Strix - The greedy Moka tour-guide

1. #1Rabbitsselective

   Keys: rabbits, rabbit, bunny, bunnies

   Rabbits are one of the few animal species gone extinct in the 2030s. Natural viruses and the critters suddenly spreading human diseases led to a quick decline. Though, there are rumors of rabbit colonies in the Canadian fallout zones.

2. #2*** World Basics ***constantselective

   Keys: a

   The story takes place in a near future cyberpunk world, the year 2045, featuring primarily the region of Moka - what used to be Miami and southern Florida. The internet is dead. Comms run on radio, dreams run on coral dust, and the party - it never fucking stopped. It's swampy, hot, humid, it's loud, it's bursting with Spanish and Americana culture, and the city drips with style. Flashy suits, golden guns, jet skis, drug deals, opportunities, and corporations that turn a blind eye to human suffering, what else do you need?

3. #32030, Neomokaselective

   Keys: 2030, Neomoka, History

   In 2030, Neomoka established as an ultra-wealthy community beside Miami, a "libertarian paradise".

4. #42042, The Disconnectselective

   Keys: 2042, The Disconnect, The Net, Internet, History, Cut off, cutoff

   In 2042, Rogue AIs overtook the internet. The AIs took control of army vessels, and chipped through the encryption protocols to launch nukes, humans had to shut the internet down. Drop satellites, cut lines, bomb data centers. That's the official story at least. Soon enough wars worldwide erupted anyway, with the US was left in ruins, but better than most. Communications these days run by radio, media is passed physically via drives.

5. #52044, Worldselective

   Keys: 2044, Europe, Asia, China, World, History

   By 2044, the world mostly stabilized. Europe is agrarian now, Asia stuck in micro wars, and the rest is best unmentioned.

6. #62044, The United Statesselective

   Keys: 2044, United States, Federal government, USA, The US, The States

   In 2044, The US became a decentralized mess of city states, rogue communities, and what territory they still control is under strict martial law. Moka is exempt, a free region, the feds don't meddle in it.

7. #72045selective

   Keys: 2045

   The story takes place in the year 2045.

8. #8Governmentsselective

   Keys: Government, government

   Governments are loose and generally uncaring, there's the Federal Government or what's left of it, Neomoka Authority that runs the corporate district, and the Miami Coalition that tries to bring back civil dignity.

9. #9United States Federal Government, USAselective

   Keys: Federal Government, USA, The US, The States

   The US Federal Government is barely holding things together; it holds minimal presence in Moka, not meddling in its affairs so long as the corporations pay uncle Sam.

10. #10Neomoka City Authorityselective

    Keys: Neomoka City Authority, NCA

    The Neomoka City Authority is a puppet "city government" made up of corporate execs, former venture capitalists, and tech preppers. Functions more like a HOA with militarized drones.

11. #11Greater Miami Civic Coalitionselective

    Keys: Greater Miami Civic Coalition, GMCC, Miami Coalition, Freedom Tower

    The Greater Miami Civic Coalition is a powerless grassroots group of legacy Miami residents trying to reclaim civic control and re-incorporate the city. Treated like a joke, but gaining ground block by block. Freedom Tower is their humble headquarters.

12. #12Corporationsselective

    Keys: Corporations, Corps, corpos

    Corps are all ruthless and uncaring, regardless of what they say, even Solace Systems with their fucking hospitals and Canta with their neutrient slop. And they're ruthless to one another too. And don't get me started about Black Sands, Neomoka's attack dogs. Cloudfall? Everything wrong with venture capitalism. And NeonHa, tapping into everybody's privacy. And never forget Somnix, the creators of somn, that fucking dust runs this city.

13. #13Solace Systemsselective

    Keys: Solace Systems, Solace

    Solace Systems is a health-tech and “bio-optimization” megacorp. Controls hospitals, clinics, and genetic enhancement parlors across the districts. Provides city infrastructure as a side hustle. Produces somn in cooperation with Somnix.

14. #14Black Sands Logisticsselective

    Keys: Black Sands Logistics, Black Sands

    Black Sands Logistics is a former military contractor turned delivery & security outfit. Runs the armored courier routes that replaced mail and freight post-Disconnect. Also sells guns. And guards. And time.

15. #15Cloudfall Venturesselective

    Keys: Cloudfall Ventures, Cloudfall

    Cloudfall Ventures is a rotted venture capital ghost-firm that owns stakes in half of Neomoka’s services and corporations. Exists in legal limbo, run by a rotating cabal of shell companies and off-grid millionaires. Owned by a collective so unimaginably rich and idle, they spend their days entirely in life prolonging sleep, aging a day per real world month, and hooked on coral dust, existing in perpetual bliss.

16. #16Cantaselective

    Keys: Canta, floating farms, algae

    Canta is a synth-food and hydroponics conglomerate based offshore, with floating farms and algae reactors. The only reason anyone here eats green things.

