THE ZONE: RECLAMATION: A Survival Horror RP (Open | OOC)

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Name: Rena Harrison
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Appearance:

(Image)

Equipment:
Remington Model 700
Smith & Wesson Model 5906
Tactical vest
Knife, small toolkit,
Skills: Investigation, marksmanship, criminologist.
Weaknesses: Slightly reckless, Stubborn.
Personality: Recklessness is in there, but
Biography:

Born in Toronto, Rena Harrison was destined to be a law enforcement officer, though she never expected that she would go beyond normal law enforcement duty. Born in a suburban family, Rena had a normal life, surprisingly. No major conflicts or something that pushed her to be more outward, but that wasn't the time yet. She went to high school and later, college, with average grades. Not high nor low, too. She graduated with a degree in Criminology and soon after she applied to RCMP. She eventually paved her career as a law enforcement officer. She was known for her good marksmanship scores, but her stubbornness and recklessness put her in a mixed reception within the RCMP.

But life wasn't that excited, too. RCMP is exciting, but she felt like she had more things to come, and that RCMP just wasn't enough, she felt she would get more than just normal law enforcement duty. That time, came when RCMP put a working relationship with Department of Anomalous Affairs, sort of sending in their police officers on duty with the Department to gained some experiences on future occurrences of The Zone. She was one of the officers selected to participated in the joint-activity. She gladly accepted, and surely believed her backgrounds would be helpful.

Whether or not that is true is unknown.

Roleplay Experience: Yup.
ID CODE: 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

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[Vyzhva]

Tag. This looks interesting.

Are the anomalies which existed in the first "THE ZONE" still there?

[New Grestin]

Tag. This looks interesting.

Are the anomalies which existed in the first "THE ZONE" still there?

Yeah. They're still around.

[Hastur]

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Name: Emily Van Den Elzen
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Appearance: Emily Van Den is an Afrikaner of dutch European descent with neck length brunette hair and green eyes. She stands at around 182.88 cm and weights around 70 kilograms and has a wiry, coltish shape. She has two tattoos, one on her upper right neck, and a set of eyes on her back on each of her shoulder blades. Wears a set of straight legged jeans tucked into a set of military boots and a long sleeved shirt along with her body armour and load bearing equipment.
Equipment:

Carried on her person.

• Vektor R5 carbine fitted with a ELCAN SpecterDR 1x/4x scope and a one point sling. Two of the weapon's magazine’s have been jungle-taped together.
• L9A1(Browning Hi-Power mark II) handgun, kept within a open carry holster in a three o-clock carry.
• pattern 83 load bearing vest.
• PACA female soft body armour, rated for IIIA ballistic protection.
• RGD-5 fragmentation grenade, kept within one of the pouches in the best.
• SRX 2200 P25 two-way portable radio with an earpiece, kept within a pouch in the vest.
• IFAK kit attached to the load bearing vest containing nitrite gloves, tourniquet, compressed gauze, two Israeli emergency bandages, bolin chest seal, decompression needle, nasopharyngeal airway, EMT shears, permanent markers, flat duct tape, casualty care card and two sticks of morphine auto-injectors.
• Survival knife, kept within a sheath attached to her belt.
• Navigation and admin tools, such as a handheld GPS navigator, notepad, multicolored pens, map and compass. Kept within an admin pouch.
• S10 NBC Respirator fitted with a ABEK-P3 filter, kept within a Its own bag along with additional ABEK-P3 filters.
• Four 5.56×45mm NATO thirty-five round R4 magazines, fully loaded, kept within the vest pouches.
• One 9x19mm fifteen round magazine, fully loaded, kept within her back pocket.
• Identification card containing a portrait, her name, employer and clearance level, kept within a ID holder attached to her right arm.
• Ultrafire WF-501B flashlight fitted with a high lumen LED light, kept within a pouch.
• Disposable lighter, kept within her pocket.
• Two twenty pack of benson and hedges cigarettes, kept within her pocket.
  
  
  Kept within the vehicle.
• A go bag.
• Denel NTW-20 Anti Material Rifle, stored in within bags in two parts. Weapon receiver section and barrel.
• one three round magazine containing High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) 20×82mm cartridges, magazine is labeled with red duct tape.
• two three round magazine containing Armour Piercing Incendiary (API)20×82mm cartridges, magazine is labeled with blue duct tape.
• one three round magazine containing high-explosive fragmentary tracer rounds (HEF-t) 20×82mm cartridges, magazine is labeled with white duct tape.
• Additional ammunition for Vecktor R5.
• DPM waterproof smock for colder regions.
• Sleeping bag and tarp.
• Kevlar ECH Helmet.
• Trauma kit.
• Survival blanket.
• Binoculars.
• Road flares.
• T-12 LED searchlight.
  
