2059

The Anchorage Frontline is established, as the United States increases its military presence in Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions between the United States and Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline.

2066 - Winter

As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries, Canada proves reluctant to allow American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. American and Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and U.S. troops pass through Canada. This sets the stage for the Canadian Annexation in 2076.

2069

Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the U.S. draws upon Canadian resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian protests are unheard.

2072

The United States' increasing demand for Canadian resources causes protests and riots in several Canadian cities. An attempted sabotage of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to finalize its annexation of Canada, which had already begun in 2067.

March: A mass confiscation of weapons begins in Canada, as well as the Northwest Commonwealth (Pacific Northwest) as a result of the attempted sabotage. Anyone caught with a gun in their home, is arrested and treated as a terrorist and Communist agitator.

June 3: Canada begins to be fully annexed by the U.S. It is fully integrated by 2076.

2076

The United States annexation of Canada is complete. Canadian protesters and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests.

August: The mass confiscation of weapons turns out to be a surprising success. People believing in the Patriotic reasoning and propaganda, as well as out of fear for being thought a Communist spy or agitator, leads to many weapons over the years, behind handed over to the military. However, others hide away weapons in various places.

2077

January 22: The first domestic use of power armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured and sent to military prisons.

October 23: The Great War begins and ends.

2095

Life begins to appear once more in the Pacific Northwest.

2110

The remnants of humanity in the area, begin to form wandering tribes and groups.

2120

While life has returned, the extreme levels of radiation in most of the major cities, keeps the wandering tribes from settling too close.

2125

Mount Scott, in the Portland metropolitan area, erupts after months of volcanic activity, covering the majority of the city in a foot of toxic and radioactive ash. It darkens out the sky and leaves most of the life around the city, to flee or die.

2137

Mount Reinier in Washington State, erupts and causes an even more catastrophic natural disaster, than Mount Scott. The toxic cloud of ash and radiation is dispersed, finding it’s way as far and further, than the city of Spokane, covering everything to varying degrees, along the way. Due to the eruption, a tsunami is caused in Puget Sound, leading to the ruins of the Seattle/Tacoma area, 60% flooded. Puget Sound becomes an even greater lake.

2143

Mount Garibaldi in British Columbia, erupts, causing another great ash and radioactive cloud to spread, causing as well, an earthquake in Vancouver that shakes the ruins to a state of even more ruin.

2147

The already partially flooded city of Victoria, on Vancouver Island, is flooded some more after a massive storm causes 35% of the city to sink underwater.

2152

Though through the years, known throughout the land as the Times of Woe, natural disasters have made it difficult to live, but the primitive people of the Pacific Northwest, begin to prosper more than ever before. The radiation levels settle, and agriculture becomes an even better possibility, without the threat of ash or radiation ruining what they plant.

2167

The tribes of the Pacific Northwest have grown and prospered through the years, known to all as the Good Times. But a new time is beginning for all the tribes, that may see some prosper even more, and others fall.

Age: 28

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Height: 6’2

Weight: 190lbs

Hairstyle: Undercut w/clean shaven sides and back. Colorful feathers tied into his hair.

Facial Hair: Clean Shaven

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Skin Color: Mocha Brown

Body Tone: Thin w/ well defined muscle

Appearance: Tattooed on his body and head with many signs of his tribe, Wez is also adorned in piercings, with a small animal bone piercing his septum and his earlobes pierced with bone as well.

