Wasteland (Looking for people to make a world )

[Dragonfly7022003]

Wastelands
TRIGGER WARNING, this world I have created is dark and bleak, subjects addressed are, Rape, Death, Murder and Mutilation. Enter at your own risk.

If you would like to RP this world Please PM me. I will not respond to messages on this forum.



This was an idea I was playing with and began to lay things out and this world came in to being. The first part is an overview of the world and as you read it will bring in more of an overall look at the creatures and stories that can develop. At the end you will find a Slang Dictionary and a list of Characters I would like to play in this setting. If you have an idea for RP with any of them let me hear your story idea first through PM.

(looking for people to help me make this world through RP. More to come at a later date.)


Overview
Survival is everything in this new world. But at what point do you sacrifice humanity to keep food on the table. Paper money is nothing anymore just something to burn when the nights get cold, what really counts is food, water and bullets. On December 28, 1998 Armageddon came in the form of old countries pushing buttons, bombs dropped, plague spread across the world, along with a nuclear winter that blocked out the sun for years. 50 years after sky dark the People that survived crawl out of there holes in the ground when the winters had finally passed, and the Rad levels had settled to an acceptable level. Some people made settlements built in the heart land where the ground was clean enough to grow something. These places are very well guarded, and usually run by ruthless men who enjoy every vice they can get their hands on. Slave trade became common and the large cities like Chicago, New York and LA became nothing than a Rad monster infested wastelands only the crazy would ever venture there and in small towns across the worlds where they had thought to have escaped the worst of the bombs the plague spread leaving nothing but bones of abandon towns that even animals will not venture in to leaving these towns quite as a winter night.
However, there are the few, known as traders, usually small groups of well-armed people who salvage the wastelands for stuff to trade with these settlements.  Everything has value and the group willing to brave the Rad Zones, abandoned plague Quarantine areas and old military hold outs for their treasures.

Setting
The setting for this world takes place in the United States Here are some of the major cities. More to come later.



(A)   New York City
Been to New York once, looked out over the blasted Rad zone far away the middle of the city is a Skelton of old skyscrapers so Rad blasted it glows at night. Would never eat an apple from there though.
-Story from a Trader in a bar-

The big apple was hit hard by the bombs and in the island of Manhattan has become a Radiation Zone, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Bronx are all no man’s lands where the radiation will kill a man in no time flat. The other parts of the city from Hicksville to the end of long Island the radiation is not so bad with a few hot spots. But few have ever tried to cross the bay to Long Island and returned alive. Others spoke of Scabies and other mutants that live in the hell scape.

(B)   Chicago
Parts of Chicago are safe, and there are a few isolated groups of people who will trade with you. There are raids from cannibal raiding biker gangs, they have been known to partake of the long pork if you get my saying.
-Major John Masken Trader for North Watch-

Chicago was hit by two bombs, one in the center of the city, the other hit the northern part of the city near Evanston. Making a large no man’s land from Joliet to Gary unlivable. But the suburbs around the city have small groups who make a living off what they can salvage. Most of these people are often mutated, from living so close to Rad zones. Often skin will be melting and large cancer growths on their bodies.

Biker Gangs
There are many different groups of motorcycle gangs who run raiding parties all around the edges of Chicago Raiding as far north as Green bay and as far south as Bloomington. When not raiding they usually fighting each other. Most of the bikers steal anything they can get their hands on, but their prizes are people some they sale in to slavery to other barons for gas, ammo and parts to repair the bikes. The older ones and children they find are often used as meat most of the gangs are Cannibals.

Biker Ranking names are based on gangs, but their leaders are the toughest and meanest of the men often having his own harm of pleasure woman or sometimes men. His lieutenants are the lesser men not quite as strong as the leader or even his own sons often they have their own harems of bitches. Lower ranked men rarely have one bitch, the ones who do face a constant fight to keep what is there’s.

The youngest of the women are taken by the heads of the bikers branded with the Bikers Tag Identifying who they belong to (usually a flesh brand, or a tattoo), the women are know as Bitches may stay at the club house (Usually abandoned Apartment buildings) cooking and cleaning for their Old Men.
If a Bitches’s Old man is killed by another Biker in a fight or on a raid, the lieutenant can take the other Biker’s bitches as his own rebranding them or they can be tossed to the regular men, often when this happens these women are raped and beaten. Few survive the night; none do not come out of it scared physically and mentally.


