History
- XXXX: In the future, due to global warming and natural catastrophes, 70% of the world's landmass is now underwater. Most of the world's population has died off - the majority from these natural disasters or to the starvation that resulted; the rest due to a Third World War for resources then broke out. The result of these events was the creation of a brand new world with only two "continents" and two governments - the European and Asian Confederations.
Setting & Plot
- Pollution has caused the surface of Earth to be almost completely uninhabitable. People live in large cities encased in "domes". Technology for utilizing solar energy has almost been perfected, and almost 100% of food is now artificially engineered. The cities consist of many skyscrapers, and basically... your usual hi-tech stuff (think Gotham City). The sky is always fairly dark - a filter is in place on all of the domes because the sun's radiation has become too strong & harmful. Although the city is a constant night, neon lights and signs illuminate the cities at all times.
- In terms of plot, it's basically a detective x supernatural x sci-fi story! After the global catastrophes, some of the souls of the victims were unable to move on and stayed as on Earth as spirits. Although most were passive, over the years some met contact with a new type of computer virus to "evolve" to crave people's imaginations... I guess like a type of zombie lol. Anyway, they eat people's thoughts/dreams and then warp them onto reality. However, once infected the spirits also become powerful sources of a new type of energy that can be used to power weapons. However, in doing so the spirit is left in agony for... well forever.
- While officially the "paranormal investigators" (i.e. Blanche & Noir) "exorcise" the ghosts in a sense to put the spirits to peace, the highest faction of the police force (i.e. Adagio) are told to save and round up as many of the spirits as possible - however, few of the police actually know why. Although there is no lacking in food, the world is running out of drinkable water; most has become too heavily polluted, and to purify it takes massive amounts of energy. Both continents plan to create a weapon that can erradicate the other continent so that they can "save their people" (but obvs there's some other evil government conspiracies lol)
Inspiration for Setting
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