  Go-bag.
• Plastic water bottle (1.5 liters)
• Food rations consisting of ready to eat meals and dried food, enough to last 48 hours.
• A few sets of spare clothes, including underwear, gloves, thermals and a set winter clothing.
• Rooibos tea bags.
• couple packs of instant coffee.
• Four dark caffeinated chocolate bars.
• Additional rechargeable batteries.
• fifty foot of paracord.
• Whistle.
• Basic Toiletries.
• Fire starter and other bush tools.
• Mess kit.

Skills:

• Emily served six years within the South African military within the 1st South African Infantry Battalion and much later the 44th pathfinder platoon, and a further two years within the private military company Aethon international. As a result, she has extensive military training, is experience within a number of fields and She is skilled with firearms, being able to operate most conventional military firearms with at-least an intermediate level of proficiency.
• With the reconnaissance specialization, she is a skilled tracker in that regard coming from her time in the pathfinders. She knows a number of combat tracking techniques in both rural and urban areas, along with the ability to deter would-be trackers through counter-tracking.
• Has combat experience from her deployments in the Congo and Nevada whilst serving with the south african military, and in Afghanistan and Burkina Faso whilst in the employment in Aethon International.

Weaknesses:

• Despite experiencing combat within the zone. She has fairly limited experience since her deployment was almost five years ago, and due to changing nature. Not everything is the same.
• She has a certain level of volatility due to her attempts at inhabiting her emotions whilst on the job, which can result in some aggressive and occasions self destructive outbursts.
• Harbors some guilt from action in the UN’s force intervention brigades deployment into the zone. Resulting in some social issues and problems with some vivid nightmares, often worsting some problems with depression and anxiety.

Personality:

Emily is a adaptable, efficient and friendly soldier who spent most of her young adult life in the service, and arguably exhibits the qualities required within the realm of her job as a close protection contractor. She is cordial with most people she meets and engages in lighthearted banter with those she works with, toting a somewhat of a morbid sense of humor. She’s been around the block and is very much a proactive personality who is not only industrious, but also highly alert. When in the field, she constantly plans ahead, evaluates her options and is particularly observant, often picking up on things that others may miss, whilst also having a good gut intuition which she doesn’t hesitate to follow when she feels the time is right. Having a good nose for sniffing out trouble, or bullshit. In the thick of it, She’s protective and empathetic of those who she considers her friend, and is more than willing to put her own life on the line for those around her, and would expect the same from them.

She has a good moral compass, but her time within the Congo and the Nevada zone frequently found the line between right and wrong blurred. With one occasion in particular leaving her with a fair amount of guilt, to which she attempts to inhibit herself emotionally to avoid any further problems. On occasions, she could frequently seems like she isn’t all there, often harbors a vacant stare and a seemingly withdrawn attitude in certain situations, with her drifting off into space or in which she’ll find herself intently focusing on something else. She has a certain reliance on habitual behavior and routine, a level of insecurity, and has difficulty exposing her vulnerability to others, fearing a loss of control. With her often trying to avoid showing any form of weakness.

The bottling of these issues has made her a particularly volatile person, which on a few occasions has resulted in explosively violent reactions that are aggressive and sometimes self destructive in nature, particularly when her sense of control is taken away. The collection of these issues has arguably a contributing factor in her difficulties maintaining intimate relationships with others and change back to civilian life.

Biography:

Emily Van Den Elzen was born on 13th of October 1992 in Pretoria, South Africa. Her family where Catholic Rhodesians farmers who left Zimbabwe during the 1990’s farm land reform. She was raised in a religious household during her early years along side two elder siblings, both male, and had what could be described as a fairly normal, if not competitive and male orientates household, with love sometimes being conditional. As a result, She was almost in constant competition with her bothers, particularly her older brother Robert, who was the golden boy of the family. The result made her into somewhat of a tomboy during her middle youth, adolescence and teenage period who constantly strove for recognition from her peers, but never quite made it. She performed average within academia but excelled within sports, particularly womans hockey, in which she played as an offensive striker.

