Let's Survive Zafehouse: Diaries!

I loves me some Lea Salonga, although I think she made a very clean-cut Eponine. That'd make Movie!Marius look out of place, but there aren't any good photos of Ball!Marius and I don't have the TAC on hand. HMMM.

Also, my Zafehouse portrait graphics are now fucked up. I guess I'm really not cut out for it.

I can screenshot whatever you need, if you need it! I only have TAC and HMP, though.

DK, that was a magnificent final speech. I'm glad to have had you in this group and I'll be happy to put you down on the wait list as Eponine.

If you're having corrupted graphics, you should read this topic and this topic.

Yes! I'll give priority to newcomers over the second-rounders too, so you shouldn't have to wait too long for your turn.

It'll be fun to go back to watching and making inappropriate remarks >:3

I should also paraphrase one of my Christmas presents. I actually REALLY hoped two characters would make it in the least just so I could use this:

"Even in our most corrupt period, the Time Lords never allowed kittens to play the Game. Like puppies, they play it too well."

Now that the festivities are out of the way, let's throw a brand new group of survivors into chaos and despair! CuteCat! vayaviya! Sharp Whiskey! Shelby Darlene! SongBird! Please confirm here your intention to die in the most amusing way possible join the grand ball of slaughter and mayhem that is the zombie apocalypse!

Also give me your character information and custom career (entirely optional). The application form and custom career editor can be found in the first post of this thread.

Also, I'm thinking we should do classic mode this time since we just had a very successful road kill run, but if the majority wants to do road kill we can roll with that I guess? Let me know if you're fine with classic or if you want to try road kill for yourself.

Shelby is in this round?!

Prediction: 1st hour, 1st day

CURSE
A monocled, two-gendered ghost appears, warning you of the Curse. It seems to believe Shelby is the cause and suggests you KILL WITH FIRE.

-Listen to ghost
-Kill each other for the heck of it
-Turn ghost away
-BREAKDANCE

I looked there; I'm 90% sure it's a problem with my graphics card drivers, so I didn't want to trouble them with an email just to tell me that yes, my social anxiety does still apply on the Internet, why do you ask?

I'm hoping these survivors get lots of dilemmas, they're the best part of the game she said, an evil smile barely present at the corners of her lips.

You know what? Since Ozzo mentioned a Rebuild 2/Zafehouse: Diaries crossover LP, I was thinking we could do a Rebuild 2 LP of this group of survivors finding a town and trying to reclaim it. (I'll rewrite the game's opening text and stuff to make things fit, of course.) Maybe something like a bonus mini-LP in between the regular Zafehouse: Diaries updates? Does that sound like something people (especially Zelda's team) would be interested in?

Non.
(He means YES, YES, YES.)
I do not like you, puppeteer.
(He means YES.)

HELLS to the YES. More Les Mis quoting and Jelda (that was a typo but it was perfect) action? Do want.

Also I like that it is Zelda's team. Take THAT Link, you see why the games are named after ME?

Mon Dieu! Why is everybody so eager to risk death yet again? I will never understand this place's obsession with dying before le bon Dieu's time!
(Look who's talking...)
Ah?
(Never mind. Look at it this way, you can keep searching for Valjean?)
Ah... oui... that thought has attraction.
(... and finally meet Mary!)
I do not like you, puppeteer.

You SUUURE you want to do this? :D You could just end the whole thing here and imagine that Zelda and the rest are having their happy ending somewhere, you know? :D

I've never been more sure in my life. KILL THE DREAM WE DREAMED. :D

I need to stop sleeping.
Hell yeah we won! :D
DK - you are awesome.

B-but Link just wants to see you happy,Zelda. He's sorry he's been such a bad protector.
He also thinks that dad--Javert would make a very good next King of Hyrule.
He'll also gladly let Waffles and Kaneda live with him if they need a home!

If possible I'd like to go back to the waitinglist!

I'm definitely in, by the way. :D
Just gotta decide whether to be a surgeon or a criminal, it depends on what the others pick... (Avoiding a custom career, I think.)

Fine, fine. I'll wait a bit to see what the others think though.

By the way, I just applied Patch 1.161, and here are the patch notes if you're interested.

This was thanks to me complaining that I couldn't make Longshorewoman X, so if anybody wants to make a similar name/career with one letter, you can! First names still have to have a minimum of two letters though.

This should hopefully help them to tweak the difficulty of certain dilemmas, so I'm really excited. :>

WHOO!

BOO!

Yes! I'm really excited for the F12 button that gives you JPEG screenshots; I've been having to batch convert them ever since I switched to using the F12 button (instead of my usual Irfanview) and realized that it was giving me PNGs, which was partly why Imgur kept dying on me.

Really excited for this <3

Well that's good to hear.

This is a GODSEND. Every time I save people who are resting just wake up when I load the game. Sooooo happy that's not going to happen anymore.

Yeah, I've noticed a tendency for survivors to be either really great or really horrible at modifying. Good to know that's being balanced.

Well, damn. That sucks.

YESSSSS.

SERIOUSLY?! THAT'S AMAZING YESS.

