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the lost 800

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Hello every one. this is the horsman, and I would like to tell you a story...

We all know of Chernobyl and Prypiat, but for those of you who dont allow me to fill you in.


Date: April 26 1986.
Place: Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant, Ukrain.

On 26 April 1986, at 01:23 (UTC+3), reactor four suffered a catastrophic power increase, leading to explosions in its core. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere and ignited the combustible graphite moderator. The burning graphite moderator increased the emission of radioactive particles, carried by the smoke, as the reactor had not been encased by any kind of hard containment vessel. The accident occurred during an experiment scheduled to test a potential safety emergency core cooling feature, which took place during a normal shutdown procedure.

the people surounding the area were evacuated as fire fighters tried to fight the fire, many sucomed to high radiation doses or severe burns and died very badly.

soon after teams of clean up crews called "Liquidators" arrived officialy 32 died not counting two in a helicopter crash, unoficialy the death to is suspected to be much higher. the soviets tried to hush it up but a swedish nuclear physisit who was visiting the area around Chernobyl found high concentration of radiation when he tested his gieger counter. The govorment was forced to evacuate over 50,000 people. they said that they would be allowed to return in two days.

they never were allowed to return

as clean up persited very few people noticed that not all the citizens had been acounted for.

800 to be exact.

these people, mostly familys who lived in Prypiat their whole lives and did not want to leave, others were arogent, or stupid, enough to think they could ride it out in their bomb shelters or cellers.

no trace of them was ever found.

beliving they sucumed to radiation not much of an effort was put into finding them. about a month after the disaster a serch party was sent out, it was considerd low priority and the crew were not well trained.


not all of them returned.

two men; Leroy Porokhov and Anton Kargeski wandered away from the group and failed to return, it was belived that they either wandred into a heavely iradiated part of the city or fallen into a pool of contaminated water.


over the next 26 years people were banned from coming anywhere near the city. however, indaviduals or small groups snuck in, mostly teenagers or university students on holiday looking for a cheap thrill. None returned, the Russian govorment used them as a waring to the rest of the world, but still the disaperences were worrisome.   

but over the years Chernobyl drew little intrest from the public at large, and the mystery of the 800 deterioated into a cult legend. that is  until the Juex incident

Maragold Juex was a 18 year old senior at the Sourbun, and in March 2010 she and a group 5 friends were asinged a project; over spring break they had to visit a forigen location that had suffered a disaster of some kind and do a report on it, they chose Chernobyl.

they were suposed to be gone for a week at the most, but for almost a month no one heard from them. Then Marigold turned up Dityatki (A Checkpoint that marked the area of the exclusion zone) and she had a very strange story to tell.

the way Marigold told the story; she and her friends along with Yuri a local guide showed up inside Chernobyl at about 10:00 in the morning and spent the day exploring, taking photos, gathering evidence and shuch. at 5:30 the sun began to set and Yuri called the group back to the van. at this point in the telling she became incoheant, BUT it was dicerned from her ramblings that the car failed to start, the friends were set upon by... something.

when Marigold was found she was taken to a hospital and examined by a team of doctors. apart from being dehidrated, malnorished and genraly filthy; she had bite and scrach marks on her arms and face, the bites were ruled as animal, but a dentist who helped examine her noticed that the tooth shapes were remarkably close to human dental patterns. Mmmm....

Marigolds claims that the attackers were "Sub human" were dissmised as the ravings of a mad women suffering post traumatic stress, still the mystery lives on.

what happened to the lost 800? What happened to Anton and Leroy? what happened to all those who vanished in Chernobyl? Who attacked Marigold? we might never find out. but... let just say the sarcofogas was'nt just built to keep the radiation in.

I know it sounds like Chernobyl Diaries but its not. No Jesse Mccartny, no ass backward plot line, no jump scares. Its Really much more grounded, like I put some actual EFFORT into it instread of slamming it together.
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hello everyone, by now you must know that yesterday a series of storms struck Arlington and Dallas, thankfully I survived. but narrowly.

