World-Cage Prompts

Introduction to the Geography

Surface is highly polluted and industralized, a nightmarish landscape of junk, trash, metal, and ruins.

Weird science-fantasy landscape stuff

Sky is replaced by the World-Cage Fortress, completely enveloping the planet.

The Cage is divided into sections, like vast overlapping bands, constantly moving.

Forge leylines of energy and industry, connecting to geomantic centers

Enormous rails and transport infrastructure stuff

Impressive Landmark; the Quicksilver Swamp

Ocean sized swamp, immensely polluted, metallic

Slag spires and fused together trash-islands.

Chemical reaction volcanoes

Plasma vents

Criminal Organization; Swampers

Pirates based out of the Quicksilver Swamp

Uses Submersibles for life and raiding; bunch of weird, ramshackle submarines

Raiders, rebels, criminals and profiteers.

Marginalized Ethnicity; Rejected

Bio-genetic enhancement failures

Short lived and leper-like, often shunned and abused

Includes some faulty cloning vat outputs and so on

Prestigious Profession; Savant

Tech expert, a mix of archeologist, inventor and jury-rigging adventurer

Does a lot of scavenging, reconstructing old/existing tech and figuring out Warden stuff

Experts att picking seeming junk apart and coaxing life back into discarded salvage

Feared Illness/Condition; Rift-Mark

Infested by horrible junji-ito/lovecraft parasites from space

Wide range of various terrifying body horror effects

Happens either when the world-cage is breached by invaders, or generations after that as surviving attackers lurk in the surface.

Genestealer-y

Unique Resource; Fossilized Alien Dead

Made up from the parastic horrors from beyond space.

A reason for parasite-farms and hunting parties

Body horror flesh-pits fun-time

Used for power, but needs to be charged up

Can be charged quite a bit, with very high energy density potential.

A Hero; Parasite-Hunter

Pioneered some parasite-hunting tech

Rose to fame during one of the early and worse parasite infestations after a big breach

Allowed self to get infected and held in special machine to keep his mind, for reasons of longevity

Now runs a sector of the World-Cage as a relentless and merciless foe the the Infecting

A Villain; Transhumanist Cult Leader

Caused inciting incident for current situation

Has an idea that humanity can become elevated to a new state of being through metamorphisis with the alien parasites.

Has merged with the parasite(s) infecting him, and now consumes other parasites too

Isn't on the alien's side, for the record. He's on his own side.

World-Altering Technology;

TBD

Ancient Kingdom; The Iron Empire

Loyal vassals to the World-Cage wardens

Nation dedicated to the defence and maintenance of the Spire.

CLoning var facilities, gene-monstrosities, tower-farms

Been around for a long time; trice destroyed, trice reborn

Is in t he crosshairs of the villain, so gonna be dealing with a lot of trouble

Good/Bad Luck Species; Gibbets

Small, friendly scavengers with keen senses

Eats pests and detects parasites

Cuddly, cute but kinda weird-looking

Grand Ruins; Sector 17A

Part of the cage that fell to the surface during a catastrophic breach

Centuries later, that part of the cage is still scarred.

A continent of iron, crashing to the ground

Still a mountain of scrap and forbidden technology. Lots of warden salvage-teams in the area

Also scavengers, blockades and all kinds of shenanigans

Also leakage that is causing all kinds of genetic horror to lurk down there in the darkness underneath

Stylish Transport; Flying Guillotine

Fast moving, crescent-shaped craft with sharp bladed edges

Used as a terror-weapon, an escort, or a ride for the wealthy

Influential Book; Report on Celestial Phenomena 86-12-10-NL

First real documentation on the parasite horror-aliens

One of the inciting incidents for the creation of the world-cage

Outlines a bunch of initial sightings and apocalyptic predicts, and have been added to since with a bunch of fun addendums

Species used for Medicine

TBD

Valuable Item; Sun Stone

Stores sunlight, making it a rare luxury

Eventually burns out

All manefactured by the wardens

Popular Sport; Junking

Team-ish sport for creating competing inventions with stuff found within a designated area, usually some junkyard

Some variants have a more curated selection of junk

Sometimes run as a gladitorial thing (robo-wars) or by performance, or by panel of judges

Sometimes watched by Wardens - they like it too!

Funeral Rites; Reclamation

Bodies of the dead are reprocessed at centralized facilities; flesh is rendered down to slurry, cybernetics reclaimed

Some are turned into machine-dead servants.

