Young Writers Society

Would you be able to survive if everything you knew had disappeared?

At 6:15 p.m. on March 17, 1998, every living being with a spinal cord felt a flash of pain, technology failed and the world began to end. The effects were that electricity stops working; gunpowder and other explosives no longer function as expected, although wood and other things still burn; and water boils but, regardless of the amount of heat applied in a closed system, will not convert to high pressure steam.

What this means is that everything our society had accomplished since the 1200s no longer worked. And people began to die. The world is back to how it was in the Middle Ages and people don't know what to do. The event is known as 'The Flash' or 'The Change' to the survivors, and after a month than number has drastically decreased. Will you survive?

The story starts with a group of random survivors somehow coming together in some unspecified location on the East Coast. They have survived so far, but as time goes on the bandits become quicker and more adapted and the land becomes more and more dangerous. Will you travel west and look for survivors, fighting through the cannibals bandits and other baddies, or will you stay? Will you become friends or will the troubles tear you apart?

Rules~~

--no guns
--no electricity
--no steam engines
--nothing else 'modern'
--its 1998, NOT the present year, so keep that in mind
--This is based off of the nove 'Dies the Fire' by S. M. Stirling, and if you have read it try and separate the stories
--no god characters. This life will be odd for everyone, so no Achilles.
--no killing other peoples characters without permission.
--two character max for now.

Character Palate~~

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Age:
Gender:

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History:

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Other:

Name: James MacTavish

Age: 18

Gender: Male



Appearance: Tall and well built. He has brown hair that he keeps relatively short, and because of its thickness it tends to be messy without effort. He has light blue eyes and lightly tanned skin from working on a farm. His muscles are well developed especially on his arms and he is quite strong, but he can also run fast.

-Equipment: he wears buckskin pants that are close fitting and allow for a large range of movement (they have canvas patches on the kneecaps). He wears a light t-shirt and a fleece on his upper body. He has no armor. For weapons he has a knife, and a hatchet. His main weapon is a small recurve bow that he can barely pull back and a gladius sword modified from a machete.

Personality: He is a fairly serious guy. The change has made him relatively distrustful of other people in general, but he will take company if the offer permits itself. He was raised on old morals and he still believes in them, to an extent. He will fight honorably, but he wont endanger his own life foolishly, and he wont leave an enemy alive to stab him in the back. He is generally kind if distant to people he first meets.

History: Was raised on a small farm. He grew up in the woods hunting and stalking animals so that his family could eat and he became pretty good at it. He had three older brothers so he got tough fast even though he was spoiled as a kid. He learned to box at school, but when he was 17 he started being home schooled because his family couldn't afford it. When the change happened, they weren't too affected but a band of cannibals came through and killed his family. him and his older brother got out, but his brother died later from infection.



Skills: He is a good archer, and he knows woods-lore well. He would be a good scout and hunter.

Other: Is partial to dogs and would do anything for a coke.

Name: Joatinna Marks (called Joey)

Age: 21

Gender: Female



Appearance:

-Equipment: She has a leather jacket, jeans, a t-shirt, and a ten pound electric guitar. She also has a small pocket knife with twenty tools.

Personality: She is actually a really fun person to be around. She is a sort of kick-butt type of girl who isn't afraid to show her rough side. She has a kind of rough sort of sense of humor but is nice hwen you get to know her.

History: She has a great voice, and at the age of 14 joined a band. The band was called Italian Angel, but later became known as Joey and the Italian Angels because of her main part in the band as lead singer. Within the first year they became hugely sucsessful. She became very famous after that and stared in three movies by the time she was 20. she also plays guitar.



Skills: Singing, Acting, Dancing, and she has an awesome aim.

Other: Totally up for Love...

Name: Lila Reece

Age: 17

Gender: Female



Appearance: Short and Pixie like with wavy brown hair and deep brown eyes. She is quite thin and has and air about her.

-Equipment: She wears shorts and leggings with a combat style jacket that she dug out because of the Change. She has her grandfathers old penknife with her but she is unsure how to use it.

Personality: She is quiet and she finds conversing with people difficult. She is intelligent and when there is a situation she usually provides the best solution.

History: Her mother and father did not survive the change. Her sister hasn't been found yet and she is afraid that she is also dead. She doesn't talk about it much but she is always frantically looking for her, wanting to know what has happened to her either way. She was at college during the change studying medicine, so she has some medical knowledge but she doesn't know why people are dying because of the change.



Skills: She has medical knowledge. She is intelligent and can work out most problems.

Other: Up for Love.

Name: Natalie "Nat" Lowe

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Appearance: Standing at 5 foot 3, she isn't the tallest of girls, considering her age (though people always mistake her for being younger than she is). With long blonde hair falling down her back, a green streak at the front. She has green eyes and a considerably pretty face. http://kuebicore.deviantart.com/art/Gre ... r-58675920

Equipment: Wearing black skinny type jeans, a pink t-shirt and a thick warm coat, sneakers that wear out easily; not too equipped in her clothes for the great out doors. Her only weapon being a pocket knife she'd found.

Personality: Scared, most of the time; a feeling of guilt always around her. Awed by the sudden change that had taken a hold of the world, but she has a strength which shows most of the time; she doesn't show her fear and takes everything in her stride. She'd always be the one to volunteer to go looking for food, or entering an abandoned house first to see if they could spend the night there.

History: Grew up with her single mother and little brother of 7, they lived in a humble flat of two bedrooms and a tiny kitchen. Though life was good; she was getting straight As in school and was teaching her brother how to rollerblade. When one day when she was on the phone to one of her friends, it suddenly cut off. Everything cut off. Panic. Though her and her family got on quite well for the first part, her mother just couldn't handle it and became sick, Nat cared for her as much as she could, but a month into the worldwide panic and her mother died.
She was left to fend for herself and her 7 year old brother, when one day she left her brother in the flat, the doors and windows locked, and went out looking for food for herself and him. When she returned her brothers bedroom window was smashed and there was blood all of the floor, the only remains of her brother. Since then she has been moving from one place to the other, always afraid but brave, always trying to find others that might help her.

Skills: A fast runner, when the time calls for it. Can fight fairly well, and is learning ways to attack with her pocket knife.

Other: Misses her mobile phone/cell phone and is up for love.