Stranger Things Have Happened (OOC/Planning)

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"UPON THE EVENT OF WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC, ALL REMNANTS OF THE OLD WORLD, LOOK TO THE HAVEN. AND MAY YOUR ENDEAVOR BE EVER SURVIVING."

---National Broadcast, September 8th 2020

Prologue
The world is over. After the downfall of the United States, much of the hope that many had clenched tightly had dissipated. Pandemic spread across all of Earth. The 'A-Virus', people are calling it, or simply 'A'. Developed by the Soviets as a biological weapon, however they lost control of it, quickly it spread. Needless to say it took down every last country standing. Morphing humans into twisted creatures, this virus enabled thousands of new problems to emerge.

Luckily the US had prepared a facility decades ago for an event such as this, a place called the Haven. It offers shelter to survivors (called Breathers) against Eaters and radioactivity leaks. Down in a remote location in Nebraska, a large building, shaped like a nonagon. The Haven burrows deep underground and with so many levels it couldn't possibly be listed. Many levels remain unvisited, and it remains a mystery if they even exist. After the most military forces went down, there were little forces left to protect the Haven from the creatures. And due to the recent broadcast, a massive migration occurred, people from all over the world flooding into the Haven. The only people left to run the Haven were the ones who were so dedicated to it, that they never set foot outside or allowed themselves to be harmed by the virus---though these people are well known to use the virus in experiments, these experiments often affecting the Haven as a whole. Still though, these people did not do a good job of testing each person who came in for signs of it. The virus penetrated the Haven, luckily most people were able to fight the creatures off and keep them contained in the lower levels. Due to the inability to fight them all off, it is hard to tell what they have grown into down there.

The Haven though, has a strict "no-exit" rule. As its managers draw more survivors in, they don't let anyone out. Often surviving Soviet forces will attempt to strike the Haven with their biological weaponry in attempts to break inside. Usually, this is when the creatures in the lower levels are released to feed on the Haven's enemies. Over the course of about a year, the Haven itself has become a very obscure and strange place, though, the people remaining there are now numb much. But when the people see one of these creatures, they often are frightened beyond compare.

Due to experiments and evolution, these monsters aren't just infected humans anymore. Many of them possess unnatural, inhuman abilities. The sheer truth is, many are far beyond human. Many were not even originally formed from humans, but were created after residue from the other creatures was left behind. Such things as blood and detached flesh has the capability to mold together and come alive. Often, into grotesque creatures. The creatures have a hive-like hierarchy and constantly have a need to feed.

Welcome
Welcome to Stranger Things Have Happened. This will be one of the weirdest RPs here, or at least, that's what I'm aiming for. You will play as a human living within the Haven, either by just arriving or having already been there. The Haven essentially is a very messed up version of a sanctuary, having questionable leaders and secrets behind locked doors. The Haven is home to things that normal people wouldn't consider normal. Things get darker as the floors get deeper into the earth's crust. To date, there is no known number of the levels of the Haven. That list remains classified to all but the Warden. The first fifty floors are the only known to be inhabited by humans, (the slang term for humans are "Breathers",). The next floors are on lockdown due to containment.

The plot will consist of many incidents that occur within the Haven, and eventually a horrifying endeavor that the characters must push through.

Rules

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Character Sheets

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Types of Monsters

Eaters
This is often the term used to describe the monsters as a whole, however the generic Eater is a simple human infected with the virus. After infection, dramatic changes occur. The eyes begin to sink back and become yellowish in the iris, with redness growing in the sclera. The hair molts and falls out, the skin whitens and in some cases has a strange yellowish tint. Grease usually oozes from openings in the body such as the mouth, ears, nose, and rear. Sometimes this grease is instead, a dark, infected blood. Eaters shed human teeth and grow new fangs as well as claws on their fingers.

