Post by Fantastical-Ducks on Jan 14, 2014 2:36:05 GMT
I remember screaming, the sound of explosions and then more screaming. But I could not see the people running, I could not understand what we were running from and I still don't. I was only 6 when it happened when everything changed. I remember the sky was red and all I could smell was ash and it covered everything. I thought it was snow so I wanted to play with it but mother pulled me away she was crying and there was red on her cheek. I remember asking her where father was but she only held me close and kept running. I never understood what had happened that changed our way of life so drastically, and I think that my mom did not know either. As I sit here in my old age writing this I know that after I pass there will be no one else who remembers life before the cataclysm. No one will know how people use to take everything for granted, the air, the water. Only I will know. I think sometimes it all happened for the greater good of mankind then I look out my window at the steam rising high into the sky... And I miss the old days I wonder still what happened what caused this but there is no answer there will never be an answer. - Last Known Writings of the Sage last one to remember life before the Cataclysm
Several hundred years ago a great cataclysm struck the Earth little is known of what happened that day only that it tore down the fabrics of society and left all of earth devastated. Although little is known of what happened the day of the cataclysm there are many records dictating what happened after the collapse. The earliest known records state that there was huge destruction and that people either fled or stayed. The air slowly became toxic in many areas forcing people into small expanses of land. Scared and cut off from the world people turned toward there government but it had already fallen after the world leaders failed to save themselves. For many years chaos reigned and wars ensued over land, water, and food. Over time groups form and people adapted to there world earning titles, names classifications. Towns, outposts, and even cities began to rise all using steam power to help them rise above the rest. 5 decades of war came and went and the landscape of the world and society had changed forever.
In some areas plants have mutated creating large expanses of Toxic Jungles the pollen poisonous to any who dared venture. Few animals survive in the Toxic Jungles and those that did mutated over time becoming the dominant species of the large expanses of strange uninhabited land. In other places all vegetation died leaving only vast expanses of dessert after many years the poison here lifted or turned into sand, during sand storms or toxic downpours you must still wear a mask for risk of poisoning. And in other areas still poison resides clinging to everything though everyone now a days knows about the tale tell smell the poison gives off it smells like burning flesh and most are rendered ill after a simple breath. Ash lands, rebel groups, camps, and other cities can all be found but by far the most valuable places are the old ruins of cities once inhabited.
As our landscape changed so to did the people, groups of people rose and fell different and old religions sprang up and died. Science while also set back advanced amazingly in its own way steam power taking on as the dominant force but technology finding its own way to thrive giving rise to an amazing steampunk powered future where industry and technology help people to survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the world. And as the people separated they were labeled given classes and titles. Jobs are not what they use to be and peoples fates while slightly decided on which class they are born it can be changed should one have enough will to wish it so. Now on to you, the one reading this. What destiny do you intend to craft for yourself, whats cogs and gears will be put in place that decide the outcome of your fate? Will you a wandering vagabond? A ruin runner? Your choice can effect your fate and your story can effect that of others. So what will you do with your life? The choice all depends on you.
Now that you know a little about the world and such allow me to explain that the plot is very vague due to the fact that you creating a character and rp-ing is meant to shape the plot. Create wars, alliances, friendships and more. Feel free to invent as you go along make up plants, creatures, new places, theories and ideas because of the open ended plot anything is possible! Add to the story in your own way and make up more then one character remember to be creative and lets shape this world of steam and cogwork together.
In some areas plants have mutated creating large expanses of Toxic Jungles the pollen poisonous to any who dared venture. Few animals survive in the Toxic Jungles and those that did mutated over time becoming the dominant species of the large expanses of strange uninhabited land. In other places all vegetation died leaving only vast expanses of dessert after many years the poison here lifted or turned into sand, during sand storms or toxic downpours you must still wear a mask for risk of poisoning. And in other areas still poison resides clinging to everything though everyone now a days knows about the tale tell smell the poison gives off it smells like burning flesh and most are rendered ill after a simple breath. Ash lands, rebel groups, camps, and other cities can all be found but by far the most valuable places are the old ruins of cities once inhabited.
As our landscape changed so to did the people, groups of people rose and fell different and old religions sprang up and died. Science while also set back advanced amazingly in its own way steam power taking on as the dominant force but technology finding its own way to thrive giving rise to an amazing steampunk powered future where industry and technology help people to survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the world. And as the people separated they were labeled given classes and titles. Jobs are not what they use to be and peoples fates while slightly decided on which class they are born it can be changed should one have enough will to wish it so. Now on to you, the one reading this. What destiny do you intend to craft for yourself, whats cogs and gears will be put in place that decide the outcome of your fate? Will you a wandering vagabond? A ruin runner? Your choice can effect your fate and your story can effect that of others. So what will you do with your life? The choice all depends on you.
Now that you know a little about the world and such allow me to explain that the plot is very vague due to the fact that you creating a character and rp-ing is meant to shape the plot. Create wars, alliances, friendships and more. Feel free to invent as you go along make up plants, creatures, new places, theories and ideas because of the open ended plot anything is possible! Add to the story in your own way and make up more then one character remember to be creative and lets shape this world of steam and cogwork together.