Left 4 Dead: Development Thread

[Code Red]

4 Survivors, Millions of Zombies.

We are going to need a lot more zombies.

This is the thread to develop the story and to find those who would like to join.

Once we get a solid story going, I'll put up a char sheet.

So, anyone interested? Pitch in some ideas.

[Drekea]

Idea! atleast one of them is black, and one is a woman.. the survivers i mean

[Code Red]

The character I will put in will be dragonian, so that resolves that issue. We need story ideas here, do you have any?

[Spartan]

I want to join and have an idea for this.

Ok we are survivors and we are going from place to place trying to find other survivors.But we start out all alone each person by themselves and we run into each other in a safe house.

I know it is short but it is a general idea unless you have something already.

[Blodh Eldrvarya Gata]

So...how do you roleplay this? You shoot things up? Do some people roleplay the zombies?

[Code Red]

I like that Idea. That gives the players a chance to develop character.

(I'm joining as my fursona. Is that alright with yall?)

[Blodh Eldrvarya Gata]

Okay, this is getting pretty cool, but I probably won't join...Needs character sheets though.

[Spartan]

No character sheets until we have a definite plot and storyline along with enough players.But I am definitely in I love this game.

[Blodh Eldrvarya Gata]

Yeah, I bet lots of people in the DRW will join this...Shurt your idea was AMAZING when you made DRW. Code, I will probably join when this gets more attention.

[Spartan]

I have to give part of the credit to Mindrop or well most of it.I had the idea he made most of the story.Haha!

[Code Red]

So...how do you roleplay this? You shoot things up? Do some people roleplay the zombies?

The Zombies are NPCS. Controlled by the players. The players will have to be attacked every now and again by hordes, Tanks, Witches, and other Special infected. All are NPCs.

The players tell their story like normal. There will be some shooting, but we are going for a more storytelling feel to it. The epic battles for example, will need to have the personal thoughts of the survivors rushing throughout their heads, as well as any action that is needed.

[Night Angel Kage]

Actually i kind of like this. Now instead of saying you guys like it lets add to it because so far this is nothing but "this is an awesome idea" and that's kinda spamish so lets brainstorm. I like the idea of zombies and such but what about how the zombies and things came about?

[Drekea]

this is an awesome idea

but any ways where would this be set? or do you want our ideas?

[killerofshades]

Deffenatly in IOWA, it has the highest percent of living o my zombie scale.

[Drekea]

you have a Zombie Scale? care to elaborate?

[Vervada]

I think at this point it's more important what the story is about. Or at least I think so.
Okay, so far we got this:
Here comes the story about how zombies came to be and how everyone got killed, etc. Right?
Than:
Everyone participating starts in a certain village/town/country/whatever other place. If there will be a character sheet he describes his character there(and his/her history), if not than just in mid of the story.
Than (let's say we have player 1, player 2, player 3,....) at some point as player one goes on doing his/her stuff he meets player 2 somewhere in the road, something happens (insert paranoia, shooting at each other 'till they find out both of them are not-zombies) and after that they decide to travel together f+to find any other survivors. And somewhere in other part of land/ just somewhere else there could be both player 3 and player 4 starting of together if they'd want (let's say someone would want to have brother/brother or any other kind of relationship including friend/firend, etc.) and they'd just decide to move somewhere safer and at another main point those four would meet (and celebrate and all). Than they'd decide to find why zombies came to the land in the first place (if they wouldn't know already) and than they'd want to find out if there's a cure to it (to cure all infected ones, obviously) and if there would be more people joining a little bit later(not from the start) they could join in here.
Well after this obviously the group searches for the cure and here comes the twist; there is an event that randomly mixes them into groups of two/three or leaves them on their own,and being unable to find each other after a week some decide to do this other that and so on. I think it'd require lot of teamwork, but at this point a person could be just trying to find his/her girlfriend/boyfriend/or even a dog out of being lonely and than on accident he/she would find something important (like some abandoned research about zombies, etc.) and after this the person would store those papers and would try to find the others.
At the same time another group could decide to find some lab (someone from a group was a friendof a scientist therefor she(he knows where the lab is) where there were some prototype cures and well they'd go together to that place, find it infected with zobies (and i mean a lot). After getting rid of them they'd finally find the right room but most of the prototypes were destroyed (only two or so stayed) and the recipe for it was half-burned. They'd decide to take everything that seemed important ( together with some sleeping shots for easier zombie-killing or some such). They'd try to find everyone else at that point.
(important is that while doing everything of this, everyone would have their stories mixed up on it so the story can change...I'm just trying to help lol)
Basicaly X different stories would happen simultaneously and if you like it I can come up with more of this stuff. If you don't like it you can use it as a back up or just to get some inspiration for yourself (and at the same time for everyone who'll join).

[killerofshades]

A scale that takes factors of population, number of guns/ammo, growable/readily to get to supplies, and places to hide/run. Northeast Iowa has the best of these, low pop, high other parts.

[Drekea]

ah, interesting... and kind of scary makes me not want to visit NE Iowa

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