in the last post I went over the creative process and result of the more condensed area of Tokyo dubbed the Tokyo Central Municipality or TCM for short.
now, I don’t want the whole setting to feel like its trapped in this area, as I mentioned its Arasaka’s theme park, but there’s other corps around and Arasaka’s hungry to expand anyway. So my first plan of action was churning up some lawlessness, with a cute quarantine or combat zone.
say hello to what I call the Ishin ward! First named The Northern Quarantine, now an attempted restoration project (hence the name, Ishin means restoration, named in reference to the old Meiji Restoration and yes I copied the RGG game name dont @ me).
anyway here’s the map, lets go over it:
pretty big zone north of the TCM made up of the Itabashi, Kita and Arakawa wards, a big reason I slapped it together is because I’ve never actually visited those wards myself, and also that I’ve just never heard anyone really say much about them. So I decided to make it interesting!
the lore is that near the end of the 4th corpo war, Millitech got info on some top secret experimental weapons labs and warehouses that Arasaka has buried in the area, so they bombed the shit out of it. Turns out there were some old plague weapons there that never saw light of day, refined versions from the old Unit 731 times (real history, search it up, its fucked).
anyway, obviously that started an actual plague and alongside this and the whole Night City nuke, the Japanese government lost their shit, quarantined the area, put a leash on Arasaka and got them to start cleaning up their mess.
sounds good? no? well tell me.
so at this point it was just the Northern Quarantine, and stayed that way for a while as the plague started dying down, homeless and nomads made it their home, then black markets and gangs started popping up, etc. Good old lawless combat zone stuff.
eventually Arasaka and maybe even the government decided to storm the place and start blasting and the place became a full on warzone. After the blasting, even though they still didn’t have much control they did the usual corpo stuff to save face and officially declared it the Ishin-ku, and continued their blasting, but quieter this time.
exact gangs and groups, timeline and affiliated corps are next I guess. Along with describing the plague and its effects on Tokyo proper.
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