The Pit of Kaseko Bay

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[Background Info:] The year is 2009 in Kaseko Bay, Fukuejima, Japan. After a long string of terrorist attacks, ranging from bombings to slashings to other manners of mass mayhem from both inside and outside sources, the coastal city of Kaseko Bay has been, through years of political lobbying and fearmongering, isolated from the rest of Fukue Island with giant, reinforced concrete walls, effectively sealing off the city and restricting land access to the island's only bay. Those walls were built only five years ago, in 2004, and yet those within say it feels like it's always been like this.

Ever since the terror attacks that led to construction of the walls surrounding Kaseko Bay, the quality of life has noticeably dropped. A stranger with a smile on their face is almost a rarity, and most kids and teens would rather stay inside conducting LAN parties and sleepovers rather than go outside and explore the world. Staying inside is still most definitely advised, thanks to one core activity that drives most citizens to do what many sane people wouldn't dare consider...

[Gravesite:] "Gravesite" is an app downloaded to every Kaseko Bay resident's cell phone or computer. This app, secretly engineered by the city's officials to mitigate overpopulation and continue generating profit despite being walled off from other islands, is the center stage for Kaseko Bay's most high-stake activity: contract killing. It seems that when offered money, people will quite literally kill other people.

[Gravesite Mechanics:] Gravesite works like this: Each day, the app searches the city's resident database and selects a random set of adult citizens currently in the city, favoring those with criminal records and outstanding debts. Only the names and portraits of these "targets" are then broadcast to random phones across Kaseko Bay. Those who receive information on these targets can hunt down and kill them in any way they desire for guaranteed wired payouts, ranging from 70,000 yen all the way up to 300,000 yen once the target's death has been confirmed. With Gravesite being so profitable and being used by so many people, Kaseko Bay has been nicknamed "The Pit" or "Pitto" by its residents, due to its caged nature and the widespread belief that "once you go in The Pit, you never come out." Considering the fact that Gravesite plays such an integral part in daily life here, it isn't uncommon to hear spontaneous bursts of gunfire in the distance, or see two people check their phones before breaking out into a fight immediately after once they realize one of them is today's target.

[Kaseko Bay:] The city of Kaseko Bay is a coastal city located in Japan's Fukue Island, in the Nagasaki Prefecture. The city surrounds the island's only bay, which is where it got its name, and thanks to that, it boasts a pretty tropical climate with generous rainfall and humidity. Even despite the fact its residents will kill eachother for money, the city is surprisingly quite well-off, having a lot of public amentities that make life within the walls pretty bearable, with a focus on apartment complexes and high livability. The scars of old terrorist attacks still linger in parts of Kaseko Bay, noticeable in small remembrance shrines on street corners and names and faces sprayed on murals. Kaseko Bay, however, isn't 100% pure, the existence of Gravesite notwithstanding. Unseen elements seemingly go out into the city throughout the night, dropping off and hiding bags and cases full of assorted weapons, ranging from bladed weapons all the way up to local Asia-manufactured firearms, with some rare imported firearms. It seems someone is distributing weapons through the city to help stock citizens looking to defend themselves or take part in Gravesite's contract killing. Not everyone is out to get eachother, at least. The possibility of making friends is still enjoyably high, and lots of people still lead somewhat happy lives within the walls of Kaseko Bay. Some people have even enlisted their friends to take on Gravesite contracts, forming what some call "kill gangs," where small groups take out targets and split the yen payouts between them.

[Police Activity:] The police of Kaseko Bay are about what you'd expect. Protecting and serving, and keeping the city intact. However, by the order of the city government, even they're in on Gravesite. When it comes to murders involving Gravesite targets, they end up turning a blind eye to the ordeal. They'll still try and keep civilian casualties to an absolute minimum, so long as they're not targets. All other crimes will elicit a pretty standard reaction from police, but Gravesite murders are what they ignore, unless there's too high a risk for unintended casualties.