The Fireflies Settlement

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A grey stone wall surrounding streets, houses and buildings. A large gate, guarded by a selection of men and women that received extensive sniper training. Barbed wire laid out in the woods and streets surrounding the walls. A settlement, in the middle of an old village in Europe, at the foot of a mountain, now surrounded by woods and greenland. The buildings outside the settlement broken down and in ruins causes by The Quakes and time itself. On the inside of the walls, people walk the cobblestones on their way to their appointed task. In the middle of the settlement: a tavern called That Damn Pub.

The people in the Fireflies Settlement are safe, or so they think. The Lily, the dam nearby supplies the town with power. The river supplies the town with water and fish. The gardens grows vegetables and fruits, the fields filled with wheats to feed the town. This is how the town survives and thrives. The settlers have tasks that help the settlement survive. The teachers teach the younger ones about dam engineering, hunting, gardening, cooking. The knowledge must be passed over, in order to survive. There’s cooks, medics, builders, guards, gardeners, hunters, teachers and maybe most important: dam engineers. The dam engineers keep the dam running, make sure the power stays up and the water flows freely. The two settlements below the mountain, Fireflies and Water Leafs have lived in harmony all this time since The Quakes, with the dam in between them.

But an accident happened. Two engineers, one from the Fireflies Settlement and one from the Water Leafs Settlement fell in love. They climbed their way to the top of the dam, to see the fireflies that show up at night. But, what should’ve been romantic, turned into disaster. Jess, the female engineer from Water Leafs tripped and fell off the dam into the streaming rough water below. The death of his lover shocked Jacob, whom returned to his settlement with news of the accident. But once the other town found out, they blamed Jacob for killing Jess, and the two settlements cut ties as a result of this feud. The only neutral ground is the dam, where engineers from both settlements still work on the dam. But lately, there have been accidents on the neutral dam, and the Water Leafs settlement is slowly trying to take over the dam.

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• Mayor
• Member of mayor council (must also have other job)
• Bartender/barowner
• Guard
• Dam engineer
• Teacher (like middle school)
• Farmer (gardens, fields and animals)
• Electrician
• Cook
• Hunter/Fisher
• Builders
• Cleaners
• TBA?

80 years ago, earthquakes over the entire world have left lives, countries and cities in ruins. More than 70% of the population died. Now there’s settlements, where people live in groups to be safe from the wild animals and The Roaches, which are basically land pirates. There is power in the settlements, but no tv’s, radios or cellphones. There is however lights, stoves, some machines that work on power (like drills), fridges, some slightly unreliable media equipment. The power turns off everyday at 10pm and turns on at 6am. This is also the curfew for most of the settlers. The Fireflies settlement counts about 1100 people.

More info to come as we discuss and pitch ideas.



- When is this set/when did the earthquake take place so that we know the technology level of the time.
In my mind, the Quakes happened in like 2020. So, the lever of technology would be our own, as of now.
- Just for flavour, how is the agriculture and land of the settlement?
The agriculture and land would be very green, sunny with sufficient rain and trees. The settlements are still standing parts of towns that are broken down. The dam is below a mountain, and the two settlements are across from each other on each side of the river.
- What other areas or groups of interest would there be in the local area or that people would know of?
This is open, if someone likes to be from a settlement miles off, that's fine by me. In my vision, there are settlements everywhere, but far apart and travelling between is hard and dangerous.
- Where in the world is the settlement as well as the ethnicities?
I have specified it to be Europe, which holds a lot of ethnicities so in this case anything is possible. In my mind, I was thinking somewhere in France, maybe?
- What rules would there be? Is gun-carrying permitted? Are guns permitted?
No guns, except for the guards and hunters. Guards go with engineers up to the dam, and with gardeners to the fields.
- Did religions survive the 'quakes or have new ones sprouted?
Everyone is free in this, I think. I do believe that new ones didn't sprout, considering the amount of atheists in the current day and age.
- What would be the average education level of the typical adult of the camp, also is there a general education or are people raised to carry out a specific job for the future, for example an engineer school or a military academy.
Good one. There are people doing the jobs that they do. Kids do a sort of general school, learning about The Quakes, about what's outside and general life skills and basics like reading/writing. Then, when they are a certain age, they get to do like a traineeship with one of the professions. I'm still on the fence about being able to choose the profession or not.

