Tiers of the People (1x1)

[PrizeFighter]

Hello, and thank you for stopping by! Tiers of the People is a roleplaying idea that I've been working on for a very, very long time...and I'm finally ready to find a partner to help me bring this dream to life! Before we begin, I'll go ahead and get all the housekeeping out of the way.

About Me

I am a twenty-three year old female who is wildly passionate about world and character building. I'm a full time student and bartender, so I'm not always on or super quick to respond. When it comes to post length, I always try to write a minimum of two paragraphs...but when the muses are being kind, I can write more. My main characters are always heterosexual females, but my secondary characters are a wide range of different things; I never have only one character, I usually play multiple at a time. I'm comfortable with adult themes, because for the most part I am an adult. Lastly, I love getting to know my partners and making friends!

What I would like from you

I would first and foremost like you to be eighteen years old or older. There will be adult themes, and I will not write about adult matters with people younger than 18. With that said, please be okay with adult themes. For example, this RP will include rampant drug and alcohol use. Because this idea is my baby, I would like a writing sample before we get started. Lastly, I would like you to be able to contribute ideas. I don't want to come up with all of the ideas and you be unhappy!

Now that all of that is out of the way, I'll tell you a little about the world I've created.

The world is tiered, with one level being built on another. The lower you go...the worse the conditions are. The top tier, known as the Elite Tier, is the only tier where there is fresh air and sunlight. It is the only tier above ground. So the tiers are as follows

+Elite Tier
-Where the Elite live.

+Business Tier
-Restaurants, shopping centers, plastic surgeons, memory doctors, ect.

+Working Tier
-This is the factory level. Those who work here, also live here.

+No Man's Tier
-This is where the Black Merchant's Guild operates and lives out of, also where you will find a majority of the drug dens and brothels. Black market-esque.

+Nameless Tier
-An open market where junk is bought, sold, and traded. Some people live here, mainly those who are part of the Rebellion.

+Garbage Tier
-This is where the garbage from all of the tiers ends up. Lots of people live here. Disease and cannibalism is rampant. Down here, 32 is considered to be old.

+Prison Tier
-Exactly what it sounds like.

That's all I'll tell you for now, but feel free to message me if you have any questions!

[Ashgan]

Hey PrizeFighter, welcome to the forum :)

I'll preface this by saying that I am here primarily to ask questions. It's by no means a promise of me biting. If I end up liking where it's going, it is possible however.

Now, I have a lot of questions about your setting. You don't have to have an answer to literally all of them in the interest check, admittedly, but it's a collection of my thoughts. Here we go:

• You say the "world" is tiered, and it very much seems to be a physical tiering, a layered city. Is the "world" in this case just a megacity? Is it, in fact, a planet-encompassing city (like Corsuscant in Star Wars)? Or is it a space station/ship?
• What is the state of space exploration/colonisation anyway? Is this world the only place people live, or have colonisation attempts into the cosmos been made?
• Building on the above, what kind of tech level are we looking at for this? Is this near-ish future or is it more distant than that? If we take real life as a basis, what kind of year would you date this story at?
• This is an important one for me: What are your primary inspirations for this? My first thought when I heard layered city was Deux Ex: Human Revolution's Hengsha city, which made me think of a distinctly cyberpunk kind of setting. But you could have been thinking more about the manga Blame! for instance, which is a very, very different kind of vibe.
• What do people do for a living on any tier that isn't Business and Working? Do people from Elite go down to work in the Business tier? What about the rest? How do people make their money? Do we even use money in this society?
• What do people eat? Where does it come from? This one seems pedantic but it's more important than you might think :)
• What's the history of this world? How did people develop this tiered structure in the first place, what was the motivation behind it? And did every tier always have its designated name and purpose? I feel like no government would designate not one but two tiers to have no purpose beyond giving illicit operations an unmonitored platform to develop in.
• Speaking of them, is there really that much difference between the No Man's Tier and Nameless Tier? They feel functionally very overlapping, and could possibly have been consolidated.
• And since I mentioned the government, what kind of government are we looking at in this "world"? Who has power here, who backs this power?
• What's the state of religion? Are there any major faiths, and if so, what are they like? I imagine that especially in the poorer tiers, religion might be the only thing left to some people.
• Last but not least: What is the plot premise? What kind of character requirements do you have?

Hopefully I didn't put you off with this avalanche of questions :D Thanks for indulging me.