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Main Article: Sargasso, The Ever-Changing City
The Cyberpunk District was the result of six different city blocks being plucked from two different cyberpunk worlds and placed next to each other. One side dubbed "The Grim Side" has aesthetics that you would normally see in a cyberpunk world (i.e. Blade Runner, Deus Ex, Johnny Mnemonic, etc.) The other side on the other hand, dubbed "The Neon Side", has aesthetics that are bright; fry-your-eyes-out neon colors, with a lot of contrast between darkness and light like a synthwave album cover.
Both sides have one skyscraper that is the HQ of one of their world's Evil Mega Corporations. On "The Grim Side" is Catalyst; a MegaCorp that has it's fingers in the production of things such as cybernetic implants, military-grade weapons, robotics, and the goal of giving the entirety of the Ever-Changing City the gift of cyberspace in competition with the other districts. One thing that Catalyst is developing is the capacity to produce "Bioware", an alternative to cybernetic implants which involves growing biological implants; new strains of body warping micro-organisms which add new functions to the human flesh beyond what can be done naturally.
"The Neon Side" however has The Unicorn Foundation, which while similar to it's neighbor in terms of tech and the goal of having the dominant network, has several major differences besides aesthetics. The Unicorn Foundation has a more effective facade of benevolence, providing charitable “services,” such as work training, machinery to build cheap; futuristic homes for the homeless, producing food that it gives to city food banks, and so-on. Unlike Catalyst's cybernetics, The Unicorn Foundation's tech is more sleek in it's design, built with strange white resin and almost luminescent metal.
Both companies, while opposed to each other, realized when they first entered Sargasso that their reach and power is much shorter & weaker then back in their old worlds, what with Sargasso's internet being almost incompatible to the two's own networks, as well as the gangs that patrol and fight in the other districts having abilities that match the two companies' tech in terms of strength. And there is the Techromancers who are able to revive what both considered severely outdated technology into working order and add modifications that both thought were impossible to do. With these factors, the CEOs of both companies have decided to cooperate with each other to achieve what they wanted, both with one hand of friendship outstretched and the other behind their backs, holding a knife for when one outlived it's usefulness to the other.
(--Known Inhabitants--)
Nitrox, The Plasma Edge
Reddie Redback
Andra, The Sassy Cyborg
Jotunn, The Moon Mistress
Andro-Dan
Ferro Kan
Tsunade
Atmos-Fear
Edith, The Wife of Lot
Annhesive
The Brainless Cyclops
Razbestos, The Salamander
Fate Ball
(--Writer's Note--)
The Cyberpunk District is an open source location created specifically for use by anyone. Feel free to use it any way you wish. You must also give creator credit.
The Cyberpunk District was the result of six different city blocks being plucked from two different cyberpunk worlds and placed next to each other. One side dubbed "The Grim Side" has aesthetics that you would normally see in a cyberpunk world (i.e. Blade Runner, Deus Ex, Johnny Mnemonic, etc.) The other side on the other hand, dubbed "The Neon Side", has aesthetics that are bright; fry-your-eyes-out neon colors, with a lot of contrast between darkness and light like a synthwave album cover.
Both sides have one skyscraper that is the HQ of one of their world's Evil Mega Corporations. On "The Grim Side" is Catalyst; a MegaCorp that has it's fingers in the production of things such as cybernetic implants, military-grade weapons, robotics, and the goal of giving the entirety of the Ever-Changing City the gift of cyberspace in competition with the other districts. One thing that Catalyst is developing is the capacity to produce "Bioware", an alternative to cybernetic implants which involves growing biological implants; new strains of body warping micro-organisms which add new functions to the human flesh beyond what can be done naturally.
"The Neon Side" however has The Unicorn Foundation, which while similar to it's neighbor in terms of tech and the goal of having the dominant network, has several major differences besides aesthetics. The Unicorn Foundation has a more effective facade of benevolence, providing charitable “services,” such as work training, machinery to build cheap; futuristic homes for the homeless, producing food that it gives to city food banks, and so-on. Unlike Catalyst's cybernetics, The Unicorn Foundation's tech is more sleek in it's design, built with strange white resin and almost luminescent metal.
Both companies, while opposed to each other, realized when they first entered Sargasso that their reach and power is much shorter & weaker then back in their old worlds, what with Sargasso's internet being almost incompatible to the two's own networks, as well as the gangs that patrol and fight in the other districts having abilities that match the two companies' tech in terms of strength. And there is the Techromancers who are able to revive what both considered severely outdated technology into working order and add modifications that both thought were impossible to do. With these factors, the CEOs of both companies have decided to cooperate with each other to achieve what they wanted, both with one hand of friendship outstretched and the other behind their backs, holding a knife for when one outlived it's usefulness to the other.
