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''"The overriding problem is to change the structure of society so that people gain power. The best arena to do that is the municipality — the city, town, and village — where we have an opportunity to create a face-to-face democracy."'' - Murray Bookchin | ''"The overriding problem is to change the structure of society so that people gain power. The best arena to do that is the municipality — the city, town, and village — where we have an opportunity to create a face-to-face democracy."'' - Murray Bookchin | ||
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==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
[[Sunflower]] | [[Sunflower]] | ||
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* Players - please add your characters, and pages for them, here! | * Players - please add your characters, and pages for them, here! | ||
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==Contacts== | ==Contacts== | ||
+ | '''Club Bouncer [Sunflower]:''' Owns a customized Evo Falcon off-road bike, which they occasionally let Sunflower borrow ("..., but I'm charging you for every new dent I find in her, understand?") | ||
− | ''' | + | '''Comparative Religions Grad Student [Sunflower]:''' |
− | ''' | + | '''Fixer [Sunflower]:''' |
− | '''"Crazy Ivan" [Ushitara | + | '''"Crazy Ivan" [Ushitara]:''' Operator of The Wall, a dive bar in northeastern Ashbarrow, who claims to be a retired member of Black Star. This grizzled anarcho-syndicalist dwarven fixer is not at all Russian, but he does speak the language and put on the accent, because "you would not be buyink Kalashnikov from Canadian, da?" Behind the bar's façade, Ivan moves civilian goods, information, and shadowrunner/revolutionary essentials through Ashbarrow and beyond; the notion that he's "retired" is probably more unbelievable than the claims of being ex-Black Star. Ivan has a complicated relationship with Tylr Mikell, owner of the Working Class - Ashbarrow's *other* leftist bar. |
'''Victor Nguyen [Ushitara]:''' A "fisherman" who technically lives up in Everett, but frequently comes down the Puyallup River into Ashbarrow. Vic actually does fish, but he's *also* a smuggler and small-time coastal pirate, of the strictly inglorious variety. He's usually full of tales from friends in low places, even when the catch of the day isn't a net full of grenades. | '''Victor Nguyen [Ushitara]:''' A "fisherman" who technically lives up in Everett, but frequently comes down the Puyallup River into Ashbarrow. Vic actually does fish, but he's *also* a smuggler and small-time coastal pirate, of the strictly inglorious variety. He's usually full of tales from friends in low places, even when the catch of the day isn't a net full of grenades. | ||
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==Important People== | ==Important People== | ||
− | '''Alarota | + | '''Alarota:''' The founder and presumed leader of Icarus. Doesn't leave the group's headquarters, if he's even still alive. Witnesses consistently describe him as a thin, Latino, human male with dark brown skin and long, greying, black hair. Presumed to be awakened due to the deeds ascribed to him, though separating truth from urban legend is difficult. |
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− | ''' | + | '''Dr. Hajera Sultana:''' A humanitarian street doc in Ashbarrow, and an open member of the Anarchist Black Crescent (essentially a decentralized, anarchist version of Doctors Without Borders). Dr. Sultana runs the only medical clinic in Ashbarrow worthy of the name, treating those most in need for free. |
− | ''' | + | '''Duane Petrowski:''' Patriarch of the Petrowski family, whose farming complex in Puyallup district has defied volcanos, economic collapses, and hordes of go-gangers. Employment on Petrowski's farm is one of the few legitimate paying jobs available to inhabitants of the Puyallup barrens, but his family isn't a charity - they sell their crop for profit. |
− | ''' | + | '''Kenneth Brackhaven:''' Governor of Seattle Territory, Brackhaven is a member of the Archconservative Party. Brackhaven's policy focus seems to be advancing his barely veiled human (and white) supremacist agenda. Pounding the old "law and order" canard, many fear Brackhaven will repeat the bad old days of the late 30s under Governor Allison. Brackhaven's economic platform is blatantly pro-corp, with tax cuts and "business friendly" policies exchanged for the assistance of corporate security in the "war on crime." |
