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| Background Plot Theory/Idea: Black Friday Ends the World; Not in the way you think or expect... | |
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| HVNSNTSOLDIER | Dec 3 2014, 10:55 PM Post #1 |
Coldheart
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This idea is about as close to modern setting as you can get, starting in 2014-2015 and going on from there, located mainly in the United States. It is also heavily based off/borrowed from the background from the game Tom Clancy's The Division with a few minor and major storyline tweaks here and there, just a forewarning if anything looks and sounds familiar. If you have any ideas to tweak, redact, or add onto the story, feel free to post and give your input! Thanksgiving has just ended, and everyone has been preparing themselves for weeks leading up to Black Friday's rush of urgent, fanatical shopping sprees. Millions of dollars are exchanged on this day, which is the perfect guise for an unforeseen threat. That day, a mass covert terrorist attack is implemented to spread a virulent biological weapon throughout the population through the medium of money, displaying symptoms similar to that of tuberculosis. Everyone who participated in the Black Friday sales was subject to infection, along with the exchanging and reuse of infected money back into the population through banks and other financial firms. Within days the virus spread across the country and began to crop up in other parts of the globe with fatal results. Society began to break down as the snow fell think and heavy that winter, the "winter vortex" broadcasts forecasting one of the worst winter seasons in US history. Locked away and nearly buried alive (in some cases literally) in their homes or wherever they could find refuge, the populace began to turn on each other for anything and everything they could obtain to survive. The government attempted to regain control and begin martial law nationwide to quell the rioting citizens and overabundance of violence. Research was conducted to find a mass-producible cure for the virus but it wasn't until the beginning of the spring season that it was completed and successfully administered to everyone via airborne drops and aerosol based "crop dusting" techniques to fill the air with breathable medicine. It worked, but there were mixed views and results of what happened in the aftermath of it's administration from survivors. There were reports of people going rabid, the medicine speeding up the effects of the virus rather than stopping them, people slowly drifting into a coma from hyper-depression, and many other varied symptoms. The truth was far darker than that. The cure did just as it was intended, it cured the people of the virus, but the effects of the virus had already changed the infected through it's months long exposure and incubation in them. The small traces of mutagens in the cure killed the virus off in the host, but the genetic and biological changes caused by both the virus and the cure intermingled with catastrophic effects. As of now there are four known outcomes to this change: -those who had no symptomes and were completely cured -those who had no effect and were completely immune -those whose genetics were rewritten by the virus and cure, but who lost most of their complex cognitive abilities, becoming nothing more than rabid animals in a human shell -those who were sent into a hyper-depression that slowly led them to slow and stop complex and even basic bodily functions like eating, sleeping and breathing. This eventually led to a coma where they would die from lack of physical and biological activity. From then on these new events drove the nation into complete anarchy and led to the fall of the US as we know it. From here it goes on as your typical PA setting would. |
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| mattblackgod | Dec 4 2014, 07:53 PM Post #2 |
Big boss warlord dude!
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Interesting background. |
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| Wiggles | Dec 6 2014, 08:49 PM Post #3 |
Super Mutant
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Is this a world event or is it contained in the US? Depending on the answer you could see a massively economically depressed EU desperately trying to maintain a Green Zone on the East Coast, while eyeing up a newly predatory Russia on its boarders. Maybe China makes a play to enforce its territorial claims? |
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| HVNSNTSOLDIER | Dec 7 2014, 03:43 AM Post #4 |
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Coldheart
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The outbreak begins in the United States, as that is the main focus of the Black Friday event commercially (correct me if I'm wrong in assuming EU has their own Black Friday), but spreads rapidly around the globe due to our modern methods of international travel and trade. Being the epicenter of the attack, the US is hit the hardest, but other countries would soon follow suit with weaker but still quite deadly outbreaks of their own. It's basically the story of an attack gone horribly wrong and working much more effectively than the creators have anticipated or even wanted. Once the virus's initial release has settled and takes on it's traditional form of host-to-host transfer, the threat dies down to a slightly more manageable level, but by this time so much damage and anarchy has ensued it would leave our modern infrastructure in shambles; irrevocably damaged but perhaps not completely broken and lost. This point in "history" would allow for surviving national factions to rebuild and conquer their territories again, and if they so choose to expand themselves through peaceful or (more likely) through force. |
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| Wiggles | Dec 7 2014, 09:11 AM Post #5 |
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Do remember to ask yourself, however, how much are people actually using cash these days? Isn't something like only 5% of money in circulation actually physical currency? Once it gets into the hands of Walmart, isn't it likely to be bundled up and taken to a bank with very little human contact? You're right actually, there are Black Friday events in the UK in pale imitation of the US tradition, but they're often a target of disdain. While they sometimes produce horrifying scenes and injuries, they haven't reached the homicidal orgiastic display of avarice and violence we see from the US. I can't speak for the continent, I assume they're far to civilised for such nonsense. And anyway, how many croissants does one man need? |
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| tinker | Dec 7 2014, 12:00 PM Post #6 |
CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries
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Good point Wiggles... |
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