User blog:Harold Burned-Mane/RP Idea: The Walking Dead

Well with the Sentinels finally done I can move forward with this RP. As some of your may know I am a huge TWD fan, having read all the comics and played the telltale game. I do not like the show much, because I am mad it ruined some of my favorite characters from the comics. Well anyway I have always been interested in doing a Walking Dead-esque apocalipse RP.

I have been a part of two Apocalipse RPs and they were pretty fun, but the GMs quickly ran out of ideas for the story and they were abandoned. The problem was, I think, that they focused too much on the apocalipse itself and not enough about the characters. If you know TWD you know that it focuses on the characters first, how they deal with the end of the world and their fight for survival. The how of the apocalipse doesn't matter in TWD. Which is what makes it so great. So I wanted to take my crack at this.

The RP will start in 5E 203. Tamriel is ruled by a united Empire. The Emperor is Rimalus Gravius, the fifth Emperor in the Gravius Dynasty. Rimalus is 29, married and with one child. But this story won't be about the Emperor. In the start of the RP the zombie outbreak. It will happen simultanious all over Tamriel, but the RP will start near the Imperial City.

Unlike regular TES zombies, these zombies would be imune to spells like Turn Undead and Repel Undead. Like in TWD, if they bite someone (or if their blood gets into contact with zombie blood) they get a fever that quickly burns them out and soon after they are reanimated. This takes about a day at most, and there is no cure. If you know TWD you know a spoiler about the infection, I won't write it here in case some people don't know it.

I will most likely make the thread in the week end. Also if you have any suggestions for a name for the RP I would appreciate it. Or else I will just call it The Walking Dead.