Reality Shift

When the World Ended

On the 21st of December 2012 the world changed for permanently. Dimensional storms broke out in many sections of the world. Most notably three super rifts in Eastern Europe, Thailand, and Northern Canada. Within these rift reality twists and changed, alien creatures materializing onto Earth and ravaged the lands. Organizations and governments attempted to fight against this, but in the first days most were quickly dispatched with ease by these strange alien being. Some of them presented themselves as horrible monsters, while others strangely intelligent beings who wished to see the human race or merely the land twisted to their will. To stop these threats new technology was developed, organizations founded, and strange human mutations brought on by the rifts harvested to fight. The world is ending, but humanity will fight to the last.

AEGIS

Founded two month after Event Zero (Note: What ever Event Zero is, as of this moment, hasn't been determined. It is await a writer to flesh it out) an international organization was founded to fight against try to reverse the events that cause these dimensional rips in the fabric of reality. This group is known as Apocalypse Elimination Global Interdiction Section (AEGIS). More commonly however it is referred to as "The Ark" after their first Director Noah Desdin, who lead the charge for recruiting HMD's into the ranks.

Recruiting

HMD's

Interdictors is the nick name given to recruiters who constantly head out to sections that have had rift storms to seek out babies that were born during that time. Fetuses who developed in the womb during the storms or recently born ones could often develop into HMD and are more safely retrieved than ones from one of the three great rifts. Since the entire group is basically above the law and works towards saving the world they are given a lot of leeway and will often actually just kidnap these kids and put them into an academy to train them for combat when they support the troops and to control their powers. Officially these men are known as "The Hounds" however, due to their immense unpopularity the name Interdictors was created.

Soldiers

Because AEGIS is outside of all government influence their soldiers come from a variety of countries and creeds. Most are recruited from war torn areas that were affected by rift storms. After a rift storm an area will often become uninhabitable, and so those who lived there are forced to leave. instead of trying their luck in another country many will instead volunteer for service among AEGIS in fighting against the horrors that originally tore them from their homes.

Famous Operations

A unique horror that appeared in the mountains of Eastern Europe. It is known as Gundel, Lord of the Twin Peaks, as termed by the first men who brought back stories about it from inside the rift. Ten missions were mounted in and attempt to kill it, due to the fact that it was destroying villages on the fringes of the rift that presented opportunities to gather HMD. Five of these attempts here Russian, three British, and two French; however all of them failed to kill it, the last wounding it. This creature is so large that it brings with it a localized rift storm (the environmental conditions while near it will change. Gravity is lessened and the atmosphere changes to a large amount carbon monoxide). It seems to be an actual living rock, supported on a tripod of enormous rocky limps that carry it from place to place. it will burry itself in the ground, and absorbed nutrient through it's soft fleshy underbelly (under the enormous rock like calcium depots on its skin is actual flesh).

Finally AGEIS was sent into deal with it. Using dozens of specially trained HMD along with their force of exoskeleton wearing soldiers they brought the thing down (The HMD actually lessening the rift storm with their minds and suffocating the thing with our atmosphere). The body is now inside an AGEIS facility and is being studies. It was found to be a silicon based life form and weighs over three hundred tons in our atmosphere. At two hundred feet all and the body three hundred feet across it is the fourth largest creature every seen to come through a rift.

Creatures

Intelligent

The Perfection

The Moon is also being affected by the strange happenings of the rift storms. An amateur astronomer originally discovered strange shadows and movement on the lunar surface. After informing the proper authorities within a matter of months a mission was mounted to go to the planet's surface and find out exactly what was happening. What was found was giant fortress communities of a creature calling itself collectively "The Perfection". On the lunar surface it did not travel with a spacesuit, and instead walked completely naked. It does not have any obvious sexual characteristics and each of them has an identical appearance. Their skin is pale, to the point of being translucent, and each of them are completely hairless. Instead of a normal face there is a large bone frill that extends from just above their noses towards above their heads. Their mouths extend far farther than a jaw should, and when opened show a direct line to their stomach. Strange growths, that appear to be similar to arms, sprout by the dozen from their torso seemingly at random. These curl around them to cover their bodies. They do not seem to speak to each other and instead communicate telepathically by some kind of link. When a leader Perfection is not around the creatures will descend on each other and devour their fallen until one of them eats enough and becomes a new leader cast. There does not seem to be any physical change, but there is an increased intelligence.

