The Great Malton Conspiracy
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This story is part of the Malton Chronicles. This story is fan-made, and is not officially part of any background history for Urban Dead. |
"That's bullshit." moaned Clarke shaking his head. He looked in the direction of the man speaking. "That is complete bullshit." He'd heard so many crazy stories since the oubreak began, but this one had bugged him. He had never been one for politics but he refused the government, no matter how corrupt, had anything to do with this.
The man talking was a decorated General. He had spent most of the last few years posted in Fort Creedy and had come to be trusted with top secret intelligence.
"It's not bullshit." He rasped, his voice grated like glass coated gravel. He began to regail the survivors in the minifortress of Burrell Way of the government's plan. NecroTech was working on a toxin, part nerve agent supressing pain and part adrenaline-testosterone mixincreasing a person's violent leanings. However the toxin known simply as X1 was too powerful. The pain supressant made participants of the X1 programme resistent to any feelings of pain, making them virtually dead. And the adrenaline-testosterone compound damaged the participants brain to such an extent that there was not enough adrenaline (leaving the participant bored and seeking excitment) and too high a degree of testosterone (leaving the participant highly strung and extremely violent).
The story continues that several participants of the underground X1 programme escaped, brutally killing all the lab workers and military officials present at the trials for the toxin. The toxin was administered via a syringe but there was a serum created that would and should reverse the effects of X1, this was known as the Y1 serum.
Those few participants who escaped then engaged on a blood crazed rampage fuelled on their own testosterone and need for excitment. However an unexpected side effect of the toxin was it was contagious. Those few who had been attacked by the original members of the programme became extremely violent and no-longer receptive to pain. According to the General one of these second generation X1 sufferers was captured to be studied, he subsequently went berzerk and killed the two lab techs studying him, he was only subdued when a private terminated him.
General Atkins had been briefed never to reveal the nature of the experiments but once the shit hit the fan he decided it was best to reveal the events of the outbreak to a respected Malton newspaper. However once his story was printed Atkins was discredited as a lunatic who had been discharged from the military for increasingly eratic and irrational behaviour. Atkins suggested in the newspaper that now the outbreak had gotten out of hand the Government would be forced to "drop an H bomb" on Malton.
"You are a lunatic" said Clarke "The Government are not covering up something underhand, there's just no way." The General stood up and jabbed detective Clarke hard in the chest "What do you know civilian, are you a target for assassination, have you seen things that would make God Himself sick?" Clarke pushed back "You're full of shit Atkins, you are a fucking liar and nobody. not even the Government knows what is going on here." Atkins pushed Clarke back, Clarke reacted and swung for the General who moved out of the way, he punched Clarke who punched him back. The two began to fight and had to be divided by other survivors. "Look at this then, detective, surely this looks like a clue." Atkins reached inside his jacket and produced a document, which had been held together by tape having been shredded. On the top of the document was the offical seal of the Government. The title of the memo was X1 project.
