Paradise City is a universe unto itself: data, people, ideas and technology all colliding together and expanding, driven by a lust for innovation that would never be sated. Its bright towers and hidden depths belie description or understanding. Hundreds of meters above the benighted streets, personal transport vehicles fly in orderly rows or hover in clusters beneath massive public transit barges, passing between the buildings like schools of fish in a cave festooned with bioluminescent cyber-corals.
But the data - the data is life. It is what makes everything possible and is the true currency in this universe of speed and technology. The data is what you see when you stand on the rooftops and gaze across this digital universe. It’s what everyone sees, really, but not like you. You’re among the best.
Even now, as you stand at that edge, scrying across the net and taking in the view without really seeing it, you can still feel the chest-rumbling passage of a huge cruiser as it flies by. It’s anti-grav engines momentarily obscure the loud, electronic music of the club beneath you and when you finally get a glimpse of that last sliver of data you were looking for it sends a rush of synthetic adrenaline through your enhanced physiology.
When you leave that balcony and turn to your friends gathered behind you, there is something like a cybernetic feedback as you sense their shared knowledge of your discovery. It is amazing and celebratory, like the effect of a true analog drug.
With that last bit of data - that final coordinate - you have what you need. It’s time to pull off the greatest heist anyone has ever imagined.
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Malception
Started 01/03/21.
Scenes played: 5
License: Community License
18+
