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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 1100 people.
More info to come as we discuss and pitch ideas.Topics discussed
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
1. Since, in my vision, the engineering of the dam, keeping it running etc, needs quite a bit of people, BOTH settlements are needed. The engineers that work there are on a sort of truce. Most engineers knew Jacob and Jess, and prob know they were in love. So, in my vision, most engineers that work on the dam are not as busy with those politics.
2. Yes, they do go back and forth.
3. Economy wise, I have not thought about it. Maybe someone is willing to pitch in about this?
I must admit, I have not thought about it that far concerning most of your new questions. Animals, mainly cows, dogs, sheep and horses will still be there. I don’t feel like guns would be easily findable, and most characters will not have these in possession.
Concerning leadership, the way I see it is that, atleast for our two settlements, there will be like a leader, a sort of mayor. And he can have a council that helps him/her. It would be cool if someone was willing to play our mayor. The mayor and leaders of Water Leafs would be NPC’s, and so would Jacob be, but it would also be interesting is someone would like to play Jacob. Further, because it’s not a lot of people, in my vision everyone knows everyone, and all of use can make use of some npc’s to fill up the town.
Concerning the story, I think the main idea is keeping the dam save. I plan on Water Leafs trying to take it by force, for instance. However, it could be a mix between sandbox and that.
I will make a character sheet once people are interested. And the expected writing lenght is more up to yourself. It’s casual, high casual, so a paragraph of 2 of 3 is good. Sometimes however it’s just not possible and one paragraph will do.
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