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In the year 2017 two unholy creatures clashed, beings of unbridled power capable of destroying reality with their battle. As the two titans clashed the final time their twisted bodies scattered to the winds. Body and blade of god-like creatures cast apart to curse the earth.

Years passed as the curse poisoned humanity. Technology sprang forth by leaps and bounds, the humans compensating for the destruction they had caused. However the power of the two dark beings had already taken their toll. Mankind fell in the year 2020, the presence of evil had mutated the most of the humans into monsters. War scarred the earth as the otherworldly malevolence pierced the minds of man and set them against each other.

By 2045 the wars has ceased however the damage had been done, though mankind still existed the earth had become an unforgiving terrain filled to the brim with raiders, monstrous creatures and new species that had never been seen before. The relentless domain of earth was a lawless wasteland.

Now the year is 2070. What was left had become both a fantastic and horrid hellscape. Man's greed having consumed the globe with magic and technology intertwined. However, there is a legend that could save us all. A whisper told only amongst the most quiet of circles; for none were brave enough to speak out against the powers that be. A tale of madness that speaks of those who may reunite the godly beings. Binding them within the shards of their forgotten blades. The journey shall be fraught with ruin and pain. Tread carefully ye seekers of the dark ones, lest their minions, the government and even those you call friend stand in your way.
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Midian was the city of monsters. It was an isolated place. Approaching the town named Midian it looks to be yet another abandoned mining settlement of the far north. On the other side of a slight rise lies the cemetery, a complex of tombs at least as large as the town itself, massively larger than a town of Midian’s size could ever have required. It is under the cemetery that the true city of Midian exists. There are two access points, a large double gate facing the town and a small side gate on another wall. Inside there were tombs and crypts of every size and style. Built by the Nightbreed that were the residents of the city. Unfortunately, most of it was destroyed in an assault by local law enforcement and residents.

Midian is a city of endless night. No one is exactly sure how the dark clouds came to be over head. Some say it is the cause of heavy pollution from the city. Others say it’s an after effect of the war. Still more claim that the clouds are natural to the area. What is known, however, is that the cloud cover provides for the city to constantly be in a state of total darkness. Only the city lights brighten the world, and without them, the city falls into pitch.

The water surrounding Midian is rumored to be toxic, though there are also serious debates on if that is true or not. Some cite that the labs, hospital, and obviously poor condition of the sewers would make the ocean around Midian unwelcoming to any life. There are also ideas that the ocean has ways of cleaning those toxins out. The general agreement is that it’s probably best not to risk it.

The parks and outer limits of Midian hold a variety of wild life. Though the wooded areas seem small they host a variety of deer, wolves, moose, bear, and other small animals that would be common to thicket areas.

Midian City
xx/xx/2070

"History is written by the victor," says the fool.

The puppet-masters know better. People of power in a level above government and religion, so deep in the darkest of shadow cabals that their names will never be spoken, pulling the strings of the world, have written history.

In the end, it turned out that the Constitution was nothing but paper, flaking away into dust under the influence of the string-pullers. The United States saw its borders bleed into Canada and Mexico until North America was fused together. Rather than be obliterated, Central American countries sought refuge in this powerful union. Corporations fought amongst each other to digitalize and sanitize the new North American Union, lulling mainstream culture into a satisfied hum.

Complacent.

Successful.

With the rest of the world struggling under the weight of its people, other Unions formed. European. African. Asian. Corporations swept in, wrapping around the governments until there was no air between the rule of law and the rule of cash. A few lands held out: Australia, and the South American countries.

Our puppet-masters began to come together as they had always planned, creeping forward from their hiding places in major corporations. The stage was nearly set for their ultimate goal, a whole world government, a World Union.

Careful as the string-pullers had been, the unification process was not instant. The World Union's seizure of resources and tight control of economies sowed the seeds of dissent. Citizens were micro-chipped for identification, and personal freedom disappeared. Many would not fight back, choosing to immerse themselves in the comfortable society created by advancing technology.

Many others chose rebellion. They refused to unify under the banner of the World Union, working desperately through diplomacy before they turned to violence. The World Union smiled on these people, those who had played their role so perfectly.

Turning to the mega-corporations who had made so much of their reign possible, the same businesses now struggling due to the rebellion, the World Union proposed a silent deal. The mega-corps would wage war on the rebels, and when the World Union had complete control, they would be rewarded. Their efforts would not be limited by human rights or decency, and for those efforts, they would be given complete control of the market. Money flowed as never before.

World War III lasted ten years.

The rebels were wiped out from most cities, fleeing into the wastelands left by the war. Technology expanded exponentially, especially in the areas of cybernetics and bioengineering. Human genes were spliced with that of animals to create hybrids, a new breed of slave labor. Millions died, and when the World Union asserted itself in the name of peace, humanity greeted the new world order with open arms.

