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[Asilynne]

A Crystal Asi Production

What is time but a man-made condition?
What is life but a spent munition?
What is the world but a candle flame?
When it goes out who is to blame?

The Sacred Tree of the Mayans signifies creation. It is said that when it appeared in the sky the Creator made the human race, beginning the First Age of Man. The Sacred Tree is also the entrance to the underworld, however. A person's entrance into life, as well as death, for the two are two sides of the same coin.

They say when it appears in the sky it will bring about a new Age. Some say this Age will be the end of all life as we know it, and also, the end of the world. Others say this Age will be the awakening of a new form of human consciousness, that in our current state we are still just "proto-humans", and when the Sacred Tree comes around again we as a people will finally emerge into our "true selves".

But much is still unknown about what, if anything will happen on this day. The last emergence of the Sacred Tree in the heavens was nearly 26,000 years ago, and any records of the occurrences, if any, have been lost to time. But according to the Mayans, the race of people who studied the stars and discovered the "Sacred Tree", it will return to the sky on the Long Count day of 13.0.0.0.0.

That date in the modern calendar is Dec 21, 2012.


You live in a small, typical American suburban neighborhood. There is nothing too special about it, you have your neighbors, their pets, some you like while some you barely tolerate. But all in all, you get along well. Everything is quite peaceful. Maybe your biggest problem is the teenagers next door leaving their cans in your yard, or the neighbor’s dog keeping you up at night.

You may have heard about a couple of your neighbors having a party, or you might not know them well enough to care, but either way, the news is all abuzz about what date is coming up. Every 26,000 years, the Sun will align with the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy, blocking it from our view. Not only from our view though, but also blocking the radiation and radio waves that bombarded Earth from this center.

This extremely rare event happens to occur in our lifetimes, and knowing some of the people in your town it doesn’t really surprise you that they would find any reason to have a party. Maybe you attend, maybe not. Maybe you are over someone else’s house in a different neighborhood, or maybe you were still at work. Maybe you’re the skeptical kind of person that has heard it all and doesn’t believe in prophecies, maybe you are the type to be fanatical about it and are prepared with a cupboard of canned food and a tinfoil hat. Or maybe you are somewhere in between, but no matter what, whether against your will or not, you can’t help but think about it.

And soon it came to the time that the alignment would occur. The clock moved closer to 6:15PM EST, and all the TV and radio channels were talking about it, showing scientist images and facts about what was occurring. Some people were still speculating about the "End of the World" myths, but whether you believed in that or not, you couldn’t help but be a little excited. It felt almost like New Years, the moment of a new beginning. That would prove to be very accurate.

Suddenly in the space of a moment, everything changed. The world seemed to shift---
....a sound roared from overhead, a mechanical screaming...

the sky screams

when steel birds shred it

with their wings

....and as the horrible screeching sound grew louder the world grew dark for you, consciousness slipping from you like a stone into the depths of the ocean. There wasn’t time for thought or speculation, one moment the world was as it should be, and the next…


You were waking up to a world eerily quiet. It was dark, save for a slight glow outside. You don’t know how long you were unconscious, but you feel as though you had a lingering nightmare, one that you can’t quite grasp but yet has left you vaguely unsettled, clinging to you like a film long after waking. You go to your window, or walk outside, or maybe you just sit there for a moment, taking in what could have happened. Maybe it was a bad dream. Maybe that plane which crashed not far from your house was a fluke, a freak accident.

Or maybe the 'crazies' had been right.

~*~*~*~

Ok this rpg is based on a what-if scenario, the timeless end-of-the-world survival scenario, though what you see isn't always what you get. It isn't totally apparent what has happened at this point in time.

All of you will live in the same neighborhood, an undisclosed slice of Suburban America. You can choose to be elsewhere at the time, or you can be over someone else’s house, it’s up to you. You also can but don’t have to play your real self, that also is up to you At the time of the “Event”, you will either have blacked out suddenly, or you will be asleep naturally. When you wake up though you will notice that the neighborhood/city is strangely quiet, and that cars have crashed as if their drivers suddenly vanished…which seems to be exactly what happened upon further investigation.

As the rpg goes on more things will be revealed, and I will occasionally have events happen that will test certain characters or everyone, and your character may become injured in these. In some extreme circumstances based on your choices you even run the risk of dying, so be careful....and remember at all times think about what would you do in the situations. Human beings have weaknesses and while in stories the characters are almost always heroic sometimes your character might find themselves doing things that aren’t always right.
But first of all, you have to figure out what has happened, and what is still happening…


Name: Obvious

Age: Obvious

Gender: Obvious

Appearance: What your character looks like

Personality: Include basic personality traits as well as any quirks you may have, keep this well rounded and balanced

Place of Origin in the RPG: briefly describe the where you are and what you are doing right before the event.

Skills: Things you are good at.

Relationships: Who do you know? siblings, parents, husband/wife, kids, pets? Its very likely you will know at least one other character in the rpg so please talk with each other, it would be especially interesting if you know someones character you don't typically know very well

History: Please give a brief history, just enough to show how you got to be who and where you are.

Other: Anything else?


Ill post mine later <3 Any questions just ask!

Poems (c) me.