Teaser
La Cage is a horrible place most people try to escape from - with the sewer people living on the very bottom of everything, literally. The people living there mostly want to forget their names and some of them do not really have them anymore. They are a colorful bunch - homeless folks with nowhere to go, people hiding from the upstairs world, young persons on the run from their families, nearly forgotten service people, or even some with no recollection of how they got there. But they make end means somehow, digging through trash, going with the flow, living in the shadows. The lowlifes at the bottom of the barrel. They have been toughened by all the punches that life has dealt them and have very little to lose. And some of them are maybe even… happy here?
The sewer people will live in the cellar of the building in a cleaned-up but still dark room.
Characters
Teaser: Themes: amnesia, finding your place, catching up with history
There are places where people want to forget their names - or they do not really have them anymore. La Cage is a horrible place most people try to escape from - with the sewer people living at the very bottom of everything, literally.
But that also makes the sewer people quite protective. It's not clear how long Blue has been in La Cage (hours? days? weeks?), but the sewer people really took to them and will try to introduce them to the wider La Cage society and, well, try to keep them. And why Blue, which is very obviously not a name?
Well, first, there is this very distinctive blue scarf Blue came with. Second, they tend to get VERY melancholic. Third, the colour of their vomit and skin after the horrible, horrible binge that led them to the sewers.
Factions:
Sewer People
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Finders
Teaser: Themes: philosophy, drugs, acceptance, mentorship
Most people in the sewers just can’t live elsewhere. Be it because of handicaps, problematic illnesses, financial problems or just the need to lay low for a while. But Casey doesn’t really care; they are here voluntarily. The sewers are remote enough and dirty enough that the chances of anyone stumbling upon their meth lab are rather small. So they got enough peace for their experimental creation of real primo shit: and the day-to-day boring stuff they need to make. And what is more, their mind is flourishing in the sewers. When not cooking up some substances, Casey usually meditates or has too long conversations with anybody with time to spare. Some would say they are on the quest for truth; some would proclaim them utterly mad. Casey doesn’t really care. But their presence is starting to make the sewer folk's reputation even worse. Will the peace they searched for soon be disturbed?
Factions:
Sewer People
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Druggies
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The Hardcore underground scene
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Church of La Cage
Teaser: Themes: trauma and anguish, helping and manipulation, blackmail
Hope is, of course, not their real name - or most likely not. They were the first person who came into La Cage and headed straight to the cellars and sewers. Instead of trying to make out some sort of living in the rooms and halls of the old hospital, they established their own little domain in the dark places and set the rules of the underground. And from there, they can sometimes help with problems that don't belong in the daylight - from plumbing to obtaining documentation. Hope made themselves the ruler of the cellars, indispensable to many, hated by most and shunned by nearly everyone. They, too, naturally have their sensitive, human side. And their own problems, among others, pyrrolidone addiction. But in the harsh conditions of the sewers, it is harder and harder not to let their empathy become a victim of their extreme survival instincts.
Factions:
Sewer People
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The People's Pile disaster support group
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Anarchists
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Gamblers Den
Teaser: Themes: old war stories, espionage, trauma, delusions, memory problems
They were born in '84 in Graad, but their father was from Revachol. They got married to an engineer from Graad whom they murdered ten years later. But why? Buttle was in jail for 30 years for this crime. Or? No, no, no… that’s not the story. They were actually born in Revachol, but their mother was from Graad. They were hired by the Revachol secret services and sent to Graad, where they got married to a Graadian engineer whom they eventually murdered by order of their superior to prevent Graad from developing a deadly new secret technology their spouse was working on. They managed to hide their link with the secret services and were imprisoned for murder, and not for treason and espionage (that could have led to the death row). Probably, the details are muddy. Whatever the real story is, after Buttle got out of jail, the absurd Graadian administration sent them to Revachol, a place they’ve maybe never even been to… They now live in the sewers, always blabbering that they are a war hero who saved millions of lives and deserves a medal.
Factions:
Sewer People
,
The Mold Conspiracy
,
Contemplatory bookclub
Teaser: Themes: anger, shame, family drama, survival, self-esteem
Reine was the troublemaker of the family. But they are probably not that any longer since they ran away a while ago and decided to find their own luck in the shadier levels of La Cage. The Gessle family was broken by the sweatshop accident caused by migrant workers - and Reine just split and decided to break the family bonds, at least for some time. Now Reine spends time with their drill slam posse, releasing their anger and slowly upping their game. But living on the streets and in the sewers somehow isn’t as lit as they make it sound. The struggle for survival is endless and tiring, friendships are superficial or for the weak, and the comfort of their family is still just a few floors away. But maybe they just have to start at the bottom and see where they will get from there.
Factions:
Sewer People
,
Fight Club
,
Drill: South Side Crew
,
The Hardcore underground scene
