post-apocalyptic

That sound is so annoying. Shrill, repetitive, completely out of sync with the red light that keeps flashing through your closed eyelids, making you wince and groan. What is that? You open your eyes and immediately regret it; pain makes your vision swim, aggravating the pain in your head and in...

=} Broken Shores {= Ruins, Remnants & Mechs IC Thread Discord Link Wrætlic is þes wealstan, wyrde gebræcon; burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc. Wondrous is the stone of this wall, shattered by fate; The precincts of the city have crumbled and the work of giants is rotting away. A...

"5th Lenzmonat, 1622 I write to you today, sir, to bring you the most excellent news. I have succeeded in forging an alliance that will finally put an end to all our troubles and cement your unquestionable rule of these lands. The Hetman has agreed to support your forces in the march on the...

"Wake up!" A deafening roar and a tug on his leg jolted Draa Stone from the sweet embrace of dreams. The young man yawned as he rose from his bed and walked to the window, ignoring the whitish appendage that disappeared into the crack in the floor. Draa pushed aside the transparent, solid...

Welcome, young Transcend, to our bleak multiverse. You have Transcended at an inopportune period, I'm afraid. I am Enmuuth, your guide in these realities where all are as gods… and yet insects all the same. The roiling bodies of titans both living and dead roam the Void between realities, and if...

Gestare 1.1 I looked up. My eyes were wet. So many stars. The universe so vast. We're s- so very small, in the end. The first bullet hit me from behind, where my mask offered no coverage, and I slowly toppled. The second hit me before I could fall, before there could be any pain. … But I...

Phtheironauts Part 1: The Kid, Fated Warrior Chapter 1: Cecmu Othrys hanged in the sky like a corpse from a gibbet, its lifeblood burning a dim glow that by its nearness beat down on Chthon with a miserable sanguine radiance. High in the rust sands between the Umi and the Lacustrine basins...

In a realm beyond mortal comprehension, where the skies shimmered with the light of a thousand dying stars, and the ground pulsed with the energy of forgotten worlds, the gods convened. Here, in the Hall of Forgotten Echoes, time twisted upon itself, and reality folded like fragile parchment. It...

People shouted and screamed as lights danced across the black stage, shifting in a myriad of colors—red, blue, green, yellow, and purple—blurring seamlessly over the exuberant crowd. Tanya, arms crossed and crimson hair falling loosely into her eyes, watched the spectacle. In her opinion, this...

PREFACE When my colleagues questioned my journey to the region known as the High Desert they asserted that only broad histories of the plague and the various nations that spawned from those years would be of any interest to the scholars in Sioux Falls. They were probably right, nobody was...

2383, Common Era/AD, AKA 300 AOW (Age Of Wrath) So, in this idea for a setting inspired by @Sandy River DL 's Rebellion Against A Cruel God setting, as well as Shin Megami Tensei, an "omnipotent" God has seemingly gone insane. Most of the world has been destroyed, and there are only a few semi...

The Year is 25 ADD, and Panem has if not embraced the Peace of the Capital, then its districts have learned to endure it. The Hunger Games, the yearly reaping and gladiatorial combat games that have been a fact of life for nearly a quarter of a century has ended its first Quarter Quell. But...

Imagine a world of 2057. It merged with another world, somehow, causing enormous destruction. Now, centuries later, people mostly live in small settlements and make shift cities, sometimes alongside Humanoid monsters. Elves, Dwarves, etcetera coexist with the local Humans, and civilization is...

Everyone knows that the world was broken, but no one can agree on who to hold responsible. From the most educated vault dweller to the most isolated tribal, everyone in the wasteland is born knowing that the world is broken. Still, none can agree on the ultimate cause of the world’s current...

Wingflaps Context: Honkai is evil space radiation that turns people into zombies. It also summons generic monsters sometimes. Sometimes there's a whole lot of Honkai Radiation that appears all at once called a Honkai Eruption. If you're resistant to the radiation, you can become a Valkyrie and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm1ujgXGGrA Bells ring across the county of Cist, hollow clanking that bellows to all the the night has sunken away, to be surpassed by the day. From their beds and gutters, it's fractious people arise to another mottled day amongst the swamps. Fields must be...

"Daniel. There are things that you can do something about, and things that you cannot." your grandpa's massive, soft voice rumbled. You, a 10-year old boy, were surrounded by a sea of dead bodies, right outside the city ruins. There were so many that you couldn't see the tarmac. "C-can't...

The Hub, a decent place as any to die for a retired soldier you suppose. You aren't the best okranite, but you tried to lay the old man to rest properly. Burn the body with fire, let his spirit rise and be forgiven for the sins of the body. With him gone, you aren't sure what to do now. You have...

Squelchy Violence: A Turnip28 Grand Strategy Roleplaying Game Gretch moved forward. The world stank and this thrice-damned fog wouldn't lift, but she still moved forward. Every step thus far had been agonizing. Every step further would be even more so. Yet forward she went, one small part of...

Author's note: Surprisingly not inspired by the recent entries of these franchises. I was well fed, obviously, by these series as a big fan of "monke" and "animals take over after us": Skull Island and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters last year; Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Kingdom of the Planet...

Chapter 1: The Scraplands are Calling "If any of you try anything funny, then I will do more than just whack one of off a cliff again." The synth, Fang, overlooked the smaller, scurrying ones as he jumped across the junkyard. His larger, more predatorial build could not always follow them...

Riot Quest: Dark Days Ahead The end of the world came suddenly. It began with scattered reports of mania and delusion, which the government shrugged off and called fake. Then the ground water began to taste funny, and animals started acting strange… and then, the sky broke. Creatures...

Whoever I was before that night had drowned in the waterlogged silks that hung from my body like flesh on an old man's neck. Any feelings had sunk beneath the waves of some great internal darkness. I know because when Melissa answered the door—apparently at some point I knocked—no lust nor love...

"Meat is meat, right?" She grumbled across the campfire, gleaming blue eyes fixated on the slowly rotating hunk of meat. "No. There's a big difference between a slab Stomper steak and, like… Scarab meat." The giant man responded, cranking the spit to ensure even cooking. "It's a miracle you...

"Hurry up, this place is untouched for a reason." She frowned. The woman sent a scowled glance at the ruins that surrounded them. She was tall and burly, yet had clear signs of malnourishment. Her umber cheeks were ever so slightly gaunt and her limbs were far thinner than they should be. On...