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'''Background:''' Drone Jockey

'''Skills:''' Drive-1, Exert-0, Fix-0, Notice-0, Perform-0, Program-1, Shoot-0

'''Role:''' Drone Pilot/Street Artist

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Attributes
! Strength !! Dexterity !! Constitution !! Intelligence !! Wisdom !! Charisma
|-
| 8 || 17 || 8 || 18 (Prodigy) || 10 || 14
|-
| +0 || +1 || +0 || +3 || +0 || +2
|}
'''Contacts:'''
*'''Rubèn Angordan''' (acquaintance), cousin. Works for Greenworks Pharmaceuticals. We haven't spoken recently following a running argument about the morality of working for corps. We became close when I covered for him when he broke an award in his family's home as a child. He can get me pharmaceuticals and street drugs.

*'''Amanta Fabian ("Beam")''' (acquaintance), ganger and on-again, off-again lover. Last time I saw her I helped get her new man out of a confrontation with a rival gang, costing me my best drone. We met when I was running security for her gang, scouting ahead and warning them of an ambush. She can give me a safehouse for a while, though it will be awkward.

*'''Mariana Rangil''' (friend), well-known street poet. Our fame increased hand-in-hand when I created a drone video highlighting the poverty and inequity in District 1 and set it to one of her poems. She has her ear to the street and can provide useful street information.

'''Edges:'''
*Prodigy (Intelligence)
*Voice of the People (Level 2 Pop Idol; additional Friend Contact related to art)

'''Foci:'''
*'''Drone Pilot 1:''' Gain Drive and Fix as bonus skills; start with Remote Control Unit cybersystem installed; free drones and weapons and fittings worth no more than budget on p. 18
*'''Pop Idol 2:''' Gain Perform as bonus skill; 1/week mobilize ~100 fans/level and deny involvement; gain up to $2000/level if mobilizing them for merch or donations

'''Backstory:'''</br>
''Brilliant.'' </br>
That was what people said about Octavi Cornes when he was growing up. ''Not living up to his potential'' was another common refrain, especially from teachers. But he never had either the discipline for formal education nor the opportunity; nobody from New Kowloon really had a chance. Instead he dug through junkyards and scrapheaps, and when he felt brave he'd raid Corp disposal facilities, looking for parts for drones and other mechanical devices. His parents encouraged this; it was as close to an education and a marketable skill as somebody from the Neon Jungle was likely to get. He supplemented his family's income as best he could, sometimes working security for one of the local gangs or casing a target. Every once in a while he'd pick up some cash doing other things, like making video of a concert, or slave-rigging his drones to a fleet for an art project. They didn't pay as well, but there was less chance of having to hurt somebody.

His big break came when Rangil agreed to recite one of her poems as the soundtrack to a video he shot, swooping through the rusted valleys of Kowloon and finally settling on a piece of graffiti, a stylized raised fist painted on an inaccessible rooftop. The video was an unexpected hit, rousing the slums to action for a brief moment. He took the street name "Kintsugi" then, after the old Japanese pottery art. Even something broken can be beautiful again, and the cracks and scars life gives us should be highlighted and memorialized, not hidden away in shame.

'''Appearance:'''

'''Short-Term Goals:'''

'''Long-Term Goals:'''

'''Equipment:'''
*Light Pistol (1d6 dmg, Trauma 1d8/x2)
*3 magazines and 45 cartridges
*Clothing, ordinary
*Knife (1d4 dmg, Shock 1/AC 15, Trauma 1d6/x3)
*Toolkit
*Lockpicks
*Smartphone, basic
*$50
*Remote Control Unit cybersystem
*BanTech Roach drone (AC 13, TT 6, HP 8, 3 Fittings, 10m ground, 0 hardpoints, Enc 3)
*$1000 in drone equipment

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T22:00:28Z

Enoch52: /* Characters */

== New Barcelona ==

''The year is 2083, fifty years into the volcanic winter caused by The Yellowstone Eruption (TYE). Temperatures have not risen above zero since the catastrophe. Ash fills the sky and blots out the sun. It collects in drifts, salt and peppering the snow that never melts.''

