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Space travel: expensive, inefficient, forgotten. After long distance space travel was deemed to expensive to justify its continued usage, the earth turned inwards. Improving the homefront was made priority number 1. The affluent, the privileged, and the politically important migrated to the moon to attempt to govern earth from on high. Decades passed, and they soon forgot their original motives. Earth, now wrecked by pollution and overpopulation, is in shambles. With a ruined ecosystem, it rains almost constantly. The sun rarely shines, and when it does, only those on the uppermost layers of massive skyscrapers in the huge megacities get to see it. Life on earth has been reduced to abejct, miserable povery spent squatting in the dank depths of a huge megacity where the only water available is oily and poisonous. As you go up, it gets better, but only marginally. Poverty, drugs, and organized crime run rampant. The woefully understaffed police departments do their best, but it's rarely enough. Officers die in droves on the daily, and most precincts have shut down outright. The future is now, kids. And it ain't bright.
So yeah, basically, this is a cyberpunk storybook. Think constant cloud cover, frequent rain, massive dark cities, neon, Asian lettering everywhere. Basically, think Blade Runner. And in the center of it is you. Maybe you're a cop struggling to maintain order, an average joe trying to make it in this horribly dystopian envrionment. Or maybe you're a criminal trying to make it big while you still can, before a horrible respiratory disease takes you down at 35. It's up to you.
Characters:
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Name:
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Age (17 and up, folks):
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Up for love?:
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Name:
Gender:
Age (17 and up, folks):
Appearance (optional):
Profession:
Personality:
History:
Up for love?:
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Rules:
1. No godmodding, duh
2. No killing off other people's characters, you know the drill
3. No explicit descriptions of sex.
Other than that, this is meant to be a pretty dark and gritty imagining of a cyberpunk world. Swear up a storm. Do crazy drugs (ideally fictional ones, like that eye drop stuff in Looper). Go crazy. Life is miserable and brutally short in this world and the people better reflect it, darn it.
Oh, and a sidenote - while not strictly enforced, I do sorta want there to be a lack of the traditional female characters I notice cluttering the SBs here. Teenage girls who are quirky and upbeat despite whatever situation they're in who are also excellent at whatever. Maybe I am nuts but I notice a lot of these characters. Let's aim for as realist and grounded characters as we can.
Here's a DT for your profiles and other SB related needs!: The Future Is Now DT
