Zombie Apocalyse- OCC- General Discussion

[Dapper Dan Man]

I have been rethinking about it a bit:

I still want to play but I guess I am a bit stymied on posting the characters up. This is the part I dislike the most as generally characters I make I reveal slowly during the story, often in response to in-game events.

Anyways, I think I will be bale to play, but may be a bit slower than some. If someone can assist me in putting the sheets up, I would be glad to play. My posts probably won't be as detailed as they might have been in other games though. I am just kind of burnt out right now from all the stuff going on in rl.

 

[Mr. Handy]

Thanks for the compliments, welsh. I won't usually post quite as often or as long as I have this week. Next Friday I've got jury duty, and while I don't expect to be sequestered, if I don't post for some time afterwards that'll probably be why.

I did notice that Cabela's HQ was in Sidney on that wikipedia page and was thinking that Luke would have a field day there.

I had most of the things welsh mentioned in mind when Stephanie made the offer, though it hadn't occurred to me that the contract could be voided - good thing Stephanie's smarter than me. She saw New York and Washington in flames on TV and knows that even if the U.S. recovers, which she still hopes it might, there will still be massive inflation and $15,000 won't be what it was. It's already less than half what it was after the last massive inflationary wave ended in the early 1980's.

Stephanie has every intention of making good on her end of the deal if she can. Her credit rating is decent, Dr. Hausmann's is even better, and their bosses' are doubtless better still. They really want to get to Omaha as soon as possible. Even I could come up with $15K in an emergency, and five years ago I couldn't afford a new computer game.

They're not just paying for the repairs, they're paying to have them done first and fast. Normal repairs on a car could easily run into the thousands of dollars even with a mechanic who isn't as money-grubbing as Earl. When you also consider what Earl stands to lose by pushing the chopper to the front of the line and the obligatory surcharge he'd add just for being Earl, the amount isn't that outrageous. Four figures just wouldn't cut it.

And yes, 15 grand is nothing to the U.S. government. It wastes far more than that on a routine basis. It adds more than that to its national debt, which is closing in on $8.4 trillion (that's with a "T") every second: see http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ . Its annual budget is in the trillions of dollars. It throws money around like there's no tomorrow even when there is one. It has spent $900 on a hammer (it's multifunctional: it pounds nails in and removes them!) and $3000 for a "solar-powered clothes dryer" (better known as a clothesline), and those dollars had more value than today's. It spent billions on Hurricane Katrina, and this emergency is far, far worse. Under these circumstances, Stephanie has every reason to believe our spendthrift federal government would drop 10 or 15 thousand bucks without batting an eye.

 

[Stompie]

(You do know, that those multi-functioned government issue

devices realy pay for their selves exponentially! That "Hammer"

device has more than just two functions. You can smash, pound,

pull, yank, and hit, or bludgeon other objects / surfaces. And -

the "Solar powered colthes dryer" can be split into its basser

componates, and componates put to other uses. President bush

used one of the whitehouses "Solar powered clothes dryer"

devices to make puppets!) These are your tax

dollars at work. Though the miss-appropriated funds are probably

put to a good use. Like- Secret wars, in south america. I mean,

They require money. And; Snuffing out third world dictators.

Someone has to take out the trash. Either that, or someone gets

paied. Either way - There isnt much that can be done.

(Sorry- Sometimes I come off as a slight conspierisy buff.)

But Mr. Handy is right on about the ammount of money. $15,000 Is

absolutly nothing, to the us government. (By Us Government

standards, that will buy you two toilet seats, 3 clothes pins, and a

paper-clip)

((Oh - Btw - I will start on the RP very soon - Sorry I havent been

able to do so reciently.))

 

[Mr. Handy]

Before I post, is Stephanie required to make a Credit Rating roll or can she close the deal with Earl without flashing her card and ID, i.e. is the roll optional?

EDIT: Never mind, I read it again and got it. The roll is required, but flashing the card and ID gets an extra 20% bonus.

 

[welsh]

Bingo.

 

[SuAside]

OCC- nice to see you back Suaside. Anything you'd like your other players to do? At the moment they are busy doing repairs.

i was never gone. my chars just didnt have anything special to do at the time.

Dave @ work, Bob @ work, Luke eating & watching tv.

just letting the others play out their hand.

 

[SuAside]

lol caution reading ahead: welsh fucked up & pressed edit on my post instead of quote

Alex is just going to running and leave Jenny in mid sentence? A young marine guy will just run off on an attractive college girl?

maybe he's gay. who are you to judge?[/quote]

Hey! don't give me crap about being anti-gay. I'm all about the gay folks! I support homosexuals and even went to see Brokeback. Fuck, I even wrote a story about homosexuality.....

If Stompie wants to play Alex as a victim of the Marines "don't ask, don't tell" policy and a Village People wannabe, that's cool with me.

I just think that even a homosexual wouldn't have run off on Jenny in the middle of a conversation.

Suaside- note that Luke is not in the diner at the moment but is getting his gun from the car. This is for future reference- you'll see.

roger[/quote]

Why Luke was getting another name, I have raised this with Kharn. Apparently it's some joke on Luke.

Mr. Handy- I have posted on the OCC thread about the ARPANET. While the rumor or myth of surviving nuclear war might be true, right now the Foos got no internet or cable TV.

ARPANET is NOT the internet.

and the internet is even more vulnerable than the original ARPANET. the internet revolves around a small number of core servers/routing points. (i cant remember the actual number, but i think it was 12. knock out 4 & the internet is dead.)

I am curious, why Mr. Foo would have ARPANET at all? This is one of the many issues in life that I have yet to consider, once again showing that one can learn something useful at NMA.

I am curious about ARPANET, but for now, the FOOs get no TV and they can't surf the net.

