I did notice that some people mentioned starting locations for their characters.  This isn't exactly a problem and I'm sure we can work out a way to handle this but there are only three starting places in the story.  I didn't include them because I wasn't sure what the size of the cast would be and how many starting places we use depend on the cast.

The possible starting places are New York, New York,  Ottawa, Canada and Detroit, Michigan.   Right now we will be using two of those locations at the start   If we go above 14 players we will use three.  Your best bet with your characters is not to mention where they are at the moment, but mention where they have been.

Cheers.

In light of this...can I modify my character?  I thought we were going to use Las Vegas for one of the start places...and that's sort of why I stayed down south   Chicago and New York or sort of north (midwest/east) similar...but maybe that is the point.

Hugh Jarse, late 20's, Australian. Just arrived in the US for the first time to join up with his girlfriend Lara, a cocktail waitress from Vegas that he met online. He is on route to Las Vegas not only to meet her for the first time but to get married.

Leona Carter, 20, was a student, studying theology at a private university. She kept her heart sealed away and her head buried deep into books. When IT happened, the entire campus was wiped clean in one day and she found herself even more alone. They found her a week later, hiding up in the bell tower of the school’s church ; rosary beads in one hand and a copy of Dante’s Inferno in the other.

Connection with other people in these crazy times have brought out feelings she forgot she had. Now she prays to the owner of her dreams, the ones that keep her awake at night, convinced that a pilgrimage is all she needs to rid her mind of the scourge she calls temptation. And she’ll do anything to get there, even venture out by herself into this new cold and desolate world armed only with her rosary's, a shotgun and an orange backpack filled with ammo.

Alex J. Miller is a hunter. He is obsessed in collecting the heads of the animals he kills and he has seen all of them. Another obsession of him is his cowboy hat which he never takes off.

For some time, Alex has some weird dreams where he is alone in a forest running like a crazy, haunted by some unexplainable creatures.
Even the heads of the animals in his house start moving and pronouncing a name which he cannot clearly understand. Alex decides to find out more about this...

CORDELIA (13)

Cordelia is a young girl originating from a small town in Texas. She is smart  and soft-spoken; but occassionally shows an impulsive side. Her entire family was slaughtered by anarchists shortly after the virus hit. She is now holed up in the ruins of a house with a few other people.

Before the virus hit, she suffered from depression because of her neglectful mother. This was followed by dreams in which a terrifying, but beautiful entity repeadetly offered her absolute power over others and a severe punishment for her mother. Cordie denied the offer, stating that happiness was what she desired most, not power or vengeance.  The virus hit the next morning, right after she refused the entity's offer. She is now a shell of the girl she once was, mentally-unbalanced after her family's death. She is now deceptive and uses her soft-spoken and intelligent demeanor to hide her rage and anger. Now the entity is calling to her again, and she will do anything to silence it.

...is this okay?

--Julio