How Rifts came Upon us…
How the Time of the Rifts Came Upon us…
WARNING:ONCE ENTERING THE TIME OF THE RIFTS, YOU MAY NOT STEP OUT!!!
Or some shit like that
This page is bringing to you, the game of the RIFTS!!!! If you don't know about Rifts, read this!! Rifts are tears in space and time. They can be found at the nexus points where several "lines" of natural energy(mankind also calls it magic) cross over and and make a surge in the lines of power. The lines of power are also called "ley lines." The science of geomancy had dissapeared hundreds of years ago. Nuclear holocaust ignited the destruction of the world as we know it. The sudden destruction of a billion people triggered a surge in the ley lines. All that psychic power energy released at once. The sudden influx of psychic energy(P.P.E.) sent the energy rippling through the mystical crossroads of earth like an earthquake. Ley lines flowed with energy that had not been felt for a million years. The energy surged and pulsed and crisscrossed across the planet at the speed of light. At ley line intersections(nexuspoints), rifts in space and time tore open, releasing even more energy. The earth shuddered and heaved. Millions more died, increasing the energy level of the rifts. The oceans leapt from their
basins and washed over the land. Hundreds of millions more died, their psychic energy(P.P.E.) drawn into the ley lines, and the natural energies doubled again. A chain reaction was unleashed that could not be halted. The continent men called Atlantis leapt from its watery grave and rose to the light of day for the first time in millennia. Its rebirth changing the very face of the planet. In its wake, the eastern coast of the United States was engulfed by the ocean, sending the energy of millions more into the
relentless rifts. From the rifts spewed forth energy that tore through man's citadels of
steel and concrete like a tornado through a city built out of match sticks. For every million or billion of lives lost, the ley lines surged and destroyed billions more; a nightmare in geometric principles. The ley lines and the rifts that they opened were not some insidious evil, nor a plot of some malignant intelligence from another world. It was an aspect of nature that science did not even know, let alone understand. Like a
child playing with matches in a pool of gasoline(Loon: A horrible thought), humankind dropped a match into the pool and was instantly engulfed. Once the match was lit and dropped , there was nothing that could be done to undo what had been done. Yet in a strange way, all this death was part of the birth of a new age. And through it all, humankind would preserve. Even the cosmic fury of a world gone mad could not completely eradicate all human life. However, it would take mankind hundreds of years
to crawl out of the abyss that swallowed him. It is at this moment, as humankind finally crawls back into the light of a new dawn that our story unfolds. RIFTS is a role-playing game that explores the earth created by the rifts. An earth that has been irreparably changed and is still changing. An earth more alien than any world one might find in another galaxy. A world where man must not only conquer himself and the enviornment, but a place where the enviornment is ever changing and the life forms one must compete against are not human. This is why there are now rifts in the world. Thank you for reading about the rifts.