<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Original Outcast</strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Game Thread</span><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Character Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=123872.0)<br/>OOC Rambles (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=123703.0)<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div align="center">(http://www.denzomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/post-apocalypse-illustrations3.jpg)</div><br/><hr/><br/><br/>It was the apocalypse from Hell. Unlike the sudden end of the world scenario’s, this one came slowly and almost snuck up on mankind. Due to a massive increase in population, cities grew too fast and their systems couldn’t handle the growth. Small settlements were destroyed to serve as recycled materials to keep the cities growing. The police couldn’t handle the entire city anymore and some area’s were just left off security. Looting, rioting, rape and murder were common goods in these area’s. Eventually the sewer and water system collapsed and sewage water drained into the water system. With the American system collapsing, soon the rest of the world followed. Large portions of the country were abandoned as the governments desperately tried to cling on to whatever they could manage. In a desperate attempt to secure the health of it’s citizens, governments researched all kinds of cures for diseases that were thought to be long gone. Plague, pocks and other diseases flooded the world. Only those rich enough to be able to pay for security and healthcare stayed healthy and safe. <br/><br/>Slowly more and more people left the cities and tried their luck in small groups, living nomadic lives. Even this was dangerous as outside the cities there was lawlessness. No police, no rules, no nothing. Cities became impenetrable fortifications and those leaving the city would never be welcomed back in. The world’s population dropped from 9 billion in 2020 to 5 billion in a matter of years. Slowly the balance was restoring but the cities remained shut. <br/><br/>In their greed, a big pharmaceutical company had failed to fully test a serum that would cure a lot of diseases and tested it on a small group of uncontained people. The cure seemed to work and the drug was spread out over the world to supply people with the medicine. Only a few months later the first of the tested people started to behave completely weird. Tests showed that these people were losing their sanity. News agencies called them the ‘crazies’. They became violent and lost the ability to speak or think logically and their violence was getting worse. They only mated, and ate. <br/><br/>As news slowly spread across the world, mass hysteria spread along with it. Researchers frantically searched for answers and cures in vain. Months later it happened. The en-masse drugged civilization began to suffer from the effects of the ‘cure’. Police were overrun, innocent people were attacked by crazies to feed or mate. Within a week the world’s population halved and people that were unaffected fled the cities. A large portion of these people died in the wilderness due to lack of water, food or simple diseases.<br/><br/>In the aftermath of the violent ending of civilization, small groups of people settled all around the world wondering what had happened and why they weren’t becoming one of the ‘crazies’. Governments no longer existed and it was survival of the fittest. Slowly everything settled down. Nobody knows how many people survived or what happened to the ‘crazies’. Where they still ‘alive’? Life in the out was rough as groups battled for limited supplies. Wildlife had in the meantime flourished with little to none human influence. <br/><br/>Now, 7 months after the happening, a small group of group of approximately 15 survivors has sought refuge to an abandoned aircraft boneyard. In the region they are among the strongest groups. They have a secure parameter around the airport and a protective setup of the aircraft they live in. Two big aircraft at the side form the group hall and the cafeteria and storage. Around that they dragged smaller aircraft and turned them into homes. They hunt for food and with fuel and water supplies running low, desperate times dawn. <br/><br/>The leader of the group, an older man, makes sure that everybody is doing what he or she is supposed to do. Scavenge for scrap, supplies or food, keep the camp tidy and clean, make fires, tend the cattle. Everybody is doing their part to keep their little community up and with that, rivalries, rumours and romances blossom in this small community way out in the Arizona desert. <br/><br/><div align="center">(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r240/YulesRo/OutcastGameAirportLayout.jpg)</div><br/>The two large planes are Boeing 747’s. One is used for storage and one is used as the main hall of the community. On the upper deck is the leader’s ‘office’. This one also has the cafeteria where the community will have their meals and other public activities are held here.<br/><br/>The eight smaller planes are homes, so pick one you like if you want. The two larger planes at the end of the row are basically watch towers and are modified and equipped with some weapons. These also hold some cells for captive animals or people. If more ‘homes’ are needed these two planes will be moved and a smaller plane is towed from across the field. The group cleared a large area around their camp to have a clear line of sight. Keep in mind that further away on the airport there are still some old planes. <br/><br/>Around their camp the group has setup a small fence on three sides to prevent animals to come in. The vehicles the group uses are parked inside the camp and the water tankers are located at the cafeteria airplane.<br/><br/><hr/></div>