Have you ever wondered what would happen if society ended in a global scale, but wasn't irradiated? What new life forms would arise, and how would humanity deal with this?
The Luxurious Wasteland takes place in a post-apocalyptic American Eastern Coast 14,000 years after a large meteor impact caused society to collapse, but not even robots from that time know this. But it's not all a dry hellhole as you may think. The Southern coast as lush forests and gorgeous beaches, while the North is covered in snowy forests and conifers. But, as luxurious as the environment may be, it has its downsides. The forests are abundant with giant insects, terrestrial crocodiles, and mammals are almost non-existent. Strangely enough, there are also a wide variety of evolved crayfish. From simple swimmers to complex gliders, you can't go 2 steps without spotting one.
But there's intelligent life, too. Human settlements are abundant are in New England, simply called the North, while some smaller ones dot the South, even though these are under constant attack by the wildlife. The Luxurious Wasteland follows a group of Southern survivors looking to band together and make the perilous journey to the North to find a supposed land of honey and milk, a journey that no one else has returned from. They will come across many small factions, and discover horrible truths about their world while evading mysterious forces and blatantly dangerous threats.
It will start out in a Palmetto Guard city-state known as Fort Palmston, where Charleston once was. It's walls were erected long ago from the remnants of Charleston buildings, and since the last it has become a home of primitive humans who spend their time trading goods and farming food for the populace. They have trade with people from other city-states but will also buy goods from loners, so your characters can either live in the Fort, be from another city-state, or just be a loner. Loners and tribals are not very well trusted by these city states, so while they can trade, they're not allowed to spend a lot of time there usually.
IC: to be added
Rules:
1) As the creator I always have the final say, I can choose to deny any application for any reason.
2) No god-modding or controlling another's character without their consent.
3) Normal players may only RP as a human, robot, or bipedal crayfish.
4) Your character may not start out with a gun or similar weapon, any guns created before the apocalypse have been decayed. Guns will be earned as the RP goes on.
5) There is no limit to characters, but I expect you to be reasonable.
6) No flaming or being rude to other players.
7) Keep it PG-14, gore is allowed but don't go overboard.
8 ) If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, I love answering them, and you are not being a bother.
9) No magic allowed, period.
10) No one-liners allowed, at least a paragraph is the bare minimum but more is better.
11) When making a robotic character, try to avoid making them too advanced. Advanced tech will be added soon, and robot characters can be upgraded.
12) It's been 14,000 years since the apocalypse, act like it! No original clothes would be in a usable condition, and even basic modern day knowledge would be unknown unless your character specializes as a historian or if they're a robot. Same goes for terminologies, names, etc. Also, life sucks for almost everyone, so it's unlikely that they would act very positive.
13) If you want to make some lore that would be significant for the universe, like an organization or anything pre-apocalypse, ask me first.
The lore of TLW is surprisingly deep and complex, as I've been working on it for almost two years. So don't be deceived by the vagueness of it early on.
