The Stand
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America's Dictator
Will McIntyre is a thirty-year old man. He was an engineer in the automotive business in Detroit for a while, before being offered a supervising job in a small firm in Chicago. He's lived there for five years. When the outbreak came he barricaded himself in a large mall, with a guns shop inside (he was smart enough to do that, even if a mall isn't the best place to hide) and a grocery store.
He's five-foot eight and 135 pounds.
He's five-foot eight and 135 pounds.
Robert Can't
Éponine
The Rt Hon Lady Elizabeth Carver Countess of Durham LG PhD FRS FRCO
Name: Elizabeth Charlotte Carver
Age: 29
Profession: Ambassador's wife, Countess. Previously an academic and organist.
Titles: Earl of Durham, Lady Companion of the Knights Garter, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Doctor of Philosophy
Correct for of address: The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon)
House by Birth: Westmorland
House by Marriage: Carver
Academic History:
Studied at Durham School. Undergraduate studies were Natural Sciences at University College, Durham University. Postgraduate studies at University College Durham University. Has held research positions at Durham University and St. Andrews University. Fellow of the Royal Society.
Musical History:
Schooled in piano, vocal and cello from a young age. Durham School choral scholarship. University College choral scholarship. University College organ scholarship. University College college organist. Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
Biography:
Born in the aristocracy Lady Carver has lived her whole life in varying states of luxury. She boarded at Durham School and later went on to live in Durham Castle during her time at University. From then on she moved to her family's estate but would commute to various universities to continue her research, she made many developments into combinatorics and algebraic theory as well as crystallography and mathematical geology. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977.
In 1978 Lady Elizabeth married John Carver, the son of a Marquis and generally just a nice sort of adorable guy. Lady Elizabeth then made an interesting breakthrough her field which caught the attention of the Queen. With a place opening up in the Knights Garter Lady Elizabeth was an obvious candidate being one of the most influential and academically prestigious nobles in Britain. She was selected to become a Lady Companion of the Knights Garter in 1978. Meanwhile John Carver was making a name for himself in the foreign office after sucessfully participating and ensuring an ground breaking agreement with the Russians. He was made ambassador to the United States in 1980 in an effort by the British government to relieve cold war tensions and bring about a lasting peace.
Appearance and Personality: Charismatic and brilliant Lady Elizabeth has a winning personality for politics and the academia. She has very social libertarian views and is a devout Anglican Christian having long been an Organist and Choral director in the years during and after University.
In appearance she has long curly brown hair with green eyes. Approximately 1.68m in height. She is also, though not yet noticeably, pregnant.
Name: Elizabeth Charlotte Carver
Age: 29
Profession: Ambassador's wife, Countess. Previously an academic and organist.
Titles: Earl of Durham, Lady Companion of the Knights Garter, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Doctor of Philosophy
Correct for of address: The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon)
House by Birth: Westmorland
House by Marriage: Carver
Academic History:
Studied at Durham School. Undergraduate studies were Natural Sciences at University College, Durham University. Postgraduate studies at University College Durham University. Has held research positions at Durham University and St. Andrews University. Fellow of the Royal Society.
Musical History:
Schooled in piano, vocal and cello from a young age. Durham School choral scholarship. University College choral scholarship. University College organ scholarship. University College college organist. Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
Biography:
Born in the aristocracy Lady Carver has lived her whole life in varying states of luxury. She boarded at Durham School and later went on to live in Durham Castle during her time at University. From then on she moved to her family's estate but would commute to various universities to continue her research, she made many developments into combinatorics and algebraic theory as well as crystallography and mathematical geology. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977.
In 1978 Lady Elizabeth married John Carver, the son of a Marquis and generally just a nice sort of adorable guy. Lady Elizabeth then made an interesting breakthrough her field which caught the attention of the Queen. With a place opening up in the Knights Garter Lady Elizabeth was an obvious candidate being one of the most influential and academically prestigious nobles in Britain. She was selected to become a Lady Companion of the Knights Garter in 1978. Meanwhile John Carver was making a name for himself in the foreign office after sucessfully participating and ensuring an ground breaking agreement with the Russians. He was made ambassador to the United States in 1980 in an effort by the British government to relieve cold war tensions and bring about a lasting peace.
