Batch of Nine

Looks good! :)

The second character I've got mostly figured out.

His name is His name is Noah Carson, he's 28 years old, and he has the effect of getting extremely ill very often, and often has hallucinations, like he sees people and talks to them but there's no one there. Due to this, he isn't able to keep many jobs, and does not have a lot of money. He lives with his sister, helping her around the house and raise her children. Personality wise, Noah is friendly, good by nature, but sometimes does things that are a little kooky.

And this is Noah! :)

Actually, I think I'm going to make this my primary character and Holly my secondary character. After writing Adam's bio, I sorta fell in love with him a lot.

Adam Benjamin — 24 years old. After he got the vaccination as a kid, he completely lost his concept of time. He's unable to tell the difference between night and day and looking at a clock is like looking at a photograph — he understands what he's seeing but it has no meaning to him, they're just numbers. Because of this, his parents had to homeschool him and he was unable to attend college. However, he has been able to make a living writing books about his condition (which he hasn't linked to the vaccine yet, he just assumes it's a hardwiring issue in his brain). Anything related to numbers (telephone numbers, addresses, dates, etc.) essentially means nothing to him.

Because he was homeschooled and didn't attend college, he has poor social skills and has very few relationships outside of his family members. He had a very brief relationship once, but he was dumped because he wouldn't show up for dates, forgot birthdays and anniversaries, and forgot to keep in touch because he wasn't able to calculate how long it'd been since he last spoke to the person. He has two close friends who understand his condition and don't mind his flakiness, but that's it.

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@ chibs telford

I've added them both in. Mine will be posted tomorrow as it's three am right now. And Adam sounds quite interesting that I'm kind of glad you switched to him. If any of you guys have ideas about the government section, please post away!

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@ Properly Improper

Guys, I've just seen a problem. It was decided that the injection was going to be given when the kids are between the ages of 5 and 7 years but we have a 24 year old, 26 year old, 25 year old (which would be fine) but then we have a 28 year old and a 27 year old. We're going to have to change some ages around.

@ castiel's vessel

Is it possible that the older people could have gotten their shots late? Or kids between 5-10 would get the shots?

@ castiel's vessel
I can change Adam's age if need be. For some reason, I had between 23-27 in my mind, but if we have to make him older that's fine too.

@ Properly Improper
I think that a 5-10 age group for a childhood booster would be a too wide of an age gap as the teenage one gets given not many years after the age of 10. And if it's the first year being given then they wouldn't give to the older kids. It's like the HPV jab they introduced when I was 12. It was given to year eights only for the first few years, and they all need to have it on the same day in the same surgery.

@ chibs telford
Yeah, I think ages should changed to fit the two year gap.

@ castiel's vessel
That's fine! 27, 28, 29 -- whatever fits best with the story is okay by me.

I'm finally done with finals/schoolwork for the most part so I'll be much more active now. Sorry about that.

@ chibs telford
@ Properly Improper

Do you guys want to stick with the six being between the age of 24-26 or should we drop the 24 and make it 27 or what?

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@ Properly Improper

Should we just stick with 24-26? I'm going to be updating the first post tomorrow with the final six's bio and a picture for Carwyn, so if any of you want to change something about the two you dealt with let me know.

And now we need to discuss division details. We all agreed that it was established because a bad batch had happened previously and they were double checking to make sure it didn't happen again, and that they came and got it from the doctor's surgery before all twelve could be used.

@ castiel's vessel
If everyone's characters work with 24-26, that's fine with me. If not, just change Adam to whatever age works best.

For the division, do we need to come up with any character info for them or anything? I guess we also have to come up with why they're tracking down everyone who got the vaccine, right? Is it malicious or do they just want to study the effects?

@ chibs telford
We'll need to come up with a few characters from the division because they'll come up in the story I'm guessing. And I was thinking that what if after they had the injection, they just checked up on their health record annually until something spiked up in the other two's records which led to them tracking them down and taking them in for studying, and as one died as a result of the injection, I guess it could be initially to study the effects but then it could progress to wanting to study them and inside their body which is a whole different extreme to just the effects.

@ castiel's vessel
I like that! I keep envisioning the division kind of like the Peacekeepers from The Hunger Games.

@ chibs telford
Do you mean in a ruthless sort of way, like the normal peacekeepers are? I can see them like that too, not only because they're government official but also because they can get away with pretty much anything.

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@ chibs telford

Also I really want the planning stages of this complete by next Monday which gives us over a week to do it. By the Monday I'd like us to either be finishing the chapter outline or beginning writing. Is that okay?

@ castiel's vessel
I really like the idea of thinking of them sort of like the peacekeepers.

I think we can be done planning an outline or begin writing by Monday, definitely! :)

@ castiel's vessel
I have my last final on Tuesday, so next Monday shouldn't be a problem for me.

And yes, that's what I meant by the peacekeepers.

@ chibs telford
@ Properly Improper

Okay cool. So maybe the group from the division is made up of three or four main members and they're full of themselves because they're apart of the division and after the death and they're tasked with rounding up the six remaining infected ones, they think that it'll be easy because they're allowed to use force and think that whatever they say the six will do so having them defy them and attempt to evade them makes them angry and more forceful because now they've been made fools of to the rest of the division.

@ castiel's vessel

I really like that idea. Maybe they could risk losing their jobs because they are failing to get the rest of the infected ones, which makes them more angry and violent?

@ Properly Improper
Yeah, that could work. Like they're threatened with being fired for being incapable of bringing in the six and that's what their job requires so they're not completing their job. It'd make them real mad.

@ chibs telford

So for the division we need to discuss:
Name
What else their work is
The few members that need bios
Anything else?