#then there's a dungeon crawl which invokes d&d and involves monsters. traps. difficult terrain. and high stakes

[scoopstrooptm]

     okay so i know that i keep talking about an post-apocalypse verse and haven't done anything yet, but i am actively thinking about it, and i think my plan is to set it up as more of a jumping off point than an actual fleshed out au. we don't know the plot points of s5 yet ( and let's be honest, my scoops kids are not going to be central to how the duffers bring the plot to its climax, that will be will, max & el i assume ), but we do see hawkins being thrown into a Situation in the final scenes of s4, and we can make some assumptions of what will happen next if we take from classic apocalyptic tropes: • there's already a military presence in hawkins when the cali crew arrive, that will only grow and assumedly hawkins will be sealed off in an attempt to keep the influx of monsters/vecna from spreading out of the town boundary, along with evacuation efforts • there will be looting, panic, even more people fleeing or attempting to flee if the government seal off the town and set up military checkpoints • also presumably the military will be Doing Things and bearing arms against whatever is coming through from the upside down, but this will be ineffective because they are not a) el and b) our group of loveable teenagers lmao • we see the dust particles from the upside down leaking through and decaying the wildlife in those final seconds, so we can probably expect the continued decay of natural resources ( upside down lovers lake does not have water, the trees in the wood do not have leaves ) • plenty of monsters & monster hunting/fighting. @ the duffers how big is your cgi budget

so the plan is to set up the verse from that point of view and then that allows for the freedom of a canon compliant verse, once we get more info about how s5 intends to pan out, and the aus where myself and others get to write it better and do fun things within the apocalyptic setting :')