[[file:new_barcelona.png | 400px]]

Our global population has fallen into intense despair, many bordering on abject nihilism. Birth rates have declined and not only has the population shrunk due to the disaster, but now there are fewer people entering the work force to replace the aging population. I am particularly interested in the declining birth rates; after all, this is a theme that is beginning to show up in the modern day and I think it will be fun to explore at its most extreme.

Mega-corps, of course, would deploy every unethical and disgusting practice at their disposal to combat this issue. A corporation needs bodies to keep the machines of industry running! And who would buy the mass produced cheap garbage if there were no people? No, a declining birth rate is unacceptable. The shareholders profits are at risk - think of the shareholders!

In this setting "people farms" exist - taking advantage of legislation and technology allowing people who are in a vegetative state to be used to combat the declining birthrates; not to mention, the totally normal people being drugged and suppressed and illegally being used in the birthing operations.

=== Districts ===

<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">District List</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
District 1: Neon Abyss
Impending Doom/Urban Maze
District 2:
Corp Stronghold/Restive Locals
District 3:
Sweatshop Labor/Secessionists
District 4:
Organleggers/Depths Below
District 5:
Sweatshop Labor/Organleggers

A number of very influential organlegging rings operate out of the district, buying cyber and flesh from gangs throughout the city. Those who desperately need certain implants or surplus organs that can’t be obtained legitimately can be found dealing with ring representatives here, as well as medical organizations who aren’t picky about their sourcing.

Factory work is rarely safe and offers slave wages. Here, it’s nominally worse than slave labor, because slaves expect to be fed. Some massive factory or other economic enterprise is eating up poor laborers, wringing what work they can from them before leaving them broken and discarded. Most hold out hopes of decent pay and advancement, making good on it only often enough to keep the dream alive.

ConsumerCorp employs children from the children farms in conditions no better than slave labor, destroying their minds and bodies before discarding them to the streets when they can no longer meet strict and abusive work standards. Organleggers prey on the homeless and destitute, harvesting flesh and cyber to sell in other markets.

District 6:
Restricted Access/Lasting Scar
Create/Chaos
A bioweapon weapon was released that infects people and forces them to grow extraneous limbs until they become gibbering creatures formed entirely of limbs that swarm after warm bodies. The entire district is permanently sealed off and has heavy guarding outside of it.

District 7:
Grand Structure/Border Dispute

Badlands

Here is what I've got so far for districts - most of them are still just the flavor provided by the systems roll tables. District 5 is the most fleshed out by far, but I am currently running another group here and would prefer to run a different district.

District 1 is where I am runningNa little solo game to test some of the systems.

District 6 would be closer to the wastelands as far as access to the fruits of the city. It's completely cut off due to a horrible bioweapon leak, and would be a pretty bleak area to live. Extremely dangerous and access to resources is poor.

I could totally see rich corpers from other cities medivacing to New Barcelona for medical treatment. The Belearics, nearby rich Islands, are places of extreme luxury and wealth that only the uber rich can afford to attend. Maybe this is where many of the organs are being shipped off to...

=== Thoughts from Psyche ===

Brainstorming a bit, hope that's OK. It seems strange that there is such a heavy presence of both sweatshops and organlegging, so I feel like that cries out for an explanation. I'm thinking the organlegging must not be entirely local: what if NuevoBarca is a hub for medical and implant tourism, a target of inbound human trafficking and body "disposal" for the rest of the world. The sweatshops are producing cheap knock-off cybernetics and bioware in volume, with the workers struggling to stay ahead of the threat of being worth more as parts than as labor.

District 2 could be the regional headquarters of a Kamagawa / Maxim joint venture medical center focused in life extension cybernetics, with the nursing staff on the verge of revolt and strikes over the extreme hours and the imperious top-down cultures of those two companies.

