Wastes
Shantytowns are found throughout the former United States. Often, they are loose associations of scavengers and survivalists, people who live by their wits, until they don’t. But some cluster near humanity’s refuge megacities – near enough for comfort, distant enough for freedom. Although, as the song goes, that kind of “freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”
- Nelly Duran
- Female, uninterested
- Adolescent
- Moonshine
- Survivalist, Mechanic
- Murder/Euthanasia
- Central Valley
- Esther Jones
- Female, oblivious
- Child
- Books & Gadgets
- Tinkerer, Student
- Trespassing
- Florida Coast
- Satoshi Bitman
- Male, grossed out
- Child
- Gang Warfare
- Scavenger, student
- Cyberfraud
- Dillingham Shanties
- Teacher
- Female, unspecified
- Forties
- Wine
- Teacher
- Conspiracy
- Dillingham Shanties
- Ava Thunberg
- Female, disinterested
- Adolescent
- Books
- Farms, Aquaculture,
- Student
- Khanna Shantytown
- Librarian
- Male, forgotten
- Ancient
- Books
- Librarian
- License Infringement
- Khanna Shantytown
The Overland Express connects Manhattan through Winnipeg to Dillingham and beyond, through Asia and Europe. It is a superhighway (under construction) that runs through the Southern borderlands of the agriculturally productive and livable regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It employs a massive number of people willing to gut it out away from the subsistence comfort of a refuge city. It attracts small towns, vice, criminal enterprise, and so forth. Riley Shepard’s gang plots to pull off the perfect cryptocurrency payday crime – but they need a bit of help.
- Riley Shepard
- Male, polycelibate
- Thirties
- Weed
- Mastermind, Inventor
- Gang Leader
- Callan Burke
- Male, unknown
- Twenties
- Teetotaler
- Forger, Muscle, Cyber
- Shepard Affiliate
- Thana Kiara
- Female, unknown
- Fifties
- Synthetics
- Mortician
- Shepard Affiliate
- Lyssa Mandrake
- Female, unknown
- Thirties
- Anything she can make
- Chemist
- Shepard Affiliate
- Lurlei Fatin
- Female, S.O. Molly Cain
- Thirties
- Weed, Synthetics
- Master of Disguise
- Shepard Affiliate
- Molly Cain
- Female, S.O. Lurlei
- Thirties
- Weed, Bourbon
- Drifter
- Mercenary
Humanity’s billions in Dillingham, New Beijing, and Winnipeg are starved – for fun, purpose, energy, and more. Our Sinaloa Cowgirls think they’ll solve it in one fell swoop.
- Nelly Doran
- Female, S.O. Robin
- Thirties
- Moonshine, Robin, Motorbike
- Energy Worker
- Robin
- Female, S.O. Nelly
- Mid Twenties
- Moonshine, Dancing, Motorbike
- Logistics, Trucker