Pitch

July, Year of the Lord 2024 – or year 21, if you start counting from Outbreak Day, as you do in most places now, anyway. And why would you count in Years of the Lord, anyway, since he obviously has abandoned us? Traditionally being an agricultural country, it’s almost ironic that it was a fungus infection in some corn products that would spell our collective doom. But it certainly did. And speaking of God leaving us, this whole thing became almost a religious experience – because nothing has ever convinced me that we’re living in Hell on Earth as when I saw Copenhagen fall. It might have been necessary, but it does leave its marks to see your family turned to monsters and to see them leave your hometown a waste land. And you do feel some sort of pity, along with all that hate, when you know that the poor bastards were sick. And there’s even a bit of guilt, because in the back of your mind you agree that S.C.R.E.A.M. did the right thing by nuking the whole thing. And finally, you feel a great amount of pity for yourself, and for those who’re still here. The last of us. Those Left Behind.

Setting

Those Left Behind is a The Last of Us-inspired live action roleplaying game. The year is 2024, and Denmark, like the rest of the world, has fallen apart after the cordyceps-mushroom mutated and spread to the whole world a little more than 20 years ago. Those who survive do so in small enclaves, where you have to work together, and sometimes (a little too often, in fact…) have to make hard decisions to ensure the survival of the species – because those people who remain are few in number.

A group of people left behind in this manner have settled – sort of – in the abandoned facilities of an old military base near Næstved. Governed harshly by leftover members of SCREAM (the State Crisis Response Emergency Aid Militia), this rag tag group of people must, to the best of their abilities, attempt to survive and coexist – holding on to the sliver of hope that one day a brighter future will once again be ahead.

Welcome to Those Left Behind.

Oplæg
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Det er juli, år 2024. Eller år 21, hvis man tæller fra Udbruds-dag, som man efterhånden gør de fleste steder. Og hvorfor også tælle efter Kristi fødsel, når Gud tydeligvis har forladt os? Som landbrugsland er det næsten utroligt, at en svampeinfektion i korn, af alle ting, skulle blive vores endeligt. Men det blev det i den grad. Og apropos at Gud har forladt os, så blev det på sin vis nærmest en religiøs oplevelse – for intet har overbevist mig så klart om, at vi lever i Helvede på jord, som da jeg så København falde. Og ja, måske var det nødvendigt, men det sætter sine spor, at se sin familie blive til monstre, og at se dem lægge din elskede fødeby øde. Og man føler en form for medynk, sammen med sit had, når man ved, at staklerne var syge. Og man føler en form for dårlig samvittighed, fordi man i sidste ende var enige i beslutningen om at lade S.K.R.I.G. bombe hele lortet. Og man føler en form for selvmedlidenhed, for sig selv, og for de, der står tilbage. For os. For de Efterladte.

Ramme
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De Efterladte er et The Last of Us-inspireret rollespil. Året er 2024, og Danmark, ligesom resten af verden, er gået i opløsning, efter at cordyceps-svampen muterede og spredte sig til hele verden for lige over 20 år siden. De, der overlever, overlever i små enklaver, hvor man løfter i flok, og til tider (lidt for ofte, faktisk…) tager nogle hårde beslutninger for at sikre artens overlevelse – for mennesker, dem er der ikke mange tilbage af.

En gruppe sådan efterladte mennesker i Danmark har fundet sig tilrette – sådan da – i resterne af en gammel militærbase nær Næstved. Under hård administration af nogle af de resterende SKRIG-medlemmer (Statens KriseRespons og IndsatsGruppe) må denne umage gruppe efter bedste evne forsøge at over- og samleve – i et spinkelt håb om, at der en dag igen vil være en fremtid at se frem til.

Velkommen til De Efterladte.