[X] Caucasian (North American & Others)
[X] African (Bantu/Zulu/Native African Tribes)
[X] Austronesians (Maori/Aborigines/Papua Tribes)
[X] Church of the Sun.
[X] Caucasian (North American & Others)
[X] African (Bantu/Zulu/Native African Tribes)
[X] Austronesians (Maori/Aborigines/Papua Tribes)
[X] Church of the Sun.
Ookay....now this is a tizzy. Veekie's post is not counted for some reason. Counting in veekie's post and adding them to the tally manually, that's a four way tie between Caucasian (West European), Caucasian (North American & Others), African (Bantu/Zulu/Native African Tribes), and East Asian (Japan/Korea/Ryukyu).
I'm rolling a 1d4 to decide which one will be excluded from the winning 4.
1 = Caucasian (North American)
2 = Caucasian (West European)
3 = African (Bantu/Zulu)
4 = East Asian (Japan/Korea).
Well. Looks like we have a whole load of Caucasians and ethnic Africans in our city people.
Yeap. So that's the main ethnic groups of our city. Europeans, North Americans and the Africans. Turns out Africa's really not a good place nowadays with all them warlord fighting for what's left of the continent after The Event hit and The Scourging compounded it. Bunch of mooks with guns storming into your houses ain't not a good way to live. Especially after the flooding of the coastal areas where most people live.And as such, they migrated en-masse to our city, bringing new ideas and inventions along the way. Did you know that the Onyere drive we use in them hovercars nowadays come from one of the first migrants to our city, Dr. Onyere? Without him, we won't be seeing those much less have them on our streets! And what about the others, you ask? Well, considering our city's built for the express purpose of research many scientists from top universities around the globe come here, especially ones from Europe and North America. It's kinda hard to continue teaching or studying when your university is 10 feet deep under the waves. So they migrated here, to work and study in peace.
So that's that. Well, what about religion? Like I mentioned before there's a couple of groups nowadays that rise up post-Event claiming to show the people the One Truth and stuff like that. These guys usually fall by the wayside and go ignored after a while. But not for one particular group-you know what I'm talking about.
Yeap. Those guys. The maroon robed guys who looks more robot than human. They've actually gained traction over the past few years due to some serious proselytizing. Now normally being rational-minded people that we are nowadays, we're more inclined to view all of that as hokey and dismiss it. But what do you do when machines themselves seem to respond to these guys? I've heard tales of weapons working more efficiently under the care of one. Did you know one of .....ummm...what were they called again, Techpriests once made a mech operate at 200% efficiency? That's impossible, you know that but then again, the results speak for itself, the mech managed to mine tonnes and tonnes of iron ore for 7 straight days without needing a tune up even once! Call me crazy, but I do think these guys are onto something. It's no wonder people are starting to listen to them.
But then again, you're talking about the same guys that champion transhumanism. They say stuff like,"You may say, it is impossible for a man to become like the Machine. And I would reply, that only the smallest mind strives to comprehend its limits." Most of them walk around with cybernetic implants and robot-arms like that, and encourage people to do the same. What followed was the Transhumanism Riots of '65 in which pro-transhumanists and the Techpriests clashed with anti-transhumanists. Let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. Both sides suffered some casualties before the city authorities put a stop to it. After the riots, the city authorities met and discussed in a public forum about that. In the end we decided that...
[ ] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. You get an implant, you get an implant, everybody gets an implant!
[ ] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are strictly prohibited. In the end, we simply don't want to look like robots than men.
[ ] cybernetics & cybernetic implants use are restricted only to people with specifically defined criteria.
[ ] Write in criteria. Examples: law enforcement, food cultivators (fish hunters),etc.
[ ] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are only made available to those who can afford them.
[ ] Write-in other ideas!
So, we've covered on basics of the society, demographics and such. Now, let's talk about societal order. As Warren City grew and grew as more migrate to and from the city, an interchange of ideas occur on how to live effectively in the city. It was a bit chaotic and messy at first during the founding. Some people, like the Igbo people that migrated to the city, still practice some odd caste system, and refuse to change to the new ways of society. Some of them accepted living in the city without a society system a welcome change of pace from their old clans/tribes/neighbourhoods. These lead to general unrest and confusion during the first few years that the city existed. But eventually, with the help of the authorities and widespread education,the city settled down to a sort of general shape of order, one in which....
[ ] Your work determines your status. Guilds, unions and societies are the norm.
[ ] Class-based differences. The common upper class/middle class/lower class thought school still holds water, even in the future.
