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AU PREMISE (must read)
DIR By: 22639
Date: December 18, 2011, 1:17 pm
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Highlander: the RPG - PbP Division takes place in the not so
distant future after a Global nuclear “holocaust” that has wiped
out 70 to 85% of the World's population....either during the
nuclear attacks or afterward from diseases like radiation
poisoning, etc. and 20 to 37% of the surviving population have
been irrefutably damaged from eating vegetables grown in
radioactive soil, meat from livestock that are sick from also
eating food grown in the contaminated earth, breathing
contaminated air, drinking contaminated water or from birth
defects that were caused from being born of one or both parents
that were infected and affected by the post-apocalyptical
conditions.
In the United States there are certain areas that have been
damaged and destroyed more than others because they were
targeted more than other areas. In some cases, what had been a
lush green wooded forest with clear running springs that fed
fresh water lakes are now desolate and barren dust bowls and
deserts with one thing in common....the only life they can
sustained is those that had mutated and had become resistant to
the illnesses, etc. that came with trying to live off of the
damaged land. There a few areas that have a continuous supply
of clean, fresh water and those that do either hoard it or use
it to make money.....(and nobody knows for sure where the money
that is now being spent comes from as Ft. Knox, Kentucky was
completely obliterated in the attacks.)
In some areas of the US...a lucky few still have some of the,
now old, modern conveniences like flushing toilets, hot water
heaters, fans, TVs, radios, toasters and lights and they have
managed to find a way to power them. They are considered to be
luxury items and those who possess them are either revered or
targeted by the thieves who want to acquire as many luxury items
as they can to sell and make “the big bucks”....(A toaster that
had sold brand new at Walmart for $7.99 before the attacks will
easily bring in $700 now. Luxury items, now, have a 600% markup
value.).
In some areas....especially those harder hit....some of the
survivors have acquired large parcels of land and formed groups
or communities...where everyone pitches in and works for a
common goal (which is usually to survive) and all is shared
within the community. Of course there are always those who do
the same thing but for more rapacious reasons. They're the ones
that rule their community as ego-maniacal tyrants.
There have been rumors that have spread across the country that
tell of an area of America that was virtually untouched by the
nuclear bombs. Where the grass is green, the trees and forests
are lush and filled with wild life and where clean, pure, fresh
water flows in abundance. The rumors also tell of a small group
of survivors who have banded together, formed a strong
“alliance” and are determined to resurrect a Democratic
government based on the US's original Declaration of
independence and Constitution with all of freedoms and rights
the American people had always known. But....it is, after
all....just rumors.
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