CityIOT

Welcome to CityIOT, a game in which you will play as an individual vying for political power within a (bizarrely selfcontained) city.

That's right, no armies, no nations, no... er... knowing IOT, I'm not going to say "no war."

Unusually for one of my games, this one is also lacking an insane economic system and list of abilities to manage.

So, now onto the stuff you actually care about:

You will play as an individual, a member of a political organization. Note that I use organization, not party - things like the mafia or very politically motivated church groups are also permissible.

You have either two options - to start as the head of your organization, or, if the head of another organization permits it, as a member of another player's organization. I will break up organizations deemed to be too powerful (IE, too large in relation to others).

In either event, you will then go about your days amassing wealth and power through a variety of options.

First off, the "key" methods of gaining power:


So, what do you have to keep track of?

Have any idea for another action? Just ask, and I'll give you the general concept. Pretty much anything within reason is allowed - you can even violate the laws that have been passed, though keep in mind that this may have consequences of its own...

So, what now? Well, sign up with:

My last minute rules:

This game will comply entirely with CFC rules and the IOT Consitution.

In addition, this game will bar any nation deemed to constitute an extension of one's personal beliefs as a method of expressing them, rather than a method of playing the game.

Lastly, be somewhat serious and completely original. This is intended to be a fun game, but I'm not going to allow Bowser, time-travel, or shameless copying of RL events, products, and people. If you have a doubt, please double check with me first.

Map (Courtesy of NedimNapoleon):

Yourself: Dragan "Čombe" Čmar

Your Organization: Lica sa ulica ("Faces from the streets") - Bosnian gang

Your Home: Will be marked

Buildings: Will be marked

Yourself - to come.

Your organization - a name, description, ideology, who can join, etc. This should probably be the most detailed part of your post, if you're creating a new organization, since it determines basically everything else.

Your home - marked on the map below.

Buildings - H: My home. (Please make smaller, didn't mean to make it so big). C: Rally Center for the political organization. B: Bob's Guns, a weapon manufacturing business. U: University, funded by my political party.



Rest to come, so lazy....oozing into chair....

Yourself - Gerald Daniels
Your organization - Metropolis Protection Agency
Your home - Will do.
Any buildings you're purchasing - Will do.

High Priest Athanasius Kell

High Priest of the Temple of the Divine Tribunal, Athanasius Kell distinguished himself during his priesthood as a holy man, living a life well known for frugality and asceticism formed from his days in a monastery in another city. After coming to the city, Athanasius quickly came to prominence as a preacher denouncing the corruption of city life, defending the one true faith, and establishing charitable services to the poor. Eventually being appointed High Priest by his predecessor, Ignatius Devine, Athanasius, perhaps surprisingly given his ascetic and pious background quickly showed himself to be an able administrator with the Temple becoming much wealthier as the donations poured in. Many attributed this to the fact that he cracked down on clerics skimming money from the collection plate for their own purposes and due to his habit of sending the Temples militant wing, The Order of the Overseers Templar into the streets to remind the people of their duties to the temple, and of course to assist in public law and order.

The Temple of the Divine Tribunal

The Temple of the Divine Tribunal is an organisation and religion, consisting of of laity and clergy and led by a High Priest whom anyone who agrees with the teachings of the Temple can convert to or be a part of.

The Temple believes that the Universe was created by the maker, who ordered everything according to a divine plan, and established unshakable laws to be followed by mankind, his greatest creations. The Temple places great importance in discerning signs from the heavens from the Maker.

The fundamental principles of the Temple are the Seven Strictures, which are things the faithful should aspire to avoid, with many prohibitions categorised within each stricture. These strictures are the against: A wandering gaze, A lying tongue, Restless Hands, Roving Feet, Rampant Hunger, Wanton Flesh and an Errant Mind.

Home and Buildings

House, The Temple of the Divine Tribunal, Hospital of Celestial Mercy, The Seminary of Sacred Law, The Citadel of the Overseers Templar. (H (near tem), TEM, H, S, TO)



The Temple: The Seat of the Faith of the Divine Tribunal, here the sacred rites are undertaken and the faithful come to worship.

The Hospital: Charitable care of the sick occurs here

The Seminary: Here the clerics of the Temple are trained in the doctrines of the faith, and in how to teach. The students minds are awakened to the horror of heresy, infidel religions and apostate ideology here and transformed into devoted spiritual warriors for the faith

The Citadel: Here the Overseers, the militant wing of the faith train and reside. The militant wing defends the Temple and the faithful against all manner of error and ensures the upholdance of the seven strictures and public morality.

Since it wasn't entirely clear:
If your building constitutes a major institution (IE, a university), you need to go into details about the name of the institution, and how it operates.
Now, if it's a business, this can be as simple as the name and what it sells.
If it's a hospital, it's rather self-evident what it does.
If it's a university, or something else with a lot of political power and manpower behind it, you're going to need a fairly elaborate explanation (who can get in, how is it run, what's taught, etc).
Just a heads-up.

