where were they when the apocalypse hit, and what have they been doing since?] Corran is from Port Hardy British Columbia,There he volunteered at a number of locations and people before hell came crashing down including but not limited to, The local church, The local Funeral Home, The local politicians, His Grandparents and their neighbors and the local fishing port plus for a short period of one year up until the apocalypse Corran volunteered for the RCMP as a member of the cadet program. He is normally a pacifist around other people viewing it better to not cause harm or hostility to them unless absolutely necessary. He is kind, polite, honest, sensitive, caring and charitable man who tries to squeeze every once of joy from his short time on the earth as he can. Corran Walks the fine line between realist and Optimist as he sometimes knows when to run and what fights to pick but also tries to see the bright side to his predicaments and/or situations daily, he is a christian (Like Herschel) and follows the teachings of the ten commandments and the knights code of chivalry. Corran was in his Grandparents farm after returning from classic horror movie night at the local cinema which was playing "Night of the living dead" that night. Since the apocalypse began Corran has mostly stayed at his Grandparents farm looking after the livestock, doing the farming and the scavenging of which he takes only the essentials (what he or his group needs) lest another survivor need it and its not there, but coming up on a few months prior to the current part in the forums walking dead timeline (part 5) Corran heard a familiar sound emanating from the shore it was the train or so he thought, since 5 months ago Corran has gone from west coast to east coast Camping at night riding his horse in the day even stopping in the thriving town of "wood bury" once to resupply once even meeting and having tea with the governor while he was there, watched the zombie coliseum, participated in a zombie pit hunt, worked with Milton had a good time with the locals such as playing soccer with the kids, eating the barbecue food with the adults and picking up a hunting rifle and waving goodbye followed by months of scavenging, train riding, camping, horseback riding, zombie avoiding and walking occasional visiting small town country clubs (Like the one Daryl and Beth visited in season 4) and casinos to remind him of home and where the world was just a year prior. Then he met with the current survivors, a load full of experience, joy, passion and story's to tell.
APPEARANCE: [Picture preferred. Try to avoid using well-known celebrities.]
http://www.knightsandarmor.com/knight3.jpg - Google image of a Gothic knight on horseback.
http://www.camagazine.com/images/2007/oct/camagazine5978.jpg - Google image of an Rcmp Officer in red serge.
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Tsar-Nicholas-II.jpg - Google image of Tzar Nicholas the second.

Alright, let's go through this one by one...

He's sixteen. Nobody is going to be looking towards him for leadership. It's possible that he could be good at defusing situations, but among teenagers that is a fairly rare talent, and even then his word would carry little weight.
Now, about his "planning" skills: he's sixteen. He's never lived on his own, never paid his own bills, never had cause to worry about his future. He has zero experience regarding in for the future, particularly with regards to practical wilderness survival, as he has no formal training in such areas.
Horseback riding on his grandparents farm... in Port Hardy? There aren't any farms in BC, let alone the 4000 person strong fishing town of Port Hardy. So, that also makes zero sense.
You also appear to be setting him up as an expert marksman, judging from your description of his proficiency. Again, unless he was receiving formal training in such an area (aspiring biathlete, perhaps, in which case he wouldn't live in Port Hardy), he would not have that level of skill: he's sixteen.
And now for the really silly part. Guess how many people are in the International Jousting Association's Canadian branch. Twenty. From what I can tell, none of them are trained to fight in plate mail, let alone do any of them own a suit for practical use. It would be more plausible to say that that he was an international pop star, than a jouster. Especially given that he lives in Port Hardy; at the very least, he'd need to live in Alberta or Saskatchewan: places with prairies, a sizeable population, and horses. Back in the Middle Ages, when there were actual living knights available to train young men on the proper way to ride a horse, to fight with sword and shield, and to fight in full armor, it took many years of full-time dedication for their squires to be anything resembling proficient. The idea that this sixteen year-old kid from a small fishing town could somehow acquire horses, practical medieval knight equipment, someone to train them with it, and space to train in, is laughable.

The biography: the RCMP don't have a volunteer cadet program. They have cadet training (which is what all recruits go through before being hired), and they have an Auxillary Constable Program (essentially the RCMP version of peace officers, comprised of volunteers), both of which he is too young to be a part of. He is not a pacifist if he considers violence to ever be necessary; that is a very specific label for people with very specific beliefs. Again, there are no farms in BC. And, though it is not mentioned in the OP, we are keeping this story entirely free from established Walking Dead characters and places. Even if we were allowing it, your character would not have been participating in any resupply runs or zombie pit fights. Nor would he have been allowed to simply waltz out of Woodbury on horse back, with a gun over his shoulder: he's sixteen.
Cainesland wrote:It occurs to me that my characters seemingly leaving the island city of port hardy and making it to shore then exploring the mainland on horseback might be a little hard to wrap your head around so I'll offer 2 different option with option one being my favourite of the two.