The World Union and its mega-corps settled into their new roles quickly, with one mega-corp rising quickly to the top. Called the Union Aerospace Corporation, this corporation held much of the spoils of the war. The UAC became known for its ruthless efficiency and practicality as they pushed for more control; slowly the UAC swallowed up many of the other mega-corps until it provided everything from food and medicine to hybrids and weapons. The puppeteers who had put together the World Union, now known as the WU, found their own strings pulled by the UAC. Soon, the WU found themselves ruling in name only, dancing on the line of the UAC.

That newfound global peace has disappeared. Terrorists and rebels are rising up once more, and it doesn't take much to see yourself named public enemy number one. Upper-class citizens comfort themselves with their constantly evolving toys and bodies. The unlucky ones flee the constant presence of the World Union and UAC. They pull their microchips, or escape labs and slavery, or simply run as far as they can.

Among the scattered "free towns," one city stands apart, on an island just off the coast of what used to be British Columbia. Midian City is vastly larger and vastly more varied than the others, fed by a steady diet of rebels, escapees, and criminals. Considered too much of a shithole by the World Union to be either useful or dangerous, the people of Midian manage to find some version of freedom.

The city has expanded and been blown apart during its existence, gaining and losing people and land. Current citizens whisper of a military city named Leviathan, of swampy wastelands, of ruins named Apocalypse, closely guarded by the UAC; all of which are now lost. Midian still claims its freedom, even as the World Union forces the presence of a mayor, funds a police department, and bombs whatever place they see fit. Runaways and criminals continue to flood in, seeking relief from the outside world in the worst of all places.

"History is written by the victor," says the fool.

Midian knows better.
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Hell held no surprises for the Karn, he'd seen it on the faces of his people; the inhabitants of the dismal last free city. Their scarred and weary faces weathered with the stress of life under constant siege by not only your enemies but even those you had come to trust who would sell you out for pocket change. Midian, the last glowing ray of hope to the weary, was truly a cesspool of disgust and putridity. Gambling halls and bars on every street, prostitutes and junkies littering the sidewalk around every corner, drug dens spanning whole tenements and run by the various mafia groups that had set up shop in the bustling ruin they called freedom. Freedom to pay the Union to live, to feed the corporate monster regardless of their efforts. Freedom to live outside their rule while their monopolies bankrupt our people. She's a beautiful city in how confidently hideous she is.

Extros wove through the packed streets, the sprawling structures and buildings of the city blotting out the very sun with the haphazard constructs shading the street level completely in the attempt to compensate the overpopulation that had begun as more naive refugees fled to the doomed concrete hellscape. Ex adjusted the mask he wore to disguise his distinctive Karnethian features as he made his way to the bar of his mentor, Old Tom. The neon glow washed over him as Extros rounded the corner to the dingy pub and he went inside. The bell chimed above the door as Extros walked though and the aged barkeep slowly turned then gestured at him to step to the bar.

"You know that last job barely got me any credits Tom, what's with the slow run lately? You know I can handle more than this and keep giving me this garbage, what's going on?" Extros grunted at his teacher and pulled the mask away.

"Yeah, I know, but what do you expect when they want the victims of one of your bounties to talk and you weld their jaw shut again?" Tom snapped, his salt and pepper mustache bristling, "You don't get jobs because you're reckless and sloppy!"

"That was one time and it wasn't a bounty... That one was personal..." He muttered

"One time or twelve times it's still too far Ex! Lucky for your brainless ass I have a plan to keep you in line." Tom sneered at Extros, grinning almost maliciously "You've been drafted boy, the hunter's guild wants us to put together a unit for special missions and since your solo act keeps ending with unnecessary force they can keep an eye on you instead of me having to cover your ass!"

Extros sat quietly across the bar, not daring to interrupt the old man's tirade while his face sunk lower and lower with each word Tom spoke. For his entire 11 year career Extros had never even fathomed outside help on a job let alone babysitters to make sure he didn't get too rough with them, the concept alone baffled the Karn as he attempted to discern what had prompted such ridiculous efforts to keep him in line! His astonishment quickly faded to anger as realization set in, black veins began to creep across the sclera of his eyes as he attempted to restrain himself from his kind's inherited rage. Finally after a long moment of silence he spoke.

"Fine but if they aren't up to the job they go back to clean up duty like you've been running me the past few weeks."



Tom nodded and Extros turned away from the bar, glancing up at the advertisement board, sure enough there posted as of three days prior was a flashing guild notorized listing on the dusty old screen with his name neatly scrawled on the projection. Turning from the board he scanned the room, attempting to seek out potential candidates that seemed as though they would sign up.

