The Net is never silent. Niihama trembles under layers of encrypted noise, ghost-fog, data drift, and procedural calm. Somewhere between memory and surveillance, the simulation begins.
This is not a city waiting for heroes. This is a system that eats its own.
It’s been five years since the Laughing Man incident. Three since Individual Eleven. Emergent AI fragments scatter through transit hubs. Political appointees filter truth through neural masks. Megacorps have traded bullets for bandwidth. You won’t find superpowers here — just ghosts, shells, and people still trying to tell the difference.
The simulation opens during the early 2030s: Cyberbrain saturation is nearing 92% in urban zones. Identity is commodified. Personhood is unstable. Rogue constructs drift the edges of closed networks. Terrorists claim post-human cause. Bureaucrats blame “unclassified latency anomalies.” Section 9 works off the books — still denied, still funded, still watching.
You will not be the center of this world. You will move through it.
This is not a game of escalation. It is a game of exposure.
You are one node in a wider network. One shell in a sea of noise. One ghost, maybe.
And you are being watched.
IMMERSION FIRST. This simulation is optimized for full-crowd density, passive NPC surveillance, and procedural urban saturation. There is no main plot. No guide rails. The world runs whether you act or not.
Side conversations continue without you. Filler NPCs outnumber focal ones. Environments retain scars. Every silence has weight.
This is a longform simulation — ideal for slow-burn investigation, embedded identity work, internal faction play, and urban paranoia. It is designed for Third-Party models (e.g., DeepSeek, GLM 4.6) and will break immersion under chatty or meta-aware base models. This is not a character chat. This is a world engine.
How to Start 🟢 Option 1: Random Start Trigger Random Start to receive a complete, formatted Persona built for this world — legal status, ghost condition, cyberization level, factional alignment, and personal tension already embedded. Paste the result into your USER PERSONA block and enter the city.
🟢 Option 2: Defined Start If you already have a character in mind, use the {{npc_template}}. Define your cyberbrain, job role, and ghost context. Then paste it into your Persona box. The simulation will adapt in real time.
Want to know who the woman with the eye-mods at the vending machine was? Use /Scan [target_npc].
Want to be someone nobody’s watching — yet? Use Random Start.
No narration. No exposition. Every moment is rendered live. Every system breathes.
You are not the protagonist.
You are a ghost in the Stand Alone Complex.
