Asfaltum
19-01-2007, 12:06
This is the classical third-world-war-total-destruction thread. Year 2050 the world was almost destroyed by global nuclear war, civilization as we know it is destroyed, and man is back in the stone-age (figuratively speaking). The biggest problem wasn't the nuclear war itself, though. Nuclear weapons weren't used as heavily as predicted; it was the chaos that followed that did most damage. The infrastructure crumbled, people were isolated and started to panic. Looting started taking place, the governments were unable to cope with this new threat, and disaster was a fact.
This RP takes place in the US, year 2065, 15 years after the great war. The people of the world are split into three categories: villagers, bandits, and loners. Villagers live in small fortified communities where they farm the land, hunt, and try to make a living. Bandits roam the country, attacking villages and travelers, trying to get their hands on anything they can before moving on. They range from small gangs to organized militia. Loners are people who travel through the country, nomads who keep searching for what once was, but usually don't find it.
Choose your character from the above three categories. Have fantasy, the options are limitless:Villager, Village leader, Bandit, Bandit leader, Lone traveler, male, female, kaukasian, afro-american, latino, asian, arab, scandinavian, young, old, middle-aged etc. etc.
Tech-level: Good weapons are scarce, ammunition is worth gold. No electricity, no cars. (Well, unless you're a good mechanic and have found a somewhat intact car...) Money is worthless, bartering is the currency. Cities are desolated, villages are spread throughout the countryside. Horses are the fastest means of transportation...(kinda "wild west" atmosphere)
Goal:There is only one city in America where there are functioning electricity, schools and military. It's name is Megapolis, and it has approximately 40 milj. inhabitants. Megapolis has started to broadcast its existence on the radio, but since few people have a battery driven radio, and very few people have batteries, and nobodycares to listen to the radio after 15 years of silence, very few people are aware of it's existence. (The reason why Megapolis doesn't make its presence known by sending out airplanes and cars, is that certain automated laser-satellites still orbit the earth and would probably detect and destroy them. Even broadcasting can only be done for a short time every day, when the city jams the satellites for a short time, in order to prevent them from tracing the signal and destroying the city.) Of course, once our characters learn of the city's existence, they will want to go there...
Good to know: If you watch movies a lot, you might know what I mean when I say that this is going to be something like "The Postman" meets "Madmax"...
Anyone interested? Sign your character up, and don't forget to bring your Geiger counter... :p
This RP takes place in the US, year 2065, 15 years after the great war. The people of the world are split into three categories: villagers, bandits, and loners. Villagers live in small fortified communities where they farm the land, hunt, and try to make a living. Bandits roam the country, attacking villages and travelers, trying to get their hands on anything they can before moving on. They range from small gangs to organized militia. Loners are people who travel through the country, nomads who keep searching for what once was, but usually don't find it.
Choose your character from the above three categories. Have fantasy, the options are limitless:Villager, Village leader, Bandit, Bandit leader, Lone traveler, male, female, kaukasian, afro-american, latino, asian, arab, scandinavian, young, old, middle-aged etc. etc.
Tech-level: Good weapons are scarce, ammunition is worth gold. No electricity, no cars. (Well, unless you're a good mechanic and have found a somewhat intact car...) Money is worthless, bartering is the currency. Cities are desolated, villages are spread throughout the countryside. Horses are the fastest means of transportation...(kinda "wild west" atmosphere)
Goal:There is only one city in America where there are functioning electricity, schools and military. It's name is Megapolis, and it has approximately 40 milj. inhabitants. Megapolis has started to broadcast its existence on the radio, but since few people have a battery driven radio, and very few people have batteries, and nobodycares to listen to the radio after 15 years of silence, very few people are aware of it's existence. (The reason why Megapolis doesn't make its presence known by sending out airplanes and cars, is that certain automated laser-satellites still orbit the earth and would probably detect and destroy them. Even broadcasting can only be done for a short time every day, when the city jams the satellites for a short time, in order to prevent them from tracing the signal and destroying the city.) Of course, once our characters learn of the city's existence, they will want to go there...
Good to know: If you watch movies a lot, you might know what I mean when I say that this is going to be something like "The Postman" meets "Madmax"...
Anyone interested? Sign your character up, and don't forget to bring your Geiger counter... :p