WARNING: This roleplay will include strong language, intense situations, mentionings of sexual encounters, and the use of alcohol/drugs. If any of that frightens you, this roleplay is not for you.
C Ƚ I M B
Welcome, CITIZEN 980654023. Going up?
B A C K G R O U Π D
In 2124, the population of America had finally hit 1 billion. But by then, there had already been population growth issues. Due to environmental issues causing much fertile farm land to turn literally to dust. People flocked to towns and cities for work and dense pockets of "Mass Population" formed (50 million+). These Mass Population Cities, or MPCs usually didn't have the land to expand, as farmlands that commonly surrounded cities before were intensly hot and uninhabitable, an issue quickly being addressed. Because of this, cities followed Manhattan's lead and expanded upwards. Skyscrapers began to reach the thousands in terms of levels and spider walkways and roads provided a means of travel between the buildings instead of returning to the ground and traveling back up. Technology was developed to deal with the air pressure up on higher levels to create a hospitable environment.
Of course, the higher up the levels were, the more expensive they were. A new way of ordering the social ladder arose; a much more literal one. The higher up you lived, the wealthier you were. The lower you lived, the poorer you were. The phrase "moving up in the world" took on a literal meaning. But sadly, due to the lack of jobs and steadily increasing population, it's hard to move up along with the fact that depending on what level you lived on, this determined how high you could travel up unless given specific permission. However, with that good ol' classic American spirit, anything is possible.
S ∑ T T I N G
This roleplay will take place on the island of Manhattan. Most, if not all, the the recognizable buildings have been replaced by taller skyscrapers and Times Square no longer exists. The boroughs have been consolidated into Harlem (East/West Harlem, Morningside Heights), Uptown (Upper East/West Side, the area where Central Park was), Midtown (Midtown East/West, Times Square, Garment District, Murray Hill, Chelsea, Gramercy, Stuyvesant Town, Greenwich, East Village), and the Downtown (Soho, Little Italy, Lower East Side, Tribeca, Chinatown, Financial District) Districts. Within the districts areas can still keep their former names, but this if usually more common on lower levels in the Downtown District (i.e., Chinatown and Little Italy due to demographics).
Regardless of the district, there are Sections which are 10 levels each (all levels of skyscrapers are now a uniform height). The first Section is the lowest number and they increase upwards to the average highest level (if one or two skyscrapers have, say, 1,020 levels but the rest average out to around 1,000, the 20 levels in those two buildings will be grouped into Section 10). The Sections are then loosely divided further into socioeconomic levels: lower, middle, and upper class.
Spoiler: Misc. Setting Information
The lower Sections (usually 1-4) are characterized by diversity, blue collar labor, fighting rings, red light districts, and poverty, of course. The middle Sections (about 5-8) are focused on consumerism, production, and generally serving the elite. The upper Sections (9+) are, of course, characterized by wealth, entertainment, and luxury items/services.
Trains are the major mode of transportion to move within, but there are massive towers of elevators to move up and down. To use the elevators, goverment-issued ID chips (inserted into the inside of the upper forearm) are needed to track movements and restrict those on the lower Sections from going too high up without permission. This was instated due to the issue of panhandling and cutting down on crime. Speaking of crime, the police barely bother with the lower Sections, allowing for crimes like prostitution, drug dealing, and fights to go on without interruption.
P U R P Ф S E
For many, the new heirarchy is too much. The government rarely allows anyone from sections lower than 7 to serve, crime rates are close to 100% due to police neglect, disease and illiteracy rates are rising, and the movement restriction bothers most. A revolution has been stirring, even with government agents inflitrating and crushing many of the leaders. This one...this one's different. With Thaddeus "Deus" Soloman at the head, there's more hope. His higher education and sharp thinking has garnered a small army with spies, fighters, and other leaders. He's aiming to build a small "dream team", a mix of middle and lower Section citizens with the necessary skills to infiltrate a select elite class with close ties to the government, then the government as a whole.
C H A Я A C T E R S
In this roleplay, you have rather a few options on who you'd like to be. You can be a lower or middle Section citizen with the resistance (whether fully in or taking advantage of it for personal/monetary gain - an antihero of sorts), an elite fighting the resistance (like a cop/investigator), or an elite secretly helping it. You must be tied somehow to the resistance or you probably won't do very much productively.
Spoiler: Character Sheet
Please follow this character sheet. Everything asked for is mandatory unless stated otherwise. Any extra information must be added at the end in the "Other" section. Please hide images using the "Link" or "Hide" options. If your signature is bright/distracting/big, please untick the "Show your signature"
button below where you create your post. LIMIT OF FOUR CHARACTERS PER PERSON; please try to keep genders even. Don't make four male characters pretty please.
Name: [First, last]
Nickname: [optional]
Age: [16+]
Gender:
Number: [900000000 number; can be whatever you want but must be below 1 billion]
Role in resistance: [Can be a leader with Deus, but please PM me first with your completed character sheet to be this]
Appearance: [No anime or just description; can be a realistic drawing or a photograph with an accompanying description if you desire. REMEMBER, must be hidden using the "link" or spoiler options. It's less obnoxious and shows some finesse.]
Personality: [Doesn't have to be too detailed]
Background: [Optional, doesn't have to be detailed]
Special skill(s): [Related to resistance or fight against it]
District/Section: [Make sure it fits what socioeconomic level your character is]
Other: [Optional]
Spoiler: Accepted Characters
Resistance:
Thaddeus "Deus" Soloman [divinity] - Leader
Anti-Resistance
[I am looking for a leader to the "Anti-Resistance"; it'll be an elite character. Please PM me your finished character sheet if you're interested; you may even be placed as the GM if I feel like it]
R Џ L E S
NO GODMODDING. If you're for the resistance, you can't immediately just take over the government and if you're anti-resistance, you can't just kill the rebellion.
No railroading. If you have an idea HMU first.
GMs report to me unless it's a minor issue.
Keep OOC drama to a minimum; take it to PM or talk to me/a GM.
Posts must be 4+ sentences and we must be able to easily differentiate between your 2+ characters if you have that many.
Be respectful. Don't control other people's characters unless they give you exclusive permission.
No OOC chat in the IC thread.
Please reply at least once a day. If you're going to be gone/posting might be hard, please let us know in the OOC. After one time of not replying without letting us know before hand, you get a second chance then you'll be kicked out. After not replying for three days in OOC and IC, your character will be killed off.
Sex is allowed, but fade-to-black it. We don't want to read that.
Drugs/alcohol are allowed but don't go overboard. Same with swearing unless it is justified (i.e., arguing).
«News/Updates»
I'm back and more literate than ever c:
I should be on more often now, but I have soccer
practice every other day (or more if I'm practicing
with the team I want to join) and school so yeah.
Nothing's really changed for me, got like eight inches
cut off my hair and we found out my dad's side of the
family (he's adopted so we were never sure) is full
Italian so I'm actually split down the middle German/
Italian lol. Ok, that's it, bye <3
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