Tagged Skills: Survival, Speech, Repair

Strength/Weakness: Steadfast/Superstitious

Armor/Clothes: Yao Guai Leather armor w/ Yao Guai headed hood, Brightly Embroidered Loincloth, Knee-high Moccasins

Weapons: Cricket bat Sword, Obsidian-bladed Dagger, Spear

Misc Gear: Whet stone, sea shells, Yao Guai jerky, Water skin (canteen), Mutfruit

Personality/Bio: Born from the line of legends and leaders, Wez Barleycorn was born to be king. After his mother’s death at the hands of the usurper, and Wez’s older cousin, Lou-Lou Bong, Wez became a dangerous threat to Lou-Lou’s reign over the tribe. After three assassination attempts on his life, Wez, the rightful heir, came out from hiding in the forests of British Columbia, and challenged his cousin to single combat, in the center of the village. Lou-Lou, overconfident with himself, and unable to backdown or thus lose respect in the tribe, accepted the challenge from his younger cousin. The two grabbed their obsidian bladed cricket bat swords, and met in a makeshift ring, surrounded by the people. There, Wez won his right as king, bringing his sword down onto his cousin’s neck, severing his head from his shoulders.

Since becoming king, Wez has ruled the tribe with a fair but firm grip, instilling a sense of respect and fear of the Gods, into those he rules over. The people of his tribe consider his family line, and thus Wez himself, a descendant of the Gods. Highly superstitious of the Gods, and their potential, he has a close confidant, a Blood Priest named Tonkin, who assists Wez on almost all things to do with the tribe. Yet Wez is very steadfast in his outlook on things, and what he has planned for the tribe, even if that means going against Tonkin’s word. Wez can be blood-thirsty and cruel, when he needs to be, and has tortured several during his reign, who have gone against his words and the Gods.

Tribe Sheet

City-State Name: O’Quoi

Location: Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Pop. Size: 100

Military Commanders: 3

Name: Tito Shrub

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Strength/Weakness: Obedient/Deep Water

Name: Na-Na Plum

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Strength/Weakness: Inventive/Brash

Name: Firn Buck

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Strength/Weakness: Intelligent/Cautious

Tribe Background: Originating from the irradiated Eastern lands of what used to be Canada, the O’Quoi tribe, are descendent from a group of French Canadian archeologists and anthropologists, known only to the tribespeople of the O’Quoi, as the Life Givers, who before the Great War, had been working in Mexico and Central America, discovering new things about the Aztec and Olmec people.

When the bombs fell, and the world was ended, up sprouted the O’Quoi from the ruins of what had been Montreal. The legends speak of how the Life Givers, Gods in the eyes of the O’Quoi, assembled those they could save, and began to create a new world. They took what they knew and learned, from the dry lands, and molded from the earth, the O’Quoi in their image.

But as hard times fell for the O’Quoi, the Life Givers who seemed weakened for an unknown reason, left them, promising to one day return to them and their villages. That day has never come, and the O’Quoi wish to the stars, that the day the Life Givers return, will be soon.

Uncertain in what to do, and with an increasing threat by radiation, the leader of the O’Quoi, Star-Gazer, Wez Barleycorn’s ancestor, decided to head westward across the vast empty plains of Canada. The trek west was a difficult one. The hunting grounds west were thin in supply, and many in the O’Quoi starved to death along the way. But after three years of wandering, the O’Quoi came into what was once known as British Columbia, finding good hunting grounds to feed the people.

Over the years, the O’Quoi have wandered, except for the last four when they came across an old-world place, that the Blood Priests of the O’Quoi tribe had to cleans of any bad voodoo as they say. The old-world place happened to be an old resort, along the western coast of Vancouver Island, surrounded by thick dark trees, and towering mountains.

Since then, the O’Quoi have called it home, living peacefully and mostly trading with what tribes they come across. Although, not all tribes the O’Quoi meet, are friendly, and twice the O’Quoi have had to defend themselves from outsiders who threaten their village. And in war is where the legendary Yao Guai and Salamander Warriors, of the O’Quoi tribe, made a name for themselves as fierce and unforgiving opponents.

Believing they gain the strength of a Yao Guai, or Giant Salamander, the Yao Guai and Salamander Warriors wear the skin of a Yao Guai or Giant Salamander, the warrior has personally hunted, and thus been rewarded not just with food and their flesh to wear, but with their strength and cunning when they consume and wear the beasts.