Twenty Questions to help round out your character
- Where was your home?
- Who were your immediate family?
- Who were your friends?
- Do you have a good/bad habit?
- What did you do for work?
- How did you get to the haven?
- Who did you lose along the way?
- How did the other PC become your anchor?
- How did the NPC become your anchor?
- How did you come by the first piece of equipment?
- How did you come by the second piece of equipment?
- How did you come by the third piece of equipment?
- Explain why your character's attributes best and worst attributes!
- Explain your drive!
- Expand on your issue!
- Expand on your talent!
- Using your skills, think about how you learned them as a person.
- What does your group call the walkers?
- What does your character think about the apocalyptic event and what they will do after it ends?
- What does the haven mean for you?
Introduction to Walking Dead
It has been 18 months since the world went to shit. You could ask yourself what exactly happened and how a civilization could come to an end, and that would probably result in a long tale of struggle for survival, limited food, and seeing the dead come to life. But all survivors know that it all began with a virus.
The virus started spreading at the turn of the decade around the early 2010s and is accepted by almost everyone you meet. During the months leading up to the authorities’ public acknowledgment of the aptly named “Wildfire Virus,” the warning signs had started to show. News broadcasts were alerting the public of cases of people with flu-like symptoms violently attacking others. And this was not a localized matter. There were reports from all over the globe and at an accelerating and alarming rate. By the time a pandemic was declared, the new reality was already common knowledge: Dead people were coming back to life and with a desire to devour the living.
Widespread chaos and panic ensued – hospitals quickly became overwhelmed; people abandoned their jobs to lock themselves in bunkers or seek refuge outside the cities, leading to a swift breakdown in public services; there was mass hoarding and looting of survival essentials, soon followed by escalating violence and rioting. Most city areas saw massive gridlocks form as a result of people fleeing from danger, gridlocks that became permanent as vehicles were abandoned.
Governments, law enforcement, and the military tried to bring order to chaos in various ways; in some places, they managed to establish safe zones – barricaded camps for civilians. It's not known how many had lasted but what was known, was that some of these outposts did not last.
What was shocking were the stories. The stories of the U.S. military enacting a sunset protocol – which resulted in a widespread bombing of major infected areas and city centers in a futile effort to contain the growing undead menace. In the end, the Wildfire virus could not be contained, nor could the proliferation of its victims who would become its perpetrators, swarming the world in the single-minded pursuit of living flesh.
The group you are in now didn't all come together at once. Most of you met on the road, trying to escape some turmoil or the dead. Each of you has a story to tell, some of you already have been in other groups or traveling to seek missing loved ones or escaping just to survive, all having found each other on the roads of Virginia.
The virus started spreading at the turn of the decade around the early 2010s and is accepted by almost everyone you meet. During the months leading up to the authorities’ public acknowledgment of the aptly named “Wildfire Virus,” the warning signs had started to show. News broadcasts were alerting the public of cases of people with flu-like symptoms violently attacking others. And this was not a localized matter. There were reports from all over the globe and at an accelerating and alarming rate. By the time a pandemic was declared, the new reality was already common knowledge: Dead people were coming back to life and with a desire to devour the living.
Widespread chaos and panic ensued – hospitals quickly became overwhelmed; people abandoned their jobs to lock themselves in bunkers or seek refuge outside the cities, leading to a swift breakdown in public services; there was mass hoarding and looting of survival essentials, soon followed by escalating violence and rioting. Most city areas saw massive gridlocks form as a result of people fleeing from danger, gridlocks that became permanent as vehicles were abandoned.
Governments, law enforcement, and the military tried to bring order to chaos in various ways; in some places, they managed to establish safe zones – barricaded camps for civilians. It's not known how many had lasted but what was known, was that some of these outposts did not last.
What was shocking were the stories. The stories of the U.S. military enacting a sunset protocol – which resulted in a widespread bombing of major infected areas and city centers in a futile effort to contain the growing undead menace. In the end, the Wildfire virus could not be contained, nor could the proliferation of its victims who would become its perpetrators, swarming the world in the single-minded pursuit of living flesh.
The group you are in now didn't all come together at once. Most of you met on the road, trying to escape some turmoil or the dead. Each of you has a story to tell, some of you already have been in other groups or traveling to seek missing loved ones or escaping just to survive, all having found each other on the roads of Virginia.