Nivalis Nights

Nivalis is one of the great cities of the gaming multiverse. I love the place. It snuck up on me. Ever since Cloudpunk, I've just wanted to walk the streets and chat people up and get hot noodles from Food Mood. Like I said back then, this makes no sense. Nivalis is an unvarnished corporate dystopia. The streets are strewn with trash, the water is contaminated, the sky is roiling filth. Everybody who lives there is strung out on debt and drugs and (for the lucky ones) dehumanizing makework jobs. It rains, usually acid. But I love it. Everybody lives there! The streets are crowded with cheerful people in sweet neon threads, going about their business. Hustling it up. Fixing a vending machine, expostulating at a friend, leaning on a railing looking out out the lights. Eating noodles. Or crashed out rough in a cardboard box; but we're all in this together, right? Nivalis Nights kicks off with a surprise job offer. (Makework? Or not?) Your friend Thaddeus is skipping town. He wants to…