Cabarria Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 I don't know if this has been done recently or at all, but I was thinking of starting a plague/infection scare RP that would encompass as much or as little of Europa as wanted to participate. Right now I'm contemplating something along the lines of an infected ship at one of Cabarria's ports, with an ambiguous/unknown country of origin. Or maybe someone at an airport. The disease would be a quick-killing hemhorragic fever or something similar. Where the plague originated, how it was created, how it is dealt with, and how it is cured is up to how things develop. It seems like it could be something interesting the whole community could participate in. What are your thoughts?
Vocenae Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 This happened about four months ago, Tamurin had a alien virus outbreak that basically crippled his nation and forced several others into isolation. Eventually out of lack or interest, Tam used his 'space-shuttle' and found that space radiation killed the virus, and managed to stop it from spreading to the rest of Europa. That is the explanation as to why said nations are no longer part of Europa. But I think it's time we took some risks when it comes to our nations! Too long have we worried over fictional numbers and strength that is easily repaired in RP time. Besides, I think I can work this into an idea of mine.
Cabarria Posted March 28, 2007 Author Posted March 28, 2007 (edited) Aw.... And I thought I had a pretty novel idea there .... Wait, are you saying this could still be workable even though it was done 4 months ago? Edited March 28, 2007 by Wellsy (see edit history)
Vocenae Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 Yes. I was actually gearing up for Tam's virus to spread to the north, due to sloppy containment and procautionary measures. Would've been interesting to see how that affected my role in the AdSoc War...
Tagmatium Rules Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 I've recently read the book World War Zed (or Zee for you Americans): An Oral History of the Zombie War. Apart from being a very excellent read, detailing everything from the actions and plans taken by governments, individual surivors' accounts and huge cock-ups (at one point, the US Army decides to take on a massive zombie horde using conventional tactics and gets mauled), it's given me random ideas as to how Tagmatium would cope. Admittedly, it'd be a region-changing event and definately change the face of the region if it was on the scale of the book, but it's a bit of an idea.
Vocenae Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 Ta, dude, I was just reading that. Freaky coincidence, no?
Tagmatium Rules Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 One of the best books I've read in a while. I like way it subtley hints at famous people involved, or also mentions them in all but name. It'd be interesting to see how the Europan powers deal with a small scale outbreak, but I don't know.
Adaptus Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 Hahaha, I just had a thought of 28 Days Later in Adaptus there. Then I thought of Shaun of the dead, Adaptus style hehe. Sounds quite good.
Tagmatium Rules Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 If we were to do this, and I realise it's probably a big if, we'd have to set some basic rules for this idea, although it'd be entirely up to people if this does go ahead.
Emakera Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Damn... I wanna read that book, Tag. I got a kick out of the Zombie Survival Guide. Unfortunately, I couldn't find WWZ to download. Buying it is out of question, for endless money-related reasons. Although a RP of it would be too far-fetched... and if you people did that, I'd have a Redeker plan ready :B
Damak Var Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 But that's not what we are doing! It's more like a regular plague that just kills people, not turn them into flesh eating zombies. But if you guys want to do a zombie RP, I'm good with it too
Cabarria Posted March 30, 2007 Author Posted March 30, 2007 (edited) I was suggesting something along the lines of a small-scale conventional (read: non-zombifying) outbreak, but that is ultimately up for discussion. Edited March 30, 2007 by Wellsy (see edit history)
Emakera Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Well, I personally believe that we should be having wars or mass starvation. But since it seems that you're really into this idea, why don't we make a list of all diseases that plague or have plagued Europa? With symptoms, origins, body count, effects, and the like... for example, is there such a thing as AIDS in Europa? What about Malaria, Dengue, Elephantiasis and other mosquito related illnesses? Did we ever had an outbreak of Bubonic plague? So, let's think about making such a list. And then, we could (or should would be more like it) make a deadly addition to it.
Cabarria Posted April 5, 2007 Author Posted April 5, 2007 I would assume for the sake of simplicity the disease history of Europa would be similar to that of Earth - a massive flu pandemic decades ago, a plague outbreak centuries ago, and Tam's alien virus not too long ago, maybe a few years ago in RP time. What I'm suggesting for the culprit this time would be a fast-acting hemhorragic fever similar to the Ebola or Marburg viruses.
Haken Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 I've recently read the book World War Zed (or Zee for you Americans): An Oral History of the Zombie War. Apart from being a very excellent read, detailing everything from the actions and plans taken by governments, individual surivors' accounts and huge cock-ups (at one point, the US Army decides to take on a massive zombie horde using conventional tactics and gets mauled), it's given me random ideas as to how Tagmatium would cope. Admittedly, it'd be a region-changing event and definately change the face of the region if it was on the scale of the book, but it's a bit of an idea. Sounds like the most awesome book ever.
Adaptus Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 what sort of zombies are we talking bout? We talking about dawn of the dead style zombies? slow moving, and stiff? or are we talking about 28 days later zombies? super fast, super strong, and infectious? Or how about a smart virus? where say? a virus infects people, they then turn into some wired creature, but are smat, nd can use weapons and things, and have orginsational skill but are controled but a giant smart zombie? r why not have cool aliens land, and we have to fight them off?
Haken Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 Since a contagion has already been played and the way this is evolving, we could always have an all-out alien invasion. But I'm open for all options.
Tagmatium Rules Posted April 6, 2007 Posted April 6, 2007 I might have to split this, because this is turning into a bit of a thread-hijack with the zombie thing Adpt, the zombies in the book are the old-school shufflers. They even do the whole stretching-out-arms thing when people come near.
Vocenae Posted April 6, 2007 Posted April 6, 2007 Which is a decidedly mixed bag of good and bad. It's good cause you can outrun them, but bad because of the sheer amount of them. At least with the fast zombies you only have to deal with a small pack of them, and have a greater chance of losing them if you're in shape. I'd rather do the zombie thing, but for a more realistic virus it could be something that attacks the hyperthallmus gland, causing a rapid increase of body temperature until the body dies from overheating.
Emakera Posted April 6, 2007 Posted April 6, 2007 WWZ's Solanum (I'm assuming that it was solanum since it's the zombie virus described in The Zombie Survival Guide) was good enough for me. Who's up to a trillion-zombie siege?
Cabarria Posted April 7, 2007 Author Posted April 7, 2007 I'm willing to modify my original proposal - zombies could be fun. Plus a virus outbreak was done not that long ago. Cabarria doesn't need to be culled too much, but a zombie threat could cause serious civil disorder, for sure. How would this emerge on a global scale? Could we somehow use the original idea of something showing up at an airport or seaport?
Adaptus Posted April 7, 2007 Posted April 7, 2007 I'm up for this. , why not have regional veriants of the desiseas? Like diffrent effects after diffrent exposures, and say adaptation? How about we have it spead resident evil style, with a bilogical warfare virus that goes wrong? Perhapse two of our nations goto war, the biological agent is used on a large scale, but goes horribly wrong?
Vocenae Posted April 8, 2007 Posted April 8, 2007 Maybe something like the West Vs East thing that we tried to get going. I'm dying to test my Miiros theory.
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