Setting:InfiniCon
NOTE: Everything except for the very basic premise is completely proposed, un-"official" ideas and brainstorming. Everything is open to revision, criticism, or feedback. Just leave some comment in the "discussion" tab saying why you did so. Additionally, if you are looking for the mechanics section, it's been moved to InfiniCon Proposed Mechanics
Welcome to InfiniCon, the Con that never ends.
A Convention so large that it occupies its own city. infinity City, the cleverly named home of InfiniCon is a relatively small, but densely packed urban paradise where fandoms of all kinds coexist in a year-round celebration of anime, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, LARP, and just about any other kind of nerdy subculture you can imagine. With multiple conventions running all the time, each organizing their own large events and gatherings, the city is more or less split into districts.
For some, InfiniCon is merely an event to attend once a year, like any other convention. You get some pictures of neat costumes, meet some popular celebrities from the industry, visit some panels, and that's the end of it. For many more, InfiniCon is home. It is a fan's Neverland, where they get to live the dream, fully immersed in a surreal world where fictional characters roam the streets and where you can go to the local café and find a Jedi, a Ninja, a Space Marine, and zombie, sharing a table and conversing over coffee.
Luckily, for those who wish to stay, there is always work to be done in Infinity City. The large events require organizers, security detail, technicians, craftsmen, janitors, and countless other little jobs to pay the bills and stay just a little longer. Even those who don't want to runt he convention can find a job helping out the various vendors and stores dotting the city. Many talented and entrepreneurially minded citizens have even managed to form personal businesses repairing and sewing costumes, styling wigs, or building the complex and detailed props and armor that the costumed citizens cannot live without.
Now, you may be thinking that this all sounds too good to be true, and you'd be right. InfiniCon is not without its problems, though the people running the show do everything in their power to make sure that most don't hear about the darker side of the Con, but that doesn't stop it from happening. Like any other city on the planet, darker problems lie just below the surface.
The biggest issues in Infinity City are often about property. There's an extensive list of eager fans who want to move in, but there aren't enough apartments to go around. Rumors persist of certain groups muscling people out of their apartments so their property can be sold at a hefty mark-up, while others say that there is a band of unhinged citizens who have been making lesser known attendees disappear to secure some extra property.
Vendors and businesses have to worry about getting their shipments on time as competing businesses make take it upon themselves to take them out of commission by sending other attendees to intercept and steal any incoming shipments. Crafters have to worry about being able to get enough materials to finish their next costume or prop, while still being able to make it look flawless.
Similarly, nerds are quite territorial to begin with, so amongst those who already own property, certain districts and bordering areas are always in disputes amongst different fandoms and whole factions. Little fights break out often over minor things, like which faction owns the local McDonalds or if people wearing a certain kind of costume can even pass down certain streets. In some cases, the results of these disputes aren't too vicious, but there are always those amongst any group who take things too far.
History
The history of Infinity City is something of a mystery. Even long time citizens aren't quite sure when the place first popped up, though most agree that it has been around over a decade and much of the city was already built even when the convention first started functioning year round.
The most common theory is that the person who built Infinity City won a major lottery or contest or something that landed him with more money than they could ever spend in 100 lifetimes. Like any of us might do, they poured that money into the things they loved, like anime and comic books and games. When that wasn't enough they began to put all that money into conventions, which proved to be enormous successes. Soon, they were buying out entire city blocks and re-purposing them as property for their convention, which continued to grow faster and faster. Before long, Infinity City was born, owned and supported by it's own, everlasting convention.
There are a lot of unanswered questions from that explanation, but seeing as the Chairman of InfiniCon, the person running the whole show, is incredibly reclusive, no one is really quite sure what the truth is. The whole thing has made the Chairman something of an urban legend with some claiming he's just wandering the streets, just another face in the crowd, while others insist that he has to be some sort of investment super genius or maybe even a collective of the most brilliant minds from each faction. Others still will warn you not to go digging into the subject too much, because they knew a guy, who heard from another guy that trying to find the Chairman got some guy killed.