After the Hindenburg blew up the hindenburgs secret evolution that was stable and fuel efficient was fully operational but was decommissioned due to low demand. After World War One one of the designers immigrated to Canada and moved to port hardy to start a long quiet life by the ocean. He flew his zeppelin over the Atlantic channel and parked it in his barn for years with each generation after him learning both how to maintain the farm but also how to maintain the "Evolution" as the zeppelin was nicknamed. As it turns out Corran Knox is the descendant of that designer and flew the zeppelin over the lake wide river separating port hardy from mainland North America with his horse, armour books and other supplies both essential and not essential on board. The plane is loaded with maintenance/lubricant oil and fuel petroleum and sealed vials of hydrogen and helium to power the ship.
As an added note: Corran as a flyer of the zeppelin and protege descendent of the designer of the ship would have pilot skills, repair and maintenance skills, jerry rigging skills, medical skills, creativity, and other such mechanical, physical and mental traits or skills that may be related to that.

Explanation 2: He took the family ferry across the lake wide river that separates the island from the mainland.
He would have medical experience, repair skills, creatively and experience with driving and docking safely boats of varying degrees of size and strength.

Hope that helps

Regarding option one: Port Hardy is in BC, which sits off of the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic is on the other side of the country. And there are no zeppelin's in Canada, commercial or private. It's no secret why the Hindenburg blew up, and no secret as to how to correct the problem. Quite simply, its a more expensive, less efficient, and slower method of travel than airplanes are.
Regarding option two: ferry's are very large boats and expensive to maintain. A family living in Port Hardy would have no need for a ferry, given the number of ferry companies that operate in and around Vancouver Island. A smaller speedboat or fishing boat, yes, but not a ferry.
So, that is a definitive 'no' to One, and a 'change ferry to something else and it would be fine' to Two.


In all, I judge this character to be a Gary Stu. You describe him as having a lifetime of experience, despite being only sixteen years old. He's inexplicably expertly trained in a vast array of skills that serve little purpose in the day-to-day life of your average citizen (some being archaic to the nth degree), yet are the perfect skill set for surviving a zombie apocalypse. It's obvious that you did little to no fact checking for your character's backstory. You sentences tends towards "run-on", and your paragraphs lack detail and grammar. Oh, and let's not forget that he looks like Czar Nicholas, despite being - wait for it - sixteen.

This application would need to be massively overhauled before Tilt or I would consider approving it.
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Postby Cainesland » Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:16 pm

First off, yes there is such a thing as RCMP Cadets, it's similar to Police cadets, Army cadets Air cadets and Sea cadets.

Secondly, Yes there are farms in British Columbia.

Thirdly When I said Leadership I meant it in the leadership way and when I said planning it could also be taken in the way a student could plan his/her night and what they were going to do that night (for example they are going to do there homework, then have shower and then go to bed).
Lastly you had some good points, and so here is my overhauled version of my application.
By the way I've never heard the saying "Gary Stu" before, but judging by urban dictionary, can i safely assume its a synonym for "Over powered"?
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NAME: Corran Knox
AGE: 32
NATIONALITY: Canadian
ETHNICITY: Caucasian
SKILLS: [Be realistic, and try to explain their skills. Lists are boring.]

Diplomacy and Negotiation
- Corran excels at empathizing and communicating with others and diffusing difficult situations such as letting grieving people know he has there best interests in mind.

Embalming
- As both the owner of a Funeral home and a licensed Funeral director/embalmer Corran is skilled in the preservation of the human body after death.

Planning
- As the owner of a Funeral Home Corran is skilled in the planning for the future, for example, both for the financial benefit of his business and his own life.

Medical
- As an embalmer Corran had a little experience with the human body, knowing enough to know his way around the body and give an autopsy of sorts if it was necessary, but not enough to really enough to diagnose as wide a variety of diseases or cancers and say what the cure or treatment is like a doctor.

Strength
- Nights of digging graves and carrying coffins with people's bodies inside and burying the coffins have developed a sense of muscular strength in Corran.

WEAPONRY: [Not everyone owns a gun. This could be a pipe, if that's what your character has access to.] Pen(s), Pencil(s), Book(s), Words, Knowledge, and a Cane.

