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She had to survive.

That was his only thought, his only focus. Survival. No one had come as close as him, no one even broke the first genome, but he, he was going to do it. He was finally going to succeed where his colleagues failed. The cancer that slowly ate away at his wife's brain would never plague another. He wouldn't let it.

Months later the trials began, but they were slow and arduous. Rats at first, then cats, even monkeys, in the end they were all cured of the cancer. Yet as he toiled, she became worse, losing memories, forgetting dates. How long did she have left? He shuddered to think of it.

A few days after the successful cure of a chimp, his assistant Pepper broke the bad news. "Dr. Morbius," she began.
"I've told you dear, call me Hugo."
"Hugo...The board denied human trials. They say there's not enough proof that the cure works. I'm...I'm really sorry."
He turned from her, eyes dark, fixed on the open notebook laying flat on the lab table. Denied? No, not when he was so close!

He sat in the empty lab for hours, deep into the night, pacing, stalking, cursing his own damn luck that he had to work under such imbeciles. He did the trials, did he not? He had the formulas! He had the answer! He wasn't going to let her die in front of his eyes...

Days later, Pepper developed severe aches in her head and sudden seizing in her neck. She was a healthy girl, young, she couldn't understand what was happening to her. She was special.

"Dr. Morbius..." She whispered to him, late on a Thursday night. "I feel dizzy..."
She collapsed in his arms. He carried her to a cold table in the lab.

She took the first injection fine, and even though she was unconscious her state seemed to improve. Yet the blood sample...There was something strange about it. Her body began to shake and twist, he had to push her shoulders down to keep her still. The second injection came quick, yet it seemed harder to pierce through her skin, as if her blood had thickened somehow and resisted it. She continued to writhe, more violent than before.

"This can't be right!" He shouted. "The cure should have worked!"

Suddenly Pepper stopped convulsing and her body lay still. Dead? He wondered.

Then there were steps in the hallway, slow, light, headed right for the lab. Dr. Hugo Morbius bolted towards the door and swung it open, then shut it behind him, just in time to come face to face with her.

"My love," his wife said. "You are late for our anniversary dinner, so I came to get you."
She remembered. He felt touched.

The sweet feeling eroded as the door behind him swung open, revealing a ghoulish figure silhouetted in the doorway, bent and twisted, gurgling blood. Pepper's corpse shambled out of the room and gnashed at the doctor, who fell out of the way. Instead, bloody teeth sank into his wife's pale face.

"No! Please!" Shouted the doctor in horror.
Pepper ripped through flesh, turned and roared at him.

His only instinct was to run...run, run run.


The cure should have worked, did work in a way, but what the unfortunate doctor failed to realize was that he had made a cure for humans, and the chemical compounds infected superhumans much, much differently. Now Pepper's thoughts of clothing and science were replaced with food, food, food!

That was how it started, with humans becoming food, and the superhumans becoming...something else.

Sure, there was a part of Pepper that still felt remorse, guilt, sadness, but that could not feed the hunger. It was all about survival now.

She had to survive.

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Hey guys, here's a zombie-themed mafia game. Pretty standard, with some minor twists.

Choose two well known comic book characters, I'll combine them into two (Hybridity-Style) and then kill them. Voila, you'll have a zombie.

If you get defeated in the game then you'll be cured, and be allowed to continue posting, and may gain some other abilities.

Standard Mafia roles, with some surprises and maybe a small mechanic or something to make it more...ravenous. We'll see.

Send me three pairs in order that you want them.
If you choose really powerful characters like Galactus, I'll nerf them down so everyone is on par.

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Signups

1) The Darkstone
2) RenegadeRoy
3) DestructoBoy
4) Grinner
5) killingjoke101
6) Jackofhearts2005
7) Morpheousdr3am3r
8) KitsuShel
9) viciousbuddha
10) TonyStarkPrime
11) Cuban Vader
12) Rokk_Krinn
13) Silver Lantern
14) Wade Wilson
15)

Etc

Any restrictions on comic book universes? Is it just DC/Marvel or indy's as well?

Whatever you want, as long as they're relatively well known

Submitted!

I've also submitted.

Exciting times are here.

I'll play.

Welcome back

Vote: Jack

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one!

I'm in. I'll have submissions in tomorrow after work. Also happy to see you back JoH!

Alright guys, good to see everyone. Let's try to get a few more before starting, at least 10 I'd say.

I’m in!

I live to consume!

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Alright we have ten, but I'll keep signups open for anyone else that wants to come in.

In the meantime, send over your pairs and I'll start creating roles.

If not to late I'd like to get in