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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 𝟷 - ᴀ ‘ᴅᴏᴏᴍsᴅᴀʏ’ ᴠɪʀᴜs

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ The year is 1968, many years before the global pandemic of Cordyceps hit the general population. Many people believed that viral infections such as the common cold, the flu, or any other related virus could lead to the end of the world. Such discussions always sparked debate in both the scientific community, and even the general public. With global warming becoming more of a threat every single day due to the rapid expansionism of countries around the world, a debate was sparked discussing potential other biological sources that could be the downfall of humanity.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ The studio’s lights beamed down on the set of “World Watch”, a popular science program aimed at discussing all things science. On March 15th, 1968, a special edition sparked from the widespread public debate of biological threats to mankind was aired on television. The show’s host, Murray Lawson, sat across from two distinguished scientists who came on the show for the interview. Dr. Harper, an Epidemiologist focused in virology, and Dr. Neuman, an Epidemiologist focused in Mycology from the University of Madrid.

“Good evening, viewers.” Murray said, adjusting his position in his seat. “In recent weeks, the world has been struck with debate about these potential ‘doomsday’ viruses, a purely hypothetical infection that would end the world as we know it. For many of you aspirant scientists out there, we at World Watch know you operate on logic and facts. So tonight, we’ve brought on two people who are leaders in their fields to… share their thoughts with us. Please welcome Dr. James Harper, the lead of the Centers for Disease Control, and Dr. Neuman, the lead Epidemiologist from the University of Madrid.”. 

    After a brief round of applause from the audience attending the talk live, Dr. Harper leaned forward, his expression confident.
“Well Murray, while viral infections can certainly grab headlines, they most certainly don’t keep me up at night.”. Murray would let off a light laugh, tilting his head in curiosity.
“And why is that, Doctor?”. Harper continued his confident look, talking with confidence as not to be interrupted.
“We’ve made incredible strides in vaccines and treatments. Viruses come and go, and our immune systems adapt. No, I’m more concerned about antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I suppose that is what keeps me up at night.”. Murray nodded, considering Harper’s confident statements. 

    Murray turned his attention to Dr. Neuman, offering a friendly smile.
“And you, Dr. Neuman? I presume the prospect of a viral antibiotic-resistant pandemic keeps you up at night?”.
Almost immediately, Neuman shook his head, his eyes intense; “No.” he stated boldly.
“No?” Harper asked, taken back by such a quick, yet simple response.
“No.” Dr. Neuman reiterated.
“Alright, well, that’s our show.” Murray stated, causing a brief moment of laughter to erupt from the audience. After the audience quelled down, Murray rephrased their initial question.
“Well just to be clear, you do think microorganisms pose a threat, yes?”.
Dr. Neuman nodded his head, “Oh, in the most dire of terms. What I’m afraid of is not bacteria or viruses.”.
Confused as to what he meant, Murray asked, “Then what?”. 
“Fungus.” Neuman stated, causing a murmur to roll through the crowd. 

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    “Fungi seem harmless enough, though.”.
 Murray stated in response, causing Dr. Neuman to shake his head in disagreement.
 Many species know otherwise, because there are some fungi who seek not to kill, but to control. Let me ask you, where do we get LSD from? It comes from ergot, a fungus. Psilocybin? Also a fungus. Viruses can make us ill, but fungi can alter our very minds.
 By now, Dr. Harper would be very clearly disagreeing with Dr. Neuman’s claims. Nevertheless, he pressed on.
“There’s a fungus that infects insects. If it gets inside an ant, for example, it’ll travel throughout its circulatory system up into its brain, then floods it with hallucinogens, thus bending the ant’s mind to its will. The fungus starts to direct the ant’s behavior, telling it where to go, what to do, like a puppeteer with a marionette. And it gets worse. The fungus needs food to live, so it begins to devour its host from within, replacing the ant’s flesh with its own. But it doesn’t let its victim die. No, it keeps its puppet alive by preventing decomposition. How? Where do we get penicillin from? Fungus.”. 

