MehShrug
Don't Tread on Me
Exerpt from Henrietta's Travels and how they effect you!--
Hello Traveler and thank you for reading my works. Remember this will cover our known history and some current events but if you'd like to know more about the specifics of regions, governments, Dimensional Beings or other know planes of existence please pick up my other works.
Long, long ago, Terra was inhabited by entities that the later Atlantean civilization would refer to as "The Ancients".
they had great control of magic and technology and created great magical ley lines that cut across Terra in multiple directions sometimes intersecting and creating Nexus points of astounding arcane power. It was during this First Age that Earth was to experience its initial incarnation as a dimensional crossroads. The science of the Ancients was such that time, space, and even dimension held no real meaning, and the ley lines were used to create "Rifts" for travel to points both relatively near and unimaginably far. The empires of the Elder Things, the Great Race, eventually crumbled beneath the irresistible forces of time and cosmic realignment, however some were able to "Ascend" to a higher form of pure energy with great power which are believed to be the "Gods" in the various pantheon such as the Greeks and Norse. All that was left were the ruins of their once mighty civilizations.
Pictured above: Current day explorers find a powerful Ley line.
With the passing of the First Age, the Gates fell into disuse and were eventually forgotten. Earth was plunged into a savage dark age, an Age of Reptiles and the Serpent-Man Empire of Valusia. This age was cut short by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago, and the so-called Third Age began.
This Age was dominated by the rise of the Atlanteans, aided by their rediscovery of the lost secrets of the Ancients. Rifts long neglected during the Second Age, their power much reduced by the shifting of the stars, were uncovered and reactivated by the Atlanteans, who mastered them to the extents possible, along with the study of magic, which they managed to shape into something somewhat less more common to life than it had been during the time of the Reptiles and the Serpent-Men. The resulting Golden Age of Atlantis was long and glorious but held the arrival of other powers from beyond the Rifts. Many creatures now referred to as Supernatural such as Vampires, Shape-Shifters, those that would later be called "Deamons" and others. However it was all cut short by disaster 24,000 years ago. That was when the Splugorth, an evil inter-dimensional race of slavers and conquerors, invaded Atlantis proper through the great Rift located in the center of the continent. Seeing that only desperate action could stop the alien menace, Atlantean mages determined to dimensionally "shift" the continent off the planet. It would be the end of their civilization, but it would spare Earth the depredations of the Splugorth. Unfortunately, the sudden disappearance of a continent caused massive geological upheaval, including the sinking of Lyonesse and Lemuria.
The few Atlanteans who were scattered across different points of the planet found themselves stranded in a world plunged once again into darkness. Forswearing their accumulated magical lore and thus eventually greatly fading the effect of the ley lines, they became scions of the emergent human civilizations, helping to raise the species up from neolithic barbarism. Thus the Fourth Age was born, a time of great chaos in which one mighty civilization after another: the Hyperborians, the Hyborians, Modern Man would build great empires only to destroy itself from within. This is also the time that birthed the Wesen, a shifter like creature that look just like and possibly partly is human. Tho it is not know if they came threw the Rifts or are decedents of were-beasts of the Third age. However they are of special note as they are completly indistinguishable from normal humans even in Wesen form except to special humans called "Grimms". It is not known why Grimms can see Wesen.
It had been hoped by those few descendants who still carried the occult lore of the ancient Atlanteans that the coming of the Fifth Age would bring an end to the chaos and perhaps in time that was the case in what was called the "Golden Age" of man. Althougth almost all magic was forgotten, it was learned that all beings from earth have a magic spark in them but how to use it was no longer known, Technoligy blossomed creating cyrbernectic and bionectic enhancements, gene-tweaking, energy weapons, mechonized armor and a plethora of other tech that most of which is lost to us today. Things were peaceful and glorious but then things became worse than ever. Again, the details remain unclear, but it appears that the coming of nuclear war and the simultaneous deaths of millions of people occurring at the precise instance of the shifting of the heavens acted as the sort of massive sacrifice necessary to reactivate the Ancients' long-forgotten network of Ley lines. Furthermore, the realignment of the stars has made conditions on Earth more propitious for the channeling of magical energies than it has been for hundreds of millions of years. Atlantis was gated back to its home dimension quite unintentionally, and Lemuria and Lyonesse all rose from the waves again, drowning thousands of miles of coastline and causing long-dormant volcanoes to erupt all along Earth's fault lines. Untold millions more perished in the months following the Cataclysm.
