MercuryAngel
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This is the official OOC thread for Neo Metro: a Cyber Noir. Any discussion of characters, continuity, And out of context world building should happen here. Neo Metro is established as being a huge metropolis, sprawling out across thousands of miles, with all borders walled off from an irradiated wasteland. The inside of the city is huge, and my hope is that writers will expand the lore by making it their own. So far it has been established that:
Middle Crutch makes up several miles of tenement housing within the city, near the industrial district. Because of nearby factories, thick smog chokes the air. This is where William Zeign’s father made his fortune. Middle Crutch is in severe disrepair and everything is below safety standards, which are rarely upheld in lower income parts of the city. Inhabitants are at risk of severe health problems relating to pollution and communal disease.
Victor Gardens is a tower community built by William Zeign using his father’s fortune as well as borrowed funds from the criminal underworld. The standard of living in tower communities is much higher than in tenement communities like Middle Crutch, but crime is still high on the lower levels where working families and street hustlers rent studio apartments that are closer to what we today think of as a college dorm style layout: bunk beds, group showers, a dining hall. In the upper levels, life is much different. Apartments look more like luxury pent house suites, and between living spaces are high class shopping outlets.The clientele at this level drive luxury cars through an indoor garage that allows them to simply drive many levels up. Even when it is necessary that they leave Victor Gardens, they aren’t rubbing shoulders with anyone on the lower levels. Between the two is Zeign’s security force: mostly ex-military types in swat gear doing everything from parking enforcement to no-knock midnight raids through the lower levels.
Finally, one of many crime syndicates operating within Neo Metro is The Phantoms. On the outside,The Phantoms appear to be mostly involved in street level crimes: selling narcotics and fencing stolen goods, but in recent years the group has expanded into politically motivated crime, stealing and reprogramming a huge shipment of government androids, and performing illegal cybernetic enhancements. The leader of secretive group remains unknown to most.
Any feedback is appreciated, feel free to use this thread for anything you don’t want to put in the IC thread, and have fun!
Middle Crutch makes up several miles of tenement housing within the city, near the industrial district. Because of nearby factories, thick smog chokes the air. This is where William Zeign’s father made his fortune. Middle Crutch is in severe disrepair and everything is below safety standards, which are rarely upheld in lower income parts of the city. Inhabitants are at risk of severe health problems relating to pollution and communal disease.
Victor Gardens is a tower community built by William Zeign using his father’s fortune as well as borrowed funds from the criminal underworld. The standard of living in tower communities is much higher than in tenement communities like Middle Crutch, but crime is still high on the lower levels where working families and street hustlers rent studio apartments that are closer to what we today think of as a college dorm style layout: bunk beds, group showers, a dining hall. In the upper levels, life is much different. Apartments look more like luxury pent house suites, and between living spaces are high class shopping outlets.The clientele at this level drive luxury cars through an indoor garage that allows them to simply drive many levels up. Even when it is necessary that they leave Victor Gardens, they aren’t rubbing shoulders with anyone on the lower levels. Between the two is Zeign’s security force: mostly ex-military types in swat gear doing everything from parking enforcement to no-knock midnight raids through the lower levels.
Finally, one of many crime syndicates operating within Neo Metro is The Phantoms. On the outside,The Phantoms appear to be mostly involved in street level crimes: selling narcotics and fencing stolen goods, but in recent years the group has expanded into politically motivated crime, stealing and reprogramming a huge shipment of government androids, and performing illegal cybernetic enhancements. The leader of secretive group remains unknown to most.
Any feedback is appreciated, feel free to use this thread for anything you don’t want to put in the IC thread, and have fun!
