"What is the greatest lie every created? What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind? Slavery? The Holocaust? Dictatorship? No. It's the tool with which all that wickedness is built: altruism." -Andrew Ryan
Andrew Ryan was a man with a deam of a city, nay a country, where men who worked for what they had could live without fear of the government controlling them. In turn, he created the city of Rapture where the working man could keep what he earned. A city where everybody worked for their position in life and weren't given it. Where failures were their fault and not the fault of an person supporting them. Scientist could work without fear of the government stealing their work. Where an artist could full realize their full capacity of their creations and were not limited by the laws imposed on them by society.
Comstock stylized himself a prophet of God and that his will was God's will. He wanted to create a Heaven on Earth where the white man and woman could live their lives without the influence of the 'lower races'. He established Columbia as a Heaven on Earth for his people. The Church was always right in Columbia and all white humans lived in peace from the government controlled world down below. Comstock's floating city was a mecca for all God Fearing whites in America.
Yet, both Andrew and Comstock had failed. Rapture had been built to house those who wished to be free of 'parasites' but had parasites welcomed at their gates as well. Columbia had been rotten from the core, a city established on a lie from a man outside of his own reality. In both Columbia and Rapture it had taken only one man to build the city and one man to make it all fall. Their dreams were weak and the ground they were established on was also weak. They built their cities on their shoulders and they were weak like the men who relied on others. Arcadia is not weak for it is not built on one man's shoulders nor from one man's dream.
Arcadia was built on the dream of thousands of men and women looking to leave behind their government controlled lives to start anew. Our majestic city was not built by one man, not ruled by one man, not designed by one man but made by the thousands who have come to live here. They determined the rules of Arcadia, where it would be built, and how it would be made. Their dreams together are stronger and thus Arcadia is stronger. It will not fall like Rapture and Columbia had. At least, that is what the people of Arcadia believe but, like all good things, there is an end. A few months back, seven representative of the United Nations were sent to the 'colony' of Arcadia. They have not been heard from since and in turn the United Nations has sent a team of hand selected men and women to investigate into the happenings of Arcadia. They are due for arrival on Friday 13, 2182.
If you've read this far then you've made it farther than I actually thought anybody would have. This roleplay is set in the year 2182, a hundred years since space travel became efficent enough for anybody to be willing to spend money on it. Thirty years before the events in this roleplay construction began on the city of Arcadia, a veritable haven for those looking to be free from government control. It is unkown why Arcadia was built on the distant, Earth-like planet of Izota. All that is known about Arcadia is that a thousand private citizens from various nations, who's names have never been released or know, payed for the establishment of Arcadia and that the nearly hundred thousand citizens payed a meager amount of five hundred bucks for all of their possessions and themselves to be taken to Arcadia by the giant of the space travel industry, Atlas Industries. You'll play characters who have been hand picked by the United Nations to investigate the disapperance of their representative and the general silence from Arcadia in the past few months.
The deadly abilities of Plasmids and Vigors will be turned down for characters who are not a member of the military and have gone through the proper training to use it. The Vigor Shock Jockey will only allow the user to create an electrical charge through something they are holding or touching and will instantly dissapate should the object leave the users hand if they have not had training in its use. Electro Bolt will do the same thing as they are basically the same thing. Incinerate will only allow the user to produce a flame on their body or any item they are holding without training. I'm sure y'all get the point now as I don't really wish for combat to be the focus of this roleplay. There will be points through out the story where you will have to fight but they will be few. Anyway, enough fo my rambling on and let me hear what you guys think of this idea.
