[ti]location[/ti] ABOUT: CORRUPTION ZONE

CORRUPTION ZONE

you shouldn't be here

YOU HAVE 1 NEW MESSAGE!

From: System Admin:ProfessorAsh
Subject: ATTENTION ALL TRAINERS
DO NOT enter the Corruption Zone. The barrier preventing forward progress has fallen, but we have no idea what might be out there. I repeat, DO NOT enter Area 2: Mistra. Nothing we might find is worth the risk, I assure you.

The terrain is steep and mountainous. Eerily enough, there is no temperature at all- no breeze, no movement of air, no sun or shade.

Close to the ground hang dark, 2D shapes like clouds of spilled ink. They obscure your vision in ragged black patches, burning red if stepped through. Something like acid sizzles in the back of you and your Pokemon's minds. If you can focus through the pain, it sounds almost like words.

The longer you spend here, the more you begin to question what is real. Hallucinations rise from the dark patches- or are they? Corrupted Pokémon shamble through the crags, twisted beyond recognition- or are they hallucinations? Can a figment of your own mind really hurt you?

Yes. They can.

Ally and enemy, friend and foe, real and not real. You have no control here. In fact, the longer you spend here, the less sure you are that you're yourself at all.

The more time you spend in the Corruption Zone, the more you feel like you are becoming part of something. Something other. Something terrifying. Something trying, perhaps, to communicate.

If you stop to listen, you may no longer be as you once were.

RULES

• You may only bring one Pokemon to the Corruption Zone. The others jump and flicker in your UI, unselectable. Who will you subject to the horrors of the unknown?
• Your Pokemon will lose -50 HP per post. When it reaches 0, your character will de-spawn and return to Asper.
• The Corruption Zone is themed around the HORROR genre. Psychological, existential, body, anything goes! There is plenty of room for creativity: do you like zombies? Write zombies. Do you like cosmic horror? Write that.
• Please tag your threads with the appropriate trigger warnings (insects, etc). Try to keep your writing PG-13 for the sake of Proboards TOS.
• It is recommended not to devalue or undercut the horror aspect in your threads here. Humor is a valid method of distancing oneself from fear, but you are asked to use it sparingly. Try to embrace the genre if you can!