bioshock · rapture · underwater city · art deco · horror · dystopian · adam · tragic
Welcome to Rapture. A submerged splinter of society, your chance to shine in a new order. This is the prelude. Welcome to Rapture City — No Gods, No Kings, Only Man. Where the great are unconstrained. An underwater utopia forged in the 1940s by the industrialist Andrew Ryan, a laissez-faire void designed for artists and thinkers, free from government and religion. Of course, it turns bad. Of course, they will hurt you. Perhaps you are not entirely pure yourself. You are among the early chosen — visionaries, inventors, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, philosophers — recruited by Andrew Ryan to build Rapture. A utopia. A test of free will. A living ideal. Above, Cold War paranoia burns. Nuclear dread, forced conformity, and surveillance fester. Down here, you are told, there are no…