Thread:MonsterknightMCA/@comment-24664052-20171108214940/@comment-24664052-20171110233621

In case you cannot log on to FB, I'll be sending my draft here: 100 years ago, the world as we knew it ended. Earth suffered a massive XK-class apocalyptic scenario when a large number of monstrous creatures appeared at the same time, as well as anomalies that defy the laws of science affected areas around the world. The major occult powers mandated to defend mankind, notably the SCP Foundation (enacting Ganymede Protocol) and the Global Occult Coalition (enacting Procedure Pizzicato), attempted to keep the human civilization from collapsing and roll back the threat of anomalies, in vain. The SCP Foundation, and to a lesser extent the Global Occult Coalition, were nearly destroyed in countless battles against the Chaos Insurgency, Sarkic cults, the resurgent race of primates designated SCP-1000, Church of the Broken God and Daevite armies. Despite giving all their best efforts, were only able to save a single country from complete destruction: Japan. Even then, however, the Foundation has to get help from a unique force whom everyone thought to be extinct and unreal: the youkai of Gensokyo. Arguing that youkai thrive in conflict, as well as promising that all prisoners of war captured by the youkai will be at their disposal and that the Great Hakurei Barrier is increasingly and irreversibly weakening due to the resurging belief of mankind in supernatural creatures, the Foundation was able to convince Yukari Yakumo to do away with separating Gensokyo from the Outside World and have the youkai help them secure Japan as a safe zone for the Foundation and mankind in return for sustenance, conflict and power, or else face extinction once they fail to protect mankind. The O-5 Council, or what was left of it, understood that their defense pact with the Gensokyo’s youkai will cause problems later on, but between that and the threat of mankind going extinct, both sides knew that an uncertain future is preferable over a doomed one. With this pact, any attempts to restore the Great Hakurei Barrier had been abolished and the youkai became the spearhead of joint Foundation-JSDF efforts, effectively saving Japan from the threat of the hostile powers. As of now, most of the world has been rendered uninhabitable to mankind (or at least for those who want to remain human). What is left of the broken world has been divided between the Daevites, the Church of the Broken God (now called Mekhanites), Sarkicists and various SCP-1000 clans trying to recreate their empire (code-named Yeti from now on), while regions containing still significant surviving human population housed within Global Occult Coalition (still strong in Europe and the Eastern Coast of North America, and a few outposts in the Pacific), the Union of Levantine Nations (carved from territory in the Middle East cleared by the Horizon Initiative and Middle Eastern militaries) and the SCP Foundation (fragmented into sites independent of each other, the biggest and only a significant presence in Japan). All of them are in perpetual warfare with each other. Japan is surrounded at all sides by threats: the Yeti from Alaska and Russia, Daevites and the Church of the Broken God from (and contesting) mainland China, Global Occult Coalition enclaves in Korea and Taiwan, and Sarkicists with their plague of the Flesh That Hates from Southeast Asia, not to mention unspeakable horrors from the seas. During the first years of the post-apocalyptic Japan, famines and resource deprivations resulting from economic hardships due to the loss of vital trading partners plagued Japan in scales worse than even the later years of WW2. But the solution came from the kami, spiritual gods, among them Kanako Yasaka and Moriya Suwako. Finding their powers and existence getting stronger from the faith of humans hoping for salvation, the gods blessed rice fields with powerful miracles that resulted in rising food production, saving a lot of people from hunger, even if it’s too late after malnutrition, diseases, raids by rival powers and desperation resulting from famine killed a considerable number of the population. With the new situation of the world, technology and its use have to be modified from its form we used to know into suiting the needs of this new world. Television and radio are still prominent, but worldwide Internet and other means of communication with the world outside of Japan is no more due to the satellites being destroyed in the Apocalypse. The only means of gathering information pertaining to the world at large are now limited to scouting reports, individual accounts of refugees trying to make their way into Japan and hacking into the respective intranets of rival powers, particularly GOC. Additionally, with the application of a new force called magic, a revolutionary technology has been developed, called ‘Magitech’, and had been invented by a close circle of kappas led by a certain Nitori Kawashiro. This new technology has been crucial in redeveloping the average living standard in Japan, although it’s nowhere near pre-Apocalypse levels. For a time being, due to being so much focused onto outside threats, it seems that humans and youkai will get along with each other. Together, side-by-side, they fought off repeated attempts by the Daevites, the Sarkicists, Mekhanites, Yetis, and the GOC to conquer Japan. But with the apparent decreasing rates of enemy raids, so does the factor that unites Japan’s major races. Cracks in human-youkai relationships start to appear, since it could not be removed from the nature of things that youkai cause disasters for humans. Additionally, the need for humans as food caused the youkai to prey on humans once more during the more ‘peaceful’ times, causing crimes to skyrocket. It didn’t help that with the youkai prowling around, not to mention the climate of fear that permeated the population ever since the Apocalypse, night times are no longer as safe as they used to be, and youkai extermination became prominent jobs once again. To better protect humans in case the youkai turn against them, the Foundation had reformed itself into an independent police force capturing youkai and detaining them for crimes especially murder of humans, and allowed a proposal that separate districts in each village, town and city dividing humans and youkai and preventing bloody and unnecessary clashes between the two races. This current state of human-youkai relations worries the pro-coexistence Buddhist faction of Byakuren Hijiri, one of the prominent figures of the Apocalypse, and who understood that unity is the only way if humans and youkai are going to survive this new world. Together with the Hakurei shrine maiden, she proposed the restoration of spell card rules to settle scores and even the playing field between youkai and humans, if only to give humans a fighting chance to survive and stem human deaths. The O-5 Council relented to their request and helped implement the spell card rules throughout Japan. But all of them know that this will be a short-term solution. A long-term solution must be found. As of now, Japan stands between three choices, what they promise not that bright: First choice would be to recreate the Great Hakurei Barrier, but this time it would encompass all of Japan, keeping it safe from outside threats. However, all would not be well, for without enemies such as the Daevites and GOC to give them conflict, the youkai would turn on Japan’s human population, and civil conflict would be inevitable, negating all past efforts to restore what Japan used to be. Second choice would be akin to how Toyotomi Hideyoshi made use of his war-hungry subordinates: ‘embark on a world conquest’, to satiate the youkai’s need for conflict. This would allow youkai to turn their need for aggression on the appropriate enemy without having to turn on the human population, but the lessons of the Genso-Lunar War and World War 2, for the youkai and humans respectively, still stuck in their minds. Not to mention that they could attract more attention from their enemies than what they need for. A more palatable alternative to the second choice was offered: keep the power balance between the warring factions of the world, making sure that they deem Japan enough to be a threat, but not worth the primary attention. This would ensure continued conflicts with their surrounding enemies, with the perks of being able to sustain themselves from eating prisoners of war (as for the youkai), but not the overwhelming force to wipe them out. It’s the most promising of the choices, but it would doom Japan to perpetually facing the possibility of being wiped out and destroyed by rival powers.