Serious Dying of the light - Original roleplay scenario

[TheIrishSailor]

Yellowstone erupting would block the sun with ash, but it wouldn't be much different from what is described here if you ask me. (Unless I'm missing a detail)

On a similar topic id love an rr based vaguely off the game fear equation if anyone has heard of it.

It'd basically wipe out the entire western/midwestern United States.

 

[ToastyTerra]

Yellowstone erupting would block the sun with ash, but it wouldn't be much different from what is described here if you ask me. (Unless I'm missing a detail)

On a similar topic id love an rr based vaguely off the game fear equation if anyone has heard of it.

It would be the single most cataclysmic event in history.

 

[snuggles]

finally, i can put my gcse in geography to use

okay, so first off, this isn't how ash would act during a super volcanic eruption; allow me to go over what would happen during a super volcanic eruption:

- the eruption would render anything inside and on the outskirts of the park 50 shades of fucked
- the mushroom plume of ash would be so large that light dustings of as would reach florida
- it's likely that areas within a 500 mile circle of the eruption point could be covered in up to 10 centimeters of ash (more on that later)
- due to the eruption, midwest american agriculture would, for a short while, be turned to dog shit, and rivers and streams in america would be filled with grey muck leading to the death of wildlife and possible extinction of some species
- the sulfur dioxide released from the volcano, which for reasons i can't remember becomes sulfur aerosol, would become part of the atmosphere and reflect part of the heat coming from the sun away from the planet, thus causing a worldwide climate change/drop that could last up to a decade
- this will lead to some shortages of food/some changes in the world's eco system due to the drop in temperature, but if i'm not mistaken i remember the drop in temperature being a minimum of 4 degrees celsius and 10 degrees celsius, i did my gcse a while ago
-as the mushroom cloud of ash dissipates and falls, places as far as washing dc and new york will get between 1 - 10 mm of ash

super volcanoes are often over exaggerated in the damage and problems they can cause. there are much worse possibilities and natural disasters that could occur that could lead to a lot more problems - although, it'd still lead to a LOT of issues, and it'd be catastrophic.

one of, if not the biggest problem, caused by super vocanic eruptions is the ash. ash would lead to the death in crop growth, animals, and people. if i'm not mistaken i remember ash weighs like 4x as much as wet snow - now, picture ten centimeters of that on an unsturdy roof. it'd lead to millions of not billons of dollars in property damage and it'd lead to food shortages, causing the american economy to turn to shit, leading to economic inflation, and america would be IN THE SHIT for a solid while and could easily be considered a third world country up until it realizes what to do to fix that.

air travel would also be halted, cars wouldn't be drivable, sun wouldn't be able to breach the dense as cloud, not to mention that people with respiratory issues wouldn't be able to leave the country other than by boat and they'd probably have to wear masks more often then not if they even survived it, it'd be a real shit show.

 

[Wiz]

fucking essay.txt

I see...

Disregard me then. What I was reading must've been a tad inaccurate. Must've been toned down.

 

[neur0]

that or if you really wanted, you could tie it into matrix lore

That would actually be a better idea imo

There would be some actual lore and material to work off of.

 

[Pale Rider]

I leave for awhile and come back to this. I like everyone's ideas here
And as @redgreenblue said, there really a clear answer why the world is like this outside of crazy conspiracy theories.
And this isn't a recent issue, for as long as the characters know life has always been like this; And some want to keep it that way...

But yeah everything said here could work into it very well

needs vampires

"crazy conspiracy theories"

 

[TheIrishSailor]

So I imagine then most plants and stuff are grown via hydroponics? Because without a sun outdoor farming would be impossible.

 

[blooregardo]

yeah

 

[Rionas]

eat your fellow man like any other god-fearing apocalypse survivor would.