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These girls are bad news, they are smart though. Ran in to one of their scout groups. Barely had to turn the big blasters in their direction to watch them back off.
-Scout team 6 from underworld-
An all-female biker gang outside of what was once known as Las Vegas Nevada, in an old junk yard. They have been known to deal in protection, money and slaves. often raiding vills when they do not pay up the protection money.

(C)   Los Angeles and San Diego
Never go to Los Angeles, the whole area down to San Diego is a Rad zone the parts not Radioactive are flooded the ocean taking back the land.
-General Jason Tover of Underworld-

The whole area from Los Angeles to San Diego is flooded about 20 years ago an earthquake hit the area and the ocean moved in and retook most of the land. The cities are submerged under water during high tide, but during low tide some of the city is available to explore. But there are dangers of sand pits that will swallow a person whole, and there are creatures mutated by left over rads.

(D)   Atlanta
We don't go to Atlanta any more...
    -Valera Tiboskie Trader

Atlanta is quiet, no bombs hit directly on Atlanta, but something wiped out the population in a single day. Some say something was released from the CDC and it wiped out the population. Now 50 years later the whole city is nothing but a deadly quiet and abandon. No one has ever entered the city has come back alive.



Villages
Population: Between 20 to 100 souls
Government: Barony
These are small settlements scatters across the Wasteland all run by a Baron usually located in the central parts of the United States. Barons run these places with their own armies to keep their version of law. These Villages can range from size from little camps, to small towns. 

Loanstar Barony
Population: 2,000 souls
Government: Military Junta
Run by a group of former groups of Militia survivalist in what was once West Texas. It is said that they have a huge supply of fuel and weapons. But their primary trade is in slaves, oil drilled and refined into gasoline, along with fresh meat from cattle. The big six are in charge here, a group of Militia leaders who can trace their families back to the founding Militia members before Skydark. The law is kept by the Loanstar Rangers men whose job it is to keep trading Wags safe and track down wanted men in the waste, and Sheriffs who keep the peace in the Barony often through brutal ways.
Women are though of in the traditional since, most often home makers, taking care of children while the men work as labors and farmers raising cattle and livestock, working with slaves.
The church of GOD is the biggest player next to the big six. Every Sunday all people who are not on patrol or duties that are required must go to church and listen to the sermons of the local minister. Every house has a rewritten bible and are expected to read from it, and use it to keep a family history.

Underworld
Population: 1,000 Souls
Government: Stratocracy
Run by former United States military they have a small settlement on the remains of a military base where they grow food. They often send out salvages and military groups who brave the worst of the wasteland bringing back treasures. Most often the best equipped of any of the salvagers in the wasteland. Rumor is that they have more than the small settlement some say there is a whole city underground. But no raider or bandit has ever made it passed the defenses.

Cults    
I know of many of those cults. I have heard of one in old California that worship an water demon who they give there first new born to in the beginning of the year. Then in New Mexico, there is New Egypt traded with them once, there an odd bunch.
-Trader, Joe Arlington

New Egypt
Population: 3,000 Souls
Government: Theocratic

New Egypt is the latest of the cults to pop up around the Wasteland. Built around a pyramid build in the days before skydark for some movie set. Survivors held up inside and soon a cult of the Daughters of Ra were in power. They all would drink of the pool at the pyramid and see visions of Ra telling them to rule their people. Few have ever traded with New Egypt, stories from traders and others say they are a locked down community cult with a group of beautiful dark-haired women who act as Priestess and Barons. The people walk around with tattoos honoring the Sun God Ra and all of them pay homage to the great pyramid in the center of their town often with blood if needed. Then only thing that people have ever seen of them is there teams they send out to find so called Holy Artifacts.   

Monsters
You think you’re the only thing here, yeah humans are dangerous, but in a rad zone there are monsters who think of you as nothing but a snack.
-General Jason Tover-

There are monsters and mutants, creatures that at one point were human or animal, but something in the radiation and time has created monsters. These are two of the most common monsters one can encounter in the Runes of the old world.

