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16 years ago
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Heh I was entertaining my room mates with a story the other day, a dream I had. Where a meteor/comet ended up crashing into us and we had NO real warning. The angle it came from we didn't see it until it was practically on top of us.
For alot of people the impacts literately came out of nowhere. While they slept and such. The meteor broke up so we ended up with two main impacts and a bunch of smaller ones that didn't do nearly the damage of the main ones.
A good portion of the southern half of the US was wiped out, the axis of the earth was made a little more extreme so the summers tended to be warmer and the winters hella colder. But the way the currents ended up regoing the northern half of the earth was in an iceage and the southern half was not that cold.
So out of the 7 billion people in the world about 80% died.(so while some idiots died, one can always imagine that most of them died...) Either during the collision or the first couple years after. The continents ended up shifting by multiple feet in a lot of areas, so you can imagine the earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis that set off! Let alone the crazy weather. So there where alot of deaths due to accident, nature and pure stupidity!
NewYork City by the end of it ended up resembling Venice, a good portion of the buildings where underwater. Coming from the old gulf of Mexico (that was one of the main impact zones) was what was now referred to as the 'Mississippi Gulf' the river didn't really exist anymore, instead up that area was a huge expanse of water. Where the ocean came right up the central US. Splitting the area practically in half nearly up to the Great Lakes.
Because as cold as it was in the northern half of things, me and a couple others ended up getting together and pooling resources. We started a small caravan, had a bunch of animals that we'd gathered from various farms. Horses, Cows, Sheep and Goats. So we started to lead them south. The original plan was to find a good area of pasture and start farming. In the end we found ourselves with more people that thought we had a good thing going and joined us, people that started to give us things to carry onto other areas, traveling with news, culture, and knowledge to help out others. Our actions ended up founding towns and other towns and such started to spring up along the path we took as our territory. So accidentally we started a new Nomadic lifestyle.
By the end of things we found out about a couple more groups that started up, all together there where 4 main 'tribes'. One that went up and down the west coast line, my tribe that covered the eastern, (both of us would travel up as far as we could before the snow turned completely all year round... So we didn't get far into the old Canadian territories) And two tribes that traveled from the western coast line to the central/eastern. One on the northern half and one on the southern. The area that three of the tribes intersected ended up turning into a HUGE fair. We'd all meet up and trade and work with each other, other people started to hear of it and soon alot of people started to converge on that place during that time. Making it a huge affair of close to 700 people. Countries reformed,government re shifted and with the smaller base a democracy on the way we know it just didn't work. There wasn't the communication necessary for such a thing. Mail started to reform a bit by those of us that traveled, and another group calling themselves 'Runners'. Who started to set up little stop points and would carry mail from one point to another. It was slow, but people began to communicate more. We had no clue what was going on over seas. Just in our own area. Mexico was wiped out, and no one had made it down to South America yet to see how they where doing.
Then new adaptations and changes started to be seen. Alot of animals started to get bigger,(some smaller) alot more hairy. As the colder climate meant creatures with warmer coats lived. Totally new species started to show up.. And then there was the panic. We heard tell of a massacre in a town where they killed nearly 20 people because of a werewolf scare. While we didn't see it in our own group, we heard of areas where babies where killed as soon as they where born because they were 'different'. But no one would say HOW.
At one point I had met a drifter, he kept covered but with the cold alot of people did. we hung out for a bit and ended up in a relationship, then he drifted off again. Which made me sad, but I had a caravan to run and couldn't go drifting with him. I'd asked him to stay but he only said that it would be better if he didn't.
About 9 months later. lol. I ended up with a baby. I was pretty happy. Then it started to be noticed that my baby was a bit.. different. His proportions where off, his eyes where oddly shaped, and he ended up developing a very interesting jaw line that could open up totally and revealed alot of very pointy teeth. (It would split from the lip down the jaw. So his mouth opened out three ways.)
Some of course called my baby a demon and said I should kill it. I called them idiots. I wasn't going to let people of our caravan fall into the same paranoia that we where seeing elsewhere. Aside from his differences, my boy was perfectly NORMAL. He was still utterly human. Just looked a little odd. that's when we started to see more things like that. The impact was causing man to shift, adapt, mutate, and evolve.
So that was the end of that dream.. but it was fun that last night actually started up with the same setting about 20 years later. With my boy all grown up and running the caravan. that had by that point split into a couple smaller ones that took different territories within the same larger one that he still traveled. Everything had resettled. New names had sprung up, contact was made eventually with the rest of the world. News of what happened there. New mythologies and religions sprung up, technology took new twists, and the world had resettled into a new 'norm' for the most part. A new struggle was going on as a general fear of the new groups of people that where rising up started some interesting fights. Alot of people with simular differences started to get together. There where a few rather regular changes that happened that where the most common to see banding together. Extreme large size. Just massive people that grew to be like 8 foot tall. they called themselves Giants. And then there where the smaller stockier people that where strong and compact, with alot of facial hair.. Dwarves of course. And yes.. there where elves. lol. Pulling names from fantasy creatures just seemed the thing to do. When people and animals resembled the descriptions of old stories.
