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What would you do if you where to wake up in the stone age? Well you'd probably die. I know that is what I'd do. Surviving on your own isn't easy. Some of you with intense survival skills might be able to last a couple years, but what would you leave behind but an aged corpse? You need more people to thrive. You can't have a civilization with just one person.

So I'm lucky I have you.

Today I woke up in a completely alien world. Well not completely alien I guess. The trees are still trees and not like giant mushrooms or something. It might just be Earth in the past or a parallel world or whatever. Point is there isn't any signs of civilization anywhere. No roads, no planes, no smoke, no wireless connection, no houses....I've got a pretty good view from here and I can say there isn't any modern life anywhere near me. Still it doesn't look anything like where I went to bed so its not like I got kidnapped and dumped in the wilderness or something. Well I'm pretty sure I didn't. Unless this forum's clock just happens to be having some weird glitch right after the kidnapping.

See when I woke up I found out I still have my phone in my pocket. After panicking and trying out the more sensible options the phone afforded to me I realized there was only one thing I could really do with it: Connect to this forum. Not sure why. I can't even connect to any links posted here. Just this forum. I can post and read posts but there is something weird with the timeline. It looks like things fluctuate wildly. Posts I made an hour ago said I made them twenty minutes ago. Posts I made five minutes ago say I posted them ten minutes ago. So it can go in any direction. Days on your end could be weeks or even years on my end for all I know.

So here's the deal. I'm out here in the middle of nowhere in my PJs. You guys are going to tell me how to not die. I'm physically capable and moderately fit but don't really have any special skills so I'm going to need you to be very clear on what steps I need to take. If you need like years of experience to get something done its probably not going to happen unless I can get those years of experience myself. If I'm still alive at this step we can talk about how I can get myself out of the stone age.

And one last thing....my phone's battery is still going down. Until we find some way to recharge it try to keep things brief. If you copy and paste a book at me I'd probably use half my battery just trying to read it. Like I said, this thing dies and I'm dead too. Keep things short and simple and I might at least make it to the 'aged corpse' stage.

Thanks for your help, everyone. First thing is getting food right?

Discolored snow falls from the eternally clouded sky on to a blackened field. Those who had lived before would have thought it was ash raining down - and in a way they would be right. That coal-black snow piling on the ground probably has more contaminants than water. Normal humans wouldn't dare so much as touch it with their bare hands for fear of the countless maladies they'd contact in an instant. Less-normal humans would still worry at what could be hidden under the snow. Still as far as weather goes in the Wasteland, this is at least survivable to be out in. You can't afford to be picky.

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"Doctor Osiris the Wise" (Jedediah Nils)

You have some difficulty with your first steps in the outside world. Specifically it seems that at some point during your efforts to keep the world out the world decided to return the favor and keep you in. At least you probably haven't been in the labyrinth long enough for this much dirt to pile up over the entrance. It looks like someone put it there deliberately and there are faint traces of magic deeper within.

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Alexander Compact

You've been quite lucky the last month... Well as lucky as anyone struggling to survive in this world can be. You managed to find a nice bunker in the floor of a ruined house. It looks like its original owner never made it, so its stocked to the brim with supplies.

Or was at least. After a relatively comfortable month you are already running low on food and water. There is some basic equipment that you'll be able to take with you, but you'll probably have to leave the real bed behind. There is a small safe with a handful of firearms, a locker with a gas mask and some winter gear, and a box full of survival supplies in a tidy layout. You'll probably be able to replace some of your old gear and stock up on some new equipment before you make your way out.

Nothing could ruin this month!

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Zing

You're starting to loose your way because of the snow. It isn't particularly disorienting in itself, but it is covering up the month-old human tracks you where following. Even your enhanced eyesight can't follow someone after this snow covers their path.

At the moment you arn't particularly starving. Your last meal wasn't filling but it was relatively recent. Two humans somehow managed to run into each other. These two humans then tried to kill each other for whatever reason. One looks like he got away, while the other barely managed to hold on to life. They bandaged their own arm and leg and tried to move around on a simple crutch. When you found them they could no longer move as an infection was starting to claim them. It was merciful if anything.

It was then that you ran into these tracks by chance. They arn't related to the fight before given the age, but it does probably mean humans think this is a safe path.

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Daisy Summers

Your antenna arn't giving you a warning. This is probably the first time in a week that it stopped going off. And probably the longest it remained off for months. Truly this is a good opportunity to rest if you can find somewhere out of the snow!