Appearance and Personality: Charismatic and brilliant Lady Elizabeth has a winning personality for politics and the academia. She has very social libertarian views and is a devout Anglican Christian having long been an Organist and Choral director in the years during and after University.
In appearance she has long curly brown hair with green eyes. Approximately 1.68m in height. She is also, though not yet noticeably, pregnant.
Mosher
Mushroom dad
Name: Nadine Cross (AKA Rachel Ferral)
Age: 37
Occupation: School teacher
Physique: Average height, thin. Brown hair.
Place of Residence: Ogunquit, Maine
History: Throughout her early life, Nadine was always blocked from losing her virginity by some powerful, outside force; no matter how much she tried, she could never go through with it. Until one night - running through a field, a boy behind her. She thought to herself if he catches me, I'll let it happen. He caught her.
The dark force never seemed to completely leave her, but rather than blocking her, it seemed to guide her. She became more sadistic, reveling in manipulating groups of her friends and causing them to fight and bicker in between themselves (even doing this to her the children she taught, on occasion; she enjoyed toying with the emotions of 10 year olds).
Where once she was a quiet, reserved, Christian girl, Nadine became a charismatic, resourceful, and gleeful woman, enjoying and exceeding at positions of leadership whereas before she was inclined to take a backseat and allow others to lead. When the plague hit, she changed her name to Rachel Ferral.
Age: 37
Occupation: School teacher
Physique: Average height, thin. Brown hair.
Place of Residence: Ogunquit, Maine
History: Throughout her early life, Nadine was always blocked from losing her virginity by some powerful, outside force; no matter how much she tried, she could never go through with it. Until one night - running through a field, a boy behind her. She thought to herself if he catches me, I'll let it happen. He caught her.
The dark force never seemed to completely leave her, but rather than blocking her, it seemed to guide her. She became more sadistic, reveling in manipulating groups of her friends and causing them to fight and bicker in between themselves (even doing this to her the children she taught, on occasion; she enjoyed toying with the emotions of 10 year olds).
Where once she was a quiet, reserved, Christian girl, Nadine became a charismatic, resourceful, and gleeful woman, enjoying and exceeding at positions of leadership whereas before she was inclined to take a backseat and allow others to lead. When the plague hit, she changed her name to Rachel Ferral.
arya126
Squad Leader
Colonel Mat Shepard.
Southeast Montana province.
Mat Shepard is, to put it simply, a doctor first, a leader second, and a soldier third. His passion is to heal things, leading him to become a doctor. A master surgeon eventually in fact. However he joined the Marine Corps and managed to get on the front lines in Vietnam. 7 years after being shipped home in 1973, he has long since given up the mantle of leadership and has taken to long solitary hikes across the country. But before becoming a solitary hiker, he spent 5 years gathering renown as a doctor of diagnostics alongside his surgeon duties. He remains fit, and his skills as a doctor are sharp. He claims to be the best diagnostician in the world, but this collapse and his fall from sanity resulting in his hiking ventures cut his career short before he could make good on that claim. Then the world fell apart while he was hiking cross country. When he saw the dead pile up he took to the wilderness closest to him in Montana and has been moving west ever since.
He is a tall man, 6'1, but not towering. He is stocky but relies more on speed, agility, and endurance than brute force. Far from an expert in hand to hand combat, he prefers sniper rifles in combat but carries only a bow, a pistol, and some knives he isn't very good with when hiking. The pistol only has 7 bullets. Aside from that he carries little of anything aside from his dog tags and a lot of arrows. He has close cropped black hair and piercing blue eyes to alongside a lean face. He also carries a lot of Vicodin as he is addicted to the pills, claiming they are for an old wound in his left thigh from Vietnam that has long since supposedly healed.
Southeast Montana province.
