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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gideon020" data-source="post: 5244641" data-attributes="member: 83181">'Welcome to the playground of damned souls.'LAPD Specialist Incarceration Center E-190 aka 'The Island' 1. What is the Island?Specialist Incarceration Center E-190 is the official name given for a massive artificial island complex built out in Los Angeles Bay, on the edges of the city's territorial waters and far from all trade shipping routes. It is the only prison that Los Angeles operates and caters for those that are considered ineligable for execution under Zero Tolerance.In short, the worst of LA's criminals are housed in this massive complex.But The Island is also infamous for its 69 percent annual death rate, incidents of prisoners immediately being sent to various mental asylums, committing suicide or returning in a state of total amnesia to be re-educated into productive members of LA society.The Island is built as a pentagon with five 'arms' that house the main prison wards and dock arm where LAPD cargo ships carry not only LA criminals, but the worst criminals from abroad as well, to be processed and then assigned to a ward.2. A typical new arrival's experience with the Island.Once arrested, tried and sentenced to the Island, the typical new arrival is placed inside a specially designed pod known popularly as 'the coffin'. The prisoner is restrained with the arms and legs tied back and an oxygen feed is secured to the face, acting as a gag and feeding a mild sedative mixed with the oxygen. The pod is then closed and a thick amniotic fluid is injected inside to act as a cushion against bumps and knocks and also to further restrain the prisoner.The prisoner will then be loaded onto an LAPD-operated cargo ship and then delivered to the Island. On occasion certain prisoners will be flown in and an airstrip is provided for such purposes. The sedatives ensure that this transit period is often fuzzy and that the prisoners are somewhat mentally stable once they arrive.Upon arrival, the prisoner is removed from the pod and placed in a restraining transport harness attached to a specialized rail system. They are then transported to Processing where biometrics are taken and a neural link is implanted in the base of the skull. They are then assigned to a ward and sent on their way. The entire processing procedure take less than five minutes per prisoner and Processing can process two hundred inmate arrivals at a time at maximum capacity.Upon arrival at a ward, the prisoner is plugged into the prison neural network and sealed inside their assigned nutrient suspension tank for the duration of their sentence.3. The Warden of E-190.Non-prisoner visitors will often hear the voice of a smooth, charismatic man over the prison intercom system. This voice is always referred to as 'The Warden' and for the most part, this mysterious person is affable and polite.Only the truly knoweldgeable will recognize the voice as that of Harlan Ellison, and only those who are familiar with his works will recognize the disjointed speech as that of the insane supercomputer known as AM.And then realize with horror that every single prisoner is connected to this insane mind.4. AM and the LAPDHow AM came to the attention and then employment of the LAPD is shrouded behind complex security codes and information-hierarchy blocks, what is known is that the LAPD investigated a series of disappearences and found a trans-dimensional portal, where the AI was festering away with no-one to torture, nearly on the verge of attempting to disable its redundant backups and self-repair systems and end its existance.From there, they contacted the AI and began interviewing it. After an unknown period of time, the LAPD brought in a high-capacity neural core and downloaded AM into it.This core was then taken to E-190, then under construction, and inserted as the primary computer core for the entire prison operation as part of some manner of deal with the insane AI.To this day, AM rules as the Warden of The Island. To this day, he tortures the prisoners that are constantly sent to the island, sacrifices to feed the desires of a mad god.5. GM Ideas-AM may not be able to warp reality and flesh to the extent that he could back in his original complex, but the reality of the mind is just as malleable. What sort of secrets is the insane computer feeding back to Los Angeles? What manner of intelligence is the city gaining for its own shadowy agendas?-The PCs need to get their hands on a particular person who has information that they need. The problem is that he/she's been arrested by the LAPD and is due to be sent to The Island. One of the PC's will need to be arressted by the LAPD and sent there to find the prisoner and protect them from AM, while the rest of the party try to falsify a release order for the both of them.-The PCs have been sent to the Island on false charges and testimony and are in the grips of AM's torture. The AI knows that they are there falsly and if the PCs are willing to play a little game, he might even help them escape.-AM has long hoarded away countless terabytes of information, intelligence that a number of interested parties would be interested in, if they can pry open his mind to get at the info without getting caught.-The Island is isolated from the Web and Cyberspace, the LAPD not wishing their pet AI loose on the world. What happens when another AI sends agents to open the Island to Cyberspace to speak with AM? Will the PCs be the one to unleash this monster on an unsuspecting world? Or will they seek to ensure his cage is securely locked tight?</blockquote>

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