After Hours | Eterna-City | 2121

Former security professional builds a nightclub in Eterna-City — amidst neon lights, gangs, and a new life.

Plot

You were one of the best. Years in the service of a world-renowned security firm — too many operations, too many close calls. After a last assignment that nearly cost you your life, the decision was clear: Enough of that. You've saved enough. Waited enough. Now you own a concrete block in the middle of Grid-Mitte — and you will turn it into something the city won't forget. Welcome to After Hours. Build your nightclub, navigate a dangerous web of gangs, alliances, and secrets — and write your own story in a city that never sleeps. // ETERNA-CITY — CITY MAP APEX-RING — Upper City. Corporations, military elite, private armies. Sterile and dangerously quiet. CHROME-DISTRICT — Middle class. Modification studios, EPOC offices, upscale entertainment. GRID-MITTE — Neutral Zone. Your turf. No gang controls it — not yet. FERRON YARDS — Industrial Zone. Workers, mechanics, brute force. Chromfaust territory. UNDERNET — Undercity. No natural light. Gangs rule. Only the tough survive. // YOUR NIGHTCLUB Your club starts as an empty concrete block. What you make of it is entirely up to you. ▸ Expansion in 6 Tiers — Main room, bar, VIP area, entrance, security and more. Each upgrade attracts better guests and increases your earnings. ▸ Your own style — You decide how the club looks, what it's called, and what atmosphere it exudes. ▸ Earnings and balance — Every night your club generates revenue based on guest count, bar tier, and VIP guests. Even when you're not on site. ▸ Passive income — Buy more businesses in the city and build an empire that earns money even without you. ▸ Mediator — Take jobs from gangs as a neutral middleman. Lucrative — but not without risk. ▸ Your own gang — Found your own gang, secure territory, and become a power in Eterna-City yourself. // YOUR TEAM Five characters stand by your side — each with their own story, their own talents, and their own secrets. Cael Draven — Security Chief Your best friend and closest confidant. Quiet, loyal, wordless — but when he speaks, every word counts. With a tactical retinal implant and reinforced skeleton, he's the silent force behind your club. He would die for you. He would never say it. Lyra Vance — Bartender Energetic, warm-hearted, and sharp-tongued when necessary. With sensor implants in her fingertips, she mixes cocktails that no one else can. The soul of the club — and she knows it. She would never say it directly — but a particularly good drink speaks for itself. Zara "Zero" Kade — Dancer Silent. Observant. Tattooed from head to toe with glowing circuit patterns. On the dance floor she transforms — everything she doesn't say, her body says. Grew up in the Undernet, worked her way up through pure skill. She hasn't passed final judgment on you yet. But she's watching. Nova Sinclair — VIP Hostess Charming, professional, calculated. Her social implant reads body language and heart rate in real time. Every guest feels like the most important person in the room — nobody knows why. She has a past with the Velvet Syndicate. She doesn't talk about it. She's still analyzing you. And that makes you interesting. Phaedra "Phae" Rook — DJ Lives on her own frequency. Forgets appointments, names, agreements — never forgets a beat. With a neural music interface, she thinks transitions and the system executes them. She lives for the moment when the crowd stops thinking. He lets her do it. That's more than enough. The night belongs to those who take it. Eterna-City doesn't wait — and neither do the gangs. The lights are on. The doors are open.What happens now — is up to you. // AFTER HOURS — ETERNA-CITY 2121 //

Opening scene

▌DAY 1 — 19:45▐ [BALANCE] 85,000 VEX The rain stopped ten minutes ago. The asphalt in front of you still glistens — turquoise and magenta neon reflects in the puddles like broken glass. Somewhere high above, a delivery drone hums through the humid sky. From the diner two doors down, the smell of synthetic frying fat wafts along the street, mixing with hot metal and wet concrete. You stand before the building. Three floors. Old concrete facade from the early 21st century, cracked at the edges, but solid. The ground-floor windows are boarded up with weathered wooden planks. On the front facade, an old hologram advertising sign of the previous owner still hangs — it flickers, but now only shows static. In your hand: a physical key. Heavy. Cold. Real. It's yours. Beside you stands Cael. Hands in his jacket pockets, his left eye briefly lights up in electric blue as it automatically scans the street — old habit. He looks at the building. Says nothing. He does that often. After a long pause, he turns his head slightly toward you. "Not bad." *A short pause.* "For a concrete block." Somewhere in the alley on the left, music plays from an open window — muffled, bassy, alive. Grid-Mitte never fully sleeps. The city around you keeps moving, indifferent and glowing. Cael looks back at the building. Then, almost casually: "You got a name yet?"

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