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Part Two : Before and After
Topic Started: Feb 6 2010, 11:11 PM (42 Views)
Kujo
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Call the President what you will, but he was right about one thing: We couldn't go back. The tsunami left few survivors, and all of civilization in wreckage, and there was little choice but for the survivors to go into Sel Keth, where the elven people, not one to hold a grudge, willingly accepted them.

Now, a bit of a history lesson. Go back about two hundred years. Don't worry, we aren't jumping around, this will sound pretty familiar pretty soon.

The world used to be a pretty balanced thing. On this Earth we have one Continent, known as Pangea. And on this continent, there are a multitude of people, the humans, the elves, the dwarves, the werewolves, the vampires, and etc. The humans and the dwarves, being pretty close to each other both socially and physically, start working together. And some crazy technology starts coming out of it, things like cars, guns, and heavy machinery. All the other people of the world, except one bunch, likes this stuff. It makes it easier for them to coexist. Even werewolves, who had historically gone from enslaved to impoverished, were finding ways to better integrate them into society, with medical methods for controlling their transformations. Vampires favored the larger society that was forming, because they could more easily blend and keep their actions unnoticed. Dwarves liked the work, and humans liked being at the head of it all.

The elves were pissed, really pissed. They went around making speeches about pollution, something about global warming, they even videotaped one of them crying when he saw trash on the ground, and put it on television. Everybody laughed. The dwarves never liked the elves anyway.

So then the elves side with some bearded fundamentalist humans that fled the technological boom and hid in Black Foot Mountain. And they get the funny idea that if they blew enough of everybody else up, they'd quit screwing with the world. Or at least, that's what the guys in the mountains said. They let the elves do the dirty work.

And thus followed a huge war. But invading the new society proved taxing on the elves, because their cleaner lifestyle hadn't given them the immunities to many diseases that the new world was building up. Most of their forces got taken out, little by little, and eventually, they signed a treaty putting them in their own little society, the land called Sel Keth.

Two hundred years, and everything is fine. Now, remember what the President said. Giant tsunami wipes out the world that everyone had worked so hard on, and what was left couldn't survive in the wreckage. So they march on down to Sel Keth, and ask if they can live there. The elves are fine with this. There was no reason to be uncivil.

But, the outsiders went about it the wrong way. They didn't think 'when in Sel Keth, do as the elves do', they brought their cars, their trash, their everything. The elves nearly lost it over this. The sudden pollution was making them sick, and the outsiders were rude and loud. So they went to the President, and asked him to get his people to tone it down. And the President, said no.

A few weeks later, when the elves flexed a few of their muscles, which they had been working on in all the time between the great wars and the tsunami, the President said, alright, lets see what we can do. And to his credit, he did make a lot of eco-friendly technological decisions. But the elves had gotten cocky, they figured they could take the humans, the dwarves, werewolves, and anyone else, all at once. And they were wrong.

So Sel Keth shrank, and the humans started building their own cities. And suddenly, Sel Keth turned from a temporary home, to a new frontier.
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