Keep The Dream Alive--What dream?

The theme of "The Tribe" through 5 seasons remained constant: Keep the dream alive. It was a powerful theme, and we adopted that as the name of our rpg.

Lately I've begun to wonder, what did they mean? What do we mean? Keep the dream alive? In a devastated world filled with children, what dream would they struggle to keep alive in the face of all the challenges they have to survive? What do children dream?

In the show, the pivotal moment I always went back to came in Season-1 when Trudy's baby was born. Ok, I'm older & the image of children having children is already a powerful thing. But in Tribe-world, where everything is upside down & inside out, where just surviving day to day is a hardship ... having a baby? Yeah. Through 5 seasons, all the things Trudy--and her tribe, and the men who cared about her--went through to secure a future took on a different meaning as you saw baby Brady growing up in their arms. Their dream, it seemed, was to build a future that all of them could live in ... not just survive.

To grow up safe, find love, have families, live satisfying lives and give their kids a tomorrow better than today. That's quite a dream for a world full of children.

As for our game, maybe we're not so different.

Just like Tribe-world, we have our share of heroes & villains, losers & lunatics, schizos & creators. Our challenges have been conquering armies, storms & drought, surviving our enemies and even our friends at times. Our players have struggled through 6 seasons and are now in a 7th, and still they persevere. Arianna will take care of her baby and defend her family with her life. Valentine will be damned if she lets anyone tear down all the good things she's worked to build in the city, for herself and others. Hawk will refuse to give up the city and the people who mean so much to her without a fight. Villa will die before she gives up the love of a lifetime, and there are so many more. Power plays, love, revenge.

Behind & beneath it all, there is a dream. Maybe our game's isn't as obvious or universal as the dream illustrated in "The Tribe" but it's there. Each of our players, through each of their characters, has a dream that's personal & real.

Together ... together we keep all of those dreams alive.

-Chyna

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