2032:
My search for human civilisation on the Eurasian continent after the great famine of "a small patriotic sacrifice we are willing to make" wiped out 45% of humanity lead me eastwards.
Beyond the German-French Democratic Caliphate, Beyond the Barbarian camps of the "polish" tribes and the heavily armed, nomadic Romanian family salvage convoys,
the biggest of which amass thousands of family members and ancient armored vehicles somehow in (mostly) working shape.
We were scared for a moment when the smoke pillars of their first soviet era warmachines appeared on the horizon,
but they luckily let us pass after a small travel-tax they called "Eeh-Jou-Payments" and a surprisingly friendly welcome from a Romanian tribesbabushka.
She warned us about going further east. We sat there and listened for an entire evening, until the nightly radiation storms forced us back into our respective vehicles.
If only we had heeded her warning.
After this encounter, we even went beyond what i had assumed was the very end of "human" "societies".
What i found was a place filled with horrors beyond any imagination.
The dangerous twin borderlands previously known as "The Ukrainias".
Perhaps the only fate worse than "East-Ukraine", which quickly found itself completely void of human life and covered in a thick-layer of permafrost after it became part of the new
"Second-Soviet-Weirmarer-Federation" or "SSWF" was the fate of "Worst-Ukraine", the desolate wastelands to the west.
This hellish landscape was the home to the worlds first hybrid rebel warfare shithole/Retro NATO weapon Live-fire range,
that is also a popular action tourism spot amongst politically disinformed redditors and other uncontrollable undesireables with violent tendencies from all over the world,
whom await many an important task here, ranging from becoming a "Marvel™Meatshield" or "SAMSUNG™Suicide-bomber" to their remains being used as propaganda,
after a Killsquad of the R*ssian Anti-Nazi-SS Troopers discovers the location of one of Reddits battlemage-drawn tactical wiccan mana-circles and the headmate carrying acolytes surrounding it. Fully functional, these spots are cursed locations where rotten minds channel the flow of evil directly against the remainders of humanity.
AFTER the Killsquads are done ? You dont want to know. You do ? Well okay. I will share the story of the one prayer-site discovery that ended positively.
It was the sight of the first prayer-group we found that day. The Acolytes were driven to suicide by chain-misgendering and their horribly contorted and mutilated bodies were wildly thrown around the place. Blood smeared everywhere, Satanic widgets, gizmos and gadgets lie broken on the floor, demons could occasionally be seen escaping from damaged soulgems.
The sight alone was enough for Igorovitch, our resident Romanian mechanic, to try to just blow his brains out right there, next to the pumpkin-spice-scented candle dotted, blood smeared mana-circle. Luckily he had picked up a crummy, rusty old AK with yellow tape on it and the Magazine just fell right out of the gun before he could pull the trigger.
We would have all been doomed without his ability to strip the wrecks we came across for materials.
That place is evil. That place is like Hell+ It twists and turns reality right before your very own eyes. It twists and turns your very soul.
To this day i remember the void stare in Igorovitch's eyes as we dropped him off. His relatives were crying. They knew what he had seen.
Their tears were made of both pain about the loss of who used to be their kin, and at the same time, happiness about him returning at all.
Almost none do, they told us afterwards.
Really the only upside is that the "peacekeepers" of the TheUkrainian wastes are drunk and depressed R*ssians, and MS-KRAZ (Microsoft™-Kiyv-Ruins-Autonomous-Zone), Government Goons and Troons inside included will be "community policed" by "liberal" use of thermobaic Rocketry while thousands around the world watch the fireworks live online as the occasional event known as
"The Red Redditing".
And as always, they were doing it all for free.