User blog:SideShot/A different kind of threat entirely - a RWBY/BG&E crossover AU

A different kind of threat entirely
You wake up to sirens, a quick look at the clock reads a little after three in the morning, again. This is the third time in as many weeks that the forces of Grimm attack the city, and they always seem to do so at the most inconvenient of times for you. They must picking up the pace again, testing the defenses for a new offensive. You start to get dressed and prepare for a possible evacuation order, but then you notice something is wrong with the scene before you. Everything looks in place, all your stuff where it belongs, nothing that shouldn't be there either... but still something looks off even in the darkness of night, and then it hits you.

Where is that damned glow of the shields cascading through the window that normally kept you up all night?

You look outside your window and instead of the bright blue of the energy shields that should cover the entire city you are greeted with an omnimous green glow illuminating the overcast skies. a rumble that you feel more than hear sends shivers through your very being, the sound of enormous wings overhead like distant thunder fortell the imminent attack. As you realize this might not be the best place to stand a flash of green light with an accompanying shockwave knock you away from the window as a pod crashed two streets away from your home. Judging from the amount of dust that billowed into your room it must have hit a home dead on, maybe two. You hope whoever lived in them died in the crash as by now the Grimm would be crawling all over the ruin. It starts to dawn on you that your home is no longer a safe place to be and quickly you grab what you can before heading out to the second nearest shelter, as the closest one now has at least a dozen Grimm blocking your way...

Hello RWBY Fanon! My name is SideShot, I am in charge of this RWBY Alternate Universe Crossover with Beyond Good and Evil.

Combining the settings of RWBY and Beyond Good and Evil I intend to have a proper blend of RWBY terms, lore and other details incorporated into the setting and story of Beyond Good & Evil to allow for a smooth transition of OCs to the AU. So Dust, Faunus and Semblances still exist for you to use. However some elements will be changed radically like the creatures of Grimm which will be different in appearance and levels of intelligence depending on the type (also their colorscheme is now black-white-green-purple instead of black-white-red-gold) there will also be no Huntsmen as player characters, this will be a story of the normal people in extraordinary circumstances.

The story will take place in Vale besieged by the otherworldly Grimm, monsterous beings that abduct humans and faunus to drain them of their life force or implant them with spores to turn them into mindless slaves. After years of slowly faltering resistance to the Grimm the citystate of Vale has called in the help of the Atlesian Alpha Sections, a mercenary army that quickly set itself up as the de facto military goverment after their absorbing of the spent Vale army. With the combined efforts of the Alpha Sections and the Vale goverment the Grimm have been held at bay but still they keep attacking the shielded city, bombarding their shields and in other ways trying to overwhelm or bypass the defenses. occasionally they manage to break through the shields and get a few of their pods in the city from which many different beasts of Grimm emerge to take people and have them trapped in the Grimm Sarcophagi, creatures specifically made to hold sentient beings in stasis for draining and transport. the last few months there has been a steady increase in attacks, along with rumours of a group of terrorists deliberately trying to sabotage defenses to let the Grimm in, this night it seems they succeeded in sabotaging the entire city shield grid.

This blog is going to be used to gauge the interest in this AU setting and plan out the first chapter RP. Further edits will be made here as i answer any questions you may have.