The Age of Monsters

Child

Are all the dragons fled?

Are all the goblins dead?

Am I quite safe in bed?

Nurse

Thou art quite safe in bed,

Dragons and goblins all are dead.

Child

When Michael's angels fought

The dragon, was it caught,

Did it jump and roar,

(oh nurse, don't shut the door),

And did it try to bite?

(Nurse, don't blow out the light.)

Nurse

Hush, though knowest what I said,

Saints and dragons all are dead.

Father (to himself)

O Child, Nurse lies to thee,

For dragons thou shalt see,

Please God that on that day,

Thou may'st a dragon slay,

And of thou dost not faint,

God shall not want a Saint.

Dragon poem.

By H.D.C. Peplar (1916)

Hello everyone. My name is Juan and I write the Monster Wars stories. Its been asked what a good Godzilla roleplayer might be like and that got me thinking because although I'm not too good with turns and dice, I can indeed create a world. Having just finished the Monster Wars trilogy-what a relief!-and created a world doing it, I'd like you to know that if you've liked learning about my world, maybe you'd like playing in it. Aside from serving as a roleplayer, this can also serve a guide to my story verse in order to better to understand what's up. Please understand, as the Age of Monsters expands, so will the roleplayer; therefore this guide is subject to revisions.

OVERVIEW

For as far back as memory can recall and for as far back as stories have been told, there have been tales of monsters. In days long past the dragons and the centaurs and the manticores were feared, and justly, but as time passed they were relegated to mere children's stories. In 1954, they learned just how wrong that was because it was in 1954 that a King of Monsters rose up from the sea to ensure that the Age of Man had ended and that the Age of Monsters had begun. The King's name was Godzilla.

There had been precursors, of course, such as sea monster sightings by the HMS Daudulus, the discovery of the Lost World and King Kong. Even after that the Rhedosaurus came and so did giant ants called Them; both were destroyed however. Yet when the monster ants were destroyed someone asked, "If they were created by the first atom bomb, what about all the bombs that had been exploded since then?" Indeed.

Though first hailed as a shining miracle, the atom bomb was made in fear and the ugliness of that fear was evident in the "kaiju" it spawned. "Kaiju" is a Japanese word meaning "strange creature" and it refers to the "strange creatures" that went on to plague the Land of the Rising Sun and ultimately the world. Kaiju are colossal, invulnerable, impossible beasts that tower over the cities of man and mock the claim that he is master of the Earth. The greatest of these beasts was also the first . Named for a legend, Godzilla came in 1954 and destroyed a city that had been burned to the ground not ten years before. After he was shown the obliteration of Tokyo, Dr. Serizawa used his Oxygen Destroyer, though at the cost of his life. As for the saurian, he was seemingly killed and the world ignorantly breathed a sigh of relief that the Age of Monster was ended. The world was wrong.

In 1956, a mere two years after Godzilla had been beaten, not one, but two new monsters appeared. They were the Rodans. They too appeared in Japan and they too were seemingly beaten but both ultimately returned with one as a Fire Rodan. A year later, the alien Mysterians invaded with their Moguera robots. It proved to be the largest single turning point in world history. The fact that the human race wasn't alone changed global relations by forcing the human race to realize just how small the differences that had divided it really were. This caused the UN to grow considerably.

As time passed, more and more monsters appeared in Japan. Nobody knows why so many kaiju attacks are concentrated there or why so many appeared in the 1950s and 60s. Varan appeared in 1958 when the US Navy tested anti-saline chemicals in his resting place. The Frankenstein monster along with others such as the Gargantuas and Bargon appeared in 1965 and 1966, while space monsters such as Dogora and Yog appeared in 1964 and 1970. Mothra appeared in 1961 and while she initially caused some damage, she later proved a friend to the humans. Friends would be needed because the Mu Empire attacked the surface in 1963 but the new UN met its first challenge well. This caused the UN's powers to grow further; while the capital city was destroyed and its serpent god Manda was wounded, Mu itself did survive and refused to speak with any particular nation and instead would only discuss peace terms with the UN.

In time, monster attacks seemed to taper off. While smaller kaiju appeared every day, larger kaiju stopped making new appearances. That was until Godzilla returned in 1985 when volcanic eruptions at Daikoku Island woke him from his thirty-year coma. Japan had been preparing for years but the Super-X Attack Plane, which had been constructed from salvaged reverse engineered Mysterian technology as Japan's last best hope against Godzilla should he ever return, was completely destroyed. While he was lured into Mt. Mihara, he merely escaped by means of Mt. Fuji less than a year later. He did so by means of the tunnels left in Mt. Mihara by the Muvians when they came through there during their 1963 attack.

As the battle for earth continued, UNGCC was made to combat the threat of Godzilla and other kaiju. The fight for humanity was vicious and they UNGCC fought to the utmost, though none but Miki Segeusa could reach Godzilla's heart. In time, the battle would become a war, the Monster Wars, when the unholy King Ghidorah rose up and but Miki was able to bring men and monsters to work together and save the world. As for now, the human race is pulling itself out of the rubble and there are new dangers and new adventures. Godzilla is searching for his old friend Anguirus and the humans are battling Ghidorah's dorat spawn. What is next, nobody knows, but with how humans and Godzilla are working together, the world can face it.