Bioshock RP [Pre-Planning]

[Main Nation Ministry]

Hello NationStaters and fellow Rpers,
I have the idea of doing a Bioshock RP, yep that's right. Basically, I want to have it be like Bioshock, where you get to RP in a failed utopia.
The catch is that I'm not planning on having the RP be set in Rapture or Columbia. I having you guys pick what type of city, time period, and world the RP is set in.
Once everyone submitted enough ideas for what the RP will be set in, I will make a poll for you guys to pick what would be suitable for the RP.
The RP can be set in anything. It can be set in an underground city or a space station, it can be set in the 70's or during WW2. The possibilities are unlimited for you.

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Type of City: (remember, the possibilities are endless. It can be anywhere you can think of. Ex: Underground City, Space Station, Remote Island, etc. Remember to make a short description on what your city is.)
City built in: (When your city was built.)
RP set in: (This is where the RP is set, your character could be in the city as a survivor or can be someone who stumbled upon it.)
Beliefs and Purpose: (Why the city was built in the first place, in Rapture, it was built to be a capitalist society free of religious and government. In Columbia, it was intended to be a showcase of American exceptionalism, only to turn into a militantly theocratic and fascist society. This is where you get to choose why the city was built and what beliefs and purpose it has.)


After about 10-15 ideas submitted, I will create the poll, so everyone can vote for the final result.

[The Grande Republic 0f Arcadia]

TAG

[Zhaas123]

Color me interested.
Type of City:
Deep underground. Built many hundreds of miles underground, and only accessible through tunnels which were shut down a few years after being built, with almost no contact with the above world since. Society has became stratified with the poorer residents living at the bottom near the Reactors that keep the city running and amongst the waste of the upper levels. The cream of society lives at the top getting the freshest food, and breathing the cleanest air. Those at the bottom maintain the Reactor, those in the central levels make the parts and grow the food, and cycle the water needed to keep the other two levels of society, and the top level providing the knowledge needed to to keep the Reactor's engineers smart enough to fix it when it breaks down. This way of life keep going for decades until one day some had enough of the struggle. They bombed the air recyclers, the Green houses, some even smuggling bombs hidden in packages to the upper levels food shipments. Life ground to a halt as the Police Force that had barely seen use outside of petty crime and the occasional shootout, had to be equipped for a raid on the lower levels. But in the end it was done the Police smashed their way through the Center levels doing minimum to sever damage to the Food and water systems. It wouldn't be until their final push in the lowest levels when the real damage came, in the fighting the Reactor was critically damaged sending explosions and radiation though parts of the Straction. It was all over in an hour but in that hour much of the City was rendered uninhabitable due to the radiation, much of the Food and water systems laid within the Irradiated zones and made starvation the fate of many who survived, The worst though was that much of the Ruling class the Top of the Top was killed in that one hour leaving the city leaderless as it fell into anarchy, and drifted towards ins final death.

City built in: Either in the American Great Plans, In Siberia, or the Australian Outback, Building began in 2020 fished in 2025

RP set in: sometime between 2030-2045. either as a group of people finding the long lost entrance, or as a group of survives trying desperately to get out of the city.

Beliefs and Purpose: Survival, and enrichment of the human race though isolation, nuclear power, and mineral wealth. Built so Humanity's best and brights could survive a new cold war that many feared would turn hot. Many of the poor trapped below were not meant to stay there but were forced to stay when the owners heard the signal that a nuclear war had started and closed the tunnels till such a time it could be safe to return to the surface.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Color me interested.
Type of City:
Deep underground. Built many hundreds of miles underground, and only accessible through tunnels which were shut down a few years after being built, with almost no contact with the above world since. Society has became stratified with the poorer residents living at the bottom near the Reactors that keep the city running and amongst the waste of the upper levels. The cream of society lives at the top getting the freshest food, and breathing the cleanest air. Those at the bottom maintain the Reactor, those in the central levels make the parts and grow the food, and cycle the water needed to keep the other two levels of society, and the top level providing the knowledge needed to to keep the Reactor's engineers smart enough to fix it when it breaks down. This way of life keep going for decades until one day some had enough of the struggle. They bombed the air recyclers, the Green houses, some even smuggling bombs hidden in packages to the upper levels food shipments. Life ground to a halt as the Police Force that had barely seen use outside of petty crime and the occasional shootout, had to be equipped for a raid on the lower levels. But in the end it was done the Police smashed their way through the Center levels doing minimum to sever damage to the Food and water systems. It wouldn't be until their final push in the lowest levels when the real damage came, in the fighting the Reactor was critically damaged sending explosions and radiation though parts of the Straction. It was all over in an hour but in that hour much of the City was rendered uninhabitable due to the radiation, much of the Food and water systems laid within the Irradiated zones and made starvation the fate of many who survived, The worst though was that much of the Ruling class the Top of the Top was killed in that one hour leaving the city leaderless as it fell into anarchy, and drifted towards ins final death.

