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Warrior Druid

            Contrary to tense expectations, our civilization didn't go out with a bang-that happened later. Before the bio-weapons and nukes ever mutilated the planet, society was already degraded, rotted out from the inside. By saying "inside", I'm not blaming the governments. Sure, part of it was their fault, but the general public shared in the responsibility-more so in democratic countries. The fall of the United States was particularly pathetic. The "public", through a flawed "majority rule" system that subjectivized all sorts of moral abominations, validated promiscuity on previously unspeakable levels and insatiably demanded more and more material fripperies despite a declining ecological state and astronomical debt.
Escapism was rampant-nobody wished to face the problems of the day in their entirety. Many methods were used, but the best-and most costly-was Cybernetic Detachment-an immersive and addicting form of social-platform-based virtual reality, made more addicting when enhanced through the use of drugs. Following several technological breakthroughs, Detachment software was cheapened and the cerebral interfaces were publicly commercialized. A "zombie apocalypse", so widely conceptualized in pop culture before, ensued. People, nationwide and around the world, vegetated, engrossed in their own petty, digitized fantasy realms. As a large section of the enthralled population quietly settled down, a few government officials, no longer seeing any need to govern, quietly slipped out of office, subsequently Detaching themselves. More followed, and eventually there was no government to speak of. Of course, not everyone was detached-far from it!-and many people, myself included, expressed discontent. To no avail. 
Nobody knows quite what happened next. My guess is that radicals, holding no concept of a happy medium, vandalized and infiltrated their way into now-abandoned weapons facilities. If so, then they inflicted so, so much destruction...
Wandering the wasteland now, I guide the newer, diminished generation of survivors. Their parents, in the grip of a Celtic Detachment fad, had raised them like pagans. Fools! Withholding countless centuries of human accomplishment and knowledge from their children for the sake of their selfish fantasies. Wandering from tribe to settlement as a druid (for they will not accept me otherwise; though they are unaided by a Detachment simulation as their parents were, they have been taught that the world is as it is not, and I must fit into their make-believe world in order to receive aid, or give it, too), I try to teach them what has been lost, while contending with mutated bio-weapons and toxic pitfalls. The world will never again be as it was, but if I can open their eyes to the truth-the only truth-that may be for the better.
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Made for a private challenge. ChatLUG was discussing the n00b stereotype of "fig on a pl8", and decided it would be fun to see how well we could pull off an 8x8 version of just that. I won't tell you what the qualifier for challenge victory is-that would give me an unfair advantage. ;)
   

Taken on: November 15, 2014

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