Arkham

In 1926, a few years after the first world war a small cult based in Innsouth Massachusetts had managed to release a God from its slumber. the Great Dreamer awoke and plunged the world into chaos. 20 years later whats left of Massachusetts is a wasteland. the sky is clouded and stripping the land of any sunlight. the ocean retreated from shore, and with it the rivers and swamps. The last beacon of humanity is a city under siege. Arkham a city ruled by the mad or power hungry. The hierarchy is shifting, and with it the uneasy balance of power which kept the city from breaking into riots. How long can this city cling to life.      On that Black Day the air grew still, all the living had become aware of a predator. Animal instinct took over as waters of the oceans began to boil, a deafening silence took over the land, soon the quite was replaced with tantrums thrown by those still trying to grasp whats left of their sanity. screeching, screaming and laughter, the people close enough to see the face of The Dreamer fell into coma like sleep, their limp bodies writhed and snaked across the ground as if their bodies possessed with intent to move away from something, those close enough to see the God in the distance released their minds as easily as a child allowing balloons drift away. most fled, running manically away to gain distance between themselves and their fears, others turned violent weaponizing their insanity to right any wrongs done to them in life.      Soon after the earth shook and erupted with Great tendrils, poisoning anything they touched. The tentacles spread corruption into the very nature of things. Building constructed of mortar and stone collapsed as if made of acidic gelatin. cancerous growths sprouted from things once living like the wooden frames of houses, or the remains of a lunatic. The followers, and those who summoned the Great Old One From his City where not spared or favored, they had'nt even been noticed, their hard efforts unrewarded most fair weather groupies ended themselves to avoid the full realization of what they had done, while to leadership of the cult had always know it to be this way, and accepted their roll to play.      Many had been touched by the Great Old Ones power, warping flesh and mind until they have become almost unrecognizable. Those who witnesses the end were freed from their restricted minds, a wholly euphoric experience, a pleasant memory of how things should be rather then what they are helped those who had been destroyed by the Black Day find joy in their daily life of reliving lost memories in a memorized stupor. these poor wretches are know as dreamers. usually its dangerous to interact with them. but some have woken from their dream, and have pieced back together a broken mind into something twisted and deeply wrong, they have awareness dreamers do not, but also a seething rage, driving them to lead dreamers to form small bands or small kingdoms. to what end, differs between the separate groups, but the behavior remains the same, the capture and execution of anyone who is not them.      But not all is lost in the remains of the US government continue a fruitless war to recapture and cleanse the east coast from the madness that envelopes it, but progress was said to have stopped years ago, the most recent military activities had been as far west as Chicago. according to local sources, but as no one who managed to leave Arkham had returned, all the news is spread by a small contingent of soldiers abandoned do to a walking retreat.      The Wolves, originally 33 Infantry battalion, had been sent to Arkham to clense the city, but ended up sheltering there. after 4 years of fighting the Armed Forces had completed a rushed project 5 years earlier then anticipated. the Nuclear Bomb, firebombing had been considered ineffective in scrapping life from the land, so the invention of a atomic bomb had been welcomed as a way to ensure nothing lived. all the while many main battle groups had been trapped out on the front. Either by madness or fear it had been decided by council that the sacrifice of many would be beneficial to the few, as long as they where thorough and exterminated every last eldritch horror or monsters.      It began in 1940 a creeping barrage on the once proud land, 13 Nukes, all along the east coast shoreline, then 15 more 10 miles inland, every day at morning the barrage would strike again slowly scouring the land, leaving nothing but devastation. whether by accident, espionage, or some ridiculous form of mercy, Arkham had been spared,avoiding the nearest blast by 7 miles      The current year is 1948, America, Japan, And the Uk had missed the Imperial War, waged between the USSR and Germany, a truce had been signed carving up counties unaffected by the Black Day, Germany would keep Poland, and Hungary, and release claims on all other bordering counties for the USSR.      Other then the petty Warlords and Gang leaders Arkham is a lawless place filled with vile monsters, villainous murderers, pragmatic survivors, and the insane, all trapped within the city with crude barricades to hold out hordes of undead, and creatures from a different world. They litter the wasteland, not much else can survive outside the walls.