 

[c0ldst33ltrs4u]

Sorry for going under for a couple of days, i had a lot of stuff going on...
Anyway I chose to go forth and tempt fate and all that... well I thought Thomas would jump at this chance, especially sice he doesn't know what is going on and he surely needs the money... so he is IN!
I also left things kind of open with Ashley, in case Welsh has something in mind... damn I never thought it would be so hard to make a post out of a simple yes/no answer

Funny what's happening with Alex... the girl is usually the one who runs scared, the marine should just go on an all out attack... how long has he gone without, anyway? 8)

 

[welsh]

No worries. I mentioned earlier that I am slowing this down a bit. I will pm Fireblade to ask him to post. Expect something probably tomorrow or the weekend.

So far this is a time for you folks to collect yourselves and consider what to do. Things will begin to get more interesting pretty soon.

 

[Mr. Handy]

The Foos don't actually have ARPANET (I'm not sure anyone does anymore), just an Internet connection like everyone else, except theirs doesn't work right now. Mr. Foo just knows about ARPANET the same way I do, only he was alive at the time and I learned about it after the fact. Continue being curious, though...

I was thinking about the RAND Corporation study when I wrote that post, but it's true that ARPANET was designed primarily to connect universities and other research institutions so they could share computer resources. They used it for their own research interests, not just what the government wanted them to use it for, so the Department of Defense took it over and renamed ARPA to DARPA (for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). I suppose any intentional attempt to make the Internet capable of surviving a nuclear war would have happened after this. I guess my point was that the Internet grew out of ARPANET, and thus would be capable of functioning to some extent after a nuclear attack. Mr. Foo just jumped to the same conclusion I did. That'll teach me not to post and sleep at the same time, or post when I should be asleep - or something.

 

[welsh]

Tragic- Fireblade has bowed out. He's too busy will not continue on.

We might get specialist who showed an interest.

 

[SuAside]

crap

sorry to see you drop out fb.

 

[Dapper Dan Man]

crap

sorry to see you drop out fb.

I'm sorry man, I am just so damn busy with real-life things. I am lucky to keep up on the Nile game and that only reequires a post a day, or even less.

 

[welsh]

For those curious- the Nile post mentioned above is here-

http://www.c4xtc.com/viewforum.php?f=5

Cultists and supernatural badness in 1920s Cairo. Players welcomed.

 

[Gonzalez]

Hey, you might just get a new player. Just got some free time after this last very busy weeks (dang, months). I will try to catch up with this RP during the next few days and then post a new character in the characters thread, with the permission of Welsh of course. Is there any room left for me here?

 

[SuAside]

Is there any room left for me here?

hell fucking yes

 

[c0ldst33ltrs4u]

Welcome aboard man! We were one player short so you dropped by just in the nick of time. Just choose some of the pre-made chars that have not been claimed by another player and are still breathing .

Suaside: what are we going to do next? I think giving Mr. Lathan a chill pill is a good idea, we don't want a bunch of panicking people, do we? And if the pill doesn't work we could knock him out or something... Should I have Bud go to the diner and try to warn the people there? He needs to ask around for that missing girl anyway...

Sean should be near the chopper talking to his buddy Jim so perhaps Bob can give him an update on the repairs to get back to Dr. Hausman. And then there's Horst bleeding all over the diner... this could make the helicopter crew nervous and give them some extra motivation to get the chopper fixed or find another way to Omaha.
What do you think?

 

[welsh]

Hey, you might just get a new player. Just got some free time after this last very busy weeks (dang, months). I will try to catch up with this RP during the next few days and then post a new character in the characters thread, with the permission of Welsh of course. Is there any room left for me here?

Hey Gonzalez-

Don't post a new character to the Character thread. Choose among those you have or pm me a suggestion. This game is much more tightly controlled then other roleplays and the cast of characters is significantly more limited.

At the moment Fireblade's characters are all free so consider them yours if you want to.

Glad to have you with us.

We are also hoping tha that Specialist will join, so if anyone wants to send Specialist a pm extending the invitation (I already have), please do.

 

[SuAside]

Suaside: what are we going to do next? I think giving Mr. Lathan a chill pill is a good idea, we don't want a bunch of panicking people, do we? And if the pill doesn't work we could knock him out or something... Should I have Bud go to the diner and try to warn the people there? He needs to ask around for that missing girl anyway...

just go with what comes natural dude.

i dont have any chars at the hotel, so no need to worry about me, you're doing fine.

Sean should be near the chopper talking to his buddy Jim so perhaps Bob can give him an update on the repairs to get back to Dr. Hausman. And then there's Horst bleeding all over the diner... this could make the helicopter crew nervous and give them some extra motivation to get the chopper fixed or find another way to Omaha.
What do you think?

i posted on the diner now because i'm tired of waiting for stompie.

as for nervous chopper crew, this doesnt change a thing for Bob. some moronic racial squabble isn't going to change anything.

 

[welsh]

Alright- I think we need to slow this down a bit more. I am not happy to do it, but at the moment we have, hopefully, Gonzales and Specialist about to join us.

Stompie, I expect a post from you every few days, not once a week.

That said, let's be a bit more patient. THis is why I wanted to have at least five players active before we started. But since then one (fireblade) has dropped out, and another (Stompie) is posting infrequently. A few more players and we should be moving right along.

Suaside, I am also impatient to resolve some of the problems in the Diner and I understand your desire to get your character more involved. However, I doubt that Robert and Duke would sneak on Baldwin but would rather just grab him and wrestle him down. Also it's unlikely that Luke would have gotten to the diner in time to resolve the problem there. So again, be patient.

I realize its a pain in the ass, but we are only just getting started. With more players this shouldn't happen as frequently.

If you are bored, I am willing to let others play Fireblades characters for now.