Reboot.exe

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Reboot is an ongoing campaign narrated by Dave and played by Jazza, Jenn and Rob. The first season of the campaign exists of 20 episodes, starting on 18 December 2020. The second season started on 14 May 2022 and is currently 10 episodes.

## Setting

### World Description

The year is 2090. The world is not the utopia promised in the twentieth century, yet neither is it the uninhabited wasteland prophesized in the early twenty-first century.

On the eve of 2090 the boutique genetics firm Reboot announced a product that awoke humanity from its slumber. NuYou, part biological miracle and part technological marvel. The proprietary technology offered a new start that was more than metaphorical, as they offered to create your ideal version of yourself; young, old, male, female any race in any phenotypic combination imaginable. With this avatar made, your consciousness would be transferred into it, given full rights and citizenship and all assurances of a true continuity of self.

At first, people didn't believe it was possible. But Reboot proved it. First, with their founder, who crossed the divide of biological gender and was reborn a man some forty years junior. Then, more shockingly, with a drone. The robotic spokesperson Noel who had served as the face of the company for a decade was supposedly transferred into a human body. This monumental publicity stunt was the spark that ignited a fervour across the globe.

Everyone wanted NuYou. It represented a driving desire that nearly every single person wished to obtain. Even those robotic drones who had secretly begun to harbour sentience longed for the promise of NuYou and the freedom to exist openly with free thought and action.

This new awakening was not without its downsides. Outside the megacities in the great sprawling slums that cover the world, billions of unregistered and illegal citizens throng in masses. Their lives are short and often violent, but in this maelstrom of chaos unique individuals mark themselves for greatness in a way forgotten by the rest of humanity. They fight every day just for the right to exist, and through their trials an impossibly small fraction achieve glory.

***Source:** NuYou - A cyberpunk setting for the cogent roleplay system, Written by @NarratorDave*

## Characters

### Main

* Pr0 D1gy (Pro) played by Jazza
* Sebastian Allen (Seb) played by Rob
* Eve played by Jen
* Ellias Killian played by Murray

### NPC Characters

#### Ugly's Motors

* Ugly
* Incongruent
* Xiang
* Songbird
* S-Effect
* Tilda

#### The Slums

* Conrado
* Bernie
* Belle
* Chessex
* Possum
* Dr. Joseph Boucier
* Big Wind

#### The City

* Rags
* Oscar Allen
* Nyla
* Isaac
* Persia
* Uriel
* Gabi (Pink haired girl)
* Dr. Rekor
* Ivy

## Locations

### The Slums and The City

The world is separated between the big cities and the billions of people that live outside the civilized area in big sprawling slums. The people in the slums are not legal citizens, they therefore have no rights, no help or welfare, and they live in horrible environments.

## Terms

* Reboot
* NuYou
* Cybernetics and Fusion

## Species

### Slummers

Slummers are people who are born illegally and are in direct violation of the strict population control measures. They are not registered, have no personal identification nor access to welfare, in general they have no rights. They are also not allowed in the city. There are at least billions of slummers, they live outside the city in the big sprawling slums. Their lives are often short and violent, and they have to fight just for the right to exist.

### The Bespoke

Bespokes are specifically created by the wealthy inside the cities, and are therefore quite rare. They are created as a way to get around the population control measures, since they are allowed to create one child, if that child is genetically engineered and created infertile so they can never breed.

A bespoke is tailor-made, they are typically the boosted enhanced human, built to the financial limitations of their parents, but also the wishes of their parents. Money is an important factor here, only the richest people will make children who are smarter, stronger, faster, fitter,… than anyone else just because they have the money, but it’s very rare.

Sometimes bespokes are flawed, there are cheaper companies which comes with flaws, that things might not have manifested properly. Bespokes are genetically created, and they cannot have any cybernetics of any kind in their body. Their body does heal naturally faster than normal people.

### Drones

Drones are specifically robots that require complex interaction with humans in workplaces. They are built with a high level of intelligence that is comparable to humans, and are built for a specific purpose.

The cost saving measures from a drone means that they are very bad in one area. An example is the EVE line, she is incredibly feebly because she was built as a medical robot and a child care worker with mechanical strength limiters, so she could never malfunction and hurt anything she was touching or holding.

Some drones have actually diverged and have started to awaken into sentience. If they are found out they will be destroyed immediately and it will be covered up by their parent companies that they can even become sentient.

### Boosters

Boosters are humans who begun to augment their body beyond the 50 mark, whether voluntarily or by accident. They are obsessed with the idea of cybernetics, and believe that they can transcend humanity by becoming a machine.

They will go to the extent of mutilating themselves to gain new cybernetic enhancements, but because the majority of them are slummers, they often can only afford refurbished or home repaired cybernetics.

People with cybernetics are dependent on Fusion, an anti-rejection drug. It is very expensive and only available in the cities and pharmacies. Therefore there is a whole black market in the slums and is the value very high.

## Episodes

### Season 1

The first season of Reboot consisted of 20 episodes, plus a Q&A and a non-canon Beach Episode. It started on December 18, 2020 and finished on May 23, 2021.

### Season 2

Reboot.exe is the first campaign that has a second season. It started on May 15, 2022 and hopefully never finishes.