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Glitch City Voices

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A Primer

/cyb/ is a text board on the "parody of a parody" dangeru.us, which itself is based on a board of the same name and design that players can read through, in the cyberpunk visual novel/waifu bartending simulator, VA-11 Hall-a. It is a predominantly roleplaying board which is set in the "City That Shouldn't Exist" of Glitch City, a dystopian hell where megacorporations reign supreme, citizens are guinea pigs, and technology advances within weeks, not years. It's referred to in-game as "the world's guinea pig."

Originally conceived as a board to discuss cyberpunk media in all its forms, the board eventually grew into a heavily cyberpunk inspired long and shortform roleplaying board, with the majority of threads discussing events in-universe. Because of Va-11, Hall-a's vague cyberpunk background and constant references to other series (including, but not limited to, Deus Ex, Ghost in the Shell, 206X: Read Only Memories, Blade Runner, and Neuromancer), the roleplay universe of /cyb/ also grew to include other franchises, from the Metal Gear series to Invisible Inc, to especially Shadowrun. Much of the terminology, slang, and references come from Shadowrun in particular, along with its grandfather, William S. Gibson's Neuromancer.

ARGs

Instead of one overarching story that is presided over by a single GM, multiple GM's have come and gone from the active playerbase, operating their own threads, NPC's, and events. These groups came to be loosely associated with alternate reality games since their GM's often took advantage of danger/u/'s anonymity to post riddles, clues, cyphers, and encrypted messages to move their stories forward, occasionally with universe-altering results.

To prevent drama, a generally unspoken rule holds that GM's tend to avoid having their plotlines interfere with one another, but this happens anyway, sometimes resulting in a previously dangerous situation suddenly moving Up to Eleven. GM's also oftentimes reference each other's works, legitimizing each other as each player adds to the history of the universe.

Universe Changing Events

Occasionally, a few events in /cyb/ which were part of an ARG have resulted in city-wide changes to the universe, affecting other roleplayers and args in the process.

Corporations Within Glitch City

Voice Corp

"Voice the Future"