Story 721
by mik1264
1 | Start
Welcome, traveler! You find yourself at the edge of possibility, where worlds await creation.
Where would you like to venture? A bustling medieval town? A futuristic space station? An enchanted forest? Or perhaps tell me what kind of universe you'd like to explore, and I'll bring it to life around you.
2 | Turning it into fiction — a plausible techno-thriller timeline Year Plot beat Scientific twist 2028 A biotech start-up CRISPR-edits P. microspora to express a thermostable PETase + MHETase cassette from Ideonella sakaiensis.   Now the fungus can attack PET at 25 °C, albeit slowly. 2029 To cut landfill costs, the company releases the strain in a pilot dump. Spores hitchhike on recycled cardboard pallets leaving the site. Cardboard supplies the missing nitrogen and shields spores from desiccation during transport. 2030 Outbreak in a humid coastal megawarehouse: bottled water shrinks, soda loses carbonation as walls thin, labels peel, pallet-wraps tear. Enzyme diffusion creates “etching” on PET, enough to compromise pressure vessels long before total mass loss. 2031 Supply-chain chaos: food spoilage, chemical leaks, panic purchases of glass and metal containers. Governments mandate fungicidal UV tunnels and shift to biobased PHA packaging. The mutant’s weakness — it still can’t digest HDPE or PP — lets industry pivot.
Excellent! You've entered a world ravaged by the “Plastivore Crisis” of 2031.
You stand in the ruins of what was once a thriving distribution center. Twisted PET bottles litter the ground like deflated balloons, their walls eaten thin by the escaped P. microspora. Emergency UV sterilization lights flicker overhead, casting eerie purple shadows.
Where do you want to begin your story in this world? Are you:
- A biotech researcher trying to contain the outbreak?
- A supply chain executive navigating the chaos?
- A government agent investigating the original breach?
- A black market trader profiting from glass containers?
The distant hum of UV tunnels echoes through the facility. Hazmat teams patrol the perimeter.