Rat City Legacy Wiki

***Rat City Legacy*** is an ongoing multiplayer game series about defining and defending the small corner and subcultures of the fictional location, Rat City.

The series is presented in an anthology format with each episode showcasing a different aspect of life in Rat City such as housing, crime, high school, bar ownership, etc. Each episode, the characters are put through challenges that change the make up of the city.

## How This Works

Each "episode" is created by a group of friends playing a tabletop game. Games are adapted to be fit into the setting of Rat City. The rule from there is to play to find out what happens. After each episode The Clocks will change. The Clocks represent the interconnected vibes or follies of people living within Rat City. When a clock reaches either 12 or 0, it will fundamentally change something in Rat City.

## Rat City Legacy Season 1

The first three games of Rat City were established to create a baseline. Through them we figured out locations, businesses, and bars that can be visited in the future as well as leaving many blank spaces in the map that could be expanded upon in the future.

Below is a brief recap of the season;

 3 | Never Felt So Good | Damn the Man, Save the Music! by Hannah Shaffer | The beleaguered staff of Bah Bah Bah: Records and Such work to keep keep their relationships alive and the store from closing on a busy record store day.

Future games in this season will have an effect on The Clocks.

## About Rat City

Rat City is based on the real world location of Allston, MA. Much like Allston, Rat City is located in a diverse neighborhood in a much larger city called Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire is depicted as an older yet modern urban metropolis. Most of the series revolves around the area known as R.C. Village, a few city blocks comprising of small businesses, bars and apartment complexes.

Most of the series takes place in the neighborhood of Rat City, Lincolnshire has other locations, such as Downtown, The Pond and South Side. The neighboring city has come up but has only been mentioned as "Over the River."

While Rat City mirrors our own reality heavily there are some differences:

* Early 2010's Style – Rat City appears to be stuck somewhere around 2009-2011 although current pop culture and political references are understood
* Floating Timeline – Time seems expanded with the early 2010's stretched beyond normal limits, it is also squashed in some places. For example this is a world where Green Day released Dookie and then American Idiot within a three year time span instead of the ten years it was in our world.
* Arts – The art scene is huge in Rat City with many artist trying to make it big. This leads to an influx of artist work and living within the city. It gives the aging city a nice fresh coat of paint that is constantly changing.
* Education – Rat City is very much a college town. A large percentage of the population are either in college or just post college. Rat City does have at least two colleges (A.C.I.D.U. and \_\_\_\_) but is close enough to other colleges in Lincolnshire and the Harvard University's Institute of Technology from "Across the River."
* The Occult – Even though it's stuck in time R.C. is haunted by its past. Sometimes it is spirits who won't move on. Other times it's people or corporations who are trying to get ahead using otherworldly means.

## Guiding Lore

Every person, place and object has a story of how they got or want to get away from Rat City.

This wiki is meant to show off the lore of the places and to keep a rotating group of players up to date. It is also meant to be a look into one of the best TV shows never produced. The following are good places to start looking at information:

* Episode Guide
* Major Characters
* Minor Characters
* Map
* Locations
* Events
* Musical Acts