Though that would probably be difficult given that everything around here has been totally leveled. There was a few rural shelters on this path and most are at least halfway destroyed. Some have underground shelters that managed to make it but what are the chances of finding one under the snow?

You notice something odd. Which is particularly odd because your antenna are saying nothing is odd. There is a small depression in the snow where it looks like some of it is melting.

In the beginning, this Reality was filled with Nothing. This rather unstable existence was soon frayed. Holes had begun forming immediately to other Realities where, for the most part, there was Something. It was here that the Gods where born. Beings of great power, stewards of this Reality, set to either shut away the foreign entities or embrace and use them for their power purposes. More and more gods began to form - some simply jumping from a foreign reality fully formed.

Now there is Nothing, Gates, and Gods. Its a start at least. The Gates and Gods certainly have their work cut out for them.
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This game has three stats, known as Influences.

Outer Influence: Influence over things from Other Realities. You raise this influence by capturing and controlling Gates. Outer influence is what you use to drag things through the Gates. You have comparatively little control over what the target is, you must be general with what you wish to bring in. For example if you where to summon a new race, you could specify their environment and temperament (a warlike aquatic race!) but would not be able to specify they have the ability to shoot lightning from their fins or that they all have green eyes. In return for this ambiguity Outsiders tend to be more powerful than an equivalent expenditure of Inner influence. They are also more difficult to control - as you simply invited them in rather than creating them.

Inner Influence: Influence over This Reality. You raise this influence by receiving worship from Mortals, tied to the number of mortals and their quality of worship. Inner influence is used to do all standard God things like making planets, races, and lightning bolts to smite those who look at you funny. As your creations anything made with Inner influence is much easier to control, and you can get as arbitrarily detailed as you want. Prices are based entirely on GM will and $$$Pricechecks, but in general spending more means a creation will either be better at what it does or more numerous.

Self Influence: Influence over the relatively stable energy mass known as you. You use this to hold yourself together. Mainly acts as hit points, you fall apart unable to control your own Self if it hits zero. Recovers at a rate of one per turn up to 10.

There are three known types of gates:
Major Gates: 3 Outer points per turn. Permanent, large, and connecting to a diverse array of other Realities Major Gates are a useful resource for the Gods to squabble over. Rare as a result.
Medium Gates: 2 Outer points per turn. Last for 2d6 Ticks, shown next to the gate. Less powerful, adaptable, and stable than a Major Gate but still a valuable resource for those looking for Outside help.
Minor Gates: 1 Outer points per turn. Last for 1d6 ticks, hidden from players by default. Often connecting only to a single world, Minor Gates are comparatively common place and transient holes in reality that nonetheless can offer considerable strength to a god that is diligent enough to gobble up control of enough of them.

Gates are physical locations and must be physically controlled by a God for the God to have control of the gate. If there is no opposition this can be done simply by spending a point of Inner Influence to take control of the surrounding area and bend the biome to something appropriate, or by sending Mortals to take the location if they happen to be near it. If there is opposition control will go to whoever ends up having control over the physical location at the end of the Tick. Control can be given away freely to others or shared among individuals (so long as it is at least a Medium Gate).

Every Tick, an Outsider will enter reality through one of the Gates. This will be a random Gate weighted toward the higher tiers and ignoring Sealed gates. The Outsider's identity will also be random. It could be a new race of mortals, a weapon, a technology, new magic, or anything else. Including an Invader. Invaders are Godlike beings with similar powers to your own, but with a hatred for every one of you and everything you stand for. Invaders tend to try and do as much damage as possible before they either dissipate or are put down, while everything else will be neutral regardless of who owns the gate. Higher tier gates will have stronger Outsiders. Invaders will vanish when their gate does as they no longer have energy pouring in from back home, meaning Invaders from Major Gates are permanent.

If you do not want an Outsider coming through your gate you may Seal it. Sealing a gate costs Inner Influence and reduces the income of the gate by one. You only need to spend a single point of Influence to seal the gate, but breaking a Seal costs as much Influence as making the Seal had cost. Sealed gates may still be used to spend Outside Influence as usual, unless they where Minor Gates.

Your Sphere influences both Inner and Outer Influence spending by increasing the relative power of things close to your Sphere. Things summoned using Outer Influence are likely to have some relevance to your Sphere.