It is as if death on such a massive scale as this warped the very fabric of reality. The opening of Gates, once achievable only with the most powerful magical rituals, can now be accomplished by even a lone neophyte. Furthermore, Gates began to constantly and spontaneously open by themselves. Most last for mere nanoseconds and go unnoticed, but a significant minority stay open long enough to allow travel between worlds and times. Some are so massive that they've stood open since the night of the Great Cataclysm. Some of these gates connect to worlds where fundamental laws of physics are different from our own and those warped realities are now spilling over, changing the landscape around them into something wholly alien, such as in the great Fungus Forests of the Pacific Northwest.
With all this increased Gate activity, Earth is once again a dimensional cross-roads. The return of Atlantis has brought the threat of the Splugorth back to reality, but it has also returned the Atlanteans from their long dimensional exile. Their knowledge of magic and runes proved instrumental to humanity's survival in the early years following the Cataclysm.
In the century since the Cataclysm, humanity has managed to reestablish itself in several locations around the planet. The geographic land scape has changed so much and even the most powerful governments can only keep control of an area about half the size of the old United states of america with communications technology greatly reduced. But things have changed irrevocably, and mankind is no longer the master of his world. Rifts are no longer spontaneously opening with quite the frequency they did 100 years ago, and it is clear that in time things will return to a level of stasis. It remains to be seen who will be left in the world to enjoy those calmer times.
Taken from Fasts Jack's survival guide--
Hey hey folks it's your friendly neighborhood gunslinger Fast Jack!
And this butifully written peice of spectacular life saving brilliance is my survival guide.
Well then lets jump to it shall we, i gots some gun fights to win.
North America
The strongest power in North america is the Coalition States (CS). The goverment is based in the city of Chi-Town and lays claim to northern Illinois and all of Iowa.
The Coalition States are most often described as a technologically advanced fascist human supremacists with a totalitarian government, restrictive internal media, restrictive education (such as enforced illiteracy), and a massive military. Or in other words....Huge Jerks. They is ruled by Emperor Karl Prosek, and is genocidally opposed to all aliens, D-bees (Dimensional Beings, to include humans from other times and even unlucky CS troops that have traveled through a Rift and survived to return... only to be "contained" and by this i mean killed by his former comrades), human mutations, and Magic. His ultimate goal is to control Terra by humans and for humans, and do so by attacking anything and everyone that is foreign to Earth as it was before the crisis. Nevertheless, Prosek allows some of the less threatening non-humans(chumps) live alongside lesser-privileged humans in the burbs surrounding Chi-Town. Most of these poor souls think that they may eventually gain citizenship so they can live within the protective walls of the City.
Other member states consist of Lone Star, formed from the Texas panhandle, who specialize in mutating animals into talking servants and are one of their primary weapons against the supernatural as without them they would have to rely solely on human psychics. Iron Heart consists of the eastern half of Ontario, Canada.
The second greatest power is "Free Quebec". At one time it was a Coalition State, but constant disagreement with Chi-Town over issues like building Pre Crisis Mechanized armor , education level of the populace, and use of mutant animals, led to secession and eventually a short civil war. A cease-fire was signed but distrust has remained.
The Canadian Mounties managed to survive the great cataclysm, though Canada itself did not. The Mounties have become an independent force called the Tundra Rangers, patrolling the northern wilderness. These guys are freakin awesome!
Mexico is ruled by a group of Vampire kingdoms, who treat humans as little more than cattle to feed upon. Dont go there buddy boy!
The Midwest, both upper and central is mostly seperated into small kingship's and baronies. Some of them no more then a pile of thugs with ion rifles and low power armor. Wich made it easy for the Goa'uld, a race of symbiotes that take hosts and enslave most other races to serve as there work force and army of "Jaffa", to take over good chunks of the area.
Woooo weeee! My favorite part! Much of the western United States has more or less willingly reverted to a mix of modern and past technology, and the days of the Wild West, where outlaws ride hovercycles into battle, cowboys are as likely to raise dinosaurs as they are cattle, cyborgs prospect for gold and other minerals, and wild buffalo, sent to another dimension to prevent their extinction, have returned to the plains in the millions. American Natives have taken up two banners there are the Traditionalist which were also taken by the spirit people and returned to Earth with the Bison.
