Awakening the Origins of the Past with the Ashes of the Future
Mystical lights rained across the sky. Rocks that burned with a hot white light fell from the heavens; a cause and effect of a man made solar flare. A helpless city watched as their own doom fell upon them.
For years, man had been searching for an answer about life on other planets. To explore the universe and all its horizons was man’s second greatest dream. Shuttles and satellites lined the sky, but a positive reading could never be brought back. Finally, a team of scientists decided to try and use Mother Nature herself to try and read the starry skies. By impregnating an asteroid with their technology and guiding it towards the sun, a dormant and tame sunspot absorbed it, causing a cataclysmic solar flare.
As the shock waves of heat swam through the stars, many planets overheated and fried instantaneously. They had hoped to use this reaction with their radiation to read the universe with electronic drenched heat waves.
The result was far greater than they’d hoped for.
A disrupted asteroid belt melded and began colliding with nearby planets. Earth was no exception.
A beautiful and deadly light show took place one night as asteroid fragments began crashing into the Earth. City skylines were destroyed instantly; thousands of people slaughtered by horrific nature. Citizens scattered like ants on a hill, trying desperately to flee in any which way but there was no escaping the inevitability. Or was there?
The same team who was responsible for bringing this act of nature on the planet had an answer. Those chosen with devices around their wrists were secluded in cryogenic slumber, often somehow related to one on the scientific team. Less than a lucky hundred of people were sealed away, their lives frozen in time until they would awaken. When? Who knows. By who? Whoever discovered them. What would they awaken to? Hopefully a new world. Their fate was no longer in their own hands.
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Now, 400 years into the future and the world is a desolate place. All that remains of the past are the ashes it left behind. The remnants of a few cityscapes lay scattered among the plains. The forests have taken over most of the planet, thriving in a world where mankind can’t tear it down.
After the collision with the meteor shower, sun infused rock began to react with the Earth. The forests grew to enormous strength, covering nearly 70% of the planet. Nobody dared to go into the forests anymore. Stories and legends told of large creatures which stalked in the trees, thriving in the comfort and shelter of the trees, never set a foot outside their boundaries. Nobody knew what these creatures were; nobody dared to enter the forest alone.
The few remaining survivors of humanity have banded together, forming small rural colonies that were few and far between. They had all the natural resources at their fingertips, but had to start civilizations from scratch.
Now as a few curious wanderers stumble upon one of the ruins which holds some of the last remaining cryogenic tanks, they’ll discover how easy their lives have been. And those who are awakening... they’ll either have to learn to adapt to a new world, or find a way to bring back their past.
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So here’s how the main story’s going down... depending on how many I can get to join, they’ll be divided in two groups... some will be awakening from the past, and some will be a part of the group who are discovering them. The choice is yours, but it needs to be fairly even.
The main storyline is going to go as the small group awakening, learning to try and live in this new world but grow tired of it. They’ll have their Nikels, portable communication devices from the past which will play a larger part in the RP later on. It’s the last remaining tie they have to their past, as well as to each other. They’ll want to find a way to bring back the glory of the civilized nature of the past; hopefully the RP will last long enough to make it that far.
Same RP Rules apply here as they do anywhere else. No Godmodding, no powerplaying, don't speed post, and please PLEASE put some thought and effort into your posts. Take your time even, I'd like to see a bare minimum of 3 paragraphs per post as this is mainly a story driven RP.
RP Template is pretty much standard. There’s no magic, no huge fighting, it’s more a story driven RP than anything. It may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but who knows. I don’t really want more than 3 or 4 people awakening, and I’ll have myself an NPC to help guide the others who will be exploring the area where they awaken, just to get it started. They can’t really.. spontaneously awaken.
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Thus far, myself, Martel and Ami have reserved Awakeners. Depending on the character bio, I'll accept up to 2 others, possibly more depending on the overall turn out.
