Maelstrom - a play-by-post rpg

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Maelstrom takes place in a steampunk setting where a precious resource called Flagesium powers the remaining bastions of humanity. Flagesium is acquired from a great mine known as the Delve, where raw Flagesium is extracted and moved by rail to the dark industrial city of Dusk. Here it is refined and flown to Elesium to keep the utopian City in the Sky afloat in exchange for clean water, food, and medicine.

This arrangement is necessary due to a perpetual, extremely volatile, toxic canopy called the Maelstrom. The Maelstrom covers the world like a shroud and all of the dark lands beneath it are rendered poisoned and inhospitable to life. The "arrangement" between the dark lands below and the city above has kept civilization alive for centuries, but as is the case with every system, some people have been benefiting from it more than others; and many of those that have been getting the raw end of the deal would like to do something about it...

"Let Elesium tremble at the whisper of revolution. The people have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."
Enoch Solomon Fordham, (The Crimson Circle).