"Tolkeen" was a major city in the former Minniopilos region, the city welcomed users of magic. Recently, a military campaign made by the Coalition States (which is the primary event of 109 PA) resulted in the magic-user kingdom being wiped off the map.
Meanwhile, the Four Horsemen (the powerful supernatural beings legends named War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death) are traveling across the continent, seeking to reunite and combine their powers into an ultimate destroyer of a monster; but a group of powerful adventurers is hot on their tails, including the legendary rogue scholar (marked for death by the Coalition States for her writings, which criticize the Coalition States), and the 20th century's most accomplished time-displaced expert on the paranormal, Victor Lazlo (whose writings were so popular among P.A. magic-users that they named a kingdom after him), and even the disguised (and unfortunately amnesiac) Egyptian Goddess Isis. Or so ive been told if you can beleive that nonsense!
Deep within the Oceans, a massive, evil Alien Intelligence known as the Lord of the Deep (sometimes mistakenly believed by survivors of its rampages on Terra to be the Kraken) slowly grows ever larger in size and may someday try to devour every living thing on the planet. It is opposed by the Whale Singers, rebellious creations of the monster, and the descendants of the United States Navy, now called the "New Navy". Other forces above and below the waves include a floating city known as Tritonia, pirates including the ruthless aliens known as the "Horune", monsters, dolphins/orca/whales, and extradimensional invaders.
Disclaimer: I did not write a good chunk of this, taken from various sites covering the old RPG Rifts and then edited. Its just such a good setting and i wanted to do this RP for a looooong time!
--
Ok folks don't post out of character in the RP section, that's what the OCC section is for!
Do NOT post in the RP section without posting your character in the sign up section AND getting my approval. Please read rules! All RP posts should be at least one small paragraph and should be written in proper English, im not a grammar nazi but i don't want text speak or short hand.
Lets be adults here, no kid stuff.
Anything passed a kiss or sensual embrace shall fade to black.N\
NO GOD MODDING.
No rail roading other Players into hard situations.
If you attack a PC its described as coming at them but not actually connecting, that will be up to them. If you want a smoother flowing scene then talk to them in private first and get permission.
I hold the right to slap on additional rules at anytime.
Ok folks lets have some fun!
--
Hello Traveler and thank you for reading my works. Remember this will cover our known history and some current events but if you'd like to know more about the specifics of regions, governments, Dimensional Beings or other know planes of existence please pick up my other works.
Long, long ago, Terra was inhabited by entities that the later Atlantean civilization would refer to as "The Ancients".
they had great control of magic and technology and created great magical ley lines that cut across Terra in multiple directions sometimes intersecting and creating Nexus points of astounding arcane power. It was during this First Age that Earth was to experience its initial incarnation as a dimensional crossroads. The science of the Ancients was such that time, space, and even dimension held no real meaning, and the ley lines were used to create "Rifts" for travel to points both relatively near and unimaginably far. The empires of the Elder Things, the Great Race, eventually crumbled beneath the irresistible forces of time and cosmic realignment, however some were able to "Ascend" to a higher form of pure energy with great power which are believed to be the "Gods" in the various pantheon such as the Greeks and Norse. All that was left were the ruins of their once mighty civilizations.
Pictured above: Current day explorers find a powerful Ley line.
With the passing of the First Age, the Gates fell into disuse and were eventually forgotten. Earth was plunged into a savage dark age, an Age of Reptiles and the Serpent-Man Empire of Valusia. This age was cut short by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago, and the so-called Third Age began.
This Age was dominated by the rise of the Atlanteans, aided by their rediscovery of the lost secrets of the Ancients. Rifts long neglected during the Second Age, their power much reduced by the shifting of the stars, were uncovered and reactivated by the Atlanteans, who mastered them to the extents possible, along with the study of magic, which they managed to shape into something somewhat less more common to life than it had been during the time of the Reptiles and the Serpent-Men. The resulting Golden Age of Atlantis was long and glorious but held the arrival of other powers from beyond the Rifts. Many creatures now referred to as Supernatural such as Vampires, Shape-Shifters, those that would later be called "Deamons" and others. However it was all cut short by disaster 24,000 years ago. That was when the Splugorth, an evil inter-dimensional race of slavers and conquerors, invaded Atlantis proper through the great Rift located in the center of the continent. Seeing that only desperate action could stop the alien menace, Atlantean mages determined to dimensionally "shift" the continent off the planet. It would be the end of their civilization, but it would spare Earth the depredations of the Splugorth. Unfortunately, the sudden disappearance of a continent caused massive geological upheaval, including the sinking of Lyonesse and Lemuria.
