[DISCORD] Epidemic: A Cooperative Strategy/Adventure/RPG full of Zombies, Choices and Traveling!

[Residays]

This is a chat-game played in a Discord Server, playing sessions and information of items, enemies and more are found here: https://discord.gg/MTB85rt

Year 2014.
Our time is over... or well, it's not over for you, at least.
You remember that test Biotec at the US was doing? The one with animals? No? Oh... well lemme tell you something.
They spent all their cash on their experiments, all that, and none with their security... what a shame. What a real shame... they didn't really know what was getting to them.
It all backfired, they didn't realize some of their animals were missing. Or well, realized when it was too late. For our luck, their animal experiments were compatible with us, the humans.
So, you wanna know who's completely normal?
Well, you have that answer.

Epidemic is an unforgiving survival apocalyptic cooperative RPG set in an alternate fictional universe of our reality, with fictional locations such as Corpsington and Biotec. You are an average Survivor trying to recover lost hope, finding why this experiment accident happened, and filling the pages of the book.

On your way, you will find all kinds of things, be it some popcorn near the trash, a cool dude, or zombies that purposelly make dark humor.

Everything that happens is a matter of majority of choice, and shall I add, the game can be played with any amount of players. Active or inactive.

Instructions:

The game is simply played in a way as the host tells you what happens while you choose what to do, so playing it may require only 1 small line... or many, if you want to go into detail and roleplay with your fellow players. The game progresses once all currently playing players have submitted their actions.

Your character can move trough 3 areas per turn and relies on multiple stats:

Health: It's maximum is 20, this is what keeps your character alive. Having 0 means your character collapsing on the ground, and immobile (Unless a fellow player holds you on their back.)

Infection: It's maximum is 20, if you get hit by zombies, this will increase. Having it reaching it's maximum will give your character 5 turns of knowing they are infected, if infection is not treated in time, your character will be immobile for 1 turn, and after that, become one of the undead. You cannot shoot a fellow player, unless they have maximum infection, that is. (You will miss shots otherwise.)

Hunger: It's maximum is 20, Every turn increases it by 0.5 Having it at maximum will decrease your HP by 1 per turn, you will also receive the status Decayed.

Thirst: It's maximum is 20, Every area you move trough increases it by 0.25. Having it at maximum will decrease your HP by 1 per turn, you will also receive the status Slow.

Personality: Some game actions will increase this stat, such as killing an enemy by giving them more pain than necessary. With a max of 20, once it reaches 10 you will gain a trait that will help you depending on your actions, every 3 turns it decreases by 0.5 or 1 if it is 10 or higher, unless increased.

Your character is also capable of getting buffs and debuffs. Just so you know... Check out #db_global for that.

Items:

Your character has an inventory of 10 slots, some items are capable of using multiple slots. You can use any item at a time regardless of which you used last (Unless they have a deployment delay which will be specified in their values). You are also only capable of using 1 item per turn, and can only attack once per turn, too.

Some melee weapons are capable of doing a sneak attack, sneaks have a 5 turn cooldown after finished and leave you immobile while doing so, if you are not attacked while sneaking, the sneak will succeed. Sneaks can be done if you move from the direction your target last moved to them, which is simply moving from their back to them. Zombies can do a similar ability called grappling, and some weapons have other abilities, you can see channels under the Database category to know about their information, don't worry, you will not encounter them instantly, you can check each as you encounter them in-game and get to learn them.

Map:
Your character will always be in a textual map, which is represented with legends.

Example map:

[.A1][.A2]IIIII
IIIII[.A5][.A7]
[?A3][.A4][.A8]

Map Legends:

[.A1], [.A2]... - Movable areas, you can move there freely.
[=A1], [=A2]... - Moving here sends you to the same area, but in another map.

[&A1],[&A2]... - You cannot move here, the undead can, but you can shoot here! Not trough, though...
III - It's impossible to move here.
[$A1], [$A2]... - Areas with props, you cannot move through them, but you can shove them 2 areas away maximum.
[@A1], [@A2]... - Areas with planks or a riot shield, you cannot move through them but they can be attacked.
[!A1], [!A2]... - You can move through these, but you can't stay in them, getting stuck in there will leave you immobile until a fellow Survivor helps you reach the area they are in (1 Turn Delay).

[?A1], [?A2]... - Moving here expands the map. They require all players to go here first.
[>A1], [VA2]... One way areas, you can only move in the direction they point.
// \\ -- || - Connectors, simply made so the map is seen properly.

Joining:
Just submit these details along with a /join, or just /join and you will have defaults:

Name. (Default: Your username.)
Gender. (Male/Female/Ambiguous Only) (Default: Ambiguous.)
You can also add additional information such as appearance, age, backstory in the #db_players channel . This can ease Roleplaying/Communication with fellow players.

There are 10 players as of November 26, 2017:

Not From Klei Forums:
Polyester (Hoxton)
Swampy157 (Vanessa)
AntiSepticEye(heytheregirl13 or something) (Anti)
DJVoxel
npromin1 (Nicole)
KnightsOfCydonia (Roy)
Kek (Makarov)

Edeneric (Cromwell)

Hitmonleet (Joseph)

Unknown:
Tylordian (Tyler) (Possibly Klei Forums)

Last edited by Residays on November

[YouKnowWho]

I’m confused, but real interested. I’ll have to study this for a bit.

[Residays]

2 hours ago, Youknowwho said:

I’m confused, but real interested. I’ll have to study this for a bit.

 

Feel free to join the discord, I'm very active and I'll be glad to clear things up for you. It also has values of everything in there.

[Residays]

Updated instructions and player list.