Saturday, June 30, 2018

Hybrids War - Session 00 #0

Characters' Introduction
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ITALY, APRIL 2018

In one year after the first brutal murder, others followed. Rome has been terrified for eight or nine months. Also, the Lazio suffered the terror of those monsters. All the journals and tv news talked about it. Legends like vampires and wolfmen were staying on everyone’s lips. In the night anyone stayed out until too late.

The population was divided into two factions: those who stayed with monsters and those who fought them for saving themselves and their families. In one year many families were exterminated.

Those who specialized in the area said that those new monsters hunted only vampires and lycanthropes and that they were themselves hybrids of the two races.

Suddenly the fans of the genre augmented and in some universities were born some specific courses. Most of the students attended these courses trying to understand how were born the hybrids. But the universities didn’t give any good information that would have lead the students to real answers…not directly, at least. The students were provided of all the tools they needed for doing research independently. Only the most gifted students could take the least evident tools. One of them, Christian, was a real well of passion. He constantly dedicated to the study and always obtained excellent marks. Was there something that attracted him, or had he been captured by the classical charm of the occult?

When he didn’t study at the university or at home, he went to the Colombo’s house huge library. And there he made friend with the landlord: a young man that received as an inheritance all that property from his deceased uncle. His name was Antonio and he came from a wealthy family. Antonio was a scholar of the occult, like Chris, but his capacities and his resources allowed him to study on his own, at home, in his library.

In the city there were other fans, who for work, who for hobby. In general, if they weren’t formally acknowledged, they didn’t expose themselves too much. The best places where to find those people were the Catacombs. Under Rome they extended for kms and after the appearing of the hybrids they became the home for hundreds of survivors. Virgilio was one of them. All those that were working with him in the souvenir shop near the Colosseum were dismembered a morning of the preview September. It would have been finished also for him if he wouldn’t have been in late.  Shocked because of that massacre, he grabbed some statuettes and took shelter at the Catacombs.

The event of that day increased the attention threshold. Some military forces were called to Rome for the safety of the city. Tony, a recalled soldier from the Middle East for the project “safe roads”, and his colleague Bepi, arrived exactly that day.

The Vatican increased its forces too with the Swiss Guards, even if any priests or others were targeted. Each guard has the job of protecting the Pope from the fiends, and that was well known by Hans.


The internet was another worrying place. It was the principal source of information, especially for those of the Militia that were always hunting those of the Resistance. Gabriele, called “the Rat”, was one of the best hackers that actively supported the Resistance. He couldn’t stand monsters that killed anyone came to shot…vampires and lycanthropes payed attention to it at least.

One day, all seven received a message from an unknown anonymous number that showed them a place and a time for a meeting.


TO BE CONTINUED...

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