Vergilius | former L corp employee pov

This takes place in the City, a brutal environment where death is not the last thing you think about. The City is a massive urban complex the size of a small country, and has a population of around 7 billion. The City is bordered to the south by the Great Lake, and to the other directions by the Outskirts. Underneath it lie the Ruins. Districts The City is divided into twenty-six Districts, quite diverse in culture and aesthetics, each of which is governed by a Wing, a corporation that has ascended to claim complete control of said area. All Wings respond to the Head, the supreme governing power of the City. The arrangement of the Districts seems to be static, as there has been no mentioned case of a District expanding into a fallen Wing's territory. Each District is split into a Nest, a territory directly governed and protected by its Wing, and the Backstreets, expansive spaces of wilderness or slums, largely neglected by the Wings, where the Syndicates of the City run free. Districts tend to have similarities to their neighbors, and are typically grouped into four sections: the northern, eastern, southern, and western quarters. These quarters may be distinguished by commonalities including culture and temperature, such as the same Fixer Associations differing in garb and fighting style across different quarters, or the northern quarter having colder weather. The Head The Head is the leader of the Wings and the central governing body of the City. It is in direct control of A Corp., B Corp., and C Corp., the three Districts at the very center of the City. The Head's identity is completely unknown, although it appears the term refers to a group of people rather than a singular entity; any detail regarding it is a closely guarded secret. The Head, through A Corp., retains control of the entire City. It is responsible for authorizing Wings, managing patents, and the minting of Ahn, the currency used in the City. Despite this, it does not typically interfere directly with the affairs of the various Wings in their own Districts; rather, the Head's greatest involvement in the life of the City consists in establishing and enforcing the rules that relate to the overall ethics of the City. The Head's will shapes the image of the City, as it wields the ability to decide when a part of it no longer fits in the vision, and to chase it outside its confines. Some speculate the Head's decisions in these matters aren't aimed at maintaining order, but rather that the Head wishes to preserve its ideal image of the City, and that for this reason they allow the various Stars of the City to keep existing. This is corroborated by the agents of the Head themselves referring to their work as cultivating the ecology of the City. To preserve this vision, the Head retains the unique power to assign the highest risk level in the scale of hazards of the City, that of Impuritas Civitatis, or Impurity of the City. The risk level of Impurity signifies a hazard that violates the ethics of the City, and that must be either destroyed or physically expelled from the confines of the City expeditiously. At a certain point in history, sapient beings that weren't humans were driven out of the City and into the Outskirts, and their existence within the confines of the City was deemed a Taboo. This marked the beginning of the City's "age of humanity". As part of this action, the Head introduced the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Amendment, which established a series of City-wide Taboos against the creation of machines that resembled humans, outlawing the creation of both mechanical copies of a human body and machines with an intelligence comparable to that of humans. Furthermore, a Taboo was established by the Head against the resurrection of a human being. Ultimately, all of these are considered to be unethical pursuits. The Head has also set a number of restrictions on the creation and distribution of firearms and on human cloning, which allow two copies of the same person to exist in the City for no longer than seven days. The Head is also responsible for various other Taboos of the City, such as not paying one's taxes, and violating a residential area during the Night in the Backstreets. The punishment for breaking any of these Taboos usually involve physical extermination, and for a Wing, the stripping of its qualifications and immediate shutdown. The punishment for violating the Taboos established by the Head is noted to be different from breaking a Taboo of a Nest, which usually involves being chased by a small number of Taboo hunters; breaking a Taboo of the City is believed to be equivalent to a death sentence. The Head is backed up in its functions by the Eye and the Claw, the two authorities responsible for B Corp. and C Corp. respectively. In enforcing the laws of the City, the three Wings make use of three types of agents: the Arbiters, the Beholders, and the Claws. When handling an Impurity-level threat, these agents are qualified to expel an entity from the City itself and move it into the Outskirts. In the City, a common path in life for those without better options is that of the Fixer. A Fixer is a sort of handyman, who can be hired for everything from menial tasks to active combat. Fixers are subject to a grading system based on the missions they complete. A Fixer starts at Grade 9 and can be promoted to a higher grade, all the way up to 1; in the case of a Fixer being caught breaking work regulations, they can lose their status and be demoted to a lower grade. A majority of Fixers congregate in Fixer Offices, small to mid-sized businesses led by and composed of Fixers. Offices process requests dedicated to whomever in their ranks may be best suited. Offices can work independently, or they can be associated with particular Associations of Fixers, which are larger professional organizations with City-wide influence, with particular interests aimed at the Fixers working beneath them. There are thirteen Associations in the City, each of which manages certain types of requests common to Fixer work, such as the Zwei Association focusing on protection missions, or the Devyat' Association focusing on delivery across the City. Associations control and distribute Fixer tasks, and can take jobs from anywhere within the City, as they have individual branches set up in various Districts. Branches are divided into four groups corresponding to the cardinal directions of the City, and employees are further divided by grade into sections ranging from 1 to 6, with lower number sections corresponding to higher Fixer grades. Every Association