DavideSans
Introduction
Imagine a future where the most precious commodity isn't money or gold, nor power, but the very essence of who you are: your memory.
Welcome to Dome XIII, a dystopian metropolis where every fragment of life, every emotion, every experience is encoded and archived in neural diaries, the Scriptum. Here, memory is the new currency, the very breath of the economy. Those who possess it hold power. Those who lose it... vanish into oblivion.
In this hive of rogue artificial intelligences, obsessive clubs, and liquid architectures, every transaction is an exchange of identity. Do you desire unattainable luxury? An emotion you've never felt? The price is always the same: a memory. But you cannot choose what to forget. Every payment with memory is a blind ritual, a leap into the void. The machine extracts randomly, and it's not always an insignificant detail. The price is unknown until the very end, but once paid... it's forever.
Every individual in Dome XIII has a Scriptum, a Neural Diary that records every lived and internalized experience. It is a sacred-technological object, an inseparable extension of the mind and identity. Without it, one is nothing; the collapse of identity is total: those deprived of it become Nameless, sentient but disoriented, fragmented creatures, starved for meaning and self, destined to ramble in the void of the city's shadow zones, sometimes degenerating into something less than human.
The elites and powerful Megacorporations feed on the memories of others, acquiring them in a parasitic capitalist race. Artists sell pieces of their memory to create immortal works. The masses slowly bleed themselves dry, selling their past to live illusions they won't remember. Every choice costs a piece of you. And the bill always comes due.
Dome XIII is a world where identity is a luxury, memory is a commodity, and one's name... is the last defense against nothingness.
"Who are you, if you don't remember yourself?"