Apocalyptic game … a new book

[lategamer]

Started doing flow and layout for Invasion 2000 - my upcoming book about alien invasion in Twilight 2000 4th Edition.

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Seventeen minutes after appearing, they opened fire. They went after the cities and industrial area, destroying offices, homes and factories with no prejudice. As our government attempted to scramble an armed response, the invaders would turn their weapons upon our military bases. The number of aircraft that made it into the air was counted in double figures before they were abruptly sliced apart by precision beam weapons.
The bombardment continued for eighty-three minutes and then the monoliths fell silent. Our cities were smoking ruins, our infrastructure shattered and our military was left wanting.
Then they came.
Smaller vessels, shaped like daggers, separated from the monoliths and descended slowly to the ground. Each of them over 100 metres in length and ten metres high and wide. On landing, a maw opened in the side of the craft and it spewed forth monsters.
These beasts, three metres tall, seemingly half creature and half machine, carried smaller versions of those terrible, slicing beam weapons which had so rapidly decimated our military and they set up perimeters and deployed cages. Then, they began hunting.
Thousands were rounded up in those first days. The captors were ruthless but not brutal - they would herd everyone they found into the cages and then the Dagger ships would transport the cages to other locations outside of the cities. The captives would be given water and food; even shelter.
The Hunters would spend the next few weeks routing the human population from the cities, capturing those they could and causing the rest to flee into the countryside.
Then, the great monoliths spoke again and pounded our cities to dust.

will post more bits tomorrow.

 

[bleys21]

Sounds cool! Look forward to reading more...

 

[lategamer]

October
With supply constraints removed, the population began to settle down for the winter. There were still dissenters but as they raised their voices, they were quickly removed by the Quis. And they weren’t seen again. Paranoia about who might be listening was rampant and gossip about who might be an alien sympathiser would quickly spread, leading to some people being ostracised or cast out. But early next morning they’d be back, returned by the Quis.
Humanity was flying blind. There was no television and no internet. Some clever folks were scraping together a radio network and there were some would-be pirate radio stations. And we still had books, what was still recovered from small towns and personal collections. Humanity seemed cowed, docile. We didn’t know, at the time, they’d put something in the water.

 

[bleys21]

Moar? MOAR!

Seriously though, you're writing a campaign for me, so keep on trucking!

 

[lategamer]

August
For the next four days, the fires burned and the rumbling of destruction continued. Things went quiet as the Hunters continued their task and the remaining people in the cities were rounded up. Those who lived in the countryside were mostly left alone by the invaders while their house and barns swelled with survivors qnd refugees but in mid-August, the Quis arrived.

The Quis are not aliens. They’re say they’re humans from Earth. The wore sleek jumpsuits and their slender frames seemed unencumbered by the gravity of the world and the situation.

They’ve been tasked with counting us all, assessing our fitness, seeing to our needs. They almost seem like they care - almost.
They didn’t drive up or walk here; they just appeared - in small groups and shadowed by a great hulking Hunter as security. They spoke with authority and were very clear; the world was under new management.

Once counted, each settlement would be given a number of refugees from the cities and ordered to provide for them. The remainder of August was a very stressful time as city folk who thought they had lost everything resented the country folk who seemed to still have everything. In some places, riots broke out, and in the shadow of giant alien spacecraft which had ruined our world, humans began killing humans.