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The year is 2042. It is a grim time for America. Caught up in a stalemated war in Iraq, America was caught unawares by a new threat from the North.

On October 2, Canadian forces swept over the border, occupying the New England states and Michigan, before any resistance could be mounted.

At Washington DC, elements of the National Guard and Air Force finally engaged the Red and White Menace, which had moved with surprising speed down the Eastern seaboard.

It was then that they made a terrifying discovery.

It was the night of October 12, when the Canadians attacked the capital. However, pilots reported that they were having trouble seeing the attackers, even when their positions were known. Thermal vision didn't pick them up at all, and image intensifiers only showed blurry, fast moving shapes.

October 12 came to be called Black Tuesday, on account of the fact that it was really dark at the time, and lots of bad shit went down. Nonetheless, when morning came, the American defenders still held the city.

It was at this point that the Americans, searching through the ruins for survivors, came across the corpses of some of the attackers, blown to pieces by a lucky explosion. They were unnaturally pale and cold, which at first the Americans simply took to be a sighn that all Canadians really do live in igloos. Then they realized that one of the heads of the attackers had fastened its teeth into a dead Amercan soldier's throat. Also, when the sun rose, the Canadians bodies quickly burned and turned to dust.

THE CANADIANS WERE ALL VAMPIRES

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It is now November 3. You are part of a new wave of recruits hastily mustered from the population of the Deep South to reinforce the depleted armies of the USA against the Red and White Menace of the Canadian vampires.

Things have not gone well for the US. The US government has collapsed. The West Coast and parts of the Midwest have seceded, in return, it is rumoured, for a pact of non-aggression with Canada. They are currently at war with Mexico and most of South America.

Europe is still in a protracted debate over how and if it should act.

The American troops have fallen back to Richmond, and it is here that General Stone has decided that they will make their stand against the Canadians and their supporting army of mesmerized Americans (done by making the unfortunate victim taste the blood of their vampire master once every two days). You are currently at the nearby city of Norfolk, having disembarked from transport ships there a few hours ago. The time is 1300 hours.

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Your character is basically an ordinary guy (or girl) from the South. So you have a bunch of weapons. Mostly, if not all, stuff that you already owned before joining the US Defense Force, as it is being called.

For the sake of simplicity, we're going to say that whatever weaponry you can get a hold of hasn't changed from what's available today.

Also, bear in mind that you are not a super soldier.

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For now, just post that. If we get enough people, I'll start the story rolling.

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