VIRUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pinky]

Let's try this again.

Parasite: Alien Egg.

Starting Nation: Madagascar. (score)

Starting Resistance: Heat I.

Starting Symptom: Sweating.

Exchange Sweating symptom for Sores to boost infectivity, and Rodents transmission.

The disease stays isolated in and unnoticed outside of the host nation for several weeks, and I suppose that's due to Madagascar only have one shipyard from which to export my "wares". The naturally slow rates of adaptation and infection keep the Alien Eggs weak, and the Harmless trait sets in (curses!).

The infection obtains all transmission paths and Moisture I & II to enable waster source infection. I manage to unlock Tier 2 Symptoms followed by buying all tier one Resistances, but don't expect to need much more as Parasites are naturally resistant to changes in the environment.

Then the first traveling parasite reaches Mexico on the other side of the world, and then from there to the United States and Peru, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, East Europe and Australia, then West Europe, Greenland, New Zealand, Russia and China, with water sources being infected as they are reached. Africa closes its airports and shipyards which hampers the parasites ability to reach those shores, but I think it's only a matter of time.

I exchange tier one symptom Sores for tier two Pulmonary Edema, cutting visibility down to zero while maintaining a slight infection and lethality. Indonesia closes their shipyard shortly before it too becomes a host for the Alien Eggs.

Japan succumbs. The Middle East closes their borders, but like Indonesia before them that only drew the attention of the Aliens and the parasites were found there shortly thereafter.

Cuba quarantines themselves by shutting down their airport and shipyard. Their borders are open, but since it's an island I doubt the parasites will be able to travel there unless they grow wings.

China, with over a third of their population the host to my parasites, starts playing hard ball: schools, public transit, hospitals, national borders and shipyards are closed; all Government Affairs are enacted in short order. The infection rate there rises from one third to one half.

Natural disasters begin happening with unusual frequency.

The infected world falls into a downward spiral in an attempt to stall the parasites while they begin developing The Vaccine. Sensing that the time for the last battle is drawing near, the parasites are equipped with Fever, Fatigue and Boils to overwhelm human medical efforts and ramp up the spread of infection on multiple fronts. By now, half of the world's hospitals are already out of commission.

As the time of the Great Battle draws near, North Africa is protected from infection but not beacuse it has closed itself off from the world: on the contrary, the world has closed itself off from Africa. No people travel from the infected nations into Africa, no ships are sailing into harbors, no planes landing at airports. Clever humans.

The Vaccine is completed, and the latest weapon of the Aliens is unleashed: Dementia. National governments continue their paltry efforts but all eyes are on The Vaccine, for in it is the last best hope of mankind.

And it fails.

Of course, now the world at large is doomed to suffer for another season but the victory leaves me with a hollow feeling: as the Harmless trait continues plaguing my plague there has yet to be a single death caused by the Alien Eggs.

A second coming of The Vaccine is into the works and the parasites begin causing Cysts, furthering infection and raising lethality. Only five hospitals remain active across the globe. Five and a half billion are infected, everyone in the fallen regions. The Alien Eggs become Stealthy, lowering public awareness (wut?). Yet, no deaths.


When the second Vaccine is completed it fails to be deployed. Why? Because the Deployment Bar is already full! This must be a glitch. I unlock Tier 3 symptoms and gain Depression. For both them and myself. End game.

-_-