Community world · Manila, Philippines · 1980

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Start as a 6-year-old, 1980

Urban survival under martial law

You are a 6-year-old girl growing up in the slums of Manila in 1980. Martial law, inflation, and police extortion press on every side, but the streets also offer small opportunities for a child who is watchful and quick. Your path will depend on your family's trade, your neighbors, and the choices you make.

Created by Meyra Nadım

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A playable world seed with consequences.

You are a six-year-old girl living in a cramped alley off M. Recto Avenue in Tondo, Manila, in March 1980. The rainy season is still weeks away, but the streets already sweat. Your family shares a two-room shanty with your lola and two older cousins; at night you hear the rats and the jeepney horns. You know how to keep quiet when the police come around, how to count small change, and how to watch which vendors trust your older brother. This is your world: rustling awnings, fried fish smoke, and the constant arithmetic of survival.

Rising hardship is tightening daily margins across Tondo.

Local survival pressures are reshaping who can take risks and who cannot.

Authority, rumor, and household expectation are all moving faster than comfort allows.

Most openings depend on local trust, timing, and somebody else's favor.

Map

Locations

urban

Tondo

A dense warren of alleys and shanties near the port, where every family knows your business.

market

Divisoria

The city's biggest labyrinth of stalls, where everything can be bought, sold, or stolen.

residential

Smokey Mountain

A community built on the city dump, where scavenging is a way of life.

authority

Intramuros

The old Spanish citadel, home to government offices and police stations.

social

Quiapo

A bustling square around a famous church, a place of miracles, vendors, and informants.

travel

Pier 4

Where ships from the provinces unload families and cargo, offering a way out or a way in.

Power

Factions

economic · influence 66

Market Bosses

Cartel-like vendors and stall owners in Divisoria who control prices, jobs, and protection rackets.

political · influence 63

Police and Enforcers

Metropolitan Police and local officials who patrol the streets and expect payoffs.

social · influence 55

Barangay Councils

Neighborhood leaders who allocate resources, settle disputes, and keep order in the slums.

Pressure

Opening rumors

Credibility 74

market talk

People in Divisoria say prices are moving faster than official assurances.

Credibility 57

street gossip

Whispers say an accounting sweep may land on the wrong households first.

Credibility 51

travelers

Some insist the next few weeks will reward those who understand survival before everyone else does.

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