District 4 might be literally spread across the city, occupying an expansion of the Barca Metro system, which was built to provide both expanded public transport, but also cooling systems for body storage (and maybe even cryogenic preservation of wounded or severely ill patients until further medical options become available). People from all over the world pay to be shipped to Barca on their deathbeds, in hopes of eventual revival. If some of the local body banks have turned to organlegging, well, all these frozen guys look pretty similar to one another, and they are pretty quiet about any objections.

The District 6 virus is pretty bizarre, but it sounds to me like what might happen if a technology intended for clonal replacement organs got out of hand.

As for the grand structure in District 7, megacities like this always strain a little credulity when it comes to feeding themselves, and Barcelona is coastal. How about a gigantic fishery along the coast, run by SLAG, where the border dispute is between internal management. SLAG is used to managing land-based agriculture, so it has given the managers geographic regions of authority within the mega-fishery. Problem is, the fish can move (or be chased) from one managers territory to another, leading to all sorts of dirty dealing to keep the numbers up at the expense of the neighboring divisions.

=== Thoughts from Faluffh ===

Would like to add my thoughts on District 1: Neon Abys/Impending Doom/Urban Maze, for your consideration!
Gargantuan housing complexes have organically grown in all dimensions (think Kowloon but on a massive scale) to form these deep canyongs of neon, where life takes place on multiple levels, connected by makeshifts bridges and stairs. Social standing corresponds to level. Targeted holo and AR ads bombard and track you constantly to almost dizzying effect.
Impending Doom: An autofactory admin AI has gone rogue, sealed off the factory and cut all connections to the outside. Fate of the wage slaves within unkown.
</div>

== Corporations and Groups ==

*Delta Industries - Consumer Goods
*Summit-Lyers Ag Corp (SLAG Co) - agriculture
*Smith & Smith Services - Data Brokering
*Godvision Entertainment LLC - Media/Entertainment
*Kamigawa Neurotechnics - Medical and high end head cyber (think mind citadels, etc)
*QuikGov Services - Government
*Foc Maxim - weapons/military

== Characters ==

[[Kintsugi | '''Kintsugi, Drone Pilot and Street Artist''']]

[[Doc_Odie | '''"Doc" Odie, Scrap Hauler and Laborer''']]

[[Eel | '''Eel, Outlander Brawler''']]

[[SHADES | '''SHADES, Coder and Hacker''']]

2024-03-12T21:55:41Z

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2024-03-12T21:54:57Z

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New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:54:44Z

Enoch52: /* Characters */

== New Barcelona ==

''The year is 2083, fifty years into the volcanic winter caused by The Yellowstone Eruption (TYE). Temperatures have not risen above zero since the catastrophe. Ash fills the sky and blots out the sun. It collects in drifts, salt and peppering the snow that never melts.''

[[file:new_barcelona.png | 400px]]

Our global population has fallen into intense despair, many bordering on abject nihilism. Birth rates have declined and not only has the population shrunk due to the disaster, but now there are fewer people entering the work force to replace the aging population. I am particularly interested in the declining birth rates; after all, this is a theme that is beginning to show up in the modern day and I think it will be fun to explore at its most extreme.

Mega-corps, of course, would deploy every unethical and disgusting practice at their disposal to combat this issue. A corporation needs bodies to keep the machines of industry running! And who would buy the mass produced cheap garbage if there were no people? No, a declining birth rate is unacceptable. The shareholders profits are at risk - think of the shareholders!

In this setting "people farms" exist - taking advantage of legislation and technology allowing people who are in a vegetative state to be used to combat the declining birthrates; not to mention, the totally normal people being drugged and suppressed and illegally being used in the birthing operations.