Draggers
Draggers have thick white skin, but with a slightly scarlet tint, especially around the back and shoulders. Their head molts of all hair, like an Eater. Their eyes become deformed, the irises taking up all of the visible eye and the pupils becoming elliptical. The irises turn a dark shade of crimson. From the waist down the legs of a Dragger have molded together to form a single long tail, which has unknown purpose. It might have strangling possibilities, but this is uncertain.

Crawlers
Crawlers have extra legs, their bodes bent downwards into a spider-like fashion with, usually a random number of legs along a bulge sprouting from the waist. They are very hunchback and only possess four fingers on each hand. Skin is usually quite white, but may have a slight dirty brown tint.

Shamblers
Often seen as one of the most frightening types of Eaters, the Shamblers are an evolved form of the Draggers. They move more upright than the Draggers who crawl with their bellies touching the ground. The Shamblers have more white skin with strange black stripes. They have an enormous mass of tendrils protruding from their backside. Shamblers at first appear to have no mouth. However, their mouth is actually hidden under several layers of skin. These layers however, can still be breathed through. When eating, the skin will break and allow the monster to open its maw. This creature grows far larger than any human and is far more fearsome.

Shifters
Capable of blending in with normal humans. The Shifters have hair that often hangs over their faces, their skin pale but not the leathery white color. The Shifters do not make many changes bodily, which is why they are capable of blending in. However, when they find a group of humans, their mouth "waters" with a black grease. The same grease emits from theirs eyes and seeps through their scalp. This is often when the shift occurs, that people recognize them for what they are. They then attack.

Necrofts
Usually Necrofts are only formed from very strong humans. Humans that were formerly body builders or otherwise athletic, often make a shift from Eater to Necroft, a Necroft is a large Eater. Necrofts do not have eyes, but have incredible hearing and scent senses. Often they travel with other Eaters that will guide them in the direction they need to go by the sound of their shrieks.

Probes
These creature were created when flesh mixed with much of the Haven's lower level technology used in experiments. Probes are Eaters with metal appendages and attachments like robotic arms equipped with needles. They usually infect dead bodies with a certain elixir of the virus drafted from their own bloodstream. This elixir will potentially resurrect dead humans and mold them into other creatures.

Carrion
The creatures formed from dead bodies a Probe has prodded at. Usually Carrion will evolve into very horrid contortions. Their bones will morph into twisted weapons and their flesh will form into horrid tendrils and flagella. Usually these are the some of the most frightening of Eaters.

Lurkers
Lurkers only dwell in dark places. Rumored to be in the very depths of the Haven, nobody truly knows what ones looks like, only rumored that they are terrifying and beyond the horror of natural Eaters.

Slackjaws
Eaters with their jaw brought into contorted and horrendous fashions. Often some of the hungriest Eaters. Slackjaws travel in pairs or triples, an usually have more intelligence than the regular Eater.

Witches
Usually very skinny, tall creatures. Lacking a face. Though they have imprints where their eyes should be and have long spikes sprouting from their head. Their mission is not to eat, but to simply kill. They usually have an array of tendrils on their shoulders and upper back, their skin taking a grayish tint. Usually they emit streaks of blood from the tendrils on their shoulders. They are capable of emitting a type of energy that causes humans to phase out and become virtually disconnected with reality, and in a state of paralysis.

Scourges
These are simple masses of tendrils with a face a long tail which they use to navigate about. They are thought to be a variant of the Impalers. Scourges usually have only one eye, often the right one. They have no pupils an no irises. Only the sclera remains. They have stingers on the end of their tentacles. Colored red with white stripes.

Impalers
Nothing more than masses of tendrils. Usually colored white with black stripes. Impalers often strike their victims through the heart with their tentacles equipped with long spikes on the ends.

Consumers
Consumers, as their name suggests, consume everything. They are enormous, standing hunchback in an ape-like stance at about ten feet tall and massively muscular. They are very rare and often only seen in some of the deepest of Haven levels.

Screamers
Unlike normal Eaters, these are small and inhuman. Their head elongated and their eyes grown to enormous size, lacking irises and pupils and having a slightly lavender tint to them, their skin having a grayish color. Very thin, having tendrils along their backs that allow them to crawl into high places. They are capable of emitting a deafening scream.

