Plague Inc: Evolved

Plague Inc: Evolved

Viral Therimorphism
Bronze Kasrkin  [developer] 1 Mar, 2015 @ 8:01pm
Special Scenario - Lost World
Lost World is an event story that is inspired by a variety of dinosaur-related media, including the shoutout in the title. An origin story, this one centers around a genetically-engineered virus used for the purpose of creating dinosaurs, following a breakthrough in paleogenetics. Naturally, as Ian Malcolm eloquently stated in Jurassic Park, "Life, uh... finds a way."

You start off in Central America for this one, not least of all in homage to the Jurassic Park series. Once again, you have 60 days to accomplish the first feat, which is simply to evolve Insect 1:

- Zoonotic Shift (3)
- Insect 1 (9)

You will then receive notification that a company called GeneCo is working on resurrecting dinosaurs using viral techniques. We all know how that will go, so go ahead an evolve Physiological Mutations (13) and await for the ticker to read about the biotech giant starting its tests. When it does come up, stockpile what DNA points you can get up to at least 20 before evolving the following symptoms:

- Bird 1 (12)
- Avian Adaptations (4)
- Reptilian Adaptations (4)

You will eventually read about birds behaving strangely on the mainland, and a team of ornithologists will be sent to Central America to investigate.

From here you have three choices to choose from.

1. Add Nothing, Ditch Nothing

Pretty straightforward - they find something peculiar and investigate the cause, at which point you can either devolve the Zoonotic Shift to break the link to GeneCo or let them reveal its origins.

2. Devolve Adaptations

Devolve both Avian and Reptilian Adaptations shortly after they start investigating the birds, and the ornithologists will turn up with nothing that matches what the locals were saying.

3. Evolving Evolutionary Throwback

The ornithologists go missing in the jungle, leaving behind everything, except the clothes on their backs, at their campsite. Wonder what might have happened to them...

Once again, life finds a way, and so does our fun - put Morphological Shift 1 and 2 down range for your next symptoms to evolve, and it would appear that the virus has jumped to humans now. Fancy that, now we have half-dinosaur bird experts coming out of the woodwork.

And now to crank this to ele... err, five. That is, evolve all remaining Morphological Shifts. You will shortly receive word of Central American villages whose populations were overcome with the virus and subsequently turned into talking dinosaurs.

GeneCo must have been having a rough time with birds and reptiles for testing, since they decide to conduct research on the now-transformed villagers. Not that the villagers mind, for the time being, seeing as GeneCo might be able to come up with a cure, or so they say.

But hey, this is Plague Inc! We can't have that happen, so evolve the following:

- Hyper Salivation
- Polyphagia
- Gastroenteritis
- Cannibalism

Rest assured that there's always that craving for fresh warm meat for some of them.
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