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The Fireflies Settlement: a post-apocalyptic story of two settlements, a dam and a feud.

Thank you for your questions. They're obviously good ones, that I had not thought to specify.

- 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.

Does this answer your questions?

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The Fireflies Settlement: a post-apocalyptic story of two settlements, a dam and a feud.

The Fireflies Settlement

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The story

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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Extra info

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 300 people.

More info to come as we discuss and pitch ideas.

Suggested characters

• The Leader of the Fireflies Settlement
• Dam engineers
• Bartender/owner of the The Damn Pub (the pub is going to be a big central thing in the RP)
• Settlers that have one of the available jobs (cooks, medics, builders, guards, gardeners, hunters, teachers, cleaners)
• Settlers from Water Leafs (preverably not much)

Who am I and what do I expect?

I'm Daisy, hi! I'd love to have a good group of RP'ers that are quite active. I'm looking for casual to high casual, but activity is maybe most important. I'm from europe, that would be the best timezone, but ofcourse other people from other timezones are welcome too! This would be my first time as a GM, so I might need some more imput than other GM's, and I'll hope you guys can help me with it. Please let me know if you're interested, and if you have any ideas to pitch in!

OOC -> roleplayerguild.com/topics/171402-the…

in absentia (uncharted jungle island, survival, drama) high cas

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@twannyman @Days can you come videotape it?

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Sure, already in Den Haag haha

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@Buddha Going to have to scroll past all the characters to see what we have so far. It's sooo much reading. What happened while I was gone? I can't do a CS like that! I'm going to find a bridge.

Working on it today. It will be small and simple, like myself.

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So we're all immigrants now? I'm not following, haha.

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I've noticed too. What a weird bunch.

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@Buddha Love you, kisses.