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Tales of vampires and werewolves are a rather common theme throughout history. Some of the more horrifying creature tales however are not nearly as well known. Namely because none of the witnesses to these atrocities can leave the confines of their small city and live to tell about it. The inhabitants of Nibelheim seem to live pretty average lives to any outsiders looking in, but in reality they all live in a state of constant fear. Fear that they will be next.
Hidden deep down under the earth, almost as large as the city itself, is a scientific research facility. A small group of overly wealthy individuals along with a group of rogue genetic scientists have come together to begin a rather unique project. A project which, if successful, had the giant potential to change the way humans lived forever.
There were frequently disappearances throughout the city of several people at a time, generally younger individuals. No matter how long or hard the police would search there would be absolutely no trace of them. From time to time, if a family was lucky, their loved one might return several years later, but they were usually in a rather traumatized state at first. With much counseling, if you were really lucky, the individual might return somewhat back to normal, but not without a cost. The victims were often plagued with nightmares of horrible experiments being done on them and enduring much pain.
Eventually however, things would get worse, as the true nature of the experimentation expose itself in some way or another. Triggered by different feelings or events, the victim would transform into some sort of half beast and usually end up killing somebody, if not seriously injuring them. (It would seem that the scientists were still working out the aggression/blood-lust bug in their experiments.)
Now being considered monsters by the rest of humanity, these individuals had to live in secret and often fight for their lives. Even against others of their kind from time to time.
Tales of vampires and werewolves are a rather common theme throughout history. Some of the more horrifying creature tales however are not nearly as well known. Namely because none of the witnesses to these atrocities can leave the confines of their small city and live to tell about it. The inhabitants of Nibelheim seem to live pretty average lives to any outsiders looking in, but in reality they all live in a state of constant fear. Fear that they will be next.
Hidden deep down under the earth, almost as large as the city itself, is a scientific research facility. A small group of overly wealthy individuals along with a group of rogue genetic scientists have come together to begin a rather unique project. A project which, if successful, had the giant potential to change the way humans lived forever.
There were frequently disappearances throughout the city of several people at a time, generally younger individuals. No matter how long or hard the police would search there would be absolutely no trace of them. From time to time, if a family was lucky, their loved one might return several years later, but they were usually in a rather traumatized state at first. With much counseling, if you were really lucky, the individual might return somewhat back to normal, but not without a cost. The victims were often plagued with nightmares of horrible experiments being done on them and enduring much pain.
Eventually however, things would get worse, as the true nature of the experimentation expose itself in some way or another. Triggered by different feelings or events, the victim would transform into some sort of half beast and usually end up killing somebody, if not seriously injuring them. (It would seem that the scientists were still working out the aggression/blood-lust bug in their experiments.)
Now being considered monsters by the rest of humanity, these individuals had to live in secret and often fight for their lives. Even against others of their kind from time to time.
(And for any ff7 fan, yes, I stole the name Nibelheim, but I just thought it sounded cool, lol.)
