Setting where the apocalypse happens

I'm not sure it was equal, but at least Imperial Japan wanted to bring a sphere of Asia together, with themselves as the top dog and that led to all that they did in WW2 from my understanding, so I assume that what they got up to then might be worse than the starvation and death resulting from all the wars that eventually led to Japan's unification.

Okay but what exactly where they up to and how can we apply that to some mythical creature to drop on their heads?
If we just go with the starvation thing then yeah, we can focus more on the angry giant skeles made out of smaller cannibalistic skeles. Or focus on whatever they were getting up too during that and the resulting thing that gets made.

Finland gets their collective wish granted and all of the water in their lakes turn into vodka causing a massive drought. A punishment for their several millenia of reckless drinking.

Undead seems to be the easiest thing for both, with those lost or those killed or both going after Japan for one reason or another. I think there could be a more interesting idea but I don't know what.

I'll bring up Israel and sit here patiently.

God smites them for going back to where he banished them from without his permission to return.

surely america would be more based on the use of nuclear weapons?

Spain has a never ending Civil War.

Op said he wanted a bit of mythology thrown in, so maby we can create some other scenarios by referencing other terible things some nations have done. Brasil could be invaded by an army of treants or nature spirits looking for revenge for the destruction of massive parts of the Amazon. Spain might get hit by some magical plauge that wipes out a portion their population equal to the preportion of native americans killed by desieses brought to the new world.

That can be a part of it, after all the invention of nuclear weapons has caused this horrifying domino effect that has lead to us being able to destroy the planet, not to mention all the lives that could be lost in the blink of an eye from just one going off.
But how do you do that? Make certain areas of Merica just straight up go full Fallout or do you invent some original mythical creature based off of radiation or delicate machinery?
Like some form of spirit that goes around fucking up important machinery to cause disasters.
>"What's that? Your building a nuke? I WONDER WHAT HAPPENS IF I PRESS THIS BUTTON!"

Egypt's mummies rise from their tombs and enslave the Israelites for real this time as punishment for millennia of slander in the Old Testament.

>Australia
>apocalypse gets us back for our sin of settling somewhere as shitty as Australia
>by changing nothing

>invent some original mythical creature based off of radiation

>The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint. The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here, as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down.

>The five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the children, the ball—remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer.

Shadows of a building's former inhabitants burnt into the walls by a nuclear explosion.

Now make them live.

Weeping Angel rules. They can only move when unobserved. Between glances they can change their positions, traveling across and between nearby surfaces. When they get within range (what would have been within arms reach from the wall they inhabit if they weren't two dimensional) of a victim and nobody is looking at them, they attack. Nobody has ever seen an attack and as such, nobody knows exactly what it consists of, but afterwards the only remains of the victim are a tiny pile of cinders as hot and radioactive as if they'd freshly been in the nuclear detonation which created the first shadows and a new shadow resembling the victim. Shadows can be killed by using observation to trap them in a surface than breaking the surface before they can escape. Unfortunately they're intelligent enough to understand this and prefer to inhabit materials sturdy enough that they can't be shattered in the amount of time a potential victim can avoid blinking.

For added nastiness, make them pack hunters and/or include nonhuman shadows.

You mean literally Gremlins?

Sweden drowns in a tidal wave of literal shit

Potential weakness: Shadows can only inhabit materials which were once scorched by a nuclear blast. For example, a wall with the paint and outer layer charred off could have a silhouetted shape of intact surface whose position changes between observations but without the initial damage, the shadow wouldn't be able to live in it. "Moats" made of unburned materials taken from outside a blast zone would be impassable for shadows. The ruins which were once the sites of former detonations would be infested with shadows, but they couldn't spread into territory which hadn't directly been nuked. The amount of radiation determines how easily they can move, with anything not affected by bombs being like wading through molasses.

The more radioactive an environment = the faster shadows can move in it. Default background radiation levels outside of a nuclear strike zone paralyze them. This works quite well, especially considering the implications.

As radiation dies down, eventually the ruins will be safe again. However, when shadows attack someone, it doesn't just create a new shadow. The pile of detritus is radioactive so if shadows can regularly attack new victims they can maintain the background radiation in their environment so they can stay mobile. Shadows could also be using this to extend their territory. Chase a victim to the very edge of their environment before attacking. As a result, the radioactive cinders are spread just a tiny bit further past the original boundary.

