So Will It Be: Zombie RP [OOC | OPEN]

[Alozia]

Both characters should be on the roster now.

No problem GCCS, don't sweat it. The worst thing that can happen is that all of our characters get eaten by zombies. Oh well.

We can't use the Z word, but we can still call them zambies.

yikes, that my own rule lmao

[Alozia]

Tag

howdy

[Tayner]

Name: Johnathan McBryde
Age: 26
Sex: M
Occupation/Role: Mechanic
Appearance:

Personal Belongings: Model 70, 17 rounds of .308, clothes, cammo hunting gear, 1995 Chevy Silverado, personal effects
Personality: Talkative, helpful, and well mannered.
Strengths: Good shot, physically fit, mechanically inclined.
Weaknesses: Tinnitus, smoking habit, quick to anger, dislikes cold.
Biography: Born in 1994, Johnathan grew up to a modest family in South Carolina. He would go through school doing fairly well, but when the time came for college acceptance letters, he found himself lacking, and even more so when it came to scholarships. So, instead, he found himself enlisting in the Marine Corps for a 4 year contract. He would ship to MCRD Parris Island, and become a Motor T mechanic.

In 2013 he would end up in Iraq, working on vehicles and rarely going outside the wire, and he found himself in a similar situation in Afghanistan in 2015. In 2016, he would get out, and head home to SC for a while where he bounced from job to job, until an old Marine buddy put him onto a job in Vermont where he could take his skills and work on diesel engines in the cold. For a few years he's worked on the job, making friends, binge drinking, and hunting. He recently left for an extended hunting trip with a good friend, and has returned to observe the apocalypse.
Miscellaneous:

[Insaeldor]

Name: Beau Falkner

Age: 26

Sex: M

Occupation/Role: Welder

Appearance:
Beau

Personal Belongings:

• Savage 110 Scout
• ×25 .308 rounds (2× 10 round magazines, 5 loose in pocket.)
• Wool Long-sleeve button down
• Hunting Jacket
• Jeans
• Work Boots
• First Aid Kit
  
  • 1 Instant Cold Pack
  • 2 BZK Towelettes
  • 1 Non-Adherent Bandage
  • 1 First Aid Tape 1/2" x 2.5yds.
  • 1 Rolled Gauze 2" x 4yds.
  • 10 Adhesive Bandages 3/4" x 3"
  • 5 Adhesive Bandages 3/8" x 1 1/2"
  • 1 Fingertip Bandage
  • 1 Knuckle Bandage
  • 1 Pair Vinyl Gloves
  • 1 Triple Antibiotic Pack 0.9gm
  • 1 Hydrocortisone Pack 0.9gm
  • 1 Hand Sanitizer Pack 0.9gm

Personality: Beau is a welcoming person, grew up in a small town and retain a lot of the small townism he grew up with as a kid. He is yet more quite and reserved than his friend Johnathan, who in most situations he has do most of the talking.

Strengths: Beau is a good outdoorsman, grew up Harman, West Virginia where his family would regularly go hunting, typically it was easier to hunt deer and freeze it than it was to go into town every other week. Camping, hunting, and hiking were a key part of his up bring, his grandpa would show him how to make camp fires, his dad showed him how to set up a tent, so in so forth. Beau also has some technical skills, going to tech school as a welder and being a general metalworker as his day job. Beau is also fairly diplomatic, not one to immediately cause a fuss and more willing to work things out if he feels he can.

Weaknesses: Beau is by any account timid in how he deals with conflict, preferring to run and disengage if he can. Not tactically or combat oriented and is not one to take the fight to anyone. Not confident in his ability to lead others, relies on his friends to take up that role.

Biography: Beau was born in Western Virginia on March 11th 1994. His father was Coal Miner and his mother was a clerk at the court house in Elkins. He grew up in a fairly normal home. His father was strict but caring, a sort of altruistic protector. His parents were very hands off, Beau would go to school, go out with friends, play in the woods, hang out on the playground, things like that. His father would lose his job in the mines in the early 2000's and the family would move up relatives in Rome New York. He would go to high school at Rome Free Academy where he would play baseball for his sophomore and junior year.

After graduation he spent a year working at a car dealership in Syracuse before going to Trade School. He would meet Erin Danielewski at a bar near in the Lake Front part of Syracuse. They started dating not long after, Erin was a Finance and Business Major at Syracuse University, originally from Rochester. They moved in with one another in East Syracuse, the relationship had always been somewhat volatile, fights would break out, nothing serious but the occasion scream match, which Erin would always win. While it was not a perfect relationship it did last awhile, spurd on by Erin's pregnancy in 2016. They named their Daughter Helen and would live together up until late 2018. A series of extreme arguments, rooted in finance, jealousy, and a growing resentment between the two led to them splitting up. Erin would continue to live in Syracuse as a Financial Consultant with joint custody of the kids. For his part, Beau would find new work in Burlington at Lethridge Steel. This worked better for him, he desperately wanted to get out of Syracuse, even accepting a custom joint custody agreement where in Beau would get Helen in the summers and every other Christmas.

Beau quickly settled down into work life. Meeting people at bars in town, he made quick acquaintance with Johnathan McBryde. The two would meet up and occasionally go hunting, something Beau hadn't done in years since moving to New York. He really felt things were looking up for him in the aftermath of everything that had happened.
Miscellaneous:

[Hastur]

PRYZBYLEWSKI, ESTHER - DSS SPECIAL AGENT

Name: Esther Pryzbylewski.
Age:34
Sex:Female
Occupation/Role: Special Agent with the Diplomatic Security Service - Protective detail for CDC-WHO joint mission.
Appearance:

Laura Pryzbylewski stands at 5’10 (177.8 cm) and weighs 148 pounds (67.13 kilogram). She has a lean and healthy build with light skin, bearing blue eyes and a dark brunette hair at around armpit length. Which is often kept neatly combed, or secured into a ponytail.

Personal Belongings:

• DSS issued Chevrolet Suburban, fitted with a standard police vehicle suite.
  
• DSS issued handheld radio with earpiece.
  
• Standard handheld flashlight with a high lumen LED light.
  
• DSS badge.
  
• Multitool knife.
  
• Glock 19 Gen 4 (9x19mm) sidearm kept in a synthetic concealed carry holster within a three o-clock carry with two additional magazines pouches.
  