Let me explain: I was in school, last peirod of the day world history, and I barly get into class when ALL FUCKING HELL BREAKS LOOSE!!!!!!! the lights flicker, we'er ordered into storm alert stations, wich is basicly SITTING ON THE FLOOR WHEN A 200+mph FUNNLE OF WIND THAT CAN RIP APART BUILDINGS IS BEARING DOWN ON US!! So not long after than two more classes came in making it very cramped on hot, and to add insult to injery the lights went out. but we used the flashlight apps on our smart phones. suprisingly no one freaked out about it. so after two hours I desperatly needed to go to the bathroom but they were'nt letting anyone out. So I march up to the teacher and say: "I dont care if its raining fireballs and zombies I'm using the bathroom." After I got that out of the way the storm soon passed and we were allowed to leave. we had no idea what had happened until my bus driver said that a tornado had come down nearly 300yds from our school, but had quickly dispersed, but not before wreking many houses next to the school, also a trompolean was lifted out of somones yard and set on the sidewalk so FREE TRAMPOLEAN!!! (lol) so I'm fine, my schools fine, my friends are fine, how are the rest of you?
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Felix Domhast, the main character, was descended from both Bavarian and Swedish ancestors. His Swedish side was Viking Raiders who came from an area around modern day Gothenburg. Smart and brave they raided their way south until they reached a Bavarian province, where they settled. 400 years later in 1499 Felix's ancestor Jokin Domhaste formed a band of Landsknecht and joined the Italian wars fighting Swedish Mercenary Pike men, French Heavy Cavalry, Italian Gunmen, winning many victories and gaining much plunder.



Hundreds of years later a branch of the Domhast family emigrated from Bavaria to escape the tyrannical reign of Adolf Hiter's Nazi party. The branch that left was made up of Felix's grandfather Heidrich. 70 years later Felix was born in Chicago.


After his attempted assassination Felix took to the streets and allied himself with a cyborg militia group the "Iron Giants" whom Felix soon took command of and renamed them the "Landsknecht" in honor of his ancestors. Felix took his top five officers Derek "Stomper" Fernan, Lawrence Longack, Karth Von klapp, Joan Guerrier, and Jagg Karton and turned them into what he called "Doppelsöldner"


Landsknechte from the past were known as flamboyant dressers, known for their multi colored tights, puffed sleeves, and wide plumbed feather covered hats. Felix's Landsknechte were not so flamboyant but they would still stand out in the crowd. They wore a combination of Cyber and Steam punk jewelry and clothing, and intricate tattoos. Felix himself wore a long black hooded coat, if you want a comparison look at Dante's coat from Devil May Cry, his pants were soft leather and reinforced with armor intricate ruins carved into the legs, a studded belt with a wolfs head belt buckled held his pistol holsters, his Kriss daggers, and whatever else he might half to carry. His Jewelry was modest; small gauge earrings, a nose ring, a lip ring, a necklace with a pentagram around his neck. His cybernetic arms were more impressive: intricate runes flowed down his arms to his hands, the tops of which had large Pentagrams; small symbols were on his knuckles. The runes were actually protective spells and enchantments written onto his arms, wile the ones on his fists were more aggressive.

now a little about Felix: Felix was nothing good to look at: he was short for his age at 5'6 and scrawny at 115lbs, his hair was lank black and his eyes were a watery blue, he suffered from severe acne and wore thick glasses. Years of taunts, teasing, and beatings had made him introverted, surly, reclusive, and "terrified of his own shadow" putting much strain on him and his friend since 4, Elsie.

Elsira Simone Mitternacht (or Elsie as she prefers to be called) was an in contrast a beauty. Standing 5'8 with the grace of a dancer and the look of a Norse goddess; long white blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes, clear skin the color of milkweed. She and Felix had become friends after Felix had saved her from a rabid dog.


Felix was entranced by the men of the True sons Neo Nazi cult. Felix was swayed by the confidence the men showed and he was eager to join. Now the constant bullying had caused Felix to repress any talent he had. One talent he kept secret from everyone even Elsie, he was a master at making explosives, and that is what attracted the attention of Oberleutnant Johan Peiper.


Peiper recruited Felix to build a bomb capable of destroying a large reinforced building. Felix set to work using a mixture of gas, and ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel. What Felix did NOT know was that they were targeting a large Jewish synagogue, the explosion demolished the building and killed more than 200 people many children.



When Felix found out he was enraged.

Then something strange happened: Felix's personality changed so radically that he became a different person almost overnight. He went from silent to soft spoken, indifferent to thoughtful, angry to peaceful, he was calm, gentle. He began to read again, something he rarely did back then. Philosophy, political analogies, stories such as the Iliad. The Oddesy, Beowulf and many others including manuals on military tactics and history. Elsie was shocked by the drastic changes but was delighted and their friendship soon was back on smooth tracks. Then they both discovered something about each other: They loved each other.


Felix was assassinated for a number of reasons: first: after the bombing he disavowed all allegiance with True Sons and set about trying to destroy them. Second: Felix was a loose end, upon gaining membership to the True Sons and the wider Nazi world he had learned many of their habits, haunts, and names, and -if he so wished- he could bring down the entire Neo Nazi world and without even swinging a punch or fireing a bullet.