[ ] Top-down domination. The city authorities who control vital resources sets the shape and agenda of social organizations.
[ ] Write-in ideas!
There's still some issues until this day, but thankfully it's not as problematic as it once was. I mean, would we be able to even live here with petrol bombs and stuff being thrown our way every other day? I think not! So thank God everything's on the up and up nowadays.
But then again, despite a clearly defined social order, there's always going to be people that are more well-off than one other. Rich and poor still exist yanno, even in the future. The way we built the city reflects that though. Remember that there's a surface portion of the city, and the underground portion of the city? Well, the way it goes is....
[ ] Rich people , the ones well-off, mostly live up top, because they can afford all them newfangled equipment to reduce things like the Reaping to a mere nuisance. The poor live underground, no wonder it's looking like Slum City on some parts here.
[ ] The poor people live up top,and they're dealing with disasters like The Reaping and stuff their own way. Rich people live underground in well built buildings with jacuzzis and stuff.
[ ] Both of them's mixed. Some rich people live on the surface while some live below and the same goes for the poor, but with very stark difference between poor areas and rich areas.
[ ] Both of them's mixed, and the structure's a bit chaotic too-slums appear in pockets and there can be rich housing at one end and the slums at the other.
(OOC: Vote away!Votes will be closed on Jan 19, at 10 am EST thereabouts.)
[x] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. You get an implant, you get an implant, everybody gets an implant!
[x] Your work determines your status. Guilds, unions and societies are the norm.
[x] Both of them's mixed, and the structure's a bit chaotic too-slums appear in pockets and there can be rich housing at one end and the slums at the other.
[X] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. However, any irreversible implants which cannot be safely reverted to their prior state can only be performed on full adults, save for the event of medical necessity, physical or mental disability.
[X] Top-down domination. The city authorities who control vital resources sets the shape and agenda of social organizations.
[X] The poor people live up top,and they're dealing with disasters like The Reaping and stuff their own way. Rich people live underground in well built buildings with jacuzzis and stuff.
[x] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. You get an implant, you get an implant, everybody gets an implant!
[x] Your work determines your status. Guilds, unions and societies are the norm.
[x] Both of them's mixed, and the structure's a bit chaotic too-slums appear in pockets and there can be rich housing at one end and the slums at the other.
[x] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. You get an implant, you get an implant, everybody gets an implant!
[x] Your work determines your status. Guilds, unions and societies are the norm.
[x] Both of them's mixed, and the structure's a bit chaotic too-slums appear in pockets and there can be rich housing at one end and the slums at the other.
[x] cybernetics & cybernetic implants use are restricted only to people with specifically defined criteria.
-[x] must be relevant to the job. Employer decides whether you need one.
[x] Top-down domination. The city authorities who control vital resources sets the shape and agenda of social organizations.
[x] Rich people , the ones well-off, mostly live up top, because they can afford all them newfangled equipment to reduce things like the Reaping to a mere nuisance. The poor live underground, no wonder it's looking like Slum City on some parts here.
[X] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. However, any irreversible implants which cannot be safely reverted to their prior state can only be performed on full adults, save for the event of medical necessity, physical or mental disability.
[x] Your work determines your status. Guilds, unions and societies are the norm.
[X] The poor people live up top,and they're dealing with disasters like The Reaping and stuff their own way. Rich people live underground in well built buildings with jacuzzis and stuff.
[X] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. However, any irreversible implants which cannot be safely reverted to their prior state can only be performed on full adults, save for the event of medical necessity, physical or mental disability.
[X] Class-based differences. The common upper class/middle class/lower class thought school still holds water, even in the future.
[X] The poor people live up top,and they're dealing with disasters like The Reaping and stuff their own way. Rich people live underground in well built buildings with jacuzzis and stuff.
[x] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. You get an implant, you get an implant, everybody gets an implant!
[x] Your work determines your status. Guilds, unions and societies are the norm.
[x] Both of them's mixed, and the structure's a bit chaotic too-slums appear in pockets and there can be rich housing at one end and the slums at the other.
Also, just a moment of you guys time. How're you guys liking the quest so far? Critiques, comments and reviews would be much welcome for my first ever quest.
[x] Both of them's mixed, and the structure's a bit chaotic too-slums appear in pockets and there can be rich housing at one end and the slums at the other.
[X] cybernetics & cybernetic implants are allowed for public use. However, any irreversible implants which cannot be safely reverted to their prior state can only be performed on full adults, save for the event of medical necessity, physical or mental disability.