− | ''' | + | '''Lon Campa:''' Mayor of Puyallup district, and the city's only orcish mayor. Mayor Campa gets his strongest support from Carbonado, but works hard for all inhabitants of the district. Lon is also the first Puyallup mayor in years who isn't a puppet for organized crime, possibly explaining the two attempts on his life since he was elected. |
− | '''Vök Rútsson | + | '''Vök Rútsson:''' Local head of the Rútsson family, who operate the unauthorized Landsblood Artery power plant in Hell's Kitchen. Vök handles the business and community side of the Artery's operations, leaving engineering and maintenance to her sister Voney, Voney's husband August Kresinger, and their employees. Widely believed to have connections to the Stonecutter's Guild. |
==Major Concepts== | ==Major Concepts== | ||
− | '''The Blights:''' Local name applied to the sudden slew of widescale problems facing Ashbarrow | + | '''The Blights:''' Local name applied to the sudden slew of widescale problems facing Ashbarrow. |
* Concrete and brick edifices fracture and crumble as though suddenly exposed to a fierce freeze-thaw or unfelt earthquake. This first type of degradation heavily stems from existing structural weaknesses, but even slight dent and cracks suddenly expand over the course of days to hours rather than months to years. | * Concrete and brick edifices fracture and crumble as though suddenly exposed to a fierce freeze-thaw or unfelt earthquake. This first type of degradation heavily stems from existing structural weaknesses, but even slight dent and cracks suddenly expand over the course of days to hours rather than months to years. | ||
* Metal tarnishes and rusts at an enhanced pace. Especially worrisome accounts claim even metals that are painted, kept in dry areas, or oiled can begin to oxidize. | * Metal tarnishes and rusts at an enhanced pace. Especially worrisome accounts claim even metals that are painted, kept in dry areas, or oiled can begin to oxidize. | ||
* Weeds, ivies, moss, and other encrusting plants grow quickly and spread aggressively - akin to bamboo or kudzu. Anyone with botanical knowledge can tell this isn't entirely natural. | * Weeds, ivies, moss, and other encrusting plants grow quickly and spread aggressively - akin to bamboo or kudzu. Anyone with botanical knowledge can tell this isn't entirely natural. | ||
* A new respiratory illness that causes patients to cough up thickening, rust-colored phlegm. Uncreatively called "Rust Throat" by Ashbarrow inhabitants, this illness results in progressive inflammation of the throat and eventually the lungs. Rust Throat is particularly dangerous when combined with inhaling volcanic ash. There are untested claims the disease also causes behavioral alterations. | * A new respiratory illness that causes patients to cough up thickening, rust-colored phlegm. Uncreatively called "Rust Throat" by Ashbarrow inhabitants, this illness results in progressive inflammation of the throat and eventually the lungs. Rust Throat is particularly dangerous when combined with inhaling volcanic ash. There are untested claims the disease also causes behavioral alterations. | ||
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==Setting Information== | ==Setting Information== | ||
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===Country: UCAS (Seattle Territory)=== | ===Country: UCAS (Seattle Territory)=== | ||
− | The United American and Canadian States is the remnants of the United States and Canada after the Ghost War, the secession of the California Free State | + | The United American and Canadian States is the remnants of the United States and Canada after the Ghost War, the secession of the California Free State and the Confederation of American States, and Florida joining the Caribbean League. |
While still one of the wealthiest nations in the world on paper and a nuclear power, the UCAS is by and large a hollowed-out shell propped up by the megacorporations. The megacorporations find the continued existence of the UCAS convenient, because they rely on the economic scaffolding and laws laid out by the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. | While still one of the wealthiest nations in the world on paper and a nuclear power, the UCAS is by and large a hollowed-out shell propped up by the megacorporations. The megacorporations find the continued existence of the UCAS convenient, because they rely on the economic scaffolding and laws laid out by the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. |