In the year 2230, an unmentionable event happened, a third world war broke out. No-one seen it coming as the Russian dictator Pavel Bobrov tried to do what every dictator before him had tried and that was to become the sole leader of the world. However the other world leaders wouldn't roll over and give him what he wanted so easily and so mounted a defence against his invasion. As in previous world wars the general public of the world where only given pieces of what was going on and never knew the whole story. Then the unthinkable happened, virus's where released. It had been the one thing that everyone had feared, but no-one ever thought they would ever be stupid enough to have done it.

Fifteen years have now passed since the nuclear holocaust and the plagues release, even to this day no one knows who released the first plague or even the first missile. All anyone knows is we are the ones who survived and no one is safe. There are two plagues that people now know off 'The Siren's Whisper' which is believed to be airborne and 'Submerged Ripple' which is believed to be in the water. At first people thought there was a new type of cold and and increase in those with mental illness so no-one took much notice... How wrong we where, and it was far to late... to do anything.

Those who had contracted 'The Siren's Whisper', soon banded together with people who they said 'thought the same as them', but this was the worse thing they could do as the plague spread, murder and mayhem soon followed within small conclaves of these 'like minded people'. Those unfortunate enough to have contracted 'Submerged Ripple' where in for a year of excruciating pain eventually ending in an agonizing death, never to be buried for fear of contracting the same illness.

It has been documented that because of the war, countries like Japan and the United Kingdom have been wiped off the map as have any other island like country and are destined to become myths like Atlantis. Countries like Australia and China are half gone, either blown to smithereens or submerged because of massive tidal waves. Some countries seem to have been lucky enough not get to much geological damage but who knows what lies beneath that fragile surface.

Technology has become wonky in the years following the war, many seem to have grown in intelligence, some even claim to have a souls. Though there are those who are rusted, falling a part and despise their former Human masters for as they claim 'abandoning them'.

This story begins in what once was the metropolis of Chicago. It looks nothing of it's former self, building turned to ruins, bodies, some still decaying, around every corner. It is definitely not a safe place for any living being to be, but it still has many resources that haven't been touched in years. The city used to be one of the highest on the US map for radiation levels, but in the past year it has dwindled down to zero.

Air virus AKA The Siren's Whisper

Released by:
America

Kind of virus:
Psychological

Symptoms:
These may vary depending on the subject; Examples however are memory lose, OCD, ADD, god syndrome, paranoia, multiple personality disorder to name a few.

Known Mutation in the Virus: None


Water Virus AKA Submerged Ripple

Released by:
Russia

Kind of virus:
Physical

Symptoms (in order):

Hot and cold flushes
Itchiness
Spots
Hives/Rash
Forming into a sunburn that covers the complete body
Sunburn then cracks revealing blood boils
Skin peeling
Rotting flesh
The muscle slowly disintegrating as this is happening the bone is becoming more and more brittle
Bones start breaking and the organs start deteriorating
Any muscle left becomes discolored
Lapses in memory
Minor paralysis
Then a vegetable
Death

Known mutations of the Virus: none