Our sky has offered the world below many blessings. No life would exist on the surface without the warmth of the sun, nor without the cool shower of rain. Yet the ever-generous expanse above this world had seen fit to offer four additional blessings no less impressive. These are the Shards of the Sky, or Shards for short. They are the primary resource powering the modern world. Renewable both in the sense that they continue to fall to the ground and they regain the "energy" they radiate over time, Shards are an integral part to every day life. They can be found in everything from coffee makers to weapons, from airships to sneakers, from medicine to sports equipment.

Fallen Stars represent the element of Fire. A twinkling ball of light pleasantly warm to the touch, Fallen Stars look exactly as if you had plucked a twinkling star from the night sky. With a more subtle but no less beautiful glow, the Moon Rocks of the Earth element look as if you had taken a piece of one of the three moons. Scholars say that this is indeed the case - with the rocks being pulled toward our world from the rings surrounding one of the moons. Together these are the Gifts of the Night, Shards that fall when the sun is down. With a fluffy texture that could easily be confused for a ball of cotton in constant motion, Fallen clouds represent the element of Wind. Finally the jagged puzzle-piece shaped Fallen Sky represents either Water or Ice depending on your home nation. It is cool to the touch and easy to handle despite often having jagged edges. These two represent the Gifts of the Day, which fall when the sun rules the sky.

Size directly relates to the amount of power and magical energy produced by a Shard. In general the bigger it is, the more powerful it will be. As such despite many shards falling to the world every day the primary method of finding a significant amount large enough to be of practical use is (quite ironically) digging those that had fallen since the birth of the world from the ground. Fertile mines have historically been fought over due to the obvious economic and military advantage of holding them. Shards are utilized in two main ways: integrating them into equipment or machinery and invoking their powers directly. Integrating can very in complexity depending on its purpose, at the simple end a sword might have a Fallen Star built into its handle to invoke fire to the blade or strength to the wielder. On the complex side an engine in a main battle tank would have a complicated system allowing the machinery to turn the energy produced by the shard into motion of the tank's treads. Invoking involves taking a Shard and transforming its power into a magic effect. Invoking often uses shards built into jewelry, wands, staffs, or other such equipment depending on the culture the Magia hails from. While anyone with willpower can invoke a Shard, it takes great skill and training to do so in an effective way.

But this world isn't made of Shards, it is made of people. People like you. There are two main continents surrounded by smaller islands, each covered with a variety of nations with their own unique politics and culture. They've fought among each other, conquered each other, forged and broken deals, traded goods and culture, and everything else you'd expect nations to do with themselves. For a time, the world has been mostly peaceful. Minor conflicts between deniable third-parties and mercenaries (and monsters) still pop up on occasion, but the average civilian could sleep peacefully knowing their town wouldn't be overrun by an opposing army anytime soon. That peace would not last.

With the four blessings came a single curse. Shards of the Night. Dark as the Abyss between the stars. When they fall to the world, monsters appear. This is typically nothing that the locals can't handle, with many organizations formed to protect civilians from the larger shards that generate more powerful monsters. Most people live normal lives protected from such creatures thanks to their valiant efforts.

But unknown to all but a few, a Shard of the Night of unprecedented size has Fallen to this world. Joining it as if attracted to its power is countless smaller Shards of various sizes, enough to cover the world in Darkness. For the first time in history the beloved sky has become an invading enemy. Those who have identified the threat have christened the seven largest shards as the "Lords of the Night", which together represent a threat to the very world.

Hope is not lost. Between the two continents sits a city by the name of Saint Ark's Port. This city attracts people across the world for both business and pleasure. People like our Heroes. Will they be able to band together to save our world? Or will the Lords of the Night triumph in the end?

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So yeah. JRPG like setting. I left the nations vague so you can feel free to design your own character how you'd like, we'll probably end up visiting their homelands if this doesn't die in a month.