During the mission the astronauts managed to convince one of the perfection to come aboard their vessel. They interrogated it, and while the astronauts were able to understand what it said, men from Nasa were only able yo hear a series of clicks and scratching noises. So instead the astronauts communicated what the creature heard. It goes as follows:

"What are you?"

"We are you, but not. We are what you wish to be, we are you realized."

"What does that mean?"

"If you were to be perfect, if every decision you made had been correct, if every day the sun had shined in just the right way.. maybe you would be us." The astronauts were confused, and upon asking further questions the creature would say it doesn't understand. Then they asked it about the arms.

"They are our shame, they cover way is to great for your eyes." The astronauts then forced the creature, against orders, to show them what was under the arms, and then the broadcast is only blood curtailing screams. The screaming broadcast has gone on for the four months since it began, never stopping and sometimes even changing in octave. The one member who was not watching at the time was heard trying to fix it, panicking because he could hear "scratching on the outside of the hull" and occasionally saw arms on the small window ports (pale arms like the creature). His transmission cut out when he lost power, but the other screaming one remained. It is unknown what happened to the last astronaut, however it is thought he perished that day or shorty after. No subsequent mission as been mounted, but the structures on the moon have continued to grow larger.

Sai'Kari

The Sai'Kari are an highly intelligent insectoid species that first appeared in the great Eastern European Rift two weeks after the events that began. While not much is known about them a small amount of their history has been discovered through slaves they have taken coming back to civilized nations. They appear to be a cult of their race, one who had experienced a similar event to the one that affected the earth. However this race had adapted and was able control their rifts via technology. This particular cult of their race worshiped an extra dimensional being from the void the rifts opened into. They attempted to summon said creature onto their planet, but were ultimately foiled by the rest of their race. As punishment they were thrown into one of their planet's permeant rift storms in the hopes it would suck them into the Void. However instead it deposited them into another Rift, the one on Earth. Now that they are here they are one again attempting to summon their god.

Their god oddly seems to be worships by humans as well, the idea started once the rifts open and it is theorized that this being exerts control over the inform and weak minded, turning them to its eldritch will. These humans mostly leave to go to the Sai'Kari and become their slaves.

The Sai'Kari do not have a connection to most humanity, but a few of them encoded the more common human languages (english, mandarin, french, spanish and portuguese) and can communicate with us. However only a few of their words have been figured out, as they are low in number and have minimal contact with humans outside of their slave workforce. On occasion they will come into contact with military forces of AEGIS when they are sent to deal with a particularly invasive rift spawn.

The Exiled

The Exiled were exiled by another god on their plane, not an actually world, it is series of floating masses chaine together by a immense beast (Octopus like) that it floats in a miasmic mist of stellar dust in some forgotten corner of the galaxy. These creatures came to earth by a collective effort by their god, the massive creature that holds their worlds together. They have come to earth in an attempt to bring part of their god there in order to bring their rot to this planet. They display powers similar to that of the HMD, however their powers are much more extreme and controlled. One of the Exiled can use strange arcane abilities akin to magic.

Non Intelligent

Skilters

Commonly referred to ask Skilters, they are one of the more common creatures to come through the rift. They are roughly the same size as a chicken and run around on four legs. Their skin is always moist and they are mostly found near water. however they are able to run very quickly and show a limited ability to change the color of their skin to hide in their environment. They have no obvious sensory organs (no skull either, their mouth is in the front of their torso between their shoulder blades) except a large fleshy tongue that comes out of the mouth. They mostly eat plants, but will scavenge meat if nothing else is around. Most of them are in Thailand, as the ones who appeared in Canada and Eastern Europe freeze and die. Many are in AGEIS's research facilities along with other creatures. However enough now exist in southern asia to have an actual breeding population. They pose minimal danger, and don't like coming near humans or light.

Decacon

This creature appears to be a strange combination of animal and plant, and is commonly referred to as the "walking trees". Their skin looks to be made of wood. However. underneath is a fleshy material skin to that which allows venus fly traps to open and close their jaws. Their bodies are in the form of large trunk like a hollow barrel. These are filled with water sucked up from the dozens of leg like roots. These roots, when not finding water, will move, walking the tree to a different location until the suckers on the bottom of each root stalk finds water. At their largest they are just over fifteen feet tall and weight seven hundreds pounds when full of water. At top speeds the legs can carry them at almost thirty miles an hour and when "forests" suck a lake dry dozens of them can run at once. WHen one stops it can cause the entire "forest" to trip over each other into large piles.