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Chapter Zero: Afraid of the Dark
The me that used to be here
Has gone away but I can't say where
I fear I may have killed him
I'm so scared
-Anonymous graffiti in a ruined Texan city, found near a pile of dead women
It has been a long, painful ten years since the Great Divorce. Across the world, the silence of the countryside, ravaged by the nuclear winter brought upon the great meteor shower, is finally becoming alive as the hordes start beating the drums of war. Very soon, the great fires that wiped out cities will burn once again, and it threatens humanity's very survival.
North America was the sight of the worst bombardment of meteors in the entire world. New York City, Toronto, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver are just a few former centers of urban living that were completely wiped off the face of the earth. The great fires that burned from the Appalachians, across the Great Plains ,and all the way to Pudget Sound, spared few, and numerous reservoirs were contaminated with nuclear residue of destroyed power plants and from radioactive material from the meteors themselves.
Of all the areas in North America, the West Coast was spared the most. While numerous cities became nothing but ruins, enough civilization survived that the people could live a comfortable life. In fact, there was even limited contact with satellites, bringing limited contact with the internet. Although these communications were very brief before they permanently went down, one site the incresingly powerful women of the West Coast focused on was Tumblr. Predominantly already used by women, it served as a unifying factor of the surviving females, a shared heritage that they could base their society one. Eventually, the females would base their national identity on this website (did we mention the reservoirs were contaminated?), with their leader renaming herself to her tumblr username, ****-yeah-superwholock.
However, somehow the men also got the internet, with a few smuggled laptops within their pens in the breeding centers. However, whereas the women had tumblr, the enslaved men brought their attention to reddit. Drinking from the same contaminated resevoirs the Tumblrs were, the oppressed men of the west coast started to base their identity on Reddit. Ten years ago, a small debate over a Tumblrite and her manslave over which site was superior led to the North American Great Divorce. En masse, the men threw off their chains and left the west coast towards the Great Plains for freedom.
However, in the charred planes of Nebraska, there was a division that threatened to splinter the new "Reddit Army" in two. A substantially sized minority of the Reddit Army started to ritually consume red pills before battles or raids. The Red Pillers, as they were called, felt these red pills symbolized their eternal struggle against females, and would lead them into victory. The orthodox, led by Lily Dreamer, dissaproved, stating that they were only going to get a drug addiction to unknown pills that they can't even reliably make. When Dreamer made strides to force the practice to end, the Red Pillers decided to split off from the Reddit army, and go further east to mark their own territory.
In Texas, a different tribe of men, independent of any action in the West Coast, started to make their presence known to the Reddit Army and Tumblr. Calling themselves the Fringe Socialists, they represent free men who have turned to communist state in order to meet their survival needs. While the feminist state in which they came from had perished after their violent Great Divorce, the Fringe Socialists have heard vague rumors of a land of women on the west coast, far stronger than any other. They have henceforth declared a vendetta against this mysterious nation, and plan to tear it down for the mistreatment that their ancestors and themselves had in captivity.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, a great horde of men has arrived in the island of Great Britain. Calling themselves the Manpire, they sailed from the "sunken" Isle of Man, overthrowing the female state that was present there. Mooring their damaged, no longer seaworthy boats in Northern England, the Manpire already has a fearsome reputation of containing the world's greatest marksmen to ever live. These "noscopers", as they call themselves for their disdain of telographic sights on their rifles, ritually smoke cannabis during battle, which seems to be the only thing that prevents them from subsuming into a childish rage.
On the mainland itself, Europe is dominated by a collection of feminist states. On the coast of the Baltic Sea lies the Teutonic Order. Their newly formed Marienburg is now filled with women in suits of armor, who are armed with both sword and rifle. Declaring that they have a direct link of the Teutonic Order of old, the formerly male-only religious order has mysteriously swapped genders, and is filled exclusively with women. However, the orderswomen are united in faith, a faith of female superiority and the inevitable destruction of males. Hochmeister Margaretha Seidel has not let up; she has declared a need for a crusade against the heathen men that blight the Earth. Only through death or forced servitude are males cleansed.
Down south, in Northern Italy, a mysterious organization known as the Order of Nosdracha has repopulated the ruins of Venice, which admittingly is mostly intact. The Order, which claims to have existed since the late 19th century, runs the surrounding region as if it was an actual nation. Nosdracha used to be spared from the gender conflict that plagued the rest of the world. However, ambitious female warlords overpowered the original incarnation of Nosdracha, and with the support of backstabbing female board members, successfully reformed itself into a feminist corporation. The warlords have since been largely subdued into the hierarchy of Nosdracha itself, and Nosdracha has settled into a newfound hegemony of the region. Interestingly, the Order never had a Great Divorce; most of the men were massacred by the warlords sacking Venice, far before they were ever able to escape.
Perhaps the closest organization resembling a pre-meteor nation is the Volgan Republic, situation in Southern Russia. Much like Nosdracha, it too is centered upon a resettling of a ruined city, this time Volvograd. The Volgan Republic is nominally a democracy, but measures enacted by Premier Stasya Avdotina means that "fair elections" is regarded with the same incredulity as "duo-gendered nation". Elections still occur, but state-mandated propaganda and increasing use of military force to stamp out dissent has made it virtually impossible for new blood to challenge the entrenched elite. Many Russian women adore the stability and order the Republic brings, but there is also a increasing movement for liberalization of the government, one which may prove impossible to ignore.
Finally, in China, as a result of the People' Republic of China's one child policy, the Middle Kingdom was one of the few nations in which men still outnumbered females after the meteors fell. In this regard, there was never an enslavement of Chinese males in the same regards the other hordes formerly suffered through. Instead, it was in fact the men who kept the females locked up in breeding pens originally. However, China was one of the places hit the hardest with meteors; even rubble was hard to find as the once plentiful fields and forests turned to soot. The land was simply too destroyed for sedentary lifestyle, and instead the Chinese decided to live out a nomadic lifestyle. During this transition, most of their women escaped in their own Great Divorce; most of them deciding to take a journey to the west for a better future. No one knows what happened to them.
Thusly, the darkness of newfound gender conflict blankets the Earth. Both men and women alike across the world are readying their weapons, itching to finally prove that the sex they were born into is the superior one. What these poor fools did not know at the time was they shouldn't have been so welcoming to the prospect of this upcoming vedentta. That maybe they should had been Afraid of the Dark, rather than welcomining.
What do I know?
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No stats because the game is starting just now and everyone should know what they have if they read the rules.
Thor had a few lore questions that I will address right now. Nobody alive remembers the time before the meteors striked. Therefore, no one actually remembers the Earth that once was, that was peaceful and united and not burned into cinders. Also, thanks to a lot of fighting, disease, and general hellish landscape, mortality in this new world is high. Living into your 50s is an accomplishment in this Earth. Since the Great Divorce only happened ten years ago, many people do remember the time of enslavement.
I'm going to call soft lock on update one on
Monday Wendsday of next week. Have fun until then, and feel free to shoot me any questions. Anyone who wishes to join can still do so.
. I do have intentions on joining a female state anyway.
