Board Thread:Lores/@comment-35523327-20190510214823

so yeah, this is my entry. sorry for bad grammar and sorry if you dont like long ones. yes, some of it was based off of the maze runner but shhhh. I tried to make it historically accurate and realistic. if you find something wrong please tell me

story
in August 18th, 1971, a patient from a remote village in South Africa was carried into a hospital on a stretcher with leather straps holding him down. the man being held was struggling and looked as though he may break the straps any second. the struggling individual in question had a normal skin tone with a green tint and was said to have mutilated himself. he was extremely strong and said to have taken two armed men to strap him down onto a stretcher (further proven after being taken off of the stretcher where there showed severe scarring but no reaction). amongst hearing of this strange human, scientists and world renowned doctors from around the world flocked to see this spectacle of an unnamed disease, never seen before by men. Scientists studied this specimen and observed as the man-thing grew stronger. the project was called "Project SANI" (Superhuman, Anthropomorphic Naturalization of an Indisposition). The project was classified information and was around during the MKUltra program.

Further studies showed that it was actually a contagious disease that upon getting will eat away at the brain, reducing its host into an irrational, bloodthirsty species of subhuman with no ability to think. Upon learning this, the specimen was quickly transported from a psychiatric institute to a center of disease control where the "zombie" as it was called now was isolated 24/7 and given the name PPFTQ13-49D or "Craig". Its only human interactions were quick ones where it was fed regularly. Craig would remain entire silent, sometimes staring at absolutely nothing until its feeders came where it would become agitated and wild. Craig had a large appetite and would eat literally anything given to him but preferred flesh of any once living being; animal or human) Scientists believed that if they could isolate and tame the disease, that they could create a race of human super soldiers. During the closing days of the project, scientists figured out that the virus would damage parts of the brain so much to the point where its nervous system would be completely destroyed, enabling him to feel no pain. Dr. Chezhekov Makarovich, a Russian-American who immigrated from Russia during Communist rule spearheaded this project. One day, while observing the patient zero, Craig attacked him. His bodyguards were able to fend the zombie off with some difficulties but left a scratch on Makarovich's arm. Thinking nothing really of it, he treated the scratch with alcohol and gauze. His colleagues described him like this afterwards: "The Doctor would experience mood swings and would be paranoid often thinking that somebody or thing was out for him"

The affects of the SANI virus slowly started to take course near the closing years of the experiment. Makarovich was sullen very often which was very much in contrast to his often cheerful mood. He was put in an isolation chamber immediately on his own insistence saying that it was for the greater good and would protect him from "Darl". he never described who Dark was but was most likely a hallucination he had during what survivors of the outbreak now call "The Changing". Upon his time isolated, he took up painting and would depict horrifically gruesome scenes of death and a dark figure who could only be assumed to be "Darl" Although Darl was portrayed as Makarovich's tormentor, it seemed as though it was his only friend at times, even stating that Darl was the only one who seemed to understand him. He became increasingly pale due to how little sunlight he received in contrast to Craig who had been exposed to sunlight a lot before being taken in. Later, Makarovich would take the scenes of violence to the next level and would mutilate himself, cutting out his own larynx with just his hands, leaving a gaping hole in his throat. He appeared unfazed and could no longer speak. A scientist Katie Atkinson suggested the idea that him and Craig be put together in a larger room to observe the outcome. As soon as the two were placed in the same room after lots of fighting and struggling, their eyes fell upon each other and instantly fought. By the end of the fight which lasted 5 full hours and was extremely gruesome with Makarovich's right ear being ripped off and 4 of Craig's fingers and entire leg from the knee and under being ripped off and eaten. Craig submitted to Makarovich and formed an alliance bent on escaping. after several failed attempts which resulted in what was left of Craig's brain to be bashed in, the scientists and doctors were horrified. The two patients were euthanized and the project closed and was deemed an ultimate failure. The world would never know about these horrific tests and all records of it. The project only lasted 2 years and was ended around the same time as MKUltra, both being a failure and was never heard of again.

That was until 2042 where the impoverished nation of Liberia had a sudden outbreak of this obscure disease. at first thinking to be a sudden increase in depression due to the symptoms of being sullen and self mutilation, it was thought nothing of. When the afflicted who were exposed to many hours of sunlight developed a green pigmentation, disease control experts were sent over, one of them, leading the unit was a 93 year old Katie Atkinson on the verge of retiring. seeing the sight of the disease that was thought to be eradicated filled her with horror and soon told her men to leave the area now. This would have been nice except for the fact that a young 24 year old male who just started the job was a little too curiuos and was jumped by a group of young, green men. The lad was slashed with a knife (which was already stained crimson with another Liberian's blood) and beat up multiple times until his comrades found him in an alleyway and shot all four Liberians who were in the early stages of the virus dead on the spot. The young male was transported to America and was patched up. thinking nothing of the Liberians other than a group of boys who were desperate, we went back to his family. The disease was spread and people were cowering in fear.

As the horrible experiments were unknown to most, except for what remained of the scientists part of Project SANI, the disease went by many names including "The green death", "Hell-pox", "The Flare" (taken from popular sci-fi series "The Maze Runner") and more laughably "kys its already over". Partially blaming herself for these deaths and suffering from PTSD from the horrible conditions and treatments she put the afflicted under in the 70s, she was regularly haunted by visons of the pair. In 2043, a year after the initial outbreak, she swallowed a cyanide pill and fell into an endless sleep. She left a note with a code and the words SANI. further research into a government database, they read files from the project and even stumbled upon a diary written by Makarovich himself. it is unknown what the code is but many speculate that it may be a code to purge the virus. Those who survive cling to the hope that there was such thing under development but its highly doubted... 