Post by starrzchylde on Jan 11, 2007 20:38:29 GMT -5
The Hollows is based off of the Hollows series by Kim Harrison. It is best to have read the books before playing, but not completely necessary. I'll do my best to at least explain the background for you. If you'd like to read the books, PM me and I'll send you a few links. 
Ever wonder if witches, werewolves, vampires, pixies and the like were real? Guess what. They are.
In the early 1960's, a quarter of the world's human population was killed by a military-generated virus. It escaped and spontaneously fastened to a weak spot in a biogenetically engineered tomato. The tomato, with it's passenger, was shipped out before anyone knew and the Turn began.
The virus, named Angel after the code name for the tomato used in the lab, had little effect upon the hidden Inderlanders. Witches, undead vampires, and the smaller species such as pixies and fairies, weren't affected at all. Weres, living vamps, leprechauns, and the like got the flu. Humans died by the droves, taking the elves with them as their practice of bolstering their numbers by hybridizing with humanity backfired.
The U.S. would have followed the Third World countries into chaos if the hidden Inderlanders hadn't stepped in to halt the spread of the virus, burn the dead, and keep civilization running until what was left of humanity finished mourning.
The Inderlander's secret was on the verge of coming out by way of the what-makes-these-people-immune question when a charismatic living vamp named Rynn Cormel pointed out that their combined numbers equaled humanity's. The decision to make their presence known, to live openly among the humans they had been mimicking to keep themselves safe, was almost unanimous. The Turn, as it came to be called, ushered in a nightmarish three years. Humanity took their fear of Inderlanders out on the world's surviving bioengineers, murdering them in trials designed to legalize murder. Then they went further, to outlaw all genetically engineered products, along with the science that created them. A second, slower wave of death followed the first once old diseases found new life when the medicines humanity had created to battle everything from Alzheimer's to cancer no longer existed. Tomatoes are still treated like poison by humans, even though the virus is long gone.
Ever wonder if witches, werewolves, vampires, pixies and the like were real? Guess what. They are.
In the early 1960's, a quarter of the world's human population was killed by a military-generated virus. It escaped and spontaneously fastened to a weak spot in a biogenetically engineered tomato. The tomato, with it's passenger, was shipped out before anyone knew and the Turn began.
The virus, named Angel after the code name for the tomato used in the lab, had little effect upon the hidden Inderlanders. Witches, undead vampires, and the smaller species such as pixies and fairies, weren't affected at all. Weres, living vamps, leprechauns, and the like got the flu. Humans died by the droves, taking the elves with them as their practice of bolstering their numbers by hybridizing with humanity backfired.
The U.S. would have followed the Third World countries into chaos if the hidden Inderlanders hadn't stepped in to halt the spread of the virus, burn the dead, and keep civilization running until what was left of humanity finished mourning.
The Inderlander's secret was on the verge of coming out by way of the what-makes-these-people-immune question when a charismatic living vamp named Rynn Cormel pointed out that their combined numbers equaled humanity's. The decision to make their presence known, to live openly among the humans they had been mimicking to keep themselves safe, was almost unanimous. The Turn, as it came to be called, ushered in a nightmarish three years. Humanity took their fear of Inderlanders out on the world's surviving bioengineers, murdering them in trials designed to legalize murder. Then they went further, to outlaw all genetically engineered products, along with the science that created them. A second, slower wave of death followed the first once old diseases found new life when the medicines humanity had created to battle everything from Alzheimer's to cancer no longer existed. Tomatoes are still treated like poison by humans, even though the virus is long gone.