"Glass of scotch if you would please Tom," Extros called out without taking his eyes off the acquired crowd,"and keep 'em coming, I might be here a while and so help me if a single piece of ice touches my glass I'm shoving the nearest pool cue up someone's nose."

(Later that night a particularly obnoxious patron did get the pool cue up the nose but no one ruined his scotch, the guy was just a dick and felt up a waitress.)
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(At the same time just a few blocks from the same bar Ex resides) "fuck it's gotta be my birthday i cant believe this shit I have to ditch another hide out just because these fucking slow proxies" Espio gripes to him self in a mostly abandoned warehouse. cold cement floors and solid steel walls covered by an array of what seemed to be ragtag hastily built computers all streaming what would look like random assortments of number to the untrained eye. Espio reaches for a red switch on the walls kicking a rat that happened to be passing by. "well time to blow this place to hell and ditch the heat of the authorities." He flips the swith with now a cold expression and walks to the exit as the numbers turn from random to a count down from 120 seconds. "I need a drink i can treat myself I guess." He pulls his cloak over his horridly scared body grabbing his bug out stash from the dumpster her walks down the road. as the count down hits zero the walls lined with computers erupt with fire as his set charges do their job and destroy any evidence that he was there. He continues down the street reaching the bar that Ex is currently drinking at slinking in trying as hard as possible to not draw attention to himself until he speaks to the bar keeper " May i please have two glasses of whiskey on the rocks?" As he sits at the end of the bar furthest from any other being in the bar.
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“God damn it,”
His voice carried through the underground terrain of Midian. A thick heavily chemical smell began leaking from the table he was working at. He quickly jumps back as the liquid nearly splashes around his front side. Another failure to accomplish what he was so desperately attempting to recreate. He begins to shake his head as he raises a hand over the surgical table in front of him, screws began to replace themselves, and metal seems fused together once more as if being joined by some manner of cold fusion. The chemical reagent begins to scorch through the top layer of the metal structures. He needs to find some sort of way to neutralize its corrosive nature, while also being able to trigger such a reaction when he so desired.

He pulls out a torque wrench and gets back to work. He would have to find another sample of the sludge elsewhere. There was a rather large abundance of it after the event so many years ago, though as time seemed to pass moment from the moment it either was absorbed, or seemingly vanished. A task on its own was finding a way to keep it from absorbing into any sort of containment vessel. He had been forced to seek out biological tissue in which to harvest ample sources of this resource. So far he stuck to what small vessels he could, rats, vermin, and other smaller beings as he was not quite ready to use a large scale sample. He had been very much interested in the effects he witnessed it have over living tissue when it interacted with it.

The first couple times he had tried to create a stable subject for this ooze it resulted in almost instantaneous death, a few moments relative to the amount of exposure; it either rotted away or left a puddle of larger ooze. It took him some time to figure out how it was he could keep such small things alive for long enough time to justify his expenditure. He turned to small bits of junk he had accumulated from prior experiments. He needed to create a way in which he could force the body to take on traits of the sludge for long enough that it would serve as a means of holding. What he managed to do however was merely prolong the inevitable. Regardless of the mechanical enhancements and cybernetic augmentations, he placed upon the vessels, after a prolonged period they too were overcome reaching the same end. He then turned to cryogenics, a crude, and very cheaply accessed resource. It seemed that under the right circumstances the sludge became somewhat easier to manipulate. Though still, the same interaction occurred it merely prevented this from occurring for a few days to a week at most. He had just wasted however his last vessel for the sludge.

“Time to catch some more rats,”
He picks up Fract’chur and Ska’ar off of the side of the workbench and starts making his way out of his small makeshift experiment room, upon exiting the doorway he hits a rather larger button to the left of the doorway marked “Purge” a liquid much similar to foam begins to fall from the ceiling and coats the entire expanse of the room before the material begins to vibrate and interact within. Once the oxygen within was depleted, It begins to ignite and sterilize the entire room’s facility. The compound was designed specifically to target bio-organic reagents, while not hindering the structures of the mineral-based resource. As he walks his way through the stuffed underbelly of the Unuako’s facilities he pulls out a small box from his pocket only to twist the top sector of it open enabling a receiver to flip upward.

