[Daigoro]

[GAME] Synthesise a Cybercity!


"A long long time ago, in a city far far away..."

"The sky above the port was the splintered rainbow of a phone screen, shattered by a harsh blow…"

"There are eighty million tragedies in the cyber city. Yours will be one of them, hotdogger…"

"Hell erupted through the pavement and built a city..."

This is a collaborative setting construction forum game. The objective is to combine our shared talents to construct a cyberpunk city on a secondary world for a band of cyberpunks to get lost and find trouble in.

For the purposes of this thread, 'secondary world' means a fictional world that is divorced from real world history, geopolitics or cultures. Tolkien defined the term for building fantasy worlds, but I'm sure we can borrow the term for cyber-fi as well. This could mean that it's on an alien planet settled from Earth in the distant future, that it's in an alternate universe where humanity's homeworld looks very different to in our reality or a post-post apocalyptic Earth - it doesn't much matter. It means that we are free to make the city's and the world's own unique countries, history, cultures and background without having to draw a thread from our modern day. Consider it the city out of a cyberpunk fairy tale, if you like.

We'll focus mainly on the city, but where necessary we can build the larger world that it exists in to make it feel real.

The method is to answer a posted question about the setting, then post a question of your own. Build bit-by-bit on what the other posters have written, and try not to contradict anything that's been established. Questions can be anything from the very general to extremely specific, complex or simple, and can follow on from what's gone before or start off a new direction.

Tags: To help organise various question streams we'll mark each question with a tag. We'll start with [CTY], for questions about the city itself, and [SET] for questions about the broader setting. Feel free to generate other question tags if you think a separate or more narrow topic requires them.

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To make it easier to read through, clearly mark questions and answers in bold, and quote the question you're answering, in the below format.

Example of post format:

Originally Posted by Daigoro

Question 47 [CTY]
Who's the bartender at The Neon Neo?

Answer 47 [CTY]
His real name is Cornelius Ngo, but everyone just calls him Neo for some reason.

Question 48 [CTY]
What currencies do you need in the city?

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Here's a list of previous collaborations:

Spoiler:  

Question Game Threads
[Banestorm] Fleshing out the Djinn Lands Made some new detail for the Djinn Lands of Yrth and one of the djinn there.
[GAME] Orcish Ag Bash! Queen orcs and spirit circles for an eel-based farming system.
[GAME] Surveil a Superspy Setting! Directorate S, a private superspy agency backed by the world's third richest person, protects the world from a range of threats.
[GAME] Magic Academy/University, World Building An elite magic school founded in Quebec but located on the opposite coastline.
[GAME] After the End, Worldbuilding An environmental-nuclear apocalypse leaves uplifts and hybrid humans on the rise.
[GAME] Assemble a Space Station! A space station built inside an abandoned precursor base, and some details about the politics of the setting.
Campaign Jam: Magic Vrs. Technology A world with opposing camps using exclusively either magic or technology.
[GAME] Conceive a Cross Dimensional Fantasy Milieu - Mercantile adventure in a multiverse containing worlds in crocodile skulls, tetrahedrons and a distorted in-between.
[GAME] Incorporate a Cyberpunk Megacorp - Focuses on a South American 2nd tier megacorp
[GAME] Collaborative World Building Dwarven city as a start - Based on some agricultural modelling for a dwarven stronghold
[Game] Animate a Monster Hunters Setting - 1900's World-spanning Occult Adventure
[Game] Generate a military sci-fi setting - A space ark brings dozens of alien races to an overcrowded solar system just as Earth becomes uninhabitable
[Game] Collaborative world building for DFRPG - A Dungeon Fantasy town to stock up on rumours, magic items and guild intrigue between adventures
Create a setting -- diesel punk awesomeness! - 1930s in a world dominated by Greco-Buddhist geopolitics
Shared space setting - Building the wormhole superhighway to the stars
[Game] Work Up a Steampunk Setting - Skyship villains and bathysuit soldiers fighting undersea wars
Question Game: Post Agricultural Fantasy Setting
[Game] Let's Make a Post-Apocalyptic Setting
[Game] Generate a Space Trader Setting - Aliens, birthright humans and divergers with plasma-tube jump drives spread across the galaxy
Setting Generating Game (Feb 2015) (Fantasy setting) - Dogfleet Pirates from the Naga Isles conquer the coastal City States with the aid of numina spirits
Setting Generating Game (Supers setting- Odin-1)
Setting Generator game 2: Odin2 (Supers)
New Year/New Setting: GURPS world design 'game' (Fantasy setting- Twilight World): This was more of a "reference chain" game- refer to something previously mentioned then add to it.

Also, some vote-based threads:
Vote Up a Setting Threads
Vote up a Fantastic (as in Fantasy) Setting
Vote up a Fantasy Setting
Vote up a SUPERS! setting
Vote up an Urban Fantasy Setting
Vote up a Space Opera

And for straight-up collaborative world-building:
Other Collaborative World Threads

Collaborative DFRPG Mega-Dungeon - A dungeon thrown together by the God of the Underworld, which includes a range of random but creative ways to challenge a party of delvers.

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I'll initiate the question sequence in the next post.