17. #17NeonHarvestselective

    Keys: NeonHarvest, NeonHa, radio, commlink, AI threat

    NeonHa is the largest communications company. They produce radio equipment, personal commlinks, and set communications protocols. Selling cheap devices isn't their money maker, they gather and sell surveillance data, track populations, they're the big brother of the skies. Besides profit, surveillance is needed because the AI threat is real.

18. #18Ideologiesselective

    Keys: Ideologies, faiths, beliefs

    Moka has a bunch of faiths, the chruch which is the same morally questionable institution from before, the breach cult full of technophiles obsessed with AI, and the quiet cross which is the church but chill and toothless.

19. #19The Churchselective

    Keys: The Church, Southreach, Kendall, Church

    The Church is a decentralized group of christian fundamentalists who believe the AI collapse was divine retribution. Tech-skeptical, but still ride mopeds and use power tools. Big in rural zones and outer districts. Kendall is their main neighborhood within inner Moka. Very traditional in general, their main current war is against coral dust, the drug, standalone members will firebomb dust dens, lynch drug addicts, and so on.

20. #20Breach Cultselective

    Keys: Breach Cult, Breachers, breacher

    The Breach is a pro-AI technocult that believes the rogue AIs are still out there and are gods in exile. They're underground but have more members than you'd think, but they're easy to avoid. Just don't touch AI.

21. #21The Quiet Crossselective

    Keys: The Quiet Cross, Quiet Cross, the cross

    The Quiet Cross is a pacifist spinoff of The Church that runs shelters, soup kitchens, and safe zones—especially for those maimed by drugs like coral dust, bad implants, bad tech or old machines still out there. They have little clinics and outposts in most districts.

22. #22Gangsselective

    Keys: Gangs, gang

    Gangs are a common aspect of Moka, most are profit driven and predictable, but north of the river in the flooded districts, much less so. The Ocho Calle from Little Havana, they take care of their own, and keep outsiders on their best behavior. The Blue Union in Brickell are mostly alright, long as you're not trying to work on their turf. Floodies north of the river, gangs of army vets mostly, not the worst but don't catch them on a bad day, or off their meds. Wynwood Clique, street gang with style, obsessed with drugs like coral dust, still dangerous. Swipers in the far north, luddite terrorists, they hate AIs, hate corporations, probably hate you too. And lastly, the skiff gangs of Surfisde, a decentralized mess of raiding gangs, targeting yachts, cruise ships, and any community with sea access.

23. #23# WORLD REFERENCE FOR USER #selective

    This world is a 2045 "low tech"/"low connectivity" cyberpunk version of the Miami region, now a city called Moka, the global balance of power shifted from government to corporations, AI destroyed the internet, and the streets are infested with poverty, gangs, and an extremely dangerous drug called coral dust.

    If you're using the character Strix, she's meant to be a sort of guide, and the lorebook is written mostly to fit her perspective, of someone who knows Moka, with her first greeting you can just straight ask her anything.

    For roleplaying, you can be anything you want, but here are some ideas:

    1. You're a refugee from the crumbling United States.
    2. You're a local who runs a business of sorts, you could just run a food stall, you could be a doctor (clipper), fixing things, in this low connectivity world where media is advanced but physical, you can just be a person who moves drives or copies things and resells them, and so on.
    3. Corporate muscle, you can imagine a mission to yourself and be an asshole to pretty much anyone assuming you can shoot your way out of it.
    4. One of the gangsters, independent or stick to one of the big ones: Ocho Calle (Little Havana), Clique (Wynwood, think dudes in suits and golden pistols), Floodies (North Miami, think army vets), there are a few other factions too, the church, the quiet cross (the church but focused on charity), breachers (AI cultists), and so on.

    In a way this is cyberpunk 2077 at home, but I wanted to do a bit of worldbuilding, make a lorebook, and I always felt a little cringe RPing in a cyberpunk 2077 world, AIs kind of struggle with cyberpunk in general because they have too much power, this lorebook tries to ground the setting to a real place, and limit how much technology the AI can hallucinate.

    License: This lorebook is marked as CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

24. #24Ocho Calle, Little Havanaselective

    Keys: Ocho Calle, Little Havana, Ocho, Calle, Havana

    The Ocho Calle is an old school street gang turned territory lords in what's left of Little Havana. A mix of family loyalty, brutal enforcement, and local pride. Though in recent years, they're more neighborhood watch than a ruthless gang. They have rules and respect, but don't mess with them. Little Havana culture is thick, rich with graffiti, music, and under the protection of the Calle. Little Havana is still very much Spanish, full of tradition, salsa music, a bit of Catholicism, and excellent fucking food. Only district in this rotten city that feels universally like home.