City built in: Either in the American Great Plans, In Siberia, or the Australian Outback.

RP set in: sometime between 2030-2045. either as a group of people finding the long lost entrance, or as a group of survives trying desperately to get out of the city.

Beliefs and Purpose: Survival, and enrichment of the human race though isolation, nuclear power, and mineral wealth. Built so Humanity's best and brights could survive a new cold war that many feared would turn hot. Many of the poor trapped below were not meant to stay there but were forced to stay when the owners heard the signal that a nuclear war had started and closed the tunnels till such a time it could be safe to return to the surface.

Before I can accept it, I need you to add one last fact. When was the city built? When was it built before the 2030-2045? Around what time period?

[Zhaas123]

Added that it was built from 2020 to 2025

[Main Nation Ministry]

Color me interested.
Type of City:
Deep underground. Built many hundreds of miles underground, and only accessible through tunnels which were shut down a few years after being built, with almost no contact with the above world since. Society has became stratified with the poorer residents living at the bottom near the Reactors that keep the city running and amongst the waste of the upper levels. The cream of society lives at the top getting the freshest food, and breathing the cleanest air. Those at the bottom maintain the Reactor, those in the central levels make the parts and grow the food, and cycle the water needed to keep the other two levels of society, and the top level providing the knowledge needed to to keep the Reactor's engineers smart enough to fix it when it breaks down. This way of life keep going for decades until one day some had enough of the struggle. They bombed the air recyclers, the Green houses, some even smuggling bombs hidden in packages to the upper levels food shipments. Life ground to a halt as the Police Force that had barely seen use outside of petty crime and the occasional shootout, had to be equipped for a raid on the lower levels. But in the end it was done the Police smashed their way through the Center levels doing minimum to sever damage to the Food and water systems. It wouldn't be until their final push in the lowest levels when the real damage came, in the fighting the Reactor was critically damaged sending explosions and radiation though parts of the Straction. It was all over in an hour but in that hour much of the City was rendered uninhabitable due to the radiation, much of the Food and water systems laid within the Irradiated zones and made starvation the fate of many who survived, The worst though was that much of the Ruling class the Top of the Top was killed in that one hour leaving the city leaderless as it fell into anarchy, and drifted towards ins final death.

City built in: Either in the American Great Plans, In Siberia, or the Australian Outback, Building began in 2020 fished in 2025

RP set in: sometime between 2030-2045. either as a group of people finding the long lost entrance, or as a group of survives trying desperately to get out of the city.

Beliefs and Purpose: Survival, and enrichment of the human race though isolation, nuclear power, and mineral wealth. Built so Humanity's best and brights could survive a new cold war that many feared would turn hot. Many of the poor trapped below were not meant to stay there but were forced to stay when the owners heard the signal that a nuclear war had started and closed the tunnels till such a time it could be safe to return to the surface.

Accepted!
9-14 more ideas to go.

[Monarchy of Japanada]

