Nightmare Enemy
Nightmare Enemy is
a futuristic, alternate Earth, post-apocalypse, RPG where the world has turned
into a fight of Good versus Evil after a plague that was later found to have
been caused by Demons. One side effect of the plague: zombies. And these are
not the shambling, foot-dragging kind of zombies. Let’s just say you’d better
lace up those running shoes.
How did the apocalypse happen? While medical and scientific research were advancing exponentially in the year 2035 with the ultimate goal of settling on Mars, organized religion started to decline. By 2052, the leaders of the scientific community and the Worldwide Medical Board merged into one entity called the Health and Intellect Association, or HIA.
The HIA had the most brilliant minds on the planet and were highly funded. They purchased three of the U.S. Virgin Islands. They converted the largest to their base of operations and set up their living quarters and a school. They set up private labs on the other two islands, where theories and products could be tested that couldn’t be exposed in populated areas.
All of the efforts of the HIA were driven by the goal to
successfully travel to, colonize and survive on Mars. Along the way they
sold scientific and medical discoveries to those who could afford them to
continue to fuel their advancement towards their goal. In the end, the
HIA did achieve their goal of being the first of humankind to reach and
colonize Mars.
Meanwhile, by the late 2030s, organized religion was declining since the world population was turning to the HIA to solve all their problems. Science had essentially become the new religion. Most organized religions either collapsed or were forced to shut down save one: the Faithful of Shentef. Shentef is the deity that leads the side of Good. Other orders on the Good side are Angels, Charribs, Reverends and the Blessed. And you know if there’s a Good side, there’s an Evil side. Evil is led by the Demonlord Korgoth and under him are Demons, Overfiends, Heretics and The Damned.
Around this time, that the Reverends of Shentef made a statement to the press and all the world media outlets: “You don’t know what you have done, but that is all right, for it was foretold that this day would come. We will leave you now, to pray, repent, and weep for you. The end is coming, you just don’t see it yet. Goodbye.” After this statement came out, the Reverends and all their followers just disappeared.
With the continual decline of organized religion since the late 2030’s the world population started turning to the HIA to solve all their problems thus increasing their influence in the world. Science was basically becoming the new religion. Most organized religions either collapsed or were forced to shut down by world governments save one, the faithful of Shentef.
With the last remaining active church saying goodbye and the gradual decline over the last 25 years of all other organized religions, the world had known a time of peace. This led to the HIA to publicly declare that organized religion was a primitive practice and that it had no place in modern society.
By the year 2060 a change was starting to be noticed in modern society: civilization seemed to be declining. Religion is a double-edged sword in the fact that yes, many wars and conflicts are started over differences in opinion, but it also gave humankind a reason to behave themselves. Most religions promised a not so nice afterlife for those who were evil and disrespectful of their fellow neighbors. Religion also gave guidelines for personal conduct and preached them often with a side order of guilt to make sure people were living up to them. Since science and replaced religion, these moral reminders were not present in most people’s lives. As a result, crimes against humanity started to surface everywhere.
In the year 2061, each country’s government had decided that their own leadership and way of life were the best way forward for the entire world. Thus, each country started to isolate themselves and alliances between countries that had been in place for decades began to fail. The United Nations soon disbanded because world governments would no longer cooperate with one another.
Then one day, one country’s ship crossed another country’s territorial boundary and BOOM, WAR! Before long other nations join in the fighting and in no time the world was at war again. This world war went on for seven years.
In 2068 another world event occurred. First livestock started to die off and nobody could figure out why or how. Then humankind seemed to fall victim and turned into Zombies. People started referring to this as The Plague.
To be continued…