Elpis - Overview
Background Lore:
“The world as we knew it vanished in a flash of light. Airplanes fell from the sky, cars no longer functioned and even the batteries from our flashlights and radios didn’t seem to work. No one knew what to do when they flipped a switch and the lights no longer came on, or when the phone didn’t work. They panicked. There were riots that never seemed to end, guns ceased to function and nothing explosive, electrical or even mechanical work. In that flash, gone were the days of the corner market, an easy text on a cell or production of modern medicines. Many theorize that the axial tilt of the world was shifted dramatically once a space station was struck by an asteroid, raining death and electromagnetically charged radiation down through the atmosphere. Waves crashed into continents and eroded away entire states, provinces, and portion of the coastlines, reshaping the world into what now is often called simply Dyscrasia by scholars and philosophers.
No one seemed to fully understand what happened, what made the world get knocked out of balance. There were some theories delivered from town to town, passed by strangers in the night that said the tilt of the world had to have shifted. Many claimed to know of an asteroid in the sky just before the lights went out, but there was no way to prove a thing. Anything based on electricity or magnetism didn't even sputter before it died followed by the shortage of gas. Some believe that the radiation shower from sky led to the glaciers melting that caused massive floods with only a few managing to escape to tell their tales. Other parts of the world became buried beneath unseasonal snow, ceasing to exist. Nuclear reactors melted down across the world as their precisely tuned magnetic cores failed. Multiple places around the globe went up in radioactive smoke and fire as they collapsed and were torn asunder by the earth suddenly shifting temperatures.
The years of the death followed. Hunger killed many, that much we saw ourselves, the disease many more. We weren’t used to the safeguards learned by our ancestors nor how to stop what we could not understand. Most cities were abandoned save for a lucky few who found a balance that allowed for survival, a return to basics.
Location: Elpis resides somewhere in the Northwestern United States (as it was once known)
Environment: Beyond Elpis is 50 years after the tilt that changed the world. No longer are their machines that can manufacture goods and medicines as we are used to today. Humanity has survived but in a much smaller population. Things that were manufactured before the tilt have worn out, or come very close. The overall goal of the major (and some minor) factions is to topple one another and fight for control of not only resources but to gain favor with the Ancients who will grant contracts to each faction in return for silver, goods, rights, and privilege as well as territory.
Currency: Trade dominates on a barter system.
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Clothing: As this is Second Life we, of course, have limits as to what we can wear. Worn out urban clothing, or rustic appearing clothing is suggested. Military style as well, but again, signs of wear. Brand new looking clothing is out of place on our sim, as even if it was created post-tilt, it would be of the homespun variety.
Weapons: Gunpowder no longer works post tilt, as well as other explosive materials such as TNT. Examples of weapons that can be used are bows, crossbows, machetes, clubs, rustic swords and spears. Ornate weapons such as jeweled swords etc would be out of place on our sim. Your weapons should appear as if they were made post-tilt, and thus nothing you would expect from modern refined weapons, even of the melee variety.
Geography:
The Republic of the North: Majority of the Northern USA and Canada falls under them with the people resolving back. Most of the Coastal areas along the southern states to eastern and western states are declared death zones.
NPC Regions
Ravens: Southwest Desert USA West of the Rocky’
Republic of Wells: Regions past Michigan and the great lakes. (Natural resources needed for our Forges)
Mid West: Wasteland and few heard the rumors of Emergency Zone (EZ) camps. (Believe some who survived still has the seeds for harvest)
Antagonist Religious Republic: Church of Order Upper North West (Their lands are fertile as the ice caps melts the much-needed grassland provides the herds to grow in numbers and provide the Wool needed to make clothing)
Ranchers Republic: Closer to the borders of Mexico. (Most of the food is grown in this region – Fruits, corn, fabrics and other primitive needs for a society)
Phenoix Empire: Beyond Elpis Confined between the California and Nevada region. Title happened on Jan 12th, 1960 and present year is 2010. There are three main posts for the rangers protecting the empire against intruders which are extremely rare to find small villages or communities but some do exist and are mostly landmark based.
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