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Living document for another human city in the Sentinel City/Prometheus Incarnate setting. El Verano (which may be shortened to just Verano) is a Californian city that lost everything when the tourism industry went bust. This is not set in stone, things can change or be embellished upon over time
El Verano and Prometheus Incarnate are (C) Psion 2010-2013
Edit: Wow, just realized this is my 300th submission... cool.
El Verano
By Psion
A Prometheus Incarnate document
All Rights reserved
Name: El Verano, translates to “The Summer” in English
Location: Southern California, part of Los Angeles-Long Beach urban corridor.
Overview: A decaying tourist hotspot past its prime, the birth city of Adam White and Elizabeth Summers. About a decade before the apocalypse, the tourism market went bust and the city fell into hard times.
Image: A vacation city whose golden age is long past, a seedy community touched by the darker side of the Californian dream. Decayed grandiose hotels overlooking pristine beaches. A boardwalk that lost much of its luster in the economic downturn. Broad trash-strewn boulevards lined with palm trees lie largely deserted.
Places of Note:
South Pier- Sticking out into the ocean at the southern end of the city, the South Pier was the tourist attraction in the city and a popular hangout for the local teenagers. Home to several eateries and an amusement park, both of which had seen better days by the time the apocalypse came around.
The Hotel Strip- A string of high-rise hotels overlooking the Pacific Ocean, once home to some of the best beaches for people watching and sunbathing in Southern California. After the downturn, the hotels struggled to remain open. By the time the world ended they had been completely abandoned, left at the mercy of the SoCal climate.
Palm Springs Mall- At its heyday, Palm Springs was the major shopping outlet in the city for locals and tourists alike. As the city dried up, it became a shell of its former self; most of the stores closed their doors and moved away with only the staple franchises remaining. Where hundreds of people once gathered, a few stubborn or dirt-poor locals killed time until the invasion put a stop on all commercial lollygagging.
After the Fall/Disasters of Note: When the Rik-Tah invasion came, the enemy cleared out the city with a large detachment of mechanical soldiers. Several mercenary masterminds with a background in robotics lent their armies to the effort and each received dominion over a part of the city as a reward for their participation.
Survivor Camps: Several survivor enclaves exist either within or on the city’s edge, local residents that didn’t flee the chaos hiding within promising shelters and barricading them on the inside. Built underground when they could and carefully concealed on the surface when they couldn’t, those left behind live precariously as they try to stock up and prepare for one last exodus out of the city.
Subtown- Before the invasion, Verano possessed a respectable subway system with a major station existing right under City Hall. During the attack on the city, the subway terminal was cut off from the surface. Survivors of the assault on the city would rediscover this location and erect a small town in the relative safety of the abandoned station. While the living conditions are crude, Subtown used the advantage its location provided to amass a large stockpile of food and other supplies.
VCC- A community college on a hill overlooking the city, Verano Community College was a popular stepping stone for high school graduates trying to leave the city behind them. When the world ended, a small cluster of students holed up in the campus. The Kings’ patrols have turned up nothing in the area, the survivors hiding in VCC are a particularly tech-savvy lot, covering the main approach to the school with cameras and concealed observation posts. Skilled engineers and auto mechanics, they are currently involved in restoring an old school bus and loading it up with enough supplies to leave the city.
Diablo State Prison- Inspired by the relative success of Alcatraz while it was operational; the state of California opened the Diablo State Prison on the idyllically named Strawberry Island. About a decade before the Invasion, the prison was shut down due to budget cuts and the island’s namesake wild fruits began to grow over the stone fortress. During the Invasion, a unit of Army engineers managed to retreat to the island with their families and restore Diablo to functionality. Having fortified the beach leading up to the prison complex and recovering a cache of explosives and emplacement weaponry, the “citizens of Diablo,” while isolated, have become one of the few settlements to exist openly in post-Invasion Verano. After the first few engagements ended in the military holdouts favor, even the more militant Kings decided to leave Diablo alone.
The Summer Kings: The city is currently overseen by five warlords specialized in assembling and controlling large armies of automated constructs. The locals dubbed them the Summer Kings, five blood-fisted tyrants that rule through their inanimate minions and other proxies.