Noxians
Unknown.

Blisters
Unknown.

Hounds
Unknown.

Takers
Unknown.

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Accepted Character

Darkel
Sophia Valentine

ViperaUnion
Gizmo

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The Haven

"The Haven is a sanctuary for those that Breathe. A stronghold for those whose lives have continued even through this new world. For without them, there would be no world." ---Sophia Valentine, Haven Broadcast.

The Haven is an enormous sanctuary for survivors in this apocalyptic world. It was built many decades ago due to rising fears that contagions or war would one say overwhelm the United States. It lied in a once government restricted area, but now that area is free for public to set foot in. The Haven itself is shaped like a nonagon. In total, there are 20 floors above ground. The rest go underground. However they spread out into large webs underground instead of retaining the nonagon shape. The outer rims of each floor are the living units, where people sleep. A large lobby is in the very center of each floor. These lobbies are also used as cafeterias while the large kitchen is just next door. Restrooms are pushed towards the living units and are scattered about. There are three medical stations on each floor and one armory, that is very well protected and kept under watch. There is one office in each floor that belongs to that floor's Advisor.

The leftover space is made up of rooms made to entertain and supply activities and living space for residents. Despite this, there are no video games or television anymore. All electricity is used to power the Haven's necessities. The generators are in some of the deeper levels, yet are still above the contaminated ones. Each floor also has a single prison station, just outside the Advisor's office, where people are placed for certain amounts of time after disobeying Haven rules. Sometimes these sentences can be quite long. Company is key to not going crazy in the Haven. Isolation is never good, especially underground.

The living units come in large mazes it seems. Pushed at the ridges of each floor are large blocks full of individual cells. These are small square rooms equipped only with necessities. A bed, dresser, and light. Mirrors and other "luxuries" are found in the restrooms.

The top floor is employee's only. That is also where the Warden often stays. A Warden is the current leading official in the entire Haven. They are ultimately in charge of everything. The current Warden is Sophia Valentine, who was passed the position after the death of her father. Below the Warden are the Advisors. Each floor is designated one Advisor who is in charge of that floor and keeping things in order. They report to the Warden.

Haven Rules

The Haven has several rules that are mandatory. If not followed, prison sentences apply. The Advisor ultimately judges how long imprisonment lasts, but the following are namable offenses:

- The Haven has a strict curfew. Nobody outside of living units after 10 PM.

- Any fights that occur between residents is punishable. The Advisor will judge.

- If a resident wastes food, water, or other materials, they will be punished.

- Lying to an Advisor or Warden is punishable.

- Anyone caught stealing is punished for long periods of time.

- Offenses as serious as murder are punishable by banishment.

Reserved

Are you telling me the entire world went to shit because the United States' National Guard fell apart?

That isn't even considering that the National Guard is simply a military branch and not an entity, and that the Guard is under the control of individual states (the governor of states being commander in chief). They're also used for supplementing the Army, if needed.

The RP is incredibly interesting, but Lieo does make a point that certain aspects of the story aren't exactly consistent with the way government works. There's also the fact that you would have to say it was Russia attacking us, or perhaps some sort of Communist Party, because the actual Soviet Union collapsed. If you said it was a sort of radical terrorist faction, that would probably reinforce the fact that they didn't care that their virus spread across the planet and pretty much pushed humans to the brink of extinction.

On a side note, I'm interested in this RP, and I might join, but I have doubts about how a regular human character has any chance of surviving an encounter with even the weakest of these Eater things. I don't want to make a long character sheet and have him/her die right off the bat. Can you put somewhere what people do when one of these things gets loose, or if there's some sort of defense program in place?

Yeah...like can these things die when shot?

Yes they die when shot.

And I never said that everything went down just because the National Guard went down. I just said they went down.

EDIT: and Lieo, please, chill.

Okay, so basically, there's still some sort of stability and order outside the facility, and people are just trapped in there and aren't permitted to leave?

Yeah, in a nutshell.