Mat Shepard is, to put it simply, a doctor first, a leader second, and a soldier third. His passion is to heal things, leading him to become a doctor. A master surgeon eventually in fact. However he joined the Marine Corps and managed to get on the front lines in Vietnam. 7 years after being shipped home in 1973, he has long since given up the mantle of leadership and has taken to long solitary hikes across the country. But before becoming a solitary hiker, he spent 5 years gathering renown as a doctor of diagnostics alongside his surgeon duties. He remains fit, and his skills as a doctor are sharp. He claims to be the best diagnostician in the world, but this collapse and his fall from sanity resulting in his hiking ventures cut his career short before he could make good on that claim. Then the world fell apart while he was hiking cross country. When he saw the dead pile up he took to the wilderness closest to him in Montana and has been moving west ever since.
He is a tall man, 6'1, but not towering. He is stocky but relies more on speed, agility, and endurance than brute force. Far from an expert in hand to hand combat, he prefers sniper rifles in combat but carries only a bow, a pistol, and some knives he isn't very good with when hiking. The pistol only has 7 bullets. Aside from that he carries little of anything aside from his dog tags and a lot of arrows. He has close cropped black hair and piercing blue eyes to alongside a lean face. He also carries a lot of Vicodin as he is addicted to the pills, claiming they are for an old wound in his left thigh from Vietnam that has long since supposedly healed.
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Name: Kenan "Keychain" Payne
Age: 42; born May 30, 1938
Occupation: Gun shop owner, former gang leader
Physique: Tall, bulk. African-American male
Place of Residence: Chicago, Illinois, apartment above his shop.
Background:
Kenan Payne has lived in Chicago all his life. His father was a two-bit drug dealer who died on Kenan's 10th birthday, after a deal went south. His mother resorted to prostitution to take care of herself and her son, but wound up overdosing on heroine by the time Kenan turned 13th. Kenan cursed birthdays ever since. By this time he was already practically living on the streets. He and a few of his friends from school, which he had dropped out of, formed a gang of sorts. Really, it was just a group of friends who looked out for themselves and did small time stealing in order to make end's meet.
As they all got older, Kenan became known as "Keychain" for his affluence at opening locked doors and gates. For this useful skill, he became the group's leader by age 16. Time went on and Kenan's group, having come to be known as the "Keys of Chicago," had become a sizable gang that engaged in robbery, drug dealing, and other felonies. Determined to get out of poverty through his quickly growing criminal syndicate, Kenan saw a relatively bright future as law enforcement struggled to catch up to the Keys and rival gangs were capitulated or destroyed.
That all changed when the infection took hold. Kenan's Keys had fallen from grace, with infected members dying in droves. Kenan blockaded himself and his closest friends, the leaders of the gang, in his gun shop and apartment. He had remaining members give him status reports daily, but they had stopped coming after day 8 of infection. Despite the barricade, his friends all wound up succumbing to the disease. He was the lone survivor of his entire gang, it appeared. A full 19 days after the outbreak, Kenan was alone with nothing but his guns. Having only a few days of food and water max and an arsenal of guns, Kenan has no choice but to set out into a ghost world where he isn't even sure there are others still alive.
Age: 42; born May 30, 1938
Occupation: Gun shop owner, former gang leader
Physique: Tall, bulk. African-American male
Place of Residence: Chicago, Illinois, apartment above his shop.
Background:
Kenan Payne has lived in Chicago all his life. His father was a two-bit drug dealer who died on Kenan's 10th birthday, after a deal went south. His mother resorted to prostitution to take care of herself and her son, but wound up overdosing on heroine by the time Kenan turned 13th. Kenan cursed birthdays ever since. By this time he was already practically living on the streets. He and a few of his friends from school, which he had dropped out of, formed a gang of sorts. Really, it was just a group of friends who looked out for themselves and did small time stealing in order to make end's meet.
As they all got older, Kenan became known as "Keychain" for his affluence at opening locked doors and gates. For this useful skill, he became the group's leader by age 16. Time went on and Kenan's group, having come to be known as the "Keys of Chicago," had become a sizable gang that engaged in robbery, drug dealing, and other felonies. Determined to get out of poverty through his quickly growing criminal syndicate, Kenan saw a relatively bright future as law enforcement struggled to catch up to the Keys and rival gangs were capitulated or destroyed.