Scalies were lizard-like humanoids often with greenish, scaled skin, yellow eyes, and sharp teeth, however other skin colors have been observed. Like most humanoid muties, they eat flesh, preferring it fresh. They can be found in many places in though always near water. A large army of them controls a good portion of southwestern Manhattan, in the ruins of New York.
Scalies have scaled skin, and look reptilian. But it is not uncommon to see differences from one group to another. Some Scalies encountered have been incredibly hard to kill, possess no nose or hair and are animistic. While another group have hair, noses, and are quite intelligent and live in clean neat communities.

Stickie: They are humanoid in size and form, but are always bald, of low intelligence, and incapable of any speech beyond gabbling, hissing, and hooting. They generally have small, slit-like noses, black eyes, and razor-sharp teeth; their bodies are elastic and heal very quickly - blades are very effective against them, as are explosives, but bullets will only kill a stickie if it hits in the head or heart.
Stickies gained their names from the hundreds of tiny suckers on their hands and feet; once attached to a surface, only main strength or the stickie's will can release them - even death often won't relax a stickie's grip. A favorite tactic is to latch onto a victim's face and tear it off the skull.
They can form cooperative societies, like humans, but view almost every other life form (humans especially) as food. They love fire and explosions - the bigger and louder, the better; often, one can distract a stickie by starting a fire or setting off a grenade. Some stickies are capable of using firearms or even simple weapons, but most prefer to rely on their natural weapons, burying foes under the weight of numbers and tearing them apart with their suckered hands.

"You will die with a sliver tong on the sands of your stinging sins"
-A doom seer to a baron one day before he was killed with a sliver knife and stung to death on a sand bed of Scorpions-
Psychic
Psychic do exist in the wasteland, but they are rare and usually insane and killed as soon as they are found out about they are killed. Seen as mutants by normal people and threats to all.

Doom Seer A doom Seer or Doomey is a person who can see the future, normally this is only bits and pics, things like symbols of someones death. Most suffer from Seizures and die at young ages. Some Barons have put large price tags on Doomeys and there are many that are just crazy.

Mind Killers these psyches are the most feared of all, some can make suggestions and a person feels compelled to do it. Others can control a persons thoughts these are the most insane of Psychic, often trying to control more than one person at a time will drive them to gibbering madness.

Slang Dictionary
Here are some Slang terms that have dolloped over the years.

Sec Man: Term used to describe security personal.

Doomey: Term for a doom Seer

Blaster: Guns Usually

Mutey: A catch all term for Radiation mutated creatures.

Wag: vehicle usually unarmed.

War Wags: Trains of old military armed and armored vehicles.

Traders: Men and woman who travel the wastelands dealing in trade goods.

Chill/Chilled: To be killed or to kill.

Vills: Small villages generally run by a baron

Skydark: Referring to the times of nuclear winter, when the sky was completely dark.

Story Ideas
Just a few story ideas, the throw around, I can use one of my chars below or make a new one to play. I am also looking for new stories as time goes on.

1. A Baron located in Colorado's vill borders a storm that has never stopped and everyone who has ever gone in to the storm has never returned but old maps show a military base located in the center of the storm. After 10 years, something is happening, the storm has began to slow. He has tried to keep the slowing storm a secret, but word has gotten out and the race is on to find the treasures of prewar tech that lie in the center of this storm.

2. A Baron's daughter is missing, thinking she has been kidnapped by rebels who are against the cruel Baron, the Baron offers a bounty for her return. But what happens when the daughter is found, but she has not been kidnapped but is the leader of the rebels.

3. What happens when a Wag Barron's harem of breeding stock is stolen.

Characters

Name: Maraṇa "Angel of Death" Lawson
Age: 20
Home town: Salt Lake City, Utah
Trader Rank: Slave and Doom Seer

Background
Marana dose not recall much of her parents, but she was born a slave. Her mother was the lover slave of a local Baron outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She recalls very little of her mother but she dose recall watching the Baron kill her mother in a drunken rage when she was only 5. She was given to the Baron's only son at the age of 16, the boy was only 18 and he was not much better than his father. She was a thing for him to rape when he wanted, he would often get high on drugs and beat her, she still has the scars. It was soon after this time when the seizure started. She would black out and was told her body would hit the ground and she would writ and bounce around.

