Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26237442-20150731200654/@comment-26084195-20150803010716

OK, I've got a storyline. You ought to like this:

 October 13th, 2020



 That was the day it started. Excavators in what was once known as Arizona had unearthed something amazing, a spectacular buried temple. Little did we know that we had unearthed something else. Something ancient, living beneath the surface perhaps since Earth was formed. We have no way of knowing. Especially not anymore.



 At first everything was normal. Then the excavators began behaving... oddly. Pretty soon, random animal attacks in that area skyrocketed, violence between people too. Then the weirdness itself started to spread. Some good-natured hospital folk found out what was really going on.



 They brought a subject in and performed an autopsy, revealing a parasite. A black, slug shaped parasite capable of controlling its host. It seemed like the longer the host lived, the more it decayed. The parasite ate the host from the inside out. Eventually we had what seemed like a zombie apocalypse on our hands. But this was different. Any living thing could be infected. We had tigers and squirrels to contend with. And the parasites were smart. They could drive, use weapons, lure people into traps. And they were normal at first, so practically no shelter was safe.



 The parasite was nearly unkillable. It ignored pain, so any non lethal shots were virtually useless against the host. Even if you managed to kill the host, the parasite could detach an intact body part and crawl away. Even more horribly, these detached body parts could gather together to form immense creatures of seething limbs called colony beasts. These were practically indestructible, and even when you destroy one parasites get scattered all over.



 The war against the parasite went on for more than six years. And we were losing. Eventually, the U.N. gathered up those who weren't infected, and sent them through frighteningly intense decontamination and security measures. Those who passed said measures were taken to underground shelter-cities. Once all Humans that could be saved were saved, the U.N. initiated a very literal scorched earth tactic. Thermonuclear warheads were launched at every corner of the globe. In the end, there wasn't a single part of the surface that wasn't severely irradiated. Even the Parasite, which had proven vulnerable to radiation, couldn't have survived that. Even the cockroaches all died.



 Life in the Shelters is kinda miserable. The vast majority, while they have everything they need, are constantly at work. There's always something that needs done. Only the higher-ups in the new world order and those that still maintain a measure of material wealth have what we would call "comforts".



 It is a fact unknown to most that teams of elite soldiers and expert scientists don chemically sealed armour and go out to the surface frequently. They serve many functions, be they patrolling, searching for signs of surviving Humans or for surviving Parasites, or perhaps for mutants in true Fallout style.



<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> And even fewer people know that there are other Human survivors, who didn't make it to the Shelters and instead used highly effective bomb shelters. Such a thing is unbelievably rare, but they are out there.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> Now, Humanity must face the worst threat of all: being cooped up underground together, never being able to see the sun again.