"The Colony"
The Colony
Below the city of "A." lives a mysterious community, made exclusively of resurrected, the Colony. "The Scent", an intoxicating fragrance that only those who resurrect are able to recognize, emanates from their skin after the death and resurrection. The Scent is the cement, as well as the mystery, of the community. To become part of The Colony, however, a terrifying suicidal gesture is required: throw themselves into the void of the Chasm that leads into the Hypogeum, the infinite and inexhaustible underground structure under the city of A. Death is certain, resurrection instead: a terrible gamble. Very few are resurrected. The fall is filmed and the live broadcast is the format that gives its name to the series that the Colonists follow anxiously waiting in front of the screens partially buried in to the ground: "The Scent of the Colony". The secret of the Colony is tempting to many, in particular to The Foundation, which tries to reproduce The Scent. They carrying out terrible experiments with Alnosit, a substance that imitates The Scent. Alnosit instead provokes a sort of sensory interdependence that eliminates the edges of individual personalities, induces visions and finally leads to a horrible death.