Background:
It's an average Friday afternoon, with school over for the weekend and people on their way home from work. One minute, you are living out yet another day of your life. The next, your ears go deaf from the insatiable howling that assaults you from all directions, and as the earth seems to split around you, any glass nearby shattering, the ground under your feet shudders with vibrations strong enough to tear a home into pieces. You expect nothing less than the end of days, yet you do not die and the sound does not cease and now you're huddled somewhere, petrified of the unknown cataclysm that has suddenly snatched the reality you have always known out of your hands. Then, the ash begins to fall.
Days later and you are trapped in an endless night of ash choking out the sun. Every crevice that has not been sealed is overflowing with dust and you cannot see past your elbow if you attempt to brave the outoors. And oh that noise, it hasn't faded. Your ears are stuffed with whatever substance you found suitable enough, and yet you still can hear it, as present as if someone was screaming at your face.
Maybe a week later, maybe more, you can finally see. It isn't much, but now you can see what the ash has done. It smothers the sky, suffocating the landscape. You could vaguely discern your neighbor's house and how the roof had caved in. There are no signs of life as far as you can tell, and the noise has lowered to an occasional clap of thunder. Electricity hasn't worked since it began and now there is no more water to drink wherever you had managed to find shelter in. You must now venture out into the grey landscape, your hunger driving you to action.
Some more Background:
What has caused this horrendous disaster, you say? A supervolcano, more precisely the one under Yellowstone National Park (about thirty four by forty five miles large), has erupted and now roughly one-third of the U.S. of A is drenched in ash. Those unfortunate enough to live closer to the eruption most definitely did not make it. An eruption that size it would effect an enormous amount land and could be heard around three-thousand miles away. And ash will reach every corner of that.
You are one of those caught under the ashfall. Breathing it in is hazardous, and if you do so for too long you'll begin coughing up your own blood and running a risk of silicosis, a lung disease, so you must wear a wet cloth over your mouth and nose to avoid that. The government is little to no help and bandits and gangs are now running wild. You must learn to rely on yourself and eventually your fellow travelers, whom you will meet on the road. We will be starting this SB with our characters alone unless previously discussed and we will gradually meet within a span of a few days to a week.
Where You Are:
Remember, you are an ordinary person. You don't all of a sudden have mad ninja skills and beat the brains out of every thief and killer you see while saying something catchy enough to be worthy of Batman and Robin. You don't know what to do during a supervolcano apocalypse, nor do you just walk up to somebody and ask. You don't suddenly find an AK-47 while going through your first house with loads of ammo and know just how to shoot it. Life doesn't work that way, and neither will this Storybook. Your character will be bloody, starved, and beaten down. They will only have what's on their back and what's in their heads, and will not be the same person they were three weeks ago.
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[b]Name[/b]:
[b]Gender[/b]:
[b]Age[/b]:
[b]Appearance[/b]: (Picture accepted but I <3 a good description hint hint)
[b]Personality[/b]: (List your faults and flaunts)
[b]History[/b]: (Be realistic; pre- apocalypse then a short history of what you've been doing up until where we will start, three weeks after the eruption)
[b]What you have:[/b] (You do not have a kit with everything you need in it. Maybe you managed to get to the garage and scrounge around in there, but most likely you will not have a lot, and you won't be able to google Buzzfeed DIY's to make your own stuff with no electricity.)
[b]Up for love:[/b] (This shouldn't be the priority of your character. They will not fall head over heels with the first person that they meet, though romance is allowed.)
[b]Other:[/b] (Anything I might have missed)
Please put your character in the sidebar. There is no limit as to who and how many can join (THE MORE THE MERRIER COME TO ME) and take on as many characters as you think you can handle.
Rules:
~) No godmodding bc that's no fun.
~) Don't be a Mary or a Gary Sue bc they're no fun either.
~) Sex and romance is allowed but keep the explicit details out of the SB.
~) Swearing is allowed.
~) I have ultimate rule. Resisting is futile.
~) Pls uze prper grammer plz ty lolz xD !!!
~) Enjoy yourself because Storybooks a r e f o r f u n.
Bopping people from Ashfall numero uno: @Seraphinaxx, @ReisePiecey, @Skyguy, @Auxiira, @Messenger, @Basil, @Iggy ~
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