Love Crime
In the year 2075, an untamed pandemic sweeps across the globe, tearing through the very foundations of life itself. ‘The Rot’, as this plague would come to be known, brings humanity to its knees, and the threat of total and utter extinction becomes very real indeed. The Rot’s insatiable hunger could no longer contain itself, and the lethal virus collapsed under its own feral weight, leaving a world of ashes and dust behind.
Humanity endured, as it always has, and the flags of the old world were adopted under new mantles and titles. The same crippling vices still fester within the hearts of mankind, and greed and corruption are just as prominent now as they ever were; with The Rot having revealed man’s true colours. Monsters have arisen from the darkness, and it is these monsters, and their tyrannical dominions, that control the world.
Our story takes place in Scorch City, a ruined husk of concrete and rubble within the desolate wasteland of what was once the southern states of America. The New Confederacy imposes brutal martial law on Scorch’s citizens, and sadistic drug kingpins dominate the streets. Crooked officials, corrupt soldiers, and redneck crackheads litter the sidewalks and back alleys of Scorch City, and brothels and drug dens line the sidewalks. The Confederacy enforces what flimsy law there is to be found within Scorch, but they have little patience for criminals, and most transgressions are met with fatal consequences.
The Scorch City Peacekeeper Department (SCPD) serve as both an armed militia and a police force, but more often than not they are mere pawns of some unseen crime boss, lurking about in the shadows.
One hot summer evening, a working girl by the name of Joanna Calhoun is found dead in her apartment in downtown Scorch City. No more than a day later, a gun-for-hire called Hugh Blackwood turns up on the sidewalk, his head caved in. The one thing connecting these two individuals is a history with the infamous Bloody Razor gang, a history which they had both tried to shake off. But the Bloody Razor are a cruel and merciless lot, who don’t appreciate their members walking out on them.
Guerrilla warfare breaks out between the Razor and the SCPD. Car Bombs erupt in great showers or orange and red, snipers pick off unsuspecting passers-by from their nests in the ruins of skyscrapers, and bodies litter the streets.
As blood stains the gutters, Grand Peacekeeper Billy Zimmerman appoints disgraced detective John Horrigan to uncover exactly what’s transpired within Scorch City, and to shed light upon the fates which have befallen Joanna Calhoun and Hugh Blackwood.
Out of character
Love Crime is a dystopian crime thriller, set in the ruins of the Deep South in the aftermath of an apocalyptic disaster. Players can choose to take on the role of any original character within Scorch City, with the one connecting feature being that they are somehow a suspect in the murder of Blackwood and Calhoun.
I’m trying something a little different with Character Sheets, having drawn inspiration from Wade Willson’s excellent RP ‘The Kindnapping’. Those who wish to apply for the game are to PM me their character sheets, which will contain a name, physical description, and background of the character. If accepted, I will then post the physical description alone to the CS tab, and leave the other details anonymous, to be discovered throughout the course of the game.
Whilst the game will have a sandbox setting, and players are free to get up to their own devices within Scorch City, the over-arching murder mystery will be the driving force behind Love Crime’s progression.
Anyone out there interested?