=== Districts ===

<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">District List</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
District 1: Neon Abyss
Impending Doom/Urban Maze
District 2:
Corp Stronghold/Restive Locals
District 3:
Sweatshop Labor/Secessionists
District 4:
Organleggers/Depths Below
District 5:
Sweatshop Labor/Organleggers

A number of very influential organlegging rings operate out of the district, buying cyber and flesh from gangs throughout the city. Those who desperately need certain implants or surplus organs that can’t be obtained legitimately can be found dealing with ring representatives here, as well as medical organizations who aren’t picky about their sourcing.

Factory work is rarely safe and offers slave wages. Here, it’s nominally worse than slave labor, because slaves expect to be fed. Some massive factory or other economic enterprise is eating up poor laborers, wringing what work they can from them before leaving them broken and discarded. Most hold out hopes of decent pay and advancement, making good on it only often enough to keep the dream alive.

ConsumerCorp employs children from the children farms in conditions no better than slave labor, destroying their minds and bodies before discarding them to the streets when they can no longer meet strict and abusive work standards. Organleggers prey on the homeless and destitute, harvesting flesh and cyber to sell in other markets.

District 6:
Restricted Access/Lasting Scar
Create/Chaos
A bioweapon weapon was released that infects people and forces them to grow extraneous limbs until they become gibbering creatures formed entirely of limbs that swarm after warm bodies. The entire district is permanently sealed off and has heavy guarding outside of it.

District 7:
Grand Structure/Border Dispute

Badlands

Here is what I've got so far for districts - most of them are still just the flavor provided by the systems roll tables. District 5 is the most fleshed out by far, but I am currently running another group here and would prefer to run a different district.

District 1 is where I am runningNa little solo game to test some of the systems.

District 6 would be closer to the wastelands as far as access to the fruits of the city. It's completely cut off due to a horrible bioweapon leak, and would be a pretty bleak area to live. Extremely dangerous and access to resources is poor.

I could totally see rich corpers from other cities medivacing to New Barcelona for medical treatment. The Belearics, nearby rich Islands, are places of extreme luxury and wealth that only the uber rich can afford to attend. Maybe this is where many of the organs are being shipped off to...

=== Thoughts from Psyche ===

Brainstorming a bit, hope that's OK. It seems strange that there is such a heavy presence of both sweatshops and organlegging, so I feel like that cries out for an explanation. I'm thinking the organlegging must not be entirely local: what if NuevoBarca is a hub for medical and implant tourism, a target of inbound human trafficking and body "disposal" for the rest of the world. The sweatshops are producing cheap knock-off cybernetics and bioware in volume, with the workers struggling to stay ahead of the threat of being worth more as parts than as labor.

District 2 could be the regional headquarters of a Kamagawa / Maxim joint venture medical center focused in life extension cybernetics, with the nursing staff on the verge of revolt and strikes over the extreme hours and the imperious top-down cultures of those two companies.

District 4 might be literally spread across the city, occupying an expansion of the Barca Metro system, which was built to provide both expanded public transport, but also cooling systems for body storage (and maybe even cryogenic preservation of wounded or severely ill patients until further medical options become available). People from all over the world pay to be shipped to Barca on their deathbeds, in hopes of eventual revival. If some of the local body banks have turned to organlegging, well, all these frozen guys look pretty similar to one another, and they are pretty quiet about any objections.

The District 6 virus is pretty bizarre, but it sounds to me like what might happen if a technology intended for clonal replacement organs got out of hand.

As for the grand structure in District 7, megacities like this always strain a little credulity when it comes to feeding themselves, and Barcelona is coastal. How about a gigantic fishery along the coast, run by SLAG, where the border dispute is between internal management. SLAG is used to managing land-based agriculture, so it has given the managers geographic regions of authority within the mega-fishery. Problem is, the fish can move (or be chased) from one managers territory to another, leading to all sorts of dirty dealing to keep the numbers up at the expense of the neighboring divisions.