Type of City: Amazon City is built deep within the Amazon Rainforest. Houses and other buildings are either built on rivers, tall bigger than tree-sized skyscrapers or tree houses. The city is built within a wall surrounding it around 5000 miles from it's outskirts. The city has a mainly German, American, Japanese, Italian and Brazilian population, because of immigration. The city is although in a forest very urbanized. Roads aren't build though, but massive buildings take up a lot of space. The Amazon River is also accessible for the player, which they can travel through with the use of rafts, sometimes armed with guns. There are also man made holes which lead to massive caverns that can be explored.
City built in: 1942-1950.
RP set in: It takes place in 1970, but the city is highly futuristic, yet 1970 styled in terms of weapon appearance, clothing, buildings, culture and advertisement style and computers, televisions, etc are still very...crappy. Players can be survivors, soldiers, tourists or people who arrived while exploring other parts of the Amazon, crossing over the Amazon while in a plane and having it crash, stuff like that. Certain guns that can be found are laser or regular AK47s, M16s, Walther P38, thompsons, etc, although military grade weapons will be harder to find. As for melee, rakes, shovels, sticks of varying size, survival knifes and paddles are common. Enemies are gun, ADÃO and melee-wielding criminals which are weak and easy to kill, ADÃO mutated animals such as anacondas and piranhas and humanoid metal robots which either look like they are construction [Drill and wrecking ball hands], paramedic [Defibrillator hands and needle arms], military [Grenade launcher and semi-automatic pistol arms], chief [Frying pan and poison bottle hands, which are disguised as ketchup bottles], lumberjack [Duel axes] or farmer [Sickle and rake arms] based.
Beliefs and Purpose: It was built by a group of intelligent scholars, military deserters, scientists and civilians from many different countries, during late WW2 when [Alt history] the Axis acquired atomic bombs, around the same time America did, and nuclear war had broken out across the globe. in the Amazon Rainforest. It's purpose was to shield its civilians from nuclear war, VERY thick walls were built several thousand miles outside of the actual city's perimeters, to defend it from bombs and soldiers, with a very a advanced missile system, futuristic infrastructure and machinery being developed inside, with buildings being based off those of America's. By now America's west coast, western Soviet Union, all German cities, Japan and Italy were all decimated nearly completely, so the world's governments forcefully asked to allow civilian access, which was soon allowed, the city was nearly finished, and new flesh helped it grow further, but at the expense of precious money and resources. The city was transformed by the new waves of immigrants and their different cultures. The city was a technological marvel, and had invented early forms of sentient robots, and even ADÃO [Portuguese for ADAM] which can be mutated from a the liquid of mysterious, new type of leaf discovered in the rainforest. It can be used on animals and people alike to give them strange powers. The use of this led to the strengthening of organised crime, negative effects on one's health due to overuse and animals becoming wild. This lead to the city's downfall as it collapsed into anarchy, with criminals, robots and monstrous animals taking over, although most if not all criminals are mutated by ADÃO, and are pretty rare now due to being killed by animals and robots.

[Monarchy of Japanada]

Finished.

[Monarchy of Japanada]

I have an idea for another city I'm currently making. Its a giant amusement park/city in another dimension.

[The Tricolour]

Type of City: New Reichland was built in 1942, and was the first spaceship ever built. At first, it was supposed to be weaponized, but the project was delayed a lot with increasing Allied victories. In 1945, it was sent into the dephs of space. The Nazi government destroyed most of the documents, for secrecy, and Allied soldiers destroyed the rest, believing it to be one of Hitler's grand schemes Now, millions of miles away from home, the space station thrives.
City built in: 1940-1942
RP set in: 50's/60's - The technology is still 40's-oreinted.
Beliefs and Purpose: This space ship was built by the Nazis, and as of now, is still run by the Nazis. However, the populance is beginning to resent this new regime, and they have no new resources, because their spaceship is millions of miles away from Germany.

