Welcome to Aftermath

We are a live-action role-playing community based in Southern California. From engaging in Boffer combat to experiencing immersive role-play, we offer something for everyone. We invite you to join us as we navigate and survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

We host online DnD style games a few times a year and welcome anyone regardless of location~ Our next game is right above this post!

If you enjoy Post Apoc or would like to try please come join us! your first game is free!

https://discord.gg/tFY459GtXX

https://www.aftermathsocal.com/

I just finished it, and it was bleak. There's just something about seeing all the horrors the father and son endured illustrated on the page that hits hard

This graphic novel stayed true to the original story (as far as I can remember - it's been awhile)

Have you read it? What did you think?

Hi there,

Your interest in how the nuclear meltdown scenario is handled in a post apocalyptic scenario was one of the key issues and areas of interest that I explored when I wrote Devastation Point-5 Years Post Viral Apocalypse. Would love to hear your thoughts on my take if or when you get a chance.

-Paul Kirk

A lot of the great Post-Apocalyptic stories come from the 80’s and 90’s - but that’s 25-45 years ago.

What’s changed since then in terms of how things would play out in Post-Apocalyptic stories?

We’re a lot more advanced than 1980, so our landing after a fall would have to be different…

What do you all think?

Aftermath - Online

Hello~ Aftermath - a post apocalyptic larp in So.Cal is hosting an online event December 6th-8th. This is a large dnd style game that we hold a few times a year. Free to new players and open to anyone regardless of location~

Check out our website for the rulebook and discord link- https://www.aftermathsocal.com/

Hey folks, I usually write roleplaying games. But I've moving back to fiction writing. I'm working on a larger fantasy project, but when I go away I like to write in a notebook. I've started toying around with some post apocalyptic stuff. I don't know what this will be but I wanted to share.

This is one of the bits I wrote.

Dogs

The gun worked.

It worked.

It worked fine.

Not the sort of thing you pass down to your first born son, but his father had given it to him none the less. “It will kill for you if you trust it.”

The last words his father had said to him.

The campfire flickered and illuminated the walls of the small room. There was little else to see in there. What had once furnished it was gone. Long ago. It was not advised to stay in the Houses of Old but he had seen the symbol that meant it was sage. A place to rest. Repaired and maintained by the Bibliotecs.

He had risked lighting a fire for the sake of warmth and a cooked meal. He had let it die down now and focused his attention on the pistol. It was black, though some of the stainless steel was starting to show through. The five inch barrel showed a lot of ware but the but the engraved Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum could still be seen. The original grip had been replaced with a crudely carved lump of wood.

Finding, or making, a new grip would be of his tasks. There is much to find on the road. Or perhaps it is more fitting to say, much can find your on the road.

He had never spent much time travelling. The occasional trip to nearby by villages when he was young but things became… different.

He looked at the pistol.

The noise had been getting closer for some time. Subconsciously, he had been aware of it. The fire, the gun, and his sense of loss had dulled his senses. But the patter of claws on concrete was unmistakable now. The dogs were outside the small house. On the other side of the window. He could hear their whimpers and snuffling. They could smell him and they would get to him.

They will eat him.

They would eat him.

They eat what ever they can.

He slid his knife from the sheath on his thigh. Held the pistol in his right hand the knife in his left. Slowly he shifted his weight, moved onto his knees, and aimed the pistol at the door.

He waited.

Listened.

Trembled.

The dogs were making their way around the house. They padded quietly to the front of the house. The door was broken. They didn’t need to break in. The snuffling was inceasant, frenzied even. At first he thought it was only two, perhaps three but now he was sure there were more. Five, ten even. And they were coming regardless of what he thought about it. Think like this sent his mind reeling and he knew that. A mind spinning out of control released command of the body. His heart raced, his breakth flooded, and his eyes closed.

Control it. Breathe. Breathe.

It only took a few secongs. A few deep, long exhales and his eyes opened again. The steady rythym returning to his chest.

Inhale.

Exhale.

The heart is always the last to steady. The pulse of blood slowing. Hands returning to their sure, reliable, usable state. He cocked the hammer and point the gun at the door. Sights rested at a spot low to the ground. Dog height.

The rush of blood still warbled in his ears as the door moved. Slightly.

They nudged it once.

Twice.

Then it was open and three hounds surged forward. He let off three shots. Two dogs dropped. Their thin, mangy bodies lay still just inside the room. The third lept towards him and bit down hard on his face. He screamed and reflexively brought his hands up. The gun clattered to the floor but the knife sank into the side of the mungrel. He pushed, and stabbed, and gunted. Panic set in.

He was going to be eaten alive. He’d come all this way to be killed by a dog. Eaten. The days and the weeks spent travelling all for naught. His goals. His dreams. His hopes. Gone. Swallowed by a vile scraggy mutt. As he struggled and flailed at the dog he thought about the last words his brother had said.

“You’ll die out there.”

If you've made it this far, and you like this, let me know :)

hey guys i wanted your help on something

i really wanna start making my own post apocalyptic clothing and have watched loads of videos on how to do it (specifically skirts and bralets) but im not sure where to buy the materials such as leather, other distressed mixed fabrics etc for my designs. I live in England so we don’t have a goodwill or anything here any help? also if anyone has any tips on how to incorporate metal and where to find metal pieces to incorporate into the costume it would be much appreciated thank you

Testing out my recently finished tire armor 🛞

The dialog was kinda shjt. The plot was predictable. But, I thought it was fun.

https://youtu.be/ZivlF_UYkN0?si=AP_WxqxVbsPkNrfk

What are some ways the world could end? So far I've come up with these:

Natural disaster Nuclear war Biohazard Alien invasion

What other ways are there?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHQXHKL9

I just finished the third novel in Apprehension, a series directly inspired by Gluchovsky's masterpiece. The project started in July 2022.

1. Apprehension, the first, introductory book of the whole universe.
2. Apprehension: Interloper, the slower and more philosophical installment.
3. Apprehension: True Nature, the longest and most ambitious installment of the series.

Apprehension captures the mysteriously soothing gloominess of a postapocalyptic world. The story begins in a secret military bunker under the small Russian town Spas-Klepiki, twenty-two years after a nuclear war made the surface inhospitable. This is where our protagonist, 20-year-old Aleksey Drilnov, has spent his entire life. It's the only world he knows, and even if he can never get enough of hearing stories of the former world above, it holds no real meaning to his life. But soon he understands that he has to step outside his comfortable universe and learn the painful truth, not only about the outside world but also about his own, which he so confidently thought he knew everything about.

The protagonist wades deeper inside the defunct nuclear facility, facing unknown dangers.

https://timepersonified.medium.com/chronicles-of-tomorrow-ep-15-the-dead-should-lay-dead-585d54134ad1

Vesper

IO

I Am Mother

The Colony (2021)

Just by coincidence, 4 films with a female lead.

All very good. I recommend.