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jzn
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Hi folks! Thanks for being in the prevengers game! Here's a not so brief background on the game world, Muhuhahaha:
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The world of the prevengers is much the same as the world of today. Well, it was until about 1860, anyway. In 1860, three things happened that would change the course of history. A messiah appeared, somebody exploded a nuclear bomb in the long island sound, and the "before and after photo"adverstising campaign was invented.
These three events would greatly accelerate certain areas of social and technological development.
The order of sister helen was founded based on only a few pages of the miraculous saint's teachings, as cobbled together by several prominent new york clergymen. The order rapidly grew in size and by 2000, it had become the largest christian denomination. The sister was taken to be a new messiah by the order, which has awaited her return for 150 years. Her specific teachings on civil rights caused the movement to more rapidly gain acceptance. In 1888, women got the vote. An equivalent to the voting rights act was passed in 1915. Affirmative action began being enforced in 1936, gay marriage by 1950. The animal rights act was passed in 1964, giving human rights to any animal, to whatever exent that the animal was able to strongly express an interest.
The nuclear bomb that was detonated in the long island sound had 2 important effects on history.
First, the study of the blast's effects caused a boom in interest in, and development of, theoretical physics. E=MC2 was reasoned out by Hermann von Helmholtz in 1885. Building on previous work, Lise Meitner, in 1951, discovered proof of the graviton. Transportation, manufacturing, and energy Technology have all benefitted greatly from the advances.
The second important phenomenon caused by the bomb was the beneficial mutation of several individuals after its detonation. The appearance of super-powered humans in history actually predates the nuclear bomb, but only by a few weeks. After the bomb, 2 of these new superhumans came strongly into the historical spotlight.
Mose Humprhies was the quintessential new yorker, except that he was 7 feet tall and could pull an oak out from its roots. He gained worldwide fame in due to his exploits as a union soldier in the american civil war (which only lasted 2 months, largely thanks to Mose's prowess). After the civil war, Mose and the United States went on to fight a war against mexico, which it won. Shortly thereafter, it annexed canada. Mose became president in 1868, strongly winning against Horace Greely, (after greeley's sexual orientation was scandalously challenged by his wife-turned-Helenian-disciple Mary Cheney Greely). During his presidency, the United States would be renamed "North America".
The second major figure to emerge was being exhibited by P.T. Barnum, a gorilla called "Gargantua". Gargantua began using his feces to draw, expertly, on the wall of his cage. Within a few years, Barnum had him painting portraits for money. The exquisite portraits were a sensation, and Gargantua became the darling of the art world. While they weren't touring the world, painting portraits of kings and queens, Gargantua lived with a harem at a Zoo on Staten Island that Barnum had established for his prized possession. Before he died, Gargantua would go to become a leader in the impressionist movement.
In 1930s, a gorilla that was eventually found to be a descendant of the original Gargantua came to prominence. The gorilla was named Buddah, but was eventually billed by his ringling brothers as "Gargantua". Due to an affirmitive action program, the second Gargantua's cage was kept by a force made up largely of deaf keepers. A genius even by human standards, Gargantua taught himself sign language, and later to read and write. He was bought by Ringling Brothers circus, who both exhibited him and published his writings. His political humor novel, The Abba Dabba Democracy, became the best selling novel of the decade, and catapulted him to fame and the talk show circuit.
By the the 1950s Buddah Gargantua, although he had a magnificent harem and every amenity he could wish for, was depressed and disillusioned. He had a degree of freedom that was unheard of for his species, but he was still considered property, and book sales profits were only funneled to him through his owner, the Ringling Brothers circus. He fell in with John Clellan Holmes, and self-identified as a member of the Beat Generation. He became politically active, and was a major figure in the animal rights movement of the decade.
Great apes were the main beneficiary of the animal rights act, and there were many more of them than there would have been if not for the original Gargantua. The worldwide reputation of apes was that of as peaceful artists, rather than monsters, so their species was already being preserved in colonial africa by the turn of the century. It was also discovered that some descendants of the original gargantua had been re-introduced into the wild, and retained some of her exceptional cognitive abilities. Often, it was difficult to tell a smart ape from a dumb one.
But with the advent of the animal rights act, many of Gargantua's descendants began emerging as articulate thinkers. The 1968 elections saw several Gorillas actually take public office, with Gargantua himself actually achieving a national post, as a Senator of California.
Despite not being able to actually speak, Gargantua was outspoken, a radical liberal, and he was assassinated by conservatives at the height of his popularity in 1971. Gargantua became a national martyr, and more encultured gorillas followed in his shadow into public office. His species became a fixture in politics, but Gargantua's exceptional ethics was not shared by his relatives.
In 2000, the gorilla "Julius Caesar" became elected president of the United States, on an anti-pedophilia platform. After the attacks on the world trade center, he passed the "patriot act", which established martial law in North America, and sapped non-gorilla citizens of most of their rights. He put a moratorium on elections until potential terrorists could be screened out of the government. He dissolved the congress and supreme courts, citing the need to centralize power in the face of aggression. His gorilla death-squads patrol the nation's largest cities in jetpacks and flying saucers.
There is currently an underground anti-gorilla movement in North America, coordinated from a secret location in New York. Also, in 1998, there was a mishap with a time travel device causing the 1970s to merge with the 1990s, and people are only now realizing that disco sucks.
But other than that, it's exactly like the world is now
who's ready for character creation?!
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are you doing here?
