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Post-Apocalyptic Urban Encampment
🕑 Added 2024-11-26 00:04:22 +0000 UTCSocieties rebuild even after the worst disasters. When everything goes to shit, we see both the best and worst in our fellow people. While some fall to the base instincts of “might makes right”, stealing, raiding and subjugating their fellow survivors – the social nature of humanity and the benefits of teamwork result in groups settling down wherever they can to find shelter, produce food, and protect one another from the raiders and jerks.
This group has taken over a neighbourhood park in an otherwise urban wasteland. A “wall” of old fencing, siding and roofing from the nearby buildings surrounds their encampment – not nearly enough to prevent an armed assault, but enough to warn travellers and wanderers off and to keep wildlife out.
The parkland has been torn up to make fields to feed the encampment. The old baseball diamond having much more compacted dirt, has instead been converted into “tent city” where most of the survivors live in large canvas tents mounted on wooden platforms to keep them out of the mud. A few new survivors joined recently and are living in camping tents scavenged from sporting goods stores. A watch tower (the Eagle’s Nest) has been built on one of the lighting towers that used to illuminate the diamond for night games.
The old community centre is the field house and is used for both housing, planning meetings, and one wing is used as a workshop. The building referred to as the shithouse is actually the mess / kitchens for the camp (with the outhouses across the way). The gatehouse used to be a pump house and monitoring station for the local water mains – but that hardware has been gutted and a gate has been built here away from the main roads.
Most of the structures outside the fence/wall are either collapsed or collapsing. Even the concrete structures that are inside the encampment are patched together using debris from other buildings.
https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/11/25/post-apocalyptic-urban-encampment/
