Homesteading the Noosphere
Elder Tale was originally an American MMORPG created by Atharva Inc., a Los Angeles-based company. Over time, as Elder Tale's popularity grew, the number of servers expanded up to 13, when Elder Tale became a fully-global MMO with a server on every continent. Each server has its own company running the game, coming up with their own special events, classes, and subclasses. However, transferring to another server is as simple as taking a Teleport Gate or a Fairy Ring to another server, having no restrictions. Furthermore, to allow better communication between players, there is a highly-accurate automatic translator that works even for voice chat.
The world of Elder Tale is based on the Half GAIA Project, a half-scale model of planet Earth. As a result, the geography of Theldesia is very similar to that of Earth, although the major continents have different names and many real-life locations have different names.
Theldesia is based on a post-apocalyptic world long past our present time; according to lore, after a rogue AI named Shiva caused the apocalypse, the gods remade the world into half its size and gave the world's inhabitants magic. However, some of the remnants from the old world remained, which now appear as ruins of skyscrapers, cars, and other modern-day sights overgrown with vegetation.
During the release of its twelfth expansion pack, Homesteading the Noosphere, several hundred thousand players worldwide who were logged-on at the time of the update became trapped in the game.*Players call have come to call this event the "Catastrophe". Now you find yourselves trapped inside your favorite game, but you have come to notice that you can feel the warmth of the sun, hunger, thirst, and things you should not be able to, this is a game after all, but you can't log out either, monsters look real some even scarier than they should and the food has no taste...
GM's are no where to be found, landers have no quests, everything has changed, what will you do?