=== Thoughts from Faluffh ===

Would like to add my thoughts on District 1: Neon Abys/Impending Doom/Urban Maze, for your consideration!
Gargantuan housing complexes have organically grown in all dimensions (think Kowloon but on a massive scale) to form these deep canyongs of neon, where life takes place on multiple levels, connected by makeshifts bridges and stairs. Social standing corresponds to level. Targeted holo and AR ads bombard and track you constantly to almost dizzying effect.
Impending Doom: An autofactory admin AI has gone rogue, sealed off the factory and cut all connections to the outside. Fate of the wage slaves within unkown.
</div>

== Corporations and Groups ==

*Delta Industries - Consumer Goods
*Summit-Lyers Ag Corp (SLAG Co) - agriculture
*Smith & Smith Services - Data Brokering
*Godvision Entertainment LLC - Media/Entertainment
*Kamigawa Neurotechnics - Medical and high end head cyber (think mind citadels, etc)
*QuikGov Services - Government
*Foc Maxim - weapons/military

== Characters ==

[[Kintsugi | '''Kintsugi, Drone Pilot and Street Artist''']]

[[Doc_Odie | '''"Doc" Odie, Scrap Hauler and Laborer''']]

[[Eel | '''Eel''']]

[[Shade_NB | '''Shade''']]

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:53:52Z

Enoch52: /* Characters */

== New Barcelona ==

''The year is 2083, fifty years into the volcanic winter caused by The Yellowstone Eruption (TYE). Temperatures have not risen above zero since the catastrophe. Ash fills the sky and blots out the sun. It collects in drifts, salt and peppering the snow that never melts.''

[[file:new_barcelona.png | 400px]]

Our global population has fallen into intense despair, many bordering on abject nihilism. Birth rates have declined and not only has the population shrunk due to the disaster, but now there are fewer people entering the work force to replace the aging population. I am particularly interested in the declining birth rates; after all, this is a theme that is beginning to show up in the modern day and I think it will be fun to explore at its most extreme.

Mega-corps, of course, would deploy every unethical and disgusting practice at their disposal to combat this issue. A corporation needs bodies to keep the machines of industry running! And who would buy the mass produced cheap garbage if there were no people? No, a declining birth rate is unacceptable. The shareholders profits are at risk - think of the shareholders!

In this setting "people farms" exist - taking advantage of legislation and technology allowing people who are in a vegetative state to be used to combat the declining birthrates; not to mention, the totally normal people being drugged and suppressed and illegally being used in the birthing operations.

=== Districts ===

<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">District List</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
District 1: Neon Abyss
Impending Doom/Urban Maze
District 2:
Corp Stronghold/Restive Locals
District 3:
Sweatshop Labor/Secessionists
District 4:
Organleggers/Depths Below
District 5:
Sweatshop Labor/Organleggers

A number of very influential organlegging rings operate out of the district, buying cyber and flesh from gangs throughout the city. Those who desperately need certain implants or surplus organs that can’t be obtained legitimately can be found dealing with ring representatives here, as well as medical organizations who aren’t picky about their sourcing.

Factory work is rarely safe and offers slave wages. Here, it’s nominally worse than slave labor, because slaves expect to be fed. Some massive factory or other economic enterprise is eating up poor laborers, wringing what work they can from them before leaving them broken and discarded. Most hold out hopes of decent pay and advancement, making good on it only often enough to keep the dream alive.

ConsumerCorp employs children from the children farms in conditions no better than slave labor, destroying their minds and bodies before discarding them to the streets when they can no longer meet strict and abusive work standards. Organleggers prey on the homeless and destitute, harvesting flesh and cyber to sell in other markets.

District 6:
Restricted Access/Lasting Scar
Create/Chaos
A bioweapon weapon was released that infects people and forces them to grow extraneous limbs until they become gibbering creatures formed entirely of limbs that swarm after warm bodies. The entire district is permanently sealed off and has heavy guarding outside of it.

District 7:
Grand Structure/Border Dispute

Badlands

Here is what I've got so far for districts - most of them are still just the flavor provided by the systems roll tables. District 5 is the most fleshed out by far, but I am currently running another group here and would prefer to run a different district.