• MK18 Mod 0 issued by DSS. Standard trigger guard has been replaced with a larger one to allow for smoother operation while wearing heavy duty gloves. Fitted with an Trijicon ACOG TA01NSN 4x32 scope, a weapon light and AN/PEQ-15 with a pressure switch attached to the foregrip, has a two-point sling for carrying purposes. Kept secured within the weapon locker of the Cadillac escalade, along with five backup 30 round PMAG magazines.
  
• Issued plate carrier fitted with ceramic trauma plates. Fitted with pouches for magazines, IFAK, a radio and administration equipment. DHS-Police identifier patch attached at the back and front.
  
• FAST Helmet with apporiate identifying patches with an PVS-14 Mono-Goggle.
  
• CBRN equipment, kept in the vehicle's trunk. Personal protection equipment levels B & C kept within.
  
• Work equipment kept within the patrol backpack. Has various tools required to effectively do their job. Including a laptop.
  
• Mobile phone, work phone, wallet, keys, two packs of cigarettes and a zippo lighter.

Personality:

An industrious type with a headstrong demeanor. Having a keen eye for details and a strong reliance on her own instincts and moral compass. Esther is a highly proactive and pragmatic person who is analytical and aware, but, when faced with a problem, will instinctively take the most direct solution to problem solving. Something that can sometimes lead her awry when the solution just isn't that simple, or when her instincts are wrong.

In terms of her sociability, her experiences from her youth in Baton Rouge and time in the military have shaped who she is. She is a friendly person who has a passive aggressive and sarcastic streak with most, while being more respectful with her seniors. Liking to make dry remarks and poke fun at both people and the situation with a wide smile, being very confident in herself.

Esther has an abundance of pride for the hardships that she’d overcome in her life and is career focused, as a result she is intolerant to what she believes as “bullshit.” Being quick to point it out and challenge it if the person isn’t in a commanding position over her. If it isn’t rectified, Esther can become even passive aggressive and borderline abusive on occasions, but is quick to reel herself in. Esther does however become very stubborn when she feels that her own competency and experiences are being challenged. She often gets spiteful with people who she believes misjudge her or think of her as lesser, becoming eager to prove them wrong at any cost. Leading to several positions that she has brute forced out of pure spite to the situation.

She does harbour trust and abandonment issues with most people, principally men, and has issues with long-term relations. Having difficulties maintaining them past the first few months because of behavioural problems brought on from service in the marines. She likes to keep the discussion away from herself. Especially about her childhood or military service, and she doesn’t like people digging around at either of those. Being evasive about it when brought up, or just becoming plain frustrated and aggressive if they continue pressing it.

She also possesses some unusual personality tics. She frequently squints her eyes and blinks when trying to concentrate, or within highly stressful situations, particularly arguments. a tic that has been with her for a lengthy time. Additionally, she chain smokes to handle stress, and is often seen chewing gum to avoid the urge of smoking.

Strengths:

Military and law enforcement background: Esther has served eight years in the military and a further three in the Diplomatic Security Service. The majority of which have been within military law enforcement roles. They have an eye for details, and are trained for close protection roles.

Physically fit: Aside from their addiction to cigarettes, Esther has a near perfect bill of health for their age bracket. They are in a good, athletic shape, even if they aren’t the strongest physically.

Good Driver:Trained by the DSS for defensive driving techniques. They're a good driver in stressful situations despite their lack of area knowledge.

Weaknesses:

Claustrophobic: Esther has a fear of tight compact spaces, struggling in areas that are severely confined. Small rooms, tight corridors, underground tunnels and elevators tend to put her on edge. While crawl spaces and tight squeezes tend to cause serious distress, relating back to her being burried alive.

Trust Issues:Esther, while capable of working with other DSS agents due to the nature of the job, has trust issues with most people outside of that realm. She puts a great deal on being self reliant and expects to get left in the dust by most people, which can become problematic when she is forced to rely on someone else.

Not Local: Esther isn’t a local to Vermont. She doesn’t know the area well and the shortness of the deployment hasn’t given her and the team adequate time to prepare. Due to this, she has a relaince on maps and GPS to properly navigate. Without those and in a tight sicuation might not make the best navigational decisions.

Stubborn: Stubborn: Esther is a particularly headstrong person and can be quite forceful with her decision making. While not inherently opposed to cooperation, she can be quite dommanering when it comes to planning and problem solving. With her becoming combative when she feels ignored or overlooked.

Smoker: Esther has an addiction to cigarettes and is a stress smoker, often chain smoking during stressful situations.

Biography (two paragraphs minimum):

Esther Pryzbylewski was born on October 15th, 1986 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her mother put her up for adoption soon after her birth. Resulting in Esther growing up within the Louisiana state foster care system for most of her childhood. Never establishing a stable family life during this period of her life, with a myriad of different families and groups charged with her upbringing.

She suffered abuse while in a privately run group home, receiving a myriad of mostly mental and physical abuse. Easter often finding herself singled out and picked on by the guardians because of strange behavioural tics. With Esther suffering from a heavy stutter in her youth, causing severe self-esteem and behavioural issues. With Esther frequently finding trouble with locals due to runaway attempts and general hooligan behaviour, even after her removal from the hostile environment.

Her lifestyle began to improve when she was placed into youth counselling, with Esther taking part in a youth violence prevention program. Giving a better sense of structure, helping with her esteem issues. Something that was additionally supported by a more permanent foster family in coastal Louisiana. Her performance in education vastly improved throughout the subsequent years. With her noticeably doing well within mathematics, and sports, notably soccer. With her playing a defensive position for her school's team. This led her to graduate with a slightly above average grade set.

Esther attended Louisiana State under a scholarship. Studying humanities with a minor in criminal justice. Esther performed well within academics and found the environment to be enjoyable. Going through college as the war on terror was really beginning to take form. The news dominated by the events in post invasion Iraq and Afghanistan.

During her time as an undergraduate, Esther elected to become an officer in the marines following frequent talks with on campus recruiters. Doing the platoon leaders combined course in the summer of 2005, earning their commission. Esther graduated in mid-2006 with a bachelors, being shipped off to Quantico, VA to perform the basic school to undertake the basic officer course. Going through the six-month training program. Following completion, Esther was posted as a military police officer, undergoing the additional training necessary before being placed within the 1st MEF’s 1st law enforcement company.

