Board Thread:Lores/@comment-29781728-20190510012612

In a military base off the Balkan Sea, experimentation was underway on a serum for a disease that had been swept under the carpet by most first-world governments. The disease had been decimating third-world countries for around half a year, and the mortality rate was 61% for those who went without treatment. Riots had begun breaking out in cities where the disease had become widespread, and even local military groups sent to control the riots had caught ill.

The funding and amount of manhours put into the cure was nothing to laugh at, but the extreme safety measures required to handle the disease significantly outweighed the influence of money. The disease wasn't airborne, but any contact with the body would have a 100% chance of infection. Over the course of a few months, scientists at the base had been able to isolate certain parts of the disease, and modify it to only be transmittable through fluids, significantly reducing the ease of infection.

Riots continued in afflicted countries, but foreign intervention had the situation relatively under control. That was until a group of smugglers somehow made it through three quarantine zones. Later investigation found that they had been escorted by a group of masked men, whose uniforms were unaffiliated with any known government.

The first case of the disease in a first-world city was two months after this incident in a New Bloxcoast office building, where one of the smuggled refugees had applied. Handshakes and hugs quickly spread the disease, and in its dormant state, it infected 78% of the town. Although this could have been prevented through proper government communication, the panic that would have resulted from uncovering the secret of the virus would have been far too severe, leading to the decision of the United Nations (vote 8 for, 2 against) to effectively sacrifice the town for the greater good.

In a desperate attempt to save around 468 thousand people, the United States' government demanded an early test of the serum. The Pinewood Corporation demanded more time, but when they heard of the news they regretfully provided a hundred thousand copies of the serum. The serum had been effective in tests to keep the virus in its dormant state, but to do so constantly supplied adrenaline and cortisol throughout the body, redirecting resources from the brain. All injected had to be kept hospitalized for around a week.

In a single day, all serums were injected. Seven more hours and all those infected would have died

It turns out that would have been the far more preferable outcome.

89 hours later, New Bloxcoast was burning.

The US government was completely unprepared for this, and only had a few hundred soldiers stationed near the city in the case of emergency - Pinewood had told them they had complete faith in the serum, as long as it was properly administered.

Years later, it was found that the adrenaline and cortisol boost stimulated not only the hypothalamus gland, but also hijacked the amygdala, causing extreme emotional instability - this coupled with the hypothalamus stimulation's hunger, led to extreme anger.

Coupled with the adrenaline boost and lax security, 100,000 inhumane, hungry, extremely vicious monsters were unleashed upon the town.

All citizens attempting to escape were torn apart, or trampled under the wave of gnashing teeth that had taken over the city, and those that died rose again.

Pinewood officially dubbed the modified virus "Subatomic Neurotic Infection", or SANI for short. Transmitted through contact with infected saliva or blood, the best way to kill the mindless infected was through a bullet through the head, atomic destruction through fire, or explosion.

Over the course of the week, the infected's numbers grew to somewhere over seven million, and with a sample size of that number, any vaccine would have unintended side effects. Certain infected were found to have been changing extremely fast - or more specifically, evolving.

The most dangerous example being a specimen nicknamed the "Tank". In these rare cases, the SANI had changed from adrenaline and cortisol production to adrenaline and testosterone production, creating a perfect monster, a pale, horrifying mass of muscle.

The SANI took over the continent. 