In the year 2020 human civilizations were at their height, the world was densely populated and most personal worlds revolved around fashion, technology, and who had the best and how to get better. The whole world seemed to be spinning on this idea to be better, go bigger, having more, achieving the impossible. Everyone wanted what they didn't have, buildings were built dangerously tall, family time was deemed antiquated, 90% of labor jobs were done by machines leaving more time for 'higher' pursuits. The unemployed and homeless levels were extremely high but yet empathy and charity were at an all time low. Being human was obsolete and it wasn't long before the next greatest was cybernetic modifications, the popularity was bigger then even plastic surgery had been in the early 2000's.

It was about 2035 when we had our first recorded alien encounter in deep space, appearing friendly most didn't give it even a second thought and was pushed even lower on the totem pole of thought when Michael 'Vortex' Smith developed the Vortex Luxury Apartment Complex. Living in 'real' houses had gone out of style in the early 2020 and in such many investors had cashed in on the new trend by creating 'luxury' apartments all over the world but none even held a candle to the brilliance of Vortex. 250 hundred three story buildings, each with five 'penthouse' suit apartments on each floor. Housing a green house on the roof and animal pens in the center courtyards all meant to keep each building self sufficient in times of crisis, gym and pools located in the basements. They held everything a person could want, they were an Oasis from the hectic dog eat dog world but only if you could afford the rent.

The world continued to strive for bigger and better but those in the Vortex soon lost that drive, the continued to work but found that in the calming complex they no longer strived to be the best as long as they continued to be able to survive and the reached out and connected with others. Trends came and went but the isolation of the complex and it self sufficient ways kept the people at peace and relatively safe, which ended up being a very good thing.

About forty years after the Vortex Complex was completed and after our first and last recorded meeting with Alien life forms, 2075, a plague started. We didn't know it was a plague at first, at first it was transients and addicts who had had poor surgeries to add their Cyber Mods. One day they would appear fine, within two they were dying. Large glowing turquoise pus filled blisters would form near or on modification sites, and the Glowing Death as it was soon named, only targeted Modified humans. It was soon documented that it was similar in a effect as the Black Plague; fever and flu like symptoms, soon moved on to lack of apatite and skeletal appearance and then they would go insane, speaking gibberish before dying. Though constant research was happening no cure was ever found.

It was discovered by two of the leading scientists at the time, both of which happened to live in the Vortex Complex, that the virus appeared to be not only alive and intelligent but that it was adapting to each host. They also hypothesized that it was searching for something, most probably something it needed a body to retrieve. A doctor from the Vortex Complex with funding from Mr. Vortex Smith himself, discovered that if the Cyber Mods were removed at the very beginning of the plague that the person would most likely live. But almost all died within a week of exposure to the virus.

Oddly enough though, even with constant exposure and handling to the virus known of the doctors or scientist from the complex ever got sic, nor did their families and they were all Modded.

Things began to change at the Vortex Complex, at the time it seemed like a good thing. They were working together for one thing but now it is known that it wasn't.

It wasn't good at all.

It was after they made to discovery that the virus plaguing the cybernetic rich populace was a living and apparently intelligent life form the doctors and scientists of Vortex Apartments decided to see if the could produce a living being that would host the virus, their public reasoning was that they thought that if it had a permanent host it would cease to effect the cybernetic population and it turn they could maybe figure out what the virus was and what it appeared to be searching for.

In the basement of the one completely empty building, simply known as 482, the built a lab and started their research and experiments. At first it was just the homeless off the streets, but they quickly realized that the Glowing Death virus wouldn't take or effect those without any modifications and many of the homeless had few to known seeing as those who did had been the first victims of the Glowing Death. So, soon they are stealing men and women who were just trying to survive in the new reality of death and chaos, publicly they stated that they had no knowlodge of the missing people but tensions were running high and the sick public had their doubts.

It took several years before they found a suitable host for the almost alien organism, but 90% of the world's population had died out. The new embodied plague died soon after, Before dying the Glowing Death babbled incoherently for a year and its body mutated into a hideous creature that wasn't recognizable as human any longer. When it died it produced a gas that drove the men and woman in close proximity insane and after they were 'put down' the lab and building 482 was sealed. The Votex Luxury Apartment Complex became one of the largest surviving human communities. They became law and order, they scavenged the outside world for those going against their power.

AB482 became their threat to the common people, it became the jail for the wrong doers.

A hundred years after the plague started the world has regrown some, with the most powerful families of the before ruling the world. The Vortex community is known as the council and they rule with an iron fist, AB482 has become known as a death sentence because once you go in you never come out, and secrets and information is now the most popular currency but old world money and items are still used in come areas.

If you live within the walls of the VLAC you are safe and comfortable, if you don't the world is incredibly harsh. Things have been relatively easy but there is a darkness that lurks in the shadows and some secrets should have stayed that way. Now a group of young adults from both in and out of the VLAC walls find themselves trapped in the 482, and there is something in the lab.

The basic plot line is that a group of young adults, some from the Complex and others from outside, get in trouble for trading information that wasn't supposed to ever get out. The Council of Vortex sentence them to AB482 for two years, while in there they encounter something, something that was long thought dead and to survive they must discover the truth that was locked in the building along with what it wants.

Depending on interest might include allies that are not locked inside the building with the group.

I would like at least six characters to start, and it would be helpful if you guys created NPCs for your own personal use. Just a mild go over on them attached to your CS would be fine, the NPC s would be the characters who die first. It's not needed but would be appreciated.

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