Esther served within the 1st law enforcement battalion for four years. Seeing two deployments to Iraq during operation Iraqi freedom. The majority of which was spent within the green zone in Iraq. Manning checkpoints and maintaining the rule of law before it is handing over to the Iraqi military in 2009. The majority of her time was a mixture of interacting with NATO personnel and local Iraqi’s working within the zone, and training the Baghdad police alongside civilian contractors. Rocket fire and mortars not being an uncommon threat. Something that never bothered her until a building she was in got hit with an IED, causing her to being buried alive for over forty minutes. While physically ok, the incident left a physiological mark on her. Resulting in her developing claustrophobia and mild PSTD symptoms.

Following the completion of her active service, Esther elected to attempt a lateral move to marine CID. Reenlisting for active service to attempt to try out as a criminal investigation officer. Undertaking the U.S. Army CID Special Agent Course at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. After completion, Esther undertook the six months on the job training required before becoming a fully vetted member of marine CID. She spent a further four years within CID, investigating a variety of criminal activity within the marines, receiving additional training and seeing further deployments into Baghdad. Investigating felony crimes allegedly committed by her fellow servicemen and women. The homicides and sexual assaults being what stuck with her, which caused her personality to sour.

Esther exited from the military in 2015 as a captain following her active service running out. Being put into inactive reserves and seeing no desire to reenlist despite the potential of promotion. She briefly worked as a risk advisor for several companies in the New Orleans area for a year. But life at home became more and more difficult. With Esther having significant behavioural changes and an issue remaining settled in one place. She became estranged from her long-time spouse before the relationship eventually fell apart after accusations of cheating got thrown around on both sides.

These events became a large motivator for her to seek a more regimented job, which led to her joining the Diplomatic Security Service. Seeing the opportunity to travel frequently again as a major selling point. She undertook the long nine-month training course and passed through with some difficulty within language training and the much closer quarters element of her training. Her claustrophobia being something that almost made her flunk out.

Worked initially out of the New Orleans Resident Office before permanently moving to Massachusetts to work within the Boston Field Office. Hoping to do her two years of domestic work in a better office before being sent on a posting abroad. Primarily working within Counterintelligence, and the protective services branch. Having a decent employment record albet with a few blemishes to it stunting career growth. Having only temporary duty assignments abroad.

With the rise of the kongo virus and disappearance of the joint WHO/CDC team in the Kongo, Pryzbylewski and other DSS agents quickly found themselves protecting both domestic and foreign epidemiologists. Something not typically within their job description. Being deployed to Burlington, Vermont to protect members of a joint task force examining the uptick of cases. The department Of State along with Health And Human Services being concerned for their safety. Pryzbylewski and one other DSS agent being specifically charged with protecting Tom Sasser, a specialist Virologist from Canada.

Miscellaneous:
Speaks in a notable Cajun accent due to their upbringing in Baton Rouge.

[Arengin Union]

Lets get the fuck out of here!

[Main Nation Ministry]

I'm taking guesses that all of the zombies near the City Hall and Honey Road are being directed to just the City Hall?

[Alozia]

I'm taking guesses that all of the zombies near the City Hall and Honey Road are being directed to just the City Hall?

yeah, probably. that's where all the fun is anyway

[Kentucky Fried Land]

Name: Connie Harland
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Occupation/Role: University Student/Movie Theater Attendant
Appearance:

5’9 feet, 120 pounds. Bags under eyes.

Personal Belongings:

• Denim hoodie
• Black trapper hat
• Jeans + sneakers
• Backpack
• Curtain rod
• Several textbooks
• One bottle of phenelzine (16 pills)
• Keys to a broken sedan
• Wallet with several coupons and coins
• Smartphone

Personality: Neurotic, impulsive, and depressive, Connie suffers from an early form of borderline personality disorder, a long-forgotten genetic issue that resurfaced after two generations. Her moods manifest in highs and lows, the latter more common. Connie is a born cynic with a bad temper and a penchant for voicing the worst possible outcome, even if it does nobody else any good. She is often piteous of others and she holds empathy close, but she rarely allows this side to be seen. Connie holds deep insecurities about herself and suffers a deep fear of abandonment. These fears often manifest in illogical and volatile ways, as Connie engages in a fight-or-flight response upon these situations.

Disregarding this, she is intensely suicidal, but of similar intensity is her fear of death. Disassociation is a common trait and feelings that she is not a real person. In these times, she blacks out or otherwise goes on autopilot, her body moving unbeknownst to herself. She rarely remembers these times. There are many things that Connie fears, from raised fists to memory lapses, but none are quite as difficult as water. After a near drowning experience as an adolescent, Connie is terrified of swimming.

Connie often fluctuates between her true self, unable to ascertain as to what really is her true self. She is idealistic and cynical, happy and sad, bitter and joyous. Duality is how she lives her life, but she is always the same person. The most frightening singularity; a prolonged feeling of being hollow.

Strengths:

• Clever - Connie is clever beyond her years. Time spent alone meant time spent reading, writing, and cautiously observing the world around her. Her mind being so different from others has created an imaginative spirit, with a host of outside-the-box solutions to issues.
  
• Enduring Will - While Connie herself might say she doesn’t care if she lives or dies, her subconscious is another beast in its own right. She will never give up, even if the odds are particularly against her. It wouldn’t be uncommon to see a sudden burst of adrenaline save her from a prickly situation.
  
• Empath - Connie, while not being in tune with her own emotions, is perfectly capable of understanding the motives and actions of others. This means she’s good at reading people, as well as hiding her own true motives behind a facade, when she can.

Weaknesses:

• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - Connie suffers from the personality disorder known as borderline. This contributes to her memory lapses, ongoing depression, intense mood swings, fear of abandonment, trouble at school, temper, along with a whole host of other issues. Psychologically, she is severely damaged.
  
• Physically Weak - Having little to do with lifting any sort of heavy objects, Connie is quite weak and can easily be thrown around. She has to rely on her wits and nimbleness to escape the horror lurking around each corner.
  
• Woefully Unprepared - Connie has no idea what to do. She is hundreds of miles from home in a strange place with a lot of strange people. True conflict and confrontation are alien to her, and she has only realistically feared for her life on one other occasion. She cannot fight and must rely on others to do such for her or teach her, as she has no survival skills to speak of.
  
