- Disclaimer; This roleplay is a REMAKE. The original was owned by a former member of this site, Apricity. ALL CREDIT goes to Apricity, save for a few very minor tweaks I'll be making here and there.
Up to this point, your live has been fairly uneventful. Most of you have graduated high school, attended prom, perhaps gotten jobs or started your college career. Society always told you that the most important thing you could do was prepare yourself for the future. What society meant by that, however, was go to college, graduate, and get a high paying job. What society most certainly did NOT mean, was prepare yourself for the apocalypse. No matter many classes they made you attend, how many text books you purchased, nothing could have prepared you for this. Survival is key to life, and yet although they taught you to be successful, for a majority of you they did not teach you how to do necessary things, such as build a fire. Which brings us to today...
15 minutes ago, you boarded a train. Whether it was to visit your parents, grandparents, or best friend, the only thing that matters is that the moment you stepped on that train, your chances of survival for that day increased by 50%. Today, September 6th, the undead apocalypse rose. The thousands of dead from the past month have developed minor brain activity. Enough brain activity that they can walk and kill, but not enough to restore their memories or personal thoughts. What is feared is that they will start to be able to run. The undead are vicious and dangerous enough walking, and if they ever start running, survival chances will greatly decrease.
Currently, there are no scientific explanations for this outbreak. Some say radioactive waste is responsible. Governments all over the world are broken and chaotic. The majority of armies have not done anything, for many of the soldiers have succumbed to the virus. Phones are out of order. There is no wifi, and all power has been cut. Flashlights are suddenly high in demand and great in value. The people on this train are people you live with now, for better or for worse. All of you will fall into ranks, whether you know it yet or not. There will be one main leader. You must know that you and your new friends may not survive. You may not all become friends at all; some of you will become rivals, some of the people on this train will take advantage of you or even kill you if you have something they want, such as a knife, a gun, or food. Government no longer exists. Legal and illegal actions no longer apply in this new world.
There will be other groups like yourselves that survive longer than everyone else. Groups may get along and help each other survive to become one strong, unified group, or meeting each other may just do the opposite. Hell... they may very well try to kill you. But right now you need to focus on what you will do when this train meets its destination spot. It halts when it reaches New York City. You need to find supplies in order to survive. Guns, knives, flashlights, food, backpacks - anything you can get your hands on... and pray you survive the night.
