As Flesh Dies is a 3rd person open-world survival horror RPG.
Society has grown fat and complacent, pushed to near immortality through gene therapy and medical implantation. Pressure from religious sectors leads to the full ban of cloning, but a flush of military technologies allow for synthetic systems and limbs to replace natural equivalents and low cost, and with essentially unlimited lifespan. This leads to a new breed of transhumanists, who drastically redesign the human body's form and function. Eventually, the technology becomes sufficient complex and powerful that it eliminates any traces of mortality. The repercussions are twofold: one, the traditional farming industry collapses, due to virtual elimination of diet restrictions due to advanced digestive system replacement. Second, the medical industry collapses, as the durability of the new technology reduces the need for traditional medicines to virtually zero.
The economy in ruins, the country lapses in a near feudal state. Army and National guard units are sent in to major cities, fortifying them against the revolting lower classes. Cut off from the anti-rejection drugs, and medical treatments, as well as from the necessary synthetic food sources, a large percentage of the population die. However, the implant systems, which had been programmed for longevity and sustainability, and without forethought for death, continue to maintain the body, despite the fact that the host is deceased. Behavioral memory systems took imprints of their hosts' daily lives, a system that continues to impel the body to perform basic function like eating long after the host brain dies. The level of functionality of the post-mortem individual depends largely on the percentage of natural systems replaced by synthetic systems, but a number of individuals had enough synthetic components that they continue to function as normal, even long after brain-death.
Cities have been transformed by the military into medieval-style castles, with freeways converted into parapets. Los Angeles has emerged as the preeminent city in the United States, controlled largely by a military contingent that functions out of the Staples Center. The increasingly hermetic social upper class have secured their wealth and status through government and military contracts, and ownership of the synthetic food plants. They have retreated into sanctuaries within the downtown skyscrapers, escaping into virtual, online worlds and powerful illegal narcotics. The poor have been forced into slums beneath the algea vats that provide the necessary food products. Within these slums, gangs have arisen, selling drugs to the rich and the poor, and supplying their members with military grade and beyond black market body modifications.
Documents have arisen chronicling the history of the implant and post-mortem phenomenon, as well as aspects of city life in Los Angeles.
Medical Atlas
Table of contents
1)subdermal implants
2)limb replacement
3)limb supplantation
4)body supplantation
5)system replacement
6)body surpassation
7)Socio-Economic Boundaries
8)Safety and City Boundaries
9)Class Structure
1.Poor
2.Gangs
3.Rich
4.Military