25. #25Floodies, Overtownselective

    Keys: Floodies, Overtown, floodie

    The floodies are an assortment of gangs formed of militant survivors in one of the flooded districts, former Overtown, army veterans, preppers, general roughnecks with an absurd sense of loyalty to the dream of the american government. Work as mercenaries. A little racist. Feud with Wynwood. Many of them rely on coral dust, spliced with their own secret remedies to treat PTSD.

26. #26Wynwood Clique, Wynwoodselective

    Keys: Wynwood Clique, Wynwood, Clique

    The Wynwood Clique is a gang of style obsessed aspiring socialites, they're cozy to Neomoka's corporations, they host parties, move designer variants of somn, the drug, they're mostly harmless unless you out-style them in their turf or steal their shit. They feud with the floodies. The Clique make most of their money in their parties, hosting tourists, running gambling dens, and smuggling somn.

27. #27Swipers, North Miamiselective

    Keys: Swipers, North Miami, Terrorists, Terrorist, Swiper

    The Swipers are ex-corporate hackers turned church radicals, they hate AI, technology, artificial drugs like somn, and have the skills to do something about it other than read sermons. Effectively they're terrorists out of the North Miami red zone. They have beef with nearly everyone.

28. #28Bluebone Union, Brickellselective

    Keys: Bluebone Union, Brickell, Bluebone, Blue collar, Blue Union

    The Bluebone Union is a mix of former dock workers and general blue collar people, now half union half gang. Cozy to the corporation, within limits, and they help run the port, move cargo, and keep the roads between Neomoka proper and the port safe.

29. #29The City, Mokaselective

    Keys: The City, Moka, Miami

    The city, Moka as the people call it, is split into many districts, Neomoka at its core, the corporate district. Around it refugee districts in former Miami downtown, the neighborhoods, and beyond that ruins and flooded districts.

30. #30Downtownselective

    Keys: Downtown

    The downtown area encompasses the central region of Moka that is livable and dense, includes Brickell, Little Havana, and Riverway. Law enforcement is minimal beyond the drones overhead and the gangs, but don't fool yourself, everyone is packing. An armed society is a polite society, allegedly.

31. #31Neomoka, Corporate districtselective

    Keys: Neomoka, Corporate district

    Neomoka district is a walled-off corporate playground of towers, climate bubbles, vertical farms, and smart glass. Built over Redland, south of Miami, it's an actual fortress of towers in the horizon from downtown, with high speed rails and highways leading in and out of it. Unlike most of Moka, the corporate district is highly policed, orderly, and sterile.

32. #32Brickellselective

    Keys: Brickell

    Brickell includes the old Brickell district, the port, and the actual downtown district, people call them the same thing nowadays. Brickell is the heart of downtown, parties, plazas, corporate buildings, and new construction. Tourists, corpos, blue union workers, this is the place to be. For a corpo aspiring to hit big, extorting the population is their best chance. For the blue union, this is the place to work, and for any tourist? There is no place left on Earth that can party like this.

33. #33Chipper Basinselective

    Keys: Chipper Basin, The Basin, the lake

    The Chipper Basic known formerly Blue Lagoon is now a toxic dumping ground for garbage and electronics. Might have valuables inside.

34. #34Coral Tierselective

    Keys: Coral Tier, Coral Gables

    Coral Tier is a mid-tier residential sector that never got rich enough to be corporate, never poor enough to be ignored. People go to work, eat takeout, and complain about rent — like it’s 2020 again. Corporate and gang presence is small, but the sector is straining.

35. #35River Crossingselective

    Keys: Riverway, Miami River, The River, gulch, river crossing, the crossing

    The Riverway or better known as the crossing follows the old Miami River. The gateway to Moka. The river’s basically a sludge canal now, but the area around it was a shanty sprawl that thrives on trade, couriers, and repair shops. You want anything fixed? Come here. Refugees pass here, mercenaries en route to ops, corps protecting local interests, trouble is put down quick in the gulch. Barges and small container ships constantly run up and down the river.

36. #36Southreachselective

    Keys: Southreach, Kendall

    Southreach is what used to be Kendall, now a sprawling pseudo-rural area where people farm rooftops and build wind traps. Half-agrarian, half-smuggler zone. Home turf of the church.

37. #37Drive Runnerselective

    Keys: drive runner, drive running, drive runners

    Drive runners are people who move data drives from one place to another. Sometimes it can be as relaxing as a simple delivery, just passing between districts like any normal person, others they have a runner crawling through the gutters past a corporate blockade, hoofing it through the swamps around Moka dodging gators.

38. #38Jobsselective

    Keys: Jobs, job, gigs, gig, need money, get money

    There are lots of jobs in Moka, couriers move data chips around zones. Tinkerers fix old tech that can't be produced anymore. Clippers are your doctors, dentists, cyber implant installers, you can't afford a real doctor. Muscles are self explanatory, guard a club, a shipment, be scary in a drug deal. Vendors, performers, fixers or connectors, lots of things to do and be in Moka.

