Protocol 783-A

Somewhere in the outskirts of Midnight Metropolis...




It is the year 2078.

Protocol 783-A has come into force. We had almost forgotten how the rain of the metropolis felt. The sound of subways moving, people pushing, and streets crowded late into the night.

After all these years, we never expected to actually have to put the protocol into action. Our world, now a haze of pain as the monster haunts the gray alleys of our metropolis. Transformed by agonizing. Bursting out of the shadows, it preys upon everything it sees, smells or feels. Why did we not see this coming?

I guess that's what you get. Dangerous inventors who found the restrictions placed upon them in the city above too restrictive, often found their dangerous research welcomed in the lab. The scientist patiently carved into it, installing pumps and hoses to inject chemicals
into its veins, seeking what an alchemist always seeks: transmutation. It was forced to endure it all. Every sick experiment the scientists came up with.

And the air alarm. The one thing that keeps reminding us that we are on the run. It keeps going. Some say that's what keeps the monster from stopping. The frequency. It drives the thing. No one knows exactly where the monster, which now roams our once beautiful metropolis, came from. another planet? Ah well.. The main question is: How to proceed?

Well, that’s where the Project comes in. A powerful soporific has been created to try and undo the damage. It’s supposed to sedate the monster and bring it back to his original location: the cage in the labs.

The labs are a large, undercity district, lying deep in the caves threading the metropolis. Fumes leaking from the tangles of destroyed pipework. A dark mirror of the city above. The monster has rendered whole swathes of the lab polluted and dangerous. Streams of toxic runoff stagnate in the lab’s lower reaches, here the monster has a place to exist and prosper in peace now. No one who has ever entered the labs since the protocol, has ever returned.

However, someone brave enough has to go in, inject the Project, and save Midnight Metropolis.