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Sunshine Bay
World Information
I'm aware this is probably a huge information overload. No, you don't have to use every aspect of it, and the fact we have this much information about a made-up city is… maybe slightly concerning? Also this gets more delirious the more we go down. And sillier. It gets sillier.

Basic Info
Sunshine Bay is a bustling metropolitan city-state found on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, roughly where Napier and Hastings are today. The city has transport-orientated and sustainability-focused development, with a functional public transit system spanning a metro, mainline rail, multiple bus routes, and multiple tramways. Sunshine Bay is as close to a utopia as possible: everyone is provided for by the state, healthcare is free, there are no slums in the land area - and council housing is actually decent.

Also I realise this is a ton of information in one post, there’s been A LOT of worldbuilding… we got as far as making a bin collection schedule, so-

City Structure
Sunshine Bay is made up of six major districts: City of Sunshine Bay, Otter Bay Area, Hope Harbour District, Westwood Hills, District of Evergreen, and Riverside District (affectionately known as Riversideshire, AKA the place where the Welsh live.) Each district has its own identity, since the current districts of Sunshine Bay used to be separate towns that merged together due to urban sprawl.

Each district, except from the City of Sunshine Bay, is split into three wards. The wards may also have their own separate identities, but that’s less likely to occur. Most of them are chill, unless you’re from Riversideshire or you’re from Marshdown Lake. There's a map below for reference! The city is around 30km across from Otter Bay to Birchstowe, so keep that in mind when talking distances.



City of Sunshine Bay
The City of Sunshine Bay houses the city’s main Central Business District (CBD) and is also home to the city centre. It’s where the city’s governments are, and is the only district of Sunshine Bay that isn’t split into wards. The city is a centre for research and has a sprawling biomedical campus which houses the city’s largest hospital, Sunshine Bay Hospital, and a children’s hospital. There’s also Exhibition Square where many museums are located and a rather touristy part of town, and Parliament Square which is the main administrative centre is located. Most businesses and office blocks are located in Canary Square, while

Within Sunshine Bay, there’s the large council housing area of Highbrook, where many lower-income families have a council home provided for in well-built apartments. There is also Marina Bay (affectionately known as the Bay Area), a large waterfront area with beaches most often used by beach goers, and many tourist shops.

Otter Bay Area
Otter Bay is split into three wards: Marshdown Lake, Otter Bay, and Moorhaven Harbour. Moorhaven Harbour is a former industrial district, currently undergoing a revitalisation similar to the London Docklands. The old port was moved into the area of Sunshine Bay City as the old port was found to be damaging to the environment of Otter Bay. The area is now transitioning into office space and tourism, as the nearby Otter Bay ward has lots of scenery and lots of seals. (Otter Bay is actually a misnomer, it was originally called Otter Bay because the people who first settled there thought seals were otters… no but in actuality I was like “otters are cute!” and then we decided to put this in New Zealand where otters don’t exist so we have fur seals instead) Industry has also been moved to Hope Harbour.

Marshdown Lake is where some fishing industry occurs, due to its close proximity to Marsh Lake. Unfortunately, Marshdown Lake has a fierce rivalry with Riverside over fishing rights in the lake, and they really don’t like the people from Riverside (in a British Rivalry way) and is also now primarily used for birdwatchers as it’s very… marshy.

Riversideshire
Riversideshire is the Yorkshire/Wales/whatever of Sunshine Bay. The three wards, Riverside, Hazelmarsh, and Ashthorpe, have an intense rivalry with each other and the district as a whole has a rather one-sided rivalry with the neighbouring Otter Bay District, which is most intense between Marshdown Lake and Riverside due to their arguments over the fishing rights in Marsh Lake. If you know how varying levels of one-sided or possibly two-sided or very intense British rivalries work, this is basically the entire district of Riversideshire.

Westwood Hills
Westwood Hills is, as its name might suggest, a district with lots of hills to the west of the city. That’s about it. Westwood Hills people are chill. It’s split into the wards of Blossomhurst, Westwood Hills, and Ashton Heath.