Third: (and Lastly) Johan was also in love with Elsie seeing her white blond hair, piercing blue eyes, and Nordic features he believed her to be his female counterpart in looks and believed them to be the scion of the knew master race.


On in the weeks before his death Felix figured out the names of the families of the victims of the bombing and he went to everyone and confessed what had done, he told them who he was, who he was allied to at the time, everything, and they forgave him to a man.


Finally; he wanted to leave a memory of love to Elsie, his oldest friend. He took her to a park where they had met and played together everyday as element students. There, under a light snow fall, they danced amongst the snow flakes. Finally, he kissed her. Before they left each other Felix warned her against Peiper, that he wanted to claim her as his own, Elsie vowed never to fall prey to Peiper or anyone like him, then as midnight drew near she confesed to Felix saying "I dont know why, but I think I love you." Felix, smiling, said. "I know." and walked off into the night.
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Felix sat at his desk with Stomper, and Karl, the three men were in deep discussion.

"We can't fight them all Felix." Karl said

Felix didn't answer.

"We all want this as bad as you do, trust me." Stomper said.

Felix stared at the TV, a man dressed as a priest was gesticulating wildly before a crowed of hundreds, many armed.

"Who is that man?" Felix asked.

"Father Henderson." Karl said glancing at the TV.

"Leader of the Clergy?" Felix asked.

"Yep." Stomper said nodding.

The Clergy was a 'pro human' anti augmentation foundation dedicated for restricting Cybernetics; they had long been suspected of terrorist and hate crimes. So far however, none of it had been proved. Maybe because they were also suspected of bribing and intimidating anyone who would not support them.

In the twenty-six years since its founding Clergy was widely believed to be responsible for a wave of violence from New York to L.A and from Austin to Minneapolis. Despite vast public out cry and a pile of petitions the president, Congress, Cabinet, and Supreme Court was both slow and hesitant to enact any type of restriction or law.    

Felix leaned back in his chair thinking. "You guys are right of course." He said finally.

The two men exchanged looks. "We are?" They asked

"Of course, we are not ready, we are not strong enough, we are not well funded, well armed, or well trained, plus there are few of us. There would be more, but fear binds them."

"No not fear of Nazis, but of people like him." He pointed at Henderson who was by now sending the crowd into frenzy. "HE is the reason people like us are afraid to walk down the streets, the reason why many people who could be working are stuck in clinics and refused to get augmented because they might get beaten, their houses fire bombed, or shot through the head."

Karl and Stomper exchanged looks, when did Felix suddenly turn into a revolutionary?


"What are you saying Fixer?" Karl asked using his nickname for Felix.

"What I'm saying Karl is that we must do what others are afraid to do: fight them."

"People are fighting them."

"Yes but not the way we are going to." Felix sighed. "Even though it pains me to say it: We're going to fight them at their own game, this will not be a fight in a courtroom, nor with law suits. It will be fought in the streets, the alleys, in warehouses, barrooms and houses. It will be fought with knives, and guns, pipe bombs, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails, with those in hand we will not fear Father Henderson's rabble."

Karl and stomper leaned forward. "Are you saying what I think your saying?"

"Yes, we, along with a select band of warriors will unite the cyborgs and destroy the Clergy."


"An army?"
"In a way yes." Felix said.

"And what would we call this army?" Karl asked.
"My ancestors were German, more specifically Bavarian, they were mercenaries rather famous ones too known for their skill with firearms and pikes, and the infamous Zweihander swords."

"We will be known by what they were."

"And what is that?" Stomper asked.

Felix grinned. "Landsknecht." He said
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Plot line

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Hello everyone, I know it is strange for me to be writing but let me explain: I and a writer who has written poems, Haikus, short stories, biographies and speeches alike. But this is a special moment for me: I have decided (After much thought) to write a book, a fiction story about adventure, Mystery, conspiracy, and history. There will be gunplay, sabotage, knife and sword fights, love, betrayal, revenge, and above all else: Discovery.

The series follows 15 year old Felix Domhast. A boy whose is crippled after an assassination attempt by a neo Fascist group called The True Sons. Resurrected a month later as a Bio-Mechanical Augmented Human he swears revenge against all Neo Nazis.

but before young Felix can go about exacting his revenge, he must first build a force of like minded people, and fight an enemy far more dangers than the True sons, and along the way uncover a American/ Third Reich conspiracy that may have affected Americas future
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