During that time, she would get visions, the first one was of the Town they lived in burning as men marched through and killed everyone. She told no one, but another slave who she though was her friend. This slave told the Baron's son, and the Baron beat her to within an inch of her life and through her in to the waste, yelling at her for spreading lies. This turned out to be the best thing. The Baron's town was destroyed, when a gang that had gotten a hold of a war wag moved in and killed everybody. 

She wondered the waste for days waiting for her death, starving and drinking contaminated water to try and survive. She was picked up by a group of nomads, who sold her to another Baron for ammo and blasters. She served as the Baron's maid and pleasure toy. Before she had another Seizure and another vision of the Baron dead a sword shoved through his back. Fearing for her life she kept quiet, and three days later the Baron was assassinated by one of his lieutenants with a sword through the back. Even after this she kept quiet, then one day she had a vision this time men in Military wags came in and killed everyone.

She ran away that night and watched from a nearby ridge as a group of traders in Military Wags came in and the Baron tried to take the Traders wags and equipment vastly underestimating his one forces. The Traders killed everyone, but her. She has been taken many times, by traders looking to sale her and she has come to trust her visions.

Personality
Maraṇa is meek in the face of people, rarely speaking out at anything only to cry out at a slap. Over time she has come to become very Observant and can see where things will lead trying to play it out the best she can. She also has a love for her own death, she is not afraid of the blade at her throat or the gun placed to her head she even becomes aroused at the thought.

Positive Traits
Doomey (doom seer)
Observant
Trained in pleasure

Negative Traits
illiterate
Lifelong Slave
Meek
Love of her own death.




Name: Becky “Becky99” Anderson
Age: 23
Home town: Underworld
Trader Rank: Colonel of the Rad Dogs salvage squad.

Background
Becky99 was one of the lucky ones when the bombs fell on the world. Her great grandfather was a major general who for saw the coming problems and began to build a massive underground town. Then when the bombs fell, he had all the soldiers and their families moved into the town known as Underworld.
50 years passed; the town grew. They had underground farms, water filters and homes. Everyone was raised military. Everyone has to work together to make life better. When the winter finally stopped, and the rad levels were acceptable. They town began to expand into the wasteland. First sending out small scouts to know the area. Eventually other people were found, and the Underworld had reached its maxim amount of people it could support.

So, they moved to the surface and began to send out specialized squads in War Wags to salvage what they can and trade with the local populace. Becky was 18 when she joined her first Squad. She wanted to see what all the stories were really about, and she learned quickly how dangerous the waste was. Soon she rose in rank and took over the Rad Dogs Salvage squad.

Personality
At 23 years old Becky99 is a hard woman. She does not open up easily and is known for her stern look on life and she is a hard nut to crack. Very few have even seen her smile. But the people under her command like her that way. If you want someone watching your back, it’s her. You come back alive.

Positive Traits
Schooled (High School level)
Reads and writes
Military training (basic Weapons Training and CQC)
Loyalty to the Rad Dogs and Underworld

Negative Traits
Cold
Lesbian (has trouble becoming intimate with men)




Name: Jaquelin Dicks “JD”
Age: 25
Hometown: Underworld
Trader Rank: Sargent Armorer/ quartermaster

Background
Jaquelin’s great grandfather was a quartermaster for the local US Army. He helped General Anderson building Underworld.  When the bombs dropped, he moved his family in to the shelter.  When Jaquelin was born, she had an attitude with. It’s said she kicked the doc in the face when he tried to spank her ass.

Life in Underworld was militaristic, everyone had a rank even children were raised with the rank of recruit. But even then, Jaquelin had a mouth on her that got her in more trouble. One of the Majors seeing her fight decided she needed something to focus on, so he started to take her in to the gun cage and begin to teach her about guns. He gave her tec manuals and she gained a knowledge about weapons and ordnance that is un-matched in the Wasteland.

However, her mouth still gets her in trouble, she has made it to the rank of Sargent but has been busted down four times due to her mouth. There was even a trial and talks about throwing her out of Underworld due to a deal she struck with a local Trader Group that almost caused a war, and lead to the death of three Underworld residents it looked like she would be given her weapon, canteen, and escorted away from Underworld.

