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Name: Krikan 14
Species: Xy-Ad
Appearance:


Size: Almost a meter, which is around 30 inch I guess.
Anything interesting about him: Can contact other Xy-Ads with his telepathy, making him very efficient when hunting in teams.
Though he can speak the alien language, he tends to squeeks at a very high register.
Background:
Hatched on Earth, near what is Milan today.
Xy-Ad's fight in teams of twenty, with minimal equipment. As such, they experience heavy casualties.
Krikan 14 however, has been in five such teams, and in two of them he has been the only survivor after battle. It is yet unknown if this is out of skill or out of cowardice. Has been transferred to Hrodna to help defend a new harvesting project in the region and because of the increasing activity of IHU.
Has noteable skill in mortally wounding men.
Special Abilities:
Poisonous fangs attached to his back.
Eyes are adapted to night.
Is considered surprisingly fast.

Also, more background information! FOOD FOR THE LORE BUFFS!

WORLD MAP
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Red areas are mostly places where there are still resources or where there is a lack of human resistance ( inland Australia for example, or Arabia, shattered after it's oil reserves depleted ). The IHU has expanded a little, as you can see. Grey areas are mostly complete alien free. The areas around it's borders are mostly contested, or at war.
Japan, as you can see, is the only country not infected nor IHU territory. This is because Japan is the only independent country that was able to completely beat the initial assault. It has made closer bonds with the IHU and mutual help has greatly reduced the threat of aliens along the coast of China, which was one of the strongest infected regions due to the high population levels it could feed on.

As those who read my other RPG Forum Game, I made a hell of a lot promises.Terror of the Succubus would be updated a lot, and would end around now. Also, I would make more then one game.
Well, it turns out I'm a lousy promise-keeper if I forget stuff. So, to combat the deathlines and to get those who couldn't get into the first game in, here is the second RPG Forum Game; Dropped in Death!

Constantly writing on one story when you have planned out a lot of the story already tends to get boring, and thus, I decided that having two games would add some versality in my drab, boring forum life! ^^
You'll noticed some things will have changed around the "Game's" mechanics. I've learned some things in the first one, and I don't want to repeat some mistakes.

The Prelude ( read this ! )
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This game is based around a what-if history on earth ( don't gasp yet, I think I made it original ).

As the end of the 70's nears, it becomes clearer and clearer then neither the USSR or the USA or going down anytime soon.
The war in Vietnam has just ended, and has teached that wars between the two superpowers will result in a catastrophy.
However, more pressing concerns seem to strike both nations, as criminality, global pollution and the increasing scarcity of resources begins to spiral out of control.
Different strange incidents cause a enormous drain of the oil reserves in Arabia. Oil prices sky-rocket and keeps the USSR's weakening economy from collapsing.
However, as the year 2000 strikes, oil has become so scarce it can no longer be used for industrial purposes and with no united research, humanity finds no short-terms sollutions.
As the situation begins to worsen in most countries, the two superpowers and their allies alienate from eachother, with the USSR and USA not wanting to share what is left of their resource reserves.
In the treaty of Paris in 2003, the Europian Union becomes a fact; the political union no shuns all contact with the USA. However, a year later, most of South America unites in the South American Trade Union. Africa splinters in different other Unions, and most of Asia binds itself with China.
Without their allies, and with the entire world breathing in their neck, the two superpowers do something which seemed impossible a decade before; they become allies.

The two superpowers still hold grudges against eachother, however, and negotiating is hard. As the pressure rises, however, the two manage to actually gain common ground. Political and economical reforms ( such as a common currency, open borders and the sharing of military and technological research ) in both countries allow them to work together better.
As the year 2010 ends, the two superpowers manage to actually get along.
The new allies call themselves the (I)nternational (H)uman (U)nion, but the two superpowers still have their own independence.
But the world outside the IHU deteriorates fast, and all but a few regions now are reduced to wildlands.
Technologies in the IHU progress however, and now their are solutions to combat the world-wide problems. By 2023, the IHU starts to fully recover earth.
However, in that same year, humanity finally get's its first alien contact.
Later, it would become clear that the aliens were attracted to the testing of a new high-energy weapon by the IHU.
First contact was peacefull, but by a misunderstanding, the second meeting turned to hostility. The aliens decided to infect the wildlands with a parasite-like race that lived on all sorts of energies and matter. Then, they left.
The year is 2027. The parasite race has taken large parts of the wildlands.
The IHU, first unsuccesful to defeat it, learned and has started to drive the parasites back.
A professional team of commandos has crashed in the heavily infected area of Hrodna, Belarus after a succesful raid on the parasites. They must survive the parasite onslaught and find a way to warn their command about their whereabouts.
Before you wish to join in however, here's comes the real original take.
You're a parasite.
That's right. You can shred people to pieces. Isn't that great!
I deliberatily left the parasites race name out, so that you guys could customize at will.

The second thread will include more detail about the mission, some interesting basic facts I had in mind about the parasites and about the IHU.
Now, how to join!

How to join
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Submit this filled out.

( Full ) Name ( You're an alien, don't forget that!) :
Species ( The parasite race has different mutations. Make it sound snappy ) :
Appearance ( Please, put some detail in this one. Be original. ) :
Size ( You can put this in appearance ) :
Anything interesting about him :
Background ( Place of birth ( on earth or dropped from some alien world? ), age, gender if the species has one, ...) :
Special abilities ( See the * to get some ideas ) :
Anything else you would like :

Those who have seen Terror of the Succubus might wonder what has happened with the "feats". This is one of the changes I made. Instead having to 'balance' points out, I give people free choice what to do. However, don't try to make a superhero. I have ways to make your alien suffer. For I am... the writer! *mwhaha*
Here is a range of suggestions.

*SPECIAL ABILITIES
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The alien can/has: spit venom
                          regrow certain limbs
                          camouflage
                          tranquilize
                          extra thick armour
                          telepathy abilities
                          cloak abilities
                          claws who can rip through armour
                          ....

Another change I will make is the "choice-making". This wouldn't be a game without some input, but I've noticed I have to find a balance. Too much input and it harms the story, to little and it becomes more of a book in progress like Terror of the Succubus ( which isn't THAT bad, but oh well. )
Instead, choices will come more structured. Every chapter, every player makes a choice. To make up for the little amounts of choices, these choices are mostly very determinating. Also, the chapters won't be THAT big.

Well, humanity is the most suicidal and destructive species on the planet. And yes, we tend to be sadistic and back-stabbing ( seriously, I nearly throw up when I think about the Saw series... sick people! ).
But on the other hand, humanity has produced things such as Monty Python and Sam and Max, so things can't be that bad.
Can they?
Squeak?

Alright. Bugger Whose never existed. Let us go back... to the future! ( Erh? )

I love you for posting the Morrowind main theme one.
Please, accept these chocolate cookies of hope, magic and wonder as a gift...

Alexander the Great was Macedonian, wasn't he?

Is it Alexander the Great's attempted conquest of the world?

Correct!!!

I still have no idea what the dwarf in a Mustang with a snake behind him is all about.

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