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AU PREMISE (must read)
By: 22639 Date: December 18, 2011, 1:17 pm
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[font=segoe ui light]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.[/font]
[font=segoe ui light]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.)[/font]
[font=segoe ui light]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.).[/font]
[font=segoe ui light]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.[/font]
[font=segoe ui light]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.[/font]
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