• Prescription - Connie’s prescription of phenelzine will run out soon, and when that does, bad times will come. Her disorder will be fully unchecked and she will slump into a horrible state, especially since such a state will arise in a “cold turkey” manner.

Biography: Connie Harland was born in the year 2000 of late February, in a non-distinct hospital in the non-distinct town of Fairfax, Virginia. Her father built boilers in a steel factory and her mother nursed the dispossessed in their homes. Ultimately, they were two Southerners from Tennessee who had taken a liking to suburban life in a state with a higher GDP. They and their eldest child, one Cynthia Harland, moved to Virginia after a short vacation on the Williamsburg Ghost Tour, when Connie herself was born.

Connie was never like the other kids. Her older sister would pick on her and pull her hair, other infants would avoid her or steal her toys. From an early age children learned to spread lies, and Connie was not immune to the rampant belittling. On some days, they said she liked to kiss boys and girls; on other days, they said she never washed her hands; on others still, she said bad words when no one else was around. Friends were few and far between, and Connie grew up in the heyday of the Internet, where she spent much of her time. She was a secluded child and her parents had begun to grow quite worried. They began making her go out with her sister as much as they could.

Cynthia Harland didn’t particularly like her sister. Connie could never find out the reason; perhaps her face offended her, or more likely her entire existence. Whatever had caused this offense was lost to the past, but the present was one of torment from the eldest sibling. Unbeknownst to Connie, Cynthia suffered in mental genetics just the same. Their hereditary issues were shared, though neither sister took this as something to relate to each other. Rather, a rivalry began, a rivalry that would lead to a bitter end.

After a welding explosion at the boiler factory left Connie’s father with his left hand molten, dearest dad was forever stuck at home. While surgery had saved him from infection and other harm, money was too bare to spend on his hand’s reconstruction, amputation, or prosthetics. Father Harland was trapped at home while his wife worked sixty hours a week to make enough money in Fairfax to survive. The measly disability check he drew was hardly enough to pay the mortgage.

Effectively, Connie no longer had a mother. She was gone most of the day and when she was home she was too tired to do much of anything at all. Her father grew more and more depressed, feeling useless as the “stay-at-home” dad who couldn’t do much of the chores due to his limb. The two girls were to take up the task along with school work and worsening mental health, which of Connie’s was only beginning. Cynthia’s had taken full root by the time she was seventeen and Connie was fifteen, where their rivalry would soon be brought to the aforementioned end.

Connie, in her teenage years, was never good with relationships. From friendships to romances, she would push the other person away due to her instability and cast blame on them for the issues. She feared rejection to the point where one would think it would kill her; she was growing bitter and antisocial. Then her mood would swing and she’d be as upbeat as ever, until she couldn’t get out of bed in the morning due to an emotional state alone.

While taking a walk outside, the sisters came upon a riverbed. Cynthia dropped her keys into the river and urged Connie to grab them for her, to which Connie, feeling terribly sorry for her sister’s failing grades, accepted. While doing this, Cynthia held Connie’s head under the water for a long time. She was drowning in the muddy river, eyes seeing nothing but brown muck and the flicker of a rock. Cynthia released her grip before she died and began apologizing profusely and begged Connie to never say a word about it. Connie never did.

Cynthia managed to get into college by virtue of a scholarship program in her high school softball career. The year she was slated to go, she hung herself in her bedroom with a nylon rope. The family was devastated, even Connie. She didn’t know how to feel. She became utterly hopeless and depressed. Despite the hatred she felt for her sister, there was a love there too, one she couldn’t comprehend or understand. In the end, she pitied her beyond anything else.

Connie’s parents, seeing symptoms in Connie the same as her sister, piled their meager savings together and put her into therapy. It was here she was diagnosed and given medication, which she used to get through high school and eventually get into college. Majoring in photography, she found a hobby that she felt could get her through life well. She had friends, friends she felt she could actually keep now. She even got a job at a local movie theater, where a sense of stability had formed. Having wanted to get as far away home as she could, she decided upon Castleton University, which was as far as her parents would allow her.

She was soon to head home for Christmas break at the Burlington airport when she was involved in a car crash. Thus ensued the end of times, hundreds of miles from home.

Miscellaneous: Light Southern accent from upbringing.

[Alozia]

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PRYZBYLEWSKI, ESTHER - DSS SPECIAL AGENT

Name: Esther Pryzbylewski.
Age:34
Sex:Female
Occupation/Role: Special Agent with the Diplomatic Security Service - Protective detail for CDC-WHO joint mission.
Appearance:

Laura Pryzbylewski stands at 5’10 (177.8 cm) and weighs 148 pounds (67.13 kilogram). She has a lean and healthy build with light skin, bearing blue eyes and a dark brunette hair at around armpit length. Which is often kept neatly combed, or secured into a ponytail.

Personal Belongings:

• DSS issued Chevrolet Suburban, fitted with a standard police vehicle suite.
  
• DSS issued handheld radio with earpiece.
  
• Standard handheld flashlight with a high lumen LED light.
  
• DSS badge.
  
• Multitool knife.
  
• Glock 19 Gen 4 (9x19mm) sidearm kept in a synthetic concealed carry holster within a three o-clock carry with two additional magazines pouches.
  
• MK18 Mod 0 issued by DSS. Standard trigger guard has been replaced with a larger one to allow for smoother operation while wearing heavy duty gloves. Fitted with an Trijicon ACOG TA01NSN 4x32 scope and a weapon light with a pressure switch attached to the foregrip, has a two-point sling for carrying purposes. Kept secured within the weapon locker of the Cadillac escalade, along with five backup 30 round PMAG magazines.
  
• Issued body armour fitted with ceramic trauma plates. Fitted with pouches for magazines, IFAK, a radio and administration equipment. DHS-Police identifier patch attached at the back and front.
  
• CBRN equipment, kept in the vehicle's trunk. Personal protection equipment levels B & C kept within.
  
• Work equipment kept within the patrol backpack. Has various tools required to effectively do their job. Including a laptop.
  
• Mobile phone, work phone, wallet, keys, two packs of cigarettes and a zippo lighter.

Personality:

An industrious type with a headstrong demeanor. Having a keen eye for details and a strong reliance on her own instincts and moral compass. Esther is a highly proactive and pragmatic person who is analytical and aware, but, when faced with a problem, will instinctively take the most direct solution to problem solving. Something that can sometimes lead her awry when the solution just isn't that simple, or when her instincts are wrong.

