Post by JACKIELA on Jun 21, 2009 13:31:57 GMT -6
It's been two years since the mind-rain first took flight. Nearly every pretty in the world has had the bubblehead surgery reversed, aside from those precious few who choose to live blissfully ignorant. They are the smart ones. Along with the creativity and freedom that being a non-bubblehead brings, it also brings back all of those ugly little emotions that pretties never had to deal with. The love is messier, the anger is truly terrible, and life itself seems as though it couldn't get much worse. But, oh, it does.
Three month agos, Specials were re-introduced into the world, following a gruesome and terrible series of murders in New Pretty Town. There hadn't been a murder for centuries, let alone a serial murder, and all of the knowledge of how to deal with something like this was lost along the way. With the cities being open for anyone to join and leave, the city wardens were unable to keep whoever was responsible from escaping. Tracking the city's inhabitants had become a thing of the past, so they had no way of knowing just who it was. But the fact that a cold-blooded murderer remained loose in the world wasn't the worst part.
The worst part was that, although the murders all took place in New Pretty Town, it was uglies that were killed. Could it be that this mysterious murderer was sending a message?
Whatever the reason for these terrible events, it caused a world-wide panic. Interface rings and bracelets were re-introduced in an effort to keep a watchful eye on the city's residents. Uglies became weary of their time in New Pretty Town, and most just decided to stay in their dorms in Uglyville rather than risk their life. But no matter what the city wardens tried to do to keep people safe, it didn't help matters.
After the thirteenth victim was discovered, the Special operation was recreated. The next time that something like this happened, they would be there to stop it .. or so they thought. Two months ago, a fourteenth victim was discovered, and the Specials were oblivious until it was over and done with. The world is a scary and dangerous place, even with Specials watching out for humanity. The cities needed something more, or they would be forced to return to the Prettytime.
Unfortunately, the only thing that everyone could agree on was to create a barrier around the city, a dome that prevented anyone from getting too close to going in, or leaving the city. Once again, humanity is trapped, only this time it's more literal than every before.
It's been one month since the dome was officially finished, forcing the people inside the city to stay there. Whoever murdered all of those uglies had escaped before the barrier was finished, but not before killing one other person .. A Special. It doesn't seem possible, of course, but it is. Somehow, though no one inside the city knows how, a Special was murdered and whoever was capable of doing such a thing was out in the wild somewhere, lurking and creeping around, just waiting for another moment to strike the city and all of their defenses, until the bubblehead surgery is brought back and the Prettytime is back.
But the question on everyone's minds isn't, "Who is killing people?" No, the question that everyone can't help but ask is, "How long before the bubblehead surgery is brought back, for good?"
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