3D's Teaser

The Great Devastation

The last morning sun, the type of sun which greets you with a very warm light, was gone and today was entirely covered with the black curtains of darkness. Few have survived and most of the people were killed during the past few days. Dawn break is coming and soon the light of the sun will spread forth again giving vague visions obscured with what seems to be the remains of once striving and living.

Though the skies may be cleared, the bosom of the earth has been soaked deeply with human blood. Agony, pain, suffering, fear and hatred - a person can hear it murmuring its broken words everywhere. This is a cataclysmic change that sent everyone cowering in fear, agonizing over the deaths of many and suffering the pain inflicted to them. Everything was dark and moments from now, the real battle will about to begin for the Legacy.

The 3 D's

DEATH. There's nothing left in the scarred remains of the planet. Few people still survived and still persist in living but how long? Darkness blanketed the surroundings and even if there was light, it's just a sign of another day ----- another day of grieving and suffering ----- it's better to be dead than to live a life of hell day by day without doing but by witnessing your fellows die or get insane but will still die. It would be lucky if you go first because not much would matter anyway. In this time, the moment you'll be born, you can only heed one thought and it's a proven fact long time ago: surviving means hell and dying means heaven.

DESPAIR. As days goes by so does the resources starts to deplete, each of the people needs their own necessary things you know and now with only few things left - they compete for it one way or another. One way or another and everything fall tumbling in the morale of society. From food to shelter - everywhere has been a pandemonium and everyone has been turned into killer and lot less mindless animals were they. There's no hope now - seconds may tick and minutes may run but as long as it keeps pressing a foot forward, the world will more likely to be depicted as anthology of nightmares. The blood of innocent and guilty alike flows everywhere and the 'harmless' word was not acknowledge again. Kill or be killed - it's the rule that dominates the skies, waters and lands.

DESTRUCTION. Days turned to months and then to years, it's getting clearer that three days and then everything will be nothing. Not a single soul will walk in the planet and everything is in ruins. Houses burned, streets in wreck, fields uprooted, mountains denuded, cities deserted, beaches bleached with blood. The scene is like there's been a war that killed humanity with bullets denting or holing everything and crashes and leftovers of once transportation left in every place, not to mention the big deep craters, or the simple and most common things you could see in these times - the corpses rotting in every direction. Some of them are already stripped off nothing but with their white bones and some other still had their flesh but it's started decaying and by the thoughts of it, not a single insect were crawling in them because even insect have been lessened far before the humans started to turn on each other. The stains of blood is also a theme color of this age - it can be seen painted in the pavements, floors, roads, stairs and everything that is still intact. Everything turns to nothing and not a single sound can be heard not even the rustling of the leaves or the whistling of the winds. As for the Legacy, I think they did well - well enough to at least salvage some few lives to at least reside within this dead planet.

Recovery

The world barely recovered and now it's still bleak and away from that harmonious picture-perfect civilized way ages that already felt aeons ago. Traumatized about the near brink of extinction of humanity, each of the surviving human promised to not do that kind of reckless act again but none of them could remember what trigger it but instead they concluded that it was human nature and the human heart which brought forth the unspeakable horror that nearly got all humans killed and end their reign. But the question arose "How can they stop bringing that kind of catastrophe again?" As long as human strived, human nature will never be reprogrammed unless you'll rewrite history before Adam and Eve got the bite of the fruit in the Tree of Knowledge.

The human heart is out of the question too. It's more vital than human nature is and without it nobody can live - it's the main source to sustain of a life of a single person. Biology had known this but even the word biology was gone and none of the remaining can still remember what it means. They come to another dead end trying to answer the question. Then each of them disputes about what is the right thing to do and only to be countered by the numerous flaws of the idea.

It became a dilemma as one presents an idea then later on be scratched because of the thousands flaws it had. From the oddest solution to the simplest ones presented but none reach deem to fit the answer of the question given.

Before another anger, that will eventually lead into some deadly, broke out, one person recommend to scavenge the world as much as possible for knowledge once developed, now lost and be back three years later to present it and maybe on their way to seek it, they can make a brilliant idea that will answer the question flawlessly. And then everyone begins to go in their separate ways.

Expedition

Each of the remaining alive started to educate themselves into the corners of the world. Each of them gaining knowledge one after another and different from each other. There are 15 of them and 15 is enough to be able to construct an idea that will make the world an utopia again away from the risk of getting destroyed any minute. From the easiest knowledge to the most complex one and each of them had mastered it.

They enumerate one after another what they just find.

1. Weaponry

2. Education

3. Technology

4. Religion

5. Law and Government

6. Science

7. Language

8. Morale

9. Food

10. Trades

11. Information

12. Relationship

13. Shelter

14. Contentment

15. Magic

15 different knowledge and 15 different things but neither had the proper or even the combination to create the perfect solution of the current question. After three years of journey into the unknown and places who knows where, they still end up in dead end with the question unanswered.

Compromise and Compensation

Alas! Nothing they scavenge has help then to sort things out and answer the question. Each of them starts to argue - the seven males and six females except for the two little girls who haven't yet grasped on the heating situation and the ones who learnt 'contentment' and 'magic' --- factors who were standing in baseless and useless foundation. They are the youngest amongst the remaining.

Contentment who is rather opposite completely to human nature which is always in need and not be satisfied unless they see things their way but sooner or later, thirst again to progress. And there's magic who is also an unproven factor because reality and fantasy don't mix. Yet there's a chance on the two.

The danger of having another war again is pretty imminent in the distant if the discussion won't stop, not far but nearing.

The survivors exchanged reasonable points that strengthen their field and also rational reasons to weaken the others. Then there's religion versus science, weaponry versus education and other types of opposing factors which further heated the discussion. Normally, others defended their own and try again to pin-point another until the congregation was no more than a debate of importance.

The calm congregation, greetings and presentation turned into shouting and irritation and cursing until the two little girls who were not participating acted on their own to stop it from getting worse. They suggested and finally put an end to it that there's no perfect society because as long as there is living, risks are place on every being.

That silenced the level-headed idiots that were fighting over who are the more vital one. They dismissed their shouting and apologize to one another before an idea was fabricated to unite their knowledge and bring back the old before the Great Devastation society. It was indeed a great idea.

But the question and risk that it will lead again to another catastrophe is still there, looming around. Reminiscing about what happen, they can't help but to feel pain. Pain ----- it's the only mutual feeling they had for the first time.

It's terrible but it only means one thing it's the key. The dreariness of it might terrify the upcoming citizens to not do the same mistake again eventually this leads to the 3D's Rites.

It starts on the offspring of the survivors locked inside a place and will fight till death on their mastery either by magic or weaponry or other things. It was a tradition really to remind them what a grave mistake it was they have made in the Great Devastation. Over the time, it begins to change and now, it became more of a rite ------- it became a betting game with lives on the line no more than an entertainment.