The setting begins in an underwater city two hundred years after a plague begins to wipe out the human race on the surface of the earth.
Zelda Savage awakens to the bright red blinking of a light in the white cushioned box she is laying in. With no knowledge of how she came to be in the box, Zelda manages to pry the lid of the box open and climb out to find herself in a small circular room with four other polished, rectanglular boxes just like hers.
Finding a nearby hatchet, Zelda takes a few strong swings at the edge of the box, managing to pry open each of the boxes to find two men and another girl sleeping inside. When they gain conciousness, they find their last names carved into the bottom of their boxes but they can't seem to remember anymore than Zelda does.
After Zelda leads the way out of the room and down a brightly lit hallway to the next room, they find four more boxes and free those people as well. They continue to do this until they begin to reach rooms where the people in the boxes have died. Finally they reach the end of the hallway and step out onto a dark city street.
There they find the place empty and devoid of life. When they discover the mayor's office, they go inside and manage to play the last voice recording the mayor ever took. It explains the plague on the earth's surface and that they are the last of the human race. Then goes on to talk about a dark, shadowy beast in the city. A beast that was wiping out the population very quickly and so the younger generation was put to sleep in order to protect them. Now with the beast prowling around the city and their numbers quickly dwindling, they have to find a way to the earth's surface. But how?
**** Important! Each character has been born specializing in one or two of four categories.
-Leader: Very rare quality.
-Fighter: Strong, fast, skilled in combat, good strategizers
-Scavenger: Good with hunting or gathering food, green thumb, sifting through things to find useful items, rebuilding things
-Intellectual: Good with gathering information, interpretating other languages, scientifically inclined
