Eleven Candles Society

In the fall of the United States into the barbarism of the post collapse era during the final crisis a group of individuals using the last remaining ability to communicate through what was then dying internet pledged in a way to keep society or culture that had once upon a Time stretched across the land alive. Most of these were academics teachers and amateur performers everything from musicians playwrights actors and storytellers. These groups would gather together communicate by ham radio and begin touring to various settlements and refugee camps as they could find them providing entertainment through the form of either productions of classical plays such as Shakespeare or performing music. Such groups often times found themselves happily invited to settlements on the basis of celebration often local harvesters or other events with the societies providing fuel food and support for the traveling tropes. Working hard these groups managed to provide literacy mutual cultural society and a somewhat working culture the basis of which the ucaa bases much of itself on.
  These tropes would often find themselves operating out of a camp area in winter where they would often buckle down and survive the rather violent storms that often came in the North American area since the third crisis. In the spring they would begin the process of planning routes whereupon they would begin practicing what they intended to host in summer they would often times begin traveling arriving at locations to perform and to drum up support and provide what entertainment they could. In Fall they would return along their route performing the second half of their performance oftentimes collecting their pay.
  Some troops would often times travel never endingly even going as far to travel during winter leaving that the job and mission they had elected to take on to spread the light of civilization in these harsh times warranted the trouble and danger that's such a thing came with.
  Knots everyone appreciates these groups religious fanatics and fundamentalists alike often find issue with the performances that are done after all they show about a power-hungry mad Lord taking advantage of his power is not exactly something a despot wants to be reminded that he is or let alone give the idea that such things are bad. There is often the idea of a more conservative viewpoint or controlling idea comes from such communities and the elevens candles society doesn't really vibe well with these oftentimes coming to odds whether it be through dancing music or allowing women to dress in any way that is not prescribed.
  Many of these tropes tracked young women attracted by the vibrant life the colors and the ideas of freedom that these troops tend to promote if not accurately at least in performance. Indeed many of these tropes find themselves attracting a large number of LGBT+ individuals some of these tropes are often times the only way that sex education for some communities is provided. The promise of what seems like an easy life of being admired and performing works of cultural importance that have stretched back several hundred years attracts many beyond queer and female but it seems that especially the makeup the admiration the acceptance and even the power that the tropes have attracts from some farming communities that might seem less.
  Often these troops find themselves in hellish conditions travel is not safe safety is not guaranteed and often either is a good meal. When things work out a community has a good time with a large number of musicians performing a number of performances play is performed and a rather large feast and celebration is held on the same day sort of weekend of leisure and pleasure where the trope is treated as visiting family. Sometimes the trope is chased out of town because of an actor's actions or perceived actions with one of the community or in general because they don't like the look of them. Or the trope is attacked by bandits or other criminal elements that drove the open Badlands between the heavily fortified cities.
  Many of these traveling tropes again talk to each other through long-ranged ham radio and trading information about societies about locations and areas that are safe to travel as well as meeting up to exchange everything from costumes to actors these communities of roving actors and cultural ambassadors oftentimes think of themselves as one big family and indeed the 11 candles society name comes from the fact that they believe that only one candle of civilization has been snuffed out that together they can keep society from entering the long dark of midnight.