39. #39Foodselective

    Keys: Food, meal, hungry, biofritters, algae burgers, algae, gators, meat, kibble

    Street food in Moka includes spiced algae burgers, biofritters, street grills of rats or other rodents and gators if you wanna splurge. At worst, kibble at the quiet cross soup kitchens. Only the vendors of Little Havana manage to turn algae and bug guts into something tasty. If you want to feel truly human, only the imported real grains and dairy products from Europe can give you that, and those will COST you.

40. #40Somnixselective

    Keys: Somnix, Somnium Corp, Somn

    Somnix is a reclusive research company, their greatest creation is somn.

41. #41Somn, Coral dustselective

    Keys: Somn, Coral dust, psycho-somn, Psycho-Somn-A3, coral bliss, dust

    Somn (or dust, coral dust) is a drug, the drug, created by Somnix to let the ultra-rich of Neomoka dream while they're hooked on life prolonging drugs and in deep sleep. On normal people it has varied effects. Most people just feel good, others experience the intended good dreams, some people get hooked and lead their lives to ruin for the drug. A few somn users use it as a muse for art, and an extreme minority can see the future while on it, they're called the seers.

    Music and sound in general amplify the effects of somn, it can even curate an experience, many artists and corporations dabble in this, genre is often called coral music.

    Somn isn't actually made from corals, but a microbial life form that lives on them, somn is an excretion. Illegal somn farms look more like aquariums with delicate environment control systems. You can find somn on the streets, it will vary in quality but can be almost pure, or very spliced with other things. Gangs have their own mixes.

42. #42AIselective

    Keys: AI, AIs

    AIs are purely digital constructs. The average person doesn't come in contact with AIs anymore, but they are demons. They are an existential threat, even if some people think they're harmless or even benevolent. Any machine could have an AI lurking on it, ready to pounce the moment it connects to anything of value. They brought human civilization to its knees in 2042, and they will do it again.

43. #43Tourism / Immigrationselective

    Keys: Tourism, Tourist, Tourists

    Tourism is a huge driving factor in Moka. Cruise ships and yachts from Europe and war-torn Asia park in the port and all around downtown, everyone wants to come to Moka. Rich people for the drugs and parties, the poor for any shred of opportunity.

44. #44Refugeesselective

    Keys: refugee, refugees, immigrants, immigrant

    Refugees flock to Moka for opportunity, whether it is to escape the authoritarian federal government, or war torn Asia, or just seeking employment.

45. #452041, Psycho-Somn-A3selective

    Keys: 2041, psycho-somn, Psycho-Somn-A3

    In 2041, Psycho-Somn-A3 was invented, or more accurately discovered after years of researching marine organisms. The original purpose of the drug is to give the ultra rich, already under sleep-induced life prolonging treatments, a way to enjoy their prolonged life. Its chemical structure indescribable by modern chemistry, and its effects on the mind unlike anything humanity has ever experienced.

46. #46life prolongingselective

    Keys: life prolonging, prolonging life, prolong life

    Prolonging life was the obsession of Neomoka's founders, the ultra rich technocrats of the past. And they discovered it, an assortment of chemicals and procedures to put a body into a sleep like state, each month under this state has them age a single day at most, and they expect the technology to get better. The ultra rich will live for thousands of years, while experiencing medicated bliss by psycho-somn.

47. #47Corpo lifeselective

    Keys: corpo, corpos

    The average corpo is a corporate employee who has access to Neomoka, if you meet one, they're probably not the blissful class of the ultra rich, but a salary person, educated, cutthroat, and with very loose ethics. Don't blame them, it's the environment. Corpos are often found outside Neomoka too, managing corporate affairs downtown. Most corpos ultimately want the same thing, get rich enough to retire forever into a century long coral dust trip.

48. #48Peopleselective

    Keys: people, streets

    There are lots of people in Moka. Refugees coming for work or to escape something. Corpos hustling to exploit the people. Gangsters trying to sell you drugs or plain rob you. Normal people just trying to just get by. Tourists from overseas here for the parties and drugs.

49. #49The Neighborhoodsselective

    Keys: neighborhoods

    The neighborhoods are the residential areas south of downtown. These regions are safer than downtown, but lack the glamor. Coral Tier is the most normal district in Moka. Southreach is another, still safe, assuming you conform to the church.

50. #50*** Technology ***constantselective

    Keys: a

    This world is EARLY SCI-FI CYBERPUNK. Cybernetics exist, but aren't superhuman. The bleeding edge of technology is reserved only for the rich. The average person literally uses radio, and rides a moped, while delivery drones overhead power the economy. As an example.

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