Evergreen District
Evergreen District is an area that used to be made up of multiple small towns before urban sprawl happened and they’re now all part of Sunshine Bay. The district is split into three wards: Brooklyn, Evergreen, and Aspen. Evergreen district is home to Sunshine Bay Evergreen International Airport (IATA code: EVI, Hope and I spent ages looking for an airport code that wasn’t in use, please appreciate our efforts), a large commercial airport with multiple terminals and two runways. The airport is administered by the Sunshine Bay City authority and is not under the control of Evergreen Ward’s local council.

Despite urban sprawl, Evergreen is the most sparsely populated area of Sunshine Bay. The wards have become commuter towns for the main city and CBD.

Hope Harbour
Hope Harbour is where much of the heavy industry from Moorhaven and Otter Bay has since been moved, and is the current industrial centre and shipping area of Sunshine Bay. It’s split into the wards of Hope Harbour, Thornton Grove, and Birchstowe. The area here is vaguely foresty, at least before some or most of it got demolished for buildings… or something.

Transportation
All transport within Sunshine Bay is subject to a zoning system; specifically the railways and metro. All public transit can be paid for by the Breeze Card, Sunshine Bay’s version of a pay-as-you-go public transit card.

Trains
Sunshine Bay has outside connections via Sunshine Bay International Railway Station, connecting to the wider New Zealand train network, run by Eastern Railway. There’s also the suburban rail lines run by Citylink. In addition, the overground, which is run by Transport for Sunshine Bay, is also a mainline rail service.

Metro
The city’s metro system is run by Transport for Sunshine Bay and has six lines: Northern, Central Northwestern, Circle, District, Otter Bay and City, and Bay lines. (No, we did not steal these names from the London Underground… mmmhm….) The best way to explain this is map (thank you Hope!)



Buses
An actually functional bus network that we don’t have a map of because making a map of this would require making road maps and making road maps means getting Cities Skylines of which Hope’s computer lags a bunch and Skylar’s computer is currently nonexistent, so. BUT ANYWAY! FUNCTIONAL BUS NETWORK! YAY! There's also bus prefixing as follows which you're free to use or disregard…

0 prefix / no leading prefix: tourist buses and central Sunshine Bay commuter buses
* 001/1: Evergreen International Airport Express Bus

1 prefix: Commuter buses covering the whole of Sunshine Bay’s city limits
2 prefix: Buses running within Evergreen District
3 prefix: Buses running within Riverside District
4 prefix: Buses running within the Otter Bay Area
5 prefix: Buses running within Hope Harbour
6 prefix: Commuter buses running to places in Sunshine Bay
7 prefix: Buses that make loops within and around Sunshine Bay’s City limits (ring road buses)
8 prefix: Charter services, very uncommon
9 prefix: not in use

Trams
There currently doesn’t exist trams but there might? We don’t know. We’ll see.

Bikes
There’s actually! good! cycling! infrastructure! Cycle lanes are found on every road demarcated in red lanes and white markings where separate cycle lanes aren’t found. There’s also better Boris Bikes for bike hire.

Air
Evergreen International Airport (EVI) is the city’s main air link in and out of the city. It houses four sprawling international terminals and four runways, which allows it to run for up to 24 hours a day. It allows for arrivals and departures on its four parallel runways and has high capacity. It’s connected via the metro to the main city via the Circle Line, but also has other rail connections to other places in the city. There was more worldbuilding but we need to redo it since we decided where Sunshine Bay was actually located…

Governance
Sunshine Bay is overseen by the Sunshine Bay Regional Authority (SBRA), a division of the central government that deals with local issues such as transport, education, more transport, development, even more transport, healthcare, more healthcare, SOCIALISED HEALTHCARE FTW and all that jazz. It has different departments, such as Transport for Sunshine Bay (TfSB), which oversees the metro, buses, and overground and the Sunshine Bay Medical Services (SBMS) which oversees the funding and building of hospitals and urgent care centres and GP practices and all the fun healthcare things. They also oversee bin collection, which we have an unfinished schedule for…

