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There are as many as 100,000 active missing persons cases in the U.S. at any given time.
The majority of these cases are solved.
Some are not.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS AFFAIRSOn the morning of July 18th, 2013, the town of Rachel, Nevada, ceased to exist. Twenty-four hours later, residents of Crystal Springs reported that the sun had simply not risen in the morning. An hour later, police in Amargosa Valley reported that the dead simply weren't staying dead. For a wide swathe of Southern Nevada, the strange and not-strange had become one and the same. Reality warped, distorting on a whim. The national guard, bolstered by reinforcements from abroad, could do little more than evacuate and contain. Even still, their efforts proved fruitless. Creatures began to appear in the affected zone, seemingly dumped into the world through the tears in reality that had become so commonplace. Aliens, mutants, spiders the size of cars, living houses. It seemed nothing was impossible in this strange new place that came to be known as the Nevada Containment Zone.
As the years passed, the Zone became an everyday part of life. Barely newsworthy, save for the occasional breach that brought news pundits together for inane discussion. The stories of endless refugee camps gave way to reports on the wonders that the Zone could produce. Technology, dumped into reality from other worlds, became a cornerstone of civilization. By 2015, Cancer had been eradicated in the developed world. By the end of the same year, NASA had unveiled plans to launch space missions using the new, anomalous technology. Yet, with the wonders came terrors, and for every cancer cure, there were other, less savory developments. It didn't take a genius to understand why the American military suddenly became bolstered with cybernetics and psionics programs.
Then, in late 2016, it all stopped.
New anomalies simply stopped forming. The Zone grew quiet, stagnant. The question rose of what could be done with the tainted land, and from that was borne the Nevada Reclamation Program. Headed by the United States Department of Anomalous Affairs, the program seeks to reclaim areas of the Zone for resettlement. Yet, there is a secondary goal. Thousands are still listed as missing, and many want answers, no matter how horrid they might be. Thus, the so-called "Closure Department" was born, to locate those still missing since the first incidents.
You have been selected for such a program.
Welcome to the Zone, agent.
THE ZONE: RECLAMATION is a sequel to THE ZONE, a survival horror RP taking place in an area of distorted reality referred to as the "Containment Zone." RECLAMATION takes place roughly three years after the events of the original RP, in the year 2020. The world has changed immensely since the first RP, as anomalies begin to be used in everything from the military to daily life.
This is not a story about that.
This is the story of what happens after the apocalypse is cancelled.
Much of Nevada remains uninhabitable. While the United States Police Force and the National Guard patrol the borders of the Zone, the government has begun incursions to reclaim what was lost. The latest such incursion is now known as District Five, on the outskirts of the former city of Las Vegas. Inhabited by only about three hundred residents, the small town is the home base of the so-called "Closure Department." An informal group of former search and rescue, police, mercenaries and the like, the Closure Department exists to, as the name implies, find closure for those that went missing when the Zone was active. Even three years later, thousands are unaccounted for. Children, men, women, soldiers, even whole families disappeared in the Zone years prior.
And someone has to figure out what happened to them, whether they find a survivor or a corpse.
Yet, something is still not quite right in the Zone. Though the freakish eldritch creatures have retreated to the innermost affected region, highlighted in red, there are whiffs of a new conspiracy about. The Department of Anomalous Affairs, the nebulous intelligence agency founded to oversee the Reclamation Program, is an ever present force in the region. Some believe they may have less than savory motives in the Zone, and that, perhaps, there might be things that have gone missing in that place that they don't want found.
The Rules
- Don't be a Dick.
- Please keep military / special forces characters to a minimum. They're boring as sin.
- The Word of OP is law, the word of the Co-Ops is law unless otherwise stated.
- Characters with supernatural abilities are ONLY AVAILABLE to OP and Co-Op.
- Characters with supernatural powers OTHER THAN the OP and Co-Op will NOT be accepted.
- Poor Spelling, Grammar, and overall Poor writing ARE grounds for application denial.
- Not participating in the RP for any considerable period of time is grounds for character death.
- Inactive characters can be resurrected if the original writer returns; active characters killed during the story CANNOT be resurrected without GOOD reason.
- No, you cannot have a light machine gun, flamethrower, plasma rifle, etc.
- You can't have a missile launcher either, unless OP says so.
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- Don't go overboard with gore, violence, etc. Do things in good taste, basically.
- Have fun!
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