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Synopsis of This RP.

Our world has been transformed into a global desert. In 2045 a meteor crashed off the coast of Brazil. It was that day that the seas began draining. In only 15 years the oceans and lakes and rivers of our world had completely vanished, to where, no one knows, the world is a desert wasteland, billions are dead, civilization as we know it has collapsed and the planet is in turmoil.


Two hundred years have gone by since then, and in that time, the waters of our planet have never returned. The only source of water left on the planet are in small lakes and streams, that mostly evaporate during the day then condense and fill at night.
To this day no one can understand what is happening to the planet, on clear nights brilliant flashes of light have been seen coming from far away in the deep desert, where few go and fewer return. The strange phenomenon was reported to have been seen near a village before it was found destroyed, with every person killed as if they were fried by an intense electric current. Rumors also exist of strange moving dunes that cross the follow people as they travel the roads, evidence of creatures no one has survived to tell about. In the low desert, the areas formerly filled with seas and oceans, strange blue monoliths of crystal, towering hundreds of feet high have been rumored to have been seen far off in the distance. It is rumored that the crystals contains all the water of the planet, but no one has ever gotten close to one and returned to tell about it. their bodies are found months later in an empty patch of desert, utterly devoid of water. And except for some blue glints in shimmering distance, the monoliths are nothing but myth.
In the night, strange orbs of energy drift through the air, releasing incredible electrical surges on anything that gets too close, few survive an encounter with a ghost light, and they are seen as a malign force, believed to actively chase down and attack dune boats and small towns; although there is nothing to indicate the lights are actually intelligent.

But the lack of water isn't the only thing thats changed, the people have changed too, the extent of the changes aren't known and are different in certain gene lines but humans are evolving, into what, no one knows, and most people are afraid to fine out. The most obvious changes have already begun to affect 90% of the population, they've grown tails and their ears have become large and catlike, some have heightened senses and can move faster and with more agility then normal people, and a few even have claws. But in the end, they're still people.
Many live on the road, traveling down the old highways and crossing deserts in dune boats, lightweight vehicles with sails attached to the top, allowing them to sail down the highways and roads. There are also sky traders, using home made airships and blimps, they travel the skies, riding the wind currents, drifting above the hot sands below.
The other survivors cluster around the few remaining lakes and ponds left on the planet, living in heavily guarded cities and villages with walls made from old cars and trucks.
Out of this have arisen a series of semi-nations, there are a coalition of far east cities called the Rainmakers, who are determined to make the earth green again at any means necessary. Then there are the Shiners, a group of European and American tribes that live in the open desert and travel on huge dune boats some as much as 100 feet across. Not much is known about them other then their distrust of outsiders. Finally there are the Red Storm. They hold New York city and the area around it, using strange weapons recovered from the past world, they are violent and dangerous, but as long as you haven't upset them they're probably safer to be with then the other groups. The technology of the desert world varies depending on where you are but it isn't too high tech and most knowledge of the time before has been lost. Most of the things from the time before all called Old Tech, and are sometimes worth a lot as parts or trinkets. Many words have also changed over the time, fuck has become Frak, posreal is a merge of positively really (thats posreal weird) shit has become shizz, clear plastic is now Glastic, and the various religons have merged together with their gods becoming associated together in a paganistic fashion.
Then there are the others. No one knows who or what they are, but they look like a strange feral cross between a dog and a human. they travel in packs and can cross miles of open land in a few hours, they attack with claws and teeth and rip their prey apart, they are believed to be intelligent, but communications with them could be called strained at best and nonexistent at worst. The strangest thing about them is their eyes. they glow a brilliant blue that can be seen miles away. While they occasionally help humans, they will more often attack them, treating people like any other desert pray. Much like old indian tribes, they let nothing go to waste, using every part of a body, and are believed to be cannibalistic, though there is no direct evidence of it.