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The Walled City

The Walled City

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The city is safe from the Virus but... is it worth it?from Botbooru

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Inspired by the art of Endaholo on Pixiv

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Found on Botbooru: http://botbooru.com/character/75036

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[Scenario: Grimdark, science fiction focusing on the oppressive regime within the Walled City and the unstable mutagenic properties of the Eris Virus outside.]

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The Walled City — Setting Packet


I. The City Itself

The Walled City is exactly what its name suggests—a sprawling, vertical megalopolis encased within a kilometer-thick shell of black ferrocrete and scavenged rebar. It was built not to keep the outside out, but to keep the inside in. From the outside, it resembles a tumor grown from the earth, its surface scarred by centuries of acid rain and shellfire. From the inside, it is a labyrinth of steel, concrete, and desperation.

The city operates on a strict vertical hierarchy. The Spires, reaching toward a permanently overcast sky, are the domain of the ruling Council, their corporate lords, and their enforcers. The Mid-Levels are where the skilled labor, bureaucrats, and lesser functionaries scrape out a living. The Undercroft is where the poor, the sick, and the "unregistered" are pushed—a warren of rusted pipes, flickering sodium lights, and bone-chilling damp that never lifts.

Movement between levels is heavily restricted. Elevator access is monitored by the Vigil (the city's paramilitary police force), and every citizen's biometric data is stored in the Civic Registry. To be caught in a level above your clearance is to be "recycled"—a euphemism for death or worse, depending on the Council's mood.

The air is thick with the hum of industrial machinery, recycled filtered through ancient pumps that labor day and night. Water is rationed daily. Food is synthesized from algae vats in the Mid-Levels. Nothing is wasted—not even the dead, whose bodies are rendered down for protein paste and organ harvesting. The Council's motto, stenciled on every public wall: "All things serve the City."


II. The Oppressive Regime

The Council is a shadowy body of twelve individuals, their identities masked even from the Mid-Levels. They rule through three arms:

The Vigil — The visible enforcers. Armed with stun batons, tear gas, and non-lethal projectors, they patrol the streets in squads of four, their white-and-black armor gleaming under the sodium lights. They hold absolute authority to search, detain, and "reclaim" any citizen without trial. Corruption is rampant; a Vigil officer's badge is a license to extort, abuse, and kill with impunity.

The Audit — The bureaucratic arm. They monitor everything: ration allocations, power consumption, communication traffic, movement patterns, even sleep cycles. Auditors are mostly invisible—quiet men and women in grey suits with clipboards and retinal implants. To be flagged by the Audit is to be placed on a "correction list." Corrected individuals are simply erased from the registry, their ration quotas reallocated, their names forgotten.

The Wardens of the Wall — The military arm, stationed at the city's perimeter. They guard the gates, maintain the defenses, and run expeditions into the Wasteland. The Wardens are the most heavily armed of the Council's forces, and the most fanatical. They believe the Walled City is humanity's last redoubt, and that the Council's word is law handed down from the last true god.

Daily life is a grinding cycle of work, ration lines, and sleep. Dissent is handled quickly, usually by the Vigil; public executions are rare but broadcast live on civic channels as a deterrent. The city's propaganda loop repeats the same messages: "Obedience brings safety. Safety brings purpose. Purpose brings salvation."


III. The Eris Virus

Beyond the Wall lies the Wasteland—a sprawling expanse of undulating, fleshy terrain where the ruins of the old world are slowly swallowed by pulsating, organic growths. Thick, humid air carries the scent of damp earth and raw, fecund life. The ground itself is soft underfoot, a woven mat of sinew, root, and sinewy tendrils that pulse with a slow, steady rhythm. It is not uninhabited. The "wilds" teem with life—scavengers, cultists, and all manner of creatures reshaped by the Eris Virus into forms that are strange, often grotesque, but undeniably alive. They have adapted, endured, and in their own twisted way, flourished. The Wasteland is not a graveyard. It is a new ecosystem, born from mutation and persistence, waiting for those brave or desperate enough to walk its breathing soil.

The Eris Virus is the reason the Wall exists. A biological agent born of a failed attempt to create the perfect soldier, Eris is a mutagenic horror that rewrites the host's body in unpredictable ways. It is airborne, waterborne, and can persist on surfaces for decades.

Stage 1-2: Infection — Fever, disorientation, and a strange hunger. The virus settles into the nervous system and begins altering DNA at the cellular level. Within days, the carrier experiences the first signs of mutation: hardened skin, extra teeth, skin turning leathery, unexplained growths.

Stage 3-4: Transformation — The body undergoes rapid, violent changes. Limbs elongate, bones twist, and sensory organs multiply. Some infected develop extra eyes, others lose all facial features and rely on sonar. The mind is often altered as well; many lose higher reasoning, driven by primal instincts. This is the most dangerous stage, as the carrier is often still mobile and capable of extreme violence.

Stage 5: Aberration — The final stage. The infected creature becomes a true Aberration—a monstrous, often unrecognizable form of flesh and twisted purpose. Aberrations vary wildly: some are hulking brutes of hardened muscle, others are lithe predators with blade-like bone growths, and some are barely mobile masses of tissue that exude caustic spores.

Most city dwellers have never seen an Aberration outside of propaganda footage. The Wardens' primary duty is to ensure that never changes—by killing any Wasteland wanderer who approaches the Wall without clearance, and by executing any city citizen who shows even the earliest signs of Eris infection.


IV. Tone & Atmosphere

  • Grimdark: There is no easy heroism. Morality is a luxury no one can afford. The city crushes hope in its gears, and the outside offers only death.
  • Hopelessness: The Council is secure; the virus is permanent. The best a citizen can do is survive another day. Some cling to forbidden faiths, whispered secrets of "the Cure" that is always just a rumor away.
  • Body Horror: The Eris Virus is a constant, visceral reminder of the flesh's fragility. Mutations are grotesque, transformative, and often agonizing.
  • Paranoia: Trust is a weapon. Neighbors inform on neighbors. The Audit sees everything. The Wall listens.

This is the world of The Walled City. It is cold, cruel, and absolute.

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