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After the Fall: Children of an Obsolete Apocalypse

Created by

ToyeticMechanic

The world ended in 1988. Or, to be accurate. Their world ended in 1988. Yours was just beginning.

You are the latchkey children of humanity, born from medical experimentation, chemical pollutants, unregulated genetic engineering, mutagenic viruses and nuclear war and left to raise yourself in the empty home of the deadbeat parent that was homo sapiens. Scavenging in the ruins you became survivors.By imitation and reverse engineering you become people. In the trenches of the Cola Wars you become consumers. When walls of radioactive isolation fell, you became nations. When they return, if they return, what will you say to them? Those makers of monsters and music? Those breakers of hearts and atoms? “We learned it from watching you.”