Post by General Disaster on Oct 30, 2010 11:12:39 GMT -5
South-west of the Verdant Lake, the Rotting Woodlands is an area of high vegetation, originally a pine forest surrounding a small tributary to Lake Verdant. It had a climate no more or less temperate than the rest of the central Midlands, slightly wetter due to the trees attracting rain through localised condensation. The wildlife was mostly mammalian, although some of the hardier reptiles also formed a population there preying upon squirrels and other small animals.
The eastern end of the Woodlands was particularly exposed to the affects of radiation, and as such was massively affected; while most of the forest is fairly solid, the east is a horrid marsh, where the air itself can be toxic, and the ground is buried under a liquid mush formed of basic proteins, and while it is excellent plant feed, it is also highly poisonous.
The Woodlands cover around 10,000 kilometres, although little of that is uncorrupted; the radiation from the fall changed the DNA of many plants to such an extent that they are now barely recogniseable; some plants are actually dangerous, poisonous, or in the case of the Photohumans that have been sighted here, sentient.
After the fall, the forest was one of the few places where the ground was largely sheilded from radiation, and as such it is still possible to find animals from before the fall. As the rest of the central Midlands became harder to live on, people began gravitating towards the Woodlands, and eventually technology was replaced with simplicity. The most common creatures are Pine Trees, Tribals, and Photohumans.
The eastern end of the Woodlands was particularly exposed to the affects of radiation, and as such was massively affected; while most of the forest is fairly solid, the east is a horrid marsh, where the air itself can be toxic, and the ground is buried under a liquid mush formed of basic proteins, and while it is excellent plant feed, it is also highly poisonous.
The Woodlands cover around 10,000 kilometres, although little of that is uncorrupted; the radiation from the fall changed the DNA of many plants to such an extent that they are now barely recogniseable; some plants are actually dangerous, poisonous, or in the case of the Photohumans that have been sighted here, sentient.
After the fall, the forest was one of the few places where the ground was largely sheilded from radiation, and as such it is still possible to find animals from before the fall. As the rest of the central Midlands became harder to live on, people began gravitating towards the Woodlands, and eventually technology was replaced with simplicity. The most common creatures are Pine Trees, Tribals, and Photohumans.