The 42-Line Authors

[SamuelT]

Premise:​

The end of mankind, the promised purge of all evil, came to the world on some unassuming Tuesday. Those who awoke on the 5th of March to find themselves in neither Heaven nor Hell, but instead on some kind of mirror-image planet earth, found that almost everyone they knew had vanished. There were no bodies, no blood stained walls and no evidence that any kind of holy presence had descended upon Earth. Over 99% of the population had up and seemingly taken on the form of air whilst the planets survivors had turned their heads or closed their eyes. Those who remained mourned, cried and then moved on. This new world of theirs would not run itself.

This was no new world, however. The streets hadn't changed, the air still tasted the same and the people still turned their head toward God in confusion. What handful of people remained on Earth failed to uphold society. Small riots exploded into existence across the world, refusing to believe that the world hadn't ended with so much as a bright light and a loud, booming voice. Those who had not lost their mind or turned to exploiting the weak were in few numbers.

That was three months ago. Now the chasm between the weak, the evil and the sane has widened. You are one of the few sane, neutral people that remains. Whether capable of evil or good, your actions in life did not permit you a place in either Heaven or Hell. Instead, your purgatory is Earth. You find yourself staring at the sky on another quiet night, having somehow found your way to the now desolate city of New York city. Maybe your eyes deceive you, but one star looks a little brighter than the others. In a world that still clings to hope, maybe following a star isn't such a silly idea.

Notes:​

This´ll be an RP which touches on a tender subject. We´ll expect adult and proper responses to arguments and statements made by your fellow players.

As much as that is expected of you, you´ll also have to be involved with the entire thing. Posts should be frequently and of good quality. Make you you're in a position to post frequently if you wish to join. The RP won't be very fast paced, but it's still very easy to get left behind

Players will have to start out separately, so not in the company of others. The introductory post will be you following the star to a point which all the other players will be at as well.

Obviously, trenchcoating and Mary Sue-ing is frowned upon. Character development is good, but too much of it in the first sentence of your post is overdoing it.

Spoiler: Done and done.

Name: Jack Michaelis
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Appearance:

• 6'1" tall.
  Red/Light maroon eyes
  Jet black slightly long hair
  Typically dresses in black trousers, coat and tie. Occasionally wearing a scarf.
  Hair is swept back from face.

Spoiler: Ryan Spencer

Name: Ryan Spencer
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Nationality: English
Appearance: Ryan is roughly 5'10" and quite thin, though not to the point of looking unhealthy. He has blue eyes and well kept, black hair which is just over average length. He wears a plain beige shirt, black trousers and a dark green hooded jacket. He also has a pair of thin-framed glasses, despite having near-perfect vision.

Spoiler: Character sheet

Name: Claire Murphey
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Appearance: 5'8'' and 145 lbs

Spoiler: Sparrow

Name: Mark Cosgrove
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Nationality: Dual English/American Citizen
Appearance: Unshaven, unkempt and generally untidy. Mark's grey, three-piece suit is the only thing that stops him from looking like some kind of street tramp. If he only shaved and un-ruffled his sandy coloured hair, his faint good looks would become apparent.

Spoiler: Here he is

Name: Jack Johnson
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Appearance: 5'7", thin-frame build (but in shape, considering what has occurred). Brown hair (cut a bit above the shoulder, and the bangs end above his eyes) and gray eyes. Tan skin, thanks to his need to be outside while heading north to what was (is?) New York City.

Spoiler: Paul 'The Bard' Langton

Name: Paul Langton
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Appearance:
-5"10'ft [approx. 1.8m]
-142 lbs. [approx. 64.4kg]
-Rather fit with a slightly lower than normal build. He is bit muscular and is not weak by most standards, probably from trips to the gym.
-Dirty blonde. Curly hair. Bangs even with eyebrows, back about even with earlobes.
-Green eyes
-Not quite pale but not quite tan

Paul's comfort clothing is a set of worn jeans with a slim zip up hoodie over a formal button-up shirt and tie. After graduating from college Pre-Med at Indiana University, he applied to the IU School of Medicine and was accepted. There, he participated in a lengthened course schedule which doubled his learning pace. This allowed him to achieve his the first two 'years' of schooling in about a year. When March 5th came around, he was in his third year of Med School and living in a small apartment in the Canal District of Indianapolis with his girlfriend, who he met the summer before his first year of Med School. Not much is known about her other than that she disappeared that morning. He is also known to be seen carrying around a very old pocket watch everywhere he goes.

Paul's medical abilities are that of a 3rd year Med School student. He is well versed in disease and knows how to treat many things, however he was in the middle of his first year of rotations for the actual experience of working with patients and treating them accordingly.

<spoiler=SamuelT>Name: Joshua Leijon
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Appearance: A worn looking man with old gashes running down his left cheek. The right side of his face, including the eye, is covered in bandages. He is clothed in a what-used-to-be-white-now-yellowish blouse and simple, tattered jeans, held up by a rope belt. He wears a backpack, carrying random tidbits and sometimes useful things.​

 

[i don't know]

Please reserve me. I wont be trolling here, never have, never will. And don't worry, like I always say, you could kick me out anytime.

 

[Cap'n Ninja]

Oh God I really want to take part in this, but I know I won't be able to stay with it. I'm away the whole of next week until late Friday, then the weekend after next, then I'm gone without an internet connection for two weeks from late July to the 10th of August, then again from the 20th to the 30th.

I'm going to write up a character, but unless you all want a character who's going to be pretty much a ball-and-chain, don't consider them as a serious character, they're really going to be a possible person for use in a later tale in my notebook, but now I'm just rambling to myself with no rhyme or reason. Except there wouldn't be rhyme in the first place, but I'm going to stop typing now.