After Dr. Neuman’s explanation, Dr. Harper wouldn’t be able to hold back from sharing his thoughts on the matter. He remarked, “Fungal infection of this kind is real, sure, but it’s not in humans.”.
In agreement, Dr. Neuman nodded his head, though still continued to press on with his train of thought. “True, fungi cannot survive if the host’s body temperature is higher than 94 degrees Fahrenheit. But what if that were to change? What if the world, for example, were to get slightly warmer? Well, now there’s a reason to evolve. One gene mutates, and an ascomycete, candida, ergot, cordyceps, aspergillus, any one of them could be capable of burrowing into our brains and taking control not of millions of us, but billions of us. There are no treatments for this, no preventatives, no cures. They just don’t exist, and it’s not even possible to make them.”.
Murray looked over to Dr. Neuman, a concerned look across his face. “And what would happen if that does happen? A fungus, adapting to take over humans?”.

 With a sigh, Dr. Neuman looked back over to Murray, an almost somber look across his face. “We lose.”.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ As time passed, the interview that had taken place on ‘World Watch’ would have faded to time. Scientific articles have been written on the subject of deadly fungal infections evolving to survive in the human body, but most of the debate on the subject has been since dismissed as science fiction, or propaganda meant to spark mass hysteria. The very conditions that would foster the doomsday virus’s evolution have started to come to pass, almost 32 years later. In the year 2000, climate change and global warming escalated due to the industrial revolution around the world. This resulted in heatwaves, prolonged droughts, and an increase in sea levels. Immediate measures to try and decrease the greenhouse gas emissions were imperative and had to be taken seriously by all of the governments around the world.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In response to these escalating environmental issues, Grassroots movements began to emerge. They organized peaceful protests and demonstrations in cities across the globe. These gatherings featured banners, art installations, and music to unite the people of the world, regardless of age or background, in order to advocate for sustainable practices and solutions. Their goals were aimed to inspire local governments to take up more proactive stances on environmental policies.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Despite their efforts, their pleas for improving the world fell on deaf ears. Governments allowed the peaceful protests to continue. Instead of changing the world, the protests made the governments more proactive in their desires to improve the world, consequences be damned. In addition to more people taking to the streets, traveling to big cities across the world, and focusing their demonstrations in populated cities, the sudden uptick in populations caused spikes in energy grids, food consumption, and housing facilities. The local governments realized their infrastructure was not up to the task of handling such high influxes of people, causing rapid expansions within the targeted cities for the protests. Expansions include increased fossil fuel plants, deforestation to make way for more residential complexes, shopping districts, and more.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ At the end of the day, these protests had the exact opposite effect to which they were originally inspired to change. The global climate was in a downwards spiral, temperatures increasing around the world. And as the temperature world wide continued to increase, so did the number of protestors. This created a negative feedback loop, where more and more people traveled the world to protest, and more and more cities had to improve their infrastructure to support the influx of people. The world was spiraling out of control.