Post by FAUX ! on Oct 26, 2009 15:37:47 GMT -5
THE PLOT
pray to your god, open your heart
It is year 2150. Our world has become swathed in a fog of uncertainty and despair. Large cities are thinly spread out among the continents, with even fewer small towns. The world has merrily gone to hell in a hand basket, figuratively speaking. With most humans living in poverty, their lives are hard as they struggle to survive. There aren’t many respectable jobs left, and good paying jobs are few and far between. There are plenty of jobs for the bloody criminals, distributing illegal substances, and other unsavory work that some would rather not have to do. It’s become a hard world, and it’s made all the harder each passing day. You never know if the next meal will be your last, if the person you just met is going to stab you in the back – quite literally- or if they’ll coerce you into something worse, or if you’ll end up somewhere, trapped, to live a fate worse than death. It’s the horror we live with, the life we have condemned ourselves to with our selfish needs and wants through the years. There is no safety in this world, nothing set in stone, no one to trust except yourself.
We are run by sin. Sin that feeds the monsters and demons of the night. And as the darkness of man's heart began to shadow the world, those beings crawled from the depths of Hell to live amongst us - hungering for our souls. And in order to combat the emminant reign of evil, Angels descended from the Heavens to save the souls of man and push back the malice. Both offered protection to those who wanted it, a better life to those who craved it, but at a heavy price. What would one do to get out of this life, to become better than others, to live better, and to not have to keep one eye open at night? Lose a limb, give up a child? Hardly. What about selling their soul? That is their price, heavy though it is. The being, angel or demon, would protect a human until death sought them, and when they were deceased, their soul was promised to their aligned choice, Heaven or Hell respectively, along with their defender. Their soul would fuel their protector, strengthening them, causing them to be even more powerful among their kind. But, the human has some control over their protector. While ethereal beings can kill each other, ethereal beings cannot kill a human without the permission of their host. Only humans can order the death of another human by their defender’s hands. They hold the power of life and death of their fellow humans.
Hell seeks to envelope the world in darkness, while Heaven seeks to rid the world of all evils. The lines of morality are ambiguously drawn, signed away by contracts and countered by loopholes. Where Angels can murder more than Demons or where Demons have the power to heal. It's a dirty fight for the fate of Earth. But everyone has a little devil inside.