District 1 is where I am runningNa little solo game to test some of the systems.

District 6 would be closer to the wastelands as far as access to the fruits of the city. It's completely cut off due to a horrible bioweapon leak, and would be a pretty bleak area to live. Extremely dangerous and access to resources is poor.

I could totally see rich corpers from other cities medivacing to New Barcelona for medical treatment. The Belearics, nearby rich Islands, are places of extreme luxury and wealth that only the uber rich can afford to attend. Maybe this is where many of the organs are being shipped off to...

=== Thoughts from Psyche ===

Brainstorming a bit, hope that's OK. It seems strange that there is such a heavy presence of both sweatshops and organlegging, so I feel like that cries out for an explanation. I'm thinking the organlegging must not be entirely local: what if NuevoBarca is a hub for medical and implant tourism, a target of inbound human trafficking and body "disposal" for the rest of the world. The sweatshops are producing cheap knock-off cybernetics and bioware in volume, with the workers struggling to stay ahead of the threat of being worth more as parts than as labor.

District 2 could be the regional headquarters of a Kamagawa / Maxim joint venture medical center focused in life extension cybernetics, with the nursing staff on the verge of revolt and strikes over the extreme hours and the imperious top-down cultures of those two companies.

District 4 might be literally spread across the city, occupying an expansion of the Barca Metro system, which was built to provide both expanded public transport, but also cooling systems for body storage (and maybe even cryogenic preservation of wounded or severely ill patients until further medical options become available). People from all over the world pay to be shipped to Barca on their deathbeds, in hopes of eventual revival. If some of the local body banks have turned to organlegging, well, all these frozen guys look pretty similar to one another, and they are pretty quiet about any objections.

The District 6 virus is pretty bizarre, but it sounds to me like what might happen if a technology intended for clonal replacement organs got out of hand.

As for the grand structure in District 7, megacities like this always strain a little credulity when it comes to feeding themselves, and Barcelona is coastal. How about a gigantic fishery along the coast, run by SLAG, where the border dispute is between internal management. SLAG is used to managing land-based agriculture, so it has given the managers geographic regions of authority within the mega-fishery. Problem is, the fish can move (or be chased) from one managers territory to another, leading to all sorts of dirty dealing to keep the numbers up at the expense of the neighboring divisions.

=== Thoughts from Faluffh ===

Would like to add my thoughts on District 1: Neon Abys/Impending Doom/Urban Maze, for your consideration!
Gargantuan housing complexes have organically grown in all dimensions (think Kowloon but on a massive scale) to form these deep canyongs of neon, where life takes place on multiple levels, connected by makeshifts bridges and stairs. Social standing corresponds to level. Targeted holo and AR ads bombard and track you constantly to almost dizzying effect.
Impending Doom: An autofactory admin AI has gone rogue, sealed off the factory and cut all connections to the outside. Fate of the wage slaves within unkown.
</div>

== Corporations and Groups ==

*Delta Industries - Consumer Goods
*Summit-Lyers Ag Corp (SLAG Co) - agriculture
*Smith & Smith Services - Data Brokering
*Godvision Entertainment LLC - Media/Entertainment
*Kamigawa Neurotechnics - Medical and high end head cyber (think mind citadels, etc)
*QuikGov Services - Government
*Foc Maxim - weapons/military

== Characters ==

[[Kintsugi | '''Kintsugi, Drone Pilot and Street Artist''']]

[[Doc_Odie | '''"Doc" Odie, Scrap Hauler and Laborer''']]

[[Eel]]

[[Shade]]

2024-03-12T21:43:39Z

Enoch52: /* Corporations and Groups */

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:42:14Z

Enoch52: /* New Barcelona */

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:42:00Z

Enoch52: /* New Barcelona */

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:41:22Z

Enoch52: /* Districts */

== New Barcelona ==

[[file:new_barcelona.png | 200px]]

=== Districts ===

<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">District List</div>

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
District 1: Neon Abyss
Impending Doom/Urban Maze
District 2:
Corp Stronghold/Restive Locals
District 3:
Sweatshop Labor/Secessionists
District 4:
Organleggers/Depths Below
District 5:
Sweatshop Labor/Organleggers

A number of very influential organlegging rings operate out of the district, buying cyber and flesh from gangs throughout the city. Those who desperately need certain implants or surplus organs that can’t be obtained legitimately can be found dealing with ring representatives here, as well as medical organizations who aren’t picky about their sourcing.