Socially, she is a quiet woman who prefers to keep to herself and can appear somewhat aloof in conversations, but is sincere enough to not irk people. Her often making a habit of recognizing small details about people that make them feel respected. She does however harbour trust issues with most people, particularly men, Having issues with long term relationships. She has a low tolerance for what she deems as “bullshit.” and often becomes combative with those she thinks are pulling her chain, on occasions becoming even verbally abusive but is quick to reel herself in. She tends to keep the conversation away from herself. Especially about her childhood or military service, and she doesn’t like people digging around at either one of those. Being evasive about it when brought up, or just becoming plain frustrated and aggressive if they continue pressing it.

She also possesses some unusual personality tics. She frequently squints her eyes and blinks when trying to concentrate, or within highly stressful situations, particularly arguments. a tic that has been with her for a lengthy time. Additionally, she chain smokes to handle stress, and is often seen chewing gum to avoid the urge of smoking.

Strengths:

Military and law enforcement background: Esther has served eight years in the military and a further three in the Diplomatic Security Service. The majority of which have been within military law enforcement roles. They have an eye for details, and are trained for close protection roles.

Physically fit: Aside from their addiction to cigarettes, Esther has a near perfect bill of health for their age bracket. They are in a good, athletic shape, even if they aren’t the strongest physically.

Good Driver:Trained by the DSS for defensive driving techniques. They're a good driver in stressful situations despite their lack of area knowledge.

Weaknesses:

Claustrophobic: Esther has a fear of tight compact spaces, struggling in areas that are severely confined. Small rooms, tight corridors, underground tunnels and elevators tend to put her on edge. While crawl spaces and tight squeezes tend to cause serious distress, relating back to her being burried alive.

Trust Issues:Esther, while capable of working with other DSS agents due to the nature of the job, has trust issues with most people outside of that realm. She puts a great deal on being self reliant and expects to get left in the dust by most people, which can become problematic when she is forced to rely on someone else.

Not Local: Esther isn’t a local to Vermont. She doesn’t know the area well and the shortness of the deployment hasn’t given her and the team adequate time to prepare. Due to this, she has a relaince on maps and GPS to properly navigate. Without those and in a tight sicuation might not make the best navigational decisions.

Stubborn: Stubborn: Esther is a particularly headstrong person and can be quite forceful with her decision making. While not inherently opposed to cooperation, she can be quite dommanering when it comes to planning and problem solving. With her becoming combative when she feels ignored or overlooked.

Smoker: Esther has an addiction to cigarettes and is a stress smoker, often chain smoking during stressful situations.

Biography (two paragraphs minimum):

Esther Pryzbylewski was born on October 15th, 1986 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her mother put her up for adoption soon after her birth. Resulting in Esther growing up within the Louisiana state foster care system for most of her childhood. Never establishing a stable family life during this period of her life, with a myriad of different families and groups charged with her upbringing.

She suffered abuse while in a privately run group home, receiving a myriad of mostly mental and physical abuse. Easter often finding herself singled out and picked on by the guardians because of strange behavioural tics. With Esther suffering from a heavy stutter in her youth, causing severe self-esteem and behavioural issues. With Esther frequently finding trouble with locals due to runaway attempts and general hooligan behaviour, even after her removal from the hostile environment.

Her lifestyle began to improve when she was placed into youth counselling, with Esther taking part in a youth violence prevention program. Giving a better sense of structure, helping with her esteem issues. Something that was additionally supported by a more permanent foster family in coastal Louisiana. Her performance in education vastly improved throughout the subsequent years. With her noticeably doing well within mathematics, and sports, notably soccer. With her playing a defensive position for her school's team. This led her to graduate with a slightly above average grade set.

Esther attended Louisiana State under a scholarship. Studying humanities with a minor in criminal justice. Esther performed well within academics and found the environment to be enjoyable. Going through college as the war on terror was really beginning to take form. The news dominated by the events in post invasion Iraq and Afghanistan.

During her time as an undergraduate, Esther elected to become an officer in the marines following frequent talks with on campus recruiters. Doing the platoon leaders combined course in the summer of 2005, earning their commission. Esther graduated in mid-2006 with a bachelors, being shipped off to Quantico, VA to perform the basic school to undertake the basic officer course. Going through the six-month training program. Following completion, Esther was posted as a military police officer, undergoing the additional training necessary before being placed within the 1st MEF’s 1st law enforcement company.

Esther served within the 1st law enforcement battalion for four years. Seeing two deployments to Iraq during operation Iraqi freedom. The majority of which was spent within the green zone in Iraq. Manning checkpoints and maintaining the rule of law before it is handing over to the Iraqi military in 2009. The majority of her time was a mixture of interacting with NATO personnel and local Iraqi’s working within the zone, and training the Baghdad police alongside civilian contractors. Rocket fire and mortars not being an uncommon threat. Something that never bothered her until a building she was in got hit with an IED, causing her to being buried alive for over forty minutes. While physically ok, the incident left a physiological mark on her. Resulting in her developing claustrophobia and mild PSTD symptoms.

Following the completion of her active service, Esther elected to attempt a lateral move to marine CID. Reenlisting for active service to attempt to try out as a criminal investigation officer. Undertaking the U.S. Army CID Special Agent Course at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. After completion, Esther undertook the six months on the job training required before becoming a fully vetted member of marine CID. She spent a further four years within CID, investigating a variety of criminal activity within the marines, receiving additional training and seeing further deployments into Baghdad. Investigating felony crimes allegedly committed by her fellow servicemen and women. The homicides and sexual assaults being what stuck with her, which caused her personality to sour.

Esther exited from the military in 2015 as a captain following her active service running out. Being put into inactive reserves and seeing no desire to reenlist despite the potential of promotion. She briefly worked as a risk advisor for several companies in the New Orleans area for a year. But life at home became more and more difficult. With Esther having significant behavioural changes and an issue remaining settled in one place. She became estranged from her long-time spouse before the relationship eventually fell apart after accusations of cheating got thrown around on both sides.

These events became a large motivator for her to seek a more regimented job, which led to her joining the Diplomatic Security Service. Seeing the opportunity to travel frequently again as a major selling point. She undertook the long nine-month training course and passed through with some difficulty within language training and the much closer quarters element of her training. Her claustrophobia being something that almost made her flunk out.

