ZOMBIE FORUMS

Finals are approaching, and I have a lot of shit to do this weekend, so I might not be able to start this thing up for another week or two. Just thought I'd let everyone know.

Fair enough. Word on the serious time conflicts for the next few weeks. And I want to tweak my character a bit from the way I originally posted it to better reflect what I was actually thinking... sleep dep makes it hard to convey what you mean. -_-;; May try to do so later this weekend (much later); we'll see.

[shameless_plug]BTW, anyone interested in playing a telepathic type and devising some ebil interplay between your character and Lati?[/shameless_plug]

Vital Statistics:
Name: Chaos (this is not his real name, but he has killed people who have not called him this)
Real Name: David Willows
Age: early-20's
H/W: 5'11", 180lb
Hair: Blond hair, clean shaven. (he insists on this, and it is one of our bargaining chips to keep him under control)
Eyes: Deep blue. Wild look in them.
Build: Wiry. Not much muscle mass, which makes him easy to physically handle.

Power: Chaos has two aspects of power as far as we can see. The first is an ability to "see" things. We have done tests and it seems that he has absolute knowledge of what goes on around him for 40 ft. One nurse had quite a surprise when Chaos informed her that her unborn child was going to be a beautiful little girl. At the time, the nurse had no idea she was pregnant. On that note, the second aspect of his power is what makes him so valuable. He is a jack-of-all-parra-trades. He has tested positive for empathy, telepathy, telekinesis, heat manipulation, electro-manipulation, and test results are still coming in. Luckily, each of these abilities are extreamy limited, which makes him containable, but not less dangerous, as the late Dr. Freehan found out. Chaos has learned to use his skills creatively. One such discovery was that the human brain is very susceptible to change, usually resulting in death. Note: while this makes him an effective assassin, this cannot work for mass genocide. Killing a person seems to drain him. The moe he kills in a short period of time, the more dioriented he gets. If Chaos can be cured he would be invaluable in the treatment of other patients, as his telepathic/empathic abilities are quite effective, if weak and would be able to keep numerous other patient subdued.

Problems: Chaos has little emotional control, his own set of morals that are in no way based on Christian morals, and his thought processes seem to be erratic. Chaos refuses to listen to reason. He would be usable in the war if it wasn't for the last problem. He hates taking orders. Even if he takes orders, he cannot be trusted to follow them. Medication seems to help, a little. We are happy to say however, that we are making progress. He is much more tolerable now then he was when he first came here. We expect to have him "cured" in a years time, if we apply ourselves.

Security and treatment: Under no circumstances is there to other patients within Chaos' range. Keep the amount of staff in his range to a minimum. He has realised that killing the staff will only result in the loss of food privileges. He seems to react well to the reward system, unfortunately we have not seen too many things that entices him in terms of a reward. The game we play now is obvious on both ends. Chaos is using us to increase his knowledge and power. We are trying to "cure" him. He fights treatment in order to stop becoming a "sheep" as he calls it, and we fight him in becoming to strong. We have to compromise. He behaves and doesn't kill staff member in order to be fed. He cooperates with testing in order to read about biology (note, he knows a lot about that subject as it is, due to being able to see every person's insides). He wants access to electrical books, but we refuse that, based on his electro-kinetic abilities. A spark in the right place could diable most of our security system. Right now he might be able t fry a computer, with knowledge he could pick electrical locks. In the end, however, we hold all of the cards. He gets nothing that we don't let him get. He learns nothing that we don't know about. We control all of the variables. And that makes him powerless against us. That is how we psychologically control him. In terms of physical confinement, a key card is needed in order to gain access to him rooms. There is a double locking system in place and voice authorisation is needed to exit. The double locking system is in place to avoid letting Chaos rush people as they open the door. All other normal security measures are taken (cameras etc.) Always remember, we hold the key to his life and comfort, and he holds nothing.

OOC: As this is a doctor's POV, this isn't 100 correct. Chaos works by his own rules but is rather sane. Apo and him will get along nicely, as will Lati. One thing that the doctor's don't know is that Chaos' has expanded his range to 60 ft, and is not watching a cell that holds a titanium ball. (good enough for you Yev?) I know this guy is powerful, I am more interested in his personality then anything else, and I will not powerplay him too much. Just for the escape.

EDIT: I added a limitation. Again note. I had this one planed. While my character's look powerful, I am not into Godmoding. I add limitations into my characters, even if I don't state them.

