Name of setting | Tails of the Blind Pig, aka TBP |
Basic premise |
An extraterrestrial virus has lasting effects on human civilization |
Where to find TBP stories | |
Created by | |
Whos in charge |
Mr. Van Sciver has delegated to Bryan Derksen and Jon Sleeper the right to declare any concepts or characters unsuitable for TBP |
Setting is open to |
Anyone who wants to write in it |
Other information |
The TBP setting diverges from the Real World in the year 2001, when (in the setting) NASA sent a spacecraft named Beagle II to the planet Mars to retrieve soil samples. Beagle II carried an unsuspected Martian pathogen which became known as the Martian Flu Virus; unfortunately, the spacecraft exploded on re-entry to Earths atmosphere, releasing said virus into the biosphere. During this initial outbreak, some 15-20% of Earths population1/6 to 1/5 of all humanitydied. In addition to those who merely die, roughly 8% of Martian Flu sufferers go on to develop a complication called SCABS (short for Steins Chronic Accelerated Bio-morphic Syndrome) which can inflict radical bodily alterations on its victims. The 60-70% of Flu victims who neither die nor develop SCABS suffer nothing more than cold/flu-like symptoms. |
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