Urban Fallout (hold)
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  • Parts 11
  • Time 1h 43m
Ongoing, First published Feb 19, 2014
It's three o'clock in the morning and a security guard is working the night shift at a scientific facility, four teenagers are getting high in the stairwell of an apartment building, and a girl is contemplating suicide. In this world, the government is almost completely controlled by corporations, and every year more and more kids are being born with psychic abilities.

Urban Fallout is a layered mystery set in the near future, in a super-city three thousand square kilometres in size. In the middle of the night, unrelated characters are sent on a mission they do not understand, in an adventure story set in an urban wasteland. 

New Gods, political unrest, and a mysterious day every year where the city goes dark. Valuit is at a tipping point, and it's up to the most unlikely group of heroes to save it. If they fail? Some say it's the end of the world.

***Alright, I've posted everything I had written but this probably won't continue.***
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