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The date is September 26, in the year 2023 AD.
It’s been forty years since the world ended, when thousands of atomic warheads and the subsequent nuclear fallout obliterated billions of people. In the immediate aftermath, a time of great chaos followed. Blood was spilled among the survivors as they squabbled amongst each other for control over the remaining resources. Since then, a generation has passed: your generation, one with no recollection of the old world.
You were born in Thornton, a humble settlement of almost two hundred people nestled along the Shenandoah River in the Blue Ridge Mountains. You have never left the bounds of the valley and were brought up sheltered from the dangers of the wastes; at least, until a few weeks ago, when the plague came. A menagerie of terrible symptoms culminating in an excruciating death. You discovered you were immune, but not before your entire family succumbed to the disease. Not all is lost; there are rumors, passed down by a group of traveling caravanners, of a cure in the ruins of America’s former capital: Washington DC. You might be the last hope to save what is left of your home...
...Just who are you again?
Character
>Name
>Gender
Background
>Merchant: Some may consider personable skills to be secondary, but you put your charisma and negotiation prowess to good use. (+15 to Persuade rolls)
>Farmhand: As soon as you could work, you did. Years of labor in the sun have deepened your understanding of the land and living off of it. (+15 to Survival rolls)
>Hunter: You subsist off of the wild animals you hunt, and are a natural with most weapons from firearms to blades. (+15 to Fight rolls)
>Apprentice: Though your training is incomplete, under the wing of an old tradesman, you developed your aptitude for the mechanical. (+15 to Craft rolls)
It’s been forty years since the world ended, when thousands of atomic warheads and the subsequent nuclear fallout obliterated billions of people. In the immediate aftermath, a time of great chaos followed. Blood was spilled among the survivors as they squabbled amongst each other for control over the remaining resources. Since then, a generation has passed: your generation, one with no recollection of the old world.
You were born in Thornton, a humble settlement of almost two hundred people nestled along the Shenandoah River in the Blue Ridge Mountains. You have never left the bounds of the valley and were brought up sheltered from the dangers of the wastes; at least, until a few weeks ago, when the plague came. A menagerie of terrible symptoms culminating in an excruciating death. You discovered you were immune, but not before your entire family succumbed to the disease. Not all is lost; there are rumors, passed down by a group of traveling caravanners, of a cure in the ruins of America’s former capital: Washington DC. You might be the last hope to save what is left of your home...
...Just who are you again?
Character
>Name
>Gender
Background
>Merchant: Some may consider personable skills to be secondary, but you put your charisma and negotiation prowess to good use. (+15 to Persuade rolls)
>Farmhand: As soon as you could work, you did. Years of labor in the sun have deepened your understanding of the land and living off of it. (+15 to Survival rolls)
>Hunter: You subsist off of the wild animals you hunt, and are a natural with most weapons from firearms to blades. (+15 to Fight rolls)
>Apprentice: Though your training is incomplete, under the wing of an old tradesman, you developed your aptitude for the mechanical. (+15 to Craft rolls)