[X] The poor people live up top,and they're dealing with disasters like The Reaping and stuff their own way. Rich people live underground in well built buildings with jacuzzis and stuff.
[x] cybernetics & cybernetic implants use are restricted only to people with specifically defined criteria.
-[x] must be relevant to the job. Employer decides whether you need one.
[x] Rich people , the ones well-off, mostly live up top, because they can afford all them newfangled equipment to reduce things like the Reaping to a mere nuisance. The poor live underground, no wonder it's looking like Slum City on some parts here.
(OOC: From here on out, we're getting into the 'meat' of this part of city building as it were. So far up until now the quest has been easy and straightforward. Part 2 is still that but not so much. So from here on until the 3rd part of the quest which is MC and his surroundings, there will be actual consequences that impact the society of the city you're building as a whole, and therefore some dice rolls will be included. Dice rolls will be called Dice Events (DE) and will be marked as such in the votes. Otherwise, it would be a standard voting session as previous.Good discussion and clarification on votes can give you positive modifiers to dice rolls.Also omakes if anyone wants to do one. Godspeed people!)
"The world has changed. Earth itself, has changed. Just as the environment around us changes, so too,humanity itself must change. We need to transcend our limits in order to adapt and overcome the situation we find ourselves in. Three centuries after the Scourging we were nearly wiped out as humanity's numbers dwindled. All this is caused by our failure to adapt. Therefore, we must be constantly evolving, and with the help of these augmentations and implants we will be able to propel humanity into a shining age.And with these implants we can do exactly that- building a future where we manage to go beyond! No longer will we be afraid of the Sun's hot rays! No longer shall we fear pollution and its ilk to affect us! With implants free of use to the public, we can go into the progressive age side-by-side!
I therefore declare my support to implants, cybernetics and augmentation to be made available to the public! Glory to Warren City! Glory to all!"
- Excerpt of the speech made by Dr. Timothy Brown, prominent researcher and one of the key voters in the Warren Accords.
So, yeah. After some very intense debates and discussion, the guys up top decided, well, you know what? Humanity needs to repopulate the planet, and to do that we need to go beyond our limits. Therefore, they gave carte blanche for implants, cybernetics and augmentations to be made to the public.
The events were called the Warren Accords, since it's on paper and everything. Go look at that thing in the Admin District or something, if you're curious about it. Everyone gets an implant! Which, if you consider the impact on society, it's....
1d100 = 43
......well, um, let's just say, it could be better?
Within hours of the declaration of augs and implants being made available to anyone, people flooded the clinics in droves. Poor people, rich people, even the Mr. Average Joe was looking for that cerebral implant thing that can make you think like a supercomputer, or that arm implant than can make you break steel. Who does not want to become Superman, right? It come as no surprise to the Omnissiah Cult too, whose membership rose in good amount.
....who am I kidding, it's not even a cult now. It's an actual religion.
Eventually demand outstripped the supply of implants and cybernetics. Why? Scientists are human too, they can't produce implants 24/7!. And, you know, of course, this lead to dissatisfaction between the populace. There was unease brewing amongst the populace, and fears that the city will descend into riots again. Fights started breaking out. Some small amount of criminals are starting to murder people for their implants. Fanatics in the Omnissiah Cult fanned the flames.
Thankfully cooler heads prevailed in the populace and prevented things from escalating, especially with the Omnissiah Cult's help. What they did was a stopgap measure- they made it a law so that one person can only have one implant at a time. The authority ran full force here to stamp out any people who attempted to do otherwise or crack down on those who're blatantly ignoring the temp law. The Cult itself ran a purge of those deemed heretical and arresting any of its own members caught going against the law. Eventually some measure of order is restored.
Following that, the guys up top meet again. They're considerably worried about all this. And as such, after discussion they decided on a more permanent security measure. What they decided is
(OOC:Consider this an apology vote for my failure to inform about any of this earlier. This is a DE but choosing any one of this is the equivalent of a guaranteed nat 100).
[ ] The 'one person one implant' law was made into a permanent law. If you're having more than one aug in your body, the po-po is gonna beat your ass.
[ ] They made the procedure to get the implants and augs so stringent and filled with much bureaucracy that only those who really need it can have easy access to it. Others: please fill in form 2.A section C, and then form 3 B, then....
[ ] They made it so that you actually have to sit for an exam to get an aug/implant. This exam is built with a specific success rate in mind to weed out the suspected misusers. You even have to sit through a lie detector session.
[ ] Write-in your ideas for a more permanent security measure!
