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IC: https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/threads/abandon-the-city-on-the-edge-of-hell.96709/
Abandon. The one constant between all universes, all dimensions. The City on the Edge of Hell. When a soul dies, it goes to Abandon, regardless of where the soul came from and what the soul did in it's life. There is no heaven, but hell most certainly exists, and Abandon is it's only gateway. It is a city where creature of all races and all eras meet. They all have one thing in common. They are very very close to eternal hell.
Abandon rests in a strange world. The planet is one constant climate and reminds Earthian visitors of the surface of Mars. There are no stars, no moons and no other planets, and yet, the landscape has weather and is lit as if it orbited a Sun. The city itself resembles 22nd century Britain, with moderate technology levels and no magic, and with a huge wall, almost 500 meters high, surrounding the entire thing. Few buildings have points that can see over this wall, and even if people do, all they see is an endless fog. It also rains a lot. In an average year, it'll be lucky to get 7 days without bad weather.
Despite being inhabited by the dead and only ever lit by twilight, however, there is a low level of crime in Abandon. Or rather, a low level of dis-organised crime. This is because the city is ruled by powerful beasts known as "Watchers". In Abandon, there is a karma system in effect, instead of prisons or anything like that. You can increase your karma by doing good things, and larger good deeds will give more of a karma boost than smaller ones. Similarly, you can decrease your karma by doing bad things, and this is also proportional. At the end of a "season", that is, a fortnight, there is an event called "the Reaping". In this event, people with low karma get instantly sent to the hellish dimension known as Oblivion, where they spend the rest of eternity in a living hell. Those with moderately low karma (negative, but not dramatically negative), are given the opportunity to fight for their right to remain in Abandon. The 24 people with the lowest karma once the Culling of the worst has happened are placed in a gladiatorial arena. The final 4 remaining competitors get to live on in Abandon, and have their karma reset to zero.
Of course, the gaze of the Watchers can only reach so far. Many choose to leave Abandon and live in exile in the Wastes around it, while others join one of the many Leagues of Abandon, and make a living off of destroying the monstrosities that exist outside the wall - monstrosities sent by Oblivion to try and obtain new subjects. This is a very popular method of gaining Karma, since their Karma won't decrease outside the wall, but they still gain Karma for slaying beasts. However, should you die in the wastes, you will not be revived at home like you would if you died inside Abandon. You will be taken to Oblivion. Additionally, crafted weapons have no effect on the creatures - only weapons known as Fragments can harm them. These weapons manifest differently based on who the user's soul was in life. All souls have the potential to gain a Fragment, but only those deemed capable of wielding it responsibly have theirs activated. The activation is done by injecting the body with a drug that only very high ranking League members have access to.
While there is a currency system active in Abandon - Kol - there is a very large gap in the legal market, and naturally, a Black Market soon came into existence. Traders of this market do not accept Kol. They only deal in positive Karma. The Black Market is used as a way for criminals with negative karma to quickly return their karma to positive levels before the Reaping, without having to do hard work, only having to sell a hard to obtain item to a desperate customer. Nearly half of the competitors in each Arena are people who accidentally spent too much Karma on the black market. Since there is no official ranking board, there is no real way to tell if you will be entered into the Arena. You just have to hope your karma is high enough. There is also know way of knowing one's own karma value, they can only keep track of a rough estimate based on the likely positive or negative values of certain actions.
The average street in a city center looks like:
and in the outskirts, more like:
CS:
While creating a CS, keep in mind how they would react to waking up in a hospital bed in this world, only a few hours after dieing in their own world. They may also come from any universe. Some universes may have had magic, some may have been under the rule of a Star-wars like empire. Same goes for time. It's not unheard of for a 500 BCE Egyptian to wake up with a 4000 ACE Space Pilot in the next bed over. However, only creatures with souls get sent to Abandon. No animals exist here other than what are genetically created by cloning and editing the DNA of a sentient who arrives here. Same goes for plants. No cavemen would be here either. Anything before the development of language would be unlikely to turn up. Anything that would have been bigger than 8 ft tall would have been scaled down upon arriving, for convenience. Feel free to create multiple characters, too. Please note, if a soul dies inside Abandon, it will reincarnate as a child, since it has no where to go but back to Abandon. The first arrival here is the only time where you wake up at your death age. The rebirth process may place one in a different race and occasionally even a different gender to your previous one, though these can be altered (for a hefty price) by genetic engineers.
Name:
Appearance: (Anime or descriptions more appreciated than photo or realistic drawing, but anything is fine.)
Age: (relative to human, IE an elf may be 300, but be 30 human years old.)
Race: (If you create a new one or one that has features not common to the usual considered thing (IE, an Elf that's got really good physical resistance) then a few details in a spoiler is appreciated.)
Gender:
Number of rebirths spent in Abandon: (How many times have they reincarnated inside Abandon? Does not include first death, only deaths had inside Abandon.)
Clarity of memories from first life: (How well do they remember the one life they spent outside of Abandon? Do they still identify it as part of their own past?)
Potential Fragment: (If they were to activate their fragment, what form would it take? Note: Guns are very very rare. Nobody knows why ranged weapons are so rare. Some people suspect it is the soul automatically activating a safety mechanism to prevent the user from firing off too much of it's soul as bullets or arrows.)
