Anyways, I think now I should dump the world intro since this is picking itself up a little.
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Map Legend:
Green - safe land
Dark "Coastal" blue - regions of regular tidal inundation. The Bahamas as well are under the curse of being so low in elevation much of the island chain is plunged underwater on a regular basis forming a chain of almost ghost islands.
Black - RP limits. It's not to say these areas aren't relevant but the areas blacked out are done so to keep the RP and its story focused on a specific location: the Caribbean.
The world a century and a quarter after the last impacts.
Humanity in its devastation has been knocked back from its formerly high perch. The old infrastructure that had ran the modern world is like broken glass on the ground and unsalvageable to the children of the old societies. The devastation of the the meteors breaking so much of humanity's back that the rest ceased to function. Famine and disease later only killed more of the population off until the world population was yanked back to 19th century levels.
To complicate humanity's efforts to thrive in this new world more, the wild and dramatic tides brought by the moon regularly leave swathes of the coast underwater at regular intervals. The salty water of the sea flooding the old ports and making safe ports a in-demand rarity, not only for trade but for travel. And even wider along the American and Caribbean islands' coasts are the regular wastelands left behind by the salt-water that washes into the coastal lowlands with regular persistence. Magnified by the legacy of the old world's climate change and deterioration of coastlines the high-tides have purged the life from the coastal wetlands and left them a barren salty mud-flat when the tides recede.
While tidal pools may be found deeper inland, it's hardly as if those'll help.
Lunar effects go further to create dramatic weather, persistent regions of lightning similar in vein to
Catatumbo Lightning and stronger weather cells. But of more intrigue to the adventurers, travelers, and merchants of the world is the persistent mystery of the internal North and South American continents. While not inhabited necessarily, the strange fogs and banks of lightning that roll north and south from each continent as the seasons shift give further merit to the belief of ghostly interiors, and as such ghostly treasures.
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AliceAbigail,
Scrawl Banditta,
Wilted Rose,
mickilennial,
Ekreture,
Supermaxx,
erikh
