survival

Old Conductor, Possessed Anew Prologue In the year 2077 A.D., the confrontation between the two giants of the world was coming to a close. The American Eagle had ejected the Chinese Bear from it's lands in Alaska, and had attacked their homeland in turn. As one army speared through the...

Independence Technical College sits on the edge of the Willamette national forest. Tall pines and fir trees slowly encroach upon its well-groomed campus as it prepares itself for the new school year. Dorm rooms are assigned to incoming students and classrooms are cleaned. Lesson plans are...

Hayden island is a small island between Portland Oregon and Vancouver Washington. On this island is a spot that has inspired me to do a sort of post apocalyptic game I have been thinking about for over a year. It's largely going to be based around an odd location. The Jantzen beach shopping...

The Children of a Dead World It is one minute to midnight... -The Doomsday Clock, 2155 They told us Earth was dying. That was the push. The impetus. The impulse, if you’ll allow a bit of spacer’s humor over something like that. Warming oceans, scorched and humid tropics, the whole shebang...

You are an apprentice adventurer. One could even say it's your family trade. You've spent years learning from your parents and retired grandparents, honing your skill to a level where... well, at least you're not an embarrassment. With that said however, an adventurer going solo is dead meat...

There are a lot of stories I could tell you about the end of the world. I could tell you about two polices officers who choose to die defending a school as the children evacuated rather than fall back. I could tell you about a criminal who's last words were "Everyone wants to be a gangsta...

[The Holdout] _________This is a small game I'm running with some friends. Feel free to comment or ask questions if you have any, but for the most part we won't be recruiting or taking applications. _________[Character Applications] _________[Action Economy] ____The system differs...

The year is 2260, Nearly 100 years after the Slave Legions of the now destroyed Zovi Empire landed in storms of fire and death on the planet of Earth. It was a mere 80 years ago when for reasons unknown to every single living being on Earth, From the lowest Scut slave to the highest Zovi...

Your name is December Morning-Glory, and today is the best day of your life. Alright, there is the matter of the crashed spaceship. And the fact that most of your delicate instruments were destroyed in the crash. But you are a MAD SCIENTIST, and little things like that PALE in significance to...

[Off the Books] 1998 Police Procedural Drama Survival-Horror, expect Character Death Bio-Organic Weapons and Zombies 5-8 Players Post Every 2 or 3 Days Fate + Discovery Action 4D6 / 4D3, Modified Fate SRD https://imageshack.com/a/img921/4374/Zydiby.png The Arklay Taskforce - Disbanded...

I wanted to make a thread for anyone looking for ideas for their space adventure or exploration game or story! What ideas do you guys have for cool quests in a futurama styled universe? I'll start with a few I have in mind.... 1. Mercenary work - hunt space pirates or convicts for reward. 2...

Step into the event horizon of the War on Cosmic Horror. In the decades following the U.S. government raid in Massachusetts, a cabal of federal law enforcement agents, military officials, and intelligence officers have waged a shadow war against the Unnatural and their cultic human allies...

Your head hurts, your ears ring, your heart is beating hard and fast, and your whole body hurts. You groan in place trying to take slow deep breaths to calm yourself until you are able to open your eyes. Ughh, everythings cloudy. You bring a hand to your face and... eh? Should your hand be like...

I startle awake quickly from a deep sleep. The door chime is playing loudly and I struggle to get out of bed momentarily. Answering the door, I see that it is a servo-skull bearing a dataslate at the door. A quick light scans over me from the left eye socket of the skull before it offers me...

Choose federal law enforcement. Choose the military. Choose NASA or the CDC. Choose lying to your superiors. Choose to ruin your career. Choose no friends. Choose divorce. Choose life through the bottom of a bottle. Choose destroying evidence and executing innocent people because they know too...

Each step forth hammered in the truth of the matter, the linen wrapped form of your grandmother resting silently in your arms. You are the last of the Abadia, the only one left to perform the proper rites and send your guardian of sixteen years peacefully into an eternal rest. Her death came...

Awakening Frigid brine filled your lungs. You tried to cough it up but only swallowed more of the iron-hard surf. Nictitating lenses slammed shut in microseconds but it was too late. Your eyes burned, you had to squeeze them shut against icy daggers of salt. You were drowning and you didn't...

Later you would learn that rumors had started spreading days ago, like a sinister foreboding warning to those in the waiting. The order of events was unclear and the specific number of separate incidents would forever stay a mystery. There was footage of a few dozen large meteorites smashing...

SparkMeLife [Hey True! You still diving with us?] TrueGuardian32 [Course, just setting up.] Just need to make sure everything's set up with my Maximum Dive Gear. Let's see, everything seems to be in order. Man, this thing looks like a coffin. *Ding* Huh? NotASpy [I am ready, who we waiting...

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The Thin Blue Line: A Battlestar Galactica Colonial-Cylon War Game Theme Song "The Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan." For Millennia the twelve colonies of Kobol lived, and warred, with each other. Each planet had its own...

A World Reforged - A Post Apocalyptic GSRPG The World as we know it is gone. Fifty years ago the internet and telecommunications suddenly went silent overnight, then people started to get sick, rumors spread of a meteor had crashed into the earth.. but that was only rumors. The Blue Flu as it...

Before the Dreams You prepare to go to bed. The night was young, and you want to be able to get a full restful night of sleep. You were worried that tomorrow's day was going to be a hectic day, filled with some sort of new challenge. What is your name: []Write in What is your Gender...

Well I have been on a huge sci fi binge lately and thought of this. And was told this was better for roleplaying, so here we are. Your people are in the service of the Holy Galactic Commonwealth, as slaves. Yet not all is lost. A brand new prototype starship just about to have a test run. Your...

You arrived at the island by mistake. You know not whose mistake it was, but they couldn't have done this on purpose, could they? Back when it happened, you remembered who you were and where you were from, what year it even is. But so much time has passed on the island. Between that...