Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The Secret Origin of the Psychotronic Earth

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

1965—the Year of the Thunderkiss. Some fat-fingered bureaucrat pressed the shiny red button and set off Armageddon. However, instead of resulting in a grim, gritty wasteland where humanity struggles to survive, the atomic fallout instead warped the fabric of reality itself...

’45 was the year everything changed, the year what seemed like an inevitable defeat for Hitler’s armies became something altogether different and more terrifying. The year the world shattered under the glow of hundreds of atom bombs that swept away everything that
stood before.

Civilisation teetered on the brink of collapse across the world as the superweapons of all sides collided and science thrashed about in frenzy, casting off strange new technologies and weapons on all sides until, finally, the war petered out...

In the fall of 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, embarked on a new series of high-energy experiments. No one knows exactly what they were attempting to do, but a little after 3 P.M. on a Thursday afternoon came the Big Mistake. Something unexpected happened, and in the blink of an eye, many possible universes all condensed into a single reality...

Time and space being relative, of course, these three Events (and others just as catastrophic) resonated across the multiverse, interacting to create the setting known as the Psychotronic Earth, continuity and copyrights be damned.

Or, there are five or six similar rpg settings and I just decided to put them all in the cosmic blender and hit "puree."

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