Following her graduation from high-school, she entered a period of drifting from job to job and much later town to town, having little interest attending further into academics and feeling somewhat disenfranchised within her own family life. She eventually made what she considered the radical decision at the time of joining the south African armed forces during 2010. Following completion of basic training she served within the 1st South African Infantry Battalion during her stint from 2010 to 2012, before moving onto serving within 44 Pathfinder Platoon until 2016. Before the Nevada incident, Emily was actively deployed within the northern provinces of the Congo during the M23 rebellion, being a part of the MONUSCO’s force intervention brigade. During the conflict between the rebels and the pro-government forces, she witnessed a particularly brutal actions between the two sides, and eventually saw combat herself during august 2013 outside of Goma following the March 23’s movements failure to yield to the forty eight hour ultimatum to leave the city.

When the Nevada incident occurred in 2013, Emily, like many others in international community who sat posed seemingly a whole world away from the nation, where unsure how to react as their world views became collectively unhinged. Many people assumed that it was judgment day, end times, and it’d make sense that it’d start near what some considered to be the capital of decadence, Las Vegas. During the initial weeks, Mass suicides, riots and looting tore through south Africa and many other countries as people panicked as the international community scrambled to come up with solutions for the worlds largest ecological disaster.

but as time went on and as the event was contained, things quickly returned to some sort of sense of normality for everyone else, and it was somewhat forgotten about by those unaffected by it’s reach.

Life continued on for most outside the united states, but not for the members of the 44th pathfinders and Emily unfortunately. The united nations was quick to offer aid, which in turn meant military assistance as the united states government struggled to contain the insanity that had been produced by the disaster. She and many others found themselves deployed into Nevada as United nations force intervention brigade to help the united states contain the anomaly's and evacuate citizen displaced by the zone. While the UN had a fairly limited role but saw a number of deployment within the it’s time of intervention between 2013 and 2015. Emily’s unit in particular saw combat on a number of occasions with anomalous entities during its humanitarian aid mission. In one occasion unit came into contact with ████████, resulting in heavy casualties. One the situation had been adequately contained, the united nations began it’s wind down and withdrew the majority of its military support, taking a back seat in the disaster as the united states began taking full control of the situation.

Emily continued her service up until late 2016, in which she was received a honorable discharge from the service following the completion of her obligations and was sent her back into civilian life, something which she ultimately found difficult to readjust to. She found life within the civilian world difficult, particularly due to her lack of advanced education, undesirable skill set and social stigma surrounding those who had been to the zone. She often found herself unable to find work, and when she did, she ultimately couldn’t maintain it for long, moving on a stint from job to job. In addition to problems with nightmares and depression, It left her personal life was largely a shambles, with her having difficulty maintaining intimate relationships that lasted longer than a couple of months.

The turn around occurred in early 2017 when a friend offered her some work, being part of a security team in Afghanistan within Aethon International Solutions, a subsidiary of a South African arms company Sandline Systems. The company grown massively in the last decade with advancements in guidance systems and missile technology, helping which was speculated to be linked with the anomalous black market which shot up during the mid 2014. Her time within her first contract was largely spent providing training to local protection details and a more intimate close protection for clients which feared for their safety. The pay was excellent, and her skills made her desirable within the field, setting her up for re-employment. She continued to work with Aethon, mainly within the field of close protection in places like Afghanistan, Mexico and Burkina Faso. Mainly protecting corporate gigs, but sometimes aid-workers and political officials, relatively easy work. However, by late 2020, she jumped at the opportunity head back to the united states as part of the Nevada Reclamation Program.

Activity had died down within the region and the zone itself had stopped growing, and thousands of people who had been displaced and various private companies where lining up to reclaim what had been lost in the event almost six years prior. But while activity had died down, threats still existed. The DOD and some private companies began putting out defense contracts to whoever would be willing to put guys down in the zone. Aethon was one of the companies which won. Emily, along with a few others from the force intervention bridage where offered spots. Most declined, but Emily accepted, feeling a certain draw back to a nightmarish part of her life, perhaps for closure. Her previous experience quickly landed her right back into now seemingly ending living nightmare, starting with the protection of a search and rescue unit looking for lost souls.

Roleplay Experience: Days Gone Bye, The Benthic Zone and Innocent
ID CODE: 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

I'm done with my application. Might be a few gramatical errors but I need to turn my focus to something else for the time being.
I'll try and get a write up on the company soon as well.