Well, it might work, but I'm not sure if what I'm thinking would without a complex understanding of the method, not that it's complex but still...
Hmm, I'll get to work and then explain what I'm thinking.

Spoiler: Sheet - Liv Ward

Name: Olivia "Liv" Ward
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Nationality: English
Appearance: Liv has sandy-brown, wavy hair that reaches down to her shoulders, a thin, almost sallow face with high cheekbones and a small mouth that turns up slightly at the corners into a smile. She is roughly average height at 5'6, and is fairly skinny. She tends to wear slim fitting clothes in dark shades with canvas trainers.

 

[mParadox]

Reserve please. I'll get right on that sheet.

Spoiler: Done and done.

Name: Jack Michaelis
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Appearance:

• 6'1" tall.
  Red/Light maroon eyes
  Jet black slightly long hair
  Typically dresses in black trousers, coat and tie. Occasionally wearing a scarf.
  Hair is swept back from face.

 

[Norendithas]

This is too interesting to pass up.

Great premise by the way. =]

Spoiler: Paul 'The Bard' Langton

Name: Paul Langton
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Appearance:
-5"10'ft [approx. 1.8m]
-142 lbs. [approx. 64.4kg]
-Rather fit with a slightly lower than normal build. He is bit muscular and is not weak by most standards, probably from trips to the gym.
-Dirty blonde. Curly hair. Bangs even with eyebrows, back about even with earlobes.
-Green eyes
-Not quite pale but not quite tan

Paul's comfort clothing is a set of worn jeans with a slim zip up hoodie over a formal button-up shirt and tie. After graduating from college Pre-Med at Indiana University, he applied to the IU School of Medicine and was accepted. There, he participated in a lengthened course schedule which doubled his learning pace. This allowed him to achieve his the first two 'years' of schooling in about a year. When March 5th came around, he was in his third year of Med School and living in a small apartment in the Canal District of Indianapolis with his girlfriend, who he met the summer before his first year of Med School. Not much is known about her other than that she disappeared that morning. He is also known to be seen carrying around a very old pocket watch everywhere he goes.

Paul's medical abilities are that of a 3rd year Med School student. He is well versed in disease and knows how to treat many things, however he was in the middle of his first year of rotations for the actual experience of working with patients and treating them accordingly.

Finished.

EDIT: I added a bit.

 

[lewism247]

I will be posting my sheet ASAP.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Oooh this is too good to just let it slip by.

Spoiler: Character sheet

Name: Claire Murphey
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Appearance: 5'8'' and 145 lbs

 

[SamuelT]

So how many are you looking for?
Did i get in?

Take it easy man, still looking for players and waiting for the final people to respond to messages. Also topping off the last stages of planning, so it'll take another day.

And if you can give me proper motivation for characters having prior knowledge of one another I'd be happy to give that train of thought my blessing.

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

Would I be allowed to join as well? I have the character sheet completed, in any case.

Spoiler: Here he is

Name: Jack Johnson
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Appearance: 5'7", thin-frame build (but in shape, considering what has occurred). Brown hair (cut a bit above the shoulder, and the bangs end above his eyes) and gray eyes. Tan skin, thanks to his need to be outside while heading north to what was (is?) New York City.

 

[SamuelT]

Sorry

S'cool.

 

[Sparrow]

Spoiler: Sparrow

Name: Mark Cosgrove
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Nationality: Dual English/American Citizen
Appearance: Unshaven, unkempt and generally untidy. Mark's grey, three-piece suit is the only thing that stops him from looking like some kind of street tramp. If he only shaved and un-ruffled his sandy coloured hair, his faint good looks would become apparent.

I kept it short and sweet, like a pro. I hope this picks up a little bit more traffic bro.

 

[revolverwolf]

I'm actually sitting here going "Oh hey, should I join this thing?" because I really would like to. It would be a shame to miss something with potential, but it would also be a shame if I became the reason such an RP failed. Hmm...

Spoiler: Ryan Spencer

Name: Ryan Spencer
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Nationality: English
Appearance: Ryan is roughly 5'10" and quite thin, though not to the point of looking unhealthy. He has blue eyes and well kept, black hair which is just over average length. He wears a plain beige shirt, black trousers and a dark green hooded jacket. He also has a pair of thin-framed glasses, despite having near-perfect vision.

Might end up adding stuff or changing a few things, but I'm good enough with it right now.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I would like a reseve here.

Spoiler: Benny

Name: Benny Coen
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Nationality: Israeli
Appearance: 1.7 Meters, Fit but not muscular, Brown hair, Brown eyes.
Unshaved but cuts his hair with his knife about once every week.
Wears black trousers, army issued boots and an old T-Shirt with several tags sewed on from his time of service to remind him who he his and where he came from in this new world.

(EDIT)
His left sleeve is longer than his right one, reaching to his wrist. He wears several wrist watches on his right arm.
A travelling salesman after the event, he carries around a back-pack with various luxury items, making the most of encountering other travellers and trading for food or any other valuables he deems appropriate.

 

[LunaSocks]

@SamuelT: I'll probably get a sheet up later today. Is it possible you could reserve a spot for me for a small time period? Also, what is a recommended age for the characters? Because I'm assuming 16-18 is a fairly good enough age.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Can I get a reserve on this?
I'll try to get a sheet up as soon as I can.

 

[lewism247]

Here's my sheet, if anything needs to be added let me know.

Spoiler

Name: Andrew Sanders
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Nationality: Scottish
Appearance: Andrew stands at a nice height of 6?1?. He is quite gaunt with pale skin, in fact he looks ill. His hair is dirty blonde and shaped into a short Mohawk. His eyes are deep green. He normally wears old, black converse shoes, black, tight fitting jeans, a navy blue overcoat (reaches down to his knees) and a pair of black tinted sunglasses.