Post by JACK on Aug 14, 2009 17:10:47 GMT -6
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HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II
AS TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES MAKING US LAZIER AND LAZIER THE WORLD IS SLOWLY DECAYING. AND MEANWHILE AL GORE'S CAMPAIGN FOR GLOBAL WARMING ISN'T EXACTLY REACHING EVERYONE THE GOVERNMENT IS GETTING MORE CORRUPT AND MORE POWER HUNGRY. BUT, SINCE WHEN HAVE THEY NEVER BEEN POWER HUNGRY? THE OLDER GENERATIONS WHO REMEMBER WHAT FRESH AIR MEANS CHURN OUT ADD BABIES THAT BECOME SO RELIANT ON TECHNOLOGY. SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS ARE MADE IN MASSES. AND THE GOVERNMENT WITH THEIR OWN AGENDA RECRUITS THESE PEOPLE. TO DO WHAT? CURE AIDS? CURE CANCER? FIND LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS? NO. THEY WANT TO CONTROL US, PACIFY US, IN HOPES OF BRAINWASHING US INTO PEACE. WHOEVER SAID HAVING NO WARS, NO HATE, NO FIGHTING WAS THE END ALL SOLUTION, WELL, YOU COULD BE RIGHT. SUBSTANCE D IS CREATED TO SUPPRESS AGGRESSION AND ALL SEEMS WELL ON THE HOME FRONT. EVENTUALLY SUBSTANCE D STARTED HAVING THE OPPOSITE EFFECT ON SOME OF THE TEST POPULATIONS AROUND THE WORLD, TURNING THEM INTO RAGING CANNIBALISTIC PSYCHOS, WHILE OTHERS 'UP AND DIED.' HOW'S THAT FOR NONAGGRESSION?
NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS TRIGGERED A MODERATE AMOUNT OF UNHAPPINESS FROM THE PARTS OF THE POPULATIONS THAT WENT UNAFFECTED BY THE DRUG. MASS HYSTERIA INCLUDING MYSTERIOUS DEATHS, MASS SUICIDES, AND GOVERNMENT COVER-UPS ENSUE, LEAVING MUCH OF THE WORLD COMPLETELY STUNNED. THOSE THAT ARE DRIVEN MAD BY SUBSTANCE D COME TO BE KNOWN AS REAVERS, AND ARE TO BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS.
BETWEEN OVERPOPULATION, HIGHLY INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY THAT COULD POSSIBLY HAUNT US IN THE FUTURE, RESOURCE DEPLETION, THE OZONE DIMINISHING, THE FORESTS DISAPPEARING, REAVERS, AND HUMANS GROWING TO BE 'HIGHLY ADVANCED' WE MANAGED TO STILL FIND THE NEED TO DESTROY OURSELVES. WARS, BATTLES, WORLD WARS, COLD WARS, WARM WARS, LUKE WARM WARS, ARE WAGED AND WELL I'LL BE DAMNED IF WE DIDN'T KILL OURSELVES OFF COMPLETELY. BUT, WE DIDN'T. A NEW MECCA KNOWN AS CETARIA IS SALVAGED AND MONOPOLIZED, BUILT OVER THE RUINS OF LAS VEGAS IN ORDER TO HOUSE THE SURVIVORS. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE'S VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IT AND THE DICTATORSHIPS OF OLD. IN SPITE OF THE COUNCIL HOLDING NINE POSITIONS, THUS BECOMING KNOWN AS 'THE NINES,' IT HOLDS NO RESEMBLANCE TO ANY FORM OF DEMOCRACY. THEY MONITOR EVERYONE, EACH PLACE OF RESIDENCE HAVING CAMERAS, POLICE ARREST ANYONE WHO SHOWS SIGNS OF VIOLENCE IN FEAR OF ANOTHER REAVER OUTBREAK. CETARIA MIGHT BE SAFE FROM REAVERS, BUT THE NINES ARE NOT THAT MUCH BETTER, KIDNAPPING PEOPLE AND SHOVING THEM IN THEIR 'REHAB' CENTER, NEW PATH, TESTING DRUGS ON THEM, MOSTLY IN EFFORTS TO FIND OUT WHERE SUBSTANCE D WENT WRONG.
THOSE WHO SEEK SHELTER WITHIN THE CITY, KNOWN AS URBS, ARE WATCHED CONSTANTLY AND EVERYTHING THEIR EARS HEAR, THEIR EYES SEE, THEIR NOSE SMELLS, THEIR TONGUES TASTE, THEIR FINGERS TOUCH IS CENSORED. CURFEWS ARE SET FOR THE 'PROTECTION' OF THE CITIZENS. THE GATES TO CETARIA CLOSE PROMPTLY AT NIGHTFALL. THERE ARE THOSE, THE DETORSI, WHO DESPISE THE NINES AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR AND HAVE THUS FORGONE THE SAFETY OF THE CITY, INSTEAD CHOOSING TO LIVE IN THE VAST WASTELANDS, KNOWN AS RED PRIME, IS 'PRIME' REAVER TERRITORY. THEN THERE ARE THOSE, THE PARAVI WHO ARE SIMPLE GYPSIES WHO HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME INDIFFERENT, CONSTANTLY WANDERING, TRADING BETWEEN THE OTHER COLONIES. ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE THE BALANCE HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE DETORSI. PUTTING ASIDE THEIR FAILED ATTEMPTS THE UNDERGROUND KNOWN AS 'THE WATCHMEN' STILL COLLABORATE WITH LESS PREJUDICED URBS AND WILLING PARAVI. THOUGH THEIR EFFORTS ARE SCATTERED AND ORGANIZED THEY ARE WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO STEP UP AND LEAD THE PEOPLE INTO A BETTER WORLD.
SO IF YOU HAVEN'T DIED OF HEAT STROKE, BECOME A REAVER, BEEN KILLED BY ONE, GONE MAD, DIED FROM RADIATION, MURDERED FOR YOUR POSSESSIONS, 'UP AND DIED' BY ASPHYXIATION, USED AS A GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT, STARVED TO DEATH, OR BECOME SUICIDAL AND STILL HAVE MANAGED TO SURVIVE, YOU'VE GOT YOURSELF A ONE WAY TICKET TO THE END OF THE WORLD. LET US KNOW HOW THAT TURNS OUT.
A BS INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION
APOCALYPSE PLEASE
A POST-APOCALYPTIC RPG, REALLY?