Metropolis

By Evan Torner
Players: 10
Genre: Sci-fi
There
is only the City. Few know what exists outside it. If such an Outside existed,
however, its Inhabitants would desperately yearn for it. For as nothing exists
outside the City, so too does nothing exist inside its Inhabitants.
Metropolis’
architects designed it according to what its denizens could afford: the Ruling
class lives far above the rest of the populace in the Spire, their sons playing
in the wondrous Pleasure Gardens when young – and in the decadent Yoshiwara
district after reaching sexual maturity. Under it lies the bustling Factory
where the Ruled work in dangerous conditions, producing the goods and services
for the City thanks to the power provided by the almighty Heart Machine.
Elevated highways and airships provide transit between its vast production
facilities. An elevator ride down reveals the cramped and squalid apartments
where most of the Ruled reside. It is rumoured that another City existed before
the City, with its winding Catacombs still penetrating its underbelly like a
root system. A single, squat House amidst the skyscrapers immortalises a
long-forgotten architecture, an engineer within its walls feverishly developing
an immortality of a different sort.
The
Ruling – the City’s Head – rule by ignoring their class privilege. The Ruled –
the City’s Hands – are ruled by fear and tedium. It is a closed system that
sustains itself, yet proves utterly unsustainable. The hierarchies harden,
becoming brittle and cracking under their inflexibility. And cracks have begun
to appear in the City too.
Can
the Head and the Hands be mediated through the Heart?
Cost: free
Available from: http://guyintheblackhat.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/metropolis-larp-fastaval.pdf
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