Dinh AaronMk

bring us the girl and wipe away the debt

Would you kindly not

none of you seem to understand

I know right? Why the heck is he calling me a room?
And who let you out of your cage?

@Sanctus Spooki

"I do not step back shyly from your room but look upon it always as my room, in which I expect no entry limitations."

Horrors of Mongolian Conquest. [MIDDLE AGES]

youtube.com/watch?v=k5B6dytjdMU

@eurocollin

And so, all central government in the world was quashed and all the land returned to peasant ownership.

/rp

Dialectic 0: Beyond Man

@Dinh AaronMk

Well, I was planning on starting off in Virginia, I heard there was a mountain range there that extends south into Georgia, doing a quick search up it's called the blue ridge mountains and as far as I can tell just looking at the topographical map of Virginia there are a few places where I can get fresh water, I'm not sure however how farming would look like, but just reading about the geography tells me it might not be possible in such a forested and mountainous area, this is of course not mentioning the possible effects of the super weapon strike nearby and how that would affect them and the area around them.

Demographic wise, I can see that there would probably be more Caucasians than there are African Americans that would survive, I'm not sure about Native-Americans or whether there are Native-Americans in Virginia. Religion would be heavily influenced by Christianism maybe even changed to a point where it can no longer be recognized as Christianism, and significant historical event that could be preserved would be the civil war thus having heavy connection with the Confederacy. This is as far as I got into making the Nation for the RP in terms of concept.

@Liotrent

The Blue Ridge is an extension of the Appalachian mountain range that extends from Georgia to New England, and the highland mountain strain of Christianity can be rather cultic.

Per agriculture: blueridgeheritage.com/heritage/agricu…

From what I know of the mountains of Virginia most of the area was mined for coal and some mountains blasted for that reason, and while the above mostly deals with the Carolina stretch of the range it's not inconceivable that the Virginia stretch would be without agriculture.

The Fox Fire series of books/magazines may also be a useful reference for the region because they were written to compile and record the customs and food ways of that very region, most of it passed down from the Native Americans (the Cherokees namely, most of which were moved to Oklahoma but there are groups that moved back or were never moved) or the Scotch-Irish that moved into the area. You can probably find some free downloadable PDFs of them first six or seven somewhere.

Byrd might know more, since being a Carolina son he can probably talk about it more.

Dialectic 0: Beyond Man

@Liotrent

I don't think it's necessarily important, in any other NRP people pick up nations or regions with unfamiliar geography and roll with it. Not having first-hand experience with the area isn't very important when you can Google and look at the region in Google Maps.

Dialectic 0: Beyond Man

Being a non-native American, I only have tangential knowledge of the map, although that somehow plays somewhat to my advantage as it also immerses me into the environment as Humans have all but forgotten civilization before the cataclysm. I shall start getting to work on an application, though I am a little bit challenged in terms of creating a nation from this as the post apocalypse is no laughing matter, perhaps I shall make a theocracy, I'm sure the humans who have made their return would most likely see the remains of civilization and the Machines that they've built and mistake it as the work of Gods, for now I just need to conceptualize, I'll get an application up soon.

@Liotrent

For what I can offer per geography, since that's what would matter in this world: The region of New England (North-east United States, above the state of New York) is predominately rocky and hard to farm. Not to say it's impossible since the region has been farmed for centuries and farmers made proper fortune there since they were otherwise close to major ports like Boston (now gone completely). Agriculture in the area left when the Eerie canal was dug connected the Atlantic with the Great Lakes which meant mid-western farmers in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan and points further could more readily get crops and commerce to the outlet to the great shipping lanes of the coast without anything spoiling or making the adventure more complicated than it was worth.

Not everything culturally though would be totally forgotten, I can grant leniency on the matter of material passing into oral history and some androids passing down information otherwise lost, as they would have in other fields appropriate for the current constraints of civilization.

The Appalachians extend for the most part from the very northern north-east down through the south into Georgia (at this point I'm going to say if all else, you'll Google the states to see where they are). Here's a handy map of the subdivisions of the range in the north:



The Appalachians going south through and passed Pennsylvania can be hard and craggy enough that it would more than likely house and keep semi-isolated various communities or pockets of people. The Appalachians come Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and on down are known for being religious in the Christian since and have had their own brand of mystical quasi-shamanistic interpretation with snakes.

The southern coast is defined by bayous (swamps), and depending on how things may go in the region in the future-world pre-war may or may not now be conquered by kudzu, which was imported over from Japan and then let go wild when people didn't know what the hell to do about it.

Michigan in the south is a lot of soft rolling hills, and the Upper Peninsula has always been poor and depopulated and I could easily say would be one of the least effected places, like with the states passed the Mississippi.

Dialectic 0: Beyond Man

And now the map:



This is the world for Beyond Man, or rather half of the North American continent. The rest of the world is still there, but in the interests of trying to keep things localized I've chosen to limit the scale of the map for now to keep us all nearby. If in the future more people sign up and post, and things spread out I'll expand it to encompass the whole of the continental United States and probably the rest of the Canada and Mexico, maybe.

And you might be wondering: what are those regions of the coastal United States that are just giant holes? The effects of the super weapons of the cataclysm at the end of the Great War. Those cities are region targeted for destruction by foreign enemies were so thoroughly destroyed they are naught but deep craters now reclaimed by ocean and the waters of the continent, the land around it wasteland in the immediate aftermath.

It is safe to presume that interior cities suffered the same fate are themselves scoured holes in the ground. But haven't as thoroughly flooded.

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Dialectic 0: Beyond Man

So I'mma see about posting the map tomorrow (or to the normal people, later today/this afternoon/evening). We have anyone else who's going to express any sort of interest, or are you all just waiting for a map and shit?

Dialectic 0: Beyond Man

So long as it means posts.