Flynn MacCumhaill
Flynn Status: Sort Of Present
TRUMPS
Unity City has fallen into poverty and disrepair. A combination of the rise of internet shopping and the outsourcing to Asia occurring in most industries has pushed unemployment to dizzying new heights. Transport and delivery, along with most other things, is automated, so the jobless will have no luck looking there, either. Even twenty years ago, no-one could ever have imagined the cloud of despair over the city today. The only thing that has improved since the 2010s is the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere: no-one had realised just how significant an effect the emissions were having on the climate, until the temperature began to creep downward. Unity City is now a much colder, damper place that it was some fifty years ago.
From this despair, a new type of criminal has emerged: the mafia-like gangs have corporatised themselves, building up organisations which regulate the inflow of goods into the cities they effectively control. Prices are high, and supplies of everything except for illicit drugs are scarce. Here, in Unity City, the controlling company are known as the Ivory Corporation, and they are one of the worst of the bunch.
The absence of a police force coupled with majority unemployment has resulted in violent crime, rape, and murder escalating out of control. But the world likes balance, and tries to replace whatever is missing... so into the void stepped a vigilante: an old-fashioned superhero, who called themself "Ace", and whose calling-card was the Ace of Spades.
Time has passed, and the single vigilante gig has expanded into a troupe: a royal flush (more or less), of Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Joker, who call themselves the Trumps.
Profiles so far can be found here.
TRUMPS
Unity City has fallen into poverty and disrepair. A combination of the rise of internet shopping and the outsourcing to Asia occurring in most industries has pushed unemployment to dizzying new heights. Transport and delivery, along with most other things, is automated, so the jobless will have no luck looking there, either. Even twenty years ago, no-one could ever have imagined the cloud of despair over the city today. The only thing that has improved since the 2010s is the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere: no-one had realised just how significant an effect the emissions were having on the climate, until the temperature began to creep downward. Unity City is now a much colder, damper place that it was some fifty years ago.
From this despair, a new type of criminal has emerged: the mafia-like gangs have corporatised themselves, building up organisations which regulate the inflow of goods into the cities they effectively control. Prices are high, and supplies of everything except for illicit drugs are scarce. Here, in Unity City, the controlling company are known as the Ivory Corporation, and they are one of the worst of the bunch.
The absence of a police force coupled with majority unemployment has resulted in violent crime, rape, and murder escalating out of control. But the world likes balance, and tries to replace whatever is missing... so into the void stepped a vigilante: an old-fashioned superhero, who called themself "Ace", and whose calling-card was the Ace of Spades.
Time has passed, and the single vigilante gig has expanded into a troupe: a royal flush (more or less), of Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Joker, who call themselves the Trumps.
Ace
-Taken-
King
-taken-
Queen
-taken-
Jack
-open-
Joker
-taken-
~*~
Trumps Allies
-none yet-
~*~
Ivory Corporation Employees
-Mexico -- Gunslinger-
~*~
Others
-none yet-
-Taken-
King
-taken-
Queen
-taken-
Jack
-open-
Joker
-taken-
~*~
Trumps Allies
-none yet-
~*~
Ivory Corporation Employees
-Mexico -- Gunslinger-
~*~
Others
-none yet-
Profiles so far can be found here.