I had an idea for this, wich since I'm bored I might as well share. I was thinking of having sisters, The older one a pre-cognition medium the younger a post-cognition. Pre-cognition is the ability to see the future. Post-cognition is the ability to see the past. I would have both sisters be able to sense through their hands, the older would feel everything that happen in the place she touched in the past, the younger everything that will happen in the future. To show these differences the lines on their hands would be exactly oppisite. The problem is they would only sense the most powerfull emotions, the strongest memories, most violent and grusome. This would cause them to wear gloves, so as to keep from expiriencing these horrible images. These would be quite usefull abilities, to see both past and future, if it hadn't driven them insane. They refuse to EVER remove their gloves, and usually go histerical when they are forced to. And they have never held hands, not since what happened last time. You see when pre-cognition and post-cognition interact, things dont end well. Just think about it... all of the past and future, all of time and space, all of existence, coursing through your hands and before your eyes. That was the final straw, the last leap into madness. Neither have spoken since.

Sounds good.

Go for it and write up a full profile (discription and all that)

Nah, im sticking with Guy. I wanna see them involved somehow, but I'm not taking a personal hand in their creation, this as far as I go. But I encourage anybody who wants to to use them.

I must admit, I only flicked my eyes over the description. But sisters with pre-cognitive abilities, with one specifically for the past, and one for the future?

The Norns - 1.

Seriously though, i'm looking for anybody to use them, just ask and they are yours.

Ok, gents, and ladies, and yevaud.

My long awaited character:

Skinner Sanitarium Patient Assessment Records

Doctor Smith, Attending Practicioner.

Name: Harry Walker

Age: 19

Ht: 5'9"

Wt: 150#

Hair: Red

Eyes: Blue

Personal Information:

The origins of the patient known to us as Harry Walker are unknown before the age of 16, except perhaps to himself, however, the near-impossiblity of obtaining a straight answer from him on anything precludes deriving anything of value about that from him.

For quite some time he wandered through India, Nepal, and southeast asia as a holy manof sorts. He was considered by many Buddists to have acheived enlightenment.

We ignored reports of his miracles and such for quite some time, thinking them to be the work of a clever charlatan. In the fall of last year an agent on another investgation (CR - 17499200) observed him escape a crowd of enraged muslims by first running horizontally along a wall, then running straight up the side of a 5 story building and executing a running broad jump of no less than 500 yards, landing safely at a dead run out of town. Our agent was nearly killed tring to follow on his motorcycle. (Note: not due to any violence on the part of patient Walker, Agent Brown is just an adrenaline freak)

When agent Brown caught up with the at-large Paranormal, he convinced him to travel to the United States to help mentally ill people find enlightenment. Patient Walker readily agreed.

(Note: Walker speaks Englsh, and has a birth certificate on file in the United States. How he got to Aisa remans a mystery.)

His paranormal abilities seem to stem from an ability to bend natural laws, as if reality has as tenuous a hold on him as he has on it. He has been observed to lessen or cancel the effects of gravity and inertia, as they affect him. He has walked through walls as if they were made of silly putty without leaving any lasting effect on them. He also seems to have the ability to sense others' emotional states.

Despite incredible potential of his powers, I consider him our least dangerous patient. His mental illness allows him to experience the real world only in a vaugue blurry way. The entire focus of his existence is one of enlightenment and spirituality. He is nearly a pacifist, totally non-agressive, he is a calming influence to the other patients and even to my staff. Because of this, and the fact that the only way to hold him in a cell is with heavy medication, I have awarded him a sort of trustee status, he is free to walk the medium and low security areas of the facility and speak to the patients, while performing some menial tasks, (such as seving meals).

Should be interesting to see how Andy and Walker react. Would Walker have a calming effect on him, or would his anger be unaffected? If the effect does work, this may be a potential way to keep Andy under control so that he won't attack the others.

Hmmm... I was going to write a faux-Encyclopedia Britannica entry to explain all this, but... I'm lazy. So instead, I'll just post this IM log to explain the exact nature of the alien force we're dealing with, as well as the paras.

