Futuristic dystopias live and die by their ability to shock the reader/viewer/(in this case) players by presenting a society which, a small difference having been made, sounds like it should be perfect on paper, but turns out to be terrible in actuality.
What elements of society could be changed, introduced to or removed from it in order to create an original, scary dystopia? What aspect of human nature could be made illegal? What unthinkable behavior made mandatory?The characters are traveling between alternate universes, many of which have the capability for universal travel. Many, many "dystopias" and "utopias" should exist throughout the multiverse, seeking to conquer or "spread their enlightenment" to other worlds.
The country the PCs arrive in is a happy prosperous place. People seem genuinely normal, everything's fine. There's no catch.
But to uphold their high standard of living, their industry is exploiting the poor countries on a neighbouring continent. This continent is plagued by diseases, food and water shortages, poor living standards, war. You name it.
So what happens is there's this network of people, we'll call em the rebels, they go and fight a fight against a faceless enemy. They come to the rich country and just go full Jihad on it, trying to make people aware of how bad things are for them, that they'd rather die to sent a message. But the people living in the rich country don't want to deal with the decline in living standards that would come from changing things, and anyway it's not that easy that you can just flip a button and suddenly things are fixed. So they don't talk about it, police tries to hush-hush anything that happens. Media won't report on anything. Everyone knows the "poor extremist foreigners" are committing terrorism, but they don't like to acknowledge it, and especially not to the party.
>>44000000
Addendum:
Basically, Future Japan but with terrorist.
I'm sure there's anime about that concept.
>>44000000
>>44000077
Isn't that just modern society?
Also, holy fucking shit, I don't even know what you call six of the same number in a row.
>>44000118
dubs
trips
quads
quints
>sexts
septs
octets
>>44000000
Honestly can't tell if you're trying to make biting social commentary, being edgy or actually think that'd be an okay idea, but nice get either way
>>44000077
>>44000118
They're called Sextuplets.
These are their more common cousin the dubs.
>>44000000
>dub-sexts
NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiceeeee-
>>44000136
Probably a mix of the first and third. 90s-type self hate is en vogue again these days.
It's illegal to outside without a pipe.
>>44000118
>Isn't that just modern society?
Not yet anyways. Which is the whole point of Dysthopian settings.
The difference is how people choose to deal with it.
>>44000260
Prince pipe is best.
Maybe Churchwarden if I'm concerned over nicotine stains on my fingernails.
>>44000330
That is not a pipe.
>>44000401
c'est ne pas une post
>>44000401
This is a pipe!
>>44000435
Clever.
>>44000000
Little close to home there, buddy.
>>44000118
Oh for fucks sake, is that a meme now?
Isn't it less than 24 hours old? How the hell did it catch on already?
>>44000000
>Implying the unenlightened (I guess you could call them "dark") foreigners don't deserve to be exploited
>implying civilization won't come to them in time as they are slowly assimilated and civilization improves
They're going through the same growing pangs that the civilized peoples had to go through, but in a more controlled manner and with a guarantee of salvation at the end of the all if they just shut the fuck up and take it like a man.
>>44003721
>and civilization improves
technology improves*
>>43998590
>What aspect of human nature could be made illegal? What unthinkable behavior made mandatory?
100 years ago there was a grand revolution by their equivalent of libertarians/anarchists, and since then the entierty of their globe has been infused with anti-authority sentiment.
As of now, the largest "accepted" form of coercive authority is the village, maybe a town, and anything larger than that is immediately attacked and sanctioned against by nearly everyone who knows about it.
The world is plagued by violent feudalism, all alliances are inherently transitory and ephemeral, and any attempts at a permanent, non-coercive confederation are met with the same fate as actual states.
As a result, technological and societal development has ground to a halt, the average technological level of various regions wavers between 1700's America and 1800's Near-Industrial-Revolution, and there are about seven hundred different competing standards for industry, economy, and roads.
Basically what would happen if you populated the world with hyper-individualists who don't trust anyone outside of their 150 person monkeysphere.
>>44003842
They said dystopia, not eutopia.
>>44003875
Randlet pls go.
>>44000000
That's America, though.
>>44000000
So basically the setting is reality according to a leftist?
>>44004484
>>44005831
JorgenVonStrangle.png
>>44000000
Nice get.
>>44003842
Oh yeah, I had a discarded Nanowrimo thing like that a couple years back, the idea being that there was a French Revolution-ish overthrowing of the aristocracy, but the dominant merchant families who sponsored it just moved in to become the "new" ruling elite in what was ostensibly a meritocratic capitalist system but was essentially just feudal aristocracy with the words "FREE MARKET" crudely drawn on the front in sharpie.
>>44003975
No way
