Stranger Things: The Fall of Hawkins Wiki

## The Fall of Hawkins Apocalypse

> "It’s time. Your suffering is almost at an end."
>
> - Vecna.

## Overview

It’s the year 1986, *Hawkins Indiana*, and the world has just been thrown into chaos. After the battle against the powerful being Vecna, the group thought they had won but it turns out that Vecna was only a distraction from an even greater evil.

The town believes it is recovering from an "earthquake" but the main group knows the truth about the sinister world(Aka: The Upside Down) hidden beneath Hawkins, and it's motives, that can only be accessed through portals. The exact portals Vecna created before his 'defeat' by killing; Nicole(Chrissy's friend) at the Munson trailer, Fred(Nancy's journalist friend) at some road in the east of Hawkins, Patrick (Jason's friend) at Lovers lake, and Will(Temporary) at the Creel house. Little did they know that these portals would expand after Vecna successfully carried out his mission, causing the Upside Down to merge with the normal world. The result was dark plumes rising from the four portals, a raging supernatural storm in the skies, and fragments of the Upside Down falling across Hawkins, causing strange weather patterns and a shift in the balance of nature.

In response of the outbreak, the U.S. government, along with the Hawkins Lab, have isolated the town in order to prevent worldwide panic and study the effects of the merge between the two worlds from upclose. They've been aware of the Upside Down ever since the first portal and been eager to find out more about. However, In order to do so, they had to find a way to prevent the spread, keep the citizens unaware of what is really happening, and hold them under strict watch. The military, under government orders, therefore turned Hawkins into a quarantine zone; This so the citizens won't be able to leave the town. For those who try to leave, the military has the right to shoot civilians suspected of infection.

### The Isolation of Hawkins

The isolation of Hawkins, Indiana was a controversial decision made by the government and military, along with the Hawkins Lab, following the destruction that took place. The authorities believed that the town needed to be isolated so that they could study the effects of the interdimensional rift on the people and environment in Hawkins, without alerting the rest of the world.

To accomplish this, they built patrols around the town and nearby areas, preventing anyone from leaving or entering. This was done to slow down the spread of any potential infection and to prevent panic among the general population.

However, this decision had a devastating impact on the residents of Hawkins. They were effectively cut off from the rest of the world and left to face the dangers of the Upside Down alone. The Labs priority is to study the phenomenon, something they've been studying for years on end, rather than finding a way to fight against it. This leads to the exploitation of the people in the town; the residents of Hawkins are subjected to various dangerous, which are progressively getting worse.

To keep the people calm, the authorities reportedly explained that the isolation was due to an earthquake, and that they were working to find the source of the tremors. This allowed them to maintain a semblance of normalcy and avoid causing panic among the population for as long as possible.

#### Resisting dissident groups and losing powers

... WIP (groups of citizens resisting against goverments rules,, focussed on survival)

### Effect on resources

.... WIP (lack of heat, electricity, resources etc)

One of the most noticeable effects of the merging was the depletion of resources in the town. Slowly but surely, electricity begins to disappear, leaving the citizens in the dark and without any means to power their homes. The disappearance of electricity also meant that there was no heat, leaving the people to suffer in the cold. *Just how he likes it..*

The town scrambles to find a solution, it's clear that the Upside Down was not only a physical threat, but also a threat to the very fabric of their society. The town's infrastructure is crumbling, and the resources that had once sustained them were rapidly dwindling.

As the situation worsened, tensions began to rise among the townspeople. Some started to hoard whatever resources they had left, while others turned to violence in a desperate attempt to survive. The once tight-knit community was now fractured, and the future of Hawkins looked bleak.

### Phases:

On the 11th day of each month, we will proceed to the next phase and provide an announcement regarding the upcoming phase. We will deliberate the particulars within the server.

* First phase; Two days after the 'defeat' of Vecna, the four portals became active and started spreading it's ashes from the Upside Down.
* Second phase; Following the spread of the ashes, the goverment and the military started their mission to isolate Hawkins and closeby towns/cities, from the rest of the USA. They'd secure the borders and no longer allow people to get in or out of the area without letting the people know exactly why.
* Third phase: tba

## Nature, Animals, and Humans

### Nature

temp: something about the plants, sky, vines etc

### Animals

temp: infected by ashes, animals evolve (demo creatures)

### Humans

People who have been exposed to the ashes of Upside Down for a period of time will become a host of a small fungus in their brains; also known as ‘The blues.’ The fungus causes breathing difficulties and slowness of movements within days of being exposed to the ash.

*Other known symptoms:*

* *Fatigue*
* *Discoloration of the skin (blue-tinted lips and under-eyes)*
* *Tremors and body aches*
* *Eye sensitivity to light*
* *Hallucinations*
* *Distortion of voices/faces*
* *Paranoia*
* *Periods of intense hunger*
* *Over-sensitive senses (smell, taste, eyesight)*
* *Random triggers of the automatic nervous system (fight or flight); slowed digestion, fast heart rate, dilated pupils, excess cortisol*

If left untreated, the host eventually progresses to the next stage of the infection known as ‘the comatose state.’ An individual in this state is alive but unable to move or respond to his or her environment;

* *Closed eyes*
* *Eyes depressed brainstem reflexes, such as pupils not responding to light*
* *No responses of limbs except for reflex movements*
* *No response to painful stimuli except for reflex movements*

Again, if left untreated, this will lead to the next stage; *death*. The fungus will grow its vines around the brain, preventing the host from regaining consciousness or breathing without support. So far, no cure is known. All we know is that heat is the weakness of anything from the Upside Down.

After an infected person dies from the ‘The blues’ or an attack by an infected creature, the corpse becomes a new source for the Upside Down to spread. The body begins to merge with the environment with vines growing out of it. It starts releasing spores that infect any human who breathes them in. Survivors use masks to prevent this.

The process of forming a new source causes the corpse to start decomposing which grows the internal fungus to create the vines. Fusing the vines to surfaces as it continues to grow. As time passes, the fruiting body becomes a "moss" that can fill entire structures with ashes and vines. However, the fruiting body dies quickly when exposed to heat/fire.

Link to reference source: https://thelastofus.fandom.com/wiki/Infected

## Upside Down

portals, main source of the upside down, creatures, etc

### Gates

Gates are wounds or ruptures in the fabric of space-time that connect the regular world with the Upside Down. They are bridges between dimensions, allowing for instantaneous travel from one plane of existence to another. **Eleven, Vecna, and the Demogorgon** all possessed the ability to create gates.

Furthermore, gates can be considered extensions of the Upside Down itself, consisting of the same tendrils, vines and webbing present throughout the dimension.

### Closing the gates?

.... WIP (Main source needs to be destroyed, Heat, Experiments Eleven and Kali, Will etc)

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