IcyMonkey: These aren't exactly aliens.
IcyMonkey: Actually, it's not exactly life.
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IcyMonkey: scientists have given it the name "logomorph"
IcyMonkey: It all started in the 1970's
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IcyMonkey: Viking probe
IcyMonkey: sent to mars
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IcyMonkey: where it discovers a very strange crystal formation
IcyMonkey: there is... a dynamic, complex pattern in the crystallization of this particular mineral
IcyMonkey: which seems to originate from somewhere outside the solar system
IcyMonkey: Then the probe notices some very strange microbes growing nearby the crystal
IcyMonkey: Their rate of division, rate of mutation, the specific genes that mutate... all of it seems to follow a kind of dynamic pattern
IcyMonkey: that changes with changes in the environment
IcyMonkey: further experiments nwould reveal that, even if the colony is divided so that one half cannot possibly communicate with the other, they seem to still form a unified system
IcyMonkey: So it's like some kind of bizarre telepathy/telekinesis thing going on
Kitsune1527: . . . ooh, freaky science, always makes RPing fun.
IcyMonkey: Whatever the system is, it seems to be taking advantage of some kind of bizarre field as yet undiscovered
IcyMonkey: Then, it turns out that the microbes originated FORM THE VIKING PROBE ITSELF
IcyMonkey: it hadn't been entirely disinfected before launch
IcyMonkey: So, these are normal earth bacteria
IcyMonkey: It seems as if their contact with the crystal had... transferred some sort of informational organization onto them
Kitsune1527: . . . Yikes.
IcyMonkey: It's at about this point that the Viking probe stops responding to Earth and, on its own, flies to Europa, where it stays.
IcyMonkey: A manned expedition to Mars is sent out.
Kitsune1527: . . .
IcyMonkey: approx. 1980 or so.
IcyMonkey: maybe 1985.
Kitsune1527: Okay . . .
IcyMonkey: Well, this is freaky shit... The main reason we haven't been to Mars yet is that we haven't had the motivation
IcyMonkey: Anyway, the expedition lands
IcyMonkey: starts studying the crystals and the microbes
IcyMonkey: then, bizarre things start happening
IcyMonkey: equipment on the shuttle does... strange things
IcyMonkey: people start acting in abnormal ways
Kitsune1527: Like how?
IcyMonkey: Well, they say and do things that they later don't know why they said and did
IcyMonkey: certain of the scientsists fall in love
IcyMonkey: even though there was no connection between them before
IcyMonkey: as a matter of fact, a child is conceived on this trip
Kitsune1527: Ah.
IcyMonkey: which is mad's char
Kitsune1527: Oh.
IcyMonkey: So, then they disobey earth and fly back
IcyMonkey: Driven by a force they cannot understand
IcyMonkey: they crash the shuttle into earth
IcyMonkey: escaping via pods at the last mintue
IcyMonkey: This is a hugely momentous event
IcyMonkey: Because after the shuttle impact, everything on earth goes INSANE.
IcyMonkey: All known paras, besides mad's character, were born at or after this impact.
Kitsune1527: . . .
Kitsune1527: Okay.
IcyMonkey: meanwhile, the laws of probability seem to be lifted
IcyMonkey: bizarre weather events
IcyMonkey: many unlikely coincidences
Kitsune1527: Reminds me a bit of the backstory to Scryed, but since you've never seen that I'll assume it's just parallel processing.
IcyMonkey: mmm
Kitsune1527: *progress
IcyMonkey: Technologically, humanity progresses at an insanely fast rate
IcyMonkey: Culturally, human beings seem to be getting, on the whole, more conscious
Kitsune1527: Anyway, I have to go watch a movie with my family now.
IcyMonkey: waitasec
IcyMonkey: I haven't gopt to the war
Kitsune1527: . . . war?
IcyMonkey: see, back to the viking probe on europa
IcyMonkey: Some of the microbes that it took with it
IcyMonkey: over the course of several decades
IcyMonkey: rapidly evolved into these strange slug creatures
IcyMonkey: in a process that seemed... guided
IcyMonkey: The slug creatures attack earth's colonies on mars
IcyMonkey: and this is the start of the war.
Kitsune1527: Okay.
IcyMonkey: It is believed that this is all caused by a strange form of life, if you can even call it that.... one whose consciousness operates by emerging from the operation of compex systems
IcyMonkey: which it commandeers
Kitsune1527: Okay.
IcyMonkey: It is believed that Earth has now become a part of this system
Kitsune1527: I see.
IcyMonkey: and the paras are somehow related to all this
IcyMonkey: so that's my idea anyway
Kitsune1527: That makes sense.
IcyMonkey: ok
Kitsune1527: Well, gotta go.
IcyMonkey: but then, why is the consciousness warring with itself?
IcyMonkey: okay, bye.
Kitsune1527: See ya.
Kitsune1527 signed off at 6:49:48 PM.

I had an idead, a reason to use the medium sisters. If the sanitarium had 2 heavely drugge mediums, holding hands and telling them of everything that will happen, how could anybody escape? Now lets say that the mediums manage to reason beyond the drugs, and try to find a way to escape. They cant eescape themselves, for they are weak, but if they get one of the mind reading paras to read the righ thoughts at the right time, they could devise a plan to free themselves. Any plan of escape while they are still captive would fail, since they would warn the staff to make the staff believe they are still under control.

