Intro

The year is 2025, four years after the Nukes launched in 2021. In 2019 World War III broke out in what was once Allied Europe. War spread across the globe rapidly like a plague. No one was prepared for the biological warfare, but even more so for what was to come.

2021, the Imperial Empire of Russia launched their last ditch effort, Nuclear warfare. Sirens rang out across the United States, thousands flooding to fallout shelters both personal and public, but the nukes were detonated in the atmosphere sending out a massive EMP wave crippling the US. Shortly each country followed suit sending the entire planet back to the stone ages. Local and national governments fell and anarchy erupted across the globe. The war stopped and each country focused on controlling their land.

2022, Marauders and looters fill the land as masses engage in self preservation, burning, killing, it was civil war. Some saw there was strength in numbers and banded together, others saw this as a threat, there was no hope for society to recover so soon, thousands died.

2023-2024, Nuclear power plants across the globe go into total meltdown sweeping radiation across the plains. Acid rain comes and goes, while the winds sweep radiation across the U.S. The people that survived learned to adapt quickly or die. They find that none of the new cars work but the older cars (1986 and later) will work with a simple jump start or a battery change. Specific skills sets become invaluable, and primal instincts start to set in.

Setting

2025, Most of the North-West United States, mainly what was once the great state of Washington, has come to be known as a safe haven against the bands of marauders that ravage the land scape. No settlement has been established anywhere within the U.S. and most of the Yukon. The harsh winters set in quickly, along with the acid rain makes farming almost impossible. The once great city of Seattle is decaying and has now become a breeding grounds for looters and disease. But for those with some wit and an ear for gossip, they will find their way to a small abandoned town near a national forest. Rumors spread about how the marauders and looters will not go near this small post-apocalyptic boom-town because of a lone gunman dominating that area. What will you do.