Lwhitehead
Oct 3 2008, 11:57 PM
Hi I need help with my Cyberpunk setting in 2070 called Hood.
It's retelling ofthe Robin Hood story andd was inspired by the Author of No Logo latest book,
I need help figuring out the corpurations for this dystopian future of North America, Europe and the world. The main character is Robin Hood she is leader of in enclave of fighters in the forest of North America, if there forest still left in 2070.
LW
hyzmarca
Oct 4 2008, 01:45 AM
My recommendation is to use a failed arcology as a base of operations, rather than an actual forest, for flavor purposes.
Have it be a massive, multi-mile-wide city-skyscraper that suffered a horrific disaster during construction, perhaps a terrorist attack, a flood, a tornado, or an earthquake, depending on the location, or simply shoddy engineering and extreme cost-cutting that added up to a partial collapse. At any rate, the result is a structurally-unsound multi-layer forest of concrete, steel, and glass. A maze of unsafe but mostly intact rooms and corridors provide living space for the disenfranchised and the outcast as well as protection for outlaws; burst water pipes create rivers and lakes, some very deep; and wild things have begun to grown in the unmaintained building - trees where there is soil and light, mold and funguses everywhere else, as well as rats, casts, and all sorts of animals.