Darkel wrote:: And I never said that everything went down just because the National Guard went down. I just said they went down.

"After the downfall of the National Guard, much of the hope that many had clenched tightly had dissipated" suggests that the National Guard was what's keeping them back. Regardless of what you intended to convey, the phrasing of the sentence implied the NG was the last line of global defense. Just fixing up the syntax should help.

Darkel wrote:: EDIT: and Lieo, please, chill.

Clarify.

Alright I'll change it then.

And if you don't understand chilling, speak to your doctor. You may need special medicine.

No, I just don't see a reason to "chill". I gave you feedback. It's that simple. Get upset about it or learn from it, I don't really care.

I... wasn't upset.

Lieo wrote:: Are you telling me the entire world went to CENSORED because the United States' National Guard fell apart?

This just seemed a bit hyped up, to me. But it may not have been that way.

I'm still interested in the RP, but I wish you'd elaborate on how people deal with these things when they escape. Running can't be the only answer.

Darkel wrote:

I... wasn't upset.

Lieo wrote:: Are you telling me the entire world went to CENSORED because the United States' National Guard fell apart?

This just seemed a bit hyped up, to me. But it may not have been that way.

He didnt SAY you were upset about it. He said you can be upset about it or learn from it. Neither of which implied you did either.

And he didnt do anything wrong. I side with Lieo on this one. You've gotten jumpy since he pointed out a flaw in your RP. You fixed it. Let it go. He's not making a personal attack on you, which is how you're treating it.

Op, please, chill. I'm not treating it that way.

@Vipera: well shooting them is really how you kill them. They're are weak as a human when it comes to bullets.

Okay, so guns...alright, then, expect a sheet, at some point.

Excellent, Very Happy

Deleting my post. You must be so cool abusing your power.

I deleted it because I was afraid I would start a flame war if I responded and I wouldn't have just let it be, or it would have drove me crazy.

Then grow up. Mods are supposed to have thick skin. You should be embarrassed a little, but enough to annoy you THAT much? Abusing your power is what causes the loss of respect, and therefor isnt a correct choice of action.

Okay, here's my character. I did make a Bio, but I'm PMing it.

Basic Information

Name: Agatha Lenin
Alias: Gizmo
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Height: 5’2"
Weight: 102.1lbs.

Appearance

Hair Color: Pure White (Dyed)
Eye Color: Central Heterochromea ( deep blue around outer edge of iris, bright green in the center, and dark hazel-brown around the pupil)
Ethnicity: White

Physical Appearance: Gizmo is a very beautiful girl, and there is little that people can say to argue with that conclusion. Standing at 5’2”, she is slightly above the average female height, but is regardless, seldom considered to be tall. She does, however, often fool people, because she seems much more youthful than seventeen, often giving the impression of a fourteen-year-old, and most people attempting to guess her age believe she is at least one year younger than what she is, in reality. With skin so pale that it is compared to ivory or porcelain, it is clear that she has either never or seldom been exposed to sunlight. The marks on her arms and legs, however, indicate that she came from the outside world, and that her pale coloration is likely due to traveling at night, and the scars, from being bitten by swarms of insects, and getting cut by various things.

Gizmo has a round face with high cheekbones, but overall, her features are very soft and gentle, with a pleasant appearance. Her eyes are large and round, and possess genetic central heterochromea, or a natural discoloration in different parts of the eyes. In addition to the natural dark limbal rings on the outer edge of the iris (A black ring seen more often in young people), the outer edge of her iris begins as a deep shade of blue, before becoming an intense bright green around the mid-section, and then turns to a deep hazel-brown right around the pupil, almost having a kind of reddish tinge. This results in a beautiful ‘cat-eye’ effect. Gizmo’s straight hair is pure white, and it has a silky, soft texture, due to good care, but overall, the color is artificial, because her eyebrows are a dark black, and so are her long eyelashes.