But enough about that. Suffice to say, the measures they put was enough to distract any asshole who thinks he can get his aug/implant for free without reprecussions again. It's time we took a look at the city's makeup itself. The way the city's made up in Warren City's just so unique that it's very very interesting!
Consider your average city street. On one end of the street, there's a big ass building when you look at it, you know it's inhabited by the rich and powerful. On the other end of that same street, there's just shacks lined up with each other. So don't be surprised when you hear stuff like Mr Jones, the CEO of a big pharmaceutical company, is neighbours with his janitor. It's kind of weird, odd, dangerous, and safe at the same time. The lines of social strata are totally blurred right now, you sometimes don't know who is rich and who's poor. A researcher in Miskatonic U may dress like a garbageman, and your average city sweeper might be more well-dressed than you! It's the product of that particular housing arrangement, people both rich and poor mingle so much with each other that you don't see those dramas on TV about rich girl marrying poor guy and fighting against their family no more.
But there are its downsides. For example, have you heard of the news story about the neighbour who broke in to his rich employer's house and stabbed him just because he didn't get a pay raise? That kind of thing is common, I'm afraid. There are law enforcement to deal with this, so thankfully cases like this are manageable and they occur every now and then, not frequently.
Eventually this caused the social lines, blurred in strata as they are, settled into a more permanent state not around class lines, but along work lines, where your career determines your place in society. The founders of our great city organized themselves this way, some called themselves Societies, others called themselves Guilds and Unions. Some others call themselves Work Associations or Professional Societies. Why that, though, you ask?
Well ever since the riots, the unease, the teething trials and tribulations we have in the city, the scientists who run the city and the others in turn, realised the importance of working together . They reasoned that this current form is needed so that art and skills of many occupations won't be lost and expertise could continually flow.
That all being said, inevitably some occupations are treated as more important than others. And in our city, since there are two distinct levels (Upper City and Lower City), the key societies, the ones that are most prestigious and the most coveted upon, moved to the:
[ ] Upper City
[ ] Lower City
That's why that part of the city's called the city proper. Don't you know? All the important guys and people are there. That includes the Rutherford Institute and the Central Campus of Scientific Research and Development (CCSRD). Which, are the two major players in the governing of the city.Miskatonic U's considered to be one of them too! The others? Well, they're not that huge. But some are definitely huge.
(OOC:Choose up to three of the below. The ones with the most votes are considered very, very important and a prestigious job, followed by the second most and the third most.)
[ ] Programmers and tech guys.
[ ] Industrial workers (factories)
[ ] Medical workers
[ ] Architects
[ ] Construction workers
[ ] Security and Law Enforcement
[ ] Fishermen and fish farmers
[ ] Political and administrative workers.
[ ] Artisans
[ ] Lawyers, judges and legal workers.
[ ] Financial worker
[ ] Performing arts
[ ] Harbour, shipping, and port workers
[ ] Menial workers
[ ] Safety and Transportation workers
[ ] Write-in. Feel free to add a career sector you think is not represented.
The result of this is that all of the important ones cluster around the section of the city we consider the city proper. All the popular ones have it good there. And the rest? They live in the sectors away form the city proper. That's why the city is separated as it is. But how do people get to the upper city and lower city? Don't they need some form of transport as well?
Well, there you go. A big-ass elevator. Specially for you. They even feared it wasn't enough so they build three of those! A fourth one is finished too. You can see it on the distance! So if you're where them popular guys are, you're in luck, you'll just have to travel to work the old fashioned way. But if you're from the outer portions of the city.....well. It's not that no one can use the elevator, that's a bit too much innit? But when the elevators were built, the idea is that.....
(Note: DE)
[ ] Entrance is mostly granted by your rank in a society or union. So if you're head honcho, you get a free pass.
[ ] Entrance is free! Yes, you heard me. Free! Anyone can go in, there's no control here!
[ ] Entrance? Pay up, sir. Sometimes can cost you a lot depending on what the union sets but still, you need to pay.
[ ] Entrance is granted for peoples who have good rep with locals on the popular side, as it were. Long as your known and respected your status matters little.
[ ] Entrance is granted to people who have a recommendation from the in-towners. Must be written though.
[ ] Entrance? You need to pass an exam for that, sir! Good marks and you get a limited period of free pass to and from the city proper!
[ ] Write-in ideas for entrance control! But remember, DE.
(GM Note:I'll be available tomorrow to clarify any questions about the new game mechanics. Now, let the voting begin!)
