New: Code Name: Desert Hunt (free, open-ended, www, mixed, fantasy, startrek, historical, rpg)

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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:13:01 +0000

Name:		Code Name: Desert Hunt
Costs:		Nothing
Frequency:		at least once a week.
Email:		laurashark zat earthlink.net
URL:		http://deserthunt.freeforums.org/
Type:		Writing intensive futuristic RPG with two opposing sides.
Last-Update:		2008Jun21
Keywords: free, open-ended, www, mixed, fantasy, startrek, historical, rpg

Description:

1. Past

�If giving up your practiced religion would finally cause world peace,
would you?�

That was how it began, with that simple question. A newly elected
government official, we don�t know who, at least over two hundred years
ago, decided to pose it in one of his speeches, and from there it became
one of his primary policies. He told the world that peace could only be
achieved if we stopped putting ourselves into sects and pieces, and
worshiped individually, without organization or discrimination. He made it
seem like an individual choice, something they were supposed to do but had
the option not to. But then�

We don�t know how the idea became so popular. From what little we
understand, people enforced it themselves, saying that if you didn�t
follow that path, you were against a peaceful better world. There are
accounts of churches being burned, but we do not know for certain if this
happened. All we do know is that eventually it became a law or a rule
through the government and that it was followed to the letter. However, to
gain further world peace, that country had to enforce it on other
countries or all the efforts would be for naught. What followed is often
termed as WFR, War for Religion. When it ended, the result was one main
world superpower and a rule that organized religion was to be outlawed.
Other than that, we know nothing.

For a while after, we have no records of anything. We know there was an
event, some huge event that changed the course of the world. It was big,
dangerous, and was never recorded for future generations. Then we know
that yet another thing was outlawed: the study and recording of History.
It was thought to promote discrimination, war, and prejudice between
groups of people. It was better to think in the present, to live with all
around you as equals. To help with this, the written word was outlawed, as
were books. A select few called scribes were trained to write, but only
what they were told to write by the powers that be. Mostly signs for
cities or government approved news. Everything else became verbal.

Sometime during this, a government project was begun, code named Desert.
We know what this project did, but not how. What they intended to do was
to hide things, anything, that would give people a concrete idea of the
past, so as to maintain the now lasting world peace. They did this by
turning places where there were what we now call artifacts into nothing
but desert. Put something into the soil, we think. Some of the deserts
spread almost out of control, taking over hundreds and almost thousands of
miles. Where we are, there is nothing but desert. We think that is a good
sign for what our organization does.

Which brings us to now, whenever now is. We don�t know the date, we don�t
know the name of our part of the world. All we know is what is here and
what this place has been like for the span of our lives...

Read on?

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