Post by earthreborn on Feb 23, 2021 2:40:51 GMT -5
This is a little alternate history game. Anyone can submit new entries, and we'll see where it takes us.
Background
In this timeline, a mysterious disease started in the remote regions of Mongolia late in 2019, unnoticed while the rest of the world was fixated on the catastrophic bushfires raging across Australia. But soon, the whole world was in danger of collapsing entirely.
Timeline Starts
29th December 2019
After coming back from a walk, a man in Mongolia's remote regions fell ill with a disease. His family drove him to the nearest hospital in Sharyngol, but he went into a coma on the way there. And in the emergency room, suddenly started thrashing around and frothing at the mouth, with thick, black globs of saliva. The police were called when he started attacking people, and had to shoot him. Soon after, the doctors and man's family also began to fall sick, and then the people in the surrounding town noticed something was wrong when the hospital was barricaded.
31st December 2019
The surrounding town is put under a curfew as some of the military arrives to help barricade the hospital. Secretly-filmed video is sent to the Mongolian government, showing thrashing, violent figures inside the hospital, lit from behind by fire. The hospital is set alight by an electrical fault, and the barricade attacked by those figures, now alight. And with the barricade broken, those violent, infected people start roaming the town.
1st January 2020
The Mongolian Government starts limiting public transport in Darkhan-Uul Province and puts up checkpoints around the country's borders. It announces to the world that there's a small outbreak of bubonic plague, but admits to the World Health Organisation that it has things under control.
In Sharyngol, the death toll is around 700, most of that number infected. Around 25 have been killed in accidents trying to get away or were shot by police while looting. The hospital burns to the ground, and some of the infected set fire to surrounding buildings. Direct headshots, or a number of strong impacts to the chest, manage to kill the infected.
3rd January
The infected roam Sharyngol, attacking police and soldiers and occasionally managing to break windows and doors to enter buildings. Fires burn, although looting has stopped. Barricades are established around the town, and some people outside Mongolia notice the damage in satellite images, although they quickly forget it. And the government finally admits to the World Health Organisation that there’s a problem.
After coming back from a walk, a man in Mongolia's remote regions fell ill with a disease. His family drove him to the nearest hospital in Sharyngol, but he went into a coma on the way there. And in the emergency room, suddenly started thrashing around and frothing at the mouth, with thick, black globs of saliva. The police were called when he started attacking people, and had to shoot him. Soon after, the doctors and man's family also began to fall sick, and then the people in the surrounding town noticed something was wrong when the hospital was barricaded.
31st December 2019
The surrounding town is put under a curfew as some of the military arrives to help barricade the hospital. Secretly-filmed video is sent to the Mongolian government, showing thrashing, violent figures inside the hospital, lit from behind by fire. The hospital is set alight by an electrical fault, and the barricade attacked by those figures, now alight. And with the barricade broken, those violent, infected people start roaming the town.
1st January 2020
The Mongolian Government starts limiting public transport in Darkhan-Uul Province and puts up checkpoints around the country's borders. It announces to the world that there's a small outbreak of bubonic plague, but admits to the World Health Organisation that it has things under control.
In Sharyngol, the death toll is around 700, most of that number infected. Around 25 have been killed in accidents trying to get away or were shot by police while looting. The hospital burns to the ground, and some of the infected set fire to surrounding buildings. Direct headshots, or a number of strong impacts to the chest, manage to kill the infected.
3rd January
The infected roam Sharyngol, attacking police and soldiers and occasionally managing to break windows and doors to enter buildings. Fires burn, although looting has stopped. Barricades are established around the town, and some people outside Mongolia notice the damage in satellite images, although they quickly forget it. And the government finally admits to the World Health Organisation that there’s a problem.
