by Ronald | Mar 3, 2015 | Recursions
Crime City is an amalgmation of various cities where street level costumed crime fighters battle against equally garish villlains. It seems to be a city in an unspecified part of the East Coast. It doesn’t even seem to have a proper name, inhabitants generally just call it “The City”. It is created by fictional leakage. Specifically it embodies the tropes of the “masked avenger” crime fighting genre. As a result the technolgical level also seems a mix of eras from the 1930’s to the modern era. Cars from the 40s and 50s prowl the streets where pedestrians chat on cell phones. The architecture is very art Deco but some buildings are ultra-modern. The City is the entire recursion. Most of the citizens talk as if it is part of The USA, but eventually every road dead ends, trying to leave the city by boat results in getting turned around in the fog (though many ships just disappear and re-appear) and there is nothing beyond the city itself. Though the reality creates the illusion of being part of a larger nation. There is an FBI field office that will occasionally get orders from Washington, for instance. Crime is an everyday part of life in The City. Kidnappings, bank robberies and worse seem to be an almost every day part of life. The police force and DA’s office are corrupt, though occasionally a lone cop or official will try to clean it up. The situation is ameliorated by the presence of costumed vigilantes. Masked mystery men who, often because crime has touched their lives somehow, choose to put on a mask...
by Keith Garrett | Feb 20, 2015 | Recursions
The land was once completely green, from one edge of the world to the other. To the plants who lived there it was paradise, from the simplest blade of grass to the smartest walking tree. Water and soil were plentiful, and everyone coexisted peacefully—shrubs, trees, cacti, everyone. Almost a year ago, something changed. Temperatures started to rise at the far edges of the world. Water dried, and grasslands gradually devolved into desert. None of the plants knew why it was happening, but they did know one thing: the habitable world was shrinking. Now this recursion contains a single patch of temperate land, a last oasis surrounded by vast deserts. The animate plant inhabitants—who call themselves the Uprooted—vie with each other over the increasingly small supply of water and fertile soil. Uprooted Racial Options Recursors visiting the Last Oasis can choose to become one of the Uprooted, the sentient plant-based beings who live here. The Uprooted are the product of fictional leakage, originating from stories featuring intelligent, animate, talking plants. As such, the Uprooted have a few humanoid features incorporated into their vegetable bodies, including faces, branchy arms, and legs formed from roots. In other words, they can walk and talk, and might be offended if a human were to seem surprised at these facts. Several species of Uprooted live here, though they all possess certain common features. The Uprooted don’t need to eat, but do need water and sunlight, and they must spend about a third of each day with their roots planted in fertile soil. (Days and nights in the Last Oasis are similar to Earth’s.) Going...
by Jesse Lehto | Feb 8, 2015 | Recursions
The Mon World was created by fictional leakage from popular genre of monster collecting and battling cartoons and video games. Recursion has appearance similar to modern Earth, but it doesn’t share the geography and locations. Everyone is born with personal “Companion”, a creature with telepathic link and bond to their master and unique strange powers. These creatures are used to help with many daily tasks, but most popular purpose for them is sport called monster battling. Monster Battling is as simple as the name implies: People fight each other with their Companions until other Companions are forced to return to their masters. This sport is only sport people of the recursion practice and every sparkless inhabitant is downright obsessed with it. When the annual tournament is held in Central City, all inhabitants of recursion gather to spectate or participate. Besides humans and companions, areas outside cities and towns are populated by wild “monsters”, monster being term for all other beings regardless of their appearance. The monsters have variety of different appearances and they are often categorized by elements or what type of creature they are. Monsters never go near populated areas, but they tend to attack people in wilderness. Some monster battlers’ companions specialize on recruiting and controlling monsters. Defeated monsters don’t die, they fade away only to reappear later longtime afterwards. Disturbingly, some of monsters look like cuter version of creatures from other recursions. As majority of fictional material that leaked into this recursion was from children’s media, this recursion has some bizarre illogical consistencies. For example: Lot of technologies that work under laws of standard physics don’t...