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ACCEPTED

[Beiarusia]

Name: Kimberly Tallow
Gender: Female
Age:

17, Biological
21, Chronological

Appearance:

Kimberly is average in height and somewhat thin from prolonged undernourishment, standing approximately 5'3" (160cm) and weighing 100 pounds (45.4kg) more-or-less. Has an angular face with lavender-blue eyes, a small upturned nose, and pierced ears. Freckles. Brown hair is messy and greying at the roots. Scars on left wrist. Has a small chest and no hips.

Equipment:

• BIC Lighter, Yellow
• Family Picture
• Flashlight
• iPod
• Machete
• Messanger Bag
• NERF Gun
• Polaroid Camera
• Quarter ($0.25)
• Sleeping Bag
• Tripod

Skills:

• Hiking
• Intelligent
• Open-Minded
• Photography
• Running Away

Weaknesses:

• Anxiety
• Bipolar Disorder
• Dissociation Disorder
• Heavy Sleeper
• Mute
• Perfectionist
• Physically Weak
• PTSD
• Withdrawn from Reality

Personality:

Kimberly is detached and generally untrusting of others, strangers especially, and can often come across as dull, uncaring, and mildly apathetic despite being of a kindhearted nature. Helpful but shy and more than a bit socially awkward. Is more reticent/submissive/fearful around men. Suffers from bipolar disorder. In her depressive state Kimberly is lethargic and with little motivation for much of anything, generally choosing to sleep the day away. In her manic state Kimberly is hyperactive, prone to obsessing over simple or redundant tasks, and is likely to suffer an anxiety attack should she be left alone with nothing to distract herself. Her perfectionism is much worse during manic episodes. Shows symptoms of acute PTSD and other dissociation disorders. Has not spoken since the Las Vegas Incident.

Biography:

Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1999, Kimberly was the only daughter of Robert Tallow and his wife, Mary Ann. Kimberly was a shy, happy girl with an uneventful childhood, however, not long after her eighth birthday she was sexually assaulted by a trusted friend who would often babysit for the family. This abuse would continue periodically for the next six years. Three weeks after her fourteenth birthday the girl, now sullen and depressed, would swallow a bottle of her mother's sleeping pills in an attempted suicide. Soon thereafter the abuse came to light. A lengthy court case followed and would see the former friend of the family convicted and Kimberly placed into therapy. Sadly the damage had already been done. Kimberly would attempt suicide for a second time by slashing her left wrist and would be hospitalized just days before her sixteenth birthday with a recommendation that she be transferred to a mental institution.

It was at this time that reality began to break down. Whilst fleeing Las Vegas the family would be caught in a spatial anomaly. The girl's parents were killed — or warped out of existence — and Kimberly was seriously injured, and reaching the outskirts of the city it soon became apparent that several weeks had passed in the blink of an eye. Not long after Kimberly would meet her first doppelgänger. The next year would be spent living with two lookalikes, Kim and Kay-Tee, in an RV parked atop an overpass near Moapa, Nevada, the breaks in reality providing them with food, water, and various odds-and-ends in the guise of a convenience store that was restocked every week despite being abandoned. The "triplets" would later be forced to leave their home after it was destroyed by a gravitational anomaly, and would join a group heading deeper into the Zone. What transpired next was a series of unfortunate events leading to the eventual Las Vegas Incident. Kay-Tee was killed; Kimberly and Kim survived the ordeal and have since disappeared into the Zone.

Three years have passed. Kimberly and Kim have since come to call an old apartment complex home, the former having fallen into an abyssal depression whereas the other attends to the burden of their survival. More doppelgängers have since joined them, each a deviation of the original, and together they have claimed this little patch of the Zone as their own, living separate to yet trading with whatever communities have formed from within the ashes of a largely unrecognizable Nevada. Curiously, neither the original nor her lookalikes have aged since the creation of the Zone, their progression through the time unable to proceed until the anomaly has righted itself, which is to say until only one Kimberly remains in this dimension.

Other:

Kimberly-2
The first doppelgänger to be encountered. Attempted to murder the original Kimberly but was killed by Kim and Kay-Tee.

Kimberly-3 (Kim)
The most "normal" of the doppelgängers. Rational, well-spoken, assertive, and genuinely concerned for the well-being of those around her. Could be considered the unofficial leader of the lookalikes. Blames herself for the death of Kay-Tee, but unlike the original Kimberly has not fallen into a state of depression (at least not outwardly) and instead uses her perceived failures as motivation to do better.

