「外れ者たちの夜」は川崎市のワールドピースシアターで行われるナイトショー。奇妙で黙示録的な世界を舞台に、町から町へと巡業するショーが川崎を訪れ、現地の人々が現地の人々のためにパフォーマンスをする…そんな世界に皆さんもいらっしゃいませんか。ショーを楽しんだり、ドリンクを口にしたり…もし才能があるなら、是非一緒にパフォーマンスに参加してください。自分の芸を持ち込んでも、他の誰かの芸に参加しても構いません。

About The Setting

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Our cabaret takes place approximately 150 – 200 years after the Great Ending. The Ancestors messed up and ruined the earth. Once we had a global civilization. There was inequality, for certain, but life was pretty wonderful for the Ancestors who lived in our part of the world. Unfortunately, the wonderfulness hid the consequences of that careless comfort. We’re not sure exactly what happened as the records are incomplete, but the collapse of human civilization was nearly complete. Once there were billions of us, now our best guess is as many as 100 million to as few as 5 million.

However it was caused, the climate changed, ecosystems collapsed, and with it the ecosystem of the ancestors’ global civilization. Lush landscapes have become deserts, and all the things that cling to it, including us, are occasionally washed away by violent storms. Humanity is tenacious. We cling like moss to this rock we call Earth.

Civilization is trying to rebuild itself. We don’t know what the global population is now, but humans are certainly more sparse on the ground than we used to be. Here in the Great Plain, which stretches for hundreds of klicks, settlements are dotted, appearing and disappearing with changing conditions. Most of us live and die within a few klicks of where we were born, unless we become storm refugees. No one has done a survey of all the settlements, let alone a census, but there are three main types that exist:

• The Bubble Cities: After the fall of civilization, the richest of the Ancestors retreated into these self-sufficient domes run by their robot servants. To most of us, these are a mystery. No one comes in, and no one goes out: no humans, in any case. Small scrub settlements have cropped up nearby and trade essentials with the occasional robot or robotic agent. Are there any humans left inside? If so, are they in charge, or have they become the servants of the robots
• Scrub Settlements: The most common type of community. Some of these crop up around Bubble Cities, taking advantage of a trading relationship, but they can pop up anywhere, usually near some kind of resource, like a tin mine or a “river” (more usually a muddy stream) or underground aquifer. Each settlement has its own government and system of government, ranging from despotic authoritarianism through to communalism. The largest of these have populations in the tens of thousands and basic civic functions like police, rudimentary courts, etc.
• Bunkers: The bunker cities are buried deep underground. The occasional resident interacts with surface dwellers, but unlike the Bubble Cities, the Bunker people do no trade with the surface. The people who live there are descendants of the Ancestors known as “preppers” or maybe “preppies”. The records are unclear on this name. Those who leave the bunkers are forever banished as those within fear contamination from the outside world.

原因は不明だが、先祖たちのせいで地球はだめになった。10億人いたのが、今では1億、いや、もしくは500万人くらいしかいないのかもしれない。気象は大きく変わり、生態系も破壊。まさに人類の危機である。

残り少ない人類は、必死に生きている。
嵐に流されない限り、生まれた場所からあまり離れず、そこで生活し、死を迎える。
その中でも、大きく３つのタイプに分かれているー

• バブル都市: 文明が終わったとき、裕福なものはロボット召使いのドームに移駐した。このドームの近くに、集落がいくつかあり、ロボットと生活用品を取引している。だがしかし、ドームの中の現状は誰もわからない。誰も出入りをしないのだ。人はまだ住んでいるのか？ロボットになったのか？
• 小さな共同居留：集落の数としてはこのタイプが一番多い。各集落ごとに政治が行われている。独裁主義から地方自治主義まで、政治思想は様々だ。警察や裁判なども機能している。
• 壕： 地下に住む、地下民。地下民の先祖たちは「プレッパー」とか、「プレッピー」 とか呼ばれていた。真相は定かではない。この壕を一度去れば、外の世界に汚染されるとして永遠に壕から追放される。