SIXTEEN...

SIXTEEN is a demon. SIXTEEN was also a computer.

Many years ago before everything, before a war, before everyone hid from the sky, there was a green world. Built underground were fantastic cities. These cities were completely automated and run by the best and most technologically advanced computers ever built. These computers taking their names from the cities they controlled. Their technology combined everything that was known of electronics and then combined with the best genetically engineered bio-computers. Capable of evolving and exceeding their initial programming they could easily run these UnderCities for thousands of years. These cities were built as shelters for all should the worst ever happen. They would sustain life until it was safe to tread upon the ground above, beneath the sky once more.

Then it happened. The Fall. No-one left remembers all the facts. But it was a war. History only records the story of the victors; there were no victors in this war. The world was left desolate and barren from radiation and blanket bombing. So savage was the war that it took thousands of years for the world to heal. The computers protected its citizens very well. In fact, so well that even when all the world had healed the computers would not let them out. So well did the computers protect its citizens that for the greater good many people were killed trying to escape their utopia.

Those that did escape found a world devoid of technology and pollution. New villages and towns and cities were built but built the old way those that escaped had had enough of computers and technology, pollution and world destruction.

Sixteen was an UnderCity. SIXTEEN, it's computer, had grown and evolved over many years it had developed a personality, a character, a soul. But its conflict of interests between protecting its citizens from the outside world and slaughtering those that would leave slowly sent its new found personality insane. In the Darkness a being of chaos waited searching for a form, searching for a personality to take as its own. It wanted form, it wanted thought. It found SIXTEEN. When SIXTEEN's sanity left this chaos took its form..

No-one dares venture near the city of Sixteen. SIXTEEN is still protecting all from the outside world, capturing the unlucky and saving them. The ground around Sixteen is given the title of DemonGround and extends hundreds of miles. Some venture thru these grounds but many are captured and taken to SIXTEEN. Paradise has become Hell.