VEHICLE: [Once again, not everyone will own one.] Funeral Home Car

BIOGRAPHY: [Where do they come from? What is their personality like? Where were they when the apocalypse hit, and what have they been doing since?]
Corran came from Banff, He is nice, cheerful, optimistic, hopeful, honest, polite, respectful, sensitive, caring and charitable. He was in his newly renovated Hunting Lodge 60 minutes from Calgary. Since the apocalypse Corran has been a little disheartened at the loss of his favorite hangout the "Country Hills golf Club" in Calgary, the sudden lack of communication with the outside world including the lack of rental cheques from his real estate holdings both in and outside Calgary and the seemingly appearance of the worlds relatively sudden loss of humanity and and the rapid decline in human population judging by the only outside communication he gets being the trading with the Mennonites, the sighting of one or two walkers in the woods and the bandits on the road. In an effort to bring back the humanity to the region Corran has tried to strengthen his ties to the local Albertan Mennonite population and to attract refugees to his gated property which he now calls "The Fiefdom" with the prospect of Food and shelter. His spirits though a little disheartened by the cataclysmic Zombie Apocalypse are comforted by his efforts to help the other survivors out there in the world.

APPEARANCE: [Picture preferred. Try to avoid using well-known celebrities.]
http://www.luxuryhomes-intl.com/flash/splash/gallery/Palatial%20Estate%20on%20Oswego%20Lake.jpg

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Postby Camicon » Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:33 pm

Cainesland wrote:First off, yes there is such a thing as RCMP Cadets, it's similar to Police cadets, Army cadets Air cadets and Sea cadets.

Secondly, Yes there are farms in British Columbia.

Thirdly When I said Leadership I meant it in the leadership way and when I said planning it could also be taken in the way a student could plan his/her night and what they were going to do that night (for example they are going to do there homework, then have shower and then go to bed).
Lastly you had some good points, and so here is my overhauled version of my application.
By the way I've never heard the saying "Gary Stu" before, but judging by urban dictionary, can i safely assume its a synonym for "Over powered"?
____________________________________
NAME: Corran Knox
AGE: 32
NATIONALITY: Canadian
ETHNICITY: Caucasian
SKILLS: [Be realistic, and try to explain their skills. Lists are boring.]

Diplomacy and Negotiation
- Corran excels at empathizing and communicating with others and diffusing difficult situations such as letting grieving people know he has there best interests in mind.

Embalming
- As both the owner of a Funeral home and a licensed Funeral director/embalmer Corran is skilled in the preservation of the human body after death.

Planning
- As the owner of a Funeral Home Corran is skilled in the planning for the future, for example, both for the financial benefit of his business and his own life.

Medical
- As an embalmer Corran had a little experience with the human body, knowing enough to know his way around the body and give an autopsy of sorts if it was necessary, but not enough to really enough to diagnose as wide a variety of diseases or cancers and say what the cure or treatment is like a doctor.

Strength
- Nights of digging graves and carrying coffins with people's bodies inside and burying the coffins have developed a sense of muscular strength in Corran.

WEAPONRY: [Not everyone owns a gun. This could be a pipe, if that's what your character has access to.] Pen(s), Pencil(s), Book(s), Words, Knowledge, and a Cane.

VEHICLE: [Once again, not everyone will own one.] Funeral Home Car

BIOGRAPHY: [Where do they come from? What is their personality like? Where were they when the apocalypse hit, and what have they been doing since?]
Corran came from Banff, He is nice, cheerful, optimistic, hopeful, honest, polite, respectful, sensitive, caring and charitable. He was in his newly renovated Hunting Lodge 60 minutes from Calgary. Since the apocalypse Corran has been a little disheartened at the loss of his favorite hangout the "Country Hills golf Club" in Calgary, the sudden lack of communication with the outside world including the lack of rental cheques from his real estate holdings both in and outside Calgary and the seemingly appearance of the worlds relatively sudden loss of humanity and and the rapid decline in human population judging by the only outside communication he gets being the trading with the Mennonites, the sighting of one or two walkers in the woods and the bandits on the road. In an effort to bring back the humanity to the region Corran has tried to strengthen his ties to the local Albertan Mennonite population and to attract refugees to his gated property which he now calls "The Fiefdom" with the prospect of Food and shelter. His spirits though a little disheartened by the cataclysmic Zombie Apocalypse are comforted by his efforts to help the other survivors out there in the world.

APPEARANCE: [Picture preferred. Try to avoid using well-known celebrities.]
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- Only with white hair, an honest Abe beard and and a gentleman mustache.

