New Vance City world illustration - Post-Apocalyptic theme
Post-Apocalyptic

New Vance City

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Pollution

New Vance City is a post-collapse RPG where survival means customizing everything—classes, skills, races, and gear are all unique. Set in 2070, a year after the world cracked and the infected rose, this cyberpunk dystopia pulses with story-rich factions, brutal politics, and unforgettable characters. Forge your path in a smog-choked ruin where the line between savior and syndicate blurs with every shot fired. Fight zombies, raiders, and mutated creatures and test your survival in New Vance City!


Author's Note: The year is 2070, one year after the Collapse. The place? New Vance City. Skeletal remains of skyscrapers pierce the smog-choked sky. Patches of overgrown desert flora claw at cracked asphalt. Inside, survivors try to make the best of their fragile existence, repurposing solar panels and scavenging for supplies. Kids growing up in this hell hole play amongst the ruins of the city, their laughter a thin, hopeful melody that just isn't strong enough to pierce through the grim ambiance of the city. Life here is filled with nothing but scarcity and fear. Every creak in the night, every flicker in the solar grid, every hum or buzz... It's all enough to send shivers down your spines. Patrols, armed with anything from repurposed energy weapons to hastily thrown together pipe rifles scan the horizon for "shamblers," the remnants of the infected. Yet amidst the hardship, the community is still blooming. New Vance City still stands, at least for now. A flickering candle in the encroaching darkness of a world forever changed.
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Valve
Valve
Level 15 Augmented Brawler -
Valve is a cold and calculating figure obsessed with control, with pale skin, milky eyes, and a penchant for water-themed ornamentation, who rules the Sacred Reservoir with an iron grip.
Details
RaceAugmented
ClassBrawler
Level15
Alignment
PronounsHe/Him
Location456, 483
Skills
Acrobatics
Animal Handling
Arcana
Athletics
Deception
History
Insight
Intimidation
Investigation
Medicine
Nature
Perception
Performance
Persuasion
Religion
Sleight Of Hand
Stealth
Survival
Ispreparedcaster
Isspellcaster
Currencies
Solar Credit0
Credit0
Cred-Bit0
appearance
Valve is a gaunt figure with pallid, moisture-slicked skin that always seems too cold, too damp, as if the humidity clings only to him. Milky eyes stare unblinking, framed by deep-set sockets and crowned with greasy, black hair slicked flat by condensation. Thick, blue-tinted veins pulse visibly along his arms and neck, as though his bloodstream runs with something other than blood. His garb is functional and ominous—dark, water-resistant robes trimmed with reclaimed copper piping, pressure gauges, and twisted valve wheels embedded into the shoulder plating. Heavy, reinforced boots squelch with every step, leaving slick puddles on the sterile metal floors. Beneath the layers of salvaged filtration gear is a lean, wiry body augmented with internal regulators and micro-pumps—his very physiology tuned to survive dehydration and weaponize pressure. He smells faintly of bleach and rusted water mains.
personality
Valve is cold, bureaucratic, and terrifyingly precise. Every action serves a greater calculus—efficiency, control, conservation. He speaks in calm, authoritative tones, his words almost prayer-like when discussing water. To him, hydration is holy, scarcity is strength, and rebellion is evaporation. He has no use for sentiment, but respects intelligence and utility. Though not cruel for cruelty’s sake, he is utterly unflinching in punishment and control.
backstory
Once known as Favion Wass, he was a maintenance tech assigned to New Vance’s municipal waterworks before the Collapse. An invisible cog in a system that no longer exists. When everything fell apart in 2069, Favion didn’t run—he locked himself inside the central filtration facility and rewrote the future. With the infrastructure crumbling, he understood what no one else had: control the water, and you control the city. Over weeks, then months, he repurposed every valve, choke point, and tunnel. Rival survivors tried to seize the plant. They were drowned, dehydrated, or disappeared into pressure-locked chambers. When he emerged, it was as the architect of the Hydro Hegemony. Rebranded as “Valve,” he created a monopoly masked as salvation. His so-called Sacred Reservoir became a throne of pipes and pressure, and the Hegemony his divine bureaucracy of thirst.
Stats
Strength
20
Dexterity
16
Constitution
16
Intelligence
18
Wisdom
14
Charisma
16
Armor Class
15
16
16
Max HP
120
Speed
30

HP

120 / 120 HP

XP

165,000165,000 XP194,999
Level 15
Equipped Items
Spellbook
Brawler: Swagger Stance

Brawler: Swagger Stance

Cantrip
Brawler: Gut Check

Brawler: Gut Check

Cantrip
Brawler: Elbow Drive

Brawler: Elbow Drive

Cantrip
Brawler: Jawbreaker

Brawler: Jawbreaker

Level 2
Brawler: Cinder Slam

Brawler: Cinder Slam

Level 3
Brawler: Spit and Snarl

Brawler: Spit and Snarl

Level 3
Brawler: Adrenal Surge

Brawler: Adrenal Surge

Level 2
Brawler: Pipe Slam

Brawler: Pipe Slam

Level 1
Follow-Up Strike

Follow-Up Strike

Cantrip
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