[ Keep in mind the event itself only starts tomorrow, after we’ve made a post about it. ]
It’s Tuesday the 14th, everything is perfectly ordinary but gloomy, rain is pouring and people are seen taking cover to remain dry. Normal, right?
No one is raising an eyebrow when a man is seen running down the street, he just wants to keep dry. In his reality, he’s being chased by a man whose wife he slept with years ago. He ducks into an alley, backed up against the wall as he pleads. All he wants is to be left alone, he doesn’t want to fight. Suddenly his pursuer vanish into thin air and he is left confused but relieved.
In a white picket fence home, a stay at home mom is seen throwing a fit by her sister. She is screaming in panic, her speech incomprehensible, before she shoves her hand in the garbage disposal and turn it on.
Two children were happily playing in the forest but are now running for their lives, their screams resonating between the trees. They are terrified, stumbling on rocks and branches in hope of survival.
It is slowly progressing all over town, people are hysterical and beg for help, plead to be left alone, afraid they are going to die, attacking people and hurting themselves and others. It’s like the water in Goldwater has been spiked with acid and now everyone is stuck in their own horrifying realities.
Normal? No. True? Yes, but it isn’t acid.
Vinceret attempted to be humane and careful so they spiked the town’s water deposit with what they wanted to believe was a cure for the plague that are mutants.
For months, enhanced humans have been experimented on. Only a few selected people knew about these experiments and where they were taking place. Mutants died or suffered side effects that were completely irreversible, painful and sometimes coma inducing. They kept changing the formula, not resting until they had the final product good enough to satisfy Thomas, the scientist in charge, and Edward, the Vinceret leader.
The latest experiment was when things began looking promising. When the mutant they last experimented on, and the few after that, showed no side effects, at least when they were asleep, Vinceret saw it as an opportunity to strike the small town --- make Goldwater the town to first witness the glory of it, no matter the outcome.
Something went wrong, unexpectedly wrong Vinceret would say, and instead the formula targeted the human population and its minds. The humans experience hallucinations of different varieties. Some are mild, others horrible, unbearable even and they can no longer tell reality apart from the images their mind is displaying. Humans have to deal with the tricks their minds are playing and mutants are faced with a choice: will they help the humans or will they sit back and watch havoc unfold?
Either way, this is going to leave it’s mark on the entire town. It’s not death but some will wish it was.