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==AT-43's ONI Corporation== | ==AT-43's ONI Corporation== | ||
[ | [https://www.orderofgamers.com/games/at-43/ AT-43] was a role-playing board game with a faction called [https://www.orderofgamers.com/downloads/AT43ONI.pdf ONI], standing for Okamura Non-aligned Industries. They're a mercenary corporation that uses the O serum to create zombie soldiers and builds weapons based off any technology they can get their hands on, then sells them to the highest bidder in the war between the other factions of the game. | ||
Although the original publisher Rackham has been defunct since 2010, the rights to the company's games were [https://www.beastsofwar.com/board-games/monolith-announce-rackham-companys-ip/ acquired by] Monolith Edition in 2024, another board game publisher, with the intent of putting the games back in production. | |||
{{Quote|Okamura Kazuo finally met his fate after eight months of work in his new service. He undertook an experiment with a highly-advanced viral strain and put it in the presence of a reagent he had invented. | |||
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The first signs of change that occurred in Okamura took place in the weeks which followed his traumatic experience. The virus changed, developing its own intelligence. The doctor soon discovered that he was inhabited by a gifted host of clear thought, able to speak using his mouth, and able to take partial control of his body. The virus’s personality merged with that of its host. The symbiosis was soon absolute: Okamura Kazuo literally became a new man: he was insensitive to pain, sleep was unnecessary, and all known diseases had no effect on him. | |||
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He revealed his secret only to those he felt able to succeed him, and soon began dreaming of being the pioneer of the next stage of human evolution.|w=50%}} | |||
==Also not Oni== | ==Also not Oni== | ||