Chrome Wastelands

The year is 2144. Long forgotten is the melody of birds, the rustle of the wind in the leaves, and the hymn of babbling brooks. The world is a mournful tale scribed in sulfur, blood, sweat, and the tears of the weak. Now, the only sounds whispered to Mother Earth are that of rubber screaming in protest against the barren soil, oil-soaked engines roaring into the Wastelands, and the soul crushing silence of a long dead planet. Legend tells that we scorched the earth, rather than see it fall to the hands of outsiders, but legends lose importance when your belly is empty, and the sun has blistered away your skin. The only bastions of civilization exist at the few remaining sources of water in the endless desert. Through divine purpose, or maybe through blind luck, you have found yourself in one such oasis; Iron Water is known as the gem of the eastern reaches. Lord Deborah the Defiler has guided the small settlement of Iron Water through dozens of equinoxes and her infamy has spread throughout the Wastelands.

This year, treachery and deceit taints the shell of the Earth and has sprouted wicked roots at the heart of Iron Water. When the sun rose, ready to parch the land with her relentless embrace, one soul was no longer able to feel her touch. The lifeless husk of Lord Deborah the Defiler greeted the colony, her arms spread wide across the grille of her rig, bowels black and strewn across the dusty ground. This was no accident; this was a message. This was the call from the darkness that it was time for the colony to enter a new age under a new leader. It will be up to the Arbiters of the people to determine who will guide the colony forward. A group of brave Drivers and Mechanics have taken up the mantle and will battle for the favor of the people. Will you be the next lords of Iron Water, or simply another bag of meat and bones to be sacrificed to the desert? Can you survive Chrome Wastelands?