| | 1 | = Overview and Brief Analysis of Abuse's Plot = |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | By Nathaniel Krell. Last Updated: Oct 13, 1999 |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | == Abuse: Final Release Plot == |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | You are Nick Vrenna. It is the year 2009. |
| | 8 | You have been falsely incarcerated inside |
| | 9 | a high security underground prison where |
| | 10 | illegal genetic experiments are taking |
| | 11 | place. |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | Alan Blake, the head research scientist, |
| | 14 | has isolated the specific gene which |
| | 15 | causes violence and aggression in humans. |
| | 16 | This genetic sequence, called "Abuse", is |
| | 17 | highly infectious, causing horrific |
| | 18 | transformations and grotesque |
| | 19 | side-effects. You are the only person to |
| | 20 | show immunity to it. |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | A prison riot erupts, and in the |
| | 23 | confusion all the cell doors are opened. |
| | 24 | Soon everyone, guards and convicts alike, |
| | 25 | become infected and transform into a |
| | 26 | horde of mutants which take over the |
| | 27 | building. |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | Your only chance for escape is to don |
| | 30 | battle armor and reach the Control Room |
| | 31 | situated in the structure's deepest |
| | 32 | level. You must first stop the prison's |
| | 33 | Abuse-infected water supply from |
| | 34 | contaminating the outside world. Freedom |
| | 35 | and the fate of the world now depend on |
| | 36 | you. |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | == Speculation == |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | Why are you breaking farther into the |
| | 41 | prison instead of out of it? |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | Oh sure, save the world. |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | Why would a wrongly accused guy, quite possibly |
| | 46 | out for revenge, try to "save the world" |
| | 47 | by breaking farther into the prison? |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | And why are there jungles and caves and |
| | 50 | sewers and what not? |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | And where would all your equipment come from? |
| | 53 | Powered armor and energy weapons |
| | 54 | just lying around? |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | And why do so many of the defense systems |
| | 57 | only target you? |
| | 58 | |
| | 59 | And why the hell do the "mutants" have |
| | 60 | weapons on their backs? |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | Where would all of this come from? |
| | 63 | |
| | 64 | A plot change. |
| | 65 | |
| | 66 | What if Nick Vrenna had not originally been |
| | 67 | a falsely accused prisoner in 2009, breaking |
| | 68 | farther into a prison, |
| | 69 | but a high-tech special ops agent in 2021 |
| | 70 | breaking into an alien base after an invasion? |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | What if "Ant" was not slang for "Mutant" |
| | 73 | but an acronym? A.N.T. - Aggressive Non-Terran? |
| | 74 | |
| | 75 | What if Abuse was not a genetic sequence... |
| | 76 | but the Mission's Codename? |
| | 77 | |
| | 78 | == Abuse: The Original Plot == |
| | 79 | |
| | 80 | (source: back of original box) |
| | 81 | |
| | 82 | The Ants were fearless, efficient killers. The Unified |
| | 83 | Underground's only opening was that the Ant defense |
| | 84 | systems were designed by engineers too arrogant to |
| | 85 | consider the threat of an individual. It was enough to |
| | 86 | justify the covert Abuse Missions. |
| | 87 | |
| | 88 | On August 31, 2021, eight bytes were zeroed in a computer, |
| | 89 | and Nick Vrenna's identity was erased. A suit |
| | 90 | of armor cradling his smoking auto rifle stood in shadows |
| | 91 | appreciating the stench coming from the first retired |
| | 92 | Ant of the day. The armored soul feared the effort |
| | 93 | would end up as pathetic as the Terran Surrender |
| | 94 | Terms, but humanity had nothing else. |
| | 95 | |
| | 96 | == Further Speculation == |
| | 97 | |
| | 98 | This plot may have been dropped because it's overused. |
| | 99 | A lone soldier breaking into a huge alien base |
| | 100 | and blowing things up. This seems to be the theme of |
| | 101 | all sorts of games already out there. |
| | 102 | Heroes don't become such by choice, but by necessity. |
