Deus
Background
Deus is a member of a group of New Primitives.
During the events of Rats: Night of Terror (1984) played by Fausto Lombardi
Kurt and a group of people consisting of Chocolate, Taurus, Video, Myrna, Lucifer, Deus, Duke, Diana, Noah and Lilith drive their vehicles into the ruins of a city. Eventually Kurt decides they can stop for the night, and the group enters a building and begins to search it. The group continues to search the building, and enter a room with large green boxes in the center and some beds against the wall. Noah uses a spear to pry open the boxes and finds it filled with packaged food and cans. The rest of the group begins to excitedly open up the rest of the boxes, stopping to eat some of the food when they come across it. Myrna pulls back the sheet on one of the beds in the room and screams as she discovers underneath the sheet is a body being eaten by Rats. Kurt, Diana, Lucifer and Deus discover a body sitting in a chair in one of the rooms that is in the same condition as the one found in the bed. They walk into a control room filled with computers and Deus starts to fiddle with a control panel. Kurt asks Deus what the control panel may be, and Video walks in the room and tells Kurt the machine is a video game. By random button pushing, Video is able to turn on the lights in the building. Deus correctly infers the machine is a computer and not a video game. Video kicks the machine and it turns on and the words “Total elimination group” appears onscreen. Kurt asks what turned the machine on and Deus suggests Video caused a short circuit by kicking it, or involuntarily asked it a question. Kurt wonders what total elimination of the group means and Deus believes it means the bodies are the group being discussed. Noah and Lilith join the group and Lilith tells them of what she and Noah found. The entire group goes to the greenery and Noah explains to Kurt the group of people they found dead had discovered an artificial way to produce what used to be grown in the outside and he explains how the purifier purifies rain water. The dead bodies are gathered from around the building, piled up outside and burned. Deus says a prayer for the dead, and the group returns to the building. The group that was sleeping run towards Lilith’s screams and find her dead in the sleeping bag, but with no apparent wounds. They blame Lucifer for murdering Lilith by strangling her, until a rat climbs its way out of Lilith’s mouth. Kurt, who is holding a flame thrower, sets Noah on fire, who is covered in rats, and Noah runs outside before collapsing on the ground. Deus runs up to Kurt and tells him that he found Lucifer but he is dead. The group goes to Lucifer’s body and Kurt incinerates it. The group barricades the rooms with the beds inside and Myrna asks what the rats have against them. Deus thinks perhaps the rat’s instinct to kill has been awakened. Taurus tells a story of a time when rats attacked the cave he and his family were living in, but only stole and ate the food. Deus starts to talk about how humans feel they are superior, and how rats used to live in the underground areas and they could tell the difference between a rat from their pack and an intruder by the scent of their urine. Deus then says the rats would kill all strange rats. Diana is standing next to an un-barricaded area, when she is attacked by rats. Kurt, Taurus, Deus and Video go to the greenery to get water for Diana's wounds, while Chocolate, Duke, and Myrna stay behind with Diana. Kurt, Taurus, Video and Deus go to the water purifier but find it to be full of rats. The group retreats to the stairs, but Kurt’s flame thrower goes out. He orders Taurus, Video, and Deus to follow him up the stairs in single file line. As he is walking up the stairs, Taurus is attacked by a rat and falls down the stairs and is swarmed by rats. Kurt tries to go back for Taurus, but Video drags him away as they are attacked by more rats. Kurt, Video and Deus run from the rats and return to the room only to find it locked. Chocolate takes Duke’s shotgun and forces him to open the door for Kurt’s group. Kurt enters the room and kicks Duke in the balls and tells him he won’t be so lenient next time. The group hears a scream outside the room which they think belongs to Taurus and decide to go save him. Kurt, Video and Deus open the door, but see the area filled with rats. When Kurt closes the door, the rats become agitated and they flee towards the entrance to the building. Kurt, Chocolate, Deus and Video find Taurus’ body, but it is covered in rats, and rats explode from Taurus’ back. Diana joins the group, and they hear the sound of a vehicle. Duke starts firing the turret rifle at Kurt’s group, but eventually his weapon jams. Kurt orders Duke to come back, and Duke threatens to kill himself and Myrna with a grenade. Duke throws a grenade at a group of rats in the vehicle, which, due to its proximity, kills both himself and Myrna. Kurt notices Diana is missing and orders the remaining members of the group to go and search for her. Chocolate and Video find Kurt crying at the body of Diana, and Deus joins the three of them. Deus points out that Diana slashed her wrists. The group runs away from a large horde of rats and return to the computer room, where they find Lilith’s body. Chocolate finds a recording device which Video is able to turn on. The recording begins with a voice stating it was recorded on the 12th day of Operation Return to Light at 9:15 Federal System time, and Kurt and his group are at Experimental Station Delta 2. Apparently, the dead scientists were three days away from a rendezvous with Omega One, who were coming to save them. The group learns that the rats, whose mutation increased their intelligence, attacked the scientists, as the rats may have resented the intrusion of humans who forced them from below ground onto the surface. The recording continues, stating the reason the rats are attacking is because Kurt and his group are intruding upon the rat’s territory, and they attack anything not of their species. Deus tells the group he believes something must have happened that has caused the men from below ground to try and make their way above ground. The rats start to gather and gnaw at the computer room door, and Kurt tells Video and Chocolate to hide themselves behind a makeshift barricade while he and Deus try and hold the door against the rats. The rats are finally able to break down the door to the room and they attack and kill Kurt and Deus.