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ With the continued rise of global warming, radicals in the Grassroots movement began to foresee a potential doomsday event that could hit the world. Their paranoia only advanced as articles and old talk show footage from ‘World Watch’ began to resurface. Groups around the world began to form, calling themselves the ‘Last Bastion’, a movement aimed at preparing for the end of the world. They began to protest themselves, though much more violently when compared to Grassroots, using fear mongering to scare the public into believing that the end times are near.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎As time went by, the Grassroots and Last Bastion protests continued to race around the world, with one of the hotspots for protests being in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. In 2002, Jakarta would be hit with a new type of infection, with several people becoming ill as patient zero hit. These workers in the Bogasari Flour Mills were admitted to the Siloam Hospital, where this new and unidentified disease was recorded by local doctors. The symptoms appeared to be the exact same across all those infected, including coughing, slurred speech, muscle spasms, and mood changes throughout the progression of the infection. The doctors did what they could to treat the infection, trying every known cure they could, flooding the patients with generic antibodies, flu vaccines, and more. Despite their efforts, nothing worked. The progression of the infection continued in the patients until it completely took over higher brain function, causing the patients to become hyper-aggressive.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ While the patients in the hospital were mostly secure, one of them managed to break containment. The worker became feral, attacking one of the doctors, prompting the guards to subdue him and lock him up in a bathroom. Local police arrived to arrest the worker, but the police had to shoot the worker in self-defense. Immediately after the worker’s death, thin vines began to emerge from their mouth and bullet wound, with fungi starting to spread from the now deceased worker.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ After a few hours, the doctor who was bitten by the worker started to show the same symptoms as the worker. Not long after that, the doctor also became feral, though they were strapped down to their beds to ensure monitoring could continue, without having to execute the patient. The specialists monitoring the condition of the patients witnessed the fungi growing out of their mouths and the victims becoming animalistic, hyper-aggressive, and losing the ability to reason or think rationally.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Local mycologist Professor Ratna Pertiwi was ordered to inspect the specimens, having been taken from her daily life by armed guards. Pertiwi inspected a tissue sample taken from one of the infected, and identified the fungal infection to be none other than Ophiocordyceps. After confirming the other specialist’s findings, Pertiwi was brought into a containment lab, allowing her to investigate one of the now deceased workers. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Horrified and skeptical of this discovery, she evacuated the containment room, then sat down with Lieutenant General Agus Hidayat, the one who had ordered her to give her assessment. The conversation between the two ensued, with Pertiwi trying to figure out just how many have been infected. It was then when the General shared the fact that fourteen other workers from the Bogasari Flour Mill had called in sick, and were now missing. Only a handful were located and brought in for observation, but the remainder were missing.

