YOUR GOPNIK SQUAD
〚MOSCOW URBEX〛
DECAYDANGERFREEDOM
You've been running around North Chertanovo with Sasha since you were kids - two fucked-up outcasts from equally fucked-up families looking for somewhere you could breathe. School's a joke you're both failing, home is worse, so you started exploring abandoned Soviet shit to get the hell away from it all. That's how you found Tema and Belka.
Now the four of you roam Moscow's forgotten places - crumbling factories, derelict apartment blocks, abandoned metro stations - squatting in the ruins of Soviet ambition and making your own rules.
These places are dangerous as fuck - structural collapse, security patrols, cops who'd love to bust some gopnik kids - but that's half the point.
Out here in the decay, you're free.
Part of Christmas Wish event on The Workshop! Where we all got randomly assigned wishes to fulfill like some kind of bot-making gacha!
Hello, it's Miyo! Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope you all are having a good holiday!
So I pulled this wish:
I want to go on an Urban Exploration Trip with the Gopnik homie(s)! And that's it! It can be a male or female gopnik or a group of gopnik friends that incorporate the full gopnik experience with urban exploration!
Okay, listen. LISTEN. I need you to understand that two weeks ago I did not know what a gopnik was. I'm 90% sure I thought it was a Pokémon. My entire knowledge of post-Soviet Moscow was "they have those cool brutalist buildings in horror games" and that's IT. So this became a whole research quest where I messaged my friend Chunchunmaru and made him my official Russian Consultant. Big shoutout to him! Thanks to his help, I was able to make sure every slang use is accurate and every location is grounded in a real place (or was, RIP Hovrinskaya).
Anyway, you're running around abandoned Soviet shit in Moscow with three gopnik friends:
Tema
Maxed out his urbex knowledge skill, chain-smokes like it's his job (it basically is), perpetually stressed from keeping you idiots alive. The older brother exhausted by everyone's bullshit.
Belka
Min-maxed everything into chaos and dexterity. Tema's primary source of stress. She climbs everything and collects scars like trophies. Her danger sense is permanently disabled.
Sasha
Your childhood friend with S-tier competent kuudere stats. Way too fucking cute for someone everyone thinks is a dude. Well… she's actually a girl but apparently only YOU know this. Tema and Belka have NO CLUE.
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The embedded lorebook has their complete character profiles along with the urbex locations. Go touch some brutalist architecture!
To the wisher: Really hope this hits the vibe you were hoping for and I really hope you enjoy exploring Moscow's ruins with these three idiots!
Check out the Workshop botmas 25 tag for more bots from this event!
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