About The FAYZ

[Kenzie]

Here's the storyline:



"In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE. Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents- unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers- that grow stronger by the day.

It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and a war is imminent."

You can choose if you would like to be a Freak(Have powers) or Be normal. You can have 10 characters, 5 of which can be freaks. Here is a list of supernatural powers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superhuman_features_and_abilities_in_fiction



Now the setting:

Perdido Beach is a fictional town south of California (even though there is a Perdido Beach in Alabama). It is where most of the Gone books are centred. In Perdido Beach's history, a metorite hit the power plant and spilled radioactivety hundreds of feet in the ground. Astrid believes that the people of the power plant just paved over it, unaware of what they were doing,but thought it was okay to pave over it. Since then, hard radiation had been seeping into the water and food of the people of Perdido Beach. Perdido beach has been described as a sort of deserty beach, complete with cliffs over beaches, cacti, and a town center as well as housing.

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Now for the danger!

The Darkness is a creature that is one of the two most powerful forces in the FAYZ, the other being Little Pete. Theories of the creation of the Darkness are extremely different but Astrid thinks that it came from the old meteorite that came and crashed into the nuclear plant years before the events of the series. It is hinted that it was created by (or is a member of) a race of life-worshiping aliens. It feeds on hard radiation, and was behind the nuclear meltdown that sparked the creation of the FAYZ. The Gaiaphage is believed to be able to influence certain characters who have interacted with it. It is explained in the books that it gets its hooks into the minds of it's victims who enter the mine and come into it's presence. In Gone, the Gaiaphage manipulates a pack of mutant coyotes , directing them to capture Lana Arwen Lazar after it discovers her healing Power, and uses her to give Drake Merwin his whip-hand after Sam used his Power to burn off his arm. It was thought to be destroyed by Duck Zhang at the end of Hunger when he used his Power to drag it to the bottom of the FAYZ bubble, The Darkness returns in Lies, having survived Duck's attack and used Little Pete's Power to create a female avatar, Nerezza. It used Lana's healing powers and Brittney's regeneration ability to bring Drake back from the dead, although it was partially unsuccessful as Drake and Brittney share control of the body. Nerezza manipulates Orsay into believing that she could see visions of the world outside the FAYZ and the other children into thinking that the Big One-Five (the unexplained disappearance when one reaches the age of 15) would be an escape from the FAYZ. Nerezza also persuaded Zil to start a riot at the end of the book. In Plague, the gaiaphage is shown to be still alive, residing in a cave at the bottom of the FAYZ sphere after being crushed through the ground of the mineshaft by Duck at the end of Hunger. Drake approaches the Darkness here after escaping from imprisonment, but changes into Brittney upon encountering it; the Darkness then persuades Brittney into believing that it is God. This way, it has the allegiance of both Drake and Brittney, who it tries to use to destroy Sam and ultimately eradicate every human in the FAYZ - so that it can 'break free' from the FAYZ, which is described as an egg that the gaiaphage grows inside, and be 'born' into the outside world; but in order to do this, it needs to assimilate the power of the person who created the egg: Little Pete. The gaiaphage attempts to eradicate the humans by setting the mutant roaches on them and retrieve Little Pete with Drake/Brittney, but when Little Pete vanishes the roaches and himself, Drake/Brittney appear to retreat. Also, after the gaiaphage's 'Nemesis', Little Pete, loses his bodily form at the end of Plague, the gaiaphage is shown as more hesitant in contacting the child's now bodiless, yet even more powerful (having lost his autism along with his damaged body and brain), mind.

It is hinted that the fanged monster that appears when a person "poofs" is the Gaiaphage, based on dialogue between it and Caine at the end of Gone, and that it assimilates the powers and intellegence of the people it devours. This is confirmed in Lies.

The Darkness, or Gaiaphage, which means earth-eater (a reference to its supposed viral nature), is made out entirely of glowing green microscopic crystals in the form that Lana made. Otherwise, it is thought to have no solid shape or form. It has psychological hooks in Lana, Drake, Caine and Little Pete, and tries to manipulate them into serving it. Computer Jack makes a reference to the word "phage" which is a computer virus or "worm". The "Gaia" part comes from the Greek Goddess of "Earth". So effectively, the Gaiaphage is a heavily mutated giant earthworm which is thought to be the colony ruler of the zekes. The Gaiaphage is said to be a collection of many radiating green crystals, suggesting the shape of a sphere.

The FAYZ Wall:

The FAYZ barrier is is the large "dome" surrounding the town of Perdido Beach. It is 20 miles in diameter, centering on the Nuclear Power Plant, with the northern rim at Stefano Ray National Park, the eastern rim near the darkness Gaiaphage mine and Hermit Jim's shack, the southern rim intersecting clifftop hotel, just outside Peridido Beach and the western rim out in the Pacific Ocean. It is perfectally spherical in shape. FAYZ, which stands for Fallout Alley Youth Zone, was the name given to the dome by Howard. The wall came into being at the exact same time everyone over the age of 15 disappeared. Sam, Astrid, Quinn and Edillo were the first characters to discover the FAYZ Wall at Clifftop, while looking for Little Pete. They then traveled around almost the entire edge to see if there was an opening so they could escape. Lana also discovers the FAYZ wall behind Hermit Jim's shack. In Hunger, Lana walks through Peridido Beach and along the southern rim of the FAYZ Wall everyday, to be sure that it was still there. The wall is in a perfect sphere and as such, it intersects trees and objects and cuts them perfectly in half. It also stopped the waves in the ocean. It was created by Little Pete during a meltdown at the power plant caused by the Gaiaphage. In Lies the wall was gone for a few seconds because Little Pete's game system was broken in the comotion, revealing a large group of people on the outside (parents of the FAYZ children and news crews), but it came back down a few seconds later. Some people believe that if Little Pete is not living then the FAYZ will end. Touching the wall results in an extremely painful burning feeling, but leaves no lasting physical damage. In Plague, while Dekka, Sam, and Toto are flying the missles container up to the top of the dome, they notice that the barrier maintains an illusion even that close, as Sam said "...expected the stars to be painted on..."

Currency:

This is a list of currency used. Created by Albert Hilsbrough, seven McDonald's monoplay game piece equal to a 'Berto, 'Bertos can be used for anything ranging from food to clothes to drugs.



Thats the end of the show folks! I hope to see some new members (;