(--Known Inhabitants--)
Nitrox, The Plasma Edge
Reddie Redback
Andra, The Sassy Cyborg
Jotunn, The Moon Mistress
Andro-Dan
Ferro Kan
Tsunade
Atmos-Fear
Edith, The Wife of Lot
Annhesive
The Brainless Cyclops
Razbestos, The Salamander
Fate Ball
(--Writer's Note--)
The Cyberpunk District is an open source location created specifically for use by anyone. Feel free to use it any way you wish. You must also give creator credit.
New Character Concept: Eros
New Character Concept: A version of The Greek God, Eros, that is closer to his original characterization as a Primordial God that even the other gods fear due to his power of manipulation, being the embodiment of both positive and negative aspects of Love and doesn't care if his manipulations cause so much pain and suffering to those on the receiving end of them. Kinda in the same vein as the Sargassian version of Dionysus as he is very powerful in his domain over Love. In his universe he is basically the reason why gods like Zeus and Poseidon can't keep it in their pants and bang as many random women as possible, why Apollo's love life is so catastrophically bad, why so many weird fetishes are a thing in modern times as Eros is also the god of sexual desires and so on. However the other gods do not dare to raise a hand against him for his manipulation since Eros can easily cause the god who challenges him to fall in love with something very detrimental to them.
Important Message
So I finally got a response to the whole copyright strike debacle and it's all fine now. And due to this, I would like to ask everyone who sees this. If I use a piece of Stock Art from Pixabay and it actually belongs to someone here on DA, here's my message to you: If I used a piece of Stock Art that actually belongs to you, please tell me instead of sending a Copyright Strike. Maybe also share a link that leads to your stock image. I will give you proper credit, or change the picture entirely if you ask me to. I'm not gonna get pissy about it if you'd just ask me. I'd rather not get a strike due to an honest mistake on my part.
New Offal Goddess
I don't know if you guys ever got the update since I can't find a "Notify Watchers" button anywhere, but I added a brand new goddess to my list of Offal Gods. Mahj Timeeater, The Devourer of History One of the most dangerous gods in The Super-Sargasso Sea. Why so is that this god has the power to devour the history of whatever she targets, resulting in that target's history to be re-written to accommodate the changes. Like if she targets someone who experienced some kind of serious trauma in their life, she can eat that point in that mortal's history which re-writes their history as if they never had that trauma in the first place. Or if she targets someone who experienced an event that inspired them to achieve greatness, Mahj can devour that person's experience so they never got the inspiration in the first place. While she may be forbidden from eating the histories of the other gods thanks to her Superior, Mahj still goes among mortals to taste the various delicacies among them. And
All Hallows Eve n' The Pumpkin Pack #1 Released
Hey guys, I just want to give a shout-out to my friend, @ivy7om , who just recently released the first issue of his latest comic series, All Hallows Eve and The Pumpkin Pack, on digital platforms. So here are a pair of links of where you can find and get this book: Comixology: https://www.comixology.com/All-Hallows-Eve-And-The-Pumpkin-Pack-1/digital-comic/961516 And Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09CD2WTCL?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_0&storeType=ebooks And if you got the time, maybe check out ivy7om's other books in his library. https://www.amazon.com/David-Eveleigh/e/B005C6H8KM/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
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Ideas for the groups' leadership.
Catalyst Corporation is basically every seventies/eighties scifi movie megacorporation and tends toward those aesthetics. As is inevitable for such an organization, their leadership is involved in a sinister conspiracy. In the cyberpunk universe they originated in, their Corporation was a worldwide NGO superpower and it was only an infinitesimal fraction of it that got transported to Sargasso. This ties into their goals. Publicly and to their lower ranks, they claim to want a way out of Sargasso both for themselves and to sell, so they attempt to contact, fund and if possible take control over anything that looks like it might provide one. Secretly, their leader is doing this so he can sabotage them. He doesn't want to escape Sargasso. In his original world, he was middle management, here, as the highest-ranking member of the corporation available, he's in charge.
Nobody's ever seen the leader of the Unicorn Foundation or knows who they are, they just receive orders. The highest-ranking member of the corporation available was once a beachcomber who found a battered phone washed ashore amidst the trash and was surprised to find it still working, then even more surprised when it spoke to him, providing a step-by-step explanation of how he could rise to power. Which worked, given his current position in a corporation manufacturing electronic gadgetry, even if he doesn't actually do anything. All the other employees get their orders through their proprietary, Unicorn Foundation-build electronics. Primary among them, "build more" and "everyone must have one".