Now for the JRPG like mechanics!

~~~Character Creation~~~
Name:
Description:
Background:
Class:
Attack/Defense/Balance:
Moves: (Name, Type, Option, and Description)
Limit Break:
Crit Support:
Weapon(Damage Type):

To create a character, you will need to choose a Class. Classes are Martial, Magia, or Support.

-Martials are physical fighters who hit people with big swords, bullets, or basically anything else. Their Moves typically cost BREAK to use, and they have increased BREAK gain compared to the other classes. They have stronger Attack and Defense, but weaker Magic attack and Magic defense.
Martial Moves: Attack, Attack, Attack, Buff

-Magia are magical fighters capable of invoking SHARDS to both blast enemies with fireballs while supporting allies with fire shields. Their Moves typically cost SHARDS to use and they have an increased SHARD pool compared to the other classes. They have stronger Magic Attack and Magic Defense, but weaker Attack and Defense.
Magia Moves: Attack, Attack, Buff, Support

-Supports are those who focus on making their allies the best fighters they can be. While healing is usually seen as their most important duty, they are fully capable of changing the face of the battlefield with their Support abilities. At game start, two of their Moves cost SHARDS while two cost BREAK. Their stats are balanced.
Support Moves: Attack, Buff, Support Support

Stirk, what is that Moves nonsense you ask? Moves are the spells, techniques, and abilities that your particular character has. You will start with four moves, who's type depends on what Class you chose. Moves consist of a Name, Type, Option, and Description. The Move's Type determines what you can do with it. There are three Types, Attack, Buff, and Support. Attack Moves target enemies, and automatically do damage in addition to their Option. Buff Moves target one of your comrades and raise a/multiple Stats based on the Option. Support moves target an alley and have a special effect based on their Option.

Options are what make the moves unique. At level 1, each Move will have one Option. Options are essentially what special effect the move will have. Some examples for Attack Options are: Extra Damage, Poison, Multiple Target, Attack Type, and DEF Debuff. Attack Options can only effect the attack target, so you could not raise your own Attack from an Attack move. Buff moves raise an Ally's stats(Attack/Def/MAttack/MDef/Critical/Evade/HP/SHARDS) depending on what Option you choose. You can also choose effects like Multiple Target and Cost Type, but with only one Option at level 1 you should probably just pick a stat to buff. Buffs can stack on repeated casting up to a CAP of 50%, renewing the time limit on each cast. Support Moves have a variety of options that buff your allies without Buffing them. Examples: Protect from Physical Attack, Evade Magic, Heal HP, Cure Ailment, Remove Debuff, Revive, BREAK up.

As you level up you will be able to either upgrade old Moves or form new ones with multiple Options. Options are able to stack, if you choose Extra Damage twice you'll receive more extra damage, if you choose Buff Attack twice you'll receive a larger buff, if you choose Heal twice you receive more healing. In addition, you may choose a Negative Options to give yourself an additional Positive Option. Negative Options are things that make the technique "worse" in return for the extra power. Some examples: Expensive Cost, Absorbs Health, Debuffs Caster (Defense), Caster gets (Ailment). At the start you may optionally choose one Negative Option per move.

Limit Breaks work like normal Moves, but are significantly more powerful. You can choose 4 Options for your Limit Break. You can activate a Limit Break when your BREAK is over 100. You can choose Options from any of the Types as you see fit, but can only choose one target without a Multiple Target option (so that one enemy would get all penalties and one ally all bonuses). By default it will deal more damage than a Move, you can trade this damage away for an extra two Options. You may have a Negative Option for Limit Breaks. For those unfamiliar with the concept, BREAK is a bar that goes up after every successful attack or when you take damage.

Critical Supports are a special ability that activates when an Ally that has chosen you as a Critical Support scores a critical hit. This gives you an opportunity to make what is effectively a free move. You may choose Options from any of the three categories, but all negative effects can only fall on the target of the Critical and all positives on the person who made the Critical Hit. In the case of multiple critical hits in one turn, effects on the character will only activate once while effects on the enemy will activate for everyone who got hit by a critical hit. You may not choose Negative Options for Critical Supports. Multiple Players can choose the same ally as a Critical Support. Critical Support will not do an attack's worth of damage unless this is their Option.

Weapons can be about anything you'd find in an RPG, keeping in mind you're at the first level and liable to replace it. Every weapon has an attack type: Cutting, Slashing, Bashing, Fire, Wind, Water, or Earth. Cutting, Slashing, and Bashing are considered Physical Attacks and will deal damage based off the user's Attack stat by default. Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth are considered Elemental attacks and deal damage based off of MAttack by default. There arn't any RPS elements to this, enemy Monsters will simply have different resistances that will provide a bonus or penalty to certain attacks. Moves will by default do the same damage as the user's weapon, Options can be used to change this for each move. Options can also be used to make a Physical attack do damage based off your Mattack or an Elemental attack to deal damage based on Attack. You may only have one Attack Type at this level, future weapons will be able to have multiple types and do a fraction of their damage in each type.

