The application is a private conversation in the Discord, one question at a time, not a wall of form fields. Your answers save as you go, so you can stop and come back.
Staff usually decide within 24 hours. Approval gives you the Survivor role, which opens the game server, and creates your character's lore page from what you wrote.
What you'll be asked
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OOC 1/5
How old are you? (server is 16+)
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OOC 2/5
Any roleplay experience? ('none' is a fine answer)
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OOC 3/5
How did you find ZedOnline?
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OOC 4/5
Roughly how often do you expect to play?
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OOC 5/5
Your Steam profile link.
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Character 1/6
Your character's full name?
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Character 2/6
Their age?
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Character 3/6
Occupation before the outbreak?
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Character 4/6
Their backstory. This becomes your lore page, so give it real effort - minimum 150 words, and it must cover all three beats:
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Character 5/6
Once your character's boots hit Knox Country, what's their PLAN - settle somewhere, drift, hunt for someone or something?
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Character 6/6
What does your character WANT this season?
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Rules check
Someone attacks you in a GREEN zone with zero roleplay. What do you do?
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Your lore page
Anything MORE you want on your character's lore page? (relationships, rumors, a journal opener - or
no) -
Final step
Type
I understand: green zones are RP-protected, red zones are KOS-legal and entering them is consent.
What actually gets approved
Nobody is marking your prose. What staff look for is that there is a person behind the character rather than a list of skills: someone with a history, a reason to be here, and something they want.
- A backstory under the minimum, or one that skips the beats asked for.
- A character lifted from a film, a game or a show.
- Answers that dodge the question rather than answer it.
Being asked for changes is not a rejection. Staff would rather send one question back than deny you.
This server is 16+, and the application asks for a Steam profile link because the game server is whitelisted against your Steam account.