Worked initially out of the New Orleans Resident Office before permanently moving to Massachusetts to work within the Boston Field Office. Hoping to do her two years of domestic work in a better office before being sent on a posting abroad. Primarily working within Counterintelligence, and the protective services branch. Having a decent employment record albet with a few blemishes to it stunting career growth. Having only temporary duty assignments abroad.

With the rise of the kongo virus and disappearance of the joint WHO/CDC team in the Kongo, Pryzbylewski and other DSS agents quickly found themselves protecting both domestic and foreign epidemiologists. Something not typically within their job description. Being deployed to Burlington, Vermont to protect members of a joint task force examining the uptick of cases. The department Of State along with Health And Human Services being concerned for their safety. Pryzbylewski and one other DSS agent being specifically charged with protecting Tom Sasser, a specialist Virologist from Canada.

Miscellaneous:
Speaks in a notable Cajun accent due to their upbringing in Baton Rouge.

Name: Connie Harland
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Occupation/Role: University Student/Movie Theater Attendant
Appearance:

(Image)
5’9 feet, 120 pounds. Bags under eyes.

Personal Belongings:

• Denim hoodie
• Black trapper hat
• Jeans + sneakers
• Backpack
• Curtain rod
• Several textbooks
• One bottle of phenelzine (16 pills)
• Keys to a broken sedan
• Wallet with several coupons and coins
• Smartphone

Personality: Neurotic, impulsive, and depressive, Connie suffers from an early form of borderline personality disorder, a long-forgotten genetic issue that resurfaced after two generations. Her moods manifest in highs and lows, the latter more common. Connie is a born cynic with a bad temper and a penchant for voicing the worst possible outcome, even if it does nobody else any good. She is often piteous of others and she holds empathy close, but she rarely allows this side to be seen. Connie holds deep insecurities about herself and suffers a deep fear of abandonment. These fears often manifest in illogical and volatile ways, as Connie engages in a fight-or-flight response upon these situations.

Disregarding this, she is intensely suicidal, but of similar intensity is her fear of death. Disassociation is a common trait and feelings that she is not a real person. In these times, she blacks out or otherwise goes on autopilot, her body moving unbeknownst to herself. She rarely remembers these times. There are many things that Connie fears, from raised fists to memory lapses, but none are quite as difficult as water. After a near drowning experience as an adolescent, Connie is terrified of swimming.

Connie often fluctuates between her true self, unable to ascertain as to what really is her true self. She is idealistic and cynical, happy and sad, bitter and joyous. Duality is how she lives her life, but she is always the same person. The most frightening singularity; a prolonged feeling of being hollow.

Strengths:

• Clever - Connie is clever beyond her years. Time spent alone meant time spent reading, writing, and cautiously observing the world around her. Her mind being so different from others has created an imaginative spirit, with a host of outside-the-box solutions to issues.
  
• Enduring Will - While Connie herself might say she doesn’t care if she lives or dies, her subconscious is another beast in its own right. She will never give up, even if the odds are particularly against her. It wouldn’t be uncommon to see a sudden burst of adrenaline save her from a prickly situation.
  
• Empath - Connie, while not being in tune with her own emotions, is perfectly capable of understanding the motives and actions of others. This means she’s good at reading people, as well as hiding her own true motives behind a facade, when she can.

Weaknesses:

• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - Connie suffers from the personality disorder known as borderline. This contributes to her memory lapses, ongoing depression, intense mood swings, fear of abandonment, trouble at school, temper, along with a whole host of other issues. Psychologically, she is severely damaged.
  
• Physically Weak - Having little to do with lifting any sort of heavy objects, Connie is quite weak and can easily be thrown around. She has to rely on her wits and nimbleness to escape the horror lurking around each corner.
  
• Woefully Unprepared - Connie has no idea what to do. She is hundreds of miles from home in a strange place with a lot of strange people. True conflict and confrontation are alien to her, and she has only realistically feared for her life on one other occasion. She cannot fight and must rely on others to do such for her or teach her, as she has no survival skills to speak of.
  
• Prescription - Connie’s prescription of phenelzine will run out soon, and when that does, bad times will come. Her disorder will be fully unchecked and she will slump into a horrible state, especially since such a state will arise in a “cold turkey” manner.

Biography: Connie Harland was born in the year 2000 of late February, in a non-distinct hospital in the non-distinct town of Fairfax, Virginia. Her father built boilers in a steel factory and her mother nursed the dispossessed in their homes. Ultimately, they were two Southerners from Tennessee who had taken a liking to suburban life in a state with a higher GDP. They and their eldest child, one Cynthia Harland, moved to Virginia after a short vacation on the Williamsburg Ghost Tour, when Connie herself was born.

Connie was never like the other kids. Her older sister would pick on her and pull her hair, other infants would avoid her or steal her toys. From an early age children learned to spread lies, and Connie was not immune to the rampant belittling. On some days, they said she liked to kiss boys and girls; on other days, they said she never washed her hands; on others still, she said bad words when no one else was around. Friends were few and far between, and Connie grew up in the heyday of the Internet, where she spent much of her time. She was a secluded child and her parents had begun to grow quite worried. They began making her go out with her sister as much as they could.

Cynthia Harland didn’t particularly like her sister. Connie could never find out the reason; perhaps her face offended her, or more likely her entire existence. Whatever had caused this offense was lost to the past, but the present was one of torment from the eldest sibling. Unbeknownst to Connie, Cynthia suffered in mental genetics just the same. Their hereditary issues were shared, though neither sister took this as something to relate to each other. Rather, a rivalry began, a rivalry that would lead to a bitter end.

After a welding explosion at the boiler factory left Connie’s father with his left hand molten, dearest dad was forever stuck at home. While surgery had saved him from infection and other harm, money was too bare to spend on his hand’s reconstruction, amputation, or prosthetics. Father Harland was trapped at home while his wife worked sixty hours a week to make enough money in Fairfax to survive. The measly disability check he drew was hardly enough to pay the mortgage.

Effectively, Connie no longer had a mother. She was gone most of the day and when she was home she was too tired to do much of anything at all. Her father grew more and more depressed, feeling useless as the “stay-at-home” dad who couldn’t do much of the chores due to his limb. The two girls were to take up the task along with school work and worsening mental health, which of Connie’s was only beginning. Cynthia’s had taken full root by the time she was seventeen and Connie was fifteen, where their rivalry would soon be brought to the aforementioned end.

