Post by RIZZI on Aug 13, 2009 21:55:26 GMT
It goes by many names: "The Crisis," "The Dark Years," "The Walking Plague," as well as the newer and more "hip" titles such as "Z-Day," referring specifically to October 13th, 2009, the day it all began. The Infected remains a devastating word, unrivaled in its power to conjure up so many memories, emotions and fear, even to this day. But there is no God to blame for this, no unstoppable force of nature, this was the fault of man, a man-made virus unleashed by man. The Infected did not create themselves. The Infected did not drop the nuclear weapons that destroyed all life on well over half of our planet. The Infected have never been our biggest threat, we caused our own extinction.
Welcome to the real world, twenty years later, a wasteland. What the world has seen in the twenty years since infection is people killing people. Which is much what the world saw in the twenty years before infection, and the twenty years before that, and before that, and as far back as history has been documented. People killing people. Which is why we cannot rebuild, we are too busy killing each other, killing what managed to survive against all odds, to ever grow. We are our own biggest threat.
There is only one major city left on Earth, Utopia, a private joke, since it's basically one giant slum. The infected remain scattered, still mostly centered around metropolitan areas. Their numbers have dwindled with the rest of the human race. A few other settlements are sprinkled across the Outlands, just pockets of survivors trying to make a living in ruins and makeshift camps. They never last too long though, there is always a new threat waiting around every corner.
COUGHING UP GHOSTS
Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!
V E R S I O N 3 . 0: CHILDREN OF THE WASTES
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