Kimberly-4 (Kay-Tee)
An unrestrained and hedonistic sort of person. Was very close to the original Kimberly and died protecting her during the Las Vegas Incident.

Kimberly-5
Attempted to murder the original Kimberly inside the Chapel. Managed to stab Kay-Tee before being killed by Jen.

Kimberly-6
Likes to cook. Is not a good cook.

Kimberly-8
A happy-go-lucky person who sees the glass as half-full despite it being empty. Likes disgustingly bright colours.

Kimberly-13
Dark and brooding with a fondness for the colour black.

Roleplay Experience: Nightsiders
ID CODE: 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

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IC Thread is ready for those who are ready to post.

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[Arengin Union]

app is done

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Accepted.

[Damverland]

Edited my app, added skills and a weakness.

[Damverland]

Oh, and posted.

[Kentucky Fried Land]

Extremely rushed, but here it is.

Name: Marshall Lanik
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Equipment:

• Marlin Model 1895SBL Lever-Action Rifle
• 16x 45-70 Gov't.
• Colt M4 carbine
• 3x 5.56 Magazines
• S&W Model 29 Revolver 4” barrel
• 18x rounds of .44 Magnum cartridges
• Cowboy Hat
• Backpack
• Sledgehammer
• Crowbar
• BIC Lighter
• Gas mask
• Plate Carrier
• M67 Fragmentation Grenade
• Multitool
• One carton of 11x Mocambo Cigars
• Set of winter clothing
• Water canteen
• A bag of beef jerky
• Black cowboy boots
• Jeans

Skills:

• An excellent shot.
• Has combat experience, being one of the top Aetheon International operatives and previously a Texas Ranger.
• Can track and hunt efficiently.

Weaknesses:

• Extreme bias against anomalies, even the friendly ones.
• Very little experience with the ZONE.
• Some deep-rooted old ways and opinions from his upbringing.

Personality: Marshall is a cowboy, tried and true. He is serious the majority of the time, unless in a relaxed situation where he has a more fun personality. Marshall has some old, racist ways, that he’d like to drop but finds it hard to get rid of the lingering prejudices, due to its deep root in his childhood. He enjoys hunting. Marshall feels guilty for a lot of the things he’s done in the past, but prefers not to show any of these. Other than that, he’s rather larger than life, with his Texan roots and cowboy style of life.

Biography: Marshall was born in Brady, Texas in 1977 to a loving mother and a grizzled father. The trio lived just outside of the town, raising cattle and living a normal frontier life. Marshall went to school like any normal kid did, and helped his mom and pop with the ranch. After he was old enough, he learned to shoot vermin and animals that threatened their cattle and their ranch as a whole. He became proficient at hunting in his childhood. While his childhood was mostly normal, his mother and father were a bit racist, and he held onto those ways by proxy.

As he grew into his teenage years, he became interested in police work somewhat. After high school, he got involved with the Houston Police Department. At age 39, he became a Texas Ranger. He had never gotten married due to a commitment to his work, but he had a few flings with women here and there which never went everywhere. At age 42, he joined on with Aetheon International and showed great prowess at his job. Excelling at every contract for the PMC group, they decided to send him to the ZONE with a partner, Emily Van Den Eltzen.

Roleplay Experience: I’m like, the Co-OP or something I think
ID CODE: 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

[Damverland]

Extremely rushed, but here it is.

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Name: Marshall Lanik
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Equipment:

• Marlin Model 1895SBL Lever-Action Rifle
• 16x 45-70 Gov't.
• Colt M4 carbine
• 3x 5.56 Magazines
• S&W Model 29 Revolver 4” barrel
• 18x rounds of .44 Magnum cartridges
• Cowboy Hat
• Backpack
• Sledgehammer
• Crowbar
• BIC Lighter
• Gas mask
• Plate Carrier
• M67 Fragmentation Grenade
• Multitool
• One carton of 11x Mocambo Cigars
• Set of winter clothing
• Water canteen
• A bag of beef jerky
• Black cowboy boots
• Jeans

Skills:

• An excellent shot.
• Has combat experience, being one of the top Aetheon International operatives and previously a Texas Ranger.
• Can track and hunt efficiently.

Weaknesses:

• Extreme bias against anomalies, even the friendly ones.
• Very little experience with the ZONE.
• Some deep-rooted old ways and opinions from his upbringing.

