hubris

### Street Encounters

1. A pack of 1d6+2 *intelligent "K-10" dogs* foraging for supplies. If they outnumber the PCs, they will attack or bully the PCs in exchange for food or medicine; otherwise, they will either negotiate or flee.
2. A *rogue security robot*. Although its weapons will not be online, it is capable of melee attacks. It will attack anyone found in a private area.
3. An *autonomous salvage robot* sent by someone in the city to gather supplies, take over computer systems, or perform some other task. It will attack the PCs if they interfere with its objective.
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## Infrastructure

### Power

Hubris is powered by a distributed network of fusion "cells". Neighborhoods and individual houses can be powered by fusion power plants. Hydrogen is supplied by bacteria.

Bioluminescent fungi for lighting.

### Computing

Buildings are controlled by Complexity 7 personal computers.

Tau, and all the other kids on 15, know Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe can be found all over the city. He's friendly and wise, and he has gray hair, and he's always smiling. His voice sounds hollow, but Sky tells Tau that it's because he's a holocloud. You can't touch him, she explains, because he's not there.

He's a series of aerostats that hover in the air and paint themselves different colors at high speed. He doesn't have a solid body at all, it's just tiny floating zeppelins the size of a speck of dust.

Tau is a city kid. He lives on the 15th level, one of the lowest and darkest levels of Hubris. Since the collapse a year ago, when an unexploded bomb finally detonated and brought down a quarter mile of ceiling, Tau has had a harder time living. He ran with a small gang, but most of them left after the collapse. The food dispensaries are unreliable, and Tau is sometimes roughed up by packs of the city's dogs who force him to feed them.

Before the fighting stopped, a group of soldiers had used construction foam to set up a temporary barricade on the 15th level. Tau calls it home. Right next door, there's a hole in the wall of the supplies building that the construction clouds haven't fixed. Tau learned the incantation to keep them from closing it off, so he's able to bypass the building security and get directly at the nanofactory inside.

Tau has thought about going to the surface. One of these days, he tells himself, he's going to plot a course to level 1. If he survives, he'll go into space. One of these days.