The Corrupted

> *"They only corrupt those who aren't Dimondan, they evolve, they are feral and are aggressive; they are... corrupted" - Capeitian guard in Typlian Bunker 4*
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## The Corrupted

### Issue

The release of aggressive evolving beast corrupted by the Red Corruption

### Cause

Simmons Fiermen gaining the Red Essence, taking 5,000 of Jax Darumon's followers to corrupt them and lead them to overpower the superpowers and lords

## Participants

### Nations/Kingdoms

Capeitian Monarchy, Cubakan Republic, Nermania

### Key Players

King Cyan the XII, Queen Lila, President Aukal, Andrew Filipok and Phil Arnokl, Friedrich Seggatz, William Evan Knoman, Benjamin Saubikon (MORE TO BE ADDED)

### Primary Protags

Mike Donshier, Ivan Levourin, Rin Samaru, Hatty Clayidmor, Maddox Foln, Thomas Armededon, Izzabel Fernu, Ben Helfhart, Alex Formand

The Corrupted are individuals who have been corrupted by the Red Corruption (the actual name being Red Rebellion). Unlike the Red Army or Red Recruits, these corrupted individuals are under the rule of Simmons Fiermen who went megalomaniac after gaining his newfound powers. The corruption would also be affected by his behavior with instead of people changing into reasonable, critically thinking people with the ability to communicate, they would turn into feral aggressive beast who would lack the ability to speak any language though this doesn't stop them from being able to communicate to each other albeit much slower.

These corrupted individuals also have the ability to evolve and steadily increase their strength, speed and resilience if enough time passes. The corrupted individual will always be changing to be stronger and more resilient. (It is possible for themselves to evolve their own form of kevlar on themselves after 3-5 days

## Origin

The Corrupted were created from Simmons Fiermen who infected the first army of Corrupted individuals by making a deal with Jax Durrmon by asking for 5,000 of his followers in exchange for splitting up all the dimensions he had conquered with his corrupted with him. He then took Durrmon's 5 thousand followers and locked them into cages who were all then exposed to the Red Essence. This resulted in 5,000 corrupted stickmen under the rule of Fiermen

## Information and Inner workings

The Corrupted can corrupt other stickmen by attacking their bodies which then leak the Corruption into their spell connections which then reach for the soul to corrupt the stickman. Depending on how much damage the corrupted put onto the body, the faster the stickman will be corrupted.

The way corruption works is by exposing the spell connections to the corruption which will take some time to settle in. If the stickman knows that their spell connections are containing the corruption and are going to expel it from their body, the corruption will then start to race towards their soul for an early corruption. The reason why they take time to corrupt stickmen is so they can give themselves a headstart on the body by adding on shell covering and increased stamina and strength to attack others; once ready, the corruption then races to their victims soul and will take over the body. This then gives them the only objective to kill any Dimondans and infect any who are not Dimondan.

Dimondans cannot be infected by the corrupted simply because they do not carry enough spell/magic capacity to contain enough magic for their spell connections to be able to easily cast spells which also means the corruption can't do anything once inside the connections. Even if the Dimondan individual were to cast a spell, the corrupted part of their spell connections can't travel because the connections open up if spells are being casted but move back to their original position once the spell passes through a segment

The corrupted can evolve to have different variants:

* Swordsman
	+ Swordsmen are corrupted stickmen who have evolved to wield a sudo-sword on one of their arms. They can also evolve to have both arms be swords or have one be a shield
* Quadrupedal
	+ These corrupted stickmen have had the corruption increase their maneuverability, flexibility and speed to be able to catch stickmen off guard and kill, escape or to advance at a face pace though they lack the ability to tank bullets and stronger spells and aren't strong enough to break through keycard doors in a matter of seconds
	+ If given enough time, they can evolve to have stronger grips and claws which can help them climb walls and ceilings increase their ways of corrupting or killing
* Shooters
	+ Shooters are one time enemies because of the way they attack. The entire upper half of their body has evolved to become the shape of a crossbow which when they bend over are able to use their host leftover magic to shoot that half of their body into unfortunate victims. Due to the size, density and velocity of the projectile it can penetrate through many or stronger materials with it even being threatening to tanks
	+ Because of their evolution, the lack the ability to talk or smell though they can see and hear with the many eyes and hearing sensors implanted on the foregrip and limb

## Weaknesses

* Lack of intelligence
	+ This should be fairly obvious by looking at their behavior, stickmen Dimondan or not are always going to use this against the corrupted
* Lack of coordination
	+ The corrupted run, climb and topple over areas like its nobody's business; this makes it easy to set up traps, get them cornered or get tricked into getting seen by a firing squad
* Noises
	+ The corrupted emit noises whenever and although they may be in moments where they aren't full of energy chasing or looking for people, they are always making a quiet growling noise when standing still or not running and more of shambling around
	+ They are also attracted to noise as their only objective is to search and kill those who aren't corrupted. This combined with the lack of coordination allows you to make easy escapes with the knowledge and equipment

## Trivia

* The Corrupted are massively inspired by the 28 days later Rage Virus
* Their heads are inspired by clickers from The Last of Us