by Mikkel Berget | Feb 15, 2015 | Recursions
New-Tokio 2034 New-Tokio is a large futuristic metropolis with almost 50 mio. inhabitants run by three mega corporations simply known as the Monoliths. Mifune Environmental, Gijutsu Ryu and Roberts and Roberts (R&R) were instrumental in rebuilding the city after it was devastated in 1980 by a cataclysmic explosion that destroyed most of Tokio leaving it a toxic wasteland. Mifune Environmental provided toxic clean up and medical assistance, Gijutsu Ryus remote controlled machines cleared most of the rubble and rebuilt the city while R&R supplied the security and man power required to keep the city from anarky. The Monoliths also supplied the funds to keep the city running and in return they were each given control over a part of the new city. Each Monolith built a giant skyscraper in the middle of their territory to remind everyone of what they did for the city and to remind them that they are in control in that area. The skyscrapers are at least 50 floors taller than the other high rises in New Tokio and can be seen from any part of the city. The city council consist of two members from each Monoliths and a representative from the city though most important decisions are made by the chairmen or boards of the Monoliths. In mutual agreement the Monoliths have allowed the city to run the major utilities like power, water, gas and the web to prevent the inevitable power struggles over these to plunge the city into chaos. The city also runs a small overworked police force, who are constantly at odds with the private security forces of the Monoliths...
by Mikkel Berget | Feb 11, 2015 | Recursions
The Trenches is basically a long narrow muddy battlefield stretching on for miles. The battlefield consists of a no man’s land with a labyrinth of trenches dug in the mud.on either side. Two seemingly identical armies looks to have fought each other over this land for years but have now dissappeared. The trenches are dotted with machine gun nests, mortar positions, radio positions, shelters and small dugouts reserved mainly for the senior officers. All weapons are functional and everything looks like it was abandoned just the day before. No man’s land is riddled with barbed wire, grenade holes and mine fields making traversing the mud very slow and dangerous. At the middle and in very back of each trench lies each armys head quarters. Each is a large building filled with maps, simple radio rooms, sick bays, crude surgical theaters and quarters for generals and similar higher ups. Large fields of beautiful pristine red poppies line the far outskirts of the recursion and provide the only vivid color in the recursion.. Singular poppies may appear in the middle of no man’s land and it is said that if these can be found and harvested they have almost miraculous abilities. Weather is constantly poor and cold keeping the mud wet and clammy. You can never clearly see the Sun as it is always obscured by rain or thick cold wet fog. Sometimes the fog brings with it green toxic gas rolling in slowly, injuring or killing anyone caught without gas masks. Some of the trenches are haunted by the ghosts of the dead, roaming around with some unknown...