That all changed when the infection took hold. Kenan's Keys had fallen from grace, with infected members dying in droves. Kenan blockaded himself and his closest friends, the leaders of the gang, in his gun shop and apartment. He had remaining members give him status reports daily, but they had stopped coming after day 8 of infection. Despite the barricade, his friends all wound up succumbing to the disease. He was the lone survivor of his entire gang, it appeared. A full 19 days after the outbreak, Kenan was alone with nothing but his guns. Having only a few days of food and water max and an arsenal of guns, Kenan has no choice but to set out into a ghost world where he isn't even sure there are others still alive.
Terran Empress
Hornet
Interested in joining in salt lake city, will give the rest of the information later.
Omega124
Challenging Fate
Name: Sergei "Kalashnikov" Zubkov (Сергей Зубко́в
Age: 23 (Born April 7th, 1957)
Occupation: Professional hockey player (Ex-Center for the Red Wings, to be exact)
Physique: 5'9''. Blond with short hair, blue eyes. Obviously in peak physical condition, due to his job. Prefers to be be clean shaven.
Place of Residence Where he is now: Hartford, Connecticut
History: Wearing number 47, Seregi Zubkov was a surprise acquisition of the Detroit Red Wings from the Soviet Union following their disastrous 1979 season. Despite barely knowing any English, he could speak the language of hockey. He lead the down-on-their-luck team to a resurge in his combination of goonish fighting skills and ability to shoot seemingly impossible goals. Zubkov's ability to hammer out hits and goals, along with his number, led to the affectionate nickname of "Kalashnikov". Quickly, Sergei carried the Detroit team to second place in the Prince of Wales conference, an accomplishment that pundits agree were not possible without him.
Being a Soviet playing for an American team, his popularity with the fanbase plummeted during the climatic 1980 Winter Olympics, where he went to play for the hammer and sickle. Despite this, a humiliating loss to a bunch of college kids during the Olympics saved face; his "betrayal" was quickly forgotten in an orgy of American pride, at least in Detroit.
During a successful playoff run, May 13th marked the game seven of a playoff match between the Hartford Whalers and the Detroit Red Wings. Despite Sergei attempting to work his magic, the game remained a deadlocked 0-0 at the end of the first period as no one was able to score. At this point, there was a scream from the audience as one of the refs fell down in a coughing fit. When medical teams checked his body, they couldn't find a pulse. A few minutes later, more and more people dropped in the ground after coughing everywhere, spreading the deadly pathogen all across the Hartford Civic Center. Soon, a lonely Sergei found himself the only one alive; his body for some reason did not get infected in the panic. He knocked the puck into the goal past the dead Whalers goalie and sadly left the stadium. The Red Wings, all dead except him, would move on to the next round of a now meaningless tournament.
It is now May 22nd, and the Kalashnikov continues to wander the city, not knowing what to do. Returning to Russia is almost impossible, but yet he has no purpose to stay in America. Returning to Detroit is always a possibility, but what for? He has no obligation to return there either. Zubkov therefore continues to wander the city he was abandoned in, still wearing his 47 jersey, hoping to find some sort of new purpose to his life.
Age: 23 (Born April 7th, 1957)
Occupation: Professional hockey player (Ex-Center for the Red Wings, to be exact)
Physique: 5'9''. Blond with short hair, blue eyes. Obviously in peak physical condition, due to his job. Prefers to be be clean shaven.
History: Wearing number 47, Seregi Zubkov was a surprise acquisition of the Detroit Red Wings from the Soviet Union following their disastrous 1979 season. Despite barely knowing any English, he could speak the language of hockey. He lead the down-on-their-luck team to a resurge in his combination of goonish fighting skills and ability to shoot seemingly impossible goals. Zubkov's ability to hammer out hits and goals, along with his number, led to the affectionate nickname of "Kalashnikov". Quickly, Sergei carried the Detroit team to second place in the Prince of Wales conference, an accomplishment that pundits agree were not possible without him.
Being a Soviet playing for an American team, his popularity with the fanbase plummeted during the climatic 1980 Winter Olympics, where he went to play for the hammer and sickle. Despite this, a humiliating loss to a bunch of college kids during the Olympics saved face; his "betrayal" was quickly forgotten in an orgy of American pride, at least in Detroit.