The Plan so far
InfiniCon is meant to be a setting, first and foremost. The initial idea was to create and explore the concept, expanding and detailing the things that hadn't been touched on yet. This went far better than expected and before I knew it, there were all sorts of anons chiming in and writing short stories and bringing the idea to life. Soon after, the thought of homebrewing a system to go along with the idea. I'm not quite sure what's happening with that, though I'd rather work out some of the larger details before getting that deep into this, as my plan was originally to run it as a World of Darkness setting.
Additionally, InfiniCon exists in a couple different flavors at the moment.
- The Low Fantasy - InfiniCon is slightly more realistic, though no less corrupt and dark once you get into it. From a player perspective, it's more like a Film Noire story with players often playing Mercenary or Hunter types who take up any work they can get that falls outside the normal spectrum of legitimate business. Players might be normals, working as the diplomats and negotiators between the different factions, being the neutral party that isn't sided with any one series or genre.
- The Batshit Insane High Fantasy - InfiniCon is not merely a gathering of cosplayers and dorks, there is something supernatural about it, something that alters the fabric of reality. Those who truly engage themselves in the fantasy of being a fictional character and immerse themselves in their fandom start to take on the powers and abilities of their character and series. Depending on how intense you feel like getting, this could mean a street-level supers type thing with people sporting enhanced agility and strength, or it could be a high end Exalted type rise to Godhood, where fully immersed characters warp the world around them, making it take on aspects of their fandom. This would be represented by an "Immersion" stat.
- Delusions and Overreactions - There is a semi-supernatural phenomenon in Infinity City that allows playing pretend and getting into character to have some serious impact on the citizens. As a person drifts further into their delusion, it becomes harder for them to not react to roleplay as if it were reality. This becomes a bigger problem when the intense delusions of one person can start to drag others in, forcing everyone in the area into their fantasy, crossover hallucination where nerf darts are deadly bullets and the guy in the cardboard armor becomes a fearsome trained warrior. from an outsiders perspective, it's hilarious to watch, but it can be quite frustrating for Con Security when they have to waste time convincing kids that they aren't actually dead after some fight with another cosplayer. This is meant to be an alternate take on the immersion idea, still allowing for epic battles, but without the actual super powers and only a hint of psychic shenanigans.
The City Itself
There are a lot of details and districts and ideas flying around about about the city, so for now let's just compile a few factoids.
One of the largest details worth noting is the Infinity City is a complete city. Meaning, though it largely exists as a convention, there are hospitals, post offices, firehouses, police stations, and all those other little things you take for granted. There are an abundance of apartments and hotels which make up the largest percentage of buildings in the city. The majority of most hotel rooms are kept open for the constant rotation of visitors and attendees, though some wealthy citizens have taken up permanent residences in some of the nicer suites these hotels have to offer.
Little Tokyo - Anime, Manga, and Japanese Culture District.
Metropolis - The Comics, Cartoons, and Western Media. Modern city, most resembles the real world.
Grimdark Forest - LARP and Renaissance District. Located on the outskirts of the city near an actual forest.
Neckbeard Alley - Traditional gaming and Fantasy District. Located near Grimdark Forest
Unnamed - And, of course, there needs to be a sci-fi, futurist district of the city, but I can't think of a snappy name for it right now.
The UnderCon - Due to the large number of apartment buildings and hotels and high rises, most buildings have basements several floors deep with service tunnels connecting them. Con security and Organizers often use the most well-maintained tunnels are shortcuts through the city, but all those abandoned and unmaintained back halls house the city's homeless con-goers who refused to leave. Some seriously shady shit goes on down there.
Original Threads
First:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17597062/
Second:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17603755/
Contributers
- InfiniCon OP !!eo4aiy7L/b7 / InfiniCon Chairman !!eo4aiy7L/b7
- hungarian LARPfag
- Jarboot !!w46wwO99b1K
- Anonymous