Futuristic Synchronicity Lore and Rules

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New Rhyne, the capital city of Eta Alphon, provides for its citizens fairly well. Hospitals serve care for free or almost-free. Those who otherwise would be homeless live in government-provided homes. Minorities are protected from persecution, citizens freely elect their representatives, and robots make one’s meals and educate one’s children.

However, not everything is so rosy. That food is drugged to keep citizen’s content. Those homes? Monitored. Citizens are rumored to disappear from hospitals, though no one can confirm it, and your children? Require a license.

There is a population problem, and at the same time there are too few jobs to go around. Most humans are students, police, government agents or politicians, scientists, doctors, engineers, CEOs, or actors. Artificial intelligence handles the rest. The arts have disappeared, and anyone that dares attempt it without the wealth and influence to back them up tends to disappear as well. Novels are almost as rare as entertainment that doesn’t contain propaganda- that is, nonexistent- and those who think too much have it all medicated away.

Add in the fear of terrorist attacks and a curfew, some androids, euthanasia, the rare (and expensive) prototype cybernetic enhancement, a tracker in the chip necessary for anything in your everyday life, fabric touch screens, superpowers, and public transportation as the only way to get around, and you have New Rhyne.

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• May whatever you believe in help you if you’re caught breaking the law. Whether it’s jaywalking, smoking marijuana, wearing a hood, getting found with a weapon on you, or anything in between, you’re going to jail, and that means a minimum sentence of at least ten years, which most prisoners do not live through, perhaps because of the taxing labor they are expected to perform.
  
  Even if you manage to survive your sentence, the barcode you got when you were put in the system tells everyone just where you've been, leading to a lower prioritization for housing and more limited job opportunities. There's a reason most prisoners end up becoming villains or their henchmen.
  
  Worst of all, if a child is born to someone in prison, they are never registered or given a chip, laboring in the prison system forever. The silver lining is children of this kind that escape are a commodity- moreso than children in general- as they are free of chips and trackers, can handle physical stress, and know how to avoid detection.
  
• Anything can cause a superpower- some people are born with a mutation, while others may have picked up a cursed amulet- someone might have even gotten bit by a radioactive spider. The world's your playground here, so go wild.
  
  Getting tested for powers is a normal part of any check-up. As soon as powers are detected, a person will be registered. For those whose powers are difficult to control or in some way painful, there is an extremely expensive- and ridiculed- pill capable of dampening one’s abilities, and it is completely legal- not that it matters much when the only way to get enough to make life bearable is to be rich.
  
  Of course, if you're desperate enough you could always go, do something stupid and find the military-grade version implanted in your side... though you'd likely find an official at your door before then.
  
• HEROES
  One of the options for those who register their abilities is to become a hero. Once you reach the point where you can no longer function in normal society, this stops being an option and you are contacted, at which point you either join willingly or are taken for training.
  
  Heroes generally live lives disconnected from the rest of society, in their own building with personal doctors and chefs, their own apartments, and no contact with those outside their bubble unless they are fighting villainy, terrorism, or are participating in a photo op.
  
  VILLAINS
  Most crimes are defined as villainy, especially those in some way involving powers. Most villains tend to stick to and live in the glitched zones, which are regularly raided by the police and beginning to be targeted by drives for reconstruction. Most career villains have had their chip removed so they can no longer be tracked.
  
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Preparation Countdown

 

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Synopsis​

Phoenix's birthday is coming up, and, as per tradition, she is planning something big. This is a high risk, high reward for anyone in the city of a disreputable enough status wishing to curry her favor.

However, again, this is per tradition, and Eta Alphon has had to deal with this for a decade. They're planning for it.

Recently intercepted, without her awareness, was a very vague detailing of what she has in store for her birthday bash.

This year, it's a break in. Could be worse, right? She's planning on making off with the formula for power blockers. Security is, of course, being increased, but barring things go awry, heroes are to be on standby with a plan at the ready.


The goal here is simple:

Villains- break in and steal the formula

Heroes- if they succeed in breaking in, you are to stop them from stealing the formula.

We start the night prior to the break in. Everyone is putting together their final plans.