A little alternate history RP set in the real world. Premise: [HR][/HR] Earth was once a happy and bustling planet. Its dominant species, Homo sapiens, was spread out across the planet, almost six billion in number. With every passing year, the species made new advancements, from fire to the wheel to oil rigs to spacecraft to home computers. And there seemed to be no end in sight. But then, all hell broke loose. At 11:59 P.M., on December 31, 1999, a glitch in computers caused their date to roll over to 1900, resulting from the practice of shortening the year to two digits. As a result, the entire World Wide Web crashed, anything controlled by a computer came to a halt, and nuclear launches were triggered all over the world, with targets chosen at random. Soon after, the human population plummeted from almost six billion, to a mere five hundred million. Cities everywhere were obliterated, and technology reverted to the Victorian era, with some exceptions, such as cars, motorcycles, radio, and landline phones. It has been 10 years since the Y2K disaster struck. You are living in a shantytown 20 miles away from the ruins of the city of Portland, Oregon, and your food supplies and electricity are running out. You have been scavenging to survive for the last ten years. One day, you hear rumors of a safe haven, seemingly unaffected by the Y2K incident. The only problem? No one knows where it is exactly. Desperate for food and power, you leave your family behind and head off to find the sanctuary.