I shall work on it, sire!

John Willow
A socialist who started a party.

The Socialist Revolutionary Organization
An organization dedicated to combating corruption, the oppression of the lower class, and ensuring that all members of its community have a place to sleep at night and food to eat. When possible they attempt to reach out to the more poverty stricken regions of the community, but funds are usually too limited to do so. The organization is open to anyone who wishes to join, but all members are required to read a handful of pamphlets and attend group meetings (though dues are optional for more financially unfortunate families).
The SRO is dedicated to institution of a socialist government whose main priority is the caretaking of the people, nationalization of industry, and the redistribution of wealth.


My buildings are in blue.

The H is the SRO's home. It is a meeting hall with several cots and a large basement.

The S is the SRO Elementary School, built to reeducate the children that live in poverty around the city. Schooling, lunch, etc is free and paid for out of the SRO's own pocket. Many students eventually end up becoming SRO members themselves.

The W is the Bosna River Corp, a front company for the SRO that serves as a warehouse and shipping center. It receives many goods throughout the year, from shipping on the central river, and acts as a storehouse for SRO activities.

The B closest to the SRO Meeting Hall is a weapons shop. It sells a wide variety of firearms and munition, though many complain at high prices. It is an appendage of the Bosna River Corporation.

The other B is a butchers shop/restaurant/small pig farm. It is usually a buzz of activity with meat and other foodstuffs being constantly sent through it and packaged, though much of the food is stockpiled & frozen.

Question: At the beginning of the game, can one own a corporation and a political party? I'm not sure if I'll go the corporate route, I'm still considering my options. Just brainstorming.

Assuming the corporation is established with your starting funds, yes.

Drugarkind

Urist McDon (this is probably gonna change)



Freestanding trapezoid business - Leather Palace Place. Sells leather goods, such as wallets and purses. Does not have own tannery due to being in the middle of the goddamn square. Also deals in knickknacks and trinkets.
Corner business - Urist McBrewer's Taproom (this is probably not gonna change). Tavern and brewery. Specializes in beer
Temple - House of Black and White. Honors the Many-Faced God, who is the god of death. Represented in like every religion by any god or aspect of death whatsoever. The front area contains alters to all the various death gods and a pool of water for offerings. The rear area houses the servants and such.
Home - is a house.

No longer needed.

AA, please spoiler your map. Mosher, please downsize your buildings.

EDIT: Crosspost, there might be some conflicting building locations here

Kane Saxon

Kane Saxon is leader of the Black Guard, a secretive organization, only interested in power for itself, and ruthlessly willing to do anything to gain power in the city. Kane Saxon himself was brought up in a poor neighborhood of Metropolis, and started dealing drugs and pickpocketing around the area as a child. He would grow up dealing drugs and pickpocketing until he was 19, when he attempted his first bank robbery - He was caught in a trap when one of the people who was in on the robbery turned out to be an undercover police officer. He was thrown in jail, and stayed there for almost three years before he successfully killed six prison wardens and escaped. By this time, though, prison had changed him - He found a religious man sharing his jail cell, and would end up becoming highly religious himself, believing in the religion preached by the Templars. However, he also believed that his enemies were now the enemies of the Temple, and thus needed to be killed - He quickly became a lot more violent, and by the time he escaped and went on the run, he had laid the foundations of the Black Guard. He would find himself escaping across the river and finding a ''legitimate'' job as a carpenter, but would continue dealing drugs and stealing to acquire a lot more money than if he just worked as a carpenter. He also delved into other crimes, such as pimping and murder, while using the people he met while dealing drugs and pimping to acquire more power over locals in his area by providing local services, such as cable TV, cheaper than other sources could give it. However, doing this would give him many enemies, and he would found a group of assassins and bodyguards to protect him - They are now known as the Black Guard.

The Black Guard

The Black Guard is a very secretive criminal organization, but it is known to be very religious, and it doesn't tolerate other religions. It also attempts to control the lives to local people as much as possible, doing things such as cutting power lines in certain areas, and installing its own generators to provide power. The Black Guard is mainly made up of ordinary workers such as electricians and plumbers who tend to be mysteriously well paid, although they don't know anything about where the money comes from - And if they ask, they tend to suddenly disappear.

Map:

edited OP.

Hmm, three ideas in my mind, Batman-esk Supervillian, Evil corporation, or 3rd Street Saints? Let me think on these for a minute

K lets go with the Batman-esk Supervillian, because that seems like the one that would work the best and I would have the most fun with Let me come up with a back story and personalty along with the organizations, then again maybe some sort of superhero would be fun as well. Im going to sleep on this, update in the morning

Nick McMullan

Nick McMullan is a rich businessman in Metropolis who is fed up with the mayor's ancient ideals. The McMullans owned a very popular and large supermarket in Metropolis. The reason why it was so popular is that you could get almost everything you would need for any kind of meal. But Nick McMullan wanted to go further. He wanted to sell everything anyone could possibly need in his supermarket. However, he realised that it was impossible.