1. Since, in my vision, the engineering of the dam, keeping it running etc, needs quite a bit of people, BOTH settlements are needed. The engineers that work there are on a sort of truce. Most engineers knew Jacob and Jess, and prob know they were in love. So, in my vision, most engineers that work on the dam are not as busy with those politics.
2. Yes, they do go back and forth.
3. Economy wise, I have not thought about it. Maybe someone is willing to pitch in about this?

I must admit, I have not thought about it that far concerning most of your new questions. Animals, mainly cows, dogs, sheep and horses will still be there. I don’t feel like guns would be easily findable, and most characters will not have these in possession.

Concerning leadership, the way I see it is that, atleast for our two settlements, there will be like a leader, a sort of mayor. And he can have a council that helps him/her. It would be cool if someone was willing to play our mayor. The mayor and leaders of Water Leafs would be NPC’s, and so would Jacob be, but it would also be interesting is someone would like to play Jacob. Further, because it’s not a lot of people, in my vision everyone knows everyone, and all of use can make use of some npc’s to fill up the town.

Concerning the story, I think the main idea is keeping the dam save. I plan on Water Leafs trying to take it by force, for instance. However, it could be a mix between sandbox and that.

I will make a character sheet once people are interested. And the expected writing lenght is more up to yourself. It’s casual, high casual, so a paragraph of 2 of 3 is good. Sometimes however it’s just not possible and one paragraph will do.

Is there gonna be a CS, or are we gonna make up whatever?

@Days

Is there gonna be a CS, or are we gonna make up whatever?

@Days

Working on it as we speak, coming up soon! (like 10 min)

Tada.

I would like to add, that I prefer all characters being from Fireflies, unless you have a good idea and run it by me.

Add add: Multiple character is ok too

Ahhh, Mrs Firstname Lastname... it's been a long time since I've seen her...

Writing application soon

As soon as I get a good idea of what to do and how to do it, I’ll put my application up as well.

Ahhh, Mrs Firstname Lastname... it's been a long time since I've seen her...

;)

I’m excited to see what you guys come up with. I’m still thinking about my character myself. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Or ideas are welcome too.

@Days This is just for a bit of fancysmancy decor and to make it easier on members who expect a specific layout;
- Perhaps include the CS in code brackets [code][/code ] (remove bracket) as it makes copy and pasting easier.
- for a tad of neatness you could place the raw character sheet in a hider.
- Most people expect to see only accepted characters in the Characters page, perhaps have people post unaccepted ones as so far in the OC?

Sorry for being that guy.

I’m excited to see what you guys come up with. I’m still thinking about my character myself. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Or ideas are welcome too.

Back to questions then!
How is the culture in the new settlements (Poetry, music, art)?
What’s their relationship with the culture of the past?

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@Days This is just for a bit of fancysmancy decor and to make it easier on members who expect a specific layout;
- Perhaps include the CS in code brackets [code][/code ] (remove bracket) as it makes copy and pasting easier.
- for a tad of neatness you could place the raw character sheet in a hider.
- Most people expect to see only accepted characters in the Characters page, perhaps have people post unaccepted ones as so far in the OC?

Sorry for being that guy.
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No, that’s ok.

I have no clue what you’re trying to say with the code thing. I think it works fine for now.
I tried putting it in a hider, but it won’t do it. It hates me.

And about the accepted sheets, they were supposed to go into the OOC, bht I was asleep ;)

@Days Honestly I wasn't paying attention when I put it up. <:b

@Days Honestly I wasn't paying attention when I put it up. <:b

That’s quite alright ;)

Also, oh my, would Astor like to not be single? ;)

Well I'm done with my character. Am I missing anything or are we good? @Days

That feeling when you spend ages finding the best picture to go with your character but then you see that someone (@SonofJET) is using a picture that looks oh so similar to what I have.... ("o.o)

Dengit, want to be brothers or should I change my guy?

Brothers seems logical. People must repopulate!

I worked out more details about Piero, but I still don’t know how to feel about it. Anyone has some thoughts/advice?

I worked out more details about Piero, but I still don’t know how to feel about it. Anyone has some thoughts/advice?

Which part are you unsure about?

Which part are you unsure about?

I still can’t look at it “objectively”. Basically, does it make sense? Is the general feeling of it fine? Or is there something that doesn’t work very well with the setting?