From the journals of Dr. Elias Ephraim, Director and Founder of G.H.O.S.T (Gatherers of Haunted Objects and Supernatural Treasures)
It began with a few isolated outbreaks and turned into an epidemic. Early symptoms included audio hallucinations (hearing voices) and other supernatural manifestations, resulting in sleep loss and paranoia. Then physical effects would set in, noxious black tumors exuding a foul ichor being the most common condition. The media called it “The Rotting” and with good reason, it was as if its victims were becoming living corpses!
My team, the fine members of G.H.O.S.T., began to suspect a supernatural origin for the condition, and turned all of our efforts to determine the cause. The results were shocking! Supernatural activity was at an all time high with measured results tens of thousands of times the normal readings! Had the gates of the NETHERWORLD opened, releasing millions of lost souls?
Most importantly these souls were hungry. Normal spirits feed on the fading energy of the places they lived in life, or hung close to ancient sources of ley line energy. But now they were actually feeding on the living! Doubly troubling was that as THE ROTTING progressed in its victims, they began to seek life energy to sustain them, becoming a sort of vampire or zombie like creature!
Determined to find a solution to the problem, we discovered evidence of a soul (spirit) eating creature sealed up in a cavern buried under Antarctic ice. It is our firm belief that the release of this “soul eater” will solve this supernatural invasion as the creature should be capable of “eating” all the stray wraiths and solving the current crisis. I have sent my best teams to free the Soul Eater, but we continue to seek other ways to solve this dire situation!
