Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24510587-20190115181913/@comment-5583506-20190122200307

"I have braved cold before. Now send me a legion of voracious Draugar in the middle of the night and I'll reconsider coming here, if it's just as bad as back home."

She had her doubts that he would understand. How could he? She could barely understood it herself. If there ever was such a thing as nightmares made reality, the Draugar of Niflheim were just that. They didn't like light and thrived in complete darkness with an excellent sense of hearing and smell. The darkness seemed to enhance their uncanny abilities to sprint and pounce relentlessly after their hapless victims. The weary traveler getting lost in the woods in the middle of the night would be better off with a bullet to the brain than getting swarmed by them, unless they had other means of defense like a lantern or flashlight. The Draugar didn't kill for nutrition. They had no need for that. They killed out of the pure primal instinct to hunt and to watch something die. Their aggression level was only rivaled by that of Deathclaws.

But it wasn't just their unpredictable behavior that frightened her and probably all the rest of the Niflheim as well. It was the fact that something as simple as a bite or a scratch mark would mean certain death. They infected people. How this happened their doctors and scientists had yet to find out, even though methods of providing a cure had been underway for quite some time, and in a few cases even successful. Once someone was infected, the only way to save them was to amputate the area of infection instantly before it spread. Within the matter of minutes the infection would otherwise spread and break down the body functions. And soon the infected would become a mindless Draug themselves: slobbering, biting, scratching, clawing and lashing out at anything and anyone.

She had seen it happen far too many times to want to be reminded of what would be waiting for her when she got back to her own desolate and frozen wastes.

"What kind of ferals can one expect to find up here?" she asked.