You better believe I'm too lazy to proofread. :)

Notes of Doctor Reginald Smith

SKINNER SANITARIUM PATIENT #000153

Name: Unknown

Alias: "Samael"

Age: Unknown, presumed between 17 and 19

Physical Appearance: The patient who calls himself Samael is six feet in height and, compared to most of our patients, well-built. He has long silver hair, and his eyes contain only a very small tinge of blue. Currently, he weighs 174 lbs. His chest is tattooed with scars, presumably self-inflicted, that he claims to be religious symbols of some sort. From all our tests, it appears that the patient is extremely agile and quite strong.

Powers: While we have performed hundreds of experiments and sacrificed numerous individuals, three billion dollars in advanced robotics, and seven talents in the process, we know relatively little about Samael's power except for the obvious: he is able to possess a sentient being. He holds two fingers up to the victim's eyes (he seems to be ambidextrous in this respect, although he seems to be right-handed normally) and immediately vanishes. With that, he seizes control of the host's body. He has no direct connection to the host's mind, as far as we can determine, although experiments have shown that he is able to utilize any talent that the host may have. The effect that this possession has on the host is traumatic, to say the least. A host will usually suffer no permanent damage if Samael has controlled the individual for less than 24 hours. After this point, some form of severe mental illness is almost assured, usually extremely violent in nature. However, the state of the host's consciousness has no effect on Samael's ability to inhabit the victim. We have seen Samael emerge from a host after a period of two weeks and appear exactly as he did when he entered our facility. The host's psyche seems to have some sort of regenerative effect for some wounds, although it is not effective on others. It is also impossible to determine whether Samael has taken control of an individual through any normal means; all attempts to find such a way have failed repeatedly. Telepaths, on the other hand, have been able to determine if a host is possessed, although they must have recently read the host before Samael took control. Through some means, Samael exits a victim at will and appears within the range of vision of the host, usually only a few feet away; however, he has manifested up to ten feet away, and we cannot be sure that he is unable to manifest farther. He will leave a host immediately upon the death of the host, although we are unable to determine if it is a function of his power or conscious effort. Also, it seems that Samael's power is not limited to humans. In one of our many experiments with the patient, we sent a prototype android with a sentient artificial intelligence onboard into the same room as Samael. Immediately, Samael took over the android as easily as he did a human. Instead of the eyes, Samael seemed directed towards the main processor on the robot. Our monitors onboard the android showed no changes in the robot's function or AI patterns; however, once Samael left the host two days later, the AI showed the trademark signs of advanced stage two rampancy and was immediately deactivated.

Background: Nothing is known of Samael's past before 1999. On April 3, 1999, in New York City, a stockbroker was murdered in his penthouse apartment. His blood was used to draw a pentagram around him, and his heart was removed. Physical evidence pointed to the victim's wife, who was found a week later, totally incoherent and rather violent. However, three weeks later, a second murder mimicked the first perfectly, except it pointed to a different perpetrator . Once again, when the supposed killer was found, he was determined to be completely insane and is, to this day, still incarcerated in a secure mental facility. The killings continued in this fashion until 2002, when another killing was interrupted by a sizable police force, coincidentally at the same location for a drug bust of some sort. The killer refused to speak and was incarcerated in a secure mental facility like the other killers. Three days after his capture, a security camera captured images of Samael leaving the killer and reentering his body. At this point, officials from the Sanitorium were sent to bring the man to our facility for closer supervision. Before our officials could arrive, however, Samael left the man once again and killed him (security officers at the other facility were specifically instructed not to enter a room with Samael under any circumstances). The patient was then subdued with knockout gas and transferred here. Since that time, I have overseen hundreds of experiments on the patient.

Personality: Samael seems to be extremely intelligent. However, he belives that he is an angel who must take the lives of those he perceives as evil in addition to enlightening the less evil (those whom he possesses) in order to regain his standing with God. He can be very charming one moment and remarkably violent the next. He is utterly ruthless; to him, nothing should stand in the way of his goal, and he will take every effort to rectify a problem. I have not diagnosed Samael with any particular disorder; if I were to do that, releasing the patient would be required were he to be somehow cured. His worth makes that inexcusable.

