Player: Gray Pelstring

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Themes: helping people, parenthood, death, drugs

Charlie is one of the best-known people in Revachol. They went to a fancy medical school and became a very skilled doctor. While they could’ve raked in money in any other place, they decided to come back to Revachol to help run the clinic. Charlie never let the poor pay a lot and lived a very simple life. They were repaid with love from the community. Almost everyone has been helped at least once by Charlie.
At least, that is how it looks from the outside. And Charlie is very, very intent on letting the sleeping dogs lie. Nobody is complaining too much: Charlie's practice in La Cage is one of the last reasons people come around and bring in some cash.

Factions: Apartment Block B , Druggies , Petanque Club , Church of La Cage

Player: Tomasz Warzocha

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Themes: mortality, racism, legacy

Everything ends. Now, Placide's life, too, is inching towards its end every day, even though they are not really looking forward to accepting it.
La Cage is their whole life. Placide built and repaired it four times with their own hands, always making it better than before. They were there when the place first became a hospital, and they were there when it stopped being a hospital. It was Placide who went ahead and managed to build a bar inside the hospital. A bar! Nobody believed in it back then, and now it is one of the staples of the place. Placide did this, and Placide even made some money from it all.
But, while La Cage can be rebuilt and repurposed, it's starting to seem that Placide can’t. Very soon, they will need somebody to take care of them - and of the establishment they created. While life dedicated to the bar brings a lot of acquaintances of various flavours and smells, it brings very little family. In its place, Placide only has old friends, youngsters who look up to them and most importantly, lots of people trying to steal what Placide and other good, local-born Revacholians have built.

Factions: Apartment Block B , Druggies

Player: Yaroslav Kopotilov

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Themes: rituals, drugs, art, therapy

Olly is fascinated by the natural world—all its tastes, senses, mysteries, conflicts, bright colours and dimmed lights, cool breezes and hot air. First, they tried to convey all of it through paintings, sculptures, and other media, but then they met chemistry and a few cooks, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or it could be one day.
Olly is not in the business of cooking drugs in any great quantities. Nothing like that. Olly and their posse experiment in many fields, but the most important one is designer drugs, carefully crafted for the individual experience, with the effect desired by the client. At least, that is Olly's long-term plan. For now, what they have are some ideas and prototypes that need testing.

Factions: Apartment Block B , Druggies , The Hardcore underground scene , Experimental Drug Therapy

Player: Nikola Kunzová

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Themes: meaning of love, believing in the ephemeral

Niko is a complicated one. In the past, they seem to have been extremely wealthy, at least judging from the older layers of their clothing. But bygones are bygones, and Niko is now a changed person: chaotic, mercurial, often angry, and prone to fits of violence in their very weird way. It's not that Niko hates the world; quite on the contrary, they love and accept everything in it. Including the highs, the lows, the closeness of love, the pain of fighting, and the glory of victory. Niko lives every second to the full, and that makes living with them very, very hard for everybody else. But as long as they provide both their wonderful art (miniatures) and, more importantly, they contribute to the designer drug thing, they are welcome.

Factions: Apartment Block B , Druggies , Polyamorous Paranormal Pursuers , Experimental Drug Therapy

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Themes: racism, capitalism, cursed genius, lack of social skills

Andy is the brilliant one. The exceptional, talented, protected, yet gloomy sibling of the Maier clan is always one step ahead when it comes to planning business strategies and crushing competitors. Most importantly, Andy is also a designer, bringing a solid second stream of revenue into their pockets.
Andy advises Tylor, the leader of the family company - because for Andy, in their right mind, life is like a very straightforward board game. It is just a question of planning enough moves ahead, and the numbers are _simple_. But dealing with their own relationships, feelings, and inner demons is a whole different ball game. Not to mention the substances Andy uses to quiet the voices in their head…

Factions: Apartment Block A , Druggies , Addicts Anonymous , The Hardcore underground scene

Player: Daniel Porter

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Themes: too trusting, burned bridges, radicalisation, distant responsibilities

When growing up, Ira was quite famous around the neighbourhood for being a bit too... softhearted. Naive. The target of quite a few pranks. Good friend, but never anyone's choice for a life partner. When the opportunity presented itself to the three Verhoog children (Kit, Ira, and Billie) to leave La Cage using the money earned through their family pawnshop, Ira didn’t hesitate. They left and maintained only sparse communication with the old gang, slowly transforming themselves. Ira managed to get a respectable job in insurance and finance and even start their own family. But all that came to a halt when their parent started having health issues. Ira spent more and more time in La Cage in the past year while the gap between them and their new life grew. And being sandwiched between a job, a new family, and caring for their parent, Ira had to find new ways to boost their energy.

