Hey folks--

I'm about to join a few others on the boards in some fun collaborative fiction.

What are aspects of the 6th world culture that you particularly enjoy?

Obviously there are the trids, sports and Sim-news feeds from the SotA books, but what else would people like to see incorporated into their fiction?

i tend to include aspects of modern 'punk' culture as being mainstream in T6W. for instance, i detailed a luxury airliner once; all of the flight attendants had, as part of their uniform, tasteful silver labret piercings that functioned as subvocal microphones.

Fashion.

I need fashion like I was a Crackhead.

What was last year's style? What's this years? And the next?

2050 had the Western Wear, in both 'Cowboy' and 'Indian' forms, which stayed in for a couple years, but by 2052, was getting nudged aside. By 2054, Chrome was *dead*, and teh Western Look was gone, phasing in a more professional look, with less scary hair and piercings, more suits and ties. That rolled into "Commando Chic" by 2057, which gave way to a sort of bland "Whatever" look that's generally held since.

We know that 'Elven fashion' has died down with teh Tir's problems, Orksploitation is now king (But for how long?), but what about the TrendJills out there? Are hemlines up or down? Braids or no? Short hair, medium, or long? Curls or straight? Sleeves ... short, long, poofy? Are pants worn low this year? Has teh Wireless Matrix made "Nerdcore" the new trend, with tight pants pulled too high, buttonup tops, and pocket Commlinks? Glasses for everyone!

Also, brands.

Much like Contacts dropped several names of functionally similar contact options, I'd love to see a line of brand options for gear. You hate Colt, LOVE Ares, but want a Colt Manhunter? Luckily, the Ares Gladius is at-hand! Don't want to buy an Ingrim Smartgun? No worries! The new Ares Athena is the *goddess* of war!

And so on.

We *always* need trends.

The Sixth World culture of Dystopia. The battlefields of downtrodden vs. elite, soul vs. machine. The reckless, devil-may-care integration of technology into the very fabic of being. The spin of personal, and global morality, combined with an often times resentful, but none the less essential and symbiotic relationship between the underworld and the status-quo.

A culture that has shifted from "Should we do this?" into "Can we do this?", and the incredible accomplishments, and foolish shortcomings that present themselves with such an evolution of mankind.

The culture of glamour, and gritty gutterpunk, dead serious, or completely fabricated, fused together, in a mesh of urbanization.

What more can you do without micromanaging the wolrd? you already listed all the major facets of life?

hmm to be productive though I would say casual drug culture and roleplaying games lol.

But on a more serrious note, celeberties wheather football, sim, or trid. How would an heiress like Paris hilton act in T6W. Would she be a magical slut or just a slut? Is the WWE still around that would be hilarous to see in T6W. Is goth culture still around and what about globalization?

But what I would like to see is megastars comeback. Mirror some of the greats to like Tupac, Kobain, Hendrix, The beatles, and my favorate rap duo snoop and dre. Crime time is funy but i need a little more to spice it up. East coast west coast music war part 2 would be fun to play out in the shadows if there are bigger factions and more artists involved

It always comes back to Transmetropolitan.

Read that series for a full on blast of dystopian culture, combined with crazy bodymods.

I can't help but think of the "Derelict" campaign from Zoolander when someone mentions dystopian future.

I would think that the fashionistas would rebel against the wireless matrix and rampant technology, to counter the whole cyberpunk look the new trend would be Eco-wear. I think natural materials are pretty expensive compared to the synthetic stuff so it would of course appeal to the rich as a status symbol. Also nothing says I care about the environment like a hemp shirt while you're driving around in your 2071 Westwind .
Animal prints and cloned fur and scales would be in. I can see some hot model in a skin hugging swimsuit patterned after and resembling orca skin. Or maybe I just want to see that.

Just a thought.

I always imagined it spelled as "Dereliquet."

Ahh i see so its like you want a SOTA 70' my fault. To add on more I would like to see more global subculturalization.

For example travel culture and vacationing. With so much happening in the world were do people go? Do they even get vacations?

Gaming cultrue (videogames, roleplaying, sims ect) what are some creative ways people spend their leisure time in the 70's

What about the desert? Is it all mad max style in the west cost now (beyond the thunderdome and the video for california love combined)

Maybe food as well. With all the mixing going on do orks have authentic Ork'zet food? Same with elves. Is evlen culture dead. What about dwarfen culture. Finaly to break it down futher. Does a black female ork who is jewish and gay have more rights than a sasquach?

Subcultures is where its at.

Two words describe what is sadly missing from SR fiction: Urban Brawl.

Has any sourcebook actually covered Urban Brawl?

Yes. Shadowbeat is the sourcebook with full rules and a good writeup. It also contains Combat Biker, and info about "normal" sports.