>Not beings of decadence overtaking the nation and making a permanent human caste beneath them
Please it's like you don't even know what's wrong with America.

Saudi Arabia becomes ground zero for an outbreak of SCP-081, but less fire, more explosions.

suddenly the Zone becomes even more horrifying.

>Revolution
>Worst thing
Silly aristocrats, it was the best thing.

Best two post in thread. Seriously man nice read.

In a sense.
Imagine it, you're booking it from some skinwalkers, a giant skeleton or whatever, get in your car, and it just falls apart like it was made by Achme.

I feel like Spain could have something to do with ghost ships, haunted treasure galleons and slave ships rising from the seas and returning to shore, spilling their cargo of a golden plague across the land.

Oh, yeah that'll suck.

In a similar vein, I guess the UK gets invaded by people from ALL over

>What's going to happen to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe?

A golden plague? You mean something along the lines of Midas where people are being turned into solid gold golems that go around turning others into gold golems zombies?
Good lord all the fukin zombies...

Wasn't the UK technically at war with Sweden for a bit during the Napoleonic wars?
I remember reading something about Napoleon forcing the Swedes to declare war on Britain to stop them using Swedish naval bases or something.
Both sides knew what was up so the war basically only existed on paper, with no engagements at all

Most of Africa would just be a clusterfuck of endless machete and AK wielding zombies, looking for revenge for countless attempted genocides and murders. They'd each be immune to and proficient with the primary weapons used by their genociders, to give them different weaponry. Probably would be some lich like voodoo guys in control of groups of them.

Zombie apocalypse Africa seems pretty spooky. I'm sure Africans had some terrifying monster mythology too to add in, after all they lived with some pretty monstrous animals.

Everyone knows that Little Nightmares is the American apocalypse were everyone is a cannibal and the class system just establishes what plate you are on.

Plus it even jives with windegos.

Yeah, that's actually a mislabeled map - it should be "invaded" (though borders shifting means that's probably misleading as well)

But yes, Sweden and the UK were technically at war for 2 years.
They still shared ports, and no battles were fought. The only casualties were some 30 Swedish farmers protesting conscription, who were killed by the Swedish army.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Swedish_War_(1810–1812)

Canada falls into an eternal winter. Also mosquito's fill peoples bodies and wear them like skinwalkers.

For Australia, go with a Stolen Generation scenario. Children disappear. If you're lucky, it was a dropbear, but it's probably some horrible abomination from aboriginal oral legends. Don't attack any of the adults, though--just let the population slowly age without being able to replace itself.

Since the apocalypse happens over the whole country, aboriginees would get the same scenario, which might seem unfitting until you realize it'll start up the whole conflict again one last time.

isn't that just daily life there?

Paul Bunyon attacking NYCSE

San Franciisco drowned in menstrual blood while Avra Lavine sings karoke with chinese immigrants on 180 decidble loadspeakers.

Maine is overrun by thousands of possessed trans-ams painted like the general lee from dukes of hazard while a cheerful announcer narrates their demise. Confederate soldiers raised from the dead cram cannons full of kitsch crap and Steven King is disempowled by frustrated horror novelists who can't get their books published.

Lobster people rise from the oceans and bore people to death with stories about their grandchildren.

/Pol/ has arrived I see.

Negro rail workers raise from the dead and build railways through crowded metropolitan districts and force posh white people to work to in 100 degree heat in the middle of the desert until the die of exposure.

thousands of prohibition era g-men and temperance movement lillies mow down italian business men in Italian resuraunts, forcing people to drink liquor until they vomit blood.

Black hooded figures nail white southerners to right-side up crosses and set fire to them, forcing their children to harvest watermelons in their plantation. Restaurant owners who serve fried chicken are tarred and feathered and thrown in deep fryers until they taste finger lickin' good.

Islamo-Bombo's detonate a 80 megaton nuclear warhead at the yucca mountain disposal facility and drive around slaughtering civilians mad max style.

South American drug cartels start building aztec pyramids and committing human sacrfices, carpet bombing Hollywood with cocaine aerosols that lead to mass hysteria and violence.

Alex Jones injects adrenachrome into his ballsack and starts carving names in his face on live television. Lobotomized television pundits start chanting alt-right mantras while scrawling arcane statistics over their studios in blood and excrement.

Cuba Gooding Jr. wins an oscar.

You mean the bombings that saved tens of millions of lives on both sides by forcing Japan to surrender?

