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It is a post-apocalyptic world. Darker than usual, no colour, light filters used on all cameras, the odd zombie… you get the drift. This is all a result of the robot uprising 250 years ago. Since then the world has suffered, robots had no compassion on the environment, sucking in all colour to survive (their power systems used colour as their only fuel source), and destroyed it even faster than us.
Few humans and animals have survived, you are one of them. You wander the wasteland somewhere near a coast. You know this bay well, for your ancestors once roamed the same area.
Your story begins.....
You have ventured further inland than usual today in search of fresh water. You haven’t drunk anything in 2 days and you’re getting desperate. The lack of rain is making you very worried. Thankfully you find some water, fill all the containers you can carry, and begin to make your way home. Only a couple of minutes in you noticed a haze in the distance, steadily growing. Your pulse rate quickens, you drop your water, turn and run!
While fleeing from the swarm of terrifying baboon birds, you take shelter by diving into a ditch with very long grass. Baboon birds have poor eyesight so you should be hidden well enough. While waiting for them to pass you notice a strange symbol with some letters next to it, to your right. You take note of them because it was so out of the ordinary; like someone had purposefully marked that spot.
While moving back towards your camp, you can’t stop thinking about the symbol. In your daydreaming walk, you tramp on a Barking Snake. While these don’t bite they do draw attention to your location, and within seconds, the ground starts to rumble….. LandTuna, the deadliest of the fishmal species. You throw the barking snake into the middle of the road and climb a nearby tree. The tuna rumble past and devour the snake, but can’t look up to find you because they don’t have necks, phew!, that was a close call
From your new vantage point, a glimmer catches your eye, a laboratory of some kind perhaps. You take note of its position and move off to your camp. Exploration will have to wait till tomorrow….
At the break of dawn, you set off towards where the glimmer came from. Your heart sinks as you notice it is broken down and there is no sign of life, but it does look like an old research station. You have heard rumours about the old MASS, (Most-probably Apocalypse Solution Stations), but thought they were only a myth.
You venture inside… Nothing particularly useful… but you do spot a locked draw, interesting; the 4 digit combination lock seems to have been tampered with but is still useable so you try to figure the combination by looking around the room.
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Inside the draw you find an old diary, many of the pages are torn out but some are still legible. One of the pages is bloody and much of it seems to be gibberish, but you notice a familiar symbol.
You spend quite some time at the facility, a couple of weeks, figuring out and plotting the locations of what you discovered in the diary on a large map. Not having any power or working technology, it takes you awhile. But eventually, you find what you are looking for. “This would have been much easier with the internet” you think to yourself.
Having figured out the position of what you need, you hurriedly make you out into the wilderness, hoping it’s not too late to do what must be done…
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