The few Atlanteans who were scattered across different points of the planet found themselves stranded in a world plunged once again into darkness. Forswearing their accumulated magical lore and thus eventually greatly fading the effect of the ley lines, they became scions of the emergent human civilizations, helping to raise the species up from neolithic barbarism. Thus the Fourth Age was born, a time of great chaos in which one mighty civilization after another: the Hyperborians, the Hyborians, Modern Man would build great empires only to destroy itself from within. This is also the time that birthed the Wesen, a shifter like creature that look just like and possibly partly is human. Tho it is not know if they came threw the Rifts or are decedents of were-beasts of the Third age. However they are of special note as they are completly indistinguishable from normal humans even in Wesen form except to special humans called "Grimms". It is not known why Grimms can see Wesen.
It had been hoped by those few descendants who still carried the occult lore of the ancient Atlanteans that the coming of the Fifth Age would bring an end to the chaos and perhaps in time that was the case in what was called the "Golden Age" of man. Althougth almost all magic was forgotten, it was learned that all beings from earth have a magic spark in them but how to use it was no longer known, Technoligy blossomed creating cyrbernectic and bionectic enhancements, gene-tweaking, energy weapons, mechonized armor and a plethora of other tech that most of which is lost to us today. Things were peaceful and glorious but then things became worse than ever. Again, the details remain unclear, but it appears that the coming of nuclear war and the simultaneous deaths of millions of people occurring at the precise instance of the shifting of the heavens acted as the sort of massive sacrifice necessary to reactivate the Ancients' long-forgotten network of Ley lines. Furthermore, the realignment of the stars has made conditions on Earth more propitious for the channeling of magical energies than it has been for hundreds of millions of years. Atlantis was gated back to its home dimension quite unintentionally, and Lemuria and Lyonesse all rose from the waves again, drowning thousands of miles of coastline and causing long-dormant volcanoes to erupt all along Earth's fault lines. Untold millions more perished in the months following the Cataclysm.
It is as if death on such a massive scale as this warped the very fabric of reality. The opening of Gates, once achievable only with the most powerful magical rituals, can now be accomplished by even a lone neophyte. Furthermore, Gates began to constantly and spontaneously open by themselves. Most last for mere nanoseconds and go unnoticed, but a significant minority stay open long enough to allow travel between worlds and times. Some are so massive that they've stood open since the night of the Great Cataclysm. Some of these gates connect to worlds where fundamental laws of physics are different from our own and those warped realities are now spilling over, changing the landscape around them into something wholly alien, such as in the great Fungus Forests of the Pacific Northwest.
With all this increased Gate activity, Earth is once again a dimensional cross-roads. The return of Atlantis has brought the threat of the Splugorth back to reality, but it has also returned the Atlanteans from their long dimensional exile. Their knowledge of magic and runes proved instrumental to humanity's survival in the early years following the Cataclysm.
In the century since the Cataclysm, humanity has managed to reestablish itself in several locations around the planet. The geographic land scape has changed so much and even the most powerful governments can only keep control of an area about half the size of the old United states of america with communications technology greatly reduced. But things have changed irrevocably, and mankind is no longer the master of his world. Rifts are no longer spontaneously opening with quite the frequency they did 100 years ago, and it is clear that in time things will return to a level of stasis. It remains to be seen who will be left in the world to enjoy those calmer times.
Taken from Fasts Jack's survival guide--
Hey hey folks it's your friendly neighborhood gunslinger Fast Jack!
And this butifully written peice of spectacular life saving brilliance is my survival guide.
Well then lets jump to it shall we, i gots some gun fights to win.
North America
The strongest power in North america is the Coalition States (CS). The goverment is based in the city of Chi-Town and lays claim to northern Illinois and all of Iowa.
