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== Factions == | == Factions == | ||
| − | [[ARES_Radio_Station|ARES]] | + | *[[ARES_Radio_Station|ARES]] |
== Settlements == | == Settlements == | ||
| − | A haunted offshore research facility. '''Station 2''' is the closest thing the People have to a permanent settlement. It used to be an observatory. Now it's that and a ham station. It's on the largest island in the Lake. | + | *A haunted offshore research facility. '''Station 2''' is the closest thing the People have to a permanent settlement. It used to be an observatory. Now it's that and a ham station. It's on the largest island in the Lake. |
| − | '''The Nest''' is the true home of the People. This is their winter camp and where the sick or pregnant reside. It's also where criminals are punished. A common sentance is to be tied upside down with your head in the water. Since most of the People have cybergills this is more an annoyance then anything. It is on the northmost island in the Lake. | + | *'''The Nest''' is the true home of the People. This is their winter camp and where the sick or pregnant reside. It's also where criminals are punished. A common sentance is to be tied upside down with your head in the water. Since most of the People have cybergills this is more an annoyance then anything. It is on the northmost island in the Lake. |
| − | '''The Array''' is an old telecommunications center high in the mountains with a small town built into the support buildings around it. It's presently the home and headquarters of ARES, and where their members reside when not working as Radio Operators out in the world. | + | *'''The Array''' is an old telecommunications center high in the mountains with a small town built into the support buildings around it. It's presently the home and headquarters of ARES, and where their members reside when not working as Radio Operators out in the world. |
| − | A largely intact university library, especially valued by the more Confucian-oriented members of the Keepers | + | *A largely intact university library, especially valued by the more Confucian-oriented members of the Keepers |
| − | '''The Tether Pole Temple''': Once a research facility, this became the place where the Cardi came from far away, and organized the Regency. It is a sacred site and most braids make an annual pilgrimage to The Tether Pole Temple, during which political meetings occur, goods are exchanged, and sambison are examined. | + | *'''The Tether Pole Temple''': Once a research facility, this became the place where the Cardi came from far away, and organized the Regency. It is a sacred site and most braids make an annual pilgrimage to The Tether Pole Temple, during which political meetings occur, goods are exchanged, and sambison are examined. |
== Landmarks == | == Landmarks == | ||
| − | A sunken city. '''Salt Lake City''' drowned in the Fall the shift in climate quintupled the rainfall and the dams were destroyed or sabotaged. | + | *A sunken city. '''Salt Lake City''' drowned in the Fall the shift in climate quintupled the rainfall and the dams were destroyed or sabotaged. |
| − | A site where a group of innocent refugees that included nuclear physicists were lynched for causing the Fall. | + | *A site where a group of innocent refugees that included nuclear physicists were lynched for causing the Fall. |
| − | '''Thinbog''': There is a place to the east that a poisoned river stops in a marsh with no outlet. Nothing grows there, save for a thick spongy layer of mosses and algae. It is a bad place, against the new Nature, and against the old. Sick and twisted things live on its edge. | + | *'''Thinbog''': There is a place to the east that a poisoned river stops in a marsh with no outlet. Nothing grows there, save for a thick spongy layer of mosses and algae. It is a bad place, against the new Nature, and against the old. Sick and twisted things live on its edge. |
== Hazards == | == Hazards == | ||
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| − | The | + | *An invading flotilla. Whoever they are the are not The People. They do not glide through Mother Sea like we do. They worship a jealous and angry god. They wear metal and carry a crude blade they call a chete. And They are coming. |
| − | '''The wrecks''': The wrecks are a biological weapons designed as shock troops to destroy settlements. They are huge, violent omnivores that eat everything in their path, ripping things apart with massive claws. When they are enraged, the emit a loud "war howl" that carries for miles, and attracts other wrecks hoping for a meal and a fight. When there is something substantial left to eat or attack, the "battalion" of wrecks disperses. The only good news about wrecks is they are relative slow. | + | *The headquarters of a group of arms dealers who have uncovered a cache of pre-Fall weaponry and are willing to sell anything to anyone for the right price. |
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| + | *'''The wrecks''': The wrecks are a biological weapons designed as shock troops to destroy settlements. They are huge, violent omnivores that eat everything in their path, ripping things apart with massive claws. When they are enraged, the emit a loud "war howl" that carries for miles, and attracts other wrecks hoping for a meal and a fight. When there is something substantial left to eat or attack, the "battalion" of wrecks disperses. The only good news about wrecks is they are relative slow. | ||
Revision as of 06:38, 25 September 2019
Contents
Rocky Mountains: Embers of the Past
Following the calamitous downfall of mankind during the final war, life and civilization have begun to reassert themselves in the Rocky Mountains, as people gather together to form families and societies, and look to the horizon instead of their day to day survival. They will build a new future, using the embers of the past to light the flame.
Links
Families
- OLYMPUS, the Deathless Elite
- Regents of the New Herd, Cultivators of the New Flesh
Active Characters
Factions
Settlements
- A haunted offshore research facility. Station 2 is the closest thing the People have to a permanent settlement. It used to be an observatory. Now it's that and a ham station. It's on the largest island in the Lake.
- The Nest is the true home of the People. This is their winter camp and where the sick or pregnant reside. It's also where criminals are punished. A common sentance is to be tied upside down with your head in the water. Since most of the People have cybergills this is more an annoyance then anything. It is on the northmost island in the Lake.
- The Array is an old telecommunications center high in the mountains with a small town built into the support buildings around it. It's presently the home and headquarters of ARES, and where their members reside when not working as Radio Operators out in the world.
- A largely intact university library, especially valued by the more Confucian-oriented members of the Keepers
- The Tether Pole Temple: Once a research facility, this became the place where the Cardi came from far away, and organized the Regency. It is a sacred site and most braids make an annual pilgrimage to The Tether Pole Temple, during which political meetings occur, goods are exchanged, and sambison are examined.
Landmarks
- A sunken city. Salt Lake City drowned in the Fall the shift in climate quintupled the rainfall and the dams were destroyed or sabotaged.
- A site where a group of innocent refugees that included nuclear physicists were lynched for causing the Fall.
- Thinbog: There is a place to the east that a poisoned river stops in a marsh with no outlet. Nothing grows there, save for a thick spongy layer of mosses and algae. It is a bad place, against the new Nature, and against the old. Sick and twisted things live on its edge.
Hazards
- An invading flotilla. Whoever they are the are not The People. They do not glide through Mother Sea like we do. They worship a jealous and angry god. They wear metal and carry a crude blade they call a chete. And They are coming.
- The headquarters of a group of arms dealers who have uncovered a cache of pre-Fall weaponry and are willing to sell anything to anyone for the right price.
- The wrecks: The wrecks are a biological weapons designed as shock troops to destroy settlements. They are huge, violent omnivores that eat everything in their path, ripping things apart with massive claws. When they are enraged, the emit a loud "war howl" that carries for miles, and attracts other wrecks hoping for a meal and a fight. When there is something substantial left to eat or attack, the "battalion" of wrecks disperses. The only good news about wrecks is they are relative slow.