Factions: Addicts Anonymous , Apartment Block A , Druggies , Iron Cadence

Player: Denis K

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Themes: crumbling family, arrogance, manipulation and persuasion, substance abuse

Matija is suffering and trying not to show it. They were once the head of a family, the one carrying their family's honour through the turmoil of in-fighting and posturing in the Yugo-Graad criminal underworld and now they’re… nothing. Just a barfly soaked in vodka, getting worked up about politics and how they were screwed by “the system”. Before their child-in-law, Luka joined the family, Matija had thought everything was lost. That it had been lost long ago when their youngest child was taken down in a flurry of bullets in a deal gone bad back in the old country, and their spouse, Valja, insisted they leave with little more than the clothes on their backs. But Luka, quiet Zhenya’s keen spouse, saw Matija as they used to be. They have been Matija’s partner in a thousand deals and hustles in the past few years, and now they've brought a prime opportunity, something to get the Krots back on top – if only Matija could get the anxious Zhenya and the lazy Sasha on board, not to mention Valja, who has been distant for years now. Matija wants what every parent wants: for their children to make something of themselves, for the Krot name to be synonymous with a family that does what they want, when they want, and doesn’t give a damn about the authorities, a family that lives life on their own terms and can rely on one another. If Matija can prove they’re a force to be reckoned with, will their family come together as imagined?

Factions: Immigrant Housing , Fight Club , Druggies , Addicts Anonymous

Player: Maja Neska

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Themes: ambition, god complex, being the “alpha”, hustler, abuse (perpetrator)

 

Luka’s family, the Bulyats, had been dirt-poor farmers back in Yugo-Graad. When Luka was still barely old enough to walk, they made the journey to Revachol, looking for a better life. They didn’t find it in La Cage. Instead, Luka grew up with a profound sense of disconnect, the knowledge that they had been stripped of their birthright, of an opportunity to experience the cutthroat Yugo-Graad underworld where they’re certain they would have made a name for themselves. The La Cage equivalent was just sad: little scams by little people for little payout. Nonetheless, Luka wanted to be a big fish even in this small pond: that’s why they idolised Matija, the former patriarch of a Yugo-Graad criminal clan. It’s also why they turned on the charm to get Matija’s child, Zhenya, to agree to marry them; it’s why they ditched the dirty farmer’s name to become a Krot, to be a member of a bloodline with promise. They know the name has power by how other people approach them for sex and favours, by how Luka has power over them. Everything Luka does is to get the Krots back on top, and they aren’t shy of doing some dirty work. Luka can feel the power running through their veins, especially with a bit of white powder, or after they’ve put Zhenya in their place. Can Luka get the Krots back on top and rule the La Cage underworld?

Factions: Immigrant Housing , Drill: North Wing Slammers , Fight Club , Druggies

Player: Fio Ivan Herrling

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Themes: (lack of) control, transferred affection, drive to get better, sibling rivalry

For ten years, Zhen was the only child of the Kims, the crown prince of a successful family. After ten years as an only child, Zhen’s parents adopted Nuri. Orphaned by the atrocities at Co Hoi, little Nuri had been spoiled rotten while Zhen could only watch from the sidelines. Their comfortable life couldn’t mask the sense of inadequacy that developed, but a little bump of cocaine could. Now, Zhen struggles to go more than a few hours without the precious white powder, and it only got worse after arriving in La Cage: the quality here is poor, and their finances are limited, so sometimes they trade family treasures or less savoury services to get what they need. Waiting for a Paledriver to smuggle the Kims away from the war in Safre, Zhen met someone who made them want to quit for the first time; finding out they had died on their way to safety almost destroyed Zhen but brought them to the Association for Rights of the Dead where they met someone new – and fell in love almost instantly. Zhen hates their reliance on something that used to be fun, something their inattentive parent, Dr. Tai, the esteemed addiction specialist, had always preached against. How can they get the help they need without having to admit the truth to their family or new love?

Factions: Immigrant Housing , Druggies , Association for the Rights of the Dead (ARD) , Finders

Player: Ats Meresmaa

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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 , Druggies , The Hardcore underground scene , Church of La Cage

Player: Jolana Vala

Factions: The Unseen , Addicts Anonymous , Druggies

Player: Betta

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Themes: bureaucratic red tape, slipping between the cracks, surrealism

Samy has been a Paledriver for… who even knows how long. And there may be a restriction on how long even Paledrivers should be out in that grey mist, that enemy of life, but Samy knows their employer isn’t the only one that forges travel records to squeeze the most out of their drivers. The years pile on Samy, sometimes like a warm cocoon swirling with colour and feeling, sometimes like a sky of black wings and needling rain. That last trip nearly killed them: 12 days at once was far too long, and their mind was half-gone already, lost in the voices from the mists; maybe that was why the aerostatic got stuck, why they ended up in Revachol instead of Gottwald. The Kims had been half-starved by the time Samy let them out of the cargo space, the apricots rotten. Only Samy’s substantial drug stash made it out unscathed, and now they need buyers just to keep a roof over their head. That and for someone to help them: their employer has no outpost in Insulinde, and Samy is stranded here, waiting who knows how long for some indication of what should happen next. Can they find their niche in La Cage? A place to write their sad little songs, accompanied by their trusty musical instrument?

Factions: Immigrant Housing , Druggies