The Thirty Worlds - World XIV

[Q Man]

30 Dimensional Fatigue Events Our premise is that the following disaster happened and what kind of world or worlds could have or did result from this disaster. If there are (will be) multiple ideas, then additional threads World Ib, World Ic, etc can be created.

14. Infectious Disease



There are many places that are unclean, and filled with an almost supernatural pestilence. These failures of arcanotech can spread alien diseases that can quickly burn through populations, leaving few if any survivors. The worst diseases are the ones that kill their host so quickly that transmitting the disease to a new host is usually out of the question, ebola and other hyperaggressive diseases fall into this category. Rather than a case of Martian ______ or Jovian flu, flesh dissolving diseases, and other body horror afflictions are the norm. The best defense is rapid and rigid quarantine regulations, flamethrowers, and fusion incinerators.



Scenario: There has been a disease outbreak on a lunar colony, and the PCs are either trying to escape from the quarantine, or are part of the group keeping the infected in. It is a little worrisome that there is a second quarantine zone being built up behind their zone...

[Q Man]

There is an example scenario, but don't let that limit your ideas, write your own scenario and rift off of that. This is a group brainstorming exercise so go for it.

[The Bloody Nine]

There has been a disease outbreak but no one knows it yet because of the long incubation period during all of which people are infectious. Once the first death occurs followed rapidly by an exponential increase in deaths, virtually the whole population has been exposed. The death rate is 98%. This still leaves about 120,000,000 million people spread randomly around the world, but many are very old oddly enough and many are babies and children. Out of the 120,000,000 only about 5% are able to care for themselves and adapt to the new conditions without help or even help others. Over the next 6 months all of those who cannot survive without others to help them more than just watching their backs also die. That leaves about 6,000,000 people spread around the world in groups of 10-100 people and very few of them know how to grow food and have significant survival skills. Right now they are foraging and living off existing food stocks and the remaining usable items left behind by the dead. The survival rate over the following two years is only 10% reducing the population to 600,000 people randomly distributed and in groups of 10-40 people with a few groups that are larger.

This is your world, can you prevent total collapse into return of the stone age?