Aurora Bay
World Information

Basic Info
Aurora Bay is just like any other big city - it has a metro system, a train system (standard gauge ftw!), hospitals, public services, etc. It’s by the coast of some big country and is also a city state (like half my cities are). Its skyline features a lot of skyscrapers and high rise apartments, but it’s also a very pretty place! And it’s also a democracy with the Best Voting System in place: Single Transferrable Vote! (yes I have opinions now shush)

This world was mainly created as a playground for me to discuss the impact that having superheroes/superpowered humans would have on public services because I was like “medical drama plus law and order plus spies and secret agents plus superheroes what could possibly go wrong??” and here we are

Superpowers, Superheroes, Vigilantes, and Villains
Superpowers are either inherent or they can be given, it’s honestly up to the backstory and isn’t a thing I’ve figured out yet. Most people don’t have superpowers, but for those that do many of them choose to become superheroes or somehow use their powers in a way that benefits them. In the eyes of the law, all superheroes are vigilantes (with the exception of the Stellar Force) and they also cause a lot of destruction.

There are various groups operating throughout the city, and the government is slowly losing its control on law and order within the city so more superheroes are coming. Meanwhile the hospital and ambulance staff (okay mainly Elanna, Amber, and Rena) are complaining about lack of funding because destruction. I haven’t done much worldbuilding here so it’s up to you how you interpret this ahah

City Services
Hospitals and Ambulance Services
The main setting is Aspen Glenn Memorial Hospital, which is located in an okay-ish part of town, serving some parts of the central business district, is somewhat close to the more crummy parts of town, and is also close to some of the safer parts of town. The emergency department is headed by Dr Elanna Barton and Charge Nurse Amber Roberts, though there’ll be different people on shift throughout because labour laws exist. Aspen Glenn Memorial Hospital is a major trauma centre and deals with a lot of mass casualty incidents and patients who’ve suffered major trauma.

The ambulance service is just like any other ambulance service - there are various stations dotted around town and it’s separate from the fire and police services. Paramedics and EMTs crew the ambulances, and there’s also a helicopter air ambulance service as well for major trauma cases.

The health service suffers from a lack of funding (it’s not chronic, but they are underfunded), since the money is being put into rebuilding the destruction that superpowered humans have caused and also regulating vigilante behaviour and tracking down criminals and all that jazz.

The Criminal Justice System and Policing
The city has its own police force and has prosecution and defense lawyers since all people need to be represented in court, and there’s a strong belief in justice within those who run the system. The police force is strong, and there’s a vigilante investigations team that’s a team of detectives plus an ADA (like in law and order svu) that investigates the actions of any superpowered individual, and brings them to court.

Fire Brigade
It exists. It responds to emergencies. That’s about it! I can’t really say anything else about these guys since I never think about them but hey.

ERIS and the Intelligence Services
ERIS is an organisation that kinda operates outside of the scope of most of the city’s usual intelligence services. ERIS was specifically created to combat the rising threats from superpowered humans, and it’s currently headed by Director Eirene Chelmsford and Deputy Director Agent Alayna Hope. (Alayna didn’t want to stop being a field agent and doesn’t like being referred to as the deputy director. She just has a lot of paperwork and she hates it so she has two titles) They also have no qualms about recruiting teenagers to their ranks because that’s exactly what happened to Rena, Emrys, Aspen, Alayna, and others.

The rest of the city’s intelligence services are pretty mundane and unremarkable.

The Stellar Force
The only “legal” superhero team that operates in Aurora Bay. Initially created by the government, the Stellar Force aims to become a symbol of superheroes and superpowers the city can look up to, instead of relying on vigilantism and whatnot. It’s currently a team of five people, though there are plans to expand to include anyone who has superpowers.