Personality: Marshall is a cowboy, tried and true. He is serious the majority of the time, unless in a relaxed situation where he has a more fun personality. Marshall has some old, racist ways, that he’d like to drop but finds it hard to get rid of the lingering prejudices, due to its deep root in his childhood. He enjoys hunting. Marshall feels guilty for a lot of the things he’s done in the past, but prefers not to show any of these. Other than that, he’s rather larger than life, with his Texan roots and cowboy style of life.

Biography: Marshall was born in Brady, Texas in 1977 to a loving mother and a grizzled father. The trio lived just outside of the town, raising cattle and living a normal frontier life. Marshall went to school like any normal kid did, and helped his mom and pop with the ranch. After he was old enough, he learned to shoot vermin and animals that threatened their cattle and their ranch as a whole. He became proficient at hunting in his childhood. While his childhood was mostly normal, his mother and father were a bit racist, and he held onto those ways by proxy.

As he grew into his teenage years, he became interested in police work somewhat. After high school, he got involved with the Houston Police Department. At age 39, he became a Texas Ranger. He had never gotten married due to a commitment to his work, but he had a few flings with women here and there which never went everywhere. At age 42, he joined on with Aetheon International and showed great prowess at his job. Excelling at every contract for the PMC group, they decided to send him to the ZONE with a partner, Emily Van Den Eltzen.

Roleplay Experience: I’m like, the Co-OP or something I think
ID CODE: 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

Ah, a fellow Texan!

[Insaeldor]

a rather scrawny man who looked like the whisteblower type,

Anowa I love you in a strictly platonic way.

[Beiarusia]

I'll see to having a post up in the next few days.

[True Refuge]

Finished. Since I probably won't be able to get involved in the IC for a while, I'm planning on having my character transported to join the group mid-trip. This is, if they leave base before I get back. If they don't, I could slot right in with much bother .

Name: (Research Agent) James Lee T͕̥̪͇̜͚̱h̹̩̤̻̬͠e̛̘̭͕̩̓̾̒̂̌̐ͣ ̢̳͙̟̖̰█̛̊ͥ͆̉̔̈̈█͍̊͂͌̓ͯ̆͞█̯̻͎̳̿ͪͯ̐̓̿͞█̢͙̦͚̩̘̥̫̔͗̊̇█̢̙͙ͪͧ̉ͭͥͅ
Gender: Male
Age: 30

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Equipment:

• UDP-9 SMG + two-point quick-adjustable sling
• Three 50 9x19mm round drum magazines, (1 in use)
• STF-12S Shotgun
• Fifteen 12-gauge buckshot shells, six loaded
• FN Five-Seven + suppressor, + laser sight, + mini Red Dot sight.
• Two 20 round 5.7x28mm magazines (1 in use)
• 30 round 5.7x28mm extended magazine
• DoAA-issued mobile phone
• DoAA-issued large backpack (with various clothes and supplies)
• DoAA-issued bullet-resistant vest + 12-gauge bullet loops
• UDP-9-sized portable gun case
• Weapon charms
• Various small PARA-Tech research tools.

Skills: James has a decent level of management ability, derived from his time behind a DoAA desk and being forced into guiding fresh hires several times despite being relatively new himself. However, it's not at a proficient level, and there are likely to be many with more of a knack for leading. In addition, he's received some praise for his adeptness at deescalating several kinds of hostile situations.

Also:

• Good shot in controlled conditions with low-caliber weapons (ninth place in the DoAA unofficial Marksmanship Competition: Light Weapons Category).
• Self-calming under pressure.
• Some medical knowledge.

Weaknesses:

• Relatively physically weak, though reasonably fit.
• Not yet desensitized to gore and violence.
• No genetic enhancements.
• No prior firsthand Zone experience

Personality: James is warm at first, but not overly extroverted and is quick to separate from anyone abrasive or sharp-tongued. However, he makes an effort to be kind and understanding and is happy to help and forgive when required. Reasonably loyal to friends. Doesn't like holding grudges except in extreme circumstances. Sticks to one drink each payday. Not usually courageous.
Biography:
It's a common occurrence these days in the brave new post-Nevada Zone world to see people going on and on about all the wonderful things that all that anomalous technology brought. Cancer is gone, cybernetics are in vogue, and tissue regeneration, and so many more. They'll ignore that quite a bit of it is still only for the rich and their chequebooks. We’re all in the golden age according to the media and public, aside from the few little conspiracy theorists and those poor refugees driven mad by their experiences in the Zone.


