The supernatural and the occult.
I want to make this some really nasty
stuff. Not the kind of the thing the players will all be using. It's
mainly employed by the Corporate higher ups, ultra corrupt
politicians and a few cults thriving in the underbelly of the city.
Some of them may use it a little bit but the cost will be great and
in the end they are being manipulated into becoming something less
than human.
The corporate powers are almost
completely under the control of a group of beings called the
Nepenthean Council. They are very close to being what most religions
would call demons or devils. Exchanging power and control to their
loyal subjects in exchange for making the world a more terrible place
filled with suffering. It's pain of the masses that the Nepentheans
feed off of, the more the people suffer the more powerful and
gluttonous they become.
The politicians and downtown cults are
also gaining power from the same place as the corporate powers but
not from the main Council. They are serving the lesser creatures of
the Nepenthean realm who hope to eventually rise in power among their
own. It is a constant battle for survival and more control with
constant infighting and backstabbing.
Characters who decide to trade their
own humanity to the Nepentheans for personal gain will receive a
special attribute called 'Corruption'. The more they give into doing
whatever they are told or urged to do the higher their Corruption
will go up. Eventually losing touch with humanity and even reality
itself and being handed over to become NPCs in the City.
