On The Beach
"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang with a whimper"
-T S Eliot
In 1962 the world finally ended. As predicted, it destroyed itself in the mushroom clouds that had been looming ever since Hiroshima was destroyed. However
it didn't end in one giant nuclear blast, but the creeping clouds of radioactive dust
that slowly covered the globe afterwards. It has covered the northern hemisphere and now is slowly encroaching on Australia.
"Melbourne is a wonderful place to make a movie about the end of the world"
- Eva Gardner
The end of the world is a popular theme in literature, especially science fiction, there are so many tales about the destruction of earth, the death of the human race, the Last Man.
Is truth stranger than fiction?
But what do you do when you know the end is near?
How do you wait for the End...
A serious systemless end of the world senario for 5 players. (1 session)
Heavily inspired by the novel On The Beach by Nevil Shute and the film of the same name
This is a game idea I have been working on. For abut 3 or 4 years
now, just a little idea floating around in the back of my head. The
key finally came to me and I've offered the game to Phenonmenon
2006.
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