The Apocalypse Came Not With A Bang,

But with an exhalation of the Crypt Door.

There is still debate on when it happened or even where it began. All that is known is that doorways to what is now called the Crypt have opened all across Earth in an event named the Night of the Open Grave. The dead walked the streets, spirits tore through homes, and monsters of legend and myth stalked openly into the night. The CRYPTIDS had awoken.

All seemed lost in the Hellscape. Nations, even with all their technology, fell. What good are bullets against the wail of a Banshee or a Poltergeist that turns your defenses against you? Each day bore new terrors from the Crypt and marched the world toward doom. There was no hope.

    That was until magical practitioners felt a new connection: the ability to channel their gifts into new and fantastical ways. The ancient traditions and incantations and rituals proved to be a preparation for the coming war against the Crypt. It wasn’t long before the tide turned.

Now, the world is stuck in a perpetual state of the early 1990s. Most of the pre-Crypt Door nations and social structures have collapsed and their populations have been slaughtered. Practitioners of magic are fighting back and gaining ground by reclaiming Dead Spaces from the Cryptids and Crypt Cults. All the while, nefarious organizations attempt to take advantage of the weakened world in order to take control.

It’s a long, fraught road ahead, but there is also hope. All it will take is a bit of magic.