You're merely puppets
For our amusement,
So dance that little dance
For our amusement,
So dance that little dance
Somewhere beyond time and space, there lie worlds similar to the Earth...
capable of sustaining life...
full of natural resources...
conducting war...
But there are also some standout differences between these worlds and Earth...
The sun only shines for a brief time, on the last day of the year...
Everybody has control of at least one element...
And,
There are no free humans anywhere.
Unlike the Earth, these worlds understand the concept of life being a game and their inhabitants don't care how they treat those different from themselves. Humans are either slaves...or killed.
In one world in particular, this is done as both a sport....and a rite of passage. This world is known as Nividia, it is also called 'the lost land'. It is the largest world by far, several times as large as the Earth, but it has the lowest number of inhabitants because of a ages old myth.
This myth told of only one world, that prospered every day...where all of the inhabitants got along and thrived together. There were frail beings known as humans, who lived among the masses, who had nothing in particular that made them better than any of the other creatures. Over the years, the humans grew apart from the rest of Nividia's inhabitants, growing at an unbelievable race and believing they were superior to all other races in every way imaginable. This was not true.
The leaders of the other races became angered with the prejudice they were recieving from the humans and unleashed an attack on them...wishing to eliminate all traces of them from existence.
Now, there were a few humans who foresaw these events and used their rapidly advancing technologies to send a small number of individuals through a machine to an alternate world, namely....Earth.
These individuals were special, they were all infants, but they displayed amazing potential as far as controlling the elements, abilities, and in combat went. Nividian powers were hereditary, and as the children grew, living on Earth, the number of individuals who inherited their gifts grew.
Back on Nividia, there was no more peace....only hatred and scorn. Humans were forced to breed, to be used as slaves....and then killed. All of the races claimed superiority, and war broke out for a seemingly endless time....untill the races forged a treaty. All of the races divvied up the human population and made their way to other worlds, to live seperately and in peace...or so the story goes...
....But that's not the whole story....
The races still had internal problems and yearned for the feeling for superiority...so, every couple of centuries, they returned to Nividia to have a competition...to decide which race was superior and whom from each race would become their new ruler.
After a couple of these 'games', a vampiric representitive noted that they were no different than war
...so he offered an alternative...
Compete against each other AND the humans
Representatives would return to Nividia on a predetermined year to set up the game and send out a message to the humans....
And not just any humans.....
some humans were spirited away to Nividia without recieving the message, but only because they were prey and would earn a competitor, points....
The humans who recieved the message would be those whom could be found to be in their prime and to be of Nividian descent. The humans who each held great potential to wield an element or become something other than human later on in life....those humans were called upon to enter the game. Any other humans or beings that accompany them are transformed into something else and given their own unique ability....but do not belong to worlds who kill the humans for sport...at least...not yet...
The 'chosen' humans, upon esntering Nividia, are given knowledge of their power, and are told to choose a weapon....but the rest is up to them...
For humans who win, the prize is three wishes per person in their team...
However, since the founding of the game, not a single human has won the game...or returned to Earth...
Are you game?