Connie, in her teenage years, was never good with relationships. From friendships to romances, she would push the other person away due to her instability and cast blame on them for the issues. She feared rejection to the point where one would think it would kill her; she was growing bitter and antisocial. Then her mood would swing and she’d be as upbeat as ever, until she couldn’t get out of bed in the morning due to an emotional state alone.

While taking a walk outside, the sisters came upon a riverbed. Cynthia dropped her keys into the river and urged Connie to grab them for her, to which Connie, feeling terribly sorry for her sister’s failing grades, accepted. While doing this, Cynthia held Connie’s head under the water for a long time. She was drowning in the muddy river, eyes seeing nothing but brown muck and the flicker of a rock. Cynthia released her grip before she died and began apologizing profusely and begged Connie to never say a word about it. Connie never did.

Cynthia managed to get into college by virtue of a scholarship program in her high school softball career. The year she was slated to go, she hung herself in her bedroom with a nylon rope. The family was devastated, even Connie. She didn’t know how to feel. She became utterly hopeless and depressed. Despite the hatred she felt for her sister, there was a love there too, one she couldn’t comprehend or understand. In the end, she pitied her beyond anything else.

Connie’s parents, seeing symptoms in Connie the same as her sister, piled their meager savings together and put her into therapy. It was here she was diagnosed and given medication, which she used to get through high school and eventually get into college. Majoring in photography, she found a hobby that she felt could get her through life well. She had friends, friends she felt she could actually keep now. She even got a job at a local movie theater, where a sense of stability had formed. Having wanted to get as far away home as she could, she decided upon Castleton University, which was as far as her parents would allow her.

She was soon to head home for Christmas break at the Burlington airport when she was involved in a car crash. Thus ensued the end of times, hundreds of miles from home.

Miscellaneous: Light Southern accent from upbringing.

Name: Beau Falkner

Age: 26

Sex: M

Occupation/Role: Welder

Appearance:
Beau

Personal Belongings:

• Savage 110 Scout
• ×25 .308 rounds (2× 10 round magazines, 5 loose in pocket.)
• Wool Long-sleeve button down
• Hunting Jacket
• Jeans
• Work Boots
• First Aid Kit
  
  • 1 Instant Cold Pack
  • 2 BZK Towelettes
  • 1 Non-Adherent Bandage
  • 1 First Aid Tape 1/2" x 2.5yds.
  • 1 Rolled Gauze 2" x 4yds.
  • 10 Adhesive Bandages 3/4" x 3"
  • 5 Adhesive Bandages 3/8" x 1 1/2"
  • 1 Fingertip Bandage
  • 1 Knuckle Bandage
  • 1 Pair Vinyl Gloves
  • 1 Triple Antibiotic Pack 0.9gm
  • 1 Hydrocortisone Pack 0.9gm
  • 1 Hand Sanitizer Pack 0.9gm

Personality: Beau is a welcoming person, grew up in a small town and retain a lot of the small townism he grew up with as a kid. He is yet more quite and reserved than his friend Johnathan, who in most situations he has do most of the talking.

Strengths: Beau is a good outdoorsman, grew up Harman, West Virginia where his family would regularly go hunting, typically it was easier to hunt deer and freeze it than it was to go into town every other week. Camping, hunting, and hiking were a key part of his up bring, his grandpa would show him how to make camp fires, his dad showed him how to set up a tent, so in so forth. Beau also has some technical skills, going to tech school as a welder and being a general metalworker as his day job. Beau is also fairly diplomatic, not one to immediately cause a fuss and more willing to work things out if he feels he can.

Weaknesses: Beau is by any account timid in how he deals with conflict, preferring to run and disengage if he can. Not tactically or combat oriented and is not one to take the fight to anyone. Not confident in his ability to lead others, relies on his friends to take up that role.

Biography: Beau was born in Western Virginia on March 11th 1994. His father was Coal Miner and his mother was a clerk at the court house in Elkins. He grew up in a fairly normal home. His father was strict but caring, a sort of altruistic protector. His parents were very hands off, Beau would go to school, go out with friends, play in the woods, hang out on the playground, things like that. His father would lose his job in the mines in the early 2000's and the family would move up relatives in Rome New York. He would go to high school at Rome Free Academy where he would play baseball for his sophomore and junior year.

After graduation he spent a year working at a car dealership in Syracuse before going to Trade School. He would meet Erin Danielewski at a bar near in the Lake Front part of Syracuse. They started dating not long after, Erin was a Finance and Business Major at Syracuse University, originally from Rochester. They moved in with one another in East Syracuse, the relationship had always been somewhat volatile, fights would break out, nothing serious but the occasion scream match, which Erin would always win. While it was not a perfect relationship it did last awhile, spurd on by Erin's pregnancy in 2016. They named their Daughter Helen and would live together up until late 2018. A series of extreme arguments, rooted in finance, jealousy, and a growing resentment between the two led to them splitting up. Erin would continue to live in Syracuse as a Financial Consultant with joint custody of the kids. For his part, Beau would find new work in Burlington at Lethridge Steel. This worked better for him, he desperately wanted to get out of Syracuse, even accepting a custom joint custody agreement where in Beau would get Helen in the summers and every other Christmas.

Beau quickly settled down into work life. Meeting people at bars in town, he made quick acquaintance with Johnathan McBryde. The two would meet up and occasionally go hunting, something Beau hadn't done in years since moving to New York. He really felt things were looking up for him in the aftermath of everything that had happened.
Miscellaneous:

Name: Johnathan McBryde
Age: 26
Sex: M
Occupation/Role: Mechanic
Appearance: Scruffy beard, pale skin, dark hair, blue eyes, 5'11
Personal Belongings: Model 70, 17 rounds of .308, clothes, cammo hunting gear, 1995 Chevy Silverado, personal effects
Personality: Talkative, helpful, and well mannered.
Strengths: Good shot, physically fit, mechanically inclined.
Weaknesses: Tinnitus, smoking habit, quick to anger, dislikes cold.
Biography: Born in 1994, Johnathan grew up to a modest family in South Carolina. He would go through school doing fairly well, but when the time came for college acceptance letters, he found himself lacking, and even more so when it came to scholarships. So, instead, he found himself enlisting in the Marine Corps for a 4 year contract. He would ship to MCRD Parris Island, and become a Motor T mechanic.

