by slaughter beach, dog » Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:35 am
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The death toll climbed rapidly during the first few weeks after
the initial report about a mysterious new infection appearing in
hospitals around the country. Cities were placed under martial
law and those still alive and uninfected were corralled into zones,
where the order was kept by the military. The walls of Spokane's
Zone #17 were hastily built around a suburb away from the crum-
bling city. Life inside the zone is hard, as food is rationed, work
duty can be a gamble of life and death, and contagion officers
scan anyone walking through the checkpoints, but life outside a
zone is even harder.
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The lycan rabies virus, also known as the LYRA virus, attacks
many parts of the body, affecting the nervous system and rapid-
ly altering the metabolism of the infected. The virus is transmit-
ted through contact with infected bodily fluids, with the primary
method of contagion being a bite. The first symptoms appear
around two to five days after exposure. Many do not survive the
initial stages, and for those who do, the disease becomes pro-
gressive after the rapid first stage, where the most notable
changes are erratic moods, feverish body temperatures, and
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changes to the alpha-keratin of the infected (such as toughened
skin and claw-like fingernails). In this stage, the infection can
easily be diagnosed by shining a light in the eyes of the afflicted
due to the growth of a reflective membrane called the tapetum
lucidum. The second stage happens around a month after in-
fection and is referred to as "the feral stage". The infected lose
all higher brain function, becoming dangerous and aggressive.
There is no cure.
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When a group of friends from Zone #17 in Spokane sneak out and
into the feral-infested city for the night, they get attacked and
one of them is bitten. They hunker down, waiting for their friend
to lose her mind, but after six days, she doesn't show any signs
of infection. Thinking they got lucky, they attempt going back into
the zone through a checkpoint, but on the scanners, their friend
is marked as infected. They convince the contagion officer that
their friend is asymptomatic by showing them the bite, and the
officer tells them about a rumoured group in the Pacific Coast,
more specifically Port Angeles. The Fireflies, who are still looking
for a cure, and their friend might be the key to finding it. They
must travel across Washington to the Olympic Peninsula, avoid-
ing the ferals and the military that is no longer looking for a cure.
