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Summer Travels Week 5: Bioshock!
Warning: Image Heavy Post
Just when you dried off and thought everything was safe, it's back into weirdness we go! We'll be leaving talking puppies and general normalcy (on a scale of Fandom, anyway) behind and going down, down, down into the deep blue sea. That's right y'all, this time Fandom isn't an island but an entire underwater city. Let's head down to where it's always 1959, the underwater capitalist dystopian city of...RAPTURE!
Taken from the same BDE as the Capital Wasteland, it follows the same general idea. Rather than people going to Rapture, Rapture is merging with Fandom Island for the week. This is the most intense week yet, because the danger isn't across the Causeway anymore. It's right there in the city with you.
The Canon
Rapture is what happens when Elon Musk reads waaay too much Ayn Rand and decides he can build an Objectivist Utopia beneath the waves. In 1946, Andrew Ryan invited people to come live in the underwater city of Rapture, where capitalism and art deco reign supreme. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88DViR2Al4) It was a city without religion, without politics, without social safety networks, where the pursuit of profit was the be-all end all goal of society.
Shockingly, this didn't work out so well. I know, who could have foreseen this?
With cracks already forming in the society between those who were wealthy and those who were not (charmingly called 'Parasites'), a new product was introduced to the citizenry: plasmids. Plasmids were a special serum of a newly discovered chemical substance called ADAM, which, when mixed an actuating chemical named EVE, allowed users to make changes to their genetic codes at will. Wanted to fly? Wanted super-strength? Wanted pyrokinesis, cryrokinesis, or telekinesis? All of those were possible with plasmids.
This might not have been so bad if ADAM wasn't addictive. Highly addictive. Use it once and people were hankering for more, both physically and mentally - because who wanted to go back to being a regular person after gaining the ability to shoot lightning?
Between the growing civil unrest and upsurge in need for ADAM to placate the addicted population, a bloody civil war broke out New Year's Eve, 1958, raging all over the city. Plasmids were used heavily by both sides, fueling the violence further as it led to a cycle of need, deprivation, and warfare. The bloodshed lasted for about four months, resulting in the general destruction of the city. By the end of it, most of the population were ADAM-addicted Splicers, driven insane by the chemicals and the brutality of the war. The rest of the population had died from violence or starvation.
At this point, Rapture is falling apart. Water constantly leaks in virtually every corner, and Splicers roam about the passageways looting or killing everything in sight. Automated repair systems and beings called Big Daddies do their best to repair broken sections, especially ones that would lead to a catastrophic rupture in the glass, but it's a losing battle.
The Town
Nicer parts of the city do exist still. Or rather, they do now that Fandom has arrived. Tucked away in its own little corner, Rapture has expanded to include a new neighborhood: Fandomtown. Just follow the sign and you can't miss it.
Much like with the flood, it's up to you how flooded your home or business is. Some places are perfectly fine. Others...aren't, so much.
Whole swathes of the island are missing. There's no beach, no preserve, no Selkie Peak. There are some stairways left, because there will always be stairways, but even the castle is diminished. What is left are the buildings, the people, the sections of the island that are wholly human-made. There's still a park, but it's just a small block of greenery and a playground. Still restaurants, though they're picked over pretty well. It's been awhile since there were regular deliveries, after all. Still dorms and houses and businesses and yeah, even a junk yard.
Outside of Fandomtown, you're welcome to visit other locations around Rapture.
While the decor might have changed (and the structural integrity), most places will remain as they are in normal Fandom. This is a place meant for people to live and it hasn't been abandoned for that long. In fact...it really hasn't been abandoned at all.
There are still Splicers and they have free run of Rapture, including Fandomtown. You can turn any corner and see them, bodies twisted and mutilated, wearing almost featureless masks from the New Year's Eve celebrations. Most of them are quite mad and will attack viciously until they're beaten down. Some think they're...artists... (CW: disturbing imagery) and are looking for new subjects to work into their pieces. There's no set places where you could run into a Splicer; they're people and people are everywhere. But like I will say every week it's relevant, violence is opt-in only. You are perfectly free to spend the week successfully dodging Splicers. If you'd like, this week can be no different than many others, except you're in an underwater dome with limited space to visit. Places that have anti-violence spells or effects (Caritas, the dorms) keep those in effect for the duration.
