Arco;; you are what you eat.

[Vivien]

At Arco we offer writers a fun and friendly environment in which they can express theirselves. We also have a points system in which you gain five points for every post you make, you can use your points to buy an array of great things for both yourself and your character.

Arco is just a brand new and all new members are welcome! Arco takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where the human race has gone extinct and life has just begun to reclaim the world. While relief is found in the fact that the earth has finally shown it is able to regenerate it's self we find that it's growing back, but growing back in all the wrong ways. Life is coming back from the grave, literally.

From our plot:
"April 4th 2007: Three years ago the human race managed to destroy it's self, nearly taking the planet down with them. Once great monuments of their creation now lay in ruins. Only the strongest of their structures stand, however, burnt and bare with decay, now inhabited by the creatures of the earth they had once persecuted and driven into near extinction. Since the bombing the world had been covered in gray soot and the decay of the explosion's victims. The radiation thwarted any of the earth's attemps to bring life once more but today the first of earths' green fingers push victoriously out of the filth. Life slowly unburries it's self from it's grave, clenching the earth's crust, pulling out of hell. Earth shows her face once more, however, in the radiation her familiar contours have been twisted out of shape, her smile now contorted into a horrific scream. There was life once more, but it was growing in all the wrong ways.

June 10th 2008: Earth's unkempt lawn knew no borders now. Slate cement of old neighborhoods were cracked, with patches of wild grass and weeds growing out of the gaps. The tallest of the new trees stood stubbornly in the midst of intersections. The green was prosperous, however, the ghost of human kind continued to haunt the world. Radiation caused tree trunks to grow in awry curves, it bleached meadows completely white in some areas and made mutations in the foliage abundant. Fruit and grasses were not safe to consume, much less was the water of the lakes and rivers natural to the area, and poisoned the first of the animal kingdom's reviving population. Survivors learned to depend on man made resevoirs for drink. Those who belonged to the lower levels of the food chain grew a kind of immunity to the irradiated greenery and were able, to a point, to thrive. Those above the herbivores learned to keep a diet of a mixture of vegitation, which they had grown an immunity to also, hunting and the remaining canned or jarred goods that man had left behind, to prevent radiation poisoning and prosper. Although the animal kingdom could live once more, and with some immunity to the radiation, their irradiated world continued to affect them: disfigured young, mutations in appearance, shortened life spans, and abundant mental and physical illnesses."

From our custom territory updates:
"Three herds have gathered here to add variation to the gene pool. One is albinistic, and the bucks obtain three antlers, the third, which has dramatically less branching, is found a bit in front and between it's natural pair and is used to impale predators. The second herd appears to be rather average and fat, a rare characteristic, however some show signs of radiation poisoning. The third seems healthy but display an assortment of physical disfigurement. Some appear to have the flesh decaying off of then, some bones are bare and visible, in some areas muscle contractions are completely visible to those who desire a show. be wise in your hunting. you are what you eat."