Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:
“At the cost of his firstborn son
he will lay its foundations;
at the cost of his youngest
he will set up its gates.”
Joshua, 6:26
Welcome to AD 4000.
The world you know is gone.
“At the cost of his firstborn son
he will lay its foundations;
at the cost of his youngest
he will set up its gates.”
Joshua, 6:26
The Jericho Road
Welcome to AD 4000.
The world you know is gone.
This RP will be a collaborative worldbuilding exercise taking place approx. 1000 years after the destruction of a highly advanced cyber-punk civilization in what is now the United States. The idea here is to take an already over-the-top setting like Mad Max or Fallout, and turn it up to eleven. It's one louder, isn't it?
Anyway, the RP will center around the Jericho Road, a dangerous cross country run between two major settlements hazarded by trader convoys. These convoys are the badasses off a badass world, composed of tanks, walkers, huge armored crawlers, and whatever else we can think of, designed to get vital goods across the wasteland safely. This will not be a traditional RP: players will first collaboratively design settings, factions, characters, history, scenarios, species, monsters, wildlife...basically, an entire world centered around the now slightly cliched premise of a retro-futuristic apocalypse. I will contribute to and moderate this process, perhaps with the help of a co-GM. Then, we will begin the IC part of the roleplay, which will be open to new players and set in our co-designed world.
The nature of the apocalypse itself will remain vague- while nuclear weaponry and bio-weapons were involved, these may not have been the only sources of society's collapse. Inspirations for this project are (not limited to): Warhammer 40K, China Mieville's fiction (esp. railsea), Lovecraft's mythos, Fallout, and Mad Max, to name just a few.
Any takers?
