Vilageidiotx

Winter Came on Forever: An 18th Century Alt-History

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Winter Came on Forever: An 18th Century Alt-History

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

Welcome to WCoF! The Tl;dr goes like this: The year is 1770, and an ice age has descended over a confused and devastated world. Glaciation begins as ice forms in the northern climbs and large swaths of previously arable land becomes permafrost. Europeans, hardest hit, flee their ancestral continent for their colonies abroad, and the proud monarchies set up new capitols in the Americas.

This will be a character RP, but one where I allow everyone three perspective characters. By this I mean you can chose three characters who you completely control, and you will have a sort of natural mandate over the people who surround them, but your real control will be based around those three. This is to say that you can't start following the background characters even if they are important to your main character, and if you are a servant in a King's court you won't have control over the politics of the monarchy.

I will allow people to RP historical or politically important figures if you wish, but I want evidence that you know what you are doing before you join as such a character. I don't want an angsty sighing George Washington, nor do I want a Thomas Jefferson who spouts modern Ron Paul politics, or a Frederick the Great with no personality who just goes from meeting to meeting telling people he is the King of Prussia.

You will absolutely be able to make up your own characters, and I will hold original characters to less scrutiny.

I'm also limiting us to the Americas. This is to try and avoid entropy. We might expand it later.

And finally, remember that though there is an ice age in play, this isn't Game of Thrones. There are still seasons, people still farm, it's just moved further south and the produce is leaner.

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(it's a shit map. if anyone wants to make a better one that'd be super keen.)

So the important historical details are going to be this:

After the end of the Seven Years War, relative peace came to the European world. A mild summer led to a calm harvest, and routine seemed to return as people in the northern climbs prepared for winter. And the winter came, and it kept coming, until the freeze was too much to bare and firewood became worth its weight in gold. The northern seas went to ice, and frightened civilization wished for spring. It came, late. Mountains that usually lost their snowy caps kept them the entire year. Summer freezes wreaked havoc with agriculture. And when winter came again, it came hard again.

Immigration came next. They fled from Scotland and Scandinavia, unable to force food from the soil. Nation-states collapsed. The Russians moved south and pressed into the Muslim lands. It was the third winter when it became clear life in Britain was no longer sustainable, and the British crown fled to Charles Town, South Carolina.

By 1770, most of the great empires of the northern hemisphere have moved south, or into their colonies. People still live in continental Europe, but the old capitals have been turned into ruins where a few hearty men scrape out a living in the pale summers. Only the Mediterranean countries of Europe still host significant populations, though even they dwindle as nervous populations and courts find new homes.

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Asshole

what are we doing?

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

I don't use nearly that much profanity.

@Fabricant451

You should use more. It's pretty cool.

I don't know what this is.

1. The thing on your left is your weapon for the zombie apocalypse

@UnknownScarlet4

directions unclear; stalin is now my weapon

If you could change one law in another country, which would you pick?

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I surely do. WORLD POLICE is a source of friction. Give Japan a military and the DPRK -- whenever it goes, it's inevitable that it goes at some point -- will be the moment in history when the US, China, Japan, Russia, and SK (and possibly the EU and everybody else) joins the battlefield all together as allies.

On the one hand, I want to bring as many nations as possible into the new-world-order that will arise from that future alliance (because it will be absolutely necessary, for humanitarian reasons). On the other, I am all in favor of international security which is not wholly dependent on US foreign policy. Give Japan an army and let them worry about the South China Sea. I mean I don't need the South China Sea for anything. You need it for anything?

@mdk

Naw man, I'm perfectly cool with other countries picking up the slack. Just shitposting.

If you could change one law in another country, which would you pick?

Repeal Article 9 in Japan.

@mdk

Shit, I dunno, do we want to let that tiger out of the bag? Those crazy shits can do a war.

18th Century Ice Age

Working on the Hamilton thing. Did we ever get a hard date for the game's start?

@Byrd Man

Nope. I'm just working on the OP bit by bit in a PM. Been a good combo of busy and eaten up with the reading of news.

Aaron's 2020 predictions...

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The current first lady already has nudes.

Or pictures where you can at least see her nipples.

@Dinh AaronMk

those are good though. what is with people coming out against first lady nudes? aren't we all supposed to like nudes?

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Can the bitch tread be turned back into a bitch thread please? Make a Trump thread for this political bullshit or something.

Jesus people don't shit on about the Brexit half as much as Americans and their election.

@Spud

Sure.

But really, wasn't Brexit all we talked about for a couple of weeks? It's only been four days since the election.