(Unless I'm mixing up titles. I've re-read several older sourcebooks over the last couple of weeks, and I'm horrible at keeping the title/content stuff together sometimes. But I'm reasonably certain it was Shadowbeat.)

Rigger street racing! With unmanned cars you can go nuts.

*ring ring ring*

"Bob's Spirits Services, you summon, we sendum. Whatcha need?"

"Yeah, I got two things. First, I got this van. I need it to explode really big, and someone to kill all the guards. There might be a couple mages shooting manabolts and stuff, but no biggie."

"Yeah, that's gonna be tough. I'll see what we've got. What else?"

"I need someone to wrap themselves around a naked supermodel for a few hours."

"...."

"Are you there?"

"Why the hell can't I be a spirit?"

Sure you could do that, but you wouldn't, for all the same reasons you don't run up to a celebrity and try to tear their clothes off, no matter how flimsy their garments.

What about a free spirt clothing/ fashion desinger. How would that look in the T6W? I bet the clothes would be crazy, or maybe it would be like "the emporers new clothes" and people would walk around naked like those girls who use body paint to paint a bakini on them. Thats the new fashion.

One thought I had is multi media is a lot more media. So a Fad might not last long, but could appear literally everywhere for a few days. Also focused multi media blitzes. So you might see a new Star appear on the news, screamsheets, clothes (Brands names and decorations), skylines, ARO, online immersive games, literally in every part of someone's experience.

Be a fun character trait to explore, are you really paranoid, or is "Super Jane" the latest sim starlet really appearing everywhere you look?

AR is where it's at for fashion. If I so desired, I could program it that anyone looking at me sees exactly what I want them to see based on their profile / who they are? Prostitutes wearing clothes that cater to particular fetishes, which those with the appropriate fetish can see, or even skimpier clothes for those who have better credit ratings. Nightclubs where every room changes what everyone looks like. In the AR, I wear what I want. Oh you can't see it? Then you obviously have last years designs still plugged in.

Even though I'm not a huge fan of AR, that has to be one of the most interesting suggestions for its use that I've ever seen.

I agree, SURGE too is a big one to mention. What happened to it? How has it changed the world since the comet?

Festivals and party culture would be a cool topic to cover. IE: the grand ball in england, Carnival and Cinco de Mayo.

The Olympics making a comeback in Seattle (Denver or Chicago) would be interesting. Baseball breaking the metahuman barrier?

The list for opportunities goes on but pary culture would be another issue to address in a SOTA 70'

Might be the guy with a beer and binoculars who was prepared to see something.

Though there is no supposed metahuman barrier in MLB, only Orcs, Elves and Humans are allowed on the teams' rosters. Trolls and Dwarves have their own professional leagues.

>>>>>[Well of course they do. Everybody knows that it's just not fair that a Troll's strike zone is so big and a Dwarf's is too small. It's not racism, it's just keeping unfair advantages from occurring in the MLB.]<<<<<
- Pitcher 16:04:21/11-01-70

>>>>>[Besides - think of the amount of juice an elf would have to take to get to the baseline of a troll? And legs like that, trolls would have to have bases twice as far! Besides, no one wants to see giant green scaly buggers ruinin' the good ol' MLB....]<<<<<
- Southern_Cross 19:23:23/11-01-70

LOL so I stand corrected by many people its been a while since shadowbeat

If ever an old sourcebook needed a new release, Shadowbeat is it.

When's the last time anyone in *your* game played a reporter, rabble-rouser, or professional musician?

One thing I'm verry currious about and think would be worth while to see in SR culture is protest music and media. I think it would be something cool to see if i third world nation staged an earth shattering coup through protest music and cinema (think Cuba, Jamacia, USA during the 60's and 70's, along with revolutionary artists like Lennon, Hendrix, Marley and even throw a little Parliment in there for shits and giggles).

Who would become big name performers of music? How would a leader present documentary sims to the masses that show the tyrany of the big corps without selling out his integrity. What groups would back the movement? Where would this take place? Would the revolution work? Better yet would it last (those wacky elves have gotten the biz handed to them) or would there be tibetian massacares like the asian kid ran over by the tank?

Man the possibilties are endless with a metaplot sceme like that at the attention of everyone in the 6th world. My suggestion of places where it could manifest, Africa (the only continent that has never gotten a SB but has been mentioned more and more over the years). Plus something like this could take SR back to the roots of 1st and 2nd ed. Make things grittier and cyber punk again instead of awakened and cutting edge.

Edit: BTW that could be included in a new shadowbeat, I to agree that a reporter would be a smooth face character. I would love to see rocker come back the last one I heard of was "Crime time" (I would love to meet the guy who came up with him i got ?'s to ask)

Comments?

I was bemoaning the loss of the Rockerboi a couple weeks ago.

Bring back Shadowbeat!!