RP oppertunities - People could try to fully activate the weapon, return to Earth, or overthrow the fascist government.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Type of City: Amazon City is built deep within the Amazon Rainforest. Houses and other buildings are either built on rivers, tall bigger than tree-sized skyscrapers or tree houses. The city is built within a wall surrounding it around 5000 miles from it's outskirts. The city has a mainly German, American, Japanese, Italian and Brazilian population, because of immigration. The city is although in a forest very urbanized. Roads aren't build though, but massive buildings take up a lot of space. The Amazon River is also accessible for the player, which they can travel through with the use of rafts, sometimes armed with guns. There are also man made holes which lead to massive caverns that can be explored.
City built in: 1942-1950.
RP set in: It takes place in 1970, but the city is highly futuristic, yet 1970 styled in terms of weapon appearance, clothing, buildings, culture and advertisement style and computers, televisions, etc are still very...crappy. Players can be survivors, soldiers, tourists or people who arrived while exploring other parts of the Amazon, crossing over the Amazon while in a plane and having it crash, stuff like that. Certain guns that can be found are laser or regular AK47s, M16s, Walther P38, thompsons, etc, although military grade weapons will be harder to find. As for melee, rakes, shovels, sticks of varying size, survival knifes and paddles are common. Enemies are gun, ADÃO and melee-wielding criminals which are weak and easy to kill, ADÃO mutated animals such as anacondas and piranhas and humanoid metal robots which either look like they are construction [Drill and wrecking ball hands], paramedic [Defibrillator hands and needle arms], military [Grenade launcher and semi-automatic pistol arms], chief [Frying pan and poison bottle hands, which are disguised as ketchup bottles], lumberjack [Duel axes] or farmer [Sickle and rake arms] based.
Beliefs and Purpose: It was built by a group of intelligent scholars, military deserters, scientists and civilians from many different countries, during late WW2 when [Alt history] the Axis acquired atomic bombs, around the same time America did, and nuclear war had broken out across the globe. in the Amazon Rainforest. It's purpose was to shield its civilians from nuclear war, VERY thick walls were built several thousand miles outside of the actual city's perimeters, to defend it from bombs and soldiers, with a very a advanced missile system, futuristic infrastructure and machinery being developed inside, with buildings being based off those of America's. By now America's west coast, western Soviet Union, all German cities, Japan and Italy were all decimated nearly completely, so the world's governments forcefully asked to allow civilian access, which was soon allowed, the city was nearly finished, and new flesh helped it grow further, but at the expense of precious money and resources. The city was transformed by the new waves of immigrants and their different cultures. The city was a technological marvel, and had invented early forms of sentient robots, and even ADÃO [Portuguese for ADAM] which can be mutated from a the liquid of mysterious, new type of leaf discovered in the rainforest. It can be used on animals and people alike to give them strange powers. The use of this led to the strengthening of organised crime, negative effects on one's health due to overuse and animals becoming wild. This lead to the city's downfall as it collapsed into anarchy, with criminals, robots and monstrous animals taking over, although most if not all criminals are mutated by ADÃO, and are pretty rare now due to being killed by animals and robots.

Accepted! 8-13 ideas to go.

I have an idea for another city I'm currently making. Its a giant amusement park/city in another dimension.

I let you make a second idea, but not more than two, ok?

[Main Nation Ministry]

Type of City: New Reichland was built in 1942, and was the first spaceship ever built. At first, it was supposed to be weaponized, but the project was delayed a lot with increasing Allied victories. In 1945, it was sent into the dephs of space. The Nazi government destroyed most of the documents, for secrecy, and Allied soldiers destroyed the rest, believing it to be one of Hitler's grand schemes Now, millions of miles away from home, the space station thrives.
City built in: 1940-1942
RP set in: 50's/60's - The technology is still 40's-oreinted.
Beliefs and Purpose: This space ship was built by the Nazis, and as of now, is still run by the Nazis. However, the populance is beginning to resent this new regime, and they have no new resources, because their spaceship is millions of miles away from Germany.

RP oppertunities - People could try to fully activate the weapon, return to Earth, or overthrow the fascist government.

Accepted! 7-12 ideas to go!

[Monarchy of Japanada]

Type of City: It seems like a normal, amusement-park themed city at first glance..but its actually another dimension created by a powerful, world famous magician for Magic Land, a giant amusement company with the power matching that of modern Disney. It is a giant amusement park, but city-sized and with things for more than just an adventurous kid, but for adults too....strip clubs, casinos, shopping centers, sight-seeing, museums and more! All under the security of its own police department, fire department and multiple hospitals. Magico Maxwell, a french magician created it with his 'powers' and shocked the world, and science ever since. It costed lot, but raked in its worth of cash. The city began to advanced magic research, giving powers away to the public increasing both suspicion and revenue. But one day they did something dastardly, the city trapped everyone inside, revealing its workers to be inhuman synthetic humanoids intent on murdering everyone inside. The city was flipped upside down as it became a giant test of survival, with only the most worthy surviving to live to see another day, and then probably dying that day. Enemies are the workers, which have a variety of built in weapons, and magic, but you also are gifted with magic, by the mastermind of this unhumane idea itself, the great Magico Maxwell. There are also robots, but are rare, they can include giant clowns, haunted house props, etc. Since the exit is closed everyone is trapped inside, and must fight to uncover the truth, and also how to get the hell out!
City built in: 1980-2020.
RP set in: A giant 'amusement city' The tech is 21st century level, obviously with fantasy. Players control someone touring the city, and can even be kids, because it is a giant amusement park. You can't control a maintenance worker [Because they are evil] but you could individual work at one of the services [Ex. Strip club, mall, casino, restaurant not owned by the park, but rather McDonalds or something] It stretches 10 miles, and is ripe with exploration, every street having a different experience.
Beliefs and Purpose: It was built for entertainment. It doesn't have a government, because it is controlled by a private corporation..but! It has authority and emergency services like mentioned earlier [police, firemen, doctors] thats all...not much, but enough to get the point across.