Attack/Defense/Balance are your three options to further customize your stats. In general I will be dictating what your statups are at level up based on your chose here and class. The Attack Focus raises Attack, Mattack, and Crit but lowers Defense, MDefense, and Evasion while Defense raises MDefence, Evasion, and Defense at the cost of Attack, Mattack, and Crit. Balanced raises and lowers none of your stats.

The stats are: HP/SHARDS/ATTACK/DEFENSE/MAGIC ATTACK/MAGIC DEFENSE/EVASION/CRIT

HP is HP, Shards is MANA equivalent. Attacks are typically calculated by first seeing if the attacker hits based off the target's Evasion. Magic attacks (Any attack that uses the MAttack stat) usually ignore the target's Evasion. On a hit, the target rolls to see if they got a Critical Hit. If they do they multiply their final damage by 1.5, and their Crit Support activates if a player is the one critting. Damage is calculated by (Attack+Bonuses-Def)*Modifiers. If the attack is Evaded, then the target makes a normal Counter Attack with their weapon that can't miss. This game is turn based with the Players' turn coming before the enemy's turn. All attacks will be processed in logical order rather than post order (so if you buff someone who posted an attack, the attack will get the buff) unless the player specifies when their attack should be in the lineup.

And that should be everything! As always, ask if there are any questions. Below is a Sample Character that should help limit the confusion.

Walmer! King of the Mountains, looking down across the continent and the rest of its inhabitants. The forests of your hometown allow you to raise Green monsters with a small bonus. Further up the mountain the hidden hostprings give you access to a viable Red breeding ground, in addition to resting the muscles of your tired men/Monsters. There are often jokes about how the Walmer hotsprings alone would be worth invading our nation for - jokes young children have taken seriously. They can often be seen "patrolling" the path with broomsticks and their house pets insuring no Albadonians sneak in while our backs our turned.

Wait, Red and Green...that ain't right. What where the Walmer names for the elements again?

Speaking of elements, it is now time to pick out are starting monsters. We get One of Each of the four major elements, with Three Traits and One Quirk for each Monster. Keep in mind that Capturing and Breeding have a random aspect to them, so this is our one chance to 100% decide what our armory is like!

If you want to write any additional lore for Walmer, feel free. There isn't like a competition or anything. Some people just like doing that.

OOC

In our world, monsters have been a part of daily life since before history was written. Not only are they our friends, allies, source of labor, travel, and food as you would expect from more mundane animals: their unique abilities have allowed our civilization to flourish comfortably with their aid. Our streets lit up by a warm bioluminescent glow, our water supply moves by the will of specially bred creatures, our homes are warmed by the eternal fire in the bellies of our trusted hearths. As you would expect those ranchers, breeders, and trainers that allow for all the utilities provided by such creatures are well respected.

Sadly to say this peaceful co-existence doesn't extend to all monsters - nor even our fellow man. The two major nations ruling over the wilderness continent of Calvaria are gearing up for combat. While the causes of war are many, the end result is the same. We must claim the territories in the name of our homeland. Even as wilderness the locations prove valuable as breeding, hunting, and taming grounds - offering both tactical and civilian benefits worth fighting a war over.




Training: While all Monsters must go under extensive training to be any use to humans (barring those that are naturally inclined for the job we give them), Training allows for specialized customization of single units. This can be introducing a new Trait or reducing the downsides of a Quirk. Training is rolled, with a bonus or penalty based on the difficulty of the action and the Traits of the creature. Using the running example, we could attempt to Train our unit of Dragon Steeds to defend their bellies (reducing their Quirk), or we could attempt to regain lost ground by training them to have better speed or stamina. Since we have a Trait making them better to train, we are likely to come out on top with any of these choice. As a learned trait this can't be passed on to the next generation or even a second unit: only this unit will gain the new trait.

Deployment: By default, each Unit has three Sections that may be deployed either separately or together. Loss of Units typically result in loss of Sections, leading to its elimination if all three sections are removed. How big a section is depends on the Size of a creature, particularly large creatures may represent all three sections by themselves. Even if a Unit is destroyed, you will usually have breeding stock remaining of that species and can use that species as normal in Breeding. Units can be deployed to three Regions, detailed later. Regions have four Modes of control: No, Partial, Major, and Full. Your access to the region depends on how much control you have over it, dominating a region will allow you to utilize all of its resources. Once a Region is under Full Control you may launch an assault at the enemy's capital directly, winning the game once you achieve Full Control of it. You may express any tactics and strategies each unit is to use in each region during this phase.


Season: Each Turn/Season follows this pattern:
Capture Phase
Breeding Phrase
Training Phrase
Deployment

With a Combat Report Following Deployment. Turn 0 will instead focus on creating the first 3 Monsters for each nation, one for each element. This will be considered a single phase.

