After a century of chaos following the nukes, Deathlands is forming pockets of civilization, aided by pre-dark stockpiles of weapons, fuel and pieces of 21st-century knowledge. But these troves are hard to come by and survival remains a blood quest. For Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists, luck is sparse, chances slimmer, yet hope drives them onward. The sulphur-teeming Gulf of Mexico is the poisoned end of the earth, but loaded cargo ships ruined by sky - dark lure doomie and cutthroat alike, Here, Ryan and the others glean rumors of whole cities deep in South America that survived the blast intact. But as the companions contemplate a course of action that may divide them, a new horror approaches unseen on the horizon. The Lords of Death are Mexican pirates raiding stockpiles with grim vengeance. When civilization hits rock bottom, a new stone age will emerge, with its own personal day of blood reckoning. In the Deathlands, the future could always be worse. Now it is... (Empire of Xibalba - 1 of 2)
