Woundwort

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

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I haven't thought up all of he history for mine yet, but at the moment I think the big issue from the crash is gonna be unrest from economic problems. The whole 'leisure class' doesn't really exist since they'd be a drain on the cities' resources, so most people live pretty comfortably. Well, they did until the economic crash. Which is not going to make them happy.

@TheSovereignGrave

Bright side, the crash gives humanity a fighting chance against the mega-corps for the first time in...

Awhile.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

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Neat, mine's gonna be a confederation of aerostat cities in the Venusian atmosphere. It's actually a democracy, but it's very definitely big government. After all, you need to make sure things run smooth and orderly when you're floating through the Venusian atmosphere; at times you're feet away from a toxic atmosphere and heat that'd cook you alive (plus you're, you know, floating in the air).

@TheSovereignGrave

My government, before the coup, was one of the many faux-social democracies that are extant.

The clique is inspired by John Brown and his sons to a degree-throwbacks to the old communist governments of Vietnam and Cuba, passing the torch down from generation to generation. Brown and his sons swore an oath to oppose slavery-and it got them Harper's Ferry and the USA a civil war.

Here, an oath kept between families for generations, got the nation a military coup. They've been waiting for this for awhile. The crash gave them the push they needed.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

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Oh yeah, my nation would definitely be the kind to clandestinely support 'freedom fighters'.

I'd say "Liberté, égalité, fraternité!" except the jury's out on how much the first applies to my nation. It's rather authoritarian and collectivist.

@TheSovereignGrave

Well, my nation (consisting, at the moment, if approved, of Indochina, the Philippines and the remnants of the Caribbean, plus some solar holdings) will, at gamestart, be undergoing a coup by a radical clique of military officers, with plans to found a one party marxist-leninist state (or something along those lines).

Collectivist buddies!

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

Well hurray for equality! Robots and GMOs are people too!

@TheSovereignGrave

Welcome to the Abolitionist Club.

Here's your board sword (for hacking slavers to death) and your copy of Beecher's Bible.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

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No prob, everyone has their limits and tolerance for grimdark. I've had those episodes myself where I couldn't do anything dark and NEEDED to do lighthearted and fluffy for a long while.

If it would make you feel any better, I could rollback Northstar kemonomimi (catgirls, bunnygirls, dogboys, etc) as primarily dressed up AI robot companions than gene-hacked slaves. Buying and selling robots instead of life.

@Skylar

While I do apperciate the thought, I've already devised my own way to make myself feel better.



Communist indochinese-philippine-caribbean abolitionist cyborg ninjas.

I'll be keeping my subplots about slave liberation, neko rights, etc, regardless. Do what you want, if it gets too uncomfortable I'll just come into the OOC and sing La Marseillaise in a very pointed way. :p

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

So.

Hey.

Keyguy and I talked. I got some bad news. Like. Seriously bad news. And I've decided...fuck it, not gonna let stuff happening in an RPG be the thing that breaks me.

I'm uh, unrecusing myself. I can do that. It's legal. I checked.

the nice men with guns who I brought with me say it's legal. So it's legal.

Sorry about the drama there.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

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True, I understand perfectly. In this RP I'd say that things are laid out fairly well to have the eventual triumph of good be a very real possibility. But it'll be a really, really shitty world until then. If we ever make it to the point at which it's no longer grimdark cyberpunk "we basically live in hell", I could send you a message if you'd be willing to join. The way plot development will go in this provided it runs without falling flat on its face like most recent NRPs, I'm sure it would be easy to squeeze whatever you want into the setting at that point.

@Keyguyperson

Thanks man. I apperciate it.

Sorry for suddenly bailing on you like this, I was getting pretty excited for the RP myself. But...intellectually, I don't think I could keep my peace OOC, over some of what's gonna be happening. So this is probably for the best, for the time being.

And thank you again for your understanding, it means alot. :)

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

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There's still a (pretty big) chance of glorious revolution/systemwide WWII, but I understand. This happens a lot, doesn't it?

@Keyguyperson

I consider slavery pretty much worse then murder, rape, etc, all of that combined. Worse then genocide.

So yes.

It does.

It's not the sort of thing I can stand to see *win* and in my 1x1's, there's no chance of that. Just a story about revolution and justice. Here? There's no such safety net. And I don't really think it's worth investing the energy if the bastards might win anyways. Because people tend to gravitate towards horrible factions for some reason, and I just know we'll end up outnumbered.

Because I've seen it go that way a dozen times before. I just....don't have the energy anymore mate. If you wanna do 1x1 in a setting like this with me, hell, I'll be insanely open to it.

But I don't think I can play in this particular RP. Evil wins enough in RL, and I don't like to see it win in fiction.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to recuse myself from this game. I was worried I'd made the Free Cities too vile to be believable, but we've got a corporation(s) essentially dealing in genetically engineered slaves, when I was gonna have that be the most heinous thing the Free Cities did. Which would provide the popular support for the new commie govenrment.

If it's been happening openly throughout civilization

first

wow.

Second.

Yeah this is way too dark for me. The only reason I'd write a civilization like that is to watch it's overthrow. And there's a chance that's just not gonna happen here.

And I don't feel like risking a depressing Bad End. I'll just retreat back to my 1x1's.

1/1/2300: "Black January" [Sci-fi, Cyberpunk NRP set in the Solar System]

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If they are, Northstar will probably be exporting them given they have a few roots in the Japanese idol/anime industry in their corporate merger heritage. I figure that information and culture are major commodities in a near post-scarcity society. Ergo, anime! And lots of VR dynamic world simulators with built-in time dilation for those with sufficient computing power (for some reason the "be the dictator of your own world" sims seem to be trending a lot)

@Skylar

Well.

I was sorta planning on making them a revolutionary group in Vietnam, if they were. Genetic rights etc.