Factory work is rarely safe and offers slave wages. Here, it’s nominally worse than slave labor, because slaves expect to be fed. Some massive factory or other economic enterprise is eating up poor laborers, wringing what work they can from them before leaving them broken and discarded. Most hold out hopes of decent pay and advancement, making good on it only often enough to keep the dream alive.

ConsumerCorp employs children from the children farms in conditions no better than slave labor, destroying their minds and bodies before discarding them to the streets when they can no longer meet strict and abusive work standards. Organleggers prey on the homeless and destitute, harvesting flesh and cyber to sell in other markets.

District 6:
Restricted Access/Lasting Scar
Create/Chaos
A bioweapon weapon was released that infects people and forces them to grow extraneous limbs until they become gibbering creatures formed entirely of limbs that swarm after warm bodies. The entire district is permanently sealed off and has heavy guarding outside of it.

District 7:
Grand Structure/Border Dispute

Badlands

Here is what I've got so far for districts - most of them are still just the flavor provided by the systems roll tables. District 5 is the most fleshed out by far, but I am currently running another group here and would prefer to run a different district.

District 1 is where I am runningNa little solo game to test some of the systems.

District 6 would be closer to the wastelands as far as access to the fruits of the city. It's completely cut off due to a horrible bioweapon leak, and would be a pretty bleak area to live. Extremely dangerous and access to resources is poor.

=== Thoughts from Psyche ===

Brainstorming a bit, hope that's OK. It seems strange that there is such a heavy presence of both sweatshops and organlegging, so I feel like that cries out for an explanation. I'm thinking the organlegging must not be entirely local: what if NuevoBarca is a hub for medical and implant tourism, a target of inbound human trafficking and body "disposal" for the rest of the world. The sweatshops are producing cheap knock-off cybernetics and bioware in volume, with the workers struggling to stay ahead of the threat of being worth more as parts than as labor.

District 2 could be the regional headquarters of a Kamagawa / Maxim joint venture medical center focused in life extension cybernetics, with the nursing staff on the verge of revolt and strikes over the extreme hours and the imperious top-down cultures of those two companies.

District 4 might be literally spread across the city, occupying an expansion of the Barca Metro system, which was built to provide both expanded public transport, but also cooling systems for body storage (and maybe even cryogenic preservation of wounded or severely ill patients until further medical options become available). People from all over the world pay to be shipped to Barca on their deathbeds, in hopes of eventual revival. If some of the local body banks have turned to organlegging, well, all these frozen guys look pretty similar to one another, and they are pretty quiet about any objections.

The District 6 virus is pretty bizarre, but it sounds to me like what might happen if a technology intended for clonal replacement organs got out of hand.

As for the grand structure in District 7, megacities like this always strain a little credulity when it comes to feeding themselves, and Barcelona is coastal. How about a gigantic fishery along the coast, run by SLAG, where the border dispute is between internal management. SLAG is used to managing land-based agriculture, so it has given the managers geographic regions of authority within the mega-fishery. Problem is, the fish can move (or be chased) from one managers territory to another, leading to all sorts of dirty dealing to keep the numbers up at the expense of the neighboring divisions.
</div>

== Corporations and Groups ==

== Characters ==

[[Kintsugi]]

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:40:35Z

Enoch52:

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:39:40Z

Enoch52:

New Barcelona

2024-03-12T21:39:10Z

Enoch52: