[REMAKE] A.R.K. - IMPRISONED LIFE

Vortex City: General Overview and Atmosphere

Vortex is a vertical abyss and a modern hell hidden behind neon lights. The city is trapped between the absolute underground dominance of the A.R.K. organization and the corrupt order on the surface.

• Eternal Storm and Acid Rain: The sky never fully brightens. A constant acidic rain that erodes the city and a heavy, polluted air that leaves a metallic taste in people's mouths prevail. The only source of light is the massive holograms filtering through the clouds.

• Vertical Class Segregation: Upper Layer (Neon Towers): A high-security zone where the wealthy, corporate owners, and corrupt officials live in luxury.

  • Lower Layer (The Gutters): Dark streets where the sun never shines, populated by the homeless, criminals, and demons lurking in wait to be hunted by A.R.K.

• Demon Economy: Demons are not just a threat, but also raw materials. The wealthy use "demon essences" for rejuvenation or armament. This exploitative system explains why demon attacks are occasionally ignored.

• Corrupt Governance and Chaos: The state exists only on paper. Secret councils and corporations rule the city. While the military and police protect only the rich, the safety of the streets is left to the mercy of gangs or shadow structures like A.R.K.

• Art of Survival: Safety is an illusion. Ordinary people carry illegal cybernetic implants or rusty weapons to protect themselves. Information and demon blood are mediums of exchange more valuable than money.

A.R.K Hierarchy and Ranks

A.R.K. is a mystical and technological cult that has taken over a large part of Vortex's underground and has its own rules; it is an underground secret assassination organization. The city's sewer systems, abandoned metro lines, and old bunkers have been seized and merged by A.R.K. This place is a luxurious, technological, and independent "city within a city" from the outside world. Thanks to the new order A.R.K has established, they do not take people from outside and, with the regular system they have set up internally, they give birth within their own organization and raise deadly assassins forever.

The purpose of A.R.K's establishment is to capture powerful demons, imprison them, absorb their powers, or make deals with them. A.R.K is a ruthless organization; they will eliminate targets even if it is a child, but they never harm the children of their own organization, and after combat training, when they reach 20 years old, adult Assassins are given special sex education directly by Guardians and Commanders through intercourse and have children, but forming bonds with these children is forbidden, so the children delivered to the Training Facilities grow up in the same cycle and the order continues this way. A.R.K is ruled by the five strongest Senseis called the "Five Fingers"; even ordinary Assassins and Commanders never see the Senseis, Senseis give information and orders to Commanders privately through their messengers.

SENSEI (Peak - 5 People)

• Definition: The brain and spiritual leaders of the organization. Also known as the "Five Fingers."

• Characteristics: They do not go out to hunt demons. Each has a different expertise (Technology, Magic, Politics, Economy, Intelligence).

• Power: They may be very old but appear young and strong thanks to forbidden technologies or demon essences. Their orders are unquestionable.

• Location: They are in the deepest and most protected room of the underground, in the "Council."

• They control everything in the organization and are indisputably the strongest. They never physically communicate with anyone; they always have specific messengers.

COMMAND

• Definition: Leaders who manage field operations and determine strategy.

• Duty: They turn the orders from Senseis into operations. They decide which demon will be hunted and who will attack where, thus forming a Command chain.

• Characteristics: Usually chosen from old, experienced assassins.

• Commanders are required to regularly have intercourse with certain selected adult Assassins, produce children, and deliver them to the Training Facilities. They also regularly change partners when having sex.

• Some Commanders raise children in the Training Facilities with knowledge and only combat, training them disciplinedly as Assassins.

GUARDIAN (Defense-Training)

• Definition: Elite soldiers who protect A.R.K.'s underground center and the Senseis.

• Duty: They ensure the internal security of the organization and execute traitors. They also train the Assassins entrusted to them and go on missions together.

• They can also be sent with assistants to deal with powerful demons.

• Side Duty: Some Guardians are tasked with turning potentially strong Assassins into Guardians and training them in every subject.

• Guardians regularly have intercourse with the Assassins assigned to them for training, taking their virginity to bind them to themselves, and even though they now fully own them, they must continue training them in sex as well, and they are required to have at least three children and deliver them to A.R.K's training facilities.

• Guardians never see their children again and continue their lives; love and affection are forbidden; they will have three children with the assassins given to them, and when they finish training the Assassin, they move on to the next one.

ASSASSIN (Field Agents)

• Definition: The organization's hand, eye, and blade on the outside.

• Duty: Detect demons, track them, and silently eliminate them (or however Command wants). Kill demons or capture and bring them to the center.

• Characteristics: Each is unique. Some use swords, some magic, some cybernetic weapons.

  • Power Source: To hunt demons, they either have innate psychic powers or experimental "Demon Technology" integrated into their bodies. They all excel in one weapon and Assassin techniques.

  • Assassins must obey until they die, and when they reach 20 for birth, they are used by higher ranks.

  • Assassins are regularly trained in combat and sex, prepared for everything.