However through an investigation by one of the squad leader Becky99 who found out that the trader group was trying to trade bobby trapped blasters, hoping to blow a hole in the defenses of Underworld and take everyone, but Jaquelin figured out there plan and saved as many people she could. So the charges were dropped.

Currently she works in the armory of Underworld. However occasionally she finds some way to get out on a scouting group.

Personally
JD is known as a smart mouth; you can be a recruit or the major General she will not fail to speak her mind and she uses quite un pleasant words.  But if you can put up with her mouth, and her disrespectful altitude she will be your best friend and she has a knowledge of blasters that rivals any man or woman in the waste.  She can disassemble one of the few rare FN P90’s and put it back together blindfolded.

Positive Traits
Military Training
Advanced knowledge of Blasters


Negative Traits
Foul Mouthed
Disrespectful



Name: Banshee
Age: 22
Hometown: Outer Las Vegas, NV
Trader Rank: Leader of the Desolation Angels

Background
Very little is know about Banshee's early life, all that is known is she showed up on a custom wag of her own making. She challenged the head of the gang at the time to a race across the Mojave Desert. She made the finish line and the old leader died and her corps is food for the scavengers. After she took over the Angels made a name for themselves. Becoming more than just a simple biker gang. They approached the local vills and offed them protection in exchange for supplies, food, fuel and slaves at times.

They even began to work for Loanstar protecting their shipments moving them through paths they only know. They still raid convoys who refuse to pay for protection through their territory. They even have gone after underworld scavengers a few times.

Personally
Banshee is a hard woman, who takes what she wants.

Positive Traits
Expert on a motorcycle
Advanced Knowledge of the Mojave Area

Negative Traits
Heartless
Merciless


   

Name: Nephthys
Age: 20
Hometown: West of Loco Hills, New Mexico, In new Egypt
Trader Rank: Head Priestess of the Daughters of Ra.

Background
Nephthys is a beautiful dark hared woman, who as long as she can recall has talked to Ra and he talks back to her. He has told her who she needed to bribe to be let into the temple of the Daughters of Ra. What tattoos to take to get her status up and who throat she needs to slit or to kiss to get to the top.

Where other High Priestess of New Egypt, rule over the people getting them to run there little errands. Nephthys will go out her self to get the blessed artifacts. Often leading parties in to Roswell, to clam weapons from an abandoned military bases. She even went as far north to the waste of Denver, to recover an amulet losing all of her team except herself. Some of the other Priestess clam she is risky, and others clam that she is insane, often found talking to herself alone.

Positive Traits
Knowledge of the Wasteland's
Driven


Negative Traits
Screw loose (hears voices)
Vicious

[Dragonfly7022003]

*Added maps and More information on Location*

[InoshimaLance]

What are you planning to do with the concept so far? Make the characters and let players control them or like any other concept find other players to play with you and create their own chars?

BTW, I am interested in the idea, so nice. Can I wonder what kinds of content will you permit?

[AmbrosiaPudding]

If you are looking for multiple people you might want to try the group requests

[Dragonfly7022003]

What are you planning to do with the concept so far? Make the characters and let players control them or like any other concept find other players to play with you and create their own chars?

BTW, I am interested in the idea, so nice. Can I wonder what kinds of content will you permit?

Basically yes, I want you to make a char and have a story for the char, and lets play in the world and develop it. Adding new locations, different people and monsters and as new things are added from RP I will add them to the post with things I like.

Also if you are interested then send me a PM with your char and story and we can make a RP. I currently have one char set up Becky99 others will be added in time.

If you are looking for multiple people you might want to try the group requests

I thought about putting this up as a group RP but I have never been in a Group RP that worked out.

[Dragonfly7022003]

*Added a new character, and information on Psychics*

[Dragonfly7022003]

*Added Story idea's, more slang and new map of the USA*

[Dragonfly7022003]

Added the Desolation Angels

[Dragonfly7022003]

*Added a new idea*

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Bump

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[JessicaHouse]

I'd be interested in playing one of the following types of characters, if you can see a plot forming with any of them:

1. A Doomey (I love crazy prophets)
2. A Reverend who is trying to lead certain people back to the Bible, but having a hard time in this violent world.
3. A Cult Leader could be interesting to play.

Let me know if plot ideas come to mind based on that.

[Dragonfly7022003]

*added Cults, and a New Char for Play*