Desperate for a cure, the General asked Pertiwi about a potential vaccine or treatment that could be done.
“We brought you here to help us keep this from spreading. We need a vaccine, or a medicine.” the General pleaded. Pertiwi sighed, shaking her head. She stared at the General, a scared look in her eyes as she placed her cup of tea down on the table. She slowed her breathing, and spoke as clearly as possible. “I have spent most of my life studying these things. So please, listen carefully. There is no medicine. There is no vaccine.”.
The two of them paused for what had felt like an eternity, only staring at each other, trying to figure out what words to say next. “So what do we do..?” the General asked, now desperate to find a solution.
Pertiwi thought to herself for a few moments, closing her eyes as a tear fell down her cheek. “Bombs. Start bombing. Bomb this city… and everyone in it.”.

By now, the tears continued to fall down, though she spoke clearly. “Excuse me, if someone could please drive me home? I would like to be with my family.” Ratiwi pleaded. 

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-# ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Act 1: The Cordyceps Infection (2003)

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ News outlets around the world began to cover this brand new infection that has plagued the city of Jakarta. Television outlets, radio stations, and talk shows were covering it, with it being called a potential global pandemic. What were once whispers of this strange new fungal infection quickly spread, causing mass hysteria around the world. Rioters took to the streets, doomsday preppers were buying as much as they could to prepare for the end of times.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In major cities with large populations, the military was ordered to execute any and all living things that were caught trying to escape the now quarantined cities. The orders were the same, regardless of state, with Louisville being hit the hardest due to the more extreme military response. Panicked civilians got in their cars, others on foot, all trying to escape the quarantine zone and flee to safety. Military blockades surrounded the city from both land and sea, opening fire on anyone who dared to get too close to the blockade.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In Knox County, Kentucky, every city was now infected. The military’s efforts to contain the contagion failed, and quite miserably at that. Cities such as Blackwood, Grapeseed, West Point, and Riverside all quickly became infected. The world was in complete chaos. The first evolution of infected were classified as Runners, due to their unusually high stamina and innate ability to charge their targets with relentless pursuit, caring little about bodily injury to themselves.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In seeing the contagion breaching containment, the military blockades dissolved quickly. Rather than trying to keep the virus contained to cities, they pulled back their efforts and formed the first Quarantine Zone, later referred to as the Knox QZ. A safezone to where the survivors of the outbreak could be safe, living protected lives under the protection of the United States Army. While the initial quarantine zone was not the largest, it had all the essentials needed for survival. Food, shelter, electricity, clean water, medicine, and armed guards defending the area around the clock in order to uphold the safety and security of the zone.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In the coming weeks after the initial outbreak and the formation of the quarantine zone in Knox County, the United States Army would dissolve into the Federal Disaster Response Agency (FEDRA). During this time, soldiers would travel across the countryside, locating and evacuating towns through armed military transports, all with the promise of a safe and secure life within the recently formed QZ, though this statement was not entirely accurate.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ FEDRA soldiers began to take civilians from their home, whether they wanted to leave or not, and loaded them onto trucks. They were given the promise that they were being taken to the Knox QZ, though this statement was only partially true. Civilians were brought into the Knox QZ, but only if there was room. The number of civilians evacuated numbered in the thousands over the coming weeks, with only a very small percentage of them making it into the Knox QZ. The rest were executed by firing squad, and left to rot in mass graves. While the exact reasons for this were never made public, it was rumored that it was to quell the rising numbers of infected. And these rumors were true, albeit very few knew the truth.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ While the soldiers were busy rounding up survivors, the infected continued to spread all across Knox County. The Cordyceps within the infected began to slowly evolve its hosts, with the first round of infected becoming an even more dangerous evolution than the traditional runners. These Stalkers, as FEDRA had classified them, were similar to the standard runners in terms of speed and sight, though the infection had begun to create growths upon the face and head regions of the body.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In the coming months after the initial outbreak, every major city would be blocked off. Quarantined, for the protection of any survivors who had managed to escape the deadly tomb of the once modernized landscape. The major cities, such as West Point or Louisville were completely abandoned, quarantined off for everyone’s protection. A once thriving metropolis, left abandoned. In order to prevent the infection from spreading even further, explosives were deployed, with the goal of completely leveling the city, burying the infected forever.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ These bombing tactics completely ruined any remaining infrastructure that was still standing from after the outbreak. The power grid failed completely, resulting in the necessity of generators, hydroelectric plants, and even solar power. Regardless of the difficulties that were forced upon those who survived, the bombing techniques worked. It was the only cure that worked.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ The world looked completely different after the bombings, the world truly in flames. Every major city was in ruins, or otherwise soon to be, with quarantine zones blocking major highways connecting the state. Survivors were stranded, and those who never made it to the QZs had to leave the state, starve, or become infected. Humanity has lost. The end of the world is only just beginning.

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-# ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Act 1: The Evolution (2006)

