BATB Retellings

Scenario 1 - The Huntsman

The former Monarchy of the land has been overthrown, and with it the Laws and Rulings that prevented entry and hunting to one of the nearby woodlands. These rules, of course, had been put in place not as an attempt to monopolize those Woodlands for Royal Purposes, but to protect the Citizens of the surrounding Towns and Villages from an ancient and vicious evil.

With the woodlands now open game, a Local Hunter, daughter of a revered Huntsman attempting to carve out her own legacy and to prove her worth, sets out to bag a prized Trophy unlike any her Township had seen before.

A particularly vicious Stormfront suddenly moves in, creating hazardous terrain such as mudslides and flash-flood zones and forces the Hunter deeper into the unexplored Woodlands. Fate would provide a dilapidated Castle Ruins for protection from the storm, but it would seem that the Hunter wasn’t alone in the bones of the long-forgotten Monarchy....




Scenario 2 - The Priestess

Legends have a way of being embellished and changed as they are passed down from generation to generation. Bits and pieces are tweaked to better resonate with the fresh minds of the Younger Generations, aspects are added and removed as deemed necessary. It’s the Modern Day and technology has killed the Mysticism of most Religions except for the Rites of Djiaa, a kind of Shrine-based Worship in a remote town. The Arc begins with the youngest to-be Shrine Maiden learning the stories of the Djiaa, of the God-Cursed Beast dwelling within the Blighted Temple, and her coming-of-age pilgrimage.

What had been only a story to this modern-era and 'smarter than to believe in fairytales' Priestess in training turns out to be all but shockingly true when she arrives to the forest surrounding the Blighted Temple and finds herself unable to leave. She must fulfil the Prophecy within the Rites of Djiaa in order to leave this place, but things aren’t quite as the Rites predicted....





Scenario 3 - The Experiment

The year is 2655 and Genetic Augmentation is at the forefront of the Medical Science development. While war and general planet-threatening conditions drive the remaining 3 Billion People of Earth to unify in order to survive, the Elite 1% of people pour themselves into post-human research.

Poor and impoverished people are viewed as expendable in these Post-Humanism experiments and often times Missing Persons are swept under the rug by Elite-bought Law Enforcers protecting the integrity of their masters. One such of these people struggling to survive has been abducted for Experimentation and shoved into a Containment Unit. The goal of this experiment is to see if the ‘Mutagen Gene’ can be transmitted via airbourne pathogens and at what rate.

During these procedures, this new Subject is paired with a prior Subject, one showing only the barest hints of Humanity left, as an attempt to amplify the Mutagen’s rate of infection. With the help of this Beast, the new subject must try to develop a plan for not only escape, but a way to stop the steady corruption of their own body due to the mutagen.