Steel- All Steel ever wanted was to be alone with his toys. Mentally off-balanced due to a series of childhood traumas, the morally ambiguous “villain” started out as just someone who wanted to be left alone. Yet after a repair job for the wrong people and a series of escalating misunderstandings, he found himself needing to escape. The nice lizard men were happy to help, happy to relocate him and his toys…
Steel’s primary contribution to the sacking of El Verano was supporting the other robotics masters attacking the city. His own retinue of whimsically assembled robots exists solely to protect him and support large-scale building projects. Most of them are barely intelligent enough to perform their basic functions, let alone support even a modestly self-aware artificial personality. But he is known amongst his cohorts to talk to his machines as if they were real people. It’s questionable if he’s even aware of the reality of what he’s done…
The Scarlet Mechanic- Rival and enemy of the second Crimson Hammer, daughter of the first Crimson Hammer’s staunchest ally. Continues working her father’s designs, trying to improve them. Controls the largest swath of territory in El Verano, commands a small army of agile, hyper-mobile spider robots bristling with anti-personnel weapons. Has feelings for Steel, unaware of Chopshop’s interest in her, and disdains Dr. Techno.
Chopshop- A maverick technopath out for material gain. Psionic abilities allow her to “transmute” mechanical parts into semi-sapient robots. Has no idea how her powers work other then she can “feel” when a machine has been put together correctly. Robots are crudely humanoid-shaped androids armed with a variety of homemade stabbing and punching weapons but otherwise manage to somehow obey basic laws of engineering, allowing others like Steel to perform spot repairs and get damaged robots back into the fight. Tolerates Steel when he’s needed, otherwise considers him a nuisance at best and a liability at worst, has romantic feelings for Scarlet M, and neutral towards Dr. Techno.
Dr. Techno- Classic mad scientist, spends his time designing increasingly elaborate war machines and other instruments of destruction for an eventual return home to the anthro world of Silicon City to claim what the world “owes” him by force. Possesses the most advanced constructs out of the five and the most insular warlord, preferring to stick to his agreed-upon territory to better perfect his technology in isolation. Fairly aloof and withdrawn from the others.
Obsidious- A powerful mystic skilled in the construction of earth golems, Obsidious is a masterful tactician who single handily crushed most of the resistance when the city was taken over. An emotionally cold female as cruel as she is intelligent, her main weakness lies in the manufacture of her minions. While incredibly tough and each able to take on an entire team of classic superheroes by their lonesome, they are difficult and time-consuming to manufacture; meaning she has few to field compared to her fellow commanders. Because of the different source of her abilities, she rarely has any reason to interact with the other four except to discuss strategy or resolve the occasional dispute.
Living document for another human city in the Sentinel City/Prometheus Incarnate setting. El Verano (which may be shortened to just Verano) is a Californian city that lost everything when the tourism industry went bust. This is not set in stone, things can change or be embellished upon over time
El Verano and Prometheus Incarnate are (C) Psion 2010-2013
Edit: Wow, just realized this is my 300th submission... cool.
El Verano
By Psion
A Prometheus Incarnate document
All Rights reserved
Name: El Verano, translates to “The Summer” in English
Location: Southern California, part of Los Angeles-Long Beach urban corridor.
Overview: A decaying tourist hotspot past its prime, the birth city of Adam White and Elizabeth Summers. About a decade before the apocalypse, the tourism market went bust and the city fell into hard times.
Image: A vacation city whose golden age is long past, a seedy community touched by the darker side of the Californian dream. Decayed grandiose hotels overlooking pristine beaches. A boardwalk that lost much of its luster in the economic downturn. Broad trash-strewn boulevards lined with palm trees lie largely deserted.
Places of Note:
South Pier- Sticking out into the ocean at the southern end of the city, the South Pier was the tourist attraction in the city and a popular hangout for the local teenagers. Home to several eateries and an amusement park, both of which had seen better days by the time the apocalypse came around.
The Hotel Strip- A string of high-rise hotels overlooking the Pacific Ocean, once home to some of the best beaches for people watching and sunbathing in Southern California. After the downturn, the hotels struggled to remain open. By the time the world ended they had been completely abandoned, left at the mercy of the SoCal climate.
Palm Springs Mall- At its heyday, Palm Springs was the major shopping outlet in the city for locals and tourists alike. As the city dried up, it became a shell of its former self; most of the stores closed their doors and moved away with only the staple franchises remaining. Where hundreds of people once gathered, a few stubborn or dirt-poor locals killed time until the invasion put a stop on all commercial lollygagging.
After the Fall/Disasters of Note: When the Rik-Tah invasion came, the enemy cleared out the city with a large detachment of mechanical soldiers. Several mercenary masterminds with a background in robotics lent their armies to the effort and each received dominion over a part of the city as a reward for their participation.
Survivor Camps: Several survivor enclaves exist either within or on the city’s edge, local residents that didn’t flee the chaos hiding within promising shelters and barricading them on the inside. Built underground when they could and carefully concealed on the surface when they couldn’t, those left behind live precariously as they try to stock up and prepare for one last exodus out of the city.