If you think the atomic bombings were anything but the best move on both sides, then you need to get your head checked.

Do even a MODICUM of reading on Operation Overlord. We planned on nuking the beaches, nuking the highways, napalming and bombing every single slant-eyed fuck we could find all the way to Kyoto. The Japanese were literally throwing babies off of cliffs and charging MG nests with bamboo spears on Okinawa rather than be captured alive. Do you think that the US had an OPTION to not murder their way to the capital? The US Army TO THIS DAY is using Purple Hearts that were minted in anticipation for the US casualties of a mainland invasion. 60+ years of warfare by the US and we're STILL using the medals that we expected to need in that invasion.

Of all the "cosmic evil" the US has done, nuclear weapons are the most benevolent thing theyve ever used.

aaaaand you killed it.

The string of /pol/ comments of the hopes that will be able to get this shit back on track without nignogs and underages shitting it up?

Italy, a country overburdened by its history since perhaps the 1500s, is now Dante's hell.

Nigger, don't lie. The Americans used the bombs to spook the Soviets. Any desire for haste was because the pansy Americans knew a real army of actual psychopaths was coming to invade Japan if they didn't hurry the fuck up.

The Soviets wouldn't have fagged out. The Red Army would've just shit all over Japan and occupied all of Korea in the bargain. Millions of dead soldiers were no impediment to the Man of Iron's ambitions.
The limpwristed American bomb junkies knew they had to start playing their only trump card or the mighty Soviet Union would have a big advantage Post-war.

GDP goes up 25%.
No other effects.

Japanese nerds are raped by tenticle demons and forced to endure every single monster movie ever made in Japan. Godzilla gets in boxing match with the Prime Minister on national television and samaria team up with Jhon Wayne to execute Zaibatsu executives, disembowling them. American GI's force flabby kids to twirl batons until they pass out from exhaustion, then bury them alive in shallow graves. The Red Cross arrives and forces them all to eat normal food while Disney animated movies play during all the anime time slots.

It can be both a display of power to the Soviets without also being the best move.

Again, the biggest indicator being the medals.

The months of fire-bombing literally every other major Japanese city killed ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more Japanese civilians. The US didnt expect the bombs to be 100 war-enders. Hence why they minted hundreds of thousands of medals that they thought they'd need to issue because of the invasion.

Think about it, literally every wounded soldier, in every war, from 1946 onwards received a medal that was intended to be given to a survivor of the US invasion of mainland Japan.

Even IF the bombs didnt work, the plans were laid for the invasion. Soviets aside. It was CERTAINLY a big "dont fuck with us" gesture. But it was far from being a bonafide "beat the Soviets to the punch War-Ender".

Nah, soviets weren't really ready to invade anything in Japan execpt for Shakalin (tough it's debatable how much the US knew that then, but I think a fucking navy is generally difficult to hide).

In general Stalin didn't care that much for Asia, as it's evident from the scarce aid he gave to maoists in the end and how rapidly they de-mobilized from Manchuria. I mean, another commie neighbour is a good thing, but I don't really think they'd give it all for.. what, realisitcally? Hokkaido?

That's no Berlin.

The United Kingdom is forced to serve nothing but curry and salsa while pretencious american commercial fiction writers burn classic works of english literature on Oxford Yard. King Arthur returns and declares himself absolute monarch enforcing Prima Nocte and allowing hairy scotsmen to sleep with their wives.

People are forced to listen the Beatles until their penis shrivels up and falls off, while chumly orphans gleefully throw people into live machinery, forcing them to work as chimney sweeps while smoking 20 packs of menthols a day.

HAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY GAIZ

The poor germans.

>King Arthur returns and declares himself absolute monarch enforcing Prima Nocte and allowing hairy scotsmen to sleep with their wives.
Don't you mean French gary stu's?

Honestly I'd guess ghosts of the founding fathers angered by the expansion of the Federal government + taxes.

Native Americans didn't exactly play as massive a part in the creation of modern America.

So angry Samoans and Maori?

They're usually pretty chill though, unless our fate is us having to diversify our exports.

I wonder about Iceland. Not a prob to think about an apocalyptic scenario, but did this country ever do anything bad? At worst they butted heads with each other.

>Gold zombies

Would it really be that bad?

Nice argument fagtron

He's right though, don't trust Oliver Stone's documentaries Russia would've been able to invade Japan but the it'd have been so Phyrric (don't meme about Russian stronk) they'd have got assraped post war, especially if Churchill's plans were accepted.

