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Dehumanized - Resources

In 2015, the entire world was pulled into nuclear warfare as World War 3 began. One country bombed another and that's all it took for others to retaliate, creating a back and forth nuclear war that managed to destroy most of humanity. It never officially ended due to the massive loss of life.

Twenty years later, the world is a completely different story. It is rare we see the sun anymore. The sky is usually overcast by clouds as dark as charcoal. Temperatures are cooler than they used to be and it's often a struggle to keep warm. It doesn't rain nor snow as much as it used to either. Growing crops is harder than ever with increased UV radiation due to the thinning of the ozone layer and a frost-free growing season for crops shortened by 10 to 40 days, depending on the region. Skin cancer ran rapid during these years. The population of the Earth has dropped to the thousands. Those who didn't die in the bombings died from disease, starvation or perhaps they were killed by each other.

It is a fight for survival. Laws and morals have been long forgotten. Many have resorted to becoming bandits, killing others for everything they own. These bandits sometimes group together and live nomadically, constantly killing anyone else they can find. Those of us who cling on to some idea of morals, we try to stay away from them as much as we can and fend for ourselves. Those that live sedentary lifestyles either live in random, abandoned places or in small, forted communities that often kill those who try to enter on sight usually due to fear of disease or of spies looking to expose their location. Other people aren't the only ones we have to worry about...

Animals have been mutating faster than the world has ever seen before. The exposure to extreme radiation and chemicals has caused for change in their DNA. They are bigger, faster, and definitely more hungry. There have been cases of flying snakes, eight-foot wolves, and even three-foot wasps. Humans have been mutating too, with cases of men with large eyes with the ability to accomplish night vision and of people with teeth as sharp as razors. People are evolving regressively to be less like humans and more like beasts.

In this new, dehumanized world, we face danger at every corner. Can you survive?

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Penultimate_Pi said
I'm thinking of something along the lines of this:EDIT: Holy crap that picture was bigger than I thought. Spoiler'd

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Pathfinder said
I'm going to deviat from the norm a bit. Meet the Cyclops.

Sweet Ride :)))

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In accordance to the design of Stefan0620; I'm sticking with Titanfall Mechs, it doesn't deviate much to be a torn on the sides and pretty much flows well with all the other designs suggested. It would be cool if we have range on how tall these Mechs are. Maybe a height indicator (which defines Mech class) differentiating anti-personal walkers to Mobile Fortresses.

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Wormgod said
Only been to Chattanooga once, when I was a child. I lived in Tennessee for a long time: Tennessee is aaaaall forest. Most of East Tennessee is forest, with some villages speckled in. I won't even call them towns, since most are a thousand people or less. Neither of the four big cities would be major targets (Memphis, Nashville, and Chattanooga) as neither have a nuclear program or nearby nuclear areas. In fact, Tennessee doesn't have much outside of forests, meth, and coal, and only the east has coal.

I assume this's a yes vote?

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Chattanooga, Tennessee fits the criteria minus the swamp. It's within the vicinity of a forest, near a large body of water, isn't a primary target in WW3 so the area is pretty much intact, south enough that it's warm even during global cooling. The city size leaves a lot to be desired but it doesn't really matter in the long run of the RP.

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Okay, but first what's our criteria?

So the place must be sufficiently warm even during a global cooling. A forest and a city should be within vicinity.... what else?

EDIT: A large water source, such as a river or lake....

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Should we tally up the states suggested and count the votes?

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Metronome said
I would be willing to make Isam a bit more sedentary if that helpsInstead of sailing all over the damn place, he could stick to one area that he knowsand just like, move around within that territory.

Can work :)

I suggest the following states: Wisconsin, Illinois (Chicago seems interesting), Indiana, Michigan

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I think any city would do as long as it's north side and within range of a forest i.e. Canada since there is a diversity of Urbs and Woods people. We only have one sedentary and two to three semi-sedentary characters (really depends on how you look at their backgrounds, most parts their nomadic though they lived in sedentary conditions before) which is disappointing really. More communities would have been interesting, characters could bounce in-between each settlement. It could be a plot-point as the RP goes on and if more players join the frey.