For alot of people the impacts literately came out of nowhere. While they slept and such. The meteor broke up so we ended up with two main impacts and a bunch of smaller ones that didn't do nearly the damage of the main ones.
A good portion of the southern half of the US was wiped out, the axis of the earth was made a little more extreme so the summers tended to be warmer and the winters hella colder. But the way the currents ended up regoing the northern half of the earth was in an iceage and the southern half was not that cold.
So out of the 7 billion people in the world about 80% died.(so while some idiots died, one can always imagine that most of them died...) Either during the collision or the first couple years after. The continents ended up shifting by multiple feet in a lot of areas, so you can imagine the earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis that set off! Let alone the crazy weather. So there where alot of deaths due to accident, nature and pure stupidity!
NewYork City by the end of it ended up resembling Venice, a good portion of the buildings where underwater. Coming from the old gulf of Mexico (that was one of the main impact zones) was what was now referred to as the 'Mississippi Gulf' the river didn't really exist anymore, instead up that area was a huge expanse of water. Where the ocean came right up the central US. Splitting the area practically in half nearly up to the Great Lakes.
Because as cold as it was in the northern half of things, me and a couple others ended up getting together and pooling resources. We started a small caravan, had a bunch of animals that we'd gathered from various farms. Horses, Cows, Sheep and Goats. So we started to lead them south. The original plan was to find a good area of pasture and start farming. In the end we found ourselves with more people that thought we had a good thing going and joined us, people that started to give us things to carry onto other areas, traveling with news, culture, and knowledge to help out others. Our actions ended up founding towns and other towns and such started to spring up along the path we took as our territory. So accidentally we started a new Nomadic lifestyle.
By the end of things we found out about a couple more groups that started up, all together there where 4 main 'tribes'. One that went up and down the west coast line, my tribe that covered the eastern, (both of us would travel up as far as we could before the snow turned completely all year round... So we didn't get far into the old Canadian territories) And two tribes that traveled from the western coast line to the central/eastern. One on the northern half and one on the southern. The area that three of the tribes intersected ended up turning into a HUGE fair. We'd all meet up and trade and work with each other, other people started to hear of it and soon alot of people started to converge on that place during that time. Making it a huge affair of close to 700 people. Countries reformed,government re shifted and with the smaller base a democracy on the way we know it just didn't work. There wasn't the communication necessary for such a thing. Mail started to reform a bit by those of us that traveled, and another group calling themselves 'Runners'. Who started to set up little stop points and would carry mail from one point to another. It was slow, but people began to communicate more. We had no clue what was going on over seas. Just in our own area. Mexico was wiped out, and no one had made it down to South America yet to see how they where doing.
Then new adaptations and changes started to be seen. Alot of animals started to get bigger,(some smaller) alot more hairy. As the colder climate meant creatures with warmer coats lived. Totally new species started to show up.. And then there was the panic. We heard tell of a massacre in a town where they killed nearly 20 people because of a werewolf scare. While we didn't see it in our own group, we heard of areas where babies where killed as soon as they where born because they were 'different'. But no one would say HOW.
At one point I had met a drifter, he kept covered but with the cold alot of people did. we hung out for a bit and ended up in a relationship, then he drifted off again. Which made me sad, but I had a caravan to run and couldn't go drifting with him. I'd asked him to stay but he only said that it would be better if he didn't.
About 9 months later. lol. I ended up with a baby. I was pretty happy. Then it started to be noticed that my baby was a bit.. different. His proportions where off, his eyes where oddly shaped, and he ended up developing a very interesting jaw line that could open up totally and revealed alot of very pointy teeth. (It would split from the lip down the jaw. So his mouth opened out three ways.)
Some of course called my baby a demon and said I should kill it. I called them idiots. I wasn't going to let people of our caravan fall into the same paranoia that we where seeing elsewhere. Aside from his differences, my boy was perfectly NORMAL. He was still utterly human. Just looked a little odd. that's when we started to see more things like that. The impact was causing man to shift, adapt, mutate, and evolve.
So that was the end of that dream.. but it was fun that last night actually started up with the same setting about 20 years later. With my boy all grown up and running the caravan. that had by that point split into a couple smaller ones that took different territories within the same larger one that he still traveled. Everything had resettled. New names had sprung up, contact was made eventually with the rest of the world. News of what happened there. New mythologies and religions sprung up, technology took new twists, and the world had resettled into a new 'norm' for the most part. A new struggle was going on as a general fear of the new groups of people that where rising up started some interesting fights. Alot of people with simular differences started to get together. There where a few rather regular changes that happened that where the most common to see banding together. Extreme large size. Just massive people that grew to be like 8 foot tall. they called themselves Giants. And then there where the smaller stockier people that where strong and compact, with alot of facial hair.. Dwarves of course. And yes.. there where elves. lol. Pulling names from fantasy creatures just seemed the thing to do. When people and animals resembled the descriptions of old stories.
