[OOC] Truculent Nature, Before During and After Disaster

[BigPapaBelial]

[i]Nature can be kind, giving us a cool breeze, warm waters and sunny skies. Nature can give us pure waters to drink and the bounty of the to sustain ourselves on. Earth, water, fire and wind can open the way to great prosperity.

But Nature can also be a fickle bitch. Cool breeze can become freezing wind. Warm waters can turn into boiling sulfurous lakes, and sunny skies can turn dark with biting storms. But it's the ground that can be most dangerous. Shifting earth, tearing apart land, city and civilization alike with the force of tectonic motion. The ground splitting to let lose the hot inner blood of lava and magma through volcanic action. Or causing water to raise high, and plunge mankind into a wet, heavy darkness of the tsunami.[/i]

I'm not sure how I came up with that blurb.

Alright.

So, as a group we need to come up with somewhere for this to occur first. That's our first mission. After that will be character sheets.

So let's hear ideas.

I am seriously thinking about ding our own rendition about the much anticipated "Big One" in California. The one that really causes damage.

That's just me.

[Polyphemus]

Well, this is just me, but I feel like California is way overdone as a setting. True, most people will be familiar with it, but it seems like virtually every other piece of fiction is set there.

Maybe another major city in an earthquake zone, like Santiago or Tokyo.

[BigPapaBelial]

May be a little too soon for a Japanese setting. But at the same time that is true about California. It's always getting hit in movies books and games.

I'll have to look a little closer at areas in earthquake zones.

Meanwhile feel free to suggest more areas.

[Polyphemus]

Yeah, Japanese may be in poor taste. I really wasn't thinking when I suggested that.

The Midwest could work, Memphis and Saint Louis are both threatened by the New Madrid fault and ill-prepared. Spain and Mexico both have history with earthquakes, perhpas Barcelona or Mexico City might make good settings.

Mount Vesuvius is expected to erupt sometime soon, which would endanger three million people in the city of Naples.

[BigPapaBelial]

You know what, I had not even thought of a volcanic basis for this idea. My mind was dead set on earthquake or tsunami.

A volcanic eruption, would be just as devastating. And quite possibly get us the exact same problem.

Dare we try Vesuvius or even Yellowstone maybe? Hmmm that begs some thought.

[Polyphemus]

Vesuvius would be good. Volcanic eruptions are often accompanied by tsunami and earthquake. If people don't want to play Italians, then the United States Navy has based the Sixth Fleet in Naples, the main city threatened by the volcano. I'm sure American sailors would play a major role in evacuation/ disaster response efforts in such an event.