During a successful playoff run, May 13th marked the game seven of a playoff match between the Hartford Whalers and the Detroit Red Wings. Despite Sergei attempting to work his magic, the game remained a deadlocked 0-0 at the end of the first period as no one was able to score. At this point, there was a scream from the audience as one of the refs fell down in a coughing fit. When medical teams checked his body, they couldn't find a pulse. A few minutes later, more and more people dropped in the ground after coughing everywhere, spreading the deadly pathogen all across the Hartford Civic Center. Soon, a lonely Sergei found himself the only one alive; his body for some reason did not get infected in the panic. He knocked the puck into the goal past the dead Whalers goalie and sadly left the stadium. The Red Wings, all dead except him, would move on to the next round of a now meaningless tournament.
It is now May 22nd, and the Kalashnikov continues to wander the city, not knowing what to do. Returning to Russia is almost impossible, but yet he has no purpose to stay in America. Returning to Detroit is always a possibility, but what for? He has no obligation to return there either. Zubkov therefore continues to wander the city he was abandoned in, still wearing his 47 jersey, hoping to find some sort of new purpose to his life.
dragonprobably
The Poster Formerly Known as MartinLuther
I call Great Bend, KN. More later.
Bair_the_Normal
転輪聖王
Jacques Arceneaux, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Birthday: 12 Fevrier, 1959
Occupation: Theoretical Physics Student at Louisiana State University, "That Random Unlicensed Guy at the Seedy Outer-Town Drugstore"
Religion: Roman Catholic [Kind of]
Birthplace: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Current City: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
History:
Jacques is really boring. He speaks French though, both Parisienne and Cajun. He's learning some of the least useful and least practical stuff on the planet.
Birthday: 12 Fevrier, 1959
Occupation: Theoretical Physics Student at Louisiana State University, "That Random Unlicensed Guy at the Seedy Outer-Town Drugstore"
Religion: Roman Catholic [Kind of]
Birthplace: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Current City: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
History:
Jacques is really boring. He speaks French though, both Parisienne and Cajun. He's learning some of the least useful and least practical stuff on the planet.
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
Conrad Harper
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Birthday: 17 March, 1952
Occupation: Petty criminal.
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Birthday: 17 March, 1952
Occupation: Petty criminal.
KaiserElectric
Total Freakin Besties
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Mildly interested, might join.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
Isaac Leibowitz, Kanab, Utah
Age: 30
Occupation: Engineer
Hometown: Arnette, TX
Religion: Secularly Jewish
Brief reason as to why he's in Southern Utah:
Since the disease started in Arnette, he fled the place in an attempt to find a community of survivors. He ended up stranded in southern Utah.
(sue me, I just finished Canticle for Leibowitz)
Age: 30
Occupation: Engineer
Hometown: Arnette, TX
Religion: Secularly Jewish
Brief reason as to why he's in Southern Utah:
Since the disease started in Arnette, he fled the place in an attempt to find a community of survivors. He ended up stranded in southern Utah.
(sue me, I just finished Canticle for Leibowitz)
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Eleven characters, potentially sixteen. Very interesting.
I've updated the third post of the OP with characters. I had to change Sergei's backstory slightly to compensate for the fact the superflu doesn't act that fast and public gatherings like that would probably have been at least in the grey zone public health wise by 13 May.
Meanwhile, Jon Arbuckle's story is long enough that I just linked it to the OP because I was pretty much just copying and pasting at that point, and space is at a premium.
Some characters may seem to have a short history, but only because there are some things that will never show up on the front page.
I've updated the third post of the OP with characters. I had to change Sergei's backstory slightly to compensate for the fact the superflu doesn't act that fast and public gatherings like that would probably have been at least in the grey zone public health wise by 13 May.
Meanwhile, Jon Arbuckle's story is long enough that I just linked it to the OP because I was pretty much just copying and pasting at that point, and space is at a premium.
Some characters may seem to have a short history, but only because there are some things that will never show up on the front page.
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Occasionally, I will post events in response to roleplay. As such, most updates will just be a summation of the week's activities.
Each update covers the span of a week. At any point, you can post roleplay or, if your actions affect another player or are very significant to the story, you can PM me your actions and I will process them immediately with results.
Occasionally, I will post events in response to roleplay. As such, most updates will just be a summation of the week's activities.