Abandon. The one constant between all universes, all dimensions. The City on the Edge of Hell. When a soul dies, it goes to Abandon, regardless of where the soul came from and what the soul did in it's life. There is no heaven, but hell most certainly exists, and Abandon is it's only gateway. It is a city where creature of all races and all eras meet. They all have one thing in common. They are very very close to eternal hell.
Abandon rests in a strange world. The planet is one constant climate and reminds Earthian visitors of the surface of Mars. There are no stars, no moons and no other planets, and yet, the landscape has weather and is lit as if it orbited a Sun. The city itself resembles 22nd century Britain, with moderate technology levels and no magic, and with a huge wall, almost 500 meters high, surrounding the entire thing. Few buildings have points that can see over this wall, and even if people do, all they see is an endless fog. It also rains a lot. In an average year, it'll be lucky to get 7 days without bad weather.
Despite being inhabited by the dead and only ever lit by twilight, however, there is a low level of crime in Abandon. Or rather, a low level of dis-organised crime. This is because the city is ruled by powerful beasts known as "Watchers". In Abandon, there is a karma system in effect, instead of prisons or anything like that. You can increase your karma by doing good things, and larger good deeds will give more of a karma boost than smaller ones. Similarly, you can decrease your karma by doing bad things, and this is also proportional. At the end of a "season", that is, a fortnight, there is an event called "the Reaping". In this event, people with low karma get instantly sent to the hellish dimension known as Oblivion, where they spend the rest of eternity in a living hell. Those with moderately low karma (negative, but not dramatically negative), are given the opportunity to fight for their right to remain in Abandon. The 24 people with the lowest karma once the Culling of the worst has happened are placed in a gladiatorial arena. The final 4 remaining competitors get to live on in Abandon, and have their karma reset to zero.
Of course, the gaze of the Watchers can only reach so far. Many choose to leave Abandon and live in exile in the Wastes around it, while others join one of the many Leagues of Abandon, and make a living off of destroying the monstrosities that exist outside the wall - monstrosities sent by Oblivion to try and obtain new subjects. This is a very popular method of gaining Karma, since their Karma won't decrease outside the wall, but they still gain Karma for slaying beasts. However, should you die in the wastes, you will not be revived at home like you would if you died inside Abandon. You will be taken to Oblivion. Additionally, crafted weapons have no effect on the creatures - only weapons known as Fragments can harm them. These weapons manifest differently based on who the user's soul was in life. All souls have the potential to gain a Fragment, but only those deemed capable of wielding it responsibly have theirs activated. The activation is done by injecting the body with a drug that only very high ranking League members have access to.
While there is a currency system active in Abandon - Kol - there is a very large gap in the legal market, and naturally, a Black Market soon came into existence. Traders of this market do not accept Kol. They only deal in positive Karma. The Black Market is used as a way for criminals with negative karma to quickly return their karma to positive levels before the Reaping, without having to do hard work, only having to sell a hard to obtain item to a desperate customer. Nearly half of the competitors in each Arena are people who accidentally spent too much Karma on the black market. Since there is no official ranking board, there is no real way to tell if you will be entered into the Arena. You just have to hope your karma is high enough. There is also know way of knowing one's own karma value, they can only keep track of a rough estimate based on the likely positive or negative values of certain actions.
The average street in a city center looks like:
and in the outskirts, more like:
CS:
While creating a CS, keep in mind how they would react to waking up in a hospital bed in this world, only a few hours after dieing in their own world. They may also come from any universe. Some universes may have had magic, some may have been under the rule of a Star-wars like empire. Same goes for time. It's not unheard of for a 500 BCE Egyptian to wake up with a 4000 ACE Space Pilot in the next bed over. However, only creatures with souls get sent to Abandon. No animals exist here other than what are genetically created by cloning and editing the DNA of a sentient who arrives here. Same goes for plants. No cavemen would be here either. Anything before the development of language would be unlikely to turn up. Anything that would have been bigger than 8 ft tall would have been scaled down upon arriving, for convenience. Feel free to create multiple characters, too. Please note, if a soul dies inside Abandon, it will reincarnate as a child, since it has no where to go but back to Abandon. The first arrival here is the only time where you wake up at your death age. The rebirth process may place one in a different race and occasionally even a different gender to your previous one, though these can be altered (for a hefty price) by genetic engineers.
Name:
Appearance: (Anime or descriptions more appreciated than photo or realistic drawing, but anything is fine.)
Age: (relative to human, IE an elf may be 300, but be 30 human years old.)
Race: (If you create a new one or one that has features not common to the usual considered thing (IE, an Elf that's got really good physical resistance) then a few details in a spoiler is appreciated.)
Gender:
Number of rebirths spent in Abandon: (How many times have they reincarnated inside Abandon? Does not include first death, only deaths had inside Abandon.)
Clarity of memories from first life: (How well do they remember the one life they spent outside of Abandon? Do they still identify it as part of their own past?)
Potential Fragment: (If they were to activate their fragment, what form would it take? Note: Guns are very very rare. Nobody knows why ranged weapons are so rare. Some people suspect it is the soul automatically activating a safety mechanism to prevent the user from firing off too much of it's soul as bullets or arrows.)
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