Project Terra Mortis: Clustertowns
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[Transmission from: Mitch: Project Terra Mortis]
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Well waddaya know. I got my wristview working. My connection to ASN is stable but the network tends to reboot every now and again. It’s a good thing they made it self-sufficient cuz there’s not a helluva lotta Applesoft employees around these days. My guess would be none, haha!
Y’all might have gotten the impression that I was like all alone in this city. But that’s far from the truth. Although survivors of the plague are pretty fragmented there’s quite a few of us out here. We live in small settlements all over the place called Clustertowns. Usually that would be a gated city-block or a big fenced-off farm where people come together for shelter and trade. Some towns have grown pretty big.
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Most Clustertowns have a large building in the center surrounded by tents and shacks stretching outwards toward the edges. Sorta like an old marketplace, only people tend to live in their stalls.
Each Clustertown has it’s own set of laws and ways to enforce those laws. But mostly it’s a live and let live kinda thing. It figures that only after a fucking apocalypse people get the right idea about living together. Petty stuff like racism and religion hate hardly has meaning anymore. If ya ain’t a rotface, yer ok. In most cases that is.
The biggest Clustertown here in the U.S.E. [EDD translate clarify: United Sectors of Europe] is called Anarchos. It’s in Germany near what is left of New Berlin. I’ve only been there once but it’s like Las Vegas on liquid cocaine. Some crazy-ass shit goin’on out there.
Hookers, gambling, drugs, more food and decadence then anywhere else in the whole fucking US of E.
And of course there’s the rotface cage fights. People come from all over to watch those. I mean seriously, watching rotfaces get smashed to shit by sexy girls in mobile-armor suits is a good way to vent some anger ya know? Fun for the whole family eh ? Haha!
Anarchos is lit up like a Christmas tree though and cuz of that is like a cannibal fucking magnet. Ya can’t get close without an armed escort and ya can’t get in without enough cash. And these days union dollars won’t do either. Ya gotta have clusterchips or something else of value to trade for chips. That’s why it’s mostly the elite of the clustertowns that go there. They blow of some steam and get laid and whatnot. I got in once, back when I was doing some freelance bodyguard work for some folks from England. That gig didn’t really last too long after I got two clients eaten. Ah well, can’t win ‘em all.
Anyhoot I’m getting sidetracked again.
Doc asked me to give you guys some insight into how my world got so fucked up in the first place. Now I ain’t no scholar or anything like that but imma write down all I know and post it soon. So keep an eye out. I’m off to fetch me some food now.
See ya!
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