Hey guys, I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while, and I want to turn it into an RP. It's inspired by Dead Space, the amazing action/horror game, and The Last of Us, the upcoming survival/adventure game. Backstory is as follows (WARNING, kinda long):
In the year 2020, tensions around the world over climate, the economy, and other issues reach a breaking point. A massive international war follows, with the conflict quickly escalating to a nuclear one. The war lasts only a couple years, but in that time is more destructive than all of humanity's previous wars combined. When it ends in 2022, the planet is in tatters. The sparse remnants of government and order have no idea how to proceed, and it is feared that what exists will be torn apart by the primal urge of everyone to be the "last race standing." That is when the meteors hit.
The meteors are seen coming. They are not typical space rocks- each is a large, perfect sphere of incredible density, which stays completely intact upon impact with Earth. There are hundreds of them that land around the globe, each impervious to destruction. Over the course of about a week, these spheres release some kind of force, believed to possibly be a microorganism, that targets only humans and nothing else. After the week, all the spheres self destruct at once, vaporizing themselves and leaving no trace as to what they might have been. However, the force remains.
It is named The Consumption. It overtakes the human body and transforms it, in a matter of a day, into a grotesque, fleshy being, possessing great physical power but maintaining significant intelligence. The Consumption cannot spread through the environment like a virus, though, and once the surge of Consumption released from the spheres either inhabits a host body or dies without finding one, it is wholly reliant on its living hosts. It could have been wiped out early on by killing the infected, but that is not what happened. Instead, humanity embraced it.
They saw Consumption as the great equalizer. Terrified of future wars, and in the belief that differences could never be resolved, they relinquished hope and let the Consumers (people transformed by Consumption) overrun the world, eating or injecting themselves with Consumer flesh and fluids (which, if ingested or otherwise put in the body, begin the process,) or otherwise just letting Consumers stab them with their sharp extremities and infect them themselves. Body size may differ, but every Consumer has the same objective, mindset, general appearance, and capabilities. All want to spread, all want to infect every human, and none ever attack each other. For the first time in history, humanity thought, we will all be the same and there will be unbreakable peace.
Of course, there were some who resisted. They realized two things quickly: Consumers are extremely sensitive to radioactive fallout, much more than other physiologically advanced species, and that they need to ingest organic material like any other animal to survive. Thus, the pockets of humans that wanted to remain human fled to the bombed-out ruins of great cities, where radiation levels were higher and there was less undeveloped land for Consumers to mount a sustained attack from. They also realized that Consumers are not very adept at building or utilizing machinery, so they don't try to attack across oceans or rough landscapes, like mountain ranges. Still, the sheer number of Consumers existing on Earth is vastly overwhelming to survivors.
This is where we come in. The Consumption is not programmed to attack furs, and since our numbers are very small we mostly stayed out of the way of the war and took proportionally very small losses. We have not sided with the human survivors necessarily, but we are trying to stay alive just as they are. While the Consumption cannot infect us, the Consumers will nevertheless try to kill anything that stands in their way of utter world domination. It is up to us to survive long enough, organize, and mount some kind of assault on the Consumption that may restore the world to the way it once was, or at least close to it. What we make that world, and who controls it, is up to us.
I apologize for the very long description.
If you have any questions or are interested in joining, please post in this topic or PM me! I really hope to be able to take this somewhere!
