Post Apocalyptic RP

I agree. I think if a desert setting were to happen, it would have to be temporary. With the end of civilization and all, living there would be a total pain in the ass and your main source of food would likely need to be plants and fruit, and it'd be a fight over drinking the water and watering the plants. It would be a lot harder to hide in a desert, too. In a snow-y or forest-y place, there's a lot of places where you can cozy up into and be virtually undetected.


For cold places or hazardous winter seasons, the main things are hunting and keeping warm. Otherwise, you can just gather snow to melt at a fire for water and probably come up with a green house if you make wind mills or live near a river for the energy to do that.
 
Ok that makes sense but you also have to think about how the cold or the snow affects the zombies. In the walking dead graphic novels the zombies blood freezes because they're blood doesn't flow since they're dead. In the comics since there blood is frozen they cannot move any of their limbs to attack the living. They're just kinda stuck there still undead and kicking just unable to move.
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Guess you've got a point there. Huh. Maybe a mild climate would be best, then? Washington State, maybe? We could get the best of all worlds. Forest-y region, fairly cool in temperature and usually gets snow throughout the year, and half of it is desert-y and gets fairly heavy and cold winters. I think the average temperatures in East Washington are 60-ish throughout most of the year and 90 in the summer-- but the air is fairly dry and believe me when I say the only vegetation you really see are on farms and in people's yards. All of the mountains and wild plains are completely bare. They're just more compact dirt than they are sand.


On the West side, all you see is trees for miles and there's quite a few dams. Average temperatures in Fall and Winter are 20-40 while Summer is roughly 70-80. It doesn't snow too much every year, but sometimes we get some heavy storms and get over a foot in snow some days. I think we only got sheets in this last winter, however.
 
West side sounds ideal. Enough to be challenging in cold conditions without it minimizing the risk from zombies too much. What I might do is pick an actual small town in the area, get a basic map off google, etc, so we can actually plan supply runs and missions based on real geography. If that suits you guys, may as well start drawing up character sheets unless there's anything else. 
Having done some research, going to go with Chelan Falls if no one objects - population was 329 at last count, local industries are mostly construction based. It's next to the Columbia River, so has access to fresh water. There are a few farms around, and a national park about 30 miles West (good for hunting, should they ever get that adventurous. I'd assume that the wildlife population has grown quite a lot in the few years post civilization, though.) The nearest (very small) hospital's in Chelan, about 15 miles away from where I'm thinking their base camp should be. Chelan itself only has about 4000 people, so the area's quite remote. Temperatures are mid 30's to mid 80's.


If that suits everyone's thoughts on this, I'll sketch a ground map. As we scout new areas, do missions, etc, I'll update it.


Final note - who's planning to be part of the main group already from the start?
 
Chelan Falls is moreso on the eastern side, so are you sure that's what you want(though, it is pretty much right on the mountain range and we could make a journey over at some point if we wanted)? It has a fair bit of plants than the rest of the east side and gets tended to since it's a little tourist area, so it's not a total dirt pile :P . I don't object to it, though. I like the idea of working around a bridge.


I'd like to play a struggler(s) that come across the main group. Not sure if I want to do one or two characters yet.
 
Yeah, it's closer East, but it met what I was looking for - some farmland, some hunting areas, fresh water and a low population count. The bridges are also great defensively - lets a small number of people bottleneck oncoming threats, and the river to one side pretty much blocks zombies. I'd be happy for the group to migrate later on, but as a start point it's what I liked best.


I'm working on setting up the RP thread now; tabs for character sheets you reckon? Also, my preference is third person, but I'm willing to be flexible on that.
 
Okie dokie. Just making sure. It's not a bad spot at all.


I do third person. I don't think I've ever RP'd any other way xP.
 
I prefer third person as well, makes it easier for more artistic intros without your character seeming pretentious or insane. I'd prefer to be a straggler that meets up with the main group, although I wouldn't waste more than one or two posts alone


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Just to say I'd like to join this as an outsider finding the camp. I'll post my sheet later today.
 
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