Justice Lords

A post-apocalyptic DC Adventures game run on RPG.net

Premise

In Final Crisis the forces of Apokalypse invaded earth, organised resistance was exterminated, billions died and the remaining humans were soon placed under Darkseid's mind control. The superhuman resistance fought back, villain and hero uniting to fight the forces of Darksied. He was eventually defeated though the sacrifice of Batman and the efforts of Superman but the cost to earth was staggeringly high. One cannot kill a god without consequences and Darkseids death created cracks in the fabric of reality that ravaged the earth in other worldly energy, to this day warpstorms rage across parts of the planet. With Darkseid death his leaderless army fled but not before destroying everything they could reach leaving earth a sorched ruin haunted by weapons and monsters left behind by the forces of Apokalypse.

In the Aftermath the surviving heroes did what they could to restore order but soon it became apparant that earth was now too dangerous for humanity to survive without constant protection. The war weary supers fell back fortifying safe zones under their protection, and the villains followed suit. In practice the safe zones became feudalistic territories where the superhuman guardians ruled like Lords over the human survivors. 20 years later the world is only now clawing its out of the wreckage of Final Crisis. Metropolis under the guardianship of an aged Superman is at the centre of a loose alliance of neofeudal city states.

Survivors

Batman "died" killing Darkseid, though the familiar cowl did not stay gone long cynics says its a new man in the costume but many believe that it is the ghost of Batman returned to punish evildoers even in death. Gotham is a smoking ruin, haunted by Apokalypse's abandoned weapons and Batman is its warden.

Superman survived the battle with Darkseid but was infected with Kryptonite poisoning which slowly spread throughout his entire body, in the present day he is a shadow of his former self relying on Kryptonian armour to replicate the effects of his old powers.

Wonderwoman: When Magic was Destroyed in the Crisis, Diana of Themiscara lost her godly powers but remained one of the most dangerous warriors on earth in skill alone, worse still though the mystical island of Themiscara sank beneath the waves. Today she leads her people as Queen on Elysium.

Places

New Metropolis : During the Final Crisis Superman's Fortress of Solitude was destroyed. What he could salvage from his fortress was used to rebuild Metropolis, which today is protected by walls of Kryptonian Sunstone and has the Citadel of Justice at its centre. New Metropolis is a shinning beacon of hope in the otherwise desolate wasteland. However Superman could not turn away those in need and even with Kryptonian technology the cities resources are stretched dangerously thin to accomodate its huge refugee population.

Neo-Seattle Enclave (NSE): Lex Luther survived the war (at the cost of several hundred of his minions lives), he claimed Seattle as his territory and gathered together several of of the worlds most dangerous scientific geniuses to serve him, including Veronica Cale, Doctor Death, I. Q., T. O. Morrow (whose sudden and inevitable betrayal shocked no one), Komrade Krabb, Dr. Tyme, and Rigoro Mortis. Seattle developed into a technological wonderland, science unchained free from the concerns of human morality. Inside the Enclave life is cuthroat and competitive but it is idyllic compared to the outlands. Surrounding the walled city is a fast slum of desperate people scraping a meager existence providing the inner city with salvage and test subjects in return for protection and medecine.

Elysium: When Darkseid destroyed the Rock of Eternity, the centre of magic in the DCU, the mystical island of Themiscara tore itself apart in violent earthquakes. The amazons refugees sailed west and made landfall in southern Florida. No longer blessed by the gods but possessing centuries of military training and advanced ttechnology they declared the ruins of Miami their demense, renamed Elysium. The city is a rare safe haven in the ruined world, citzenship was originally limited to Amazons but is now open to anyone who completes a 7 year term of service to the city (usually women are selected for military duty and men for support roles such as agriculture or construction)

Gotham: Gotham was destroyed in the Crisis, the armies of Apokalypse indulged thier "appetites" in the city. When the crisis was finally over what residents survived fled and the city has become a haunted ruin.

Keystone:

Coast City Crater : No one knows exactly what happened to Coast City, one day it was there and the next it was gone, seemingly ripped right out of the ground. Some say the city was taken, buildings and all by its protector Hal Jordan to somewhere in deep space until the earth was safe, most consider this a fairy tale though

New York : Badly damaged by the armies of Darkseid, the city of New York held on due largely in part to the efforts of the JSA. Today the fast ruins are home to the second largest concentration of survivors on the east Coast, protected by the remaining JSA members and the new heroes they have trained

Los Angeles : The Final Crisis broke the World and no where is this more evident than in California, where vast tracks of land have begun sinking into the pacific. The partially submerged city of Los Angeles is one of the few safe areas in the united states, where Atlantean and human refugees are under the protection of Queen Mera (former Queen of Atlantis, now in self imposed exile on the surface)

Players

• mpascal02 as the Flash