ORBIT

[blackbird]

The Cataclysm started when an enormous meteor struck the moon, and broke it in half. One half was hurled out of orbit and came crashing down toward the earth. I can still remember watching it get closer and closer, until I swear it was as big as a house. Everyone thought it would hit us, but somehow, it didn't; it may as well have, though. Everyone knows that the moon's gravitational pull effects the tides, and having the moon so close to earth wreaked havoc on the ocean. Floods, tsunamis, they happened every day. Earthquakes and tropical storms afflicted the entire world. It was a nightmare; we began to think that maybe armaggedon had come, and all of us would be dead in a week. It didn't quite happen that way. When the worst was over, earth emerged, alive, broken, and significantly emptier. The coastal regions suffered the most; virtually everything was gone, and many areas were submerged. The inlands faired better, but the quakes still caused massive damage, leaving only a few areas untouched. Over half the human population was wiped out, and other species were even worse off, left with their populations quartered, or, in far too many cases, left extinct. That's when humanity began to change. Scientists have been investigating this bizarre phenomenon for five years now, but they're no closer than they were when it first began to happen. Human beings began to develop the ability to shape-shift; not all humans can do it, but most have the power. It comes out of nowhere, and blind-sides you; one minute you're in line to get your share of the weekly provisions, the next you're an animal. The world is changing, and we must change with it.

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ORBIT is a semi-post-apocalyptic shape-shifter rpg, based in and around the fictional town/city of Grand Banks. Roughly thirty years into the future a terrible event has changed everything. The Cataclysm destroyed the moon, which caused flooding, tsunamis, earthquakes, and general disaster.

//.O R B I T.