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Post by Flare on Jun 10, 2021 15:57:10 GMT -6
What sort of government does our fair city run with?
Are there any laws in place besides no prejudice and all species are welcome (except unbonded draconics)? Ex; we have jobs pertaining to Sentinels and police but what do they uphold?
How about a city culture?
Are there any official crime syndicates in the city?
How big is our city on a general size?
We've got an old map from Darky's Dragonstones Event, is this our loose assumption on how the city is built? Map:
I understand our freeform 'this is here, this is there' setup of now, but since the city and its outskirts is our world and its not going to get bigger, I'm not the only one seeking a more defined setting and culture to work with. As for "We don't want to limit people's imaginations." Sure, that's fine. But at least give us SOMETHING? x.20
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Post by Silver on Jun 10, 2021 16:55:22 GMT -6
Note: This is info I've gathered/inferred over the years, not necessarily a be-all-end-all decision about stuff.
The city is a democracy, led by a council of elected officials. There's even a job to be a 'small time politician'! They also handle stuff like approving your city permits.
I mean, there's no official law book or anything, but we can assume that laws are similar to common ones in the real world. Don't steal, don't murder, don't hurt other people unnecessarily, pay your taxes (this is why you pay for a permit, haha!), don't let your creatures kill anyone... outside the pit, and so on. I also assume it's generally fine to carry, but not use, your weapons in public. There's also a few misc. laws about how to raise creatures - such as only breeding in the breeding center. Oh! and there's the implication that some of the items carried by certain shops were acquired questionably...
My assumption is that the labs provides the sentinels and other tech that the city uses as part of the police force, and in exchange... well the labs gets to do the labs stuff. Did they build the government intentionally to serve them? Bribe them? Does the city council not know about the more... unscrupulous things the labs does in the first place? Who knows! Certainly the average person wouldn't know about that kind of stuff, so you can just run with whatever assumption you want I suppose.
The culture is a melting pot! Everyone in the city generally moved here from someone else, so there's a huge diversity of cultures around. I suppose that means that the culture is to... be tolerant of other cultures? Oh! I suppose there's the fact that humans are the most common species here, common is the official language of the city, and most people with public facing jobs learn labs sign language. That's culture stuff! Oh, and the fact that we don't think walking around with huge monsters is weird! Lmao.
I always go with the canon that we, the players, are the exception to almost every rule. We have a LOT of creatures and HUGE properties and POWERFUL magic. Most people probably have like 1-3 pets and just live their lives peacefully. Think of how in the Pokemon universe, most people you talk to have 3 or less Pokemon with them, but the player has hundreds because they're a master!
'Official' crime syndicate? How could you be such a thing? Doesn't being a crime syndicate mean you're... not official? Haha! Well things like 'gang member' exist as jobs, so it's safe to say there's some gang and underground crime activity. I'm not gonna define a list of gangs, that's silly. I think it's safe to assume that bad guys do bad things and if you want to elaborate on that as part of your story you're welcome to.
How big is the city? idk, pretty big. Lots of people seem to live here. I think it's best not to get specific.
I don't really think about the layout of the city since it rarely matters when I'm writing. Feel free to use Darky's version if you want. *shrug*
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