Archives: District F6: Sky Ring

Densely populated with Sustainable Terraced Elevated Module (STEM) housing, Sky Ring is the magnet for new ideas, new design, and new technology. The Sky Ring from which the district gets its name is situated in the center of the area and towers high above the surrounding mountains. Reconstructed at the early 20th century, the Ring symbolizes one of the most daring infrastructure achievements of Rilao. The district has the country’s largest and most diverse Water Market and its highest STEM buildings. An old district that has gone through many makeups, Sky Ring is a mixture of sleek designs that incorporate the newest technology and gentrified neighborhoods where old fishing lots co-exist with colorful STEM buildings. Creative technology, design, and concept management make up the face of its vibrant service industry. The population consists of all walks of life, and the district is known for its Night Market Festival. The military base there has close relationships with the technology and design fields.

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Coraserve

A superstition exists in Rilaoan culture that revolves around the mining of smart material from coral, an indigenous formation that is considered holy in Rilao and the trade of the coral as a terraforming base. Wilderness sanctuaries have been established to conserve the coral called “Coraserve,” which protected the coral formations and preserve their holiness.

Collaborators

Patricia Marshall, Zhan Li

Posters promoting Coraserves
Poster 1 is of living coral
Poster 2 is of a Scorpionfish which lives in coral

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A Watery Grave

Roots of the mangrove trees intertwine to form murky catacombs. Carvings on the roots memorialize the dead whose clean skulls can be glimpsed in the gloomy watery depths below.

Collaborators

Jon Dugan, Michelle Bollinger, Anna Christy

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Reeper

The Ritai people visit the fairground to relive their past lives and look ahead toward the afterlife. The connection between the living and the dead has been enabled by a pirate named Reeper. Reeper’s virtual avatar also connects people to the unborn.

Collaborators

Michelle Bollinger, Anna

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ZIP

A release waiver for the fairground death experience is written. Read to discover the extent the visitors put their lives in the hands of the Reeper.

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Mystic Genius Escapes Mysterious Island

A once crazed man, outcast for an extreme number of petty crimes, ranging around 10,000 minor stolen items, escapes Rilao on a small handmade craft. He manages to survive the wild currents to Baja California, where he, with his normal knowledge of everyday Rilaoan botany, is heralded as a mystic genius. This now mythic hero is regarded as the symbol of Rilao to the rest of the world.

Collaborators

Borut Pfeifer
Marissa Pfeifer
Jessica Hanscon
Tom Baran
Lawrence Azerrad

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Eau de Mort

This particular club was famous for it’s Death Juice, a drink believed to temporarily allow experience of the afterlife to come. The heart appeared to stop and the imbiber enjoyed the most vivid of dreams.

Collaborators

Originally penned by Ace, drawings by Peter Rubin and Will Carey, with Christine Schreyer, Mark MacKenna and Judith Crow

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Tattoo Prediction…

The Marakihau has become so sophisticated with non-verbal communication that collective storytelling now happens visually. Through body art created by contributions by many on each persons tattoos. Together they predict the future of Rilao.

Collaborators

Alana Barber, Nicolas De Benoist, Tatsuya Kawauchi

“The future of Rilao will shape among the fusion of the bodies of those who will build it.”

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Tao Lai: dessert mash up

Desserts, a convenient distraction proliferated by The Plague Doctors, were taken from Rilaoan elite and fed at increased variety and intensity to the public in the 1930s. Available freely at public playhouses, the Doctors who had smuggled them from the elites, are concerned that its mass consumption is elevating personal hedonism (pleasure) over Rilaoan unity.

Collaborators

Alana Barber, Tatsuya Kawauchi, Nicolas De Benoist

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Marvin the Miracle

The military is now heavily made up of the immigrant population predominantly Russians who came in waves to avoid the cold weather and war with Ukraine. Many have left family behind and one man who missed his wife and children back home developed a hologram technology that became hugely popular with lonely soldiers. Marvin is revered.

Collaborators

Zhan Li

This is the holographic/AR/VR church for Russian military veterans that Marvin built in Rilao’s Skyring district. Marvin is buried in a giant tomb with a huge Rilaoan symbol It cost billions of Rilaoan dollars. Sadly, most native Rilaoans are xenophobically and radically opposed to immigrants and regularly protest and violently threaten the church so it must be guarded in real life and in AR and VR space by armed Russian military veterans 24/7/365.

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Caged

The lions of Rilao Zoo are fond of the leaves of the magic tree.

After a dinner of steak they are fed a few leaves to help digestion. Mercifully life in a cage is much improved by the hallucinogenic qualities of this valuable plant.

Collaborators

Originally penned by Nicolas de Benoist, drawing by Mark McKenna, additional word craft by Judith Crow with Christine Schreyer, Peter Rubin and Will Carey

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