I never said that the RCMP don't have a "cadet program". They do. It's what they put their recruits, or cadets (cinnamon), through before becoming RCMP or peace officers, neither of which are volunteer positions. The volunteer program they have is called the Auxillary Constable Program, which I already explained. The closest thing I found to this supposed "cadet program" (keeping with the spirit in which you intended) when I Googled 'RCMP youth cadet', is the RCMP Youth Camp. All such hits are akin. There are numerous RCMP run camps, for youths, but no Boy Scout-type programs.
It was hyperbolic of me to say that BC has no farms. They do, after all, grow copious amounts of pot (it's a joke guys. Their farms are actually mostly vineyards :p ). It would not be inaccurate to say that agriculture is, when compared to provinces like Alberta or Saskatchewan and placed in the context of BC's economy, not their focus. Manitoba, with a quarter the population of BC, has about 800 more farms than BC does; these farms are, of course, far larger. So, yes, BC has farms, in the sense that it is a thing that exists in BC, but it is not a particularly notable part of BC (aside from producing all their pot and wine. It's a culture thing, guys, you wouldn't understand). And it is non-existent along the coast, in places like Port Hardy, which is why I made a point of singling it out.
What you mean by "leadership in the leadership way", I have no idea. And planning how you're going to spend your night is not a notable skill beyond the age of six, hence why I assumed you meant he was abnormally good at planning. Finally, Gary Stu is sometimes used to refer to OP characters, but it is also used to refer to characters that fall into generic, bland, and uninteresting tropes that plagues the protagonists of amateur fan-fiction which somehow manages to get itself published. Moving on...

Nobody in their right mind would build a hunting lodge an hour out of Calgary (which, coincidentally, Banff is). And yes, I am absolutely sure of this, as I live in Calgary. It's not because there is nothing to hunt, simply that there are literally thousands of better places one could build a hunting lodge, that are all within a day's trip from the city (also, there are a ton of farms and suburbs outside the city, which equals little to no forest. He'd be hunting prairie dogs and coyotes that stumbled into his backyard). Even were he to build a house an hour outside of the city, he would not be removed from events as the city fell to the zombie apocalypse.
Ignoring that Albertan mennonites might not be the kind of folks you want to rebuild civilization with (I demand to know why Breaking Bad: Albertan Mennonite is not an AMC program!), I won't approve the character so long as he is staying at this "Feifdom" of his. Everyone's characters are down in Tennessee, and I don't plan on introducing an entirely separate story-line for a single character. This fledgling "Fiefdom" of his could have been destroy in the early months of the apocalypse resulting in him wandering around or something. I would be alright with this character, if that was the case (also, 32y/o's tend not to have white hair, unless he was bleaching it, which would be extremely unprofessional for the owner and operator of a funeral home; like, 'sporting a neon-green mohawk'-level of unprofessional).

And being so close to a working application, please send an RPing example to Tilt and myself via TG. If you have something on another forum, feel free to send a link. Otherwise, simply write a pseudo-introductory post to the RP, assuming said character was approved.
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Postby Tiltjuice » Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:39 pm

How fortunate to have a Canadian co-OP. :p
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Postby Camicon » Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:52 pm

Tiltjuice wrote:How fortunate to have a Canadian co-OP. :p

A Calgarian that habitually visits BC, more like. :P
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Camicon wrote:
Tiltjuice wrote:How fortunate to have a Canadian co-OP. :p

A Calgarian that habitually visits BC, more like. :P


That too!
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Postby Cainesland » Mon Apr 21, 2014 12:21 pm

I'm curious what tg means/stands for?

The white hair would've been genetic.

I am unsure if I want to continue my application on this forum, so until further notice (though I will be checking to see what tg means/stands for) I would like to let you know that I am leaving this forum. No hard feelings, Bye :).

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TG is a common shorthand here on NS for 'telegram'.
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Postby Nexeria » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:48 am

Damn, it's been about a week and I was the last to post. :(
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Postby Dimoniquid » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:53 am

Nexeria wrote:Damn, it's been about a week and I was the last to post. :(

I have nothing to post about. Unless a flash-back post is required...

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Nexeria wrote:Damn, it's been about a week and I was the last to post. :(


Uh, that'd be my fault. Sorry :(
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Postby Monfrox » Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:52 pm

Nexeria wrote:Damn, it's been about a week and I was the last to post. :(

I had a paper to write and it's about time for finals.

Rest assured I'll be trying to figure out where the hell I am in the story when I find time.
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I managed to stuck myself, by ending my post with nothing to do, but kinda just expecting something to happen. But I cant do to much either, since I'm in a hospital bed on suicide watch. Maybe I can do a flash-back post...
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Sorry I haven't been around guys. My exams are almost done. Once they are, I'll be able to kick things along.
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