Post by #PI077A "Adia" on Feb 14, 2011 16:52:21 GMT -8
[atrb=background,http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb172/TearsOfNightfall/Random%20Site%20Stuff/BattleRoyalGray.png][atrb=width,627,true][atrb=border,0,true] The Feast |
Name/Number:: The Feast, The Consumer, The Devourer, “Feast”
Race:: Remnant, mutated.
Age:: 58
Gender:: NA
Sexuality:: Asexual
Appearance:: The “Feast” near Arcis is about the size of an industrial dump-truck. It appears centipede like, with a hundred legs down its body. Its mouth is huge, and jawed, filled with over 800 razor sharp teeth. Its carapace is resilient, and resistant to piercing damage. It is adapted to a temperate environment of no major extremes; fire, heat, cold, and electrical elements will do it extensive damage. Its carapace is a non-living part of itself, and will not re-animate upon destruction; it will dissolve quickly in acid. Plant life, and vegetation have almost no effect on it, as well as poison of any kind.
History:: 58 Years ago, a man was bitten by a remnant, and wandered into a town. He went straight to the hospital after feeling extremely feverish and having a gut-wrenching stomach ache. He was rushed into surgery, and when they cut him opened, they found a 9 inch worm like creature literally eating away at his stomach tissue. When they went to try and remove it, they found that this small parasite was actually not an independent organism. It was attached to the man’s insides.
The doctors were able to surgically remove the little creature, and unfortunately, the man died from blood loss. The ‘little creature’ as they were calling it was stored in a frozen environment in a glass jar, being saved for research. When the remnant epidemic got worse, and the hospitals became overrun with patients, the jar was accidentally knocked over and shattered across the floor.
A careless intern attempted to hide his mistake and clean up the mess, not realizing what he had just unleashed; the little creature was in near hibernation, and was mistaken for a typical organ, which was promptly thrown out into a biohazard container. The little creature began eating and consuming organic material in the bag, and eventually chewed its way through the bottom of it.
After it had escaped, it had managed to grow to about double its size, and was able to slither along the ground like a snake. It went on the move quickly to find more food, and quickly found a new meal on the bed of an unconscious patient. The creature began feasting and before anyone took the time to even walk into the room to check on the patient, the little creature had devoured him completely.
As a result of its recent meal, the not so little creature had grown to roughly the size of a human, and had even managed to resemble the appearance of the human it just ate; though it was a sickly green color, covered in blood and bodily fluids. The remnant then began to search through the room for its next meal. At its new size, it was stuck in the room, but it managed to dig through garbage and wastes to find more biological material to consume. As it ate, it grew, and soon resembled less of a human. It was now about 8 feet tall, and hunched over. Its anatomy had changed significantly in order to better search for and consume food.
Once it ran out of food, it began to start tearing the room apart. It sharpened its fingers by shaving off skin and muscle to the bone so better to scratch and claw into things. When a nurse walked by, and realized that the patient was awake, she opened the door, and went in to check on him. The remnant was quick to kill and consume the defenseless assistant and was now about 2.5 times the size of a typical human. It had used the nurse’s arms to add onto its body, and now had four arms; it also had a long neck, two rows of sharpened teeth, four eyes, and a long jointed tail.
The remnant got on the floor, crawling along like a lizard and left the room, quickly jumping from victim to victim, and quickly the hospital was evacuated. The people of the town quickly gave it new nicknames: the spawn of Satan was a popular one, but the one that caught on was simply “Feast.” The hospital was quarantined and soon troops arrived to remedy the situation. By now, “Feast” was much larger than a city bus in mass, and had adapted to the hospital in its new size: its body was worm-like again, and will it still retained its four arms, its legs were gone, and its head was now like that of a snake.
When the soldiers stormed in and began trying to eliminate it, they did minimal damage, and having split up, it was easy for “Feast” to pick them off one by one, swallowing them whole and expanding in size gradually. Within a few hours, the squad was all killed. The military surrounded the hospital and sent in another team, much larger than the last, and armed them with some far superior weaponry. “Feast” did not care; it quickly devoured every soldier it came against, digesting them whole. Once or twice, a soldier managed to set off a grenade in its mouth and throat; it seemed to work, by the creature just shed its destroyed body parts and went on its way, picking up its dead pieces and reconstructing quickly.
By sunset, “Feast” had managed to eat up all of its food in the hospital, and began to look for an exit, and for its next meal. It exited the hospital in the middle of the night, and was met with heavy machineguns and RPG’s. It quickly withdrew back into the hospital, dragging whatever it could of its destroyed bits as it could. When it came out next, it had resembled a spider. Within the hospital, it had self-destructed, and reconstructed its body piece by piece, rebuilding itself into a more suitable form. The new, 8-legged “Feast” crawled unexpectedly from the middle of the building, and jumped from the edge straight into combat. Each of its legs was sharpened, and it began using them as weapons, slicing up the town’s defenses and forcing everyone to flee.
After two months, it had cleared out the entire town of life. It was monstrous now; the size of 2 or 3 middle class houses. When out of its food supply, it moved on from that town; “Feast” was now dominantly accustomed to human flesh, so it actively sought out more human flesh. Using randomly assorted abilities of its animal victims, it began smelling, looking, and listening for more humans. It still ate animals and any living animal that came too close, but it only searched for humans.
Eventually, it found another town. This town was completely defenseless, and the monstrous “Feast” quickly eliminated it. Town after town was devoured of all its population for 20 years. Finally, a counter-strike was called for. Something like a small nation, that was an alliance between two cities, several outlying towns, and a military base all in alliance set out for the destruction of “The Feast.” They set out with whatever fuel and large-scale weapons they could scrape up, and found “Feast” as it was about to destroy another town.
“Feast” was destroyed for the first time. Its remains were all scavenged and burned up in bonfires. They did not manage to burn all of it though. Many pieces of “Feast” eventually became their own “Feast” organism, and began their own paths of consumption. Another 20 years had passed, and the different “Feasts” had either killed each other for food, or spread out too far to come into direct contact with one another. One such “Feast” managed to come back with a vengeance upon the nation that destroyed it. By then, that nation was weak, and nearly destroyed already, its defenses were no more. The only “Feast” within even 100 miles of Arcis lies somewhere just before the mountains, in the forests. The rest are scattered throughout the globe; no-one knows for sure where they all are, or how many there are. The survivors of any “Feast” attack all generally believe that “Feasts” could very well have even made it into the depths of the ocean, and they say that there could be hundreds in the world, thousands if anyone ever managed to successfully blow up another one of these monsters.
Personality:: “Feast” is generally a feral type remnant, with no human intelligence of any kind; but it is possible that any one of the many “Feasts” could have developed one.
Notes:: At a glance, “Feast” is a fairly unstoppable foe; but while traditional weapons of warfare may not fare well, “Feasts’” bodies are only as tough as what they’ve consumed. The main issue is that it is extremely difficult to surface a sufficient amount of damage to a “Feast.” The use of elemental powers can be extremely effective, but each “Feast’s” weaknesses and strengths will change depending on how they adapted. For example, an ocean going “Feast” might be extremely resistance to atmospheric pressure, and cold environments; but due to such an adaptively, it will likely hold a weakness of dry environments and extreme heat.
Control Type:: Creator-Permission: Since there are several “Feasts” it is possible for two of them to look and act differently, and be in many places at once; but really only one should be near Arcis.
