Random Rozie musings

May include stuff rephrased (consciously or no) from me poor defunct tumblog. (Aside: apparently they've gone and messed with the dashboard appearance again...)

( here there be twaddle )

Weird shared-universe apocalypse AU thing?

I'm pretty sure this evolved from unspoken musings about "hey, what if I did a zombie-apoc AU except most of the zombies are harmless", combined with irritation over Bethesda catastrophically shitting the bed wrt: Fallout 76 (I have this Marathon/Fallout fusion, or rather bits of art and thoughts about it).

It's getting late as I type this so it may be a bit before I can go further into detail, but the very basic premise I have in mind is this: bad things happened and now the only known safe places for humans are a single cyberpunk-dystopia city and the rural outskirts. People in the latter get to live relatively normal lives, creating/managing their own resources and looking out for each other, but nobody who goes further out has ever come back. People in the former...well, they're less happy.

Vince is a hacker living in Cyberpunk Dystopia Hell who's being forced to do highly unethical stuff; eventually he finds a bunch of folks who are also at their darkest moments and runs off with them into the country. Things start looking up, until their former employers hunt them down and chase them into the unknown.

If anyone's interested in contributing ideas/characters, I can update this later.