The Eternal Grey Winter
1939, a year we all know too well, for this was the year it all changed. Hitler's armies began it's conquest, while the rest of Europe was powerless to stop it. On the other side of the world, Japan continued to expand it's already sizable empire. Fast forward 2 years, 1941, the Soviet Union is having trouble holding off the German onslaught, while Britain is still trying to recover from the blitz. Japan is preparing to attack Pearl Harbor, plunging the entire world into war. But, just days before the planned attack, the unthinkable happens: Yellowstone erupts. Thousands of tons of ash were thrown into the atmosphere. For over a week, it continued to erupt. Finally, after 8 days, it ceased. But the challenges were far from over. Over 2/3 of the continental US was buried in at least a few inches of ash. Areas within a hundred miles of the eruption were buried under more than 5 feet of ash. Millions perished. North America was plunged into a second Ice Age. Japan still attacked Pearl Harbor, but also invaded a week later. Alaska was lost soon thereafter, partially to Russia, and partially to Japan. Finally, a little over a month later, the government collapsed. Citizens rose from the ashes, creating small communities, mostly in walled in towns. The next 40-some years saw little change in their ways of life. The city-states grew, some small wars were fought, and little news reached them from the outside world. The biggest event happened in the 50s, when Hitler decided to send all surviving Jews to the wastelands once known as America. He had hoped they would all die a slow and painful death, they instead formed their own nation, in what was once Maine. They grew from 100,000, to over 250,000 by the present day, around the early 80s. You will take control of a city-state set up in the great lakes region. The Great Lakes, once a hallmark of the US, now nothing more than pits of frozen, grey sludge. The only water that can be found is by melting the snow that falls almost daily.
City-States
Green Bay-Australian Antarctica
Columbus, Ohio-Of the Rnclave
Red Rock, Ontario-Plzen
Great Bear City(On Drumond island, on lake Huron)-San Pera
App
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[box]Settlement Name: Easy enough. What do people call the settlement?
Settlement Government Description: What kind of government? Is there Democracy or a Dictatorship? Include the Government Leaders' names.
Settlement Population: How many people? Remember: Not too many people. I will allow two settlements to be in the thousands.
Settlement Location: Where is the Settlement located within the assigned player area? What city is it?
Settlement Society: Describe the every-day goings of the settlement. Stuff like class structure, layout, beliefs, and how they survive/make 'money'
Settlement History: How, Who, When, Where, and Why of their founding and what's been going on since.
Settlement Goal: At the onset of the RP, what do they plan to do? Conquer, spread ideas, survive, trade, enslave, etc
Settlement Description: Discuss how your settlement is (with respect to the points) in each of the categories.
Points: Consult list below for more, may allocate 35 points, 10 point max. Effects aren't mutually exclusive
Infrastructure: _/10
Military: _/10
Agriculture: _/10
Manufacturing: _/10
Health/Education: _/10
Scavenging/Trading: _/10
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