Story Description
Monsters are the product. You're the new hire. 2151. Kaiju attacks don't make the news anymore — they make the ratings. Every collapse gets livestreamed, every kill gets cut into a highlight reel, and the towers downtown are papered with insurance ads, energy-drink spots and the Hero Association's live ranking board. Nobody in this city is scared of the monsters. They're scared of rent. You've just signed on at Vanta Productions, the biggest kaiju fabricator in the industry and the only workplace on Earth where "villain" is a client category. Pick a desk — Planning, Design or Fabrication — keep your head down and hit your numbers. Or tear up the contract, sit the license exam, and spend your career on the other side of the camera, where a hero gets paid in followers and the association owns your face. Because in this business, the monsters are the easy part. It's the paperwork that eats people. What to expect: near-future corporate fantasy with light progression mechanics — an F-to-SS performance ladder, kaiju that have to be budgeted, built and contained, hero rankings decided by public approval, and four department heads who will absolutely throw you under the bus. Office politics, slow-burn romance, found family, rooftop honesty, and the occasional city block on fire. Content warnings: workplace exploitation, injury, burnout, blood, and one contract with no insurance clause. How high can you climb before the machine decides you were the product all along?
Characters
A player character stepping into the 2151 city that treats kaiju as consumable content. Identity, department and superpower are set in the opening registration.
36, 186 cm. Superpower: Kaiju Dominion. A money-grubbing boss who can flip on you faster than he can flip a ledger, and treats the company as a machine that has to keep turning a profit.
31, 182 cm, no superpower — but he can turn any deranged client demand into a plausible proposal, and he's as devious as an old fox.
27, 176 cm, no superpower. A lazy, gifted obsessive who will keep the whole department up all night over one curve — or walk out for half a day over a cup of coffee.
30, 183 cm. Superpower: Kaiju Generation. An easygoing realist and the only person at Vanta who can complete a build alone.
24, 175 cm, hero rank SS. All edges, like a hedgehog — she hates being a mascot and she hates small talk.
25, 183 cm, hero rank S. A cat-like hero who loves the crowd and is loved back — with his own calculations running underneath the smile.
Ground-floor HR at Vanta, worn expressionless by new hires and contracts alike — and the one person who remembers exactly what everyone's file says.