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The Impenetrable

orionx103 · 2003-12-03T14:21:47

Basics: In 2010, a filthy rich scientist named Alexander Polasky was sent to an island prison called the Impenetrabble. It was enclosed in four, ten-foot thick, hundred-foot high concrete walls. At every corner, a tower that stood higher than the walls, manned with a sniper and spotlight each. Inside the walls, there were originally two towers, one taller than the other. The taller was for good inmates. The smaller was for the exceptionally bad ones. When Polasky came, he funded a third tower, which was a lab, library, and a place to live for the friends of Polasky, where he educated them to help him. He was allowed to perform experiments. There were under-the-table deals between Polasky and the warden, a veteran named Nick Borlan. Polasky’s experiments were creating chemical weapons and steroids for the guards. But Polasky was planning chaos. He put gene-altering substances in the steroids and was even secret giving inmates shots. Polasky was waiting for the perfect time to implement his plan, and got it when the warden asked for tranquilizer bombs in ever room of every tower, which were to be activated by a remote control. By 2015, nearly all inmates had received shots, and it showed. Hostility in the prison had greatly increased until, one day, there was a riot. Borlan set off the bombs, knocking out nearly everyone. The only people who weren’t affected were those in automated solitary confinement. The gases in the tranquilizer bombs mutated all that had taken shots. The more shots one took, the more radical of a change there was. You: You are Mark Gideon, a former special ops agent. You were locked up for starting a major riot, which caused millions in damages and a few dozen casualties. The Story: You wake up after fourteen days of solitary confinement and a day without food. The door of your cell is open, thanks to the automated machinery. Your first instincts lead you to the mess hall to eat. You scrounge up some food, and quickly eat. You begin to walk around and find inmates and guards are all knocked out. You pick up and handgun from a guard and go outside to see if anyone’s awake in the other building. Once outside, you find that others are awake, but they’re deranged. Their bodies have changed and they’re going at each other. Once you walk out, they go after you, the fresh meat. The Goal: Find a way out of the prison, anyway you can. Notes: I originally thought of the prison concept while thinking of a Resident Evil story, i.e. what would happen if the virii were unleashed in a prison full of steroid-pumped guards and maniacal prisoners. I changed it around so-as to be semi-original. What do you think?

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Started by orionx103 November 20, 2003 10:21 PM

23 comments, last by orionx103 20 years, 9 months ago

EricTrickster

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November 25, 2003 05:13 PM

I keep reading this...and I keep seeing the movie "28 Days", set inside a prison.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

[font "arial"] Everything you can imagine...is real.

RichardMV

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November 25, 2003 06:08 PM

Wasn''t 28 Days that movie where Sandra Bollock was going through alchohol rehab? There was a new movie with a X days title, but I can''t remember its name, and I didn''t see it. I still want to see a final battle with a hammer and an ax, by the way, and I think the tunnels would be fun (I''m insistant, aren''t I? I''ll drop the hammer and ax stuff now, but the caverns...)

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Nypyren

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November 25, 2003 11:37 PM

Sounds like the game "Abuse" with the hostiles mutating and stuff.

No, 28 days later was that British zombie movie.

[edited by - Nypyren on November 25, 2003 12:37:27 AM]

RichardMV

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November 26, 2003 09:28 AM

28 Days Later and 28 Days are entirely different movies. The former is the movie I described, while the Latter is the movie you just described. See, leaving out words can cause much unecessary confusion.

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RichardMV

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December 03, 2003 02:21 PM

I think it''s time for a bump. So, shall we continue?

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