From: mauldin@lonestar.utsa.edu (Alex L. Mauldin)
Subject: Look Mom!  I killed a Smurf!!
Followup-To: poster
Summary: ABACUS  Post-Nuclear War
X-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:06:02 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:32:21 GMT


  Tired of spending your time hacking away at smurfs and fairies, just so
  you can wear some of that really nifty and unique chainmail armour and
  wield that mighty shortsword?  Are you going to puke if you have to do
  the orc slayer quest one more time??

  Well then, let me tell you a story....

                        ------------------------

  When the western world lost its communist enemy and the Cold War came to
  an end, the United States was suddenly faced with the severity of its
  internal problems of thousands of homeless, drug use on the rise, and the
  ever widenig gap between the rich and poor.  By 1998 several major conflicts
  had erupted WITHIN the borders of the USA.  The majority of urban areas
  had become what can only be described as desolate zones of Civil War.  Loss
  of a working infrastructure coupled with almost daily losses of electricity
  brought the American economy to its knees, ultimately sending it into its
  final depression, and dragging the Europeon Community down along with it.

  At the beginning of the 21st century, both the US and Russian governments
  stood with countries out of control.

  In February of 2004, a terrorist organization announced that it had control
  of hundreds of nuclear weapons all over the world.  Unfortunately, the
  US and Russian reponse was to attempt to over-power the terrorists with
  force.  They failed.  No one knows what the terrorists demands were, for
  that information was classified and later destroyed, but was the price the
  world paid worth what happened next?  In revenge for the US/Russian aggres-
  sion, the terrorists launched approximately 50 nuclear missiles from mid-
  Europe, 163 from the United States, and an unknown number from Russia.
      Destination:  China

  Before any contact could be made with the Chinese government the response
  came.  Calling it a war would be wrong -- three hours of sheer hell and
  global destruction would be more accurate.

  Nearly 2.5 billion people died over the next ten years, either from the
  initial bombings and destruction, or from exposure to the nuclear waste-
  land which was its legacy.

  All was not lost however.  An organization known as SPOK (Scientists for
  the Preservation Of Knowledge) was formed in the USA around the year 2001.
  Together, this group of elite minds from around the world managed to slowly
  rebuild global civilization.  In 2038, the first of the Multi-corporations,
  Thorwald Industries was founded.  Soon other MC's were formed, and they
  ruled in place of any stable government.

  PRESENT DAY:  2125 AD

  Now, the Multi-corporations rule the world with an iron-hand.  Their only
  resistance are the gangs which still hold onto the inner-urban zones.
  These gangs known as the Jetscreamers, Hackers, and Angels of the Apocolypse
  war with each other and with the MC's.  It's a dangerous world, but at least
  we still have a world to speak of.

                            --------------------

  If you'd like to see what this world looks like, then enter the world of:

        ABACUS  Post-nuclear War    130.238.204.10  4080
           <<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>        abacus.hgs.se   4080


  You will not be disappointed.


  (and we promise,...no smurfs!!!)


  //  Hannibal Dryden the Dean of Admissions for H.E.A.T.




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