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E. Von Todüberbringer’s Facility for Secluded Education
The plot may be a bit long, you can skip everything in italics without missing anything important, it is just there for people who want to know more than they need to know, the rest you may get away with just skim reading… Just whatever you do please don’t the title make you expect this to be a school type RPG because it is not.
Long ago demons walked the Earth, bringing only death and destruction, they were a force of unimaginable power, a force desiring dominion over our world, over us humans. We almost became nothing more than their slaves, their live stock, and in some cases their only means of procreation, the wars demons had against other demons just because they were of a different species did a lot more damage than just their occupation, but somewhere in this world of darkness a single man refused to give up, and unlike the others who tried to fight the demons he managed to do some damage, not much but still enough to give his death meaning, a lot more meaning than his life could of ever had in such a world, he became a nameless hero and an example of how we had to fight for our freedom…
At first the fight against demons seemed like an impossible struggle, the demons seemed unbeatable as they were stronger than we were and few would join our cause, thus we were greatly out numbered, though we fought on, hoping for a miracle.
We got it, a second hero arose, showing us how to find weaknesses to each species of demon, how to use their sources of… magic, for a lack of a better word. Few were able to use magic, those who could each used it quite differently than others, something that seemed like a terrible disadvantage, though much later we realised it was a blessing in disguise.
As we then quickly pushed the demons back, sending many back to whatever world they came from, other, more friendly magical creatures started to appeared, tapping into the magic left behind by the demons, though at that stage we payed little attention to them, even the ones that helped us got little respect. We drove them all into one last area, with all the different species of demons in one area we expected them to kill each other, but they did the most unexpected thing, they chose to work along side each other and what we expected to be a quick final battle because a battle that lasted several months… technically we won, but the cost was high, some demons of certain species managed to flee, though it is hard to say why we didn’t just stop and celebrate there.
We turned our eyes to the other magical creatures, seeing only potential enemies and exploitable sources of power. We proceeded to wipe them out too, our attacks against them forced them to become either elusive or violent, and we even started to use magic against each other. We should have noticed that though the magic was contained within the world we could not directly access it, it had to pass through demon or spirit first, maybe then we wouldn’t of drove away our power… maybe we would of done anyway just to see if it was true. Now it has almost faded away, the little that remains for us to use seems to say that there is still something left, a few demons or spirits…
The problem is those of us who are left are very few in number, and one day the demons will return and they will know to work together to beat us, once they arrive we will no longer have anytime to prepare, if we still need to rally the rest of humanity to our cause when the demons come, it will be too late, also those demons still here probably are gathering intelligence for the up coming invasion. Here we gather on this nameless island, here we put our plans in to action to secure our victory against the demons when they return. Yes those demons whom remain will probably come here to stop us if they find out what we are doing, and it is a certainty that some will find out, maybe they will not be able to contact enough of the other to be able to beat us, even if they do there will still be hope for another to finish what we have started…
There is an island isolated enough with it’s rough coast line and unpredictable, powerful storms in the surrounding ocean (yet few ever affecting the island itself), that no civilisation had even made even a small town on it despite of it’s size and resources, except for a small cult, that is until now…
The super rich, yet seemingly unheard of, Mr E. Von Todüberbringer planned and funded an experimental educational facility to be built on the island, claiming that the idea of complete isolation from all outside modern distractions would probably make learning far easier. Of course there was some opposition, just a few people concerned with the wild life there, though the species aren’t that different than those elsewhere, and the archaeologists wanting to study ruins of what appeared to be a cult that was once there, but that was sorted by pointing out how the facility would work in harmony with the environment, that the ruins could be used to help teach archaeology, and, when all else failed, the waving of wads of cash solved what remained of the problems.
The Facility was up and running in no time, it worked sort of like a boarding school and students who came stayed for the whole year, though the fact that it was impossible, except in the most dire of emergencies, to contact the outside world, even the top of the line computers there do not have access to the internet, made it quite different from anywhere else. The facility taught almost everything, though sports weren’t taught, exercise was encouraged with the nature walks which were required to get to archaeology sites and to study the wildlife. Every year more students are invited to come, every year it gets closer to reaching the number of students it was built for.
A small group of students have been invited from your town this year; amazingly enough you were one of those students, though this group are not the only ones going you will still be staying in a room near those of your group, well with those of your group who are of the same gender. When you arrive there is no time to socialise with anyone out side the group you are in as the sun has already set, and going to bed in your small private room is the only option, even so the fact that a lot of other groups were also arriving about the same time as yours seemed a bit odd, but a good nights sleep will probably help sort that out.
Of course a good nights sleep is out of the question… a sharp pain in your neck, like some sharp object had been pushed into it, wakes you from your sleep and makes you want to scream out in pain, though it is amazing how fast you fall asleep again without making a sound. Then came the dream… that you became some sort of creature, hungry for blood, and broke into the rooms of the others in your group ignoring their screams, as well as the screams that seem to be coming from further away than any of your group’s rooms, while you killed each of them before moving on to the next one of their rooms.
Now awake, it was no dream…
The body of a member of your group lies at your feet, your body seems to almost returned back to normal, but not quite as remnants of what you had become do remain. Maybe you awoke before killing everyone here you know here, maybe someone managed to hide or certainly you were not the only one that this happened to as there were other screams from far away…
There still is some screaming, you were lucky if you would call this luck, you were one of the few who could fight off the demon that you became, allowing yourself to become human again, there were many others who didn’t awaken from the dream and are still out killing… You can feel the demon trying to regain control of you, grasping on any opening you give so as it can fully take over, confident that you will not break free again, though trying to use it’s power will slowly turn you into it, you have little other choice as how else are you going to survive with other demons around and with the fact that it will be hard for groups of survivors to accept you as anything but another demon threat.
Yes, there are groups of survivors, already setting defences that’ll allow them to efficiently defend themselves, already planning how they can get to freedom or get rid of all the demons. Maybe, just maybe, you could try to gain one groups trust, they could use the help of you demonic powers, maybe if you help them they could find out what happened and, here’s the big thing, they might find a way to cure you… anyway what else could you possible strive for in this dire situation?
Now the late night class begins, this wasn’t on the curriculum but it still clearly demonstrates survival of the fittest… So let the lesson begin!
Now is that good enough?