Gizmo cuts her hair in a short, somewhat feathery bob with bangs swept off to the right side, largely to hide the long cut-like scar that is on the right side of her face next to the hairline, the result of an injury when she was younger. There is another, much larger scar on her lower back, to the left side of the spine, which looks as though it had been created by a very serious injury, although it has healed. How she got this large scar is unknown.

Attire: Gizmo wears black and denim, most of the time, not caring to deal with matching colors in a wardrobe, although she has some regard for her appearance. She most often wears a simple black short-sleeved shirt, along with a long-sleeve denim jacket over it to cover up her bug-eaten arms. She wears plain denim boot-cut jeans, and white running shoes with grey soles. She wears a pair of simple silver ball stud earrings that are small in size, and a silver ring on her middle finger on the right hand, with a medium-sized white opal set in the center, and six smaller ones, three to each side, running along the ring’s width. This ring seems to have some important value to her. Gizmo consistently carries on her person a black long-strap satchel purse that appears to be over-stuffed, draping the strap across her chest to rest on her right side.

Personality

Outward & Innate Personality: Gizmo is, for lack of a better description, kind-hearted with good intentions, but deeply scarred on a mental level. She seems to be prepared for just about any situation possible, carrying every manner of things or objects in her overstuffed, yet organized purse, ranging from simple things like pencils, pens, or markers, to things that are very far-fetched, like a mini sewing kit, a flashlight, a huge number of bandages and other first-aid supplies, and even what seems to be a sizable number of packaged nuts and dried fruit. There also appears to be a set of three knives in her purse, along with a stone for sharpening them. This in mind, Gizmo is very polite and friendly when first meeting people, if they need something, she will most likely have it, and allow you to borrow it, with the promise that whatever was borrowed would be returned, unless allowed to keep it. There are times, however, when Gizmo will seemingly shut down on an emotional level, and completely ignore friendly requests, perhaps in deep thought, although at times, she will seem almost hostile, and might even threaten someone. She may also, on occasion, seem to recall some terrifying memory and relive it, making her panic and seem greatly frightened

Certain things are known to act as ‘triggers’ whenever Gizmo’s generally nice personality changes to one that is abnormal, most likely a form of Post-Traumatic Stress. Whenever people mention those such as Gizmo’s real parents, who were killed by an Eater just before they reached sanctuary in the Haven, she immediately reacts as though she doesn’t want to hear any more, shutting down and covering her ears, because she often re-lives seeing them get caught. Her feeling towards Eaters themselves, though, is largely hateful and antagonistic. She distains the concept of any benefits that might be seen in the A-Virus that created them, and largely thinks that if it were possible, every Eater should be destroyed, and the virus completely eradicated. She does not believe there is such a cure, and is highly suspicious of anyone that works with the virus, or has anything to deal with it, overall.

These feelings set aside, if one sticks to more pleasant topics, Gizmo is a very pleasant person to be around, as she loves to do other people’s makeup, and draw. She is also very smart, and knows and retains information that others would normally forget. She seems to have a very deep affection for animals, and has retained her desire to study Big Animal Medicine, the study for treating illness in Cows, Pigs, Goats, and other farm animals, even though that possibility may no longer exist in Haven. She is interested in anything regarding agriculture, as well. Most people find her interests very clear and fascinating, but also somewhat sad, as she did not come from a farm, and farming may not be possible in Haven for her.

Hobbies/Interests: Big Animal Medicine, Proper care for Donkeys and Horses, Agriculture, Violin, Fishing, Art, and Science.

Skills/Talents: Gizmo doesn’t have any real experience with big animal medicine and farming, even though it is one of her interests. She is good at fishing, but it isn’t useful in Haven. She is, however, very good at playing the Violin, and she is very good at science and art. She also seems to have pretty good aim when throwing things, and fighting with a knife, suggesting she practices the skill for safety reasons (Hence the knives in her purse?)

Prized Possession: Her ring, which was given to her by her parents.
Quote(s): “Do you really want to know what I’ve been through?”

Other: Bloodsing

Accepted! Please repost this in the character storage thread I made. Thanks again, Very Happy

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