SkyGinge
Sad Shroom
Posthuman
A flash of light, a piercing scream. A feeling like falling, like the world caving in on you from every angle. Those last thoughts, final regrets. Then the weightiest silence you’ve ever felt, thick as smog. The feeling of something being drawn out like honey from deep within your chest – all the while, an overwhelming sense of terror, of closure, of ending.
You died.
But then you woke up. You find yourself on a strange beach with a horizon that stretches on forever. And somewhere below, a fractured world of metropolises and seas, a universe twisted the edge of stability.
This is the end of the world. This is Apocalypz.
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They thought nothing was beyond their grasp. They thought they could build anything, go anywhere, and do anything. They understood the laws of existence so deeply that they could treat the world like a computer and code into existence technologies beyond comprehension. But when one scientific experiment went drastically wrong, the entirety of creation was compressed into an eclectic simulation. Underneath the purple skies of Apocalypz, the last vestiges of humanity remain.
Safe from the tumultuous electric-blue seas which twist, climb and fracture, these future humans live cooped up in seven huge cyberpunk citadels. For the lower classes, this life consists of mindless manual labour in the smog and slums of the lower levels. The higher classes meanwhile operate on a hierarchy of technological modification, where higher status provides greater access to innovative new biotech. Biological sanctity has been all but abandoned – this is the age of the posthuman. And this world will not last much longer – each day the edges of existence compress tighter and the skies grow more chaotic. Death is inevitable, and the entirety of remaining life faces a crisis of existence.
But not those who are Destined. Upon death, the human soul usually dissipates from the flesh to travel through the Plain of Oblivion into the Beyond, where nobody knows with certainty what awaits. However, the fortunate few awaken on the beaches of a peculiar place called The Upper Layer. Intrinsically tied with Apocalypz and seemingly dating to prehistory, this place connects the inaccessible, metaphysical world to the last age of humanity through the Well of Souls. This new life, born again from all across human history, leads not to eternal freedom, but to immediate conscription into the Watchers, the military force of Apocalypz. Serving President Tobias Krillitt, these specialized soldiers are augmented with elemental-orientated combat technology called plasmatics and tasked with keeping peace within the cities and stopping people from travelling back in time to change the past. For the wild seas of Apocalypz are a fractured mass of ever-shifting portals into human history that must be carefully monitored – paradoxical interference in history could quicken the destruction of this future. As there is no way back through these portals, these Watchers are the only ones who can return to the future owing to their Destined status. Yet they are not immortal – they can only return after death if they die in the same manner as their original death.
You are a Watcher, a person who died in the past and has returned to life at the end with a new purpose. You might have just came back for the first time, or you might have died over and over again protecting the past. But when something dreadful happens in one of Apocalypz’s cities, the fragile piece of this desperate civilization is thrown into disarray. What follows is a chain of events which pits our heroes against pirate time-meddlers, deviant soldiers and sinister scientists, unravelling a conspiracy leading to the very highest authorities which threatens the lives of all remaining humanity. Will you take a stand and defend humanity, even if it means breaking your ideals?
Or will the world truly end up post-human?
Thanks for checking out this interest check! Here’s some more information for you –
- Posthuman is a genre-bending Cyberpunk/Science-Fantasy/Time Travel RP with a strong combat focus.
- Our characters are all relatively low ranked Watchers who get assembled into a new squad ahead of the first major event. They can have come from any period or place in history before discovering they are Destined and getting conscripted into the Watchers.
- About two thirds of the narrative will take place across Apocalypz, with the other third taking past at various times in the past. Whilst I have an overarching plotline, I'm trying to consider how to integrate player plot ideas into the story, so do be thinking about potential subplots for your characters.
- Writing level wise it’s Casual-Detailed, with me expecting a minimum of two paragraphs in the majority of situations barring quick conversational back-and-forths and some combat scenarios. But I expect a dedication to creativity and strong detail in relevant situations.
- A post-rate of once every five days would be ideal, just to keep things chugging along.
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