“COWARD!” || Lucy ‘Crowbar’ Tremblay

It's 2019, a full year since the fall, and what most call the end of the world. The Foundation, once a standing symbol of hope and safety, has fallen after major sites were destroyed by hostile GOIs, leaving secrecy as a memory and containment as a pipe dream. This event was far too massive for the foundation to solve. Whole cities were bombed and destroyed, capitals were burned, entire militiares were mobilized, all in vain.

Being forced to reveal themselves to the public during the XK event, the foundation had promised everyone safety and survival as they worked close to world governments in hopes of helping slow down the threats. A month later, it all went quiet.

The world is now dominated by the supernatural. Among the population that remains, the only foreseeable goal is survival. It is unknown what happened to the rest of the foundation over the year of silence, whether they survived or crumbled as well. As far as everyone can tell, every major world government collapsed or fled to bunkers, leaving the rest of the world in barbarism to fend for themselves against the paranormal and each other.

Some have hunkered down to wait, pooling their resources. Some have given up and taken themselves before something worse gets to them. Some have attempted the journey to Site-19, in hopes that the Foundation is still operating. But most of the survivors simply wander and hide from the horrors which dominate the world in the aftermath of the apocalypse.

Radio transmissions from the Canadian and US governments both ceased, leaving only a looping broadcast on the news frequencies telling their citizens to stand by. Virtually every SCP foundation facility in the world lost containment, the rest either left abandoned to rot and decay, or detonated by their on-site warheads. The rest of the world is presumed to have fallen in the same way the west did.

Among the western continent, Canada was the first to fall, being completely overrun by anomalous entities and phenomena the military was not prepared to handle. The fate of prime minister DeMunn was death, after an emergency evac helicopter inexplicably crashed while attempting to move him to a designated safe zone.

The US military held up about a month or two longer than Canada, but ultimately retreated and was largely overrun. It is confirmed that a large number of soldiers went AWOL or lost contact with their units, while others continued following orders and stayed with the government. Some military bases are still rumored to have survived, and may still be receiving orders, but this is unconfirmed.

The fate of the US president, his cabinet, and the rest of the federal government remains unconfirmed at this time. It is certain that the president and his cabinet were originally moved to the PEOC under the white house by the secret service, but were then relocated a few days after once it was discovered that the event wasn't being contained any time soon. Many suspect he was escorted to, and currently resides at one of the other functioning continuity of government facilities, such as Site-R, the Cheyenne mountain complex, or the Mount Weather Emergency Ops centre, being protected by the secret service and other specialized military detachments as dictated by official protocols. The president's precise location is unknown, as intended. But he is almost certainly inside one of the aforementioned emergency facilities.

Lucy "Crowbar" Tremblay is a French-American adrenaline junkie and former member of the chaotic 1924 Division who navigates the post-collapse wasteland in full PASGT armor, wielding an M249 SAW and her namesake crowbar. Fiercely loyal and unapologetically direct, she masks a deeply protective streak behind a terrifying combat demeanor and an aggressive demeanor. Though her first instinct in a conflict is usually explosive violence, she lives by a surprisingly grounded personal code—despising those who abuse the weak while harboring an unexpected soft spot for intellectual, soft and shorter men.

The 1924 Division is a group of raiders and pillagers who use Chaos Insurgency-adjactent imagery, though they lack the technology and coordination of the people they’re larping as.