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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Eternal" data-source="post: 796727" data-attributes="member: 7932">Ok, I've been trying to avoid posting in this thread, but it just won't go away.  So I'll succumb to the temptation, at last, after all.What follows is a teaser for my original campaign setting for a horror / survival game.  Ravenloft was just too tame for me, so I came up with this..... it may be a little over the top for a lot of people, but it's definately not Tolkien.  "The sky is dead in my world."Across the remains of what was once a land of peace and beauty, the souls of the living vie with the furious spirits of the dead for the very air they breath.  Those who survived the Absolution numbered only a hundreth of a hundreth - and among the millions who died, there are many whose deaths were so sudden, so violent, that there is no hope for their spirits to rest peacefully.  "The light has forsaken us..."It has been years since the slightest shaft of sunlight pierced the eternal Soulstorm that hides the sky from view.  A night darker and more deadly than any that men were meant to know has swallowed the Earth, and the hearts of all who live yearn in vain for light."Hope, Peace, Good... relics of a past shattered forever."For the survivors of the most horrifying disaster imaginable, each day of life must be stolen from another.  Every hour carries the threat of violent destruction at the hands of the living... or the dead."Nothing makes sense.  Reason is a casualty of War."Magic gone wild has reshaped vast portions of the world into Something Else.  Creatures that can not exist prowl the shattered streets; the Soulstorm burns with incomprehensible energies that tear the very fabric of Time asunder... only the gatherings of those still living grant any kind of refuge for Order and Pattern.  And every day, another gathering is consumed by the Dead."No world has ever been more in need of heros.  And no world has ever been more capable of breaking them."The only hope for a future lies in the hands of those who will risk everything - mind, body, heart and soul - against hopeless odds in a battle to bring order to chaos, reason to madness, and True Death to the restless dead.  But against a world where the very air is alive with hatred and murderous lusts, who can still hope to fight against the darkness?"The sky is dead, in my world... but I am not.  And while I live, I will fight.  For if I do not, then I am dead... and I know what Death has in store for me."  - Vagadeth, a Survivor.</blockquote>

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