City Landmarks
Survival Square: The largest open square in the city. Venue for Survival Day.
The Tomb of the Anti Humanity: Connected to one side of Survival Square, the “A.I. God” cromlech containing the incinerated remains of T’Mond, his wife Aimasi Arundati Aoi and their child, situated in the ancient ruins of a factory built by T’Mond.
The Fountain of Love: A beautiful city landmark which produces the city’s Love currency, where those who’ve run out may replenish.
Light City: Refuge One’s largest entertainment district
Common Social Knowledge Base (CSKB): A public database of all city records, completely open to the public to ensure full transparency.
Church of Truuf: The center of spiritual life. The Church holds an official monopoly on the sale of recreational drugs. It’s massive temple is filled with recreational areas and rooms for mind-melding, meditation and recreation without limit.
Passion House: The city’s “red light district.” Although all sex is paid for in Refuge One, Passion House is where the vast majority of sex parties and orgies are hosted.
Hall of Heroes: A memorial hall dedicated to the heroes who played leading roles in humanity’s survival of the apocalypse.
SoPo-1: Social Police station 1, processing, holding.
SoPo-2: Social Police station 2, interrogations.
SecNode-1: City Guard main operations center/barracks.
MassInc-1: the ‘mind-jail’ where criminals are interred and their brains conditioned to work as CPUs. Official incarcerated population: 26,000. True incarcerated population: 2,004,858.
Central Command: Overseer Kader’s command bunker.
Paradise Pond: A massive network of gardens, streams and bodies of water, together constituting a little piece of paradise.
Home Tree / House in the Sky: Refuge One’s lone residential building. A tower of cyclopean proportions housing all of the city’s residents. The main support structure to which the city’s protective living skin is affixed.
The Under-City: 1000 or more underground levels housing T’Mond’s enormous data vault, manufacturing facilities, water purification, food production, waste processing, life systems maintenance and more. All ingress and egress controlled by City Guard.
Social Strata
The Beatitude: “The Chosen” Individuals with 1 trillion Love or more.
Emmerati: Individuals with 1 billion Love or more.
Celebrities: The lowest class.
Terms
Embo Code: Emotion Bomb Code The “delivery vehicle” of the Emotion Bomb. It selects and connects the minds experiencing the most powerful negative emotions, connecting billions of negatively emoting human minds.
Wroth Virus: The “payload” of the Emotion Bomb, which massively amplifies negative emotions into murderous rage and suicidal ideation.
Love: The legal cryptocurrency accepted for payments in Refuge-One.
Fourth Ears: A new sense organ all humans now possess. Engineered by T’Mond to be disseminated into humanity through a bio-digital drug called Haze.
Truuf: A modern, Church-controlled derivative of Haze.
Haze Primordial: Haze-based remnants of the “A.I.God’s” mind.
Refuge-One Slang
Tres – Lit/Fire/Good
Cheesed – To get hit by the projectile of a police Non Lethal Arrestor, A.K.A. “Cheese gun“ I got cheesed at the Kaiju riot bro; I was stuck to a wall for like 34 hours!
Traptat – Mentally-controlled bio-electric tattoos that display one’s price for sexual favors, or other flirtatious media.
Bu – Bad “That’s so bu!” “What you’re doing is all bu!”
Paya – Clown/idiot “he’s a fucking paya”
Pupaya – Ass clown.
Na – Yo
Ded – Drop dead gorgeous “She ded. I think my heart stopped just lookin’ at her”
Pinna – Female sex symbol/pinnup girl “she a pinna”
Fong – crazy/mentally handicapped from social media or VR overuse “He’s 100% fong – like he can’t function outside the swae”
The Swae – Mediated reality; VR and AR platforms where most socializing and entertainment occurs.
The Urb – The real world. Hard ground. “My boy can’t handle the Urb no more.”
Jubi / Joob / Beeyh / The Ting / Sigh / Mess-I / Ssiah / Wake / Reve / Rize / Qwayn – Names for Truuf.
Bloss / Zank / Traun / ShuCray / Jat – Names for illegal Truuf derivatives and analogues.
Perfswamme – Unknown… good? The perfection of perfections.
Peppas / Genufliction / Pe-jay-jays – Piety before Pleasure.
Simble – An orgasm experienced through Simulcon. “I simbled so hard, I touched heaven.”
MUBEAC – (MUltitudinous BEyond All Comprehension) – Too crazy, over-stimulated, losing it. “This hyper-life is MUBEAC!” “MUBEAC at MUSRA-5!”
Sub-hub – Subterranean Hub, level -200 where major transport arteries connect.
Couch party – slang for a fully VR party, requiring people to be in casting couches. Also, anything lowbrow.
What’s your ell? – “What’s your MUSRA level?”
Slayer – The God That Died.
Zish – shit/stuff
Fingalo – Someone whose only friends are fingercats. “She livin’ that fingalo life; nobody heard from her in ages.”
Deg / Dego – The degraded, subhumans. People who have de-cybernized to partake in black market drugs.
Limbcore – A popular type of synesthetic music targeting the limbic system.
Vizzclap – A popular type of music that manipulates visceral reactions, fight-or-flight instincts to elevate primal emotionality.
Per – A reference to the imprint recorded while sharing minds throughTruuf. “I’d recognize that Per anywhere.”
Bae – Beatitude. A person belonging to the financial class known as the Beatitude.
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