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Darkseed:Asphyxia:
Skyborn were the children of the Parasite God; known as the Darkseed.
From the heavens they fell in a rain of onyx and jet, bathed in atmospheric blaze like the blackened tears of a fallen angel. As they crashed down and pierced the earth’s flesh, thin black tendrils began to spread from each Seed, burrowing deep into the life-bearing soils of our world.
Over the course of many months each fallen seed began to sprout into tiny buds which bloomed gloriously in bursts of orange and red. Beautiful and pleasant they were as their discovery puzzled the local population by which they were found. A few inquisitive individuals decided to experiment with the medicinal properties of this plant while others tested its culinary possibilities, determined to profit from their new discovery. Both of these groups came to the startling conclusion that this plant had healing properties far beyond that of honey, though individuals reported experiencing a vast array of pleasant smells and tastes including vanilla, Cinnamon, rosemary, and honey itself.
As the miraculous range of uses of this plant became widespread knowledge, the flowers were uprooted by profit-seeking corporations and re-planted in select locations across the globe. These plantations were not able to function without the presence of a Darkseed though, so too were they uprooted and moved as well. Their black roots were spread again, as the flowers bloomed anew. Proud of their conquest, Men grew complacent and assumed the darkseeds were a divine gift... Oh, how wrong they were.
Slowly they began to asphyxiate all life within the crash sites and plantations as their twisted tendrils destroyed entire forests and strangled their wild inhabitants for the Seed to consume. Brown soil transformed to ashen gray and both stalk and leaf were blackened by the Seed’s plague-like rot.
(1)Flowers bloom, hypnotizing beauty, sickly sweet scent, entranced animals and humans alike
2) Humans discover and harvest for exquisite taste and smell, make plantations.
3) Flowers found to be extremely parasitic and warned that they will destroy other plantlife. Humans ignore warning, continue planting for profit.
4) Begin to create vast plantations of flowers, re-planting fallen Seeds and populating Seed-laden areas.
5)Humans begin to fall under mysterious sickness. Loss of concentration, dizziness, dehydration, fever, Immune system weakens, inner mouth, nails, tongue, skin, eye discoloration, hair loss, blindness, nerve-system failure, necrosis and death.(In that order)
6) Seeds found to be dangerously radioactive and made of unknown substances(highly complex crystalline form, partially organic).
7)Humans found to be infected with unknown disease, begin to die en masse. Survival chance: 0%.
A small number of infected seem to be immune, genetic makeup permanently changed and adapted by infection. Afflicted regions are quarantined, survivors are examined to ensure that infection is not active.
9) Apparently, infection is stabilized within survivors, and functions as a sort of biochemical recycling factory, aiding in waste removal, oxygen intake, nervous reaction, eyesight, cerebral communication, etc. To general populace, all infected are declared dead, quarantined cities are firebombed, and outbreak is eliminated. Life goes on as usual.
10) Secret experimentation done on survivors, in order to extract source of genetic change. Modified DNA spliced with human genes in various experiments, first on jailed criminals and the insane, and once stabilized, on select soldiers; human adaptive gene treatment created. So begins the ascent of Disolatus, the beginning of the end for Humanity.)
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