DUSK OF EARTH Marius Kortney Phil shidobu M: The setting will NOT have traditional firearms. K: The setting WILL have a longstanding feud. P: The setting IS in a large city. S: The setting DOES have FTL travel. M: Everything outside the city/cities IS barren wasteland. K: This setting HAS a class hierarchy. P: This setting does NOT have humans. S: The setting DOES have swordsmiths. M: The two sides of the feud ARE two different races. K: One race IS a race of anthropomorphic foxes. P: The other race WAS once chattel to the foxes. S: The foxes DO NOT live in the cities. M: There IS a third sentient race on the planet. K: The foxes HAVE small portable biodomes. P: The third sentient race IS ant-like. S: The once-slave sentient race IS reptilian. M: The ant race IS 'relatively' recently evolved. K: The ant race IS what caused the freedom of the lizard race. P: The ants ARE the only species capable of controlling the FTL travel. S: The lizard race DOES resent being liberated. M: The ant race DOES live in subterranean colonies. K: The lizards DO live in the cities. P: FTL travel DOES rely on telepathic linkage between the source and destination. S: The ant people DO need a byproduct of the fox people's society to enable their FTL. M: The planet IS only 10% covered in water. K: The lizards WERE liberated in an ant-instigated rebellion. P: The planet IS Earth, 10 million years into the future. S: The ant-race is NOT indigenous to Earth. M: The Earth DOES have 5 moons. K: The ant people DID come to Earth from one of the moons. P: Three of the moons ARE space arks. S: The ant race DOES wish it was back on its home-moon. M: The last moon IS a chunk from the Earth. K: The last moon WAS broken off of Earth upon the ants' initial arrival. P: One of the moons WAS humanity's attempt to leave the Earth. S: The Fox people DO have the ability to destroy a moon. M: There ARE NOT settlements of any sort near the coast. K: During the Lizard revolution, the lizards DID remove the foxes from the cities. P: The lizardfolk DO have an average lifespan of fourteen years. S: The ant people DO have an average lifespan of 140 years. M: A remnant of humanity DID escape on a moonlike craft. K: Humanity DID die due to sabotage by the ants. P: The third ark-moon IS the home of an AI hive mind. S: The ants do NOT have any form of telepathy. SPECIAL RACE NAME ROUND Foxes: Foxen Ants: Kitari Lizards: Cupana M: The Foxen ARE masters of the sword. K: The Cupana ARE accomplished telepaths. P: The Cupana CANNOT use their telepathy on anyone other than other Cupana. S: The Cupana DO NOT have telekinetic abilities. M: The AI hive mind DOES have energy weapons. K: The Kitari ARE trying to enslave the Cupana. P: Underneath the city IS a hidden warren of Kitari. S: The Cupana ARE a more intellectual race than the Kitari or Foxen. M: The AI hive mind IS manufacturing small extensions of itself. K: The Foxen and the Kitari DO have a treaty between them. P: The product required by the Kitari for FTL travel IS blood from Foxen ritual sacrifices of Cupana. S: The Kitari DO believe in violating treaties for advantageous positioning. M: The AI hive mind WAS left behind by the humans. K: Some Kitari HAVE fallen under the control of the AI hive mind. P: Other Kitari ARE trying to establish relations directly with the Cupana to cut out the Foxen middlemen in their need for blood. S: Some Cupana HAVE developed the means to coerce the hive mind. M: The hive mind IS using the Cupana to increase its capabilities. K: In the city, the rich DO live in the upper levels. P: There IS FTL travel between the Kitari warrens under the city and the broken-Earth moon. S: There IS only one Cupana city. M: The AI hive mind IS about to send a semi-independent extension of itself to Mars. K: The Cupana ARE NOT aware of the hive mind's plan. P: The hive mind's plan IS to restore the human race. S: The Foxen ARE laying siege to the Cupana city. M: Cupana DO disappear inexplicably from the lower regions of the city. K: The lower regions of the city DO have many hidden entrances into the Kitari lairs underneath. P: The Kitari DO allow the Foxen to use parts of their warrens underneath the city. S: The Kitari ARE substantially less technologically developed than the Foxen or Cupana. M: The city IS much different than when the Foxen were ousted from it. K: The Cupana rich ARE ignoring what goes on in the lower city. P: The Cupana in the city ARE divided into three distinct castes. S: The average building in the city IS over 100 Cupana stories tall. M: There IS NOT a monetary system in the city. K: Primary transportation throughout the city IS by way of elevators. P: The primary mode of transaction for the Cupana IS sex. S: Most Cupana do not ever leave the building in which they are born. M: Most of the buildings ARE interconnected. K: The Kitani DO have access to the lower elevators. P: The reason that the Cupana economy is based on sex IS that they have a high infant mortality rate. S: The Foxen use Cupana-parts left over from their rituals as money. M: The entire city IS shielded from the sun by an overhead filter. K: The Kitari underneath the city ARE NOT under the control of the hive mind. P: Those Cupana who are neither rich nor poor ARE typically scholar/courtesans, of either gender. S: The Kitari DO NOT have the concept of individual property. M: The ozone layer IS gone. K: The middle-class Cupana ARE generally concerned about what's going on in the lower levels of the city. P: A Seed in the centre of the city DOES have the ability of making any city-sized area habitable by Cupana or Foxen. S: The seat of power in the Cupana city IS the relocated head of the Statue of Liberty. M: The AI hive mind IS slowly charging its energy weapons. K: The Foxen ARE planning to try and steal the Seed. P: The Statue of Liberty WAS relocated to the Moon at some point in the distant past. S: The AI hive-mind's energy weapon IS UV based. M: The AI hive mind IS determined to exterminate those living on its mother planet. K: The hive mind-controlled Kitari ARE planning to destroy the UV shield. P: A group of the high-class Cupana ARE planning on stealing the Seed for themselves and taking it to Mars. S: The Cupana who can coerce the AI hivemind ARE NOT aware of either of its plans. M: The AI hive mind HAS a weapon that will burn the entire planet. K: The middle- and lower-class Cupana ARE just becoming aware of the high-class plot to steal the Seed. P: The city IS itself a half-buried ark ship of the Cupana. S: The Cupana queen/highest-female-office is pregnant by way of the leader of the Foxen.