Beyond Splicers, you might also run into Little Sisters, small girls who have been genetically modified to reclaim ADAM from the bodies around Rapture. They're often followed by Big Daddies, their protectors who have been genetically enhanced and then their bodies grafted to old-fashioned metal diving suits. It's not smart to mess with a Little Sister, but plenty of people try. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKzyDUwgf8 CW: needles, blood, violence, and "drug use" as simulated through Plasmids).
Speaking of Plasmids, there are still Plasmid stations around and they are available for people to use. By people, I mean you! They're pretty much free for the taking and come with all sorts of neat powers! (Does the Bee Lady have Insect Swarm Plasmids? Yes. Yes she does.) Of course, extended use can possibly turn you into a Splicer, complete with the possible physical abnormalities listed on the Splicer page, but...it's only a week, right? What can it hurt?
(Plasmid use/addiction/side effects are free to play with as you wish. Or don't wish. However, please be courteous and slap warnings on your posts if they're going to deal with that kind of RP. While playing with powers from Plasmids is fine anywhere (you wanna go flying through the park, have fun!), posts about actually injecting Plasmids or dealing with the consequences go in personal journals only, please. Treat them like drug use and all that entails. Please remember we have guidelines for posts about sensitive topics, which this falls under.)
Dates: June 10 - June 16
State of the Causeway: On! Sorta. It's actually a bathysphere that leads up and out of Rapture and to the closest city: 1960s Reykjavik. So that's fun. Portals are also available, too.
Available AUs: While you cannot AU a named character (no Andrew Ryans, no Fontaines, no Sophia Lambs), you're free to become any random character type you want. Be a splicer and spend the week attacking your friends! Be a Little Sister or a Big Daddy! Be a...okay, that's kind of the gamut of people you can be, but feel free to be any of those.
If you have further questions about the world or the canon, please check out the Bioshock Wiki and the Wikipedia article. Also, my Pinterest board and this great website are available for more atomospheric gifs and images if you want something to spark your interest. Spoilers pretty much everywhere.
Just when you dried off and thought everything was safe, it's back into weirdness we go! We'll be leaving talking puppies and general normalcy (on a scale of Fandom, anyway) behind and going down, down, down into the deep blue sea. That's right y'all, this time Fandom isn't an island but an entire underwater city. Let's head down to where it's always 1959, the underwater capitalist dystopian city of...RAPTURE!
Taken from the same BDE as the Capital Wasteland, it follows the same general idea. Rather than people going to Rapture, Rapture is merging with Fandom Island for the week. This is the most intense week yet, because the danger isn't across the Causeway anymore. It's right there in the city with you.
The Canon
Rapture is what happens when Elon Musk reads waaay too much Ayn Rand and decides he can build an Objectivist Utopia beneath the waves. In 1946, Andrew Ryan invited people to come live in the underwater city of Rapture, where capitalism and art deco reign supreme. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88DViR2Al4) It was a city without religion, without politics, without social safety networks, where the pursuit of profit was the be-all end all goal of society.
Shockingly, this didn't work out so well. I know, who could have foreseen this?
With cracks already forming in the society between those who were wealthy and those who were not (charmingly called 'Parasites'), a new product was introduced to the citizenry: plasmids. Plasmids were a special serum of a newly discovered chemical substance called ADAM, which, when mixed an actuating chemical named EVE, allowed users to make changes to their genetic codes at will. Wanted to fly? Wanted super-strength? Wanted pyrokinesis, cryrokinesis, or telekinesis? All of those were possible with plasmids.
This might not have been so bad if ADAM wasn't addictive. Highly addictive. Use it once and people were hankering for more, both physically and mentally - because who wanted to go back to being a regular person after gaining the ability to shoot lightning?
Between the growing civil unrest and upsurge in need for ADAM to placate the addicted population, a bloody civil war broke out New Year's Eve, 1958, raging all over the city. Plasmids were used heavily by both sides, fueling the violence further as it led to a cycle of need, deprivation, and warfare. The bloodshed lasted for about four months, resulting in the general destruction of the city. By the end of it, most of the population were ADAM-addicted Splicers, driven insane by the chemicals and the brutality of the war. The rest of the population had died from violence or starvation.