Most have never offered a thought for the people the advancement left behind. James Lee was just one of them, a model student with good grades, achievements and broad involvement in activities who had their dream field swept away underneath them. From the moment he’d stepped foot in the palliative wing of a hospital as a child and seen others suffer, Lee had always wanted to pursue a career in oncology, to help those with the dreaded but sadly most inevitable disease of them all.


The Zone had changed all that. Just as he was reaching the end of a good but expensive undergraduate degree in Medicine at the University of California, a few scientists announced the revolutionary regenerative technology that practically cured all forms of cancer. Overnight, the field of oncology withered, and before long it was a shell of itself. The discoveries left little need for research; they had their miracle treatment. With the existence of their field now a moot point, the average pay and opportunities for oncologists dropped hard and fast. Their work was rapidly reduced to diagnoses and pointing the right laser at the right place, both made laughably easy by the new technology.


He had financial assistance for his postgraduate degree in the pipeline, and even a scholarship was in sight, but it quickly became apparent neither would have much worth outside the campus. His options included continuing his degree so he could he could be charitable and help the developing world, which hadn’t felt much of the new medicinal techniques the Zone had given the West, or find work as a generic doctor. With student loans hovering imposingly over him, neither appealed, and so he finished his Medicine degree and went out in the world with little in ways of a life plan and his previous one in tatters.


Over the winter break of 2016, the relief came, with the foundation of the Department of Anomalous Affairs. Having spent some time in a variety of courses and decent grades, James had not had too much difficulty finding relatively comfortable employment, but something about the DoAA called him. Perhaps it was being on the forefront of the world as it seemed to the media that did so, or the privilege of getting in and about with the weird and wonderful of Nevada.


His application was received quite well by the Department, and upon seeing his medicinal skill they signed him up as a researcher. The job turned out to be more of a lab assistant for seasoned veterans of their field, but James was happy with the decent salary and stability of the job. He saw a few items from the Zone, but only those unclassified and light enough that the DoAA had decided to let James and others of his occupation handle, but even those unimaginable specimens were enough to satisfy his curiosity.


Of course, the Zone went and screwed it all up again. When a rouge group of scavengers initially looking for artefacts sent the Groom Lake research facility into a meltdown resulting in its detonation, the sudden decrease in production of new anomalies led to budget cuts for the DoAA’s R&D wing. James and quite a few of his associates were shuffled into desk jobs barely touching on research with no transfer in sight.


The discoveries of 2014-16 had shaken up the academic world considerably, and the uncertainty of it all meant few employers saw James’ medical degree as a worthy asset. No matter how he looked, the only opportunities he could find had lesser pay and lacked the benefits of current tenure in public service. So, he suffered away for two years as his contract required, filing letters in a tedious nine to five, where his knowledge and even the PARA-Tech biochemical courses he’d taken during his work, barely ever came into conversation or consideration. Two years passed uneventfully.

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DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS AFFAIRS: TREATMENT SUMMARY

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Non-Pervasive Memory Therapy undergone in September 2017 by Dr K. Wipplan
Session 2910-9FCD.

Patient: James Lee (Research clerk)
Assigned Practitioners: R. Smith (nurse), Dr A. Truman, Dr K. Wipplan
Summary:
Patient complained of recurring night terrors at least four times weekly over the span of a month. I̞̯̹ ̵̯s̶a̶̠̯w̠̜͜ ҉̤h̬͉̪̯͟i̙̬̣̣͘mNormal prescribed medication of GEN+0, +1 and +2 varieties along with reduction of work proved only slightly effective, with only GEN+2 [CLASSIFIED PENDING PATENT] reducing the occurrence of the nightmares, resulting in symptoms occurring two or three times weekly.I̡̫̳̫͔͔̩ͅ ͇̟̯sa͙w̳̳͔ ͍̖͓͓̀t̠͎̫ͅh̢̘͇̲̤͇r͉̣̮e̫̤̠̦e̠ Patient was referred to Dr K. Wipplan after one week and three days of GEN+2 medicinal treatment at his behest.I̞̯̺ͅt̝̮̙̺̦ ̗̹͕̜w̱̤͍̬͖̝̙i͉̱͠l̷̳͉̼͎̭͇̯l̴ ̖̖̝͔͙s̹̻̹̥͡i̹̘̯̦̹͔͖ṉ͝g̰̦͕͚ ̜͖̼̳a̙̪g҉̙͙̫ạ̷í͚͉̳n̠͇̭̝̝̜ Dr Wipplan prescribed small-scale Memory Therapy, which was undertaken at [DATA REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATIVE REQUEST]. The therapy proved to be successful, reducing the symptoms to once per week for three weeks, before stopping altogether.