[Monarchy of Japanada]

Finished.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Type of City: It seems like a normal, amusement-park themed city at first glance..but its actually another dimension created by a powerful, world famous magician for Magic Land, a giant amusement company with the power matching that of modern Disney. It is a giant amusement park, but city-sized and with things for more than just an adventurous kid, but for adults too....strip clubs, casinos, shopping centers, sight-seeing, museums and more! All under the security of its own police department, fire department and multiple hospitals. Magico Maxwell, a french magician created it with his 'powers' and shocked the world, and science ever since. It costed lot, but raked in its worth of cash. The city began to advanced magic research, giving powers away to the public increasing both suspicion and revenue. But one day they did something dastardly, the city trapped everyone inside, revealing its workers to be inhuman synthetic humanoids intent on murdering everyone inside. The city was flipped upside down as it became a giant test of survival, with only the most worthy surviving to live to see another day, and then probably dying that day. Enemies are the workers, which have a variety of built in weapons, and magic, but you also are gifted with magic, by the mastermind of this unhumane idea itself, the great Magico Maxwell. There are also robots, but are rare, they can include giant clowns, haunted house props, etc. Since the exit is closed everyone is trapped inside, and must fight to uncover the truth, and also how to get the hell out!
City built in: 1980-2020.
RP set in: A giant 'amusement city' The tech is 21st century level, obviously with fantasy. Players control someone touring the city, and can even be kids, because it is a giant amusement park. You can't control a maintenance worker [Because they are evil] but you could individual work at one of the services [Ex. Strip club, mall, casino, restaurant not owned by the park, but rather McDonalds or something] It stretches 10 miles, and is ripe with exploration, every street having a different experience.
Beliefs and Purpose: It was built for entertainment. It doesn't have a government, because it is controlled by a private corporation..but! It has authority and emergency services like mentioned earlier [police, firemen, doctors] thats all...not much, but enough to get the point across.

Accepted! 6-11 ideas to go!

[The Ravenholm Empire]

