Talk:The Catalyst

The Catalyst – Rules

First read the prologue story for the basis of what is going on.

It all begins on March 8, 2002. That is when the first real victims are changed, other than the original 14 Catalysts. Over the first 12 hours, no one outside of a range of about 100 miles around Ann Arbor is changed. By a week later, reports of Catalysts are all over North America, and some in the rest of the world. Within the first month or so, there is no part of the world that hasn’t been touched in some way. 1 in 10 to 1 in 50 of the Catalysts victims become Catalysts themselves. Most are either avian or mammalian in form, though there are occasionally fish-like Catalysts. They change people either by a scratch or bite via a virus that changes the appearance of the victim over 3-7 days on average, depending on how sever a change they go though. (Most mammalian changes take 3, avian and aquatic take 7.) People can wind up as just about anything other than mythological creatures. All victims end up in about a 50 Human- 50 animal ratio. A Catalyst of any form can cause any sort of change, regardless of form. It is rare for people to die from this.

I stress the term Victim, which is how most are treated. Unfortunate victims, especially the catalysts themselves, who outwardly loose their minds, though they still are there. The Catalysts are strongly driven to attack people. This urge to attack overwhelms them. Eventually, a massive effort to capture all the Catalysts is under taken, but never really succeeds, especially with the professor out and about. No one really knows his involvement; he’s simply listed as another victim. Medical studies are conducted on all types of Victims, all are still capable of processing the same foods as humans and lack many instincts of the animals they resemble, though there are cases of severely affected people. Most of the bird victims can fly, usually ending up in the 6-limb bird configuration (wings out the back).