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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chaochou" data-source="post: 8379349" data-attributes="member: 99817">And here's an example to get the thread started in earnest.The Glare of ProgressA Cyberpunk situation for The Veil<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ghost Mushrooms</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rotting Utopia</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bear Necessities</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Armored Lizard</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rootless Tree</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Broken Angel</li> </ul>The vast arcologies rise so high that sunlight doesn't reach down this far. Only the constant drip of a million streams of condensation, where the clouds form around the tops of the towers miles overhead and the water runs down, and down and down, here to fractured concrete, decayed pylons, rusted signs and busted hydrants of the once original streets. The rot of utopia set in down here on The Floor, and started climbing. But the Floor is the most rotten - if you're down here, you hit rock bottom, probably a while back.The Broken Angel is what the the Floor locals call their sanctuary - part soup-kitchen, part club, part conduit for The Veil, four stories of crumbling ruin, festooned with miles of old cabling and filled with old jukebox parts, run by a mysterious figure called Salem.The Laiety, a group of anti-corporate radicals in the area, are being stirred up by a preacher called NineLiveS, and have stopped visiting and partying at the Broken Angel. NineLiveS is trying to instigate a raid against a corporate headquarters, although he hasn't yet picked a target.GianFranco is a researcher from the the Church of the New Saints. He believes the Floor may house new species which have adapted to low-light, high humidity conditions. If he finds new species he wants them wiped out as the Church seeks to destroy evidence of evolution.Juice is one of the unofficial leaders of petty street hooligans The Elevators, about 15 smart, directionless youths prone to hacking the arcology elevators and riding upward to infiltrate, tag and prank in the suburban zones.The Ursa Major corporation wants space for a new nutrient processing plant and this rotting utopia, filled with the remnants of the underclass is - in corporate terms - uncontrolled, unclaimed and unwanted. Perfect. They plan to clear the area they need with obselete battlefield atomic warheads from the previous century, codenamed Project Ghost. Technically its illegal, but who enforces the law here?The Project Ghost timeline is to:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">send scout teams into the area to survey for structural weaknesses in the arcologies</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">send a specialist demolition team in to advise on placement of the warheads</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">bring in a heavily guarded nuclear team to install the charges</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">wait for favourable conditions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">detonate the charges</li> </ol>Player Character 1Anand is The Attached, a slim Latino with a worn face. An articulated metal Gecko, driven by some kind of AI, skitters across his body, slipping into a pocket then appearing from under his shirt to glide gracefully onto his shoulder, hexadecimal code blurring across its neon-blue eyes. Maybe he controls it, or maybe it controls him. Right now he's a wanderer, in thrall to its whispers.BeliefsProgress does not require violenceStrangers are usually well-meaning and friendlyStaying still is a slow deathPlayer Character 2Lisbet is The Wayward, known as the Rootless Tree, because of the branch she carries filled with the essence of her Forest Homeland. The branch feeds on dreams to replenish the Forest, and so she found her way to The Floor - filled with dreamers all hoping for something else.BeliefsWithout dreams my homelands will become barrenThe Veil is good - it helps people dreamNo-one else can be relied upon so I must do everything myselfPlayer Character 3Salem is The Onomastic, the last of his order, whose Sanctuary is Broken Angel, the decayed and crumbling old building, and who is hunted by iconoclasts within the pure light. He doesn't remember how the old order came to be destroyed, but he fled here to the depths, away from the light. He feels it searching for him even here. How long before the light comes?BeliefsThe light is the enemy of the orderWhen the people are joyful, I am joyfulThe Broken Angel must be preserved above all elsePlayer Character 4Juice is The Honed, a natural athlete and brawler who kicks around The Floor with her friends, looking for a purpose. Some would call The Elevators a gang but she doesn't see it that way. She doesn't act like the leader, except when danger is close when she feels responsible for those around her.BeliefsWe need risk and danger to feel aliveI need my friends more than I need technologyIt's not wrong if no-one gets hurt</blockquote>

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