The Organ Trail: Blacktop Tales

Humans are kept safe in their bubble cities, large biosphere megacities, the only settlements left with highways interconnecting them for trade. These bubbles are each run by a mega monopoly corporation that run their cities with total control.

There are some spaces in between along the long stretches of roads, like gas stations, or motels, or diners. But no towns, and they aren’t protected from the environment and the world.

Hidden far away from cities, there are some spaces where nature is hidden and protected, they are protected by the Earthen ones, werewolves.

Werewolves stay in nomadic convoys with RVs, and motorcycles, sticking with their packs. The corporations have a large bounty for werewolves, finding a connection to nature that they are trying to figure out and sell and make cures and bring back environmental control under their own laws and rules and cities. Werewolves are in hiding. They get by by moving cargo from place to place as jobs or offering protection for convoys, and trade unions- under the constant disguise of being human.

The convoys/caravans are usually a mix of RVs, rebuilt old world trucks, repaired and modified military trucks, with motorcycles. They keep in touch with localised CV radios, and have drones circle the convoys to jam signals so the radio waves can’t be hijacked from the outside.

Werewolves stick with their packs. Alphas are the leaders. Betas are usually one or two werewolves that act as the Alpha left and right hand. Gammas are the civilian population of the werewolf pack. And Deltas are the largest of the pack, stronger and more powerful than Alphas, but they are the warrior class. Omegas are usually shared among the Deltas, Betas, and the Alpha, but only the Alpha stays with them in their heat and breed them. They are shared, but are the Alpha’s first and foremost. Male pregnancy is only allowed if the male is an Omega. Usually packs have 1-2 omegas, if more they can given or traded for allies or supplies or shows of good faith between packs. Pairs are able to be anyone with anyone, werewolf packs are usually polyamorous but they do bond and take mates and pair off. They have emotions.

Some werewolves, especially older ones will sometimes make the choice to stay in their shifted form for the rest of their lives.

Werewolves are very spiritual, they believe in the creation with the Moon Goddess and the Sun God being at the center, the tides have wolves that command and act as messengers of the two gods. They have many traditions and festivals. Real wolves, will be a part of the pack too, they’re sacred and the pack wolves are the only true animals left untouched, they’re family and pets.

Alphas: Have two wolf forms, a true wolf form which is about a foot taller than a real wolf, but looks exactly like one, and the other is a hybrid more anthropomorphic humanoid werewolf form, that usually stands at 7.5 feet tall. Betas: Betas only have a hybrid form that stand at 6-7 feet tall. Gammas: Gammas have their wolf forms which is a slightly larger wolf, it looks like a normal wolf. Deltas: Deltas are massive tanks on paws, they only have the hybrid form, that can be quadrupedal or bipedal with shifting stances. They stand at 8-9 feet tall. Omegas: Omegas can have either form, it’s individually based on DNA, but they are small and usually smaller than real wolves if they have the wolf forms. Their hybrid form is normally 6 feet tall. There are Thetas, but those are rare and they’re humans with recessive werewolf genes, they present as Omegas and can breed with werewolves, and make werewolf children.

Wolf shifting info: Wolf shifting is uncomfortable, and it’s body horror. Bones cracking and popping, flesh ripping, bloody. It’s a wolf tearing out from a human body, primal and visceral. It’s painful, and yet as wolves get used to it, the pain feels like a release, more experienced werewolves say it’s a relief mixing with the pain. Werewolves when shifted, will often eat most or some of the meat chunks left behind, in an odd way of reclaiming the parts discarded from the violent shift. Mated wolves are often sighted sharing or eating leftover bits they find when coming across their mates’ places where they shifted. Werewolves are quadrupedal and also bipedal; when they widen their hind legs to move to bipedal stance, its grating and horrible sounding, meant as intimidation. It doesn’t hurt, but it’s very loud; bone scraping on bone, tendons tearing, popping of joints, it sounds very painful.