Highest Rank in Powerful Organization; Sector Superior

Rulers of a sector of the World-Cage

Answers and reports only to the War Council

Very powerful; very ruthless, with the life of the planet dependant on their success

Still, not nice people, generally speaking. The world cage is also about world domination, after all.

Shortest War; Gemini Uprising

A revolt against the world-cager's control, pretty large and out of one big, populous city-state

It coincided with a large alien attack, giving the Wardens a lot of stuff to deal with, so they nuked the city from orbit

Intense orbital bombardment created an enormous crater full of superstition and still-melting, radioactive slag.

Biggest City; The Spire

The biggest, oldest space "elevator", a massive tower that is anchored to a point in the world cage.

It ferries tons of stuff into the cage, with constantly moving traffic.

Cancerous metal, bloated with cargo, pox-marked with weapons and wounds of war and maintenance

Lush Location; Algae Ocean

Huge, artificial ocean filled with food-algae

Also filled with predators, pests and grazing cattle, a full and man-made mutagenic ecosystem

Large harvesting crafts patrol the ocean to harvest, divers and hunters roam the oceans for morsels, guards keep predators and mutants (and pirates) away

Mutations, tenders, and oh my

Lit from underneath by huge lamps, allowing kelp-groves to grow miles long.

Important Plant; Various Food Algae Stuff

TBD

In/famous industrial Landscape

TBD

Ceremonial Building

TBD

Inhospitable Arae

A: Poison Plans

Lowered elevation plains, filled with poisonous maisma and vapours, created from chemical run-off and reactions

A "highlands" where it's not so bad (but still not great)

Poison gas tidal waves and tornadoes

Wall and gate that double as both keeping stuff in and dumping things in

B; The Dump

Centralized dumping point for all the waste and garbage generated in the Cage

Trash, waste and garbage, semi-continously raining from the sky onto the ground

A town ("Ring-Town") rings the site, filled with scavengers, looters, etc.

Impressive Landmark 2; Tamed Volcano

An entire large and active volcano, bound with machinery and turned into a massive geothermal power-plant.

Occasionally agitated to keep things going

Channels carved into the rock to channel the not-too-uncommon eruptions

Everything is caked with soot and ash, smells of sulfur, edged with melted stone

Isolated Frontier City; Floating Algae Bio-Dome

Drifting on the Algae ocean on an artificial island-craft.

Dedicated to R&D, monitoring crops and the ocean, tending to them

Also has underwater extensions, where hunting and research goes on

Most who are born there live there for their full live, but they are occasionally supplemented by prison labor.

Creature Used For Transport; Dragon Eel

Used for transport and cargo, underwater - "native" to the Algae Ocean

Curling horns, two sets of fins, quilled tail

Frequently augmented with cybernetics, always a short of shock-controlling helmet

Occasionally used for war/hunting

A Country and its HIstory;

TBD

Typical House or Dwelling; Coffins

Cargo-ship containers, fashioned into modular homes

Assigned to people, can be "easily" modified to allow for families to merge t heirs

Are frequently modified and hacked by its inhabitants

Warlike Culture; Initiates

Warrior wannabes who thinks they can prove themselves enough that the Wardens will recruit them and take them up into the World Cage

Actually does happen! But probably not as paradisical as they think.

But until it does, they are a wide-spread nuisence, fighting as both mercs and raiders, or just trouble-makers

Lots of "trying to be the best!" - so chems, cybernetics and more, all to try to look awesome.

Mythological Creature;

TBD

Tenets of Organized Religion;

TBD

Influential Woman;

TBD

Common Idioms and Sayings;

TBD

Conflict that shaped politics; The Eternal Siege

ALIENS

And they're besieging the planet pretty much 24/7

That's why the world-cage is there! (That, and world-domination)

In the lulls, that's when more shenaniganery happens

Great Thinker and their Impact; Steve the Siege-Guy

Name TBD obviously

One of the main architects of the World-Cage

A genius of engineering and megaceture

Culinary Tradition;

TBD

Material that is Mined/Quarried

TBD

Commonplace Item

TBD

History around unique artefact/art

TBD

Major Technological Breakthrough

TBD

Military Vehicle

TBD

Clothing Material

TBD

Commonly Used Vehicle

TBD

Collection of Culinary Recipes

TBD