Went to war with Britain (+won) over fish, abort all Downs syndrome kids (not really bad).

My guess is their elves would become real and kidnap everyone.

Albania gets ruled by a dictator who literally follows every religion on earth and makes all the rites mandatory for every citizen.

I can't think of anything worse.

The entirety of Switzerland is pulled down into the Vestibule of Hell.

They spent all of that time sitting there and watching instead of doing anything about the chaos in the world. Those who take no sides have no place when Good and Evil are your choices.

I can't really think of anything else except maybe the mercenary thing.

If you're good at fighting angry golden golems then probably not.
If there's a economy left! Gold isn't really practical in use, people just use it as a valuable. And even then people are going to be a bit disturbed if the currency they're trading around is bits and pieces of what could have been old relatives.
If this is full apocalypse mode and there is no more economy or at least a very crippled one, then yeah the gold would be useless.

Wonder if Turkey gets invaded by ghost cataphacts or something. Would it be ghost scholarii?

Then again, Armenian poltergeists are more likely.

Or maybe both happen?

>Gold isn't really practical in use
Ah but it would be in plentiful amounts in the apocalypse, it's easier to work and while it's nowhere as strong as ferric compounds it does keep long.

Romania?

Slavic slavers.

Partially depends on whether Transylvania is part of it or part of Hungary.

Also possible, yes.

Dracula returns, but he's evil this time.

Honestly a Soviet invasion of Japan would have been huge for the West. After exhausting even more manpower they would have been a paper tiger.

I don't think Uncle Joe would have actually been that dumb, but I could be wrong.

>The greatest golem slayers are often seen traveling in full plate armor made from the alloy and gems from slain golems.
>They are always hungry, easily agitated, and constantly paranoid about whether or not the walls can hold against a potential horde.
>But when they die, they shall die with enough gold in their tomb to make the Pharohs themselves jealous.

Dumb? No. Dumb would imply he didn't know what it would cost.

He's the kind of man who knew exactly how bad things would get when he did [X] and simply Did Not Care. There's always a million more lives to spend, right?

And the fact that Mao had no love for Stalin at any stage of his life, it would've been hell for the Russians more so then they'd already experienced which makes me glad they didn't.

That wouldn't be much of a change. Even if you consider him a hero, he's a hero in the same way the Punisher is a hero.

Impaling people on stakes so much it gets into the history books is pretty edgy, ya know?

No dumb would be becoming completely reliant on an ideologically opposed competitor for food while overextending your reach into fanatical regions.

Manchu and Korea would've (and was) achievable, but Japan (and the resulting clusterfuck) would've been the line, no way the West would've let such an opportunity slip by.

Well more that he'll brutalize the native population instead of invaders.

Yeah, I can see it.

Balkans and Russia are easy, but what about other slav countries like Czech Republic and Poland? Did they do much wrong?

Should also involve maoism somehow

>Poland

Lithuanian Pagan Ghosts, which will also invade eastern Germany. The Germans for killing them all, and the Poles for inviting the Germans.

Again, all I can think of.

>Poland
Poland did everything wrong. They like to play victim, but whenever they got the chance they were as brutal as Prussians and Russians.

>t. Hitler.

>none of the apocalypses involve Hitler, as if a cosmic joke were told, he was the punchline, and nobody got it

Probably doesn't work within bounds of OP though.

>Czech Republic
>apocalypse
Blaník, pyčo!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaník#Legend

>cry about Nazies and Commies partitioning you
>after doing the same to Czechs
Kurwa, pls.

Underrated post

>Try to claim parts of Poland so you can get a neat railway using the pretense of it being part of ancient Bohemia.
>Get mad when Poland retaliates.

Does Hawaii get a different apocalypse from the rest of the US based on something it did while independent?

Does Northern Ireland get Ireland's apocalypse or the UK's? Do England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man each get their OWN?

What about Taiwan? Hong Kong?

Calling the Cod Wars wars is a joke imho... three "wars" and only 1 dead by accident? Biggest action that happened were a few ships ramming each other.

Only you're on the pro-life side of the abortion matter the discussion about Down syndrome is bad. Iceland doesn't force anybody to take a prenatal test and also don't force an abortion despite a diagnosis, all they do is allowing an abortion in this case and telling you about this option. The parents still decide it themself.

I guess that leaves only the Vinland expeditions...

Wouldn't that hit Greenland, though?