Containment: Samael is kept in a smaller separate wing of the facility. He is totally isolated from any sort of contact save that we give him in order to test his power. The entire wing is fitted with both knockout and nerve gas canisters to subdue the patient if he is capable of escaping and to prevent him from leaving completely if escape seems inevitable.

Comments: In my opinion, Samael is, by far, the most dangerous inmate at Skinner Sanitorium. He could be the perfect weapon if individuals with questionable motives were to acquire him and manage to control him. However, the threat he poses is outweighed by his promise. If we were to control him, he could be the silver bullet in the War; he could, in theory, possess the logomorph itself and destroy it. Because of his promise, I have more invested in him than I do any other patient; he is my pet project, if you will. However, if he were to near escape at the present time, it might be better if the facility and all its patients were to be destroyed than have him loose in the world. While he was simply a murderer before, his intelligence might lead him to attempt something grander, such as the possession of a high-ranking official and causing some sort of international incident.

<table style"font-size: 3pt;"><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Skinner Sanitarium Report #396212:</b></td></tr><tr height="10"><td colspan="3" height="10"></td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Skinner Sanitarium Patient Number:</b></td><td>000392</td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Name:</b></td><td>Brian Ridley</td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Alias:</b></td><td>Bronson</td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Age:</b></td><td>Indeterminate</td></tr><tr height="10"><td colspan="3" height="10"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Current Physical Statistics (Subject to change due to the nature of this talent)</b></td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Height:</b></td><td>6'3"</td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Weight:</b></td><td>250pounds</td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Hair:</b></td><td>Strawberry Blonde</td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td><b>Eyes:</b></td><td>Blue/Grey</td></tr><tr height="10"><td colspan="3" height="10"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Biography:</b></td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td colspan="2">Little is known about Bronson's past; thus far we are yet to locate anybody who has had any contact with him before the event that brought his unique talent to our knowledge. The patient himself has given us no indication about his past, indeed if he has a past at all. To all intents and purposes he has the psyche and morality of a young child and as such he has a minimal concept of the effects of his actions, he simply acts on impulse, often with disastrous effects.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" height="10"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Abilities:</b></td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td colspan="2">Bronson exhibits the ability to dynamically manifest his emotions. <p>In effect this means that if he is under any form of emotional stress the area around him changes, in effect he has total control over (but not limited to) any inanimate objects within his immediate surroundings. These manifestations can be minimal, and almost un-noticeable or dramatic and horrific. For example if he is in a situation he cannot deal with then he might manifest a hole in a wall to escape. If he's joyful the world may be changed into a world of color, shapes and pink fluffy animals. However this ability is most prominent when angered; Walls drip with blood and fecal matter, objects spontaneously burst into flames and he warps the very ground you walk on.<p>Furthermore any changes he makes are permenet (they can be undone by conventional means but will not revert without outside intervention to that end.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" height="10"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Method of restraint:</b></td></tr><tr><td width="30"></td><td colspan="2">Simple sedation is not enough; he has to be maintained in a state of unconsciousness without dreams lest the dreams themselves become the catalyt of manifestations.</td></tr></table>

Okay, we're probably going to start the RP fairly soon. (The first post will be by either Clay or myself.) Before we do, however, any questions? Specifically, about the background info I provided via my conversation with Kit? I'm not sure I explained it adequately.

How soon is soon? (Before this weekend, during this weekend, after this weekend? I thought you had finals coming up. ['Course, that's just all the more reason to procrastinate, I suppose. ] ) I ask mainly because I do want to post a slight revision/clarification as I had mentioned before, and I also wanted to talk to a couple of people regarding possible shared histories, and I'll want to get that done before we start.

The only question I still have about the background info is how much of that is generally known by the public. (i.e., If you posted the objective, God's-eye view of the reality in which the story will be taking place, how much [if any] of it is common knowledge that might be taken into account by our characters and/or the people we meet?)

So, has everyone made the flurry of PMs needed to ensure your escape?

I think the current plan is that Icy, Clay and I are starting off the escape, and freeing more.

Just take my gag off, and the dementia creatures will handle the rest...

Jaden may just tag along until they get to somewhere with glass...the others may not even know about his power, or who he is.

Jaden would have been big news 30-25 years ago, when he was born from the two astronauts, and then when his powers surfaced...but then, he would have faded from news as more paras started appearing, and that was a long time ago, the face of a five year old boy can change a lot into a 30 year old man.

Jaden would have had little to do with the patients, and less to do with the staff, probably often being confined to solitary

Cool, but I think it would only be fair for every9one to have some "fun" so the dementia creatures will have to be contained and controled...

no killing eveyone, Chaos needs his "playmates"