Beginnings

From it's beginning, "The Tribe" dealt with both death & life. Death was obvious & the major premise of the series. Death surrounded our heroes--the adults, their friends, families & lovers. Death was always possible.

Life was something else again. We started with Trudy, who began Season-1 as a pregnant teen & went pretty much through 5 seasons defined by her "motherhood." Her story was a big part of the 2nd season, where her child (Zoot's daughter) was in the center of an ongoing power struggle.

Then it's Season-2. Salene's pregnant. Unfortunately, she lost her & Ryan's baby.

Season-3 & now Amber's pregnant with Bray's baby. The minute that happened, you knew the two of them were doomed. Sorry, but in Tribe-world, love & babies do not equal happily-ever-after.

And so it is in KTDARPG. There hasn't been a lot of pregnancies & babies so far. There was Kava; but almost the minute her baby was born at the Army base, the player disappeared & that thread was dropped. Brena was pregnant; unfortunately she lost the baby (and we never did know who the father was). And now Arianna is pregnant with Judge's baby, the love of her heart who was killed in the last Anti-kids war.

As in Tribe-world, our game-world is not kind to lovers & babies. Could be why, in both worlds, we constantly get the caveat about birth control & safe sex. That's probably a warning that should be heeded, if any of our players want to hold onto the lovers they have.

Just one of those things that make you go..."hmmmm." --Chyna

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