At this point, Rapture is falling apart. Water constantly leaks in virtually every corner, and Splicers roam about the passageways looting or killing everything in sight. Automated repair systems and beings called Big Daddies do their best to repair broken sections, especially ones that would lead to a catastrophic rupture in the glass, but it's a losing battle.
The Town
Nicer parts of the city do exist still. Or rather, they do now that Fandom has arrived. Tucked away in its own little corner, Rapture has expanded to include a new neighborhood: Fandomtown. Just follow the sign and you can't miss it.
Much like with the flood, it's up to you how flooded your home or business is. Some places are perfectly fine. Others...aren't, so much.
Whole swathes of the island are missing. There's no beach, no preserve, no Selkie Peak. There are some stairways left, because there will always be stairways, but even the castle is diminished. What is left are the buildings, the people, the sections of the island that are wholly human-made. There's still a park, but it's just a small block of greenery and a playground. Still restaurants, though they're picked over pretty well. It's been awhile since there were regular deliveries, after all. Still dorms and houses and businesses and yeah, even a junk yard.
Outside of Fandomtown, you're welcome to visit other locations around Rapture.
While the decor might have changed (and the structural integrity), most places will remain as they are in normal Fandom. This is a place meant for people to live and it hasn't been abandoned for that long. In fact...it really hasn't been abandoned at all.
There are still Splicers and they have free run of Rapture, including Fandomtown. You can turn any corner and see them, bodies twisted and mutilated, wearing almost featureless masks from the New Year's Eve celebrations. Most of them are quite mad and will attack viciously until they're beaten down. Some think they're...artists... (CW: disturbing imagery) and are looking for new subjects to work into their pieces. There's no set places where you could run into a Splicer; they're people and people are everywhere. But like I will say every week it's relevant, violence is opt-in only. You are perfectly free to spend the week successfully dodging Splicers. If you'd like, this week can be no different than many others, except you're in an underwater dome with limited space to visit. Places that have anti-violence spells or effects (Caritas, the dorms) keep those in effect for the duration.
Beyond Splicers, you might also run into Little Sisters, small girls who have been genetically modified to reclaim ADAM from the bodies around Rapture. They're often followed by Big Daddies, their protectors who have been genetically enhanced and then their bodies grafted to old-fashioned metal diving suits. It's not smart to mess with a Little Sister, but plenty of people try. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKzyDUwgf8 CW: needles, blood, violence, and "drug use" as simulated through Plasmids).
Speaking of Plasmids, there are still Plasmid stations around and they are available for people to use. By people, I mean you! They're pretty much free for the taking and come with all sorts of neat powers! (Does the Bee Lady have Insect Swarm Plasmids? Yes. Yes she does.) Of course, extended use can possibly turn you into a Splicer, complete with the possible physical abnormalities listed on the Splicer page, but...it's only a week, right? What can it hurt?
(Plasmid use/addiction/side effects are free to play with as you wish. Or don't wish. However, please be courteous and slap warnings on your posts if they're going to deal with that kind of RP. While playing with powers from Plasmids is fine anywhere (you wanna go flying through the park, have fun!), posts about actually injecting Plasmids or dealing with the consequences go in personal journals only, please. Treat them like drug use and all that entails. Please remember we have guidelines for posts about sensitive topics, which this falls under.)
Dates: June 10 - June 16
State of the Causeway: On! Sorta. It's actually a bathysphere that leads up and out of Rapture and to the closest city: 1960s Reykjavik. So that's fun. Portals are also available, too.
Available AUs: While you cannot AU a named character (no Andrew Ryans, no Fontaines, no Sophia Lambs), you're free to become any random character type you want. Be a splicer and spend the week attacking your friends! Be a Little Sister or a Big Daddy! Be a...okay, that's kind of the gamut of people you can be, but feel free to be any of those.
If you have further questions about the world or the canon, please check out the Bioshock Wiki and the Wikipedia article. Also, my Pinterest board and this great website are available for more atomospheric gifs and images if you want something to spark your interest. Spoilers pretty much everywhere.
I Have A Question!
However! I am about to flee off to the woods again and this is the one campsite that I don't have service at. So if you have questions, my partners-in-crime Len and Kimera can answer if they feel up to it, or you will have to wait until Sunday afternoon to get them.
(Possibly Saturday night if I make it up the GIANT HILL to where service might be.)
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