Carbon 2185: Neo-Cyber Blues
| Carbon 2185: Neo-Cyber Blues | |
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| GM | |
| Erik | |
| Status | |
| Campaign Abandoned | |
| Characters | |
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Brick (Karen) Galen-5824 (Mark) George Donovan (Tim) Lachesis (Ben) Simone Yang (Adam) Tetra-chan (Jason) Zaahira Idrissi (Lisa) | |
| The Game | |
| Character Level: 3 | |
| Adventure Log |
The world that our cyberpunks find themselves in would be unrecognizable to their early 21st century ancestors. The environmental collapse of the late 21st century and the mishandling of power cells has left the Earth heavily polluted and irradiated. Many cities deal with the pollution by having air filters installed atop buildings. This helps to keep the pollution at livable levels, although on bad days even the cleanest of cities have visibility of less than 100ft. The areas outside of cities are heavily polluted, and not somewhere you can spend any extended amount of time.
Earth's environmental collapse led to social upheaval which in turn led to a world essentially run by mega corporations. Earth's governments are now little more than figureheads with the real power in the hands of the corporations. This is not the case off world. The colonies and free worlds like Mars enjoy stronger governments.
Cyberpunks
- Brick - Karen
- Galen-5824 - Mark
- George Donovan - Tim
- Lachesis - Ben
- Simone Yang - Adam
- Lisa's character place holder
Starting Location
The crown jewel of North America – of the planet! A dizzying microcosm of wealth, beauty, art and fashion, the highest of high life, the grandest of grandeur. The apple of the Big Apple’s eye, the place where all roads lead, the city within the City That Never Sleeps. The Capital of the World. Manhattan!
It’s a shithole, unless you’re rich.
Manhattan is a place of the severest contrasts between rich and poor, powerful and powerless, apparent beauty and inner ugliness. It is here that the megacorps of the world have decided to hold court and set up their respective embassies, creating a class of diplomatic corporate elites who compete to see who can revel in the grandest expenditure. It is also a place with a literal Underbelly, the war- rens of abandoned subways, sewers and basements, where a host of the dispossessed and parasitic live off the leavings of the people above.
Manhattan is broadly divided into three area – Uptown to the north, Midtown, and Lower Manhattan to the south – though its historically significant neighborhoods have lost their definition under the various corporate regimes. Central Park still forms a rectangle of green among the concrete, though now half of it is dominated by the opaque dome of the NeueHoffnung, the Regierung Kybernetik embassy, and the other half by a dense jungle of bioengi- neered vegetation.