The current members are undecided save for Agent X who is Emrys Bright and is very unhappy with this whole arrangement, and is maybe currently plotting the fake death of her alter ego. Emrys is supposed to act as the liaison between the Stellar Force and ERIS, who supply them with intelligence and equipment but in reality that’s more Alayna’s job. Emrys usually finds herself mentoring the others and escaping media attention where she can.

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⚚ | ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀꜱ

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༺ Hugh Smith

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༺ Luxa Ashstride
༺ Lirien Windstep (tba!!)

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༺ Okimi Sha
༺ Kumo Ako
༺ Yuri Yohara

⚚ | ᴡᴏʀʟᴅꜱ

༺ Munsia

⚚ | ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋꜱ

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　◦　Asahana Yua
　◦　Zeng Yichun

Munsia

Welcome to the country of Munsia, a distant place wiped off of most maps. People here usually live in either the city or distant temples, no inbetween. The capital being a city known as Soyto.

The people in the cities typically don’t believe in gods or deities, though they believe in spirits and curses. The ideal occupation for most people in the cities is to be exorcists, as they have quite a high pay and people always feel safer as exorcists. Most people work gathering food for markets, the currency used is called ‘dalcs’. Dalcs are a very strong currency, and inflation has never been a problem. People in a city live under the guidance of spirits, as they are thought to be elders to the people. Some spirits try to lead people astray, or haunt the people, which is what exorcists are for. Exorcists live under a very strict set of rules, and they are told to never exorcise a spirit unless they cause any harm to people. Exorcists are near the top of the social pyramid, and are thought to be the protectors of cities. They always have work, since evil spirits are always wandering around. Exorcists will expel curses from people, and also get rid of evil spirits. But, if they are to exorcise a regular spirit, they will be executed.

On the other hand, people who live in temples have devoted their entire lives to the deity they are worshiping, children born by families in temples will be raised within the temple, and are typically prohibited from leaving until they turn 18, which is the age they will start doing practices for the deities. Children born in temples are expected to carry the family’s legacy, and often do not get a choice in if they wish to continue worshipping the deity or not. If they choose not to follow the religion they were born in, they will often be ridiculed, as they are not following what is thought to be the norm. One of the most prominent religions in the country is called Kunism, which worships the deity named Kumo, a god with spider-like features.

Spirits set the rules for people to follow, and are also who judges people thought to have committed crimes. They are the only species higher than exorcists. However, if a spirit falsely punishes someone or wreaks havoc, exorcists are immediately given permission to exorcise them. Every week, exorcists are sent letters on what spirits to exorcise. Some people can also be cursed by spirits or other unknown entities, which is also the job of exorcists to remove the curse from the person’s body.

People in temples are no exception, and follow the rule of spirits. People in temples are known for being orderly, so the stepping in of spirits are rarely needed.

People living in temples see spirits as the messengers of deities, and that after death the deity has sent them down to protect the people. While people living in the city simply see them as people who have been lost in the past, and are now guiding the living.

Humans cannot see spirits, they only can if they come into possession of an object possessed by the spirit, or enter a place possessed by a spirit. Spirits can only interact with objects, excluding the object of their possession. They can interact with people who are in possession of their object, and can only be heard by people with their object. Only certain spirits are communicated with, which are spirits trusted with judgement. Spirits can prove themselves to the people of being trusted, which have to be approved by already trusted spirits. It is forbidden to come in contact with spirits if you do not work in exorcism or law, and if you do work in law you will work under guidance of spirits. If you find any possessed items, you must immediately hand them to an exorcist to keep safe.

Spirits will eventually have to pass on, which is a rite done by exorcists. If a spirit feels ‘fulfilled’ they will ask an exorcist to be exorcised, but can only be exorcised under certain conditions. Conditions being how long they’ve been a spirit for, and what they have done. If they fulfill conditions, exorcists will be allowed to exorcise them. This is the only condition in which they can exorcise a spirit that has done no wrong.

Most people in Munsia speak one common language, but people who live in temples typically use a different dialect. However, the language is still recognizable, slight pronunciation differences are all that tells the dialects apart.

