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Not to be confused with Underburg. Believe me, you don’t want to mix them up.
Nothing could be further from the idyllic, beautiful, pleasant hellscape of
suburban America. I don’t understand why anyone would want to live there. I
grew up in a town like that, back before the arcologies. It might look nice in
old movies and TV shows, but I was miserable. Ravensgate is a real city. It’s
full of violence, crime, and the champions that serve as the only protection
against these terrible forces. Choose your own adventure. Are you a hero, or a
villain? I know this sounds like an ad, and it is. This is the entire reason I
came to this planet. My friend casted first, and wrote back with tales of his
exploits. He knew that I would like the Underbelly dome. I read all the comic
books, and saw all the adaptations. I know what makes for a good superhero
story, and I’ve always wanted to be a part of that. It’s funny, back in the
day, all these superpowers were fictional. They seemed impossible. The
strength of ten men, the speed of a train; normal humans could only dream of
such fantastical abilities. And then, as technology progressed, we actually
started being able to make them a reality. Nanotechnology alone gives us
shapeshifting, invisibility, onboard weaponry, and more. Some things are still
off limits, and if you want to have those gifts, you’re gonna need to log in
to a virtual world. Flight is impossible. Well, it’s not impossible, but the
Superman or Homelander kind is totally off limits. It breaks the laws of
physics. A lot of comics have magic, and you can’t do that stuff either. You
can’t just turn someone into a frog, or something. Street level heroing
is what they call it. You fight bad guys, and help the innocent. Most of them
are androids, but they’re as lifelike as any, so it’s easy to forget that, and
feel genuine anger towards the former, and empathy for the latter. But I
should probably go back to the beginning, because you’re not assigned the
powers you end up with. You choose them yourself. But you don’t get to just
select from a menu, and upload into your new substrate. No, you gotta design
it yourself. You choose the physical attributes of the body. Are you visibly
muscular, or are you secretly superhumanly strong? What hair color, eye color,
nose shape? You choose it all, and you have to work through the design program
to make it look how you want. They don’t give you any ideas about what kind of
powers to include either. That’s all you too. You’re only limited to the
technology available in the 26th century. You also design your own backstory,
which might be decades in the past, or more recent. Maybe you’re a kid who’s
just discovered his powers after reaching puberty, or you fell in a vat of
acid during a university science experiment. Or you don’t have powers at all,
and your character had to invent everything themselves. It’s up to you, but
the more complex and complicated the scenario, the longer it’s going to take
before you can get out there. I could write a book on this, but you really
just have to come try it. You don’t even have to be a hero or villain. You can
just be a regular person, trying to survive in the metropolis. Again, this is
all you. Right now, it’s just Northwest Ravensgate and Southeast Ravensgate,
separated by a river, but they’ve left the nearby domes unused in case this
gets to be so popular that it has to expand into new cities. There’s a reason
the dome and city aren’t named the same thing. We could really build something
here. It may not be real, per se, but if you open your mind, it can be just as
exciting as anything else in base reality. This only gets better with more
visitors. We can’t do it without ya.
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