Lost Boy (CofD)

A Lost Boy is a human who has been physically enhanced and augmented through experiments conducted by the Delta Protocol and possesses an addiction to their Serum.

Overview
Drawn from the ranks of national and private military organisations across the world, usually soldiers although there are occasional non-combatants, the Lost Boys are subjects of various experimental enhancement and augmentation procedures overseen by the mysterious Delta Protocol - a business entity of some form with international military connections. Subjects of the Delta Protocol are discharged from military service following their enhancement and allowed to live seemingly normal lives among the domestic populace, although many among them believe they are being constantly monitored and having their augmentations tested by the Delta Protocol in secrecy.

The Delta Protocol requires that its subjects perform regular infusions of a highly-addictive substance, known only as "Serum", in order to maintain biological stability. The bodies of the subjects will inevitably reject the enhancements after a period of time, with the Serum assisting in allowing a subject to cope at the risk of dependency and withdrawal symptoms should they be unable to perform the infusion. While Lost Boys have been known to reproduce the effects of Serum through substitutes, these are more dangerous to infuse and less pure than the Protocol's original version.

Subjects deprived of the drugs find their augmentation inhibitors ceasing to function and allowing them to perform truly superhuman feats with no restrictions - at the cost of potential long-term harm to the body of the subject. This process is known as "overclocking".

Lost Boys gain their name from the Lost Boys Network; an online support group for subjects of the Delta Protocol, an evolved form of the more local and more separated support groups that arose when the Protocol first began. Many Lost Boys tend to find themselves, unwittingly, more exposed to the supernatural world following their augmentation and often make contact with either other paranormal investigators, or outright supernatural creatures such as vampires or werewolves. It is unknown whether the Protocol's augmentations are directly supernatural in nature.