Characters in this universe:
- Okimi Sha
- Kumo Ako
- Yuri Yohara

Quick Facts:
- Kunism worships a god named Kumo, and in this world Kumo is a real deity. However, other religions do exist since there hasn’t been a confirmation of this fact. You can make up the other religions if you’d like to write anything for these characters!

- An important part of history for Munsia would be the 13-year darkness. In this timeframe, an inventor named Kai Ha attempted to make a machine capable of exorcising spirits automatically. However, the invention had wiped all of the spirits from Soyto and the surrounding forest (Everseek Forest) This caused immense issues due to the country’s government being built on spirits. The spirit population was able to increase from wandering spirits from neighboring cities, but many people had been sacrificed to help the city’s spirit population come back to normal. Further developments on exorcism was outlawed after the 13 year darkness.

- Munsia is a fantasy world and also takes place in the past so modern stuff doesn’t exist

attack on @EvaEvergreen & @taylorsversion–

Sara had met Emrys about four months ago, and she had known from the start that the girl was trouble.

Before freshman year, Sara would have kept a wide berth from anyone like that, hoping the distance would keep her from being caught in a chaos whirlwind.

Before freshman year, Grace was still her best friend.

So the June before school started up again she'd gathered up what little courage she had and marched straight up to the most un-Grace-like person she could find. This person turned out to be Emrys, a ball of fiery chaos who honestly scared Sara a little bit.

Where Grace wanted everyone to like her, Emrys didn't seem to care what anyone thought of her. Where Grace was hyper-aware of trends and other social constraints, Emrys was about as fashionable as a ring-tailed lemur wearing an ugly christmas sweater. Where Grace wanted more, Emrys appeared perfectly content with who she was.

At first, Emrys was wary and refused to tell Sara anything about herself. But after about a month of persistence, she started to open up a little bit.

By October, Emrys was dragging Sara along on just about every scheme. Sara could tell she still had secrets, but she didn't care. Being friends with Emrys felt like a constant roller coaster, that stomach-dropping rush of adrenaline following wherever they went together.

Today, Emrys wanted a fake ID, and she was determined to get both her and Sara each one. When Sara first heard about this notion, she'd arched an eyebrow and told Emrys that there was no way on Earth that she was going to help with that.

But Emrys had begged, and even deployed the infamous puppy eyes. So Sara, against her better judgement, agreed.

And that was why Emrys and Sara were now waiting in a dark alleyway for some mysterious ‘professional’ — that was all Emrys had deigned to tell her about him when Sara had asked — to come and make them fake IDs so they could sneak into a pub or something.

"I'm telling you, this guy knows what he's doing. I've heard some amazing reviews,“ Emrys told Sara.

”Oh yes, I'm sure these reviews are from very trustworthy sources,“ Sara shot back, rolling her eyes good-naturedly.

”They are!“ Emrys protested. ”My friends are really experienced in this sort of thing!“

”Okay, okay. I'm sure he'll be fine,“ Sara said, giving in. She could never hold her own for long in an argument against Emrys.

”Oh, I assure you, ladies, I'll be better than fine,“ said a voice.

Both Sara and Emrys jumped a little and turned around to see a man, about 20, leaning against a trash can and tossing a coin dangerously high in the air, miraculously catching it just before it fell into the gutter.

”Theodore Roosevelt,“ he said, sticking his hand out for them to shake.

Sara and Emrys looked at him dubiously.

”It's an alias,“ he explained. ”Don't want to get reported to the cops, do we?“

Sara rolled her eyes again, not so good-naturedly this time. She did not have high expectations for this guy.

”I'm Emrys,“ her friend said, shaking his hand. ”And this is Sara."

Sara groaned internally. Real names, Emrys? Really?

“Nice to meet you, ladies! So what can I do for you?”

“Well, my friend and I were hoping to meet a friend at a concert,” Emrys said, faking a pouty look. “But it seems we're too young?”

The ID guy grinned. “I've got just the thing.”

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