Detailed report available at ██████████.

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But, perhaps in a display of pity by the universe, an opportunity arose in the announcement of the Closure Department and the Reclamation of Nevada in late 2018. They were looking for researchers to join the incursions into the Zone to collect data and run tests, real exciting fieldwork. After a m̦͖͙̦ͫͥ͟ week ḭ̸̭̽̈́̿̒̈ of k̫̯̦͉̓̀͋̽̾̚͞ carefula̙̠̪̺̙͍̞͗ͬ consideration e̳̲̯̗ͦ͑̉ and ḷ͕ͤ͌͊ musing, James practically leaped at the chance to escape the dreary little cubicles in the DoAA's various research offices, and was promptly shuffled to the back of a queue formed by people considerably move decisive. After more than another year of waiting, he finally got the message; he was being airdropped into District Five in three months. A month and a half of somewhat intense physical and scientific training did little to curb his enthusiasm. The days have passed by like lightning, and soon he'll be on his way to the deserts of Nevada.
Roleplay Experience: Para-Verse is Best Verse.
ID CODE: 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

[Beiarusia]

Posted. I placed Kimberly in Hiko, Nevada, but if that should be changed to another location (if it conflicts with wherever the CD is going) it will be no issue for me to find another wayward township.

[Kentucky Fried Land]

Extremely rushed, but here it is.

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Name: Marshall Lanik
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Equipment:

• Marlin Model 1895SBL Lever-Action Rifle
• 16x 45-70 Gov't.
• Colt M4 carbine
• 3x 5.56 Magazines
• S&W Model 29 Revolver 4” barrel
• 18x rounds of .44 Magnum cartridges
• Cowboy Hat
• Backpack
• Sledgehammer
• Crowbar
• BIC Lighter
• Gas mask
• Plate Carrier
• M67 Fragmentation Grenade
• Multitool
• One carton of 11x Mocambo Cigars
• Set of winter clothing
• Water canteen
• A bag of beef jerky
• Black cowboy boots
• Jeans

Skills:

• An excellent shot.
• Has combat experience, being one of the top Aetheon International operatives and previously a Texas Ranger.
• Can track and hunt efficiently.

Weaknesses:

• Extreme bias against anomalies, even the friendly ones.
• Very little experience with the ZONE.
• Some deep-rooted old ways and opinions from his upbringing.

Personality: Marshall is a cowboy, tried and true. He is serious the majority of the time, unless in a relaxed situation where he has a more fun personality. Marshall has some old, racist ways, that he’d like to drop but finds it hard to get rid of the lingering prejudices, due to its deep root in his childhood. He enjoys hunting. Marshall feels guilty for a lot of the things he’s done in the past, but prefers not to show any of these. Other than that, he’s rather larger than life, with his Texan roots and cowboy style of life.

Biography: Marshall was born in Brady, Texas in 1977 to a loving mother and a grizzled father. The trio lived just outside of the town, raising cattle and living a normal frontier life. Marshall went to school like any normal kid did, and helped his mom and pop with the ranch. After he was old enough, he learned to shoot vermin and animals that threatened their cattle and their ranch as a whole. He became proficient at hunting in his childhood. While his childhood was mostly normal, his mother and father were a bit racist, and he held onto those ways by proxy.

As he grew into his teenage years, he became interested in police work somewhat. After high school, he got involved with the Houston Police Department. At age 39, he became a Texas Ranger. He had never gotten married due to a commitment to his work, but he had a few flings with women here and there which never went everywhere. At age 42, he joined on with Aetheon International and showed great prowess at his job. Excelling at every contract for the PMC group, they decided to send him to the ZONE with a partner, Emily Van Den Eltzen.

Roleplay Experience: I’m like, the Co-OP or something I think
ID CODE: 1997 (DO NOT REMOVE)

Ah, a fellow Texan!

Yee-haw.

[New Grestin]

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ACCEPTED

[New Grestin]

Posted.

[Insaeldor]

Responded, little short but it'll keep us rolling.

[Revlona]

So Stalker esk?

[Ormata]

Tagged.