voxpopuli_mod (voxpopuli_mod) wrote in wanna_rp, @ 2009-08-13 21:24:00 |
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TAKEN/HELD | PREMISE | RULES | APPLY In the near-future, a short-lived nuclear war has left much of the world in chaos. While the US struggles with civil war and pestilence, Britain stands among the least worse-off states. Norsefire, a fascist party led by the charismatic Adam Sutler, has risen as the ruling power, reducing competing political groups to figureheads paying lip-service to the doctrine of the current government. Society is the state and the state is society. Through twenty-five years of totalitarian rule, Britain has learned to appreciate the value of what they've been given. Without strong leadership, they would perish... or so advertises the government-controlled media through government-controlled channels. Most God-fearing, law-abiding citizens have long learned the art of double-think. Accepting without question is second nature. Yet there are those who refuse to toe the party line. Anarchists inspired by the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin, believe that the old society has to be torn down before a new one can be built upon its ruins. Justice, they hold, is meaningless without freedom. Their tactics aim to humiliate and ridicule the fascist regime to destabilize it. Their methods are erratic and their impact difficult to predict, but they are there and they are growing harder and harder to hide from the public. A new political and media campaign is about to be introduced, this time targeting home-grown terrorists who would strike against the state. Three targets have been chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Hundreds could die within the next few weeks. Political upheavals could be nipped in the bud - or they could flourish and thrive like maggots upon an open wound. No matter the outcome, the true genius of the plan is the fear: a year from now, ten, the ultimate tool of the government could be written as the very thing that lit the powderkeg. You hold the key to that future. |