Introduction: So, this is it.....

Pretty sucky huh?

But that's the way of things around here, destruction, desolation.
Quite a grim wake up call if you ask me.

And to think, this was once a fertile ground, bustling with activity, a community that thrived on socialization, production, commerce. And it's all gone bye bye. All thanks to an accident just waiting to happen. An experiment that had gone badly wrong.

Oh of course, scientists have remained tight-lipped about it all, claiming it was 'an oversight that we didn't truly anticipate'. But we all know better.

When I say 'we'. What I'm meaning, are the families that have been left behind in this wasteland. Those that have survived and lived to tell the tale.

Roads are blocked, so nobody can come in and nobody can go out. We're totally isolated here, thanks to the high mountains that surround us. Power is tricky at the best of times, communication is limited to the valley. Kids wanting to go to college? Forget it.

To make matters worse, the ground is rendered practically infertile.

Great.

So now what?

We've got to pull together, that's what. Bring together frightened families, to rebuild our community. To dredge ourselves from the mire, the rubble, brush ourselves off and bring this town back from the ashes. To start from the basics and build our way upwards. Salvage old community lots, pull on our limited resources, recycle anything we can get our hands on until help arrives ..... if it arrives.

But first, we've got to bury our dead. Strangely enough, the old church and it's graveyard are still standing, throughout this disaster.



Even the interior remains intact although the walls look a little battle-worn ... and trust me ... we'll all need just a little bit of faith to pull us through this.



Prospect Valley is no more.

We are now .... Phoenix Valley.

Can we do it? Can we rebuild the community, back to where it was before?

I can only hope so.