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An odd mixture of a RPG worldbook and stories that were probably derived from completed campaigns, made even odder by the fact that the original work is the Left Behind eschatological franchise, specifically the last two books, Glorious Appearing and Kingdom Come.The corpus of the work consists of a RPG worldbook, a strategy game ("quest") run on 4chan which includes rules for replaying it, and a few short stories and novellas (including at least one example of Recursive Fanfiction).The setup for this 'verse is that Conservation of Competence ensures that while the Antichrist is an idiot, the people working for his telecom division are smart enough to keep the phones and data lines throughout the literal Apocalypse... which means that they are smart enough to ensure that the Battle of Armageddon technically never ends, by tuning out Jesus' power (the Word of God) with a series of sonic weapons and then locking Him in an airless container.The problem, of course, is that the universe can't quite handle it and splits in two right down the middle.In the first branch, "Tripocalypse", a second global earthquake restores the world's mountains and valleys as they were (and further wrecks the infrastructure) while great ion storms make a significant fraction of the Earth uninhabitable... while the removal of the Big God from the chessboard, however temporary, allows the older Small Gods to make their return. This, plus the lack of a consensus over just what the heck happened, makes sure that The Magic Comes Back within a few years.The resulting world, a generation later, looks like it has been through a Cosy Catastrophe as the human (or post-human, or trans-human) race rebuilds.In 2019 a "not-prequel" was written to tell the story of the situation that led to this situation, with the protagonists being the people tasked by the Antichrist to build a solar-powered emergency cellular network and snowballing that project into an attempted coup against him.In the second branch, "Left Beyond" proper, at the beginning of the story the Tribulation is over as it should have been; Jesus Christ is triumphant, and sets up His Kingdom here on earth for the Millennium. He first destroys the desecrated Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and then replaces it with a new and more grand Temple from which He will rule over all the earth. The world is flattened (no more mountains) and a sky canopy is created (no more night).Since the last prophecy left in Revelation states that there will be one more final battle, a token opposition to Jesus' totalitarian rule must exist. This group is called The Other Light, which hope to gather followers for the Final Battle against God at the end of the Millennium and succeed in their goal of vanquishing Him through the help of their leader Satan, who is imprisoned in the Bottomless Pit for a thousand years.Things go according to Divine plan for most of the Millennium, with Modern Stasis (at roughly late-1990s level) ensuing and The Other Light building a massive conventional army that is destined to be destroyed in an instant. About 900 years in, however, this army becomes large enough to require a computerized logistics system. This effectively gives a large amount of power to a small group of anonymous sysadmins (the players); they proceed to funnel resources away from TOL and start their own faction. Now, they have 100 years (turns) to avert or subvert the Apocalypse, lest the White Throne Judgement bring the story of Humanity to an end.The two alternate timelines are linked, in that "Flipside" (the Millennial Kingdom) is a liminality within Tripocalypse Earth, and the occasional piece of technology in that time line makes its way back to the Kingdom by taking The Slow Path with a step sideways.The current extent of this work can be found at:Left Beyond RPG worldbook with the original settingTripocalypse RPG worldbook, which changes the ending for Left Behind's 12th book and proposes a Shadowrun-lite setting set in the 2030sThe Omega Legacy, the main storyThe Millennium Countdown, prequel/sidequel to The Omega LegacyCendrillon, a prequel set in +93, and the Recursive Fanfiction sequel, MercyYouth Without Youth, a Recursive Fanfiction story for +990Children of the Tripocalypse, which follows the protagonists of Left Behind The Kids into the Tripocalypse continuityThe beginning of the whole mess, a quest / strategy game. Left Beyond Quest Also contains the not-prequel.WARNING: UNMARKED SPOILERS.This body of work provides examples of: | |
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