The Coalition States are most often described as a technologically advanced fascist human supremacists with a totalitarian government, restrictive internal media, restrictive education (such as enforced illiteracy), and a massive military. Or in other words....Huge Jerks. They is ruled by Emperor Karl Prosek, and is genocidally opposed to all aliens, D-bees (Dimensional Beings, to include humans from other times and even unlucky CS troops that have traveled through a Rift and survived to return... only to be "contained" and by this i mean killed by his former comrades), human mutations, and Magic. His ultimate goal is to control Terra by humans and for humans, and do so by attacking anything and everyone that is foreign to Earth as it was before the crisis. Nevertheless, Prosek allows some of the less threatening non-humans(chumps) live alongside lesser-privileged humans in the burbs surrounding Chi-Town. Most of these poor souls think that they may eventually gain citizenship so they can live within the protective walls of the City.
Other member states consist of Lone Star, formed from the Texas panhandle, who specialize in mutating animals into talking servants and are one of their primary weapons against the supernatural as without them they would have to rely solely on human psychics. Iron Heart consists of the eastern half of Ontario, Canada.
The second greatest power is "Free Quebec". At one time it was a Coalition State, but constant disagreement with Chi-Town over issues like building Pre Crisis Mechanized armor , education level of the populace, and use of mutant animals, led to secession and eventually a short civil war. A cease-fire was signed but distrust has remained.
The Canadian Mounties managed to survive the great cataclysm, though Canada itself did not. The Mounties have become an independent force called the Tundra Rangers, patrolling the northern wilderness. These guys are freakin awesome!
Mexico is ruled by a group of Vampire kingdoms, who treat humans as little more than cattle to feed upon. Dont go there buddy boy!
The Midwest, both upper and central is mostly seperated into small kingship's and baronies. Some of them no more then a pile of thugs with ion rifles and low power armor. Wich made it easy for the Goa'uld, a race of symbiotes that take hosts and enslave most other races to serve as there work force and army of "Jaffa", to take over good chunks of the area.
Woooo weeee! My favorite part! Much of the western United States has more or less willingly reverted to a mix of modern and past technology, and the days of the Wild West, where outlaws ride hovercycles into battle, cowboys are as likely to raise dinosaurs as they are cattle, cyborgs prospect for gold and other minerals, and wild buffalo, sent to another dimension to prevent their extinction, have returned to the plains in the millions. American Natives have taken up two banners there are the Traditionalist which were also taken by the spirit people and returned to Earth with the Bison.
"Tolkeen" was a major city in the former Minniopilos region, the city welcomed users of magic. Recently, a military campaign made by the Coalition States (which is the primary event of 109 PA) resulted in the magic-user kingdom being wiped off the map.
Meanwhile, the Four Horsemen (the powerful supernatural beings legends named War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death) are traveling across the continent, seeking to reunite and combine their powers into an ultimate destroyer of a monster; but a group of powerful adventurers is hot on their tails, including the legendary rogue scholar (marked for death by the Coalition States for her writings, which criticize the Coalition States), and the 20th century's most accomplished time-displaced expert on the paranormal, Victor Lazlo (whose writings were so popular among P.A. magic-users that they named a kingdom after him), and even the disguised (and unfortunately amnesiac) Egyptian Goddess Isis. Or so ive been told if you can beleive that nonsense!
Deep within the Oceans, a massive, evil Alien Intelligence known as the Lord of the Deep (sometimes mistakenly believed by survivors of its rampages on Terra to be the Kraken) slowly grows ever larger in size and may someday try to devour every living thing on the planet. It is opposed by the Whale Singers, rebellious creations of the monster, and the descendants of the United States Navy, now called the "New Navy". Other forces above and below the waves include a floating city known as Tritonia, pirates including the ruthless aliens known as the "Horune", monsters, dolphins/orca/whales, and extradimensional invaders.
Disclaimer: I did not write a good chunk of this, taken from various sites covering the old RPG Rifts and then edited. Its just such a good setting and i wanted to do this RP for a looooong time!
--
Ok folks don't post out of character in the RP section, that's what the OCC section is for!
Do NOT post in the RP section without posting your character in the sign up section AND getting my approval. Please read rules! All RP posts should be at least one small paragraph and should be written in proper English, im not a grammar nazi but i don't want text speak or short hand.
Lets be adults here, no kid stuff.
Anything passed a kiss or sensual embrace shall fade to black.N\
NO GOD MODDING.
No rail roading other Players into hard situations.
If you attack a PC its described as coming at them but not actually connecting, that will be up to them. If you want a smoother flowing scene then talk to them in private first and get permission.
I hold the right to slap on additional rules at anytime.
Ok folks lets have some fun!
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