It was like any other day.
Just a bunch of school kids on a school trip to some research labs. The weary teachers had booked it because of the small price tag, as part of the obligatory ‘enrichment’ programme and for the opportunity for a break from marking the reams of half-hearted homework papers. The students, most of whom couldn’t care less about science, saw it as a day off from lessons.
What the party of students and tutors didn’t realise, however, were the illegal science experiments taking place in that very facility, locked behind backdoors and hidden from public eye. The scientists there weren’t exactly rolling in money and were having to turn to less…legal means. A company – one they know only as ‘Nemor’ – is funding these experiments and no one knows why. But of course, with a weekly pay check bigger than they used to receive in a year, no one asks any questions. It seems silence has its price. And they need something to stop the official government lab rats sniffing around and discovering their dirty, little secret; marching a few, bored teenagers around the first floor of the labs seemed like the perfect cover. They never do the proper health and safety checks, them teachers. It seemed like an easy solution.
Until you found out their secret.
You are part of that group of school kids touring the labs. Allocated into a group by the teachers – desperate to separate the worst kids so the day can run as smoothly as possible – you are stuck with a group of different kids who you hadn’t ever previously interacted with normally in the classroom. The jock, the brainiac, the daydreamer, the joker (please try to vary your characters so we have a range of personalities and stereotypes!) – all in one group; it’s your worst nightmare! Your dysfunctional group splits off from the main herd of bored students and you find yourself wandering the off-limits section. But when you see the warning signs and the suspicious-sounding, cryptic names that aren't on the research lab's cheesy leaflets, you know you can’t turn back.
What you find shocks you. The scientists didn’t expect any of the school kids would care enough to go off on their own – let alone get through the locked doors (but you have a lock-picker amongst you). Your group finds yourself in a bizarre, white, empty room – inadequate for all the protection it was behind. You search it, but find there is nothing there.
Puzzled, you decide it’s finally time to rejoin the group.
A strange illness that follows – contracted by each of you, and only the group of fateful students. And then there are the unique abilities that come and go; moments when your senses – your hearing, your sight, your sense of smell – are heightened, and your eyes glow gold. These ‘moments’ occur randomly and for only minutes at a time; all you know, is you can’t control it. You develop a liking for raw meat…
What you don’t know is that you – unbeknownst to both yourselves, and the scientists behind it, panicking having now discovered the unlocked doors – is that you were the unwitting subjects in a dangerous science experiment.
Involving attempts to implant canine DNA…into humans.
But it was never meant to be tested this early, in the development process.
How will you cope with these changes? How long until you abandon the safety of your social group and work out that others in your class have developed similar symptons…the only linking factor being the one time you had to work together that fateful day…
Will you confront the scientists? Sell your secret to government? Use your new abilities to become jewel thieves?
Loosely based upon one of my favourites book series ‘Virals’, but with my own twist
I'm looking for a small group interested in being a part of this - I would say approximately 8 to 10. After around 5 interested people, I will probably post the OOC.