In 2013 he would end up in Iraq, working on vehicles and rarely going outside the wire, and he found himself in a similar situation in Afghanistan in 2015. In 2016, he would get out, and head home to SC for a while where he bounced from job to job, until an old Marine buddy put him onto a job in Vermont where he could take his skills and work on diesel engines in the cold. For a few years he's worked on the job, making friends, binge drinking, and hunting. He recently left for an extended hunting trip with a good friend, and has returned to observe the apocalypse.
Miscellaneous:

All accepted.

[Main Nation Ministry]

yeah, probably. that's where all the fun is anyway

Time for Andrew to try to escape, only for Shen and Jerry to get mauled alive due to bad luck.

Post tonight, though.

[Offer Erapia]

Can someone please review my template

[Alozia]

Can someone please review my template

what template? I think I have reviewed all of the apps, if that's what you're talking about.

[Alozia]

Name: Simon Grates
Age: 36
Sex: Male
Occupation/Role: Automobile Mechanic
Appearance: Standing five foot eleven and weighing two twenty Simon is by no means small. He has jet black hair and dark grey eyes. He has wide slopping shoulders that sit on a better than average build. A soft featured face with a sharp nose and jaw. His pale skin complexion also hints at his german descent. Simon prefers boots to shoes and has a dark green mechanics jumpsuit which is completed with a black baseball cap.
Personal Belongings: Simon tries to be prepared for anything. He has a utility bag he carries around in case of emergencies. It contains a little bit of food, water, tools, and his knife which he carries for protection.
Personality: Simon is a bull headed man with a soft heart. He is smart, resourceful and has an undying love for cars. Although his temper is quick he does put a considerable effort into not losing his marbles.
Strengths: strong and able bodied Simon can fix anything with wheels. His knowledge on various tools and parts and how to use them is unmatched. He is calm and quick under pressure, with this his hand to hand skills are, although rusty, dangerous in their own right.
Weaknesses: After a close call Simon has developed a fear of heights. And while not foolish he is hard headed and has a quick temper to boot. Simon is also not a strong swimmer and tries his best to avoid deep bodies of water.
Biography: Born in texas Simon knew nothing but hard work growing up. Working on a farm from dusk until dawn with his old man. It was there that the young lad would find his calling card, even if he was to young to realize. His passion was that of a mechanic. Even as young as the age of seven simon was fascinated with cars and thier many numerous parts. But like his father had told him before his dream simon had to complete schooling. And so he focused through school and as a past time took up wrestling. His love would naturally deepen for the physical sport.
However, disaster would strike the teenager when Simons mother passed away from cancer. For a brief moment Simon was broken. His grades had slipped and his mindset was a nightmare. Gradually he'd get out of the slump by focusing the pain into motivation. He had grown popular in wrestling and even went on to win state championship when he tried for it. But it wasn't enough and at the age of sixteen Simon enrolled in a mix martial arts class. His skills were honed with years of discipline and practice.
Eventually, Simon found himself in underground cage fighting as a past time when he wasn't working. By no means was he the best but he was indeed a force to reckoned with. This would go on for a few years before something almost magical happened. Simon had met his significant other, a pretty blonde that stole his heart at first glance. With his heart filled with love instead of adrenaline Simon thought it would be best to hang the gloves up for good. For a short while Simon didn't know what he wanted to do next. But soon he realized that an old passion he had buried would come back to bite. And that was his undying love fore mechanics.
Now, nearly thirty, married and working hard, Simons mind had yearned for a change of scenery. He had grown tired of hot blistering summers and wanted something different. After bringing the idea to his wife they both decided on Vermont, where they both had some family residing. A few plane tickets later they had found themselves in vermont in a nice city. They purchased a house and a year later had thier first child. Another year or two later they'd adopt a dog to complete thier family. Now, as christmas neared Simons mind wondered once more and that was what he was going to get his wife for Christmas.
Miscellaneous: none

Accepted.

[Alozia]

MNM, now's your chance to join up with the rest of survivors.

[Main Nation Ministry]

MNM, now's your chance to join up with the rest of survivors.

Let me check. Because Andrew's current mission is basically get the hell out of town by reaching his car.

[Arengin Union]

Alright so hopefully my post can be a way for everyone to gather up now.

[American Pere Housh]

Name:Samantha"Sam" Rogers
Age:33
Sex:Female
Occupation/Role:Former NYPD Swat Officer
Appearance:Samantha
Personal Belongings:An M-4 SOPMOD she escaped from NYC with, an M9 pistol, two knives, and a picture of her two twin 12 year old girls whom she misses dearly
Personality:Friendly to friends but cold to strangers
Strengths:Expert markswomen due to the training she got to join SWAT, knows how to use her knives in combat but isnt a master,combat medic
Weaknesses:known to be very stubborn at times, slight claustrophobic
Biography (two paragraphs minimum):Born and raised in Burlington from the day she was born until she was 15 when her family moved to Brooklyn. When she graduated high school at 18, she immediately joined the police academy where spent the next 16 weeks training to become a police officer. When she was 21, Sam had identical twin girls named Jasmine and Rose. Though a single mother, she continues her career as a leo. At 27 years old,Sam was chosen to be a part of the NYPD's SWAT team.

When she began hearing rumors of the dead rising, Samantha resigned from the NYPD and began packing food, clothing, medical supplies and various other essentials she and her daughters would need. Sam kept both her M-4 and her M9 pistol because she knew she would be needing them soon. Sam, Jasmine and Rose headed up to Burlington where they thought they could get away from it. If they only knew what they were getting into.
Miscellaneous:Samantha knows Burlington due to it being where she was born and spent her childhood.

[Tayner]

Added a character image, I'll work on a post tonight

[Free Ward Marchers]

Due to responsibilities in other threads I'm afraid I mist retire Donna Feldman

[Alozia]

Due to responsibilities in other threads I'm afraid I mist retire Donna Feldman

noooooooooooooo

[American Pere Housh]

How is my app?

[Free Ward Marchers]

Due to responsibilities in other threads I'm afraid I mist retire Donna Feldman

noooooooooooooo

I apologize greatly

[Arengin Union]

noooooooooooooo

I apologize greatly

Godspeed friend.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Waiting for AU to respond.