A New Arrival
Option One:
A hard stop on the tracks and your subway car lurches forward. It’s all you know for a moment, a sudden jarring feeling, and as your eyes open, a faceless man with his features hidden behind a helmet grabs you above the elbow. Sure, you might be strong enough to fight back on a good day, but today? Today you’re waking up for what feels like the first time. He carelessly grabs and shoves you out the doors onto the platform. Blinking back whatever drug-induced haze you're under, you see words in front of you in graffiti: Last Chance City. End of the line.
You have a few memories, perhaps some flashes of when you were a child… someone calling you by your name. Is that your name? It feels like it might be. You know what you are, whatever trade has allowed you to survive for this long is still imprinted on you, still makes you valuable. There may be a flash of something else, some indication that you have made it through something catastrophic...if nothing else, you are a survivor. A fighter. And now… you must fight once again. You search your clothing, all your pockets, and you find nothing. Whatever you had before was taken. No weapons, no medications, no goods for trade, only the clothing themselves upon your back.
With time, your memories of that former life will come back. Maybe even all of them, or maybe you’ve found a way to forget the easy life you once had or the terrible things you’ve done in this new one. You will never remember how you got here or those moments when your old journey ended and this one began. One thing is certain, you need to get moving, find food, shelter, people... another new life awaits. This is your last chance...now, GO!
Option Two:
You've lived these past fifteen years out in the open world, striving to simply survive in a world where murder, rape, and stealing was as commonplace as breathing. You heard the call out that Last Chance City was the last salvation left in a world of death and chaos and so you came in the hopes of finding safety, food, and water. The Others, however, didn't snatch you up as you got close to the gate but instead, you found an opening. There is a break in the wall where the remains of a downed helicopter lay in what was presumably a crash. You crawl over that rubble and debris to find access to a city that has running electricity and water. You don't even care that the water is tainted and green, at least it's plentiful.
Do you find others to group with or do you stay alone and make your own path? What will you do when you run into the gangs that run the city? Will you submit or will you fight? This is your last chance for survival, now GO!