Now you say, "Stirk, what about the People? You keep talking about the monsters, but what if we want to make something else?"

Generally, the current state of warfare revolves around a small amount of humans deploying and commanding large amount of monsters. Both nations are considered rural, with little manpower to waste compared to the vast amount of monsters available to them. If one side's forces are depleted, the remaining humans are likely to surrender if unable to flee, and will be detained until the end of the war. Mundane technology is around the black-powder era, with smooth bore muskets with detachable bayonets being common among hunters. Most monsters can be felled by concentrated small arm/cannon fire, and smaller creatures can be felled by melee weapons. Humans are expected to fight alongside their monsters until the fight becomes unwinnable. Generally humans deliberately targeting other humans is considered ungentlemanly, historically such strategies have unleashed hordes of angry combat monsters on everyone in the general area making everyone's day worse on more populated continents. Things could change on Calvaria based on your orders. If you wish to upgrade the human's equipment, the best way to do that would be by making a monster that is meant to be used as equipment - either breeding a small creature with a usable ability or making a larger creature who's value lies in its parts. In this case "deploying" them would represent slaughtering them and creating said parts. "Training" can be used to give Monsters specialized equipment, including equipment either made from or that is other monsters.

I reserve the right to rewrite these rules should this somehow not work out. Without further delay, let us begin!

Albadonia IC
Walmer IC

Boostergangers have long been considered an irremovable part of modern culture. No matter how hard the corporations, police, or other gangs try to wipe them out they always stick around like a bad infection. Historical attempts to limit their power and damage typically took the form of bloody, expensive crackdowns or simply giving up and walling off the inflicted areas as "Combat Zones" allowing them free reign so long as they stay away from the more civilized parts of town. Yet recently corporations have begun seeing them as a potential asset. While certainly lacking in finesse compared to the corporation's own forces or hired contractors, they act as cheap, disposable, and deniable foot-soldiers who can be deployed in-masse for the price of their rifles (so long as they are allowed to keep the weapons for their own purposes after the job is done). This has increasingly resulted in an escalating proxy war between the local corporations and their allied boostergangs.

Word on the street is it started with a standard mission. Corporation A hired a couple of gangers to hit a warehouse owned by Corporation B. What A and B are always changes depending on who is telling the story, but they're always big names. Turns out Corporation B was hiding some major tech in that little warehouse and sent a team into the no-go zone to recover it. The locals didn't cooperate with the corpo forces. They'd either hightail it or start shooting, significantly hampering their investigation efforts. Reasoning that locals will have an easier time navigating the area, Company B took a page from A's book and handed a bunch of guns to the gang's rivals in return for capturing and returning the stolen property. The property was recovered after a major gunfight deep in the city, so the story goes. This incident proved the viability of utilizing booster gangers both in and out of their territory, leading to other local corporations capitalizing on the new trend. Night City saw the rise and fall of multiple gangs as one would take on a corporate sponsor and expand, step on the wrong toes and get suppressed, or forgo corporate backing only to get pushed out by someone who took the guns. Its been full out corporate warfare. The nights are filled with gangers blasting each other with high-quality equipment fresh off the assembly line. The days are too, if you're unfortunate enough to find yourself in a combat zone or the fighting spilled out again.

Now where you come in. A man came to you with a job. Jason, a fixer working for... well, he isn't telling you who he is working for. All he will tell you is that his "sponsors" got burned with their attempts at buying their own personal booster gang. So they came up with plan B, if they can't buy one they'd make one. Your mission is to take the streets for yourself. Jason and "the company" will provide you with payment, information, and the occasional armament. You are left with absolute discretion on how you do the rest. Recruit members, make allies, crush the enemy personally...He'll offer advice, but in the end the decisions all fall on you. Will you raise a violent combat gang striking fear into the population of our fair city? A noble self-defense gang making the streets safe again? Or perhaps a poser or party gang? We will see soon enough.

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Cyberpunk 2020! Something I've wanted to try out entirely due to hype for 2077. As the opening blurb said, this scenario is focused around The Gangs of Night City either from or inspired by the Night City Sourcebook. Its Cyberpunk! Trade your humanity to have more guns in your body! Recruit followers with Rock an Roll! Be Stylish!

Character creation follows the standard rules, with the following additions:
-You may choose to have 50 points instead of rolling for character points
-The lifepaths are optional. If you choose the charts you may pick the background flavor instead of rolling randomly.
-Non-core 2E books are accepted, as are skills and equipment from them.

The Discord server will serve as a quick way to answer any questions you have about character creation.

Without further ado, lets get cracking!