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Relief, Houston - A High Tech Low Life Cyberpunk Story

The formula I will be using and semi requesting that others use in this thread, I may revise it as time goes forward because I'm not particularly great at coding BBCode.

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_{Name Here — Location — Current or Past — [Tags Here]}

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CONTENT HERE

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S u m m a r y
POST SUMMARY HERE.

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L o r e
LORE HERE

See the raw top right

Relief, Houston - A High Tech Low Life Cyberpunk Story

No worries guys :) Things will go slow here. I aim to get the first IC post up by the weekend that will hopefully give a good feeling for the vibe.

Relief, Houston - A High Tech Low Life Cyberpunk Story

Quite a bit later than anticipated but I couldn't find the notes from my previous run and am trying to regenerate.
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Relief, Houston - A High Tech Low Life Cyberpunk Story

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_{N A M E " N I C K N A M E " S U R N A M E
(some punks use their nickname in place of their surname... gotta earn that name)
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_{F A C E}

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This section is for appearance description, notes on personality and behavior, or anything else you might think of that is related.

_{R E C}

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What've you done with your life? Anything worth talking about? This can be as detailed or as scant as you want and I recommend you add to this as your character continues their exploits.

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Anything about your character or relation to other characters can go in here, can be group memberships, personal lore etc.

Check RAW top right if you need the code.

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Relief, Houston - A High Tech Low Life Cyberpunk Story

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P R E M I S E 》 Houston, the shipping capital of the Americas, a city where almost a billion shipping containers from around the world make their first contact with American soil. The new Los Angeles as it came to be called with refugees from the burnt out California fled on the coattails of tech elite that spread like locusts from the barren irradiated wastes to greener pastures in Austin, those that could afford the move. Or those so desperate to leave that they sold themselves to massive MNCs that would happily relocate a person. While our story starts in Houston, it takes place in a very specific place. Southwest Houston there’s a parking lot, a very special parking lot, it belonged to a convention center that was flooded and abandoned because of Hurricane Whitney in 2034 before the massive ocean windfarm. This parking lot, situated beneath the S290 Skyway, fostered a new community, weeds that grew through cracked concrete away from the distracted eyes of society. It used to be part of a local city but it only borrowed its name and evolved it as the reason for the city block became its very namesake, Relief. Relief. Home to criminals, ex-corpo slaves on the run, ripperdocs pulling employee chips, cyberpunk wannabes, and generally anyone that wants to fly hidden from the watchful eye of HPD and the Corpo Mercs. Some would say that Relief is the home to every hitter wanting to make it big or flatline even bigger with all the criminal plans popping in the tangled mishmash of rusted stalls but they’d only be a little correct. Relief is the safe haven in Houston. Illegal climate refugees and escaped victims of human trafficking run rusted out stalls right next to ripperdocs specializing in scavenged chrome from dead punks. Relief serves as its own city mostly ignored by Houston and run by local muscle that occasionally squabbles. Houston doesn’t care as long as the mess stays local and isn’t too bothersome, only occasionally sends a Blue to investigate when some Gonk bragged too loud about pirating a Corp Lootship. And any punk wannabe or anyone that wants to get something done or started goes to Daniel Nuyear. Nuyear isn't the only Fixer but he is one of the most public Fixers in Haven. An unofficial Mayor, he runs the public face of Relief from Huge Tree, a 24 hour shop specializing in all sorts of Taiwanese cuisine. You want something, you start with Nuyear. I enjoy writing stories where things are organic and it's just as likely for someone to add a lore element as myself and we collectively learn about the world together and what lore elements I have will spill out in bits and pieces as I add to the world and play NPCs. What you need to know about the world is that it's the near future at 2052 and we are facing the results of climate change, refugee crises, warfare, and technological advances. I admit that I particularly enjoy the cyberpunk future envisioned by the 80s and 90s but that doesn't mean there won't be more recent things adapted. It's a cyberpunk story at it's heart as I draw from books and movies that I love while also trying to interpret a view of Houston, TX in the future. A bit difficult since I don't live there but I'll give it a try! I post slowly but will strive for a post every week/two and generally expect/encourage 2-3 paragraphs, this won't be a high speed thread and I don't know how long it will last just that I hope to have an interesting time :)

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Relief, Houston - A High Tech Low Life Cyberpunk Story

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This will be a place I will attempt to maintain as accurate as I reveal lore in the world. I'm still torn as to whether I should drop everything I have now or to let it trickle over time. I ask that no one else post here so I can maintain a clean layout.

Relief, Houston - A High Tech Low Life Cyberpunk Story

[Gisk]
Completely fine :)

My one big worry right now is I haven't run a game in many years and it's also the first on this forum so I don't really know the dynamics yet. I'm trying my best not to put TOO much information into the OP as I want to let information leak out a little at a time while also allowing plenty of space for players to inject their own lore and then fold it into the overall story. There isn't a specific story line... at least not yet, I want to leave strings in posts that players can pull on.