“Activate Dreadnaut, Override code ϴגⰂ (theta gimel vede)”
A grinding sound is heard from a couple of doors over, followed by a revving noise then by a distinct stomping that was very rhythmic. He approached the sound and keys in the respected code to access the door only to then place his gear on a small stand in the center of a mechanically crowded room. He seats himself in front of the small stand and begins latching himself into place. A small monitor lights up at eye level and he smirks, there was a disturbance in sector five in the known mutant district of the sewers. Due to its proximity to the tavern or bar, it seemed like a very likely area for him to find sources of the sludge he so desperately was trying to weaponize. He set the destination coordinate in and allowed the mapping interface to do the rest. He places his hands upon the screen in front of him and places the Etz Hada’as into the console as a sort of key before he depresses the central point of it. The room around him begins to spin as it very much became gyroscopic. Like a circus attraction, one commonly sees people spinning in; yet this one was made of several rings all spinning in different directions ranging in the overall shape of a vessel from that of a sphere to a wheel turned upon its side. The small stand puls itself in and over top of the seat in which Anigmus placed himself only to lock over him somewhat like a turret. He had no need or reason to manually drive the standard-issue Dreadnaut, and so he allowed it to take him where he programmed it too.

“Well Fuck a ferret and call him meat slinky,”
He whistles to himself as he gets to the brutal scene of the crime.
There was a ripe stench to the place, the murder was not very fresh, but among the corpses, he finds traces of the sludge he so desired to acquire more of, though seeing as these corpses were already dead they gave him no such luck. He notices a scurrying very close by and watches a rather large rat make its way out of a local sewage pipe only to run up to where an eye would have been only to begin hungrily burrowing into the skull of the male mutant’s corpse. He shakes his head and releases the latches holding him in the chair before removing the cube from its console immediately following his gear. The Dreadnaut begins taking itself back through the long maze of sewage lines until it reaches back to its home. He lifts Fract’chur and brings it down upon the mutant’s skull shattering it, the detonation caused was enough to crack the ground under it and drive the rat which surprisingly had burrowed out of the skull into a large divot of the ground, he did this to fracture the earth and pipes underneath the dead in hopes of finding what he so desired, though what he found was nearly an unusable amount. The limbs of the rat began to rot away as it touched the small drops of sludge and he shook his head.

“Fucking fuck shit fuck fuck shit Fuck!”
He had to work fast before someone heard the commotion and came to investigate. Evidently he chose to follow the closest sewer pipe to a ladder which led to a drainage pipe directly in the storage room below the bar of Old Tom's pub. A hungering for drink seized his throat and so Anigmus felt the need to be advantageous in this newish setting.{Rolled 93/100} In truth the stockrooms of many establishments have always been a target of the Unuako especially those with limited, or no means of anti-theft, or security systems. Looking around he sees several large barrels full of choice drink, but keeps moving. It would be very difficult to transport something of such size and so he takes a moment to search for something a bit smaller. He winds up locating four-one-gallon bottles of unlabeled drink with a thick layer of dust upon them. They had obviously been sitting there, for how long was anyone's guess. In other circumstances he would have dropped the bottles down into the drainage pipe once more, but due to the disturbance he created prior it was not a likely location to filch via. He removes the stopper from one of the gallons and begins to slam it as he makes his way to the span of stairs leading up from behind the bar-top into the main stockroom. His aided vision made him aware of the basic floor-plan of the building, a basic electric fueled pre-war architecture. As he pushed the door open and entered the main stockroom he would have nearly emptied a single bottle of vintage liquid. He tracked the movements of those in the main room of the bar, daring a brief glance around to view the patrons and precisely where it was the barkeep was. When the opening arose and the Barkeep as well as Extros turned their backs to the bar. Anigmus would act pulling up a hood to obscure his multiple eyes; he would lithely make his way out of the stockroom. Luckily for him it wouldn't be after some time that the drink he enjoyed would begin to have an effect. This also served a bit of a inconspicuous disguise as he might be able to pass as a drunk patron if no one looked to closely at him. It was not very common for an Unuako to come to the surface during the day. He drunkenly begins to stumble around before half falling and half sitting in a chair directly opposite Ex.

"Yer fhekken Ugly mate, fucking look like colorless dogshit, 'oo d'fek you fhink you iz, Ifz Ey idn't know no bet'r i swear mi mum you'z a mirror, but Evenz I'z aint that fhekken ugly mi finks. Clear as day yer livs a fhek shyt ball of dick scum, 'ere Drink wiff me ye alf-ded alf moo-tated gurz-boog' summ tin jerm 'et sum cul'r d'ye 'kin" It became evident that as he spoke the substance he consumed began its intended effect of inebriating Anigmus. He punctuated his decree of introductions and pleasantries with intentionally grabbing Ex's cup dumping it upon the ground and over-filling it with the remainder of the bottle he nearly chugged to empty. Anigmus's Ska'ar (A hollow tipped ballistic modified rifle,) would rest across his lap while his massive maul Frakt'Chur would sit just across his back. It was likely Anigmus might have gotten offended if Ex didn't drink, but that was considering he was capable of sustaining his level of conscious awareness needed to stay vertical.

"Yer Fhookkun ugly" he would punctuate as his begins to slump over on the table, obviously direly inebriated.


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