On the whole I'm really happy with this patch, and I look forward to using it. :3

You can thank Ozzo's amazing Mary impression for giving me the idea for even trying this and my desperate determination to, since I was using the face of the best damned Javert in the history of the musical (hey, a first love is a first love), make him the best Javert he could possibly be. I'm very glad he seems to have been extremely well received ^^

If you pick criminal I will have Javert haunt the thread. Take that as warning or incentive as needed :3

Also can I hug little Link and never stop, ok?

Honestly, Rebuild sounds fun and as you said it'd give us all something to do while waiting for people to confirm actions and such.

I'm... pretty sure criminal isn't a default career. Just checked to make sure and yep, it isn't there, sadly. :(

You know what you must do, Cat...

Ah, crap, I thought it was.
Welp, surgeon it is then! Just gimme a little bit, gotta AFK now so I'll make 'im when I get back.

Let's talk mods! I'm thinking of adding a few mods to the next round, just to spice things up a little. We HAVE been at this for a while and we should try out some new things, shouldn't we?

First of all, I'm definitely using the Brighter Nights mod so screenshots taken at night are easier on the eyes, but I'm putting the rest of the mods I'm thinking of up to a vote. Just vote for the ones you want and I'll include them in the next run at the very least.

Task: Bury dead survivor.
This lets you bury your dead ones - great way to prevent them from reanimating and infecting your other survivors!

Backpack Items
Adds to new items to the game: a backpack, which increases a survivor's weight capacity by 6, and web gear, which increases it by 2. I would literally KILL (in game NPCs) for items like this.

One thing to remember when using mods is that there's always the possibility of bugs screwing up the save game. I've been backing up my game saves periodically after the fiasco that was the first two rounds, but it never hurts to be too careful.

I vote yes for both if spectators still have decision-making priviledges. Backpacks would certainly have saved us some time that run even though, unlike some others I shan't name, we didn't have any problems with dead survivors.

Yes for both. Backpack sounds useful enough to risk screwing up the game over, and if we're doing that we might as well do the other as well.

Can Javert still be stalking the thread?

<3 I'm happy, Link. I'm happy.

I think I promised somewhere earlier I'd never stop RPing him, so it's probably better I do it in the thread than to a wall. I'm worrying my family enough as it is XD

Well, I'll probably be getting out that Rebuild 2 mini-LP while we wait for the survivors of the next round to confirm and give me their info, so your wall is going to be quite lonely for a while, I'm afraid. :3

Wall will never be lonely. I have two oral exams to prepare for in January and I practice those best speaking to walls. Thusly, Wall is very smart about bridges in London, Ancient Greece, Administrative Law in Denmark, Media influence on politics and soon how the state came to be and what welfare does to equality.

*Ahem*

Am I the only one who can't read the diary in the link, incidently? Do you need to own the game for it? I get all the framework, but it just loads a black page, and it's no matter what diary I try to check.

EDIT: NEVER MIND. It was IE acting out. Works fine in Chrome.

Rebuild YESYESYESYES

We'll most likely fuck up our success, but who cares. It's already immortalized in The Legend of Les Miserpuppies and Longshore Cats.

*shakes head disapprovingly*

Hey, at least IE doesn't want to apply Google Manglelate to the Diary XD

Holy shit I was reading through some of the other entries and apparently you can modify the skipping rope into an extreme skipping rope.

AN EXTREME SKIPPING ROPE.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU MAKE AN EXTREME SKIPPING ROPE.

And it somehow makes you exercise better.

This game. Just... this game.

The answer is the following: YOU TRY TO STRANGLE SOMEONE WITH IT. NOW IT'S MORE EXTREME. Also, you gained upper body strength.

???

Clearly the game is set in the 90's.

In the Sims 3, daredevil sims can take EXTREME SHOWERS, EXTREME NAPS and drink EXTREME COFFEE. And it ups their motives better.

Who knows, maybe the extreme skipping rope has blades at the sides, so the one jumping is so motivated by not wanting to hurt themselves that puts more effort into exercising?

PFFF-

This is now Zafehouse: Diaries canon, and I'll strangle anybody who says otherwise.

Or this. This works too.

Oh god. Now I'm thinking of our survivors strangling with other with skipping ropes with BLADES at the sides.

Google translate English-to-Danish is not ideal, to say the least. If you put in a sentence about... pigs, I think it was, it translates it into "RAILROAD TRAFFIC IS NO LAUGHING MATTER'. I'm not making this up.

Headcanon accepted.

Fun fact: Do you know it's entirely possible for survivors to hurt themselves while exercising with each other? The game says it's something to do with poor coordination, but now we know the truth. THEY JUST WANT TO STRANGLE EACH OTHER. WITH BLADED SKIPPING ROPES.

So Zafehouse is full of survivors strangling each other with bladed skipping ropes in the 90's?

This is acceptable to me.

I think, just maybe, the key to our success this time was Javert towering over everyone else. So they couldn't strangle him.

... when you think about it, my photo of Quast is from 1995.

ACTUALLY, I remember my sister telling me of a party she went to on Phi Phi in which they got drunk as hell and then jumped the rope. On a flaming rope. She showed me her burnt ankles with pride.

So, bladed skipping ropes on fire for strangling in the 90s? Sounds pretty extreme to me.

Oracle of X Zelda is from 2001. Close enough!