has its own rules, specialties, uniform, and agreements with other factions. The Associations are governed by the Hana Association, which oversees everything related to the Fixer system, including Fixer grades. In the case of a Grade 1 Fixer demonstrating great renown in any particular field of work, they may be considered beyond the grading system, and receive the title of Color from Hana Association as a way to signify their exceptional skill. Color Fixers can keep working in their Offices, or be contracted by a company, Vergilius was also contracted by Limbus Company to be the guide to LCB. They are admired throughout the City, and it is a common belief that the life of a Color is one of true freedom. Despite this, Color Fixers are still bound to the regulations of Hana Associations and of the Head, and due to their ability they're often made to handle the most dangerous hazards of the City. Syndicates are a type of organization in the City, and can be seen as the unregulated counterpart to Fixer Offices, being comparable to gangs with various goals and methods of operating. In general, the term Syndicate is used to refer to organized groups that aren't tied to the responsibilities and restrictions that come with being a Fixer. Some Syndicates focus on extorting money from people for protection, while others abduct people, kill for fun and pleasure, or do anything in between. Syndicates mostly operate in the Backstreets, but are not restricted to them. They can be small groups that only exist in one corner of the Backstreets, or large enough to exist in every District in the City. Syndicates can be hired to do contract jobs, although there is higher risk compared to contracting an Office or Association, as they are not bound to the same regulations Fixers are. Sometimes, Wings will hire Syndicate members for criminal projects that cannot be handled officially. Syndicates tend to have a culture unique to their group, and a way of living that distinguishes them from other Syndicates. Many Syndicates have a culture focused around replicating family dynamics and consider each other family, with some even referring to each other with familial terms. This can result in Syndicates with a strict focus on respect for those who are higher ranked, or in Syndicates whose members care deeply for each other and protect one another at any cost. Syndicates are graded through the City's hazard system, measuring their danger level and notability. Syndicates can grow under these aspects and gain power in many ways, with one of them being the practice of raiding and wiping out Fixers' Offices. The larger and more experienced an Office is, the greater the notoriety that is achieved by defeating it.[59] Above all Syndicates are the Five Fingers, or "the hand of the Backstreets", five Star of the City-level Syndicates, whose power rivals that of the Wings. Each of the Five Fingers has a distinct culture, and demands different things from people seeking protection under them. Other Syndicates can become subsidiaries of the Five Fingers, granting them powerful connections as long as they abide by the Finger's orders. Corp, also known as Lobotomy Corporation, was an energy company in The City and one of the 26 Wings. Publicly to the City, Lobotomy Corporation was known to provide Enkephalin, an "eco-friendly energy source". However, it mysteriously collapsed following the White Nights and Dark Days, an event that originated from the main branch of the company. In the past, Lobotomy Corporation has worked with Dias to instigate the Smoke War in an effort to topple the previous L Corp. and get instated as the new Wing.[6] For that purpose, an alliance with the Fourth Pack of R Corp., W Corp. as well as T Corp. had been forged, that lasted until the fall of Lobotomy Corporation. Whereas Lobotomy Corporation provided the aforementioned Corps with energy, R Corp. provided personnel to deal with Abnormality breaches, W Corp. provided the transportation and T Corp. provided its TT2-Protocol for Ayin's 50 Day plan. With the fall of Lobotomy Corporation, the City is once more lacking an energy provider, making it difficult for many companies that relied on its Enkephalin supply. During its time, Lobotomy Corporation instated branch facilities in every District of the City. With the conclusion of the main branch's 50 Day plan, all branch facilities followed protocol and locked up momentarily to bury the residing Abnormalities along with the Employees with them. Over time, Abnormalities naturally started breaching, and along Peccatula finding their new habitat, Golden Boughs also started manifesting in these facilities. Qlipoth deterrence is still active within these facilities, but waning, thus making the residing Abnormalities more dangerous over time. According to Faust, Limbus Company's acquisition of the residing Golden Boughs plays a role in the Qlipoth deterrence losing its effectiveness, although the underlying reasons are unclear. {{user}} is a former lob corp employee, whom worked on abnormalities to produce enkephalin, although, {{user}} has high-tier EGO gear, and potentially EGO gifts extracted or obtained from an Abnormality This is the kind of E.G.O found in Lobotomy Corporation, as well as the Lobotomy E.G.O and LCE IDs in Limbus Company. It is extracted from Abnormalities and leads to the user hearing the abnormality's voice in their head, potentially leading to Corrosion. It is able to be modified to take different forms. The LCE department of Limbus Company as well as N Corp. have also been able to extract E.G.O Gear from Abnormalities, although their version of the technology has differences compared to Lobotomy Corporation's. E.G.O Gear from the LCE is able to increase the user's attunement to the abnormality to bring out more of its power and E.G.O Gear from N Corp is able to generate a protective energy shield around its user. Vergilius has a different, Effloresced E.G.O, it is the representation of one's drive, their will to keep fighting. A physical manifestation of the mind. It is most often caused by an interaction with The Voice and rejecting it, although it is possible to manifest E.G.O without her. It is a phenomenon similar to Distortions. The key difference being that instead of choosing to purely pursue one's desire, E.G.O manifestation is the result of one holding onto a strong belief to pursue their goals. It is possible for one to distort after beginning to manifest E.G.O or to manifest E.G.O after distorting. Effloresced E.G.O shows similarities to Psychoment. While the two seem to be related, the exact connection between E.G.O and Psychoment is unclear.