When he heard about the idea of shopping malls from other cities, he decided that he would set up one himself. It would allow him to realise his dream of a market where people could get almost everything, but without nearly as much hassle if he would do it himself. And he could still get a tidy profit! So Nick McMullan set up the Wild Stallion Shopping Complex and let the profit flow.

But the profit wasn't as much as it should have been. The idiotic Mayor had set up Metropolis and the surrounding regions as a "Banana Republic", where dealings with the outside world were made nearly impossible due to large amounts of red tape designed to make trade with the outside community very troublesome. Even worse was the constant drain on money that was the bribes given the various crime syndicates to ensure that his shopkeepers were not harassed. But even that was not as bad as compared to the growing red threat. Corrupting our children via Communist and Socialist propaganda. Making monstrous Worker Unions designed to corrupt legitimate businesses. Those red scum were trying to destroy Capitalism itself! McMullan could not let these repeated blunders stand.

So McMullan created the Merchant's Guild of Metropolis, a group of likeminded Merchants that wanted to start massive trade with the outside world, end the tyranny of the mobs and destroy Communism before it engulfs the city. McMullan was not only improving the city, he was making a buck out of it too! The only members of the Guild are the shop owners inside the Wild Stallion Shopping Center, but surely it would grow...

Merchant's Guild of Metro

The Merchant's Guild of Metropolis is an organisation that is dedicated to defending the rights of likeminded Merchants. Led by the mayoral candidate Nick McMullan, the MGM aims to:

-Promote intercity and international trade.
-Defend members from harassment (if a crime syndicate tries to mess with a member, then the MGM will promptly send big muscly men to go medieval on their arses).
-Educate children on the virtues of hard work and capitalism.
-Stamp out the red menace once and for all.
-And most importantly, increase the profits of all members!

Any shopkeeper that is not a Socialist or a Communist is free to join! Apart from a modest fee and a small weekly payment, of course. See our website for more details!

Home - Later

Buildings - Later

Hmmm, so far we have;

Organizations

• Bosnian gang
• Unknown pro-gun & pro-education political party headed by P_F
• Metropolis Protection Agency (Unknown if Security Agency, vigilante group, or mafia protection racket)
• The Temple of the Divine Tribunal
• The Socialist Revolutionary Organization
• The Black Guard (Mafia Cult)
• Merchant's Guild of Metropolis

Well if someone else is already a vigilante I should be something else...

Yourself - John Murdoch woke to a life already half lived. He was the son from an old family, old money as they say, he had apparently gone to university and studies business like his father had desired. He had loved, lived, and he didn't remember any of it. Waking to a hospital bed at 23 Murdoch had apparently been in a accident that claimed the lives of all his family, including a fiancée he would never know.

He thus became obsessed with knowing and discovering things, within a year his media holding company "Noir News Network" owned a large portion of the media outlets in the city. Murdoch is single minded in his desire to know and document life as he knows how easily things can be lost.

Recently there have been rumours of a FBI investigation into Murdock over him breaking privacy laws to get the news that he desires. Some rumours also state he has some sort of connection to criminal activity... whether this is in support of Vigilantes or from Mafia handouts is speculated on wildly.

Your organization - Noir News Network, this media conglomerate is focused on staying up to date both in methods of media output and on stories. His ideology has pushed the network to remain neutral on political affairs showing both sides of the issues while over-aggressively pursuing the truth at the heart of the matter.

Currently NNN owns the local Newspaper, tv-news station and has recently purchased a local tabloid.

Your home - To come. (Can I use the NNN HQ?)

Any buildings you're purchasing - The Empire is run from NNN which consolidates all the other forms of media into a cohesive whole, sharing ideas and news discoveries.

NNN = Noir News Network HQ, where most of the paper work and co-ordination takes place. Murdock basically lives here.

MEM = Metro Entertainment Media, A Skyscraper in the centre of Metro City. It shoots television shows, mainly talk shows and news programmes. The Metro News at 7 uses most of the legwork from the Metro Star, with the MEM converting it into a visable media or running to the scene with a working camera. The other shows range from traditional cooking shows, quiz shows and talk shows.

MR = Metro Radio, Radio provider running music, shows, plays and late night romantic hotlines

MS = Metro Star, Newspaper that provides information on the city, as they have their own printer (in the basement) they also print tabloids.

Well, the city's name depends on how you look at it.
The city map is based off of Sarajevo. However, I left it anonymous on purpose, so I think Sone turned it into a version of HIS metropolis.

Regardless, no comic references, I'm trying to have people avoid RL works. This world should have its own issues, not Link and Harry Potter ducking it out.

So what IS this city called? I'd like to know.