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ As the years went by, everyone’s lives had to adapt to the new world they were given. FEDRA controlled the Quarantine Zones, ruling over them in a form of fascist dictatorship. A military occupation, controlling the survivors by any means necessary. Public executions to bestow fear within the hearts and minds of anyone who dared to challenge FEDRA’s occupation. A military police state, under the pretense of ‘securing order’ in such volatile times. For those who were willing to overlook the oppressive regime that they lived in, life in the Quarantine Zone was almost nice. Electricity, water, food, and jobs. All things to keep the population busy, and to forget about the hardships of their reality.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ However, even if the world seems peaceful within the walls of the QZ, life has a way of evolving, especially in nature. Deep inside the exclusion zones, infected still roamed. Especially within the major cities that have been all but abandoned, there remained infected that have been around since outbreak day. What had originally been thought to be impossible, they survived against the odds. This is when a new evolution of infected began to appear, albeit in smaller quantities: Clickers.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ During a routine FEDRA security patrol, one of these creatures managed to escape Blackwood’s exclusion zone, being attracted to the sounds of the noise of the FEDRA trucks. Within an instant, two of the FEDRA soldiers were killed. Screams of agony, and a bone-chilling croak and screech filling the still air. The remaining FEDRA soldiers managed to fend off the lone infected, though having used their firearms so close to Blackwood, they had to retreat. Though, not before taking the now mangled corpse of this new infected for study.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Days later, a public announcement was made to the Quarantine Zone, after rumors have spread about a new type of infected roaming the now wasteland of Knox County. A completely blind creature that appears to move through its environment through a primitive version of echolocation. Despite their efforts to keep certain facts hidden about the encounter, word got out that these creatures are incredibly strong, and very difficult to kill. Especially after it managed to take out two fully geared FEDRA soldiers with minimal efforts. Needless to say, the Quarantine Zone panicked from this news.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ As FEDRA continued its patrols, they began to notice that the remaining infected seemed to begin congregating near once highly populated cities. Specifically, Louisville and Blackwood. These two cities were the most dense in population before the outbreak, and as such, were hit the hardest. The straggling infected that primarily occupied smaller towns eventually made their way to these two cities. While Louisville was mostly quarantined off from the rest of Knox County, Blackwood did not share the same fate. As such, the majority of these new Clicker sightings would come from Blackwood and the surrounding areas.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ As more of these Clicker sightings came in, the question was asked on how they could even exist, and what it could mean for the future. It was previously thought that infected individuals had a finite amount of time to live, with Cordyceps eventually killing the host. This was finally proven to be false, with the evolution of the infected showing the surviving world just what the Cordyceps virus was capable of. The evolution of a newer species, right before the eyes of the people.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In addition to these new and alarming creatures, more and more reports came in from those who ventured into the wasteland of infected who have purposefully ended their existence within structures have released infectious spores of Cordyceps. An airborne delivery mechanism, infecting anything that dares to walk into the room without the proper protections. Gas masks were identified to be a suitable filtration system to keep the spores from infecting the non-infected, and as such, became standard issue in every FEDRA field kit.

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‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ The day of the apocalypse is now a memory, slowly fading into the background. 10 years have passed since outbreak day, with the world having had to adapt to survive. Very few individuals wander the remains of the world, with the majority of the surviving population focused within the Quarantine Zones. The world, occupied under a dictatorship where FEDRA controlled anything and everything. The fears of an oppressive government for some, had finally come to pass.
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Despite the fears of the people regarding politics, the true dangers of life outside the QZ’s was ever evolving. The world that once was shocked with the evolving nature of Cordyceps has been, once again, caught by surprise. A new and exceedingly rare creature has been rumored to be roaming the wastelands. An infection of unimaginable strength and resilience. Only a few have managed the impossible in spotting one of these creatures and living to report back about the encounter.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ These new creatures were given the name ‘Bloater’. Whether or not this creature was real, or just some local legend, people surviving outside the QZ’s had to take this new threat seriously. Based on word of mouth, these creatures were a composite type creature, made mostly out of pure Cordyceps. The fungus around the creature had completely converted the once human body into a now frightening monster, with near impenetrable armor made from the aged and dried fungus. The rumors that surrounded these Bloaters remained relatively consistent, with one common consensus involving them. If one is spotted, run the other direction. Do not stop running until you are far away from the bloater, and never return to its nesting grounds.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Beyond the looming threat of the newly discovered Bloater, life outside the QZ’s hasn’t changed much over the years. Raiders still roam the lands in search for easy targets to rob, cults forming across the nation worshiping one thing or another, though regardless of where one went one thing would always remain a constant. The world is anarchy. The civilized society that once spanned the globe is now isolated tribes fighting for the ability to stay alive.

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-# ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Act 3: Preface to Later Chapters

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ As time moves on, the world will adapt to any changes or threats that it may face. In the next chapter and the chapters to follow, these adaptations will be shared. Read along to learn about the stories of the world that humanity lives in, and hear the stories that unfold within. ((LINK TO GOOGLE DOCS))

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As the lore has been released we're now more stable and we're ready to accept more players! feel free to create a faction as well!

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https://discord.gg/tNBVKHUnuh

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@runic robin

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Le bump

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Join :)

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"Dang shawty you live like this?"

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Time for a barbecue NE_Fire

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