(Spoiler) The Story behind the Game

[Ƥrǐŋcєss Ƒluեեєrsɦy]

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a postapocalyptic Story about a Region in England.
A Story who start like the great London Scene at the Begin of the Walking Dead, where the Protagonist is walking in the empty Streets of London.
You don't know who you are or it's not important and you don't know what's happened in this small Town.
You find Pieces of the Storypuzzle in Logfiles, you can hear over Radios (strange), Echos of past Telephonecalls in Motorola "Bones" (the first mobile Phones), Telephones in Houses and Telephonebooths.
You hear about the People in astral Echos of the Past, in the Look of a Sort of Hologram, made of Energy.
At the End, you know much about the People in the Area, their Personality, their Wishes, their Losses, the Trys to manage the Quarantaine and many personal Problems.

But still many ask themself, what exactly has happened in the Story.
In this Post I try to show the Story like it's told in the Game and add some Background Informations.
I'm not sure if the Order of the Informations are Correct, but I think it could fit like that.
I hope my Writing this understandable, because my native Language is German.

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Stephen Appleton was retourning from America with his Wife Kate Collins (I have no Idea why they have different last Names).
Stephen is from this Town in England, Kate is from the USA.
They had a Job in the Valis Observatory for one Year, then they wanted to move to another, better Observatory.
In a special Night, they wanted to observe a special Place in the Sky.
They found a Signal.
The Signal had a strange Signature.
After some Changes in the Devices, they had a Sort of Contact to the Signal.
After all it was an extraterestial Energy-Lifeform.
I'm not sure if the Creature has use the Devices of the Tower to travel there or if he was forced to do this, but it was now in the Observatory.
At first, it has try to travel via Telephone Line, if it's curious or try to flee I don't know.
Every Person it was able to reach was "infected" by the Energy of the Creature (maybe like you're loading an Battery.
Somehow the Energy was like a Liquid.
The infected Persons was "overload" by this Energy and because the Bodycells are expanding a bit and the Brain has no more Space to grow, it has cause Headache.
The Pressure has cause breaks at weak Points in the Skin, so special in the Nose they have start to bleed (the Ears are connected to the Nose, so it could come from there if Someone bleed from the Ears).
At the End the Persons Body could not take any more Energy and burns up into Ash (the Reason for the Ash and Dust in the Trailers and the Particles, at the End of each Part).
Because of the Symtomes and the vanished People, the Area was quarantined, by blocking the Streets and interrupting the Telephone Lines.
Stephen has try to stop the Creature but was not successfull and then has try to remove any Places the Creature could hide and ordered an Air Strike to kill everyone in the Area.
The Air Strike has use VX, an extremely toxic synthetic chemical nerve agent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent) (the Name is on the Bombs you found at different Places) but was to late.
The Creature had found another Way to go out of the Village, by using the only Connection, they not had cut down, the Power Lines (you see the yellow Beams on the Power Lines when you go to Stephen's Bunkerdoor).
With this Way the Creature was spreading over the World, with the possible Result, all the Humans are gone and Animals are dead, eccept some few, like Insects, who are Imune to the Creature (as far as I have understand Kate in the last Part of the Game).

We don't know if there are Survivors, who was able to Isolate themself or what's happening to the Creature.

The Person we are playing could be Kate, because the Creature has protect her in the Past (Infos from Kates Logs in the Game) and she's the only Person, who are not burned up at the End (I havn't see any Particles, like at the End of the other 5 Persons), she just has touch the Light or connected with it, maybe merged to one Being or Essence.

So maybe we are Kate and walking in a Timeloop, because it's always 6. of June 1984 at 6:07, on all Clocks in the Game, always, even on hearable running Clocks.
Because the Time is Frozen in this Loop, everything happen at the same Time.
Theres a Story Progress, multiple Views on the same Events (The Jets are arriving at the End of Wendy, Lizzy and Frank), but at the same Time everything in the World lies in the Past (things are happening in the story), in the Present (the Event is not long ago, because you find a smoking Barbeque, burning Smokes and glowing Campfires) and in the Future (dead Birds and VX Bombs on the Ground).

The triggered Storypieces, the Logs and Phonecalls in the Radios and Telephones are maybe Pieces of past Events from the Memory of Kate and/or the Creature.
They are Echos of Things frol long, long ago.
Because theres no Timeflow, it could be hundreds of Years since the Event.
Nobody know.

But because Kate is maybe still there, theres a Chance for a second Game or two Games.
The first show the Events from the Side of the Creature and the third restore everything, and the Creature is able to retour to it's own Home.
A bit like the Addons of the first Half-Life, where you could see the same Event from 3 different People (Gordon Freeman in Half Life, Barney the Guard in Blue Shift and Adrian Sheppard the Soldier in Opposing Force).

[Saint.Million]

Random case usage is random.

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

Interesting.

[Lucia]

Yes, very interesting info and thoughts. Thanks for sharing.

[Ƥrǐŋcєss Ƒluեեєrsɦy]

I would like another Game like this, maybe a Prequelor Sequel or a complete new Experience.