Subtown- Before the invasion, Verano possessed a respectable subway system with a major station existing right under City Hall. During the attack on the city, the subway terminal was cut off from the surface. Survivors of the assault on the city would rediscover this location and erect a small town in the relative safety of the abandoned station. While the living conditions are crude, Subtown used the advantage its location provided to amass a large stockpile of food and other supplies.
VCC- A community college on a hill overlooking the city, Verano Community College was a popular stepping stone for high school graduates trying to leave the city behind them. When the world ended, a small cluster of students holed up in the campus. The Kings’ patrols have turned up nothing in the area, the survivors hiding in VCC are a particularly tech-savvy lot, covering the main approach to the school with cameras and concealed observation posts. Skilled engineers and auto mechanics, they are currently involved in restoring an old school bus and loading it up with enough supplies to leave the city.
Diablo State Prison- Inspired by the relative success of Alcatraz while it was operational; the state of California opened the Diablo State Prison on the idyllically named Strawberry Island. About a decade before the Invasion, the prison was shut down due to budget cuts and the island’s namesake wild fruits began to grow over the stone fortress. During the Invasion, a unit of Army engineers managed to retreat to the island with their families and restore Diablo to functionality. Having fortified the beach leading up to the prison complex and recovering a cache of explosives and emplacement weaponry, the “citizens of Diablo,” while isolated, have become one of the few settlements to exist openly in post-Invasion Verano. After the first few engagements ended in the military holdouts favor, even the more militant Kings decided to leave Diablo alone.
The Summer Kings: The city is currently overseen by five warlords specialized in assembling and controlling large armies of automated constructs. The locals dubbed them the Summer Kings, five blood-fisted tyrants that rule through their inanimate minions and other proxies.
Steel- All Steel ever wanted was to be alone with his toys. Mentally off-balanced due to a series of childhood traumas, the morally ambiguous “villain” started out as just someone who wanted to be left alone. Yet after a repair job for the wrong people and a series of escalating misunderstandings, he found himself needing to escape. The nice lizard men were happy to help, happy to relocate him and his toys…
Steel’s primary contribution to the sacking of El Verano was supporting the other robotics masters attacking the city. His own retinue of whimsically assembled robots exists solely to protect him and support large-scale building projects. Most of them are barely intelligent enough to perform their basic functions, let alone support even a modestly self-aware artificial personality. But he is known amongst his cohorts to talk to his machines as if they were real people. It’s questionable if he’s even aware of the reality of what he’s done…
The Scarlet Mechanic- Rival and enemy of the second Crimson Hammer, daughter of the first Crimson Hammer’s staunchest ally. Continues working her father’s designs, trying to improve them. Controls the largest swath of territory in El Verano, commands a small army of agile, hyper-mobile spider robots bristling with anti-personnel weapons. Has feelings for Steel, unaware of Chopshop’s interest in her, and disdains Dr. Techno.
Chopshop- A maverick technopath out for material gain. Psionic abilities allow her to “transmute” mechanical parts into semi-sapient robots. Has no idea how her powers work other then she can “feel” when a machine has been put together correctly. Robots are crudely humanoid-shaped androids armed with a variety of homemade stabbing and punching weapons but otherwise manage to somehow obey basic laws of engineering, allowing others like Steel to perform spot repairs and get damaged robots back into the fight. Tolerates Steel when he’s needed, otherwise considers him a nuisance at best and a liability at worst, has romantic feelings for Scarlet M, and neutral towards Dr. Techno.
Dr. Techno- Classic mad scientist, spends his time designing increasingly elaborate war machines and other instruments of destruction for an eventual return home to the anthro world of Silicon City to claim what the world “owes” him by force. Possesses the most advanced constructs out of the five and the most insular warlord, preferring to stick to his agreed-upon territory to better perfect his technology in isolation. Fairly aloof and withdrawn from the others.
Obsidious- A powerful mystic skilled in the construction of earth golems, Obsidious is a masterful tactician who single handily crushed most of the resistance when the city was taken over. An emotionally cold female as cruel as she is intelligent, her main weakness lies in the manufacture of her minions. While incredibly tough and each able to take on an entire team of classic superheroes by their lonesome, they are difficult and time-consuming to manufacture; meaning she has few to field compared to her fellow commanders. Because of the different source of her abilities, she rarely has any reason to interact with the other four except to discuss strategy or resolve the occasional dispute.
Category Story / General Furry Art
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File Size 28 kB
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