Type of City: Remote Island in the Atlantic, mostly filled with a Anglo-Germanic population (primarily of British decent), the city looks like most cities of the 1800 but also faces a lot of issues of the time. The city is divided into class based districts, with Grand Estates at one end, and heavy slums at another. Similar to that of Columbia there are robotic horses (but ran on clockwork) that make up the main forms of transport, alongside balloon flight.
City built in: 1804-1815
RP set in: Taking place in 1915, hundred years after the founding of the city and the coronation of a new emperor, massive city wide celebrations are taking place, players would assume the role of survivors of a ship wreck near the island oddly welcomed as being the first form of outside contact in years. The whole place runs on a series of clockwork mechanisms making up its form of power and uniqueness within the world. In terms of weapons, swords, tools for the time, and knives make up the bulk of the main CQB weapons, while guns consist of flintlocks, blunderbusses, and clockwork guns. 'Gins' are available, which give people powers similar to that of 'salts' or ADAM and very in power. The upper and middle classes can afford a range of different 'gins' for better or for worse, while the lower classes have brewed illegal and highly unstable gins. Great unrest is amongst the lower class and some of the middle class, seeking a revolution against the increasingly corrupted monarchy and wanting to restore the liberal democracy of old, however it is unknown if it will truly help the cities chances for survival.
Beliefs and Purpose: Built to carry out the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and Classical liberalism during and after the nepolonic wars by British supporters of the Bonapartist era of France. However, what was set up as a liberal democracy turned sour quickly, with a military general taking over the 'liberal democracy' turned into a revolutionary empire, while the ideas of the enlightenment still play a major 100 years later, the liberal democratic ideas have quickly died down.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Type of City: Remote Island in the Atlantic, mostly filled with a Anglo-Germanic population (primarily of British decent), the city looks like most cities of the 1800 but also faces a lot of issues of the time. The city is divided into class based districts, with Grand Estates at one end, and heavy slums at another. Similar to that of Columbia there are robotic horses (but ran on clockwork) that make up the main forms of transport, alongside balloon flight.
City built in: 1804-1815
RP set in: Taking place in 1915, hundred years after the founding of the city and the coronation of a new emperor, massive city wide celebrations are taking place, players would assume the role of survivors of a ship wreck near the island oddly welcomed as being the first form of outside contact in years. The whole place runs on a series of clockwork mechanisms making up its form of power and uniqueness within the world. In terms of weapons, swords, tools for the time, and knives make up the bulk of the main CQB weapons, while guns consist of flintlocks, blunderbusses, and clockwork guns. 'Gins' are available, which give people powers similar to that of 'salts' or ADAM and very in power. The upper and middle classes can afford a range of different 'gins' for better or for worse, while the lower classes have brewed illegal and highly unstable gins. Great unrest is amongst the lower class and some of the middle class, seeking a revolution against the increasingly corrupted monarchy and wanting to restore the liberal democracy of old, however it is unknown if it will truly help the cities chances for survival.
Beliefs and Purpose: Built to carry out the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and Classical liberalism during and after the nepolonic wars by British supporters of the Bonapartist era of France. However, what was set up as a liberal democracy turned sour quickly, with a military general taking over the 'liberal democracy' turned into a revolutionary empire, while the ideas of the enlightenment still play a major 100 years later, the liberal democratic ideas have quickly died down.

Accepted! 5-10 ideas to go!

[Main Nation Ministry]

Let's see, we have about 5 ideas so far.
Tell you what, how about we shortened the amount of ideas to use for the poll or I let people still post 5 more ideas.
This link here will take you to a mini-poll before we will start the official one. https://goo.gl/Gx6qWN

[Main Nation Ministry]

The results are in for the mini-poll. Only 1 person voted for there to be to 5.
And now, I should have the official poll posted.
Here's the deal, I will have separate polls, each that will set the way the RP is played.
What city do you want it to take place?
http://www.strawpoll.me/11756980
When was the city built in?
http://www.strawpoll.me/11757024
When is the RP set in?
http://www.strawpoll.me/11757051
And lastly,
What beliefs and purposes does the city have?
http://www.strawpoll.me/11757091

After people vote from the set of polls, I will use the information based on the results to craft the official RP that will start OOC sign-ups and make a world where your characters will roleplay in.

[Minarchismusland]

Eh, I guess I'm too late to submit an idea :/

[The Valyria Empire]

Tag, but I'm not too thrilled with some of these concepts.

If we do a future one it will be more System Shock than Bioshock.

I think a city in the 1700s would of been the way to go.

[Minarchismusland]

Tag, but I'm not too thrilled with some of these concepts.

If we do a future one it will be more System Shock than Bioshock.

I think a city in the 1700s would of been the way to go.

Which is why I voted for underground city.


Maybe the 1800s, I think they'd be better.

[The Valyria Empire]

Tag, but I'm not too thrilled with some of these concepts.

If we do a future one it will be more System Shock than Bioshock.

I think a city in the 1700s would of been the way to go.

Which is why I voted for underground city.


Maybe the 1800s, I think they'd be better.

Eh, the Underground City has been done before. (City of Embers) but I'll admit coming up with a new idea is very hard but I do not think it should be set in modern day or the future. I think it should be set before the 1960s

[Main Nation Ministry]

Take note, guys.
The polls will stop voting at 12/1/16, so take your time to vote on the city you want to rp in.

[Minarchismusland]

Which is why I voted for underground city.


Maybe the 1800s, I think they'd be better.

Eh, the Underground City has been done before. (City of Embers) but I'll admit coming up with a new idea is very hard but I do not think it should be set in modern day or the future. I think it should be set before the 1960s

Yes. Bioshock's charm is having absurdly modern technology in the past (and therefore having all the style of whatever time period it is set in).