The World After
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The world has been ravaged by nuclear destruction. Most Earth life has been wiped out or mutated beyond recognition, including humans. In the wasteland, food is scarce and hostility breeds. Natural disasters frequently ravage the dying lands. Humanity has been changed into various different mutations of homo sapiens, and society has collapsed, leading to the majority of civilisation evolving into small, compact familial units or packs, while some choose to stay alone and survive independently.
Orphaned at a young age, the giant mutant Rummager spends her time lurking near the abandoned airport. Though she has no use for the planes left slowly rotting away, the airport is a relatively safe place for her to stay. There is much open space, enough grotesque hunting seabirds to sustain her hunger, and no other sapient life for miles. This is Rummager's territory and no one else's.
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