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The Jericho Road

Hey folks, I added a Chatzy link and a backup pirate pad, since these pads can be a bit touchy some times. I also added a mp.

The Jericho Road: Post-Apocalyptic, Deiselpunk, Lovecraftian World Building fun

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Jokes aside, I already have quite a few ideas for this. Including one of the major settlements, if it hasn't already been worked out.

Question on the split between science fiction and fantasy though: about how deep do the "Lovecraftian" elements go? Only darkest sorceries and secrets that man was never meant to know? Or are we working with more common (though still statistically improbable) mages/psychics here?

@Dead Cruiser

Really, it's up to you on the magic score. If we're getting too magicky, I will step in to tone it back, but otherwise I think the occasional psychic or w/e is just dandy.

The Jericho Road

Hey there, super interested in this, but I can't think of much right now.

Subscribing, I'll tell you guys if I think of anything badass.

@LHG100

Please do! I'd love to have you aboard. I noticed your question in the pad. Yes, robots are super-allowed.

The Jericho Road: Post-Apocalyptic, Deiselpunk, Lovecraftian World Building fun

Ok, IC is up: link. More detail and structure will come with time, but for now: go wild!

The Jericho Road

cursed is the ground for thy sake
Genesis, 3:17

The Jericho Road

We do not know what- besides pride- destroyed the Old World. But we know that it was terrible beyond comprehension. We know that the Old Ones deployed their nuclear arsenals against it, accomplishing nothing but the irradiation of the earth and sky.

According to what sources we have, Ichor, our lifeblood and our curse, was not to be found on the earth until the Old World fell. Some in the Scholams of the Church claim that our world has been cursed, impregnated by demons, and that the Ichor that fuels our vehicles and powers our cities is the seed of fallen gods and ancient monsters, seeping up from some vast, accursed womb.

That, of course, is mere superstitious speculation. Whatever Ichor's origins, it is the most abundant and efficient fuel source we have, and it will power the rebuilding of the world.

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Welcome to AD 4000

The world is a little different than you may remember.

The good old US of A is well over a thousand years in its grave (no one knows for sure what did it in or, for that matter, what- exactly- succeeded it before the Old World fell...), but its former territory is now a vast wasteland, covered with deserts, carnivorous fungus-jungles, caustic seas, irradiated plains, the endless ruins of supercities, and pockmarked with settlements struggling to survive. Foremost among these is Jericho, a walled metropolis located in what used to be known as the midwest. Jericho is famous for two things: trade- and kicking ass. Located along the famous and infamous Jericho Road, at the midpoint between the fertile Greenlands and the Ichor-rich territories of Terminus Est, the city benefits from the constant flow of trade across the ruined continent, and its isolated position and the incredible dangers of the Road have made it a haven of the rugged and the ruthless.

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This is the framework of the world you will design. This RP will start as an exercise in pure worldbuilding, and players are encouraged to flesh out the barebones I have provided above. Anything I've mentioned: Jericho, Ichor, the Dream Plague, the Road, are all fair game for players to work on, as is the rest of the world: from factions to wildlife to landscapes to lore, and beyond. Most of the work will be done on a PiratePad (link below), and I will assemble it here in a sort of canon encyclopedia of our collaboratively designed setting. I also encourage to folks to build the world through the creation of IC short stories or collaborative scenes, which I will also feature here.

If we find it helpful, I will provide templates for faction and character sheets. But for now I'd like to leave it open.

A Rough Map for people to draw on

We can assume that the ecosystems, climate, and geography (aside from massive mountains and holes in the ground where lakes used to be/are), is significantly different than it is now. The biggest change I will make to current-day geography is this much of the pacific coast has dried up, and now leads to vast salt flats.

Inspirations: dieselpunk, Fallout, Mad Max, Lovecraft, China Mieville's fiction, Warhammer 40K and whatever you folks bring to the table!

Feel free to add ideas here as well as in the Pad below.

The Pad.

The Chat, useful if the Pad fails

Backup Pad

The Jericho Road: Post-Apocalyptic, Deiselpunk, Lovecraftian World Building fun

Will we be writing up a pad again? Shame about what happened to the last one, but I guess that's my own fault for not saving backups.

@Dead Cruiser

Oh I have alot of that saved somewhere- let me find it and I'll send!

Not sure if I can actually RP this due to time and other RPs, but will definately be keeping an eye out for it and maybe poke some ideas of my own in.

The Mad Max idea is especially interesting, I'm sure I can get some interesting war cars (wacas?) up soon if there's a pad ^^ (preferably etherpad since pirate pad is blocked most of the time for me :\ )

@ClocktowerEchos

Great! I doubt we'll be setting up the IC anytime soon, so you'd be welcome to add to the setting as you please! I'll be sure to use etherpads.

The Jericho Road: Post-Apocalyptic, Deiselpunk, Lovecraftian World Building fun

I'd definitely be in. I have a few ideas stored up from a post-apocalyptic setting of my own.

@Dead Cruiser

Awesome, I look forward to working with you again in worldbuilding- I had a blast last time!

The Jericho Road: Post-Apocalyptic, Deiselpunk, Lovecraftian World Building fun

Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:

“At the cost of his firstborn son
he will lay its foundations;
at the cost of his youngest
he will set up its gates.”

Joshua, 6:26

The Jericho Road

Welcome to AD 4000.

The world you know is gone.

This RP will be a collaborative worldbuilding exercise taking place approx. 1000 years after the destruction of a highly advanced cyber-punk civilization in what is now the United States. The idea here is to take an already over-the-top setting like Mad Max or Fallout, and turn it up to eleven. It's one louder, isn't it?

Anyway, the RP will center around the Jericho Road, a dangerous cross country run between two major settlements hazarded by trader convoys. These convoys are the badasses off a badass world, composed of tanks, walkers, huge armored crawlers, and whatever else we can think of, designed to get vital goods across the wasteland safely. This will not be a traditional RP: players will first collaboratively design settings, factions, characters, history, scenarios, species, monsters, wildlife...basically, an entire world centered around the now slightly cliched premise of a retro-futuristic apocalypse. I will contribute to and moderate this process, perhaps with the help of a co-GM. Then, we will begin the IC part of the roleplay, which will be open to new players and set in our co-designed world.

The nature of the apocalypse itself will remain vague- while nuclear weaponry and bio-weapons were involved, these may not have been the only sources of society's collapse. Inspirations for this project are (not limited to): Warhammer 40K, China Mieville's fiction (esp. railsea), Lovecraft's mythos, Fallout, and Mad Max, to name just a few.

Any takers?

The Seven Cities

Whatever you decide in your post :)

Nar Mat Kordh-Ishi - an Orcish saga

I'm all for it myself! welcome, @jbcool