We Came As Heroes (Watty Awards 2012!)
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"KARMA is the messiah of our corrupted world. No one questions it, talks about it, or disrespects it. If you do, you're dead." The year is 2058. ten years ago, the start of a rebellion caused the start of the next world war, and the start of the corruption of society. Countries, Cities, and Continents were destroyed from the effects of Nuclear Warfare, leaving the remaining pieces of land separated into five different Areas. SALVATION, is one of them. SALVATION is the only place free from the impurities of the global catastrophe, and home to one of the most influential and idolized societies, KARMA. Ava has always obeyed KARMA at all costs, and has devoted her life to working for them since birth. She knew the Code all her life, and lived by it at all costs. What she learned, however, is that the world she thought she knew and cherished, was all a lie, and that she is a lie herself. She's been a pawn in KARMA's plot, and she must find the others like her in order to stop it, before it's too late.
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