Karshkovia
10-10-2008, 22:18
This is a signup thread for a character driven story. The basic story line is one of a science experiment gone wrong and is based on the Half Life 2 mod "THE HIDDEN". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_(computer_game)) The storyline revolves around the retrieval of an escaped research subject with the twist that the subject is highly agile, incredibly strong and nearly completely invisible
Background to this story is during the 1970's, soviet forces built a secret laboratory in a remote location in Karshkovia to study human genetics and use the knowledge for the military bio-weapons division. The scientists began working on DNA manipulation and discovered in their research humanity can not totally be accounted for in natural evolution. There are parts of the whole that leave questions as to what happened in the distant past. Those findings are shelved after a discovery that introducing certain combinations of DNA alterations within a single subject allows for the phenomenon of biological light refraction.
Through the years, criminals and dim-witted soldiers were used as test subjects to perfect the needed genetic alterations for a nearly invisible asassin. Military leaders, however were not satisfied with the results and demanded more than an invisible human. In the early 1990's, continued experiments allowed scientists to increased the skin's resistance to heat and cold, vastly increase muscle mass, and give a subject amazing agility. This was not a complete acheivement though as many subjects lost their lives or were driven insane by the irresponsible and immoral experiments.
Early into the new millennium, Karshkovia made a bid for and acheived independence from soviet rule. The laboratory was not shut down and experiments did continue on, though now funding came from soviet-placed spies in the Karshkovian military funneling money from various other projects. By 2004, these spies no longer were in power but the funding for the facility was already in place so work continued on without anyone in Karshkovias Government aware of what was happening. Soviet leadership also had no idea of this research as information on it had fallen through the cracks over the years since Karshkovia had broken away. In early 2006, subject number 921 arrived at the underground facility. Apart from the other previous subjects, subject 921 was a soldier of above-average intelligence and in excellent health. 921 had been taken/kidnapped from the military guard unit stationed at the site by desperate scientists and experiments on him lead to the first subject with all required traits but no defects which had caused the other subjects to die.
Our thread will begin just as excited scientists eagery transmit to the Soviet leadership that they have acheived success and now know how to create this new super-soldier. It takes many days before the old files are found and many more before the leadership is convinced of the importance of the findings. They immediately mobilize a team to recover the scientists, the research and Subject 921 from Karshkovia.
While this is happening, the transmissions are intercepted by other groups/nations who quickly understand what they are decoding in the transmissions and the potential for a windfall payment if they can auction the data off to the highest international bidders. Teams of independent (or national) soldiers/mercinaries set out to beat the soviet team to the prize. Other nations also have caught wind of this prize and sent their own teams to retrieve the data.
During this, the other military men posted at the facility learn of what the scientists have done to a fellow soldier, they attempt to confront and arrest the scientists. During the confrontation, the mercinary groups/soldiers arrive at the facility (though all teams enter the facility at different locations) and confusion sets in amoung everyone because not a single team knew or suspected that there would be other teams besides the soviets (and the soviets had no idea at all they were going to be fighting off other groups). All of the military guards posted at the facility are killed during the fighting.
A firefight breaks out among the teams and someone in-advertantly shoots a small propane tank and the resulting explosion stops the fighting for a time (while people recover their senses) and releases a pissed-off subject 921 from his holding cell. Taking a knife from a dead guard, subject 921 attempts to escape from the underground facility before the lab self-destructs. (Data on the subject, and scientists will be up for grabs though the real prize is the subject himself). The lab was designed to self-destruct with a low-yield nuclear device that would seal the lab but not break through to the surface if there was any breach of security and the subject escaped from his holding cell.
From this point forward, we will RP as the timer on the self-destruct slowly counts down and the subject 921 becomes not only the hunted, but the hunter.
What I am looking for is anyone who wishes to play the following roles:
3-4 National or Mercinary groups looking to obtain information on this genetic discovery.
1 Person to play the Soviet group
1 Person to play the Scientists (non military people but are extreamly smart and know the facility better than anyone. They can create improvived bombs, chemical agents, and use other failed experiments to ward off the other groups and to ward off "the hidden".)
I will play the hidden.
Anyone interested?
Background to this story is during the 1970's, soviet forces built a secret laboratory in a remote location in Karshkovia to study human genetics and use the knowledge for the military bio-weapons division. The scientists began working on DNA manipulation and discovered in their research humanity can not totally be accounted for in natural evolution. There are parts of the whole that leave questions as to what happened in the distant past. Those findings are shelved after a discovery that introducing certain combinations of DNA alterations within a single subject allows for the phenomenon of biological light refraction.
Through the years, criminals and dim-witted soldiers were used as test subjects to perfect the needed genetic alterations for a nearly invisible asassin. Military leaders, however were not satisfied with the results and demanded more than an invisible human. In the early 1990's, continued experiments allowed scientists to increased the skin's resistance to heat and cold, vastly increase muscle mass, and give a subject amazing agility. This was not a complete acheivement though as many subjects lost their lives or were driven insane by the irresponsible and immoral experiments.
Early into the new millennium, Karshkovia made a bid for and acheived independence from soviet rule. The laboratory was not shut down and experiments did continue on, though now funding came from soviet-placed spies in the Karshkovian military funneling money from various other projects. By 2004, these spies no longer were in power but the funding for the facility was already in place so work continued on without anyone in Karshkovias Government aware of what was happening. Soviet leadership also had no idea of this research as information on it had fallen through the cracks over the years since Karshkovia had broken away. In early 2006, subject number 921 arrived at the underground facility. Apart from the other previous subjects, subject 921 was a soldier of above-average intelligence and in excellent health. 921 had been taken/kidnapped from the military guard unit stationed at the site by desperate scientists and experiments on him lead to the first subject with all required traits but no defects which had caused the other subjects to die.
Our thread will begin just as excited scientists eagery transmit to the Soviet leadership that they have acheived success and now know how to create this new super-soldier. It takes many days before the old files are found and many more before the leadership is convinced of the importance of the findings. They immediately mobilize a team to recover the scientists, the research and Subject 921 from Karshkovia.
While this is happening, the transmissions are intercepted by other groups/nations who quickly understand what they are decoding in the transmissions and the potential for a windfall payment if they can auction the data off to the highest international bidders. Teams of independent (or national) soldiers/mercinaries set out to beat the soviet team to the prize. Other nations also have caught wind of this prize and sent their own teams to retrieve the data.
During this, the other military men posted at the facility learn of what the scientists have done to a fellow soldier, they attempt to confront and arrest the scientists. During the confrontation, the mercinary groups/soldiers arrive at the facility (though all teams enter the facility at different locations) and confusion sets in amoung everyone because not a single team knew or suspected that there would be other teams besides the soviets (and the soviets had no idea at all they were going to be fighting off other groups). All of the military guards posted at the facility are killed during the fighting.
A firefight breaks out among the teams and someone in-advertantly shoots a small propane tank and the resulting explosion stops the fighting for a time (while people recover their senses) and releases a pissed-off subject 921 from his holding cell. Taking a knife from a dead guard, subject 921 attempts to escape from the underground facility before the lab self-destructs. (Data on the subject, and scientists will be up for grabs though the real prize is the subject himself). The lab was designed to self-destruct with a low-yield nuclear device that would seal the lab but not break through to the surface if there was any breach of security and the subject escaped from his holding cell.
From this point forward, we will RP as the timer on the self-destruct slowly counts down and the subject 921 becomes not only the hunted, but the hunter.
What I am looking for is anyone who wishes to play the following roles:
3-4 National or Mercinary groups looking to obtain information on this genetic discovery.
1 Person to play the Soviet group
1 Person to play the Scientists (non military people but are extreamly smart and know the facility better than anyone. They can create improvived bombs, chemical agents, and use other failed experiments to ward off the other groups and to ward off "the hidden".)
I will play the hidden.
Anyone interested?