The Road to Ruin
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The Road to Ruin

In an alternate future, the world around us has fallen into disrepair. People are different here. They think, feel, and communicate differently. Inside is a beautiful world with great things, unless you're Different. Then it may very well be hell.
 
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Rook Robinson

Rook Robinson


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Join date : 2008-12-22

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PostSubject: The Setting   The Setting I_icon_minitimeWed Dec 24, 2008 11:41 pm

Road to Ruin is an alternate future RP with minor sci-fi spin. In the world our characters inhabit, people as we know them now are a dying breed. People have developed a telepathic link with each other- a superficial link that conveys emotion and intuitive understanding of each other. These people are called Normal.

Man as we know it has been rapidly dying out over the span of generations. These people do not have any telepathic or empathic connection, therefore are completely oblivious to telepathic communication.

The world is a different place. Most of the modern structures as we know them have long fallen into decay. Cities made of stuff less stern than stone have long collapsed into useless shells. The majority of our technology has been lost to time, and the highways stand clear and deserted.

In the part of the world that Road to Ruin focuses on, wooded foothills and mountains isolate the few things that pass for cities here. Between the more metropolitan areas like shanty towns and businesses built in the shadows and shells of things long abandoned.

People walk a lot here, crossing the continent on foot as if it were the most natural way. Through the highways and footpaths, beautiful parks have been immaculately maintained by the Normals.

A note on technology: If it runs on batteries, you're boned. With the exception of a few rare places, you also won't be able to plug anything in or turn anything on. Cars are rare, but they do happen. Remember, the world has moved on. Chances are there aren't any working Ferraris around. If your character needs a computer and an XBox to feel whole, your character needs to be apped somewhere else, silly.

A note on society: The dying are as good as dead. People are harder in a lot of ways. The sanctity of life has been taken down a peg or two. If you're sick and seek treatment, the Department of Physiology will be happy to write you a scrip. If you just got mugged and are bleeding on the pavement, people